Gavin King Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 A couple of weeks ago, I barely remember hearing about a new TCG with classic Disney theme. Lots of announcements lately (full card reveal), craziness at Gencon yesterday. This game appears like it will be huge hit with both card gamers, Disney fans, and of course the collectors as well. The art work is great (and original). It seems like Ravensburger is making smart decisions on building up the game. Really quite pumped and interested in this. Last card game I got into was Keyforge, which I still love, but unfortunately the scene died over covid, and is currently (hopefully) being brought back from the dead under a new company. The big mechanism in the game, is any (technically most) card can be played for cost, or turned upside down and put into ink (e.g. mana) and put into your inkwell. The ink is there for rest of game and can be used (tapped) once per turn to spend on new cards. Once played, cards can either challenge opponents cards, or can quest to get Lore points. First to 20 Lore wins. Cards have different effects, but are balanced by 1. Ink Cost, 2. Attack, 3. Defense, 4. Quest Lore, 5. Ink/Non-Ink able. Some of the best cards are non-inkable, so if you put too many in your deck of 60, you're going to get into a tough spot. 6 colors of ink, the deck you build can only have 2 colors, and can only have 4 copies of any card in their deck. Hoping Lorcana is successful, I think it will be with the IP alone and the fan response so far. They're already working on set 5, and plan to release 4 sets / year. Like most launches, it'll be a bit bump the next month, but once production can fulfil demand it should be lots of fun. As any TCG will be, it'll be expensive, but one of the best things (IMO) is that the foil, enhanced rares (alt art) don't impact gameplay. For those wanting to play the game, you shouldn't have too crazy of a chase or $-need to spend on singles to fill out your deck with the rares/super-rares/legendaries you want. For those that want to do that thing, there certainly will be that for you. Every booster is 12 cards that will be 6 common, 3 uncommon, and then also a guarantee of 2 rare/super rare/legendary, in addition to a random foil of any rarity. So basically you're going to average about 31 rares, 12.5 super rares, and 4.5 legendries per case of 24 booster decks. Not bad. Curious if anyone else here has been checking it out? https://www.disneylorcana.com/en-US/product/ Quick 10minutes Dice Tower Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duJW5ve55XM&ab_channel=TheDiceTower All cards/deck builder: https://dreamborn.ink/ Unofficial Online Games: Pixelborn: https://discord.com/invite/qBBQ2D384A (Follow-Install in How-To section, takes 2 minutes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 I don't know if people are price speculating or what, but the Lorcana line was just as insane today at GenCon day 2. Hundreds of people, some of whom were in line overnight, just waiting to get their hands on this. I know some folks got the product and immediately put it up on eBay, but plenty of other folks were just jazzed for the game and knew this was their only shot at picking some up at MSRP for the foreseeable future. I personally dont get it because there have been dozens of Disney games over the years and licensed TCGs don't often survive. But for the sake of the fans I hope this one works out. Tomorrow is going to be apeshit. Biggest day of the con and a lot of people are going to be wasting half of it trying to get ahold of Lorcana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPCyric Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 7 hours ago, Gavin King said: A couple of weeks ago, I barely remember hearing about a new TCG with classic Disney theme. Lots of announcements lately (full card reveal), craziness at Gencon yesterday. This game appears like it will be huge hit with both card gamers, Disney fans, and of course the collectors as well. The art work is great (and original). It seems like Ravensburger is making smart decisions on building up the game. Really quite pumped and interested in this. Last card game I got into was Keyforge, which I still love, but unfortunately the scene died over covid, and is currently (hopefully) being brought back from the dead under a new company. The big mechanism in the game, is any (technically most) card can be played for cost, or turned upside down and put into ink (e.g. mana) and put into your inkwell. The ink is there for rest of game and can be used (tapped) once per turn to spend on new cards. Once played, cards can either challenge opponents cards, or can quest to get Lore points. First to 20 Lore wins. Cards have different effects, but are balanced by 1. Ink Cost, 2. Attack, 3. Defense, 4. Quest Lore, 5. Ink/Non-Ink able. Some of the best cards are non-inkable, so if you put too many in your deck of 60, you're going to get into a tough spot. 6 colors of ink, the deck you build can only have 2 colors, and can only have 4 copies of any card in their deck. Hoping Lorcana is successful, I think it will be with the IP alone and the fan response so far. They're already working on set 5, and plan to release 4 sets / year. Like most launches, it'll be a bit bump the next month, but once production can fulfil demand it should be lots of fun. As any TCG will be, it'll be expensive, but one of the best things (IMO) is that the foil, enhanced rares (alt art) don't impact gameplay. For those wanting to play the game, you shouldn't have too crazy of a chase or $-need to spend on singles to fill out your deck with the rares/super-rares/legendaries you want. For those that want to do that thing, there certainly will be that for you. Every booster is 12 cards that will be 6 common, 3 uncommon, and then also a guarantee of 2 rare/super rare/legendary, in addition to a random foil of any rarity. So basically you're going to average about 31 rares, 12.5 super rares, and 4.5 legendries per case of 24 booster decks. Not bad. Curious if anyone else here has been checking it out? https://www.disneylorcana.com/en-US/product/ Quick 10minutes Dice Tower Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duJW5ve55XM&ab_channel=TheDiceTower All cards/deck builder: https://dreamborn.ink/ Unofficial Online Games: Pixelborn: https://discord.com/invite/qBBQ2D384A (Follow-Install in How-To section, takes 2 minutes) Have you by chance checked out SolForge Fusion it's kinda like Keyforghe meets Smash Up. Lorcana will be successful game stores are expecting an MTG crash and pushing Lorcana to be their next big money maker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 Door doesn't open for another hour and a half and the Lorcana line is already out of the convention center onto the sidewalk outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin King Posted August 5, 2023 Author Share Posted August 5, 2023 6 hours ago, Slug said: Door doesn't open for another hour and a half and the Lorcana line is already out of the convention center onto the sidewalk outside. Wow, for Day 3 even, that's crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 The GenCon 2023 Lorcana promo card. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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