All 18 Format Coconut Leaders: Decks, Strengths and Weaknesses

Each entry gives you the Coconut’s ability, the card it unlocks as your one playset, the archetype it points at, and what it struggles with. A reminder on two rules that come up constantly below:

• The Coconut card is not in your deck. It costs no slot, cannot be removed, and its ability is on from turn one.
• Singleton counts full names, not characters. So “a character named Stitch” is a deep well, because every version of Stitch is a different card you may run one of. But “two or more other Hunny characters in play” is a trap, because each one is a one-of that has to be drawn and survive. Whenever an ability below cares about a name, that is good news. Whenever it counts a classification on the board, be suspicious.

There is a third category that is easy to confuse with the second and is actually fine: abilities that trigger when you play a card of a type. Those do not need density on the board, only one card at a time in your hand. Mr. Incredible’s Coconut is the clearest example.

Before the entries, some context you can only get from the numbers. We pulled every public community deck in the format on 25 August 2026, 88 of them legal, and counted two different things.

Decks is how many people built one. Copies taken is how many times someone else copied that deck to play it themselves. Those measure different things, and they disagree loudly.

Donald Duck has the most decks and the sixth-most copies. Mufasa is second in decks and seventh in copies. Both are what the format’s tinkerers find interesting. Tinker Bell, Stitch and Ursula are what players actually want to sleeve up.

None of this is a power ranking. Not one deck in the corpus carries a win rate, so nobody has performance data for this format, us included. Read the right-hand column as “how much did other people want to play this,” which is a genuinely useful thing to know and a completely different thing from “is it good.”

We break this down properly, including whether it is just an age effect, in the August format report.

Each ink has three leaders, and each ink now has its own page with the full write-ups: the ability, the playset it unlocks, the archetypes worth trying, the honest weaknesses, and two off-ink cards that support it.

One thing to hold on to while you browse. A Coconut deck plays up to three inks and only one has to match your leader. Your leader fixes one slot and leaves two open, so an ink page is not describing a mono-ink deck. It is describing the one ink you are locked into and what you still need to go and find.

Amber

Amber is the song ink, 28 of them, more than anywhere else.

Read all three Amber leaders in full

Amethyst

Amethyst is the draw ink, 74 cards deep, with almost no removal.

Read all three Amethyst leaders in full

Emerald

Emerald is the most 3+ lore characters in the game, 38 of them.

Read all three Emerald leaders in full

Ruby

Ruby is the removal ink, holding 23 of the game’s 29 banish effects.

Read all three Ruby leaders in full

Sapphire

Sapphire is the item ink, 51 items, half again as many as anywhere else.

Read all three Sapphire leaders in full

Steel

Steel is table-wide damage, 10 of the 11 such cards in the game.

Read all three Steel leaders in full

Three honest recommendations, for three different reasons.

Easiest to build and hardest to disrupt: Winnie the Pooh - Hunny Wizard. The engine needs no specific card, the deck is made of the cheapest cards in the game, and there is nothing for an opponent to remove.

Most engine for the least effort: Dumbo - Ninth Wonder of the Universe, if you can afford the playset. Draw a card and gain a lore, on every Evasive character, immediately.

Best deck almost nobody has built: Scar - Finally King. Two community decks out of 91, the deepest card pool in the game to work with, and a draw engine most players will not see coming.

And if you want the one that teaches you the format fastest, take Tinker Bell - Giant Fairy. It forces you to learn which effects hit the whole table, which is the single most important lesson in multiplayer Lorcana.

Format Coconut is an open beta. Ravensburger has said the rules may change, and the Coconut cards themselves currently live only in the companion app. The beta rules do not publish a banned list or name a card pool, so play groups are setting their own expectations for now. Every card interaction on this page was checked against current card data at time of writing, but if a Coconut’s wording is ever ambiguous at your table, agree on a reading before you start rather than during.

We will keep this page updated as the beta moves.

We are building ready-to-play Format Coconut decks now, and every list gets played out before it ships to anybody. The first wave is not on sale yet. Join the list on our Format Coconut decks page and we will email you the moment it is ready.