With the holidays behind us and six weeks left until the release of Into the Inklands at local game stores, Disney Lorcana news is starting to trickle in at a decent rate.
This week, we got a handful of new card reveals, some updates about the new Into the Inkwell products, and some interesting insights from Lorcana designer Steve Warner that have big implications for the future of the game. Here’s everything you missed this week in Disney Lorcana news.
New Into the Inklands Cards
Six cards were revealed this week, including the first Legendary for Into the Inklands. The headliner here is Ursula, Deceiver, a two-cost emerald card thathas the potential to single-handedly disrupt the entire meta. This card will allow you to target your opponent’s Be Prepared or A Whole New World and force them to discard it, which could mean top decks like Ruby/Amethyst Control and Amber/Steel Steelsong lose some of their dominance in the next set.
We got a reveal for Stitch, Little Rocket, whose art was teased for one of the new playmats, and we also saw a new song, Heal What Has Been Hurt, a new Action card called Distract featuring Gustav the Giant from Brave Little Tailor (not to be confused with Willie the Giant from Mickey and the Beanstalk), as well as the long-awaited debut of The Sorcerer’s Hat from Fantasia.
Photos of the Into the Inklands products were also added to Ravensburger’s website today, which gave us our first clear look at the cards featured in the new gift set: Stitch, Covert Agent and Tinker Bell, Very Clever Fairy.
The expansion’s first legendary is Jim Hawkins, Space Traveler, a five-cost ruby card with two abilities: one that allows you to play location for free, and another that allows Jim to move to that location for free. We’ve only seen one location card revealed so far, but this could be a powerful Legendary depending on how useful location cards turn out to be.
A few more cards were revealed during a Community Discussion on the official Lorcana Discard server on Friday. The first was Dalmatian Puppy, Tail Wagger, an amber card that breaks the card limit for deck building. You can put up to 99 copies of Dalmatian Puppy into your deck, and there are five different card designs.
A new location was revealed called Maui’s Place of Exile, a two-cost steel card that gives characters there Resist +1. Surprisingly, there is no lore value on this location.
Developer Insights
Speaking of locations, co-designer Steve Warner was especially active on X this week, answering questions about locations and design philosophy, among other things. Since locations were revealed there’s been a common sentiment among Lorcana players online that the first three sets were designed together, and that, until Into the Inklands releases, we’ve been playing an ‘incomplete’ version of the game.
Warner dispelled that mythby explaining that while these sets were in development at the same time, they weren’t designed together as some kind of block set.Locations were planned from the beginning, but the decision was made to save them until Into the Inklands because it was decided they were too complex to start with in The First Chapter, and the team wanted to give Floodborn “their time to shine” in Rise of the Floodborn.
Warner also comments on the current control-dominated meta, saying that it was expected that control would be popular for these first two sets, but that we can expect things to “change up quite a bit” with the next set. Healso disappointed one fan(and delighted the rest of us) by making a definitive statement that no-character control decks are not going to be a thing in Lorcana.
As a follow-up to all of these great interactions, theofficial Lorcana Discordserver launched a new channel called Dev Diary where Warner will provide additional insights about the development process. The first post there goes intodetail about the design philosophy behind The Sorcerer’s Hat, and his hope that it will someday inspire fun theme decks, such as an all-Mickey deck.
Changes To Upcoming Product
The product pageon the official Lorcana website was updated this week with some new information about upcoming product. Into the Inklands’ Illumineer’s Troves will come with one storage box and six card dividers instead of two storage boxes like the previous troves. It will also come with six damage-counter dice instead of paper damage counters. Also included is a lore counter, which raises some questions about the upcoming organized play kit, since previous OP kits included lore counters as prizes.
Finally,there’s a new trailerfor the upcoming expansion that introduces a vehicle called the inkrunner, which is how glimmers and illumineers travel across the Inklands. The lore of Lorcana is slowly expanding with each new set and it’s exciting to see this kind of world building. Maybe the inkrunner will be an item card in the new expansion, something that lets characters move between locations for free, perhaps?
There’s still around 190 cards to be revealed before Into the Inklands launches next month, and we’re still waiting on info for the upcoming organized play competitive circuit too, so expect lots more big news every week leading up to the new expansion launch.
