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Disney Lorcana

Ravensburger's Disney TCG. The six inks, lore and questing, deck archetypes, set releases, starter decks, card rarities, and collecting.

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September 2026

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The Disney Lorcana card Bruno Madrigal - Undetected Uncle, a 4-ink Amethyst Super Rare from Fabled whose card face reads 0/204, showing Bruno in a green hooded ruana with his arms raised in alarm on a purple rock ledge with rats scattered around him, with 3 Strength, 3 Willpower, 1 Lore, the keyword Evasive and the ability You Just Have To See It.
💎Collector & ProductSep 2, 2026·11 min read

Disney Lorcana Sets in Order: All 13, and What's Next

Thirteen sets in 1,064 days, and a card numbered 245 out of 207. Here is every Disney Lorcana set in release order with dates, counts that actually reconcile, and Core Constructed legality - plus the three sets Ravensburger has announced and has not yet released.

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The Disney Lorcana card Cheshire Cat - Inexplicable, a 3-ink Amethyst Super Rare from Whispers in the Well numbered 60/204, with 3 Strength and 4 Willpower, showing the grinning pink Cheshire Cat coiled inside a swirling psychedelic pink-and-teal vortex, with the abilities Boost 2 and It's Loads of Fun: moving damage counters between characters when a card goes under it.
📰Events & UpdatesSep 1, 2026·10 min read

Disney Lorcana North America Championship 2026 Results

Emerald/Steel was a quarter of the field and eleven of the Top 16. It still lost the final. Here is what actually happened at Disney Lorcana's North America Championship in Anaheim - the Top 16 breakdown, both finalists' decklists, and every player now headed to the World Championship.

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August 2026

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The Disney Lorcana card Gramma Tala - Connected to Nature, a 12-ink Sapphire Rare from Winterspell with 6 Strength, 6 Willpower and 2 Lore, showing Gramma Tala crouched on a snowy shoreline with a walking stick, feeding a shoal of brightly coloured fish at the water's edge, and the ability Ancestors' Gift: for each card in your inkwell, you pay 1 ink less to play this character. Her cost sits in a plain hexagon with no inkwell swirl.
🌱Beginner GuidesAug 30, 2026·12 min read

Disney Lorcana Uninkable Cards: All 585, and How to Ink One

The inkwell symbol is the first rule Lorcana teaches and the last one anybody puts a number on. Here is the whole uninkable pool counted off the live card data - 585 of 2,476 cards - cut by rarity, cost, type and ink, plus the Comprehensive Rules clause that lets five specific cards put an uninkable card into your inkwell anyway.

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Four players around a table mid-game in a multiplayer Disney Lorcana match, two of them laughing over fanned hands of cards, in the official promotional photo for the Format Coconut announcement.
🌱Beginner GuidesAug 23, 2026·12 min read

Disney Lorcana Format Coconut Explained: All 18 Beta Cards

Ravensburger put a new multiplayer format into open beta and then did not print a single card for it. The 18 Coconut cards live in the Companion app, the rules fit on one page, and the deckbuilding restrictions are stranger than the summary makes them sound. Here is the whole thing, with the card pool behind each Coconut counted.

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The Disney Lorcana card Dragon Fire: cost 5, Ruby ink, classification line reading Action, showing Maleficent as a black dragon breathing yellow-green flame, with the effect banish chosen character.
🌱Beginner GuidesAug 17, 2026·12 min read

Disney Lorcana Actions Explained: All 196, No Instant Speed

An action in Lorcana resolves the moment it is played, and the rules give your opponent no window to answer it. Here is the whole card type counted from the live pool - 196 non-song actions, what they actually do, and the handful of cards that can interfere before the fact.

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The Disney Lorcana card John Silver - Alien Pirate, a 6-ink Emerald Legendary from The First Chapter with 5 Strength, 5 Willpower and 2 Lore, whose classification line reads Storyborn, Villain, Alien, Pirate, Captain - five classifications, the most any character carries.
🌱Beginner GuidesAug 15, 2026·12 min read

Disney Lorcana Character Classifications Explained: All 47, and Why Storyborn Does Nothing

Rule 5.3.3.2 lists 47 classifications, and a card needs one of them to legally be a character at all. Then you count the card pool and find that the two most common words on the type - Storyborn and Dreamborn, 1,688 characters between them - are referenced by exactly zero cards.

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The Disney Lorcana card Lucky Dime, a 7-ink Sapphire Legendary item from Into the Inklands, showing Scrooge McDuck's glowing number one dime on a red cushion, with the ability Number One: exert and pay 2 ink to choose a character of yours and gain lore equal to their lore value.
🌱Beginner GuidesAug 14, 2026·11 min read

Disney Lorcana Items Explained: All 205, and Why Nothing Can Attack Them

The item card type gets four numbered rules in a 55-page rulebook, and not one of them explains how to get rid of one. Here is the whole type, counted from the live card pool - 205 items, the cheapest average cost in the game, and the 32 cards that can actually remove one.

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The Disney Lorcana card A Whole New World: cost 5, Steel ink, classification line reading Action - Song, showing Aladdin and Jasmine on the magic carpet above glowing lanterns, with the effect each player discards their hand and draws 7 cards.
🌱Beginner GuidesAug 9, 2026·13 min read

Disney Lorcana Songs Explained: How Singing Works, All 119

The number printed on a Lorcana song is a requirement, not a price. Here is the exact alternate-cost rule from Comprehensive Rules 2.2.0, all 119 songs counted from the live pool, and the five situations where the character you were counting on cannot open its mouth.

