Strategy Guides
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Free Lorcana strategy guides — built from real games, real meta data, and the same research we use when we tune our pre-built decks. Start with an upgrade kit if you bought a starter deck, brush up on sealed before your prerelease, or learn how to pilot one of our pre-built decks.
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Starter Deck Upgrade Guides
Tune any Ravensburger starter set — budget, mid, and tournament tiers.
Prerelease & Sealed
Show up ready — mechanics, archetypes, curve targets.
Attack of the Vine Sealed & Prerelease Guide — Lorcana Set 13 Limited Strategy
Attack of the Vine sealed deck guide. Build a 40-card deck from 6 booster packs using the BREAD method, with a data-driven set breakdown, per-ink card evaluations, the new Shift variants explained for limited, buildable tribes, and a verdict on all six prerelease promos.
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Spoilers & Set Previews
Every revealed card in plain English, plus the archetypes already forming.
- S13 · Set Analysis Live now
Attack of the Vine's First Combo: The Emerald/Steel Discard Engine
Attack of the Vine's first reveals form a self-contained Emerald/Steel discard engine. How Rapunzel, Mother Gothel, Look What You've Done, and Rapunzel & Flynn Rider turn discarding a card into pure value, and whether it can crack the current meta.
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- S13 · Spoiler Digest Updating
Attack of the Vine Spoiler Digest: Lorcana S13 Card Reveals & Analysis
Every officially revealed Attack of the Vine (Lorcana Set 13) card, in plain English, with a one-line read on why it matters. Updated through spoiler season.
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Metagame Reports
What's actually winning — read from the decklists, not the leaderboard.
- S12 · Core & Infinity Meta Live now
Lorcana Wilds Unknown: The 5 Most Impactful Cards
A personal look back at the five Wilds Unknown (Set 12) cards that shaped Disney Lorcana most across Core and Infinity, plus which ones survive the rotation. Every finish is linked to its tournament decklist.
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- S12 · Core Meta Live now
Wilds Unknown, Core, Week One: What the Meta Snapshot Missed
A hand-checked metagame report for the first competitive week of Disney Lorcana Wilds Unknown (Set 12) Core. Full event coverage, why the most-played deck is underperforming, the Set 12 breakout cards, the new Toys / Spike Suit deck, and the rotation cliff coming this fall.
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- S12 · Infinity Meta Live now
Wilds Unknown, Infinity, Week One: The Read Core Couldn't Give You
A hand-checked metagame report for the first competitive week of Disney Lorcana Wilds Unknown (Set 12) Infinity. With 322 published lists and full win/loss records, this is the list-verified read week-one Core couldn't support: popularity versus performance, what's defining the open format, and where Set 12 is landing.
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Deck Strategy Guides
Mulligan, key cards, matchups, and tech swaps for every deck we sell.
Ink & Color Guides
The six inks, every two-ink pair, and how dual-ink works — in plain English.
- Ink Colors
The Six Lorcana Ink Colors, Explained (Playstyles + Standout Cards)
Amber, Amethyst, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, and Steel: what each Lorcana ink actually does, how it wins games, and the standout cards that define it. The plain-English starting point before you pick a deck.
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- Color Pairs
Lorcana's Two-Ink Color Pairs: Every Combo's Playstyle and Standout Cards
All fifteen Lorcana two-ink pairings, what each one is trying to do, and the card that defines it. From proven winners like Dogs and Blurple down to the spicy pairs still looking for a home.
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- Dual-Ink
Dual-Ink Cards in Lorcana: What They Are and Why Set 13 Brings Them Back
Dual-ink cards count as two colors at once, and they are returning in Set 13. Here is how they differ from single-ink cards, what they change about deckbuilding, and how to be ready for them.
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