Ayooo

Disagree but respect your opinion. The games execution and potential outweighs Pokemon/MTG longer term and has only been out 1 year.

I've always liked trying other card games and I will admit that I really got into Lorcana at first. It was a simple game that everyone could play, loved the ink system, and very easy to play with a group. But pretty much lost all interest by the Ursala set. My friends weren't interested in buying much so the majority of the time we would just play the starter decks that I own. It didn't help that it was starting to get boring seeing yet another variant of a Disney character. Not really a fan of any of them. Pretty much went back to magic, which I will admit is just an okay game at best for me. Why? Because it the only game really being played where I am not supplying all the cards/decks for the game. I've played many games in my life that I thought put magic to shame but they all come and go. Always come back to it for a year or two because it is about my only option.

doing great in PA! Visited Seattle also, huge scene for year 1!

Without promotional money or such model involved safe design with a big IP behind seems not to be enough in the middle of TCG winter. Either playability or collectibility should be 10/10, lorcana was around 8ish/10 to me. It was not terrible. Actually a good game in limited.

I was surprised that the other LGS I go to has a regular 5-10 people who play it. I wanted to play it (even made a Captain Hook deck) but no one would play it with me so I dropped it. Great cards and easy to learn but I think the audience who originally bought the cards were more Disney collectors than card game players.

At least it's not MTG lol.

Still seems fairly popular here in Arizona, but personally I play it a lot less. I did start playing Magic in the middle of Set 5 so that definitely makes a difference, but I just don't get the excitement I used to for new sets.

The real reason Lorcana is having this issue is the fact they stopped pixelborn. That game gave people the ability to have fun and get involved with the game . They sent the cease and desist letter out shortly after the UR set, it didn’t sell as well as other sets and SS set did pretty bad. You take away the ease off access for people to play and the game will die. It’s that simple.

A couple of thoughts: By no means is lorcana dying as a game, rather turn outs on the local scene have started to decline due to lack of sufficient tournament support and a stale meta. People are still excited to play with their favorite characters from the IP they are just being pushed out of comp play because of the strength of the meta decks. Either a store offers great prizing and comp players turn out to play against locals and the newer more casual players get a bad taste from the experience or stores have lack luster prizing that results in fewer comp players and a lower turn out which results in events not firing. When events fail to fire locals start to perceive that the game is dying when in reality it’s not just that the prizing doesn’t warrant the comp players driving out when they could go elsewhere for better opportunities, whether a different store or different game. Leagues like magic has where people are incentivized to strive for different goals than just winning with a chance for high end prizing may be a way to get more people engaged and help build your scene back up. But once a local scene starts to die something drastic has to be done and continued to see it grow again. Offering something like a 2,000$ tourney may be a good catalyst to start then offering win an enchanted event every week could keep it interesting if you didn’t want to do a league of your own with higher prizing. But individual stores have to be actively supporting it by advertising their events, posting on socials, and trying to link up with creators to generate traffic. TLDR: game is fine, new set has brewers excited, but if stores don’t step up their effort to support events that get people excited the game can and will decline.

Bummer I just got into it 😅😅

I agree the player scene of Lorcana has been shrinking and Championship promos price declining but The First Chapter booster boxes have almost had a 50% increase in the past week - really weird trend going on

My local game store had a sizable play group. Now it has none I think, I'll have to double check. I may ask in general about all games. This was why I didn't want to get into flesh and blood. Everything about it appealed to me, but too few people, meanwhile the price of a half decent deck was as expensive, or more, than a deck in magic. Why would I try? With Lorcana I think it got bought out by speculators, so it was hard for organic growth of a playerbase due to lack of being able to casually find packs at stores for organic grwoth. Maybe starting the TCG with tons of crazy special rarity arts in the opening couple sets wasn't very wise. I think they ostracized the playerbase with pixelborn. Then also from the start it put off a lot of potential players with the lawsuit over the game mechanics itself. Morally, I can't play a game where a megacorporation took the game mechanics from someone else who was building their own game....allegedly. I think this is a reverberation after effect of the 2020 era, if you know what I mean. There was a lot of money flowing into any consumer product or collectible items of any sort. Lots of hype over card games. Lots of people trying to bring out card games all at once. Its now contracting. I think in general its been a slow and hard road downward for even the main stay card games. There just isn't as much money, and people don't have as much time. I know lots of people picking up second jobs because they got a massive paycut or reduced hours. Others straight up being laid off. Sometimes reality of life outside your hobbies dictate if you can afford to have a hobby.

Were did you get the mouse pad?

Lorcana totally collapsed at the game store that I own. We went from 12 players to 0. I have bought and flipped all their collections online.

pokemon is king :)

Set fatigue is real. More established games struggle with it, newer games that come out this aggressively are going to struggle, even with a Disney IP. Take that with print to demand there is no reason for people to chase the cards, rather yet play them. For a CCG you need to focus on the both the C and the CG to be successful.

Lorcana never really took off here

I think it also has to do with, people want to the best decks they can build in Lorcana and there's not a lot of variety of decks at the top. Emerlad/Steel Discard is top gun atm and this format was a ton of Hyper Aggro. I've seen it too with my locals. After set championships, our locals died off a lot, but likely will see them back once Azurite Seas comes out.

I stop playing after 0p05. I couldn't get even one winner card.

I can't even find them and you find them on clearance! That's luck if I've ever seen it 🤣

151 under them and u pass?

Dang i see stellar crown literally everywhere lol. My 2 gamestops have their wall full of them like 300-400. I went in today and they had 3 TM and like 5 TF sleeves so that was refreshing

FIVE DOLLARS FOR ONE PACK???????

$20

Wow wow that was actually good

Cool i pulled that card yesterday i was shocked

Nice

Love the nostalgix product in the background - they’re still going 💪

I think thats kinda personal information

Where you live

🔥🔥🔥

Elestrals is looking pretty cool!

What's your favorite set in Elestrals so far?

There is no such thing as trash or treasure when it comes to opening packs. You pay for the bare minimum that you can get in the packs and anything more you get is just a bonus. Its crazy how many people out there are just greedy for the rarest card in each set and if they don't get it then its not "worth".

Should’ve brought the one piece cards lol

Thank you for opening packs the way they were meant to be opened. 😂😂😂

Bruh plz that's a one piece spoiler

That’s right it’s all about the Charizard 😊

Heading to pick some up now! Insane Pulls🎉

WoW! That’s Awesome! Have an incredible week!

that boa handincock

Lorcana is cool and fun to play and collect but not a card game to go for if you wanna see cool pulls unfortunately

Got an entire BB of op-05 and didn't pull anything good at all

Jesus, where do you guys online find these Wal-Marts and Targets stocked by angels with a variety that would make pharaohs jealous? My Wal-mart has fresh stock of fuggin nothin' and my target brand new boxes of slim pickins lol

Miss you pal. Hope all is well

The Hunter x Hunter game and bleach game are the same game.

Cool art plus profit = W

SO from what I have found is that the Yen Sid card is from the Illumineer's Quest - Deep Trouble - you can tell by the bottom color of the card. the Illumineer's Quest cards have a silverish bottom and the number for the card would be 223/204, there is the Ursula's Return has a gold bottom and a card number of 59/204 even though you pulled it from a pack it is part of the guest LOL

Nothing like repacked cards Pffft