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The Iconic printing of Disney Lorcana card Belle & Beast - Certain as the Sun, numbered 245/207, showing Belle in a yellow gown dancing with the Beast in front of a purple night-sky castle in borderless full-card art with no card frame.
💎Collector & ProductAug 2, 2026·11 min read

Disney Lorcana Rarities Explained: 8 Tiers, a Ninth Coming

Lorcana has eight card rarities today, a ninth announced for 2027, and a booster pack that guarantees exactly two of them. Here is what each tier means, how many of each Ravensburger prints per set, and why the three rarest tiers are alternate printings of cards you can buy for pocket change.

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The Disney Lorcana location card RLS Legacy - Solar Galleon, a 4-ink Ruby location with move cost 3, 8 Willpower and 2 lore, whose This Is Our Ship ability grants characters Evasive while here.
🌱Beginner GuidesAug 1, 2026·11 min read

Disney Lorcana Locations Explained: How All 85 Location Cards Work

Locations never quest, never exert and never hit back, and one of them will still out-race your opponent from the corner of the table. Here is the whole card type - every rule that governs it and every one of the 85 cards that exist, counted from the live pool.

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Official Ravensburger Gen Con announcement key art: the white Gen Con logo centered on a blue background patterned with puzzle pieces and game silhouettes, with a Ravensburger ribbon in the corner.
📰Events & UpdatesAug 1, 2026·9 min read

Disney Lorcana at Gen Con 2026: 118 Sessions, a Stitch Promo, and a Coconut

Ravensburger's cheapest Gen Con ticket costs two dollars, and it might be the most important thing the company is doing at the show. A live report from day three: every Lorcana session counted, the participation promo verified, and the first public playtest in the game's history.

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The Illumineer's Quest: The Great Hunny Rescue box: Winnie the Pooh in a purple wizard hat and cloak raising a honey-topped staff, with Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit and friends in adventuring gear below him, dark Vine tendrils framing the art, and the callouts A Co-op Adventure and 1-2 players with included decks.
💎Collector & ProductAug 1, 2026·9 min read

Illumineer's Quest: The Great Hunny Rescue - Lorcana's Co-op Box, Explained

Ravensburger opened Gen Con 2026 with a Winnie the Pooh co-op box instead of a competitive reveal. Here's what an Illumineer's Quest actually is, what the first two boxes established, and everything confirmed about The Great Hunny Rescue - contents, date, and price included.

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The promo-stamped Disney Lorcana card Stitch - High Badness Level, numbered 35/P3, a 2-ink Steel common with 3 Strength and 2 Willpower showing Stitch gleefully smashing a snow castle while Lilo glares at him.
💎Collector & ProductAug 1, 2026·9 min read

Lorcana Promo Cards Explained: The 157-Card System Behind the Gen Con Stitch

Everyone playing Lorcana at Gen Con this weekend leaves with the same stamped Stitch. That little stamp is the visible tip of a 157-card system with seven distinct families, four distribution levers, and a numbering scheme that tells you exactly where every card came from - once you know how to read it.

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July 2026

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The Disney Lorcana card Sven - Leaping Reindeer, a 4-ink Amethyst character with 2 Strength and 3 Willpower, printed with three keywords: Rush, Challenger +3 and Evasive.
🌱Beginner GuidesJul 29, 2026·11 min read

Disney Lorcana Keywords Explained: All 14, Counted Across 2,485 Cards

Lorcana has fourteen keywords and Ravensburger prints them wildly unevenly. Here is what each one does by rule number, how many cards actually carry it, and the ink-pair blind spot that no rulebook warns you about.

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Disney Lorcana key art showing Illumineers channeling ink, the magic that powers every card play in the game.
🌱Beginner GuidesJul 28, 2026·10 min read

How to Play Disney Lorcana - Rules, Turn Structure, and the Race to 20 Lore

Lorcana is the rare TCG where you never attack your opponent directly. You race them to 20 lore. This is the full rules walkthrough - inkwell, turn phases, questing, challenging, drying, card types, and deck limits - with nothing invented and everything checked against Ravensburger's comprehensive rules.

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The six Disney Lorcana ink symbols - Sapphire, Ruby, Amber, Steel, Amethyst and Emerald - shown as hexagonal crests on a dark blue background.
🌱Beginner GuidesJul 28, 2026·10 min read

Disney Lorcana Beginner Guide: Your First 10 Games

Lorcana takes twenty minutes to learn and about ten games to stop losing to the basics. Here is what to buy, what the inkwell decision actually costs you, and the errors that quietly decide your first matches.

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The six Disney Lorcana ink crests - Sapphire, Ruby, Amber on the top row and Steel, Amethyst, Emerald on the bottom - on a dark navy background.
🌱Beginner GuidesJul 28, 2026·10 min read

Disney Lorcana Inks Explained: What Amber, Amethyst, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire and Steel Do

Lorcana gives you six inks and lets you pick two. Here is what each ink actually owns mechanically - counted from the live card pool, not vibes - and why pairing inks in Lorcana costs you nothing.

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