When Disney Lorcana launched over the summer season, nearly all of customers appeared largely into it for the bling — huge shiny playing cards crammed with their favourite Disney characters. However with the arrival of Ravensburger’s second set of playing cards in November, titled Rise of the Floodborn, it’s apparent that lots of the recreation’s most elementary mechanical components nonetheless have but to be revealed. Living proof are the all-new location playing cards, which can roll out with the sport’s third set titled Into the Inklands starting on March 8. A brand new card was revealed Thursday, and it’s clear that the mechanic might have the potential to significantly alter the technique of the sport.
In Disney Lorcana, gamers tackle the function of illumineers — highly effective spellcasters that use magical ink to summon beloved Disney characters to the battlefield. As soon as Into The Inklands arrives, illumineers will be capable of summon areas as properly. However, not like land playing cards in Magic: The Gathering, location playing cards are very a lot open to assault. Each has a willpower worth, representing its well being, and all will be broken by nearly any unit on the opposite facet of the desk.
As soon as in play, location playing cards will add lore, which symbolize victory factors in Disney Lorcana, at first of every spherical that they continue to be in play. This makes them helpful as dependable sources of revenue all through the sport, and essential targets for opposing participant assaults. Nonetheless, as a result of they haven’t any intrinsic assault ranking, there’s no draw back to attacking them — they merely can’t combat again on their very own. Meaning location playing cards are literally extra weak to assault than common character playing cards.
On Thursday, Ravensburger revealed Jim Hawkins, Area Traveler. This new hero card has a singular means, which is among the many first to instantly work together with areas. When the character is performed, a location with the price of 4 or much less will be performed to the desk at no cost, as properly. Hawkins’ Take The Helm means, then again, permits him to maneuver to any new location that you simply play. Meaning gamers might be able to mount a protection for areas as they’re performed, as long as they preserve this character alive.
Ravensburger is making this type of protection even simpler to do, doubtlessly, noting in a information launch shared with Polygon in December that characters which have simply been performed — which might usually want to take a seat out a spherical whereas their ink dries — will be moved to a location immediately.
The impact throughout play might be to interrupt up what was initially a monolithic entrance line of battle into a number of totally different lanes. If that’s the case, gamers going up in opposition to a deck with a lot of areas might want to decide not merely if they’ll assault the opposite participant, however the place they’ll make their assault based mostly on the what playing cards are current at every location.
Keep in mind that a few of this evaluation is theory: We nonetheless don’t have last full guidelines on how characters and areas will work together. Anticipate extra concrete particulars to be revealed in a while down the road.
A number of extra location playing cards are anticipated with Disney Lorcana’s third set, together with Motunui from Moana and the Jolly Roger from Peter Pan. Into the Inklands will debut at native video games shops starting Feb. 23. Mass market retailers, like Amazon and ShopDisney, will begin promoting them on March 8.