Lorcana Quick Rules Reference

The short version of how Disney Lorcana works. For a fuller walkthrough, read the beginner's guide.

The goal

Be the first player to reach 20 lore.

Deckbuilding rules

Exactly 60 cards.
Cards from at most two ink colors.
No more than 4 copies of any single card.

Turn structure

Ready — stand up (un-exert) all your cards.
Set — resolve "at the start of your turn" effects.
Draw — draw one card. The player going first skips their very first draw.
Main phase — in any order: ink a card (once per turn), play cards, quest, challenge, and sing songs.

Inking

Once per turn you may put a card with the swirl symbol in its top-left corner into your inkwell face down. Each card in your inkwell provides 1 ink to spend. Inked cards are gone from your playable hand, so balance how much you ink.

Questing

Exert a character (turn it sideways) to gain lore equal to the number next to its lore symbol. A character can't quest the turn it's played (its ink is still drying) unless an ability says otherwise.

Challenging

You may only challenge an exerted opposing character.
Both characters deal damage equal to their strength to each other.
A character with damage ≥ its willpower is banished (discarded).
Rush lets a character challenge the turn it's played.

Singing songs

Instead of paying a song's ink cost, you may exert a character whose cost is equal to or greater than the song's cost to sing it for free. Singer N lets a character sing as though its cost were N.

Keywords

Abilities like Bodyguard, Shift, Ward, and Evasive are summarized in the keyword glossary.