Disney Lorcana North America Championship 2026 Results

The most popular deck at Disney Lorcana's North America Championship made up nearly a quarter of the field and eleven of its Top 16. It did not win.

That is the whole tension of a five-day tournament in one sentence, and Ravensburger's own recap - published September 3, two days after the event closed - is the first time this season's competitive metagame has been measured against real bracket results instead of community deck trackers. (Ravensburger's recap doesn't say outright which constructed format the Championship used.) Here is what actually happened in Anaheim: the field, the Top 16 breakdown, both finalists' decks, and every named player now holding a World Championship invite.

The event: a Friday qualifier, then 136 players

The North America Championship ran August 28 to September 1 at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California, structured in three stages.

Friday was the Last Chance Qualifier: two separate pods of 512 players each, single elimination, six rounds. The top 8 finishers from each of the two pods - 16 seats total - joined the players who had already qualified through the season's earlier Challenge events, rounding the field out to 136 for the main Championship.

Saturday was nine rounds of Swiss across that full 136-player field, cutting to a Top 16 by the end of the day. Sunday played the Top 16 down to a champion.

Day one's most-played deck was not the deck that won

Ravensburger's recap gives one hard number for the full Saturday field: Emerald/Steel was the single most popular pairing, at 24.4% of the 136 players - roughly one in four.

That lines up with what community metagame trackers have been reporting all season, and it is worth saying plainly: this is the first time that reputation has been checked against results from an official Ravensburger event rather than crowdsourced tournament data. It held up on raw popularity. It did not hold up in the final.

The Top 16, by ink pair

Here is the full Sunday cut, exactly as Ravensburger reported it:

Sixteen decks, four archetypes, and Amber shows up in five of them once you count every pairing that includes it - Amber/Amethyst, Amber/Emerald and Amber/Steel together. Emerald/Steel alone accounts for more Top 16 slots than every other archetype combined, which is exactly what you'd expect from a deck that was a quarter of the field to begin with. The story is that raw Top-16 representation and the trophy went to two different decks.

The final: Dillon LeDuc over Sky Duntz, three games to one

Dillon LeDuc, who qualified into the main event through Friday's LCQ, met Sky Duntz's Emerald/Steel in the final playing Amber/Amethyst. LeDuc took the first two games, Duntz clawed back the third, and LeDuc closed it out in the fourth - a three-games-to-one finish for the archetype that made up under a fifth of the Top 16 field, over the archetype that made up more than two-thirds of it.

What Amber/Amethyst was actually doing

Ravensburger's recap describes the winning archetype as having the tools to answer most of the field's expected decks, leaning on "pseudo ramp" and effects that slow down faster decks rather than trying to out-race them. The sample 60-card list the article prints (unattributed to a specific player, presented as representative of the archetype) is:

That's seventeen unique cards across 60 slots, and two of the highest-count cards are recent: Gaston - Superior Archer and Isis Vanderchill - Ice Queen of St. Canard both come from sets released this year (Attack of the Vine! and Winterspell respectively), sitting alongside older Core-legal staples like Rafiki - Mystical Fighter. Isis Vanderchill's Chill Out exerts an opposing character on play - a tempo tax that fits the "slow the faster decks down" description directly.

What Emerald/Steel was actually doing

The runner-up archetype built around a specific two-card interaction the recap calls out directly: Darkwing Duck - Shadowy Superhero, a new common from Attack of the Vine!, pairs with The Terror That Flaps in the Night, a Steel action that deals 2 damage to a chosen opposing character - or 3 if you control a character named Darkwing Duck.

The sample list Ravensburger attributes to competitor s4iler's testing group is:

Only a single copy of the new Shadowy Superhero sits alongside four of the older Darkwing Duck - Crime Fighter, which tells you the new card is a role-player inside an established shell rather than the thing that built it - the shell already had traditional removal and a body plan before Attack of the Vine! added a card that makes its best action hit harder. Both sample lists check out at exactly 60 cards; Ravensburger's own descriptions of what each deck is trying to do line up with what's actually printed on the cards driving each plan.

Who's headed to the World Championship

The top 8 finishers at the North America Championship earn invitations to the season two World Championship. Ravensburger's recap names seven of them directly - Alphos, Joseph Quigley, Dylan Brown, Dave Solberg, vWonderland, s4iler and Sky Duntz - and the eighth slot is champion Dillon LeDuc's by right of winning the event.

What's next: the European Championship

Ravensburger's own recap flags the next stop on the calendar: the European Championship runs September 11-13, ten days after this event's closing day. No results exist yet for that event as of this post - it has not happened.

Quick reference

• North America Championship: August 28 - September 1, 2026, Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, CA.
• Field: two 512-player LCQ pods on Friday, 16 seats advancing into a 136-player main event, nine rounds of Saturday Swiss cutting to a Top 16.
• Most-played deck (Day 1): Emerald/Steel, 24.4% of the 136-player field.
• Top 16: 11 Emerald/Steel, 3 Amber/Amethyst, 1 Amber/Emerald, 1 Amber/Steel.
• Champion: Dillon LeDuc, Amber/Amethyst, defeating Sky Duntz's Emerald/Steel 3 games to 1.
• Worlds-bound: LeDuc plus seven named Top 8 finishers - Alphos, Joseph Quigley, Dylan Brown, Dave Solberg, vWonderland, s4iler and Sky Duntz.
• Next event: the European Championship, September 11-13 - not yet run as of this post.