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Dominant Species

The Card Game

As in the board game Dominant Species, each player embodies one of six animal classes, this time at the end of the Ice Age at about 15. B.C. – Mammals, Reptiles, Birds, Amphibians, Arachnids or Insects.

You use cards to dominate as many terrestrial and sea biomes as possible. In each of the 10 rounds you compete for one biome, the last biome is a sea biome. In turn you play an action card or pass until either all players have passed consecutively or one player is out of cards. Action cards are animals or events, events can be one-time or ongoing for the round. Animals contribute their food chain values for victory points as well as element icons for the conflict over element-related resources. Animals can suppress other animals, up to a species becoming extinct. Animals you play stay on the table so that you see all icons for food chain value, element or suppression of other species are visible. Animals fitting the current biome earn you a bonus in food chain value, animals that do not fit lose you points. If, at the end of the Ice Age, you have accumulated most victory points, you win the game. You score for dominance based on the total value of food chain and for element matching between the animals you played and the biome that is scored; for dominance you advance on the survival track. After the 10^th biome and the survival track have been scored you win with most victory points.

The card game picks up the topic of the board game very nicely, but plays very different and much simpler; you only need to strive for optimum use of the cards including restricting your use of cards for a better score at a later biome.

Players: 2-6

Age: 14+

Time: 90+

Designer: Chad Jensen

Artist: Eric Williams, Rodger MacGowan

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: GMT Games 2012

Web: www.gmtgames.com

Genre: Card placement, hand management

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Only topic and graphics from Dominant Species

Mechanisms is based on interaction of cards and good hand management

Compares to:

Dominant Species for topic, card placement games with card interaction

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0