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The Lorcana Mulligan Guide: When to Keep and When to Ship
Your opening hand decides a lot of Lorcana games. Learn a simple framework for what to keep, what to bottom, and how to mulligan with purpose.
Understanding the Ink Curve: How Many Cards at Each Cost
Your ink curve decides whether you always have a play or sit there flooded. A guide to building a smooth Lorcana mana curve, with example shapes.
Building Your First Budget Lorcana Deck
You don't need enchanted cards to win. A practical guide to building a strong, cheap Disney Lorcana deck and the deckbuilding ratios that matter.
Inkable vs Uninkable: Building a Reliable Inkwell
Every card you ink is a card you can't play. Here's how many inkable cards your Lorcana deck needs so you can grow your inkwell every single turn.
The Two-Ink Color Pairs: A Strategy Guide
A Lorcana deck uses up to two of the six inks. Here's what each color does and which pairings reward aggro, midrange, and control playstyles.
Every Lorcana Keyword Explained
Bodyguard, Shift, Ward, Singer and the rest — a plain-English guide to every Disney Lorcana keyword and how to use it.
Tempo vs Card Advantage in Lorcana
Two of the most important ideas in card games, explained for Lorcana. Learn when to push tempo, when to grind for card advantage, and how the inkwell changes the math.
Lorcana Draw Probabilities Every Player Should Know
How likely are you to draw your key card? The hypergeometric numbers for a 60-card Lorcana deck, in plain tables and graphs, plus how to use them.
How to Play Disney Lorcana: A Beginner's Guide
New to Disney Lorcana? Learn the goal of the game, the turn structure, inking, questing, and challenging in one quick read.
Questing vs Challenging: When to Race and When to Trade
Every turn in Lorcana you choose between gaining lore and fighting. A practical guide to deciding when to quest for the win and when to challenge to control the board.
Building an Aggro Deck in Lorcana
Aggro decks race to 20 lore before the opponent sets up. Here's how to build a fast, low-curve Lorcana deck that closes games quickly.
Building a Control Deck in Lorcana
Control decks survive the early game and win with superior late-game value. Here's how to build a Lorcana control deck with removal, card draw, and finishers.
Building a Midrange Deck in Lorcana
Midrange is the most flexible Lorcana archetype — strong, efficient cards that pressure slow decks and grind out fast ones. Here's how to build one.
Defensive Deckbuilding and the Bodyguard Wall
Bodyguard is Lorcana's premier defensive keyword. Learn how to build a deck that protects its lore engine and frustrates aggressive opponents.
Song Decks and Singers: A Tempo Engine
Songs let characters cast powerful actions for free. Learn how Singer math works in Lorcana and how to build a tempo-positive song deck.
Shift Explained: Tempo Cheats with Legendary Glimmers
Shift lets you play expensive characters at a discount by stacking them on a same-named card. A guide to using Shift for huge tempo swings in Lorcana.
Lore Race Math: How Fast Can You Reach 20?
Lorcana games are won at 20 lore. Here's the simple math of lore-per-turn, how fast different decks close, and why one extra point of lore a turn matters so much.
Reading a Lorcana Card: Cost, Strength, Willpower, and Lore
Every Lorcana character card tells you everything you need in four numbers. Learn to read a stat line and judge whether a card is efficient.
The Role of Locations in Lorcana
Locations are a unique Lorcana card type that can generate lore and shelter your characters. Here's how they work and how to build around them.
Items: The Underrated Card Type in Lorcana
Items stick around and provide ongoing value or one-time effects. A guide to how Lorcana items work and why they quietly power so many strong decks.
Removal in Lorcana: Hard vs Soft Answers
Removal keeps you alive and controls the board. Learn the difference between hard and soft removal in Lorcana and how much your deck should run.
Card Draw Engines: Refueling Your Hand
Running out of cards loses games. Learn how card draw works in Lorcana, why the inkwell complicates it, and how to build a sustainable draw engine.
The Meta Triangle: Aggro, Midrange, and Control
Lorcana archetypes form a rock-paper-scissors triangle. Understand who beats whom and why, so you can pick the right deck and play the right role.
10 Common Lorcana Beginner Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
The mistakes almost every new Lorcana player makes — from inking wrong to misjudging the race — and simple fixes to climb the learning curve faster.
On the Play vs On the Draw: The First-Player Choice
In Lorcana the first player skips their first draw. Here's what that trade really costs, who it favors, and how to play from each side.
Upgrading Your Starter Deck: A Step-by-Step Plan
Got a Lorcana starter or preconstructed deck? Here's a budget-friendly, no-waste plan for upgrading it into something competitive a few cards at a time.
Evasive: The Hardest Keyword to Answer
Evasive characters can only be challenged by other Evasive characters. Learn why this keyword is so powerful in Lorcana and how to both use and beat it.
Mulligan Heuristics by Archetype
A great keep for aggro is a mulligan for control. Archetype-by-archetype guidance on what your opening hand actually needs in Lorcana.
Turn Sequencing: Why Play Order Matters
Doing the right things in the wrong order loses Lorcana games. A guide to sequencing your turn — inking, playing, questing, and challenging — for maximum value.
The Inking Decision: How Much to Ink Each Turn
Inking is free ramp — until it isn't. A guide to deciding which card to ink, when to skip your ink for the turn, and how the inkwell shapes the whole game.
Choosing Your First Ink Pair as a New Player
Overwhelmed by six inks and fifteen possible pairs? A friendly guide to picking a first Lorcana color pair that matches how you like to play.
Best-of-Three Match Strategy in Lorcana
Tournament Lorcana is played in best-of-three matches. Learn how to win the match, not just the game — adapting between games, managing time, and choosing play or draw.
The Lorcana Deckbuilding Ratios Cheat Sheet
All the deckbuilding numbers in one place: card type ratios, ink curve targets, inkable counts, and removal suites by archetype. Bookmark this one.