Renaissance is the twelfth expansion to Dominion. It includes twenty-five new Kingdom cards. There are tokens that let you save coins and actions for later, Projects that grant abilities, and Artifacts to fight over.

It’s a momentous time. Art has been revolutionized by the invention of “perspective,” and also of “funding.” A picture used to be worth a dozen or so words; these new ones are more like a hundred. Oil paintings have gotten so realistic that you’ve hired an artist to do a portrait of you each morning, so you can make sure your hair is good. Busts have gotten better too; no more stopping at the shoulders, they go all the way to the ground.

Science and medicine have advanced; there’s no more superstition, now they know the perfect number of leeches to apply for each ailment. You have a clock accurate to within an hour, and a calendar accurate to within a week. Your physician heals himself, and your barber cuts his own hair. This is truly a golden age.

Mechanics

Renaissance includes some firsts for Dominion such as a Reaction that reacts to being revealed, ways to play Actions during the Buy phase, even a way to keep playing after the game has ended.


Engines

The game is very engine friendly especially with Projects and Artifacts. Here are some of the enginey cards:

• Acting Troupe - Village with flexibility
  
• Cargo Ship - Handsize boost
  
• Experiment - Inexpensive drawer
  
• Hideout - Village and trasher
  
• Inventor - Discounter and gainer
  
• Mountain Village - Village with draw from discard
  
• Priest - Trasher
  
• Seer - Non terminal drawer
  
• Academy - +Villagers
  
• Piazza - Ongoing extra Action
  
• Innovation - Speeds up Action play
  
• Citadel - Ongoing doubles and Action

Big Money
Some cards push toward Big Money:

• Spices - Versatile Treasure
  
• Cathedral - Quick games
  
• Pageant - Helps odd $ turns
  
• Guildhall - Rewards Treasure buying

Theme

• 15 unique card-shaped things use tokens
  
• 9 things produce Coffers: Ducat, Exploration, Guildhall, Pageant, Patron, Silk Merchant, Spices, Swashbuckler, Villain
  
• 8 things produce Villagers: Academy, Acting Troupe, Exploration, Lackeys, Patron, Recruiter, Sculptor, Silk Merchant
  
• 1 thing uses tokens in another way: Sinister Plot
  
• 4 cards get Artifacts: Border Guard, Flag Bearer, Swashbuckler, Treasurer
  
• 13 things involve trashing: Acting Troupe, Cathedral, Ducat, Flag Bearer, Hideout, Improve, Old Witch, Priest, Recruiter, Research, Sewers, Silk Merchant, Treasurer

Digital Optimizations and Custom Settings

• Old Witch - You can opt to automatically always trash a Curse
  
• Pageant - You can opt to automatically spend a remaining coin on Coffers
  
• Sinister Plot- You can opt to automatically add a token to Sinister Plot if it's empty