Beginner’s Guide: How to Play Disney’s Lorcana Trading Card Game

[@BrimleyGames]

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[@seandavis8213]

Mainly getting into Lorcana for my wife since she loves Disney, but after watching your video, I notice a lot of similarities to Magic the Gathering TCG so using that as a template makes it easier to understand.

[@MysticWarriorMJ]

You would be surprised how many TCGs use MtG as a template. Even the kingdom hearts trading card game (yes there was one) used a similar concept. Just without any land tapping.

[@Jashy_dujour]

Thank you. Some other channels are extremely vague or give too much info up top. My ADHD is awful so, this really helps. Great channel.

[@OktoberVanderslice]

Agreed, This was super concise and to the point! Very helpful!

[@a-rex5774]

Bought my first deck today and my brother got me into the game. Rewatched this video since we didnt know everything. Thanks buddy,!

[@BrimleyGames]

Yay! So excited for you to play Lorcana more! It's such a fun game! Also, it's nice to see you again, you were one of the original people watching my Disney Villainous content when I was just starting, so it means a lot to see you sticking around! I hope you are doing well!

[@a-rex5774]

@@BrimleyGames post more man lol

[@XianHahaauh]

Love the idea of Scenes. Its like your chosen character is acting the Scenes out. Mulan acting out the Aladin scenes

[@Lvl10CPU]

Excellent guide, both this and the keyword videos. Quick, easy, and to the point. Well done!

[@BrimleyGames]

Thank you so much!! I’m glad you enjoyed them! Hope you have a great day!

[@ZeroGtzX]

best Lorcana explained video hands down! I Subbed :) this is even better than the official explain vid

[@BrimleyGames]

Wow! Thank you so much!! That means a lot to hear that feedback! I am so glad you enjoyed it!

[@ZeroGtzX]

Oh and please consider doing one for One Piece TCG as i'm sure it would be amazing! :) @@BrimleyGames

[@CapnCarlSails]

I just got this and have awful vision, so reading that tiny print in the instructions is out of the question for me. this guide helped me a lot.

[@TheSPARTANusm]

Want to teach my girlfriend’s kid how to play a card game and Magic is much too complex for his age. This seems perfect! Kinda like Magic, but not as complex.

[@davidstone281]

When someone first explained to me how to play Lorcana, they said it's kinda like Magic and Pokemon combined. Edit: I'm only playing Magic right now but want to learn Lorcana bc I'm a massive Disney fan. Pokemon I just collect the cards. I refuse to play Yugioh ever again. Too goddamn competitive. Last game I played, this guy took 15 minutes for his first turn and had his board set up to where I couldn't do a goddamn thing.

[@seandavis8213]

It only took me two games to get the full grasp on Magic and I can say Lorcana is very similar to how you play it. Once you understand and Google what you don't, the game is very simple.

[@DarrenEstrada-ie9zy]

Ah, jadi ada trading card game baru dari Disney nih. Bisa jadi pilihan buat mengisi waktu senggang, tapi aku mungkin perlu baca panduan dulu. Thanks for sharing!

[@Trip_Fontaine]

Great job! A masterclass in explaining things succinctly.

[@extremeslashr]

I love the idea of having cards that can be used face up and as resource! Still adds complexity, but feels less bad when you flood out with resource cards

[@BrimleyGames]

I totally agree! It is a very fun mechanic because you can build a deck of cards you want, and then depending on the current game situation, you can use a card you don’t need in that moment as resource!! I think that is one of the many great things about this game! Thanks for watching! I hope you enjoyed it and have fun playing Lorcana soon!!

[@exquisitetoast3859]

I'm definitely playing lorcana and it is a cool feature of the game but it isn't something new and original, this is already used in several TCG such as Flesh and Blood

[@BrimleyGames]

Thanks for sharing!! That’s exciting that it is present in other games. I think it’s a very cool resource system.

[@lenninho5113]

it’s been like this since 1993. look up magic the gathering

[@UKSpike]

The old World Of Warcraft TCG used to do this (Not Hearthstone, the actual card game) - was one of the best features of it, also had quest cards you would put down as a resource face up that you could complete the quest at any time and get the reward, but also use it as a resource like normal.

[@thiccconstant9124]

This was a brilliantly simple way to explain the game, I'm not really a big tcg person, but I love Disney and Lorcana keeps getting advertised to me so I'm considering jumping in

[@ReadySetDraw_TCG]

Good pace and delivery! Great Job, sir!

[@BrimleyGames]

Thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@WaltherMekkie]

Thank you, that helped me getting started😊

[@BrimleyGames]

Yay, I'm so glad! I really love this game, so that's great to hear that this was helpful!

[@ThattJackGuy]

Awesome video! Very informative! Love it!

[@PureSolace]

So it's MTG but they're trying to fix being mana screwed or mana flooded.

