Artisans Preview

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Note: This preview uses pre-release components and rules. What you see here may be different from the final, published game. This post was a paid preview, you can find out more information here.

For those looking to add a new family-weight entry to their gaming collection, an upcoming Gamefound campaign might be of interest. Artisans is a card game that launches on the platform on October 25. It’s designed by Segolene and Jean Paul Monnet and published by V Games.

In the game, players will become the titular Artisans and try to collect and then develop materials in order to craft art objects. The game is for 2-4 players and takes between 30 and 45 minutes to play.

Artisans is a drafting and set collection game with some contract fulfillment thrown in. At the start of the game, players will set up a market consisting of material cards that will be placed in a circle at the center of the table. There will also be four art cards revealed; these essentially represent the contracts players can fill once they have developed their materials to the appropriate levels. Players are dealt a hand of six material cards and a starting Artisan card that has a unique ability they can use throughout the game.

There are two phases to each of the game’s 12 months (rounds). In the Market Phase, players can either craft an Art card if they have the required materials developed in their tableau, or they can add a resource from the market into their hand. Players have a hand limit of six, however, and if they want to take an additional material card, they must put down a card from their hand and it can’t match either of the cards on either side of it in the selected market location. For the first two months of the game, players won’t have the