Dominion
This game is about building a deck of cards. The deck contains your resources, victory points and the things you can do. At the beginning it is a small collection of lands and copper, but you hope that by the end of the game it will be filled with gold, provinces and the inhabitants of your kingdom.
Story
You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small, pleasant kingdom with rivers and evergreen trees. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes... Dreams! You want a bigger kingdom that is more pleasant, with more rivers and a greater variety of trees. You want a dominion! In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds and feodums. All are small pieces of land controlled by petty lords and bordering on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people and unite them under your banner. But wait! There must be something in the air; several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must try to get as much of the unoccupied land as possible while fending them off. To do this, you hire lackeys, erect buildings, embellish your castle and fill the coffers of your treasury. Your parents would not be proud, but your maternal grandparents would be pleased.