[@senorapples1115]

That and not rely on hp as a win condition

[@mrmeow2297]

hope they make TRON and treasure planet and Atlantis cards and big hero six

[@BrimleyGames]

Hi Mr Meow! So, the cool thing is they already made a John Silver card from Treasure Planet!!! He will be available in the first set. So far, he is the only one, but since they put him in the game, we know they will be making more Treasure Planet cards in the future! I think over time we will definitely see Atlantis & Big Hero 6 cards since those are animated movies and seems to be the focus of Lorcana. I am also a huge fan of Big Hero 6 and would LOVE to see that added into the game!! We don’t know yet if they will dabble into the Live Action movies yet like Tron, but maybe they will in the future since they are making 4 sets of this game every year!! Anyways, thanks for watching, it is fun to speculate on which cards are coming next. I hope you have a great day!

[@danielhaycroft1597]

@@BrimleyGames in the cocreators interview with the gamer he did state that you can run a deck of pirates so that is a possibility that potc is a potential option.

[@BrimleyGames]

Yeah, I would be SO intrigued to see the deck list for Ryan Miller’s pirate deck!! And yeah, who knows, maybe we will get Pirates of the Caribbean at some point 🤷🏻‍♂️ It’s all up in the air, but that would fit into a Pirate deck perfectly!

[@underworlddreams1]

So do you get lore the moment you turn your card or when you unturn it at the start of your next turn? Feeling like a noob for asking this sinds i've played card games like magic, wow and pokemon 😅

[@BrimleyGames]

No worries! That’s a great question! So, you get the lore immediately when you turn it for questing. Let me know if you have any other questions!

[@Peeweez0]

Great guide and editing to make following the rules so much easier! I'm sure this video will get a ton of views come August 18 and even more September 1 (release dates)

[@BrimleyGames]

Thank you so much!!! I am glad it was helpful!!

[@Serjohn]

can i mix all colors if want, is there any restrictions to do so ?

[@BrimleyGames]

Hi, great question! If you are playing the "official rules", you can only have 2 colors in a deck. However, there are some fun variations of the game that allow you to use whatever colors you want. Then main thing I would suggest is, if you all agree to play multi-color decks, it should be fine and will be a lot of fun! One of my favorite variations is playing "Movie Decks". You can put any color of cards in your deck as long as they are from the same move like: Aladdin, Moana, etc... I hope this helps!

[@Serjohn]

@@BrimleyGames great idea

[@BrimleyGames]

@@SerjohnThanks! We’ve been having a lot of fun with it! Let me know how it goes if you give it a try!

[@Firewizard23]

Digging the 'Ink" mechanic...but yea, thanks Disney. had to get your money into a TCG, huh?

[@endtimestcg5146]

Thank you so much! 1:47 It is just one VS SYSTEM or WOW TCG°

[@lunarmoon8965]

What happens after you exert cards in your inkwell? Are they unusable for the rest of the game or do they reset?

[@BrimleyGames]

At the beginning of each turn, all do your cards are reset including the cards in your inkwell. This means if you play one each turn, over time you can play more expensive cards (or more cards). I hope this is answers your question. Hope you have a great day!!

[@iamadumbdumb3041]

When will you make a video about Location.

[@rapalborde5211]

Do you have to show your opponent what cards you place facedown in the inkwell? If not how cam you make sure no one is cheating by placing cards that cant be used as ink?

[@BrimleyGames]

What questions do you have about Disney Lorcana? I will try to answer them here (and they may end up in a future video!!)

[@squarebox4819]

Can you play spells at instant speed like playing spells on your opponent's turn

[@BrimleyGames]

Sorry, I am not sure what “instant speed” means. I am guessing that’s from another trading card game. However, there are no cards that can be played on your opponents turn. I hope this helps!

[@squarebox4819]

@@BrimleyGames it does help. Thank you

[@ByronChandler-we7jj]

Ah, game trading card Disney ini kayaknya menarik juga. Mungkin bisa jadi pemain baru nih, semoga seru!

[@ZelphrinsGaming]

... holy fish bait, this is incredibly similar to Duel Masters...

[@Um4r3x]

Even more similar to mtg

[@Velyren]

A wild pacman appears! He's come to eat your sentence dots. 😀 waka waka waka

[@blacknightabyss]

I knew it sounded familiar!

[@DoodleThis]

So I’m a bit confused. For your inkwell, are you allowed to put down as many of those ink cards as you want in the first turn? When you exert those ink cards, do they stay exterted ir ready n your next turn?

[@jonesbean4373]

quick question: Can i go for challenge oder quest with my charackter after he sing a song?

[@BrimleyGames]

Thanks for the question. So, doing any of those actions requires a character to be ready (face up) and after you do the action, you must exert them (turn sideways). So, if you sing a song, your character would be exerted and so you would be unable to challenge or quest, unless a card can ready a character again. In that case, you could perform another action. I hope that helps! Let me know if you have additional questions. Thanks!

[@iiiian7]

Can you quest with multiple characters if they're allowed to?

[@BrimleyGames]

Great question! Yep, each character can quest on your turn (as long as they were played the previous turn.) I hope this helps!

[@humbertopