Beautifully colored serpents

In Coatl you build sculptures of feathered serpents in an attempt to become the new high priest. There are amazing colorful chunky pieces that interlock which you use as you construct the Coatl.🐉

On your turn you can do one of 3 things:
👉 Grab Coatl pieces off of the central board (either one head, one tail or 2 body pieces).
👉 Get prophecy cards from the display (these give you scoring parameters for the Coatl you are building).
👉 Build Coatl: put the pieces from your player board into an ongoing Coatl or start a new one and assign max. 4 Prophecy cards to each Coatl if you fulfill the conditons.

A Coatl is considered finished when it has been closed on both sides by a head and a tail. In this case you get to optionally assign a temple card to it too for additional points, that works similarly to the prophecy cards. The game ends when there are no more body pieces to draft or if someone has built their 3rd Coatl.

Our verdict:
❤️ amazing table presence: colorful tactile plastic components and beautiful card art
❤️ ideal introductory gateway game
❤️ language independent, rules in German and English

😑 for us a bit too simplistic gameplay: get stuff then lay out that stuff
😑 the central market of pieces or cards can get stuck, especially with 2p and there is nothing you can do about it. You might have a bunch of cards and pieces that don't work together and that might mean your defeat.