Reiner Knizia's Modern Art: The Card Game

Modern Art: The Card Game is Reiner Knizia's classic game of card management and valuation. Given a hand of works from five different artists, you must drive up the prices of your favorites while simultaneously holding back those artists' works to assure yourself of better prices in later rounds.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Games	$2.99	Skotos Tech	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Reiner Knizia's Modern Art: The Card Game Screenshot on iOS

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Six different opponents, each with their own personality, will challenge you at a variety of levels, from EASY to HARD. Figuring out how to work with each will increase your odds of winning the game.

Modern Art: The Card Game is built on the same MobileEuroCard platform that RPGnet has used to release four other games by Reiner Knizia and Michael Schacht. Simple gestures, colorful animations, and evocative sounds all combine to make a great gaming experience.

Though we have included our first iteration of Game Center support, there is NO MULTIPLAYER SUPPORT; that is expected in a future release of the game.

This is the SAME GAME as MASTERS GALLERY, but it uses the artwork of modern tyros rather than classical masters. Though Modern Art: The Card Game shares a setting and general ideas with the auction tabletop release Modern Art, it is a different game.

Reviews

The no auction version (a good thing)
Imhotep VII

Modern art was reworked and released as 'Masters Gallery' it was basically the same game but there is no auctioning. I like that version better as there are better auction games out there. This version concentrates on the card playing which, to me, is where the fun is. I always thought that the auction mechanic in Modern Art took away from what was otherwise a fun card game. I am happy to see that they used the streamlined version in this app. I'm sure there will be people who know Modern Art and will be mad that there are no auctions (maybe they will add that option in an update) but I am super pleased with the app as is. It is a great little card game, is easy to learn and has a high replay value. Now if they would release Lost Cities I would be in card heaven.

Awesome! Keep the hits coming!
Websteria

Although I'd only played the auction variant I like this version for it's speed. I'm very impressed with Skotos ability to put out great card games. Take note other devs!! Gamecenter could make this perfection, but in game help makes this easy to learn.

Another Knizia Winner!
Old school boardgamer

I had a bit of trepidation trying this, as Modern Art is my all-time-favourite board game, and knowing that they changed the auction rules (the core of the game) worried me. Well, it's certainly not the original, but the new rules are actually an improvement in my opinion-- things flow very quickly, and while you may lose some of the tension of the original's bidding strategy, it more than makes up for it by the fact that you can't get screwed by not getting the right double-auction cards. That, and you can finish a game in a couple of minutes! All in all, it's quite faithful to the game-theory spirit of the card game, but with some interesting new decision points and decidedly faster play. Yet another winner from Skotos...

Modern Art sans auctions
typo_kign

I didn't know about this new version of Modern Art and I like it. The original had an auction mechanism to get cards and it melts your brain. This plays much faster and retains all the good stuff of playing your cards right to jockey artists into position for scoring. The nuance comes in timing your plays so you can get maximum value from your cards as artists wax and wane in popularity. The implementation here is very good. The rules could be explained a bit better but you'll figure it out after a couple of plays (and reading the rules!). Wish list: 1. Please make it WAY more obvious visually when our card play is out of turn (i.e. when triggered by opponent's play). In the haste of fast play I often don't notice when I'm playing a card that's not my turn and lose the special effect of a card. Either make the current player indicator WAY more obvious or otherwise signal that the card we're about to play is out of turn. 2. I often have to tap the Play button several times before it works. It visually reflects a tap (button looks pushed) but nothing happens. Please improve the response. 3. Please make the current round indicator more obvious. How about a line of circles with the round numbers in them and the current is highlighted. Gives a linear visual cue as to progression in addition to just a number.

Love the app, but it crashes a lot
Frozenmath

Everything about this game is near perfect for the ipad, except one big one. The game crashes a lot. It frequently crashes in the middle of a game and then will not allow you to continue. It also takes two tries to load the game and get it to play. The first try crashes. Otherwise, the implementation of this game is superb and the game is a lot if fun to play. Fix the crashing and I'll raise the rating. It's pretty frustrating as is. (I've tried to reboot the iPad and it still crashes.)

Great game
His Impishness

The game itself is one of my favorites. It loses a star because the app usually crashes on the first loading: it takes a second tap on the app icon for the app to truly boot up.