No matter your art form of choice, it’s time to put your skills to the test! You are an artist who has been blessed with intense magical powers based on your medium. Whether you’re a painter, dancer, sculptor, or anything else, you’ll have to go head to head to show off your best artistic intentions, and out-maneuver your opponent to win!

What Is It?

Action Queue – Each turn the active player will an intention to the react chain. Both players can then follow with reaction cards until the chain is full, or both players pass. The chain then resolves in reverse order.

Hand Management – Players only draw one card per turn by default, and can lose by running out of cards in your deck, so they often must weigh the benefit of playing more reactions versus holding on to cards for a later turn.

Programming – Some cards will have players choose a direction for movement or a zone to target for an attack, which is done before any cards resolve, so player have to be thinking ahead in order to make sure their moves execute the way they want.

Asymmetric / Variable Player Powers – There are 8 unique artists with different mediums, decks, mechanisms, and difficulties.

Who Is It For?

  • 2 Players – Strictly a head to head game for 2
  • Ages 13 & Up – Difficulty of characters vary, but if you start with easier ones, you can work your way up
  • Fans of asymmetric games; those who like really getting to know their deck/powers

PROS

  • Aesthetics – Great art, super colorful and eye catching. The acrylics are big and look awesome
  • Components – Overall nice quality pieces/cards. I like that each character has their own tuckbox for all their components
  • Rules are well-written and well-detailed
    • Helpful glossary in the rulebook for key terms
  • Theme is unique and super fun – I really like that it captures so many types of artists
    • Nice variety in the character play styles/abilities/difficulties
  • 2 ways to win – dealing 3 damage to your opponent or having them run out of cards before you

CONS

  • Length – Can run a bit long and feel repetitive at times
    • There’s not a ton of variety of cards in each character’s deck, so you sometimes don’t feel like you have a ton of choice
  • The acrylic bases weren’t the best; some of them split when putting the standees together
    • The box is packed so you can not store the standees assembled

Final Thoughts

The game looks great and has a really fun, unique, and engaging theme which I love. I think the characters worked really well for this head to head style of game. This definitely benefits from playing consistently, as you need to get to know your characters in order to better utilize their cards/skills, so it is best for a pair that will play together often since I think you will definitely also have an advantage if you have played over someone who has not. Overall, a neat 2-player game!

Additional Information:
My Final Rating – 6/10

Designers – Chris Lin, MingYang Lu, Eric Zeringue
Artist – loxtix, Ian Olympia
Publisher – Brother Ming Games
MSRP – $59.99 (standard)
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*I was provided a copy of this game to do this review*

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