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Lorcana

Lorcana First Chapter Reprint Coming Sooner

Lorcana was a perhaps-unexpected smash hit, with record long lines at Ravensburger’s gencon booth, and product selling out in the mass market within hours of its release. What this means, though, is that the game may actually suffer due to unavailable product. It takes a booster box or two to build a custom deck, after…

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Lorcana’s Second Set Revealed

Ravensburger has announced the next set for its Disney-themed Lorcana trading card game. And no, it won’t be called The Second Chapter, but rather, Rise of the Floodborn. The set includes more than 200 cards with all-new art. Winnie the Pooh, Tiana, and other popular characters will appear for the first time as Lorcana cards….

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Lorcana Available To Mass Market Today

The trading card game, Disney Lorcana, hit mass markets today, including Target, Walmart, Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Barnes & Noble, FYE, Hot Topic, and shopdisney.com, the United States. In Canada the game was released to Toys R Us, Walmart, Mastermind, Indigo, and GameStop, in Canada. Early reports are that most major stores are already sold…

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Can Lorcana compete as a TCG?

Whether you’re a player or collector, LGS owner or humble content creator, by now you are very aware that there just isn’t enough Lorcana supply to meet the demand. Ravensburger did a fantastic job of building excitement and enthusiasm about the game’s launch. The marketing campaign from D23 to release would make an excellent case…

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Lorcana formats you probably haven’t played yet

You did it! You managed to score a Lorcana starter deck and some packs at your LGS during limited release. Playing the starter deck is a blast, and maybe you’ve started to make some upgrades through trades or with those boosters you picked up. But what else can you do with your shiny new cards?…

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Aggro? Control? Combo? Deck archetypes in Lorcana

For veteran TCG players, aggro, control and combo just seem like self-explanatory deck types. Trying to apply those archetypes to Lorcana deckbuilding, however, has been throwing members of the Lorcana Twitter and Discord communities for a loop. We all know aggro is short for aggression, but what IS aggression in Lorcana? Control in other games, like Magic and Flesh and Blood, often relies on interacting with your opponent’s abilities on their turn. Lorcana doesn’t have that kind of interaction. And combos, well. They may be a tasty snack, but are there really enough of them in the game right now for it to be an entire deck type?

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Stalwart and Steadfast – A Guide to Steel Ink in Lorcana

We finally have the full spoiler for Lorcana, The First Chapter! Just the other day, Ravensburger released the official Lorcana companion app, which includes a complete, searchable card database and deckbuilder. And now that we can see all of the cards side-by-side, it’s time to break them all down and see what makes them tick….

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Gizmos Aplenty – A Guide to Sapphire Ink in Lorcana

We finally have the full spoiler for Lorcana, The First Chapter! Just the other day, Ravensburger released the official Lorcana companion app, which includes a complete, searchable card database and deckbuilder. And now that we can see all of the cards side-by-side, it’s time to break them all down and see what makes them tick.

The official description for Sapphire says that it’s the ink of intellect and invention. In gameplay terms, it can be summarized very simply: Sapphire likes items. Every ink has items, but Sapphire is the only one that depends upon them. Small wonder, then, that this is where you’ll find the likes of Merlin, Maurice and Belle.

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The Hero of the Story – A Guide to Ruby Ink in Lorcana

We finally have the full spoiler for Lorcana, The First Chapter! Just the other day, Ravensburger released the official Lorcana companion app, which includes a complete, searchable card database and deckbuilder. And now that we can see all of the cards side-by-side, it’s time to break them all down and see what makes them tick….

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Challenge me if you dare! – A Guide to Emerald Ink in Lorcana

We finally have the full spoiler for Lorcana, The First Chapter! Just the other day, Ravensburger released the official Lorcana companion app, which includes a complete, searchable card database and deckbuilder. And now that we can see all of the cards side-by-side, it’s time to break them all down and see what makes them tick.

Officially, Emerald glimmers are flexible and prepared for anything. It’s only proper, then, that Emerald is home to some of Disney’s most devious schemers and rogues. Emerald isn’t without its heroes – it’s also got Beast, Wolfsbane and a few different Genies – but Emerald is your place to go for awesome villain cards.

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