Partial Disney Lorcana rules leak, new details on how the Magic competitor works

introduction to the rules of Disney LorcanaRavensburger’s new trading card game has leaked a little early as part of Game Trade magazine’s May cover story. Issue #279, like all other issues of GTM, is intended to be read by an audience of independent retailers, but the multi-page product snapshot answers some looming questions about the highly anticipated new game. Here we know.

,Disney Lorcana is an exciting new collectible Trading Card Game (TCG) featuring Disney characters that appear in both familiar and reimagined forms,” ​​reads the opening of the ad. “Developed by Ravensburger, Disney Lorcana Designed to be accessible and welcoming to newcomers to the TCG while offering strategic depth and challenges for experienced players.

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Per copy, players (called publishers) race to be the first to collect 20 lore. Each publisher begins with seven cards in his hand, each drawn from an individual 60-card deck. Beginning with the first round of play, publishers take cards from their hand to create a pool of ink, the game’s energy resource. like land Magic the GatheringThe ink is then used to summon creatures and cast spells. Each deck is composed of no more than two colors of ink, and can be purchased as a pre-made starter deck.

“All cards have an ink cost,” the ad continues, which can be paid for with the ink in your inkwell. The more cards you have in your inkwell, the more powerful cards you can play and the more you can do.

Knowledge- Disney LorcanaStand-in for lives or hit points – generated by sending characters on quests. By “pushing” these characters (by moving them to the side on the table) players will earn their value in the lore, which is represented by the small diamond-shaped icon in the lower half of the card.

Once characters are implemented in this way, other players can challenge those characters with their own. Characters involved in these challenges both take damage in the exchange, and once a character’s Willpower value is exceeded they are eliminated—that is, removed from the game.

It may sound like a big leak, but it’s actually quite thin. Too many of the finer points of the gameplay get overlooked. For example, it is unclear how challenging a character is that affects their ability to generate lore. The ad copy highlights the many types of cards as well as the rules for building a deck and even the finer points of how the ink is produced. It mentions the Lorcana League, which will be an introductory series of in-store events lasting 12 weeks, as well as the fact that playmats, card sleeves, and card portfolios will all be part of the launch product lineup.

expect more information Disney Lorcana Here at Gen Con in the lead up to this summer’s big launch.