Beschrijving
Canvas
In Canvas, you play as a painter competing in an art competition. Players will collect art cards, layering three of them together to create their own unique Painting. Each card contains a piece of artwork as well as a set of icons used during scoring. Icons will be revealed or hidden based on the way players choose to layer the cards making for an exciting puzzle. Paintings are scored based on a set of Scoring cards which will change each game.
Gameplay
On your turn you may take an Art card or make a painting. Art cards are selected from a row of cards in the center of play. Each of these cards has a cost associated with their position. After selecting an Art card you must pay its cost by placing an Inspiration token on each of the cards to its left. If you do not have enough Inspiration tokens, you may not select that card. Any tokens on the card you have selected are kept for future turns. The far left card costs no Inspiration tokens to take.
If you have three or more Art cards you may choose to make a painting. Select three of your art cards, arrange them in any order and then score them by comparing the visible icons on your painting to the Scoring conditions.
Once all players have made three paintings the game ends.
The player with the most points wins!
Summarised
Canvas is a beautiful game and as far as we are aware of the first board game you can actually display hanging on your wall. With a Splendor type of decision space of choosing either a resource or creating your painting, the game plays very smoothly and because you’re creating something unique with every combination of three cards, it’s also just a lot of fun. The components are well made and function very well, layering the cards works very intuitively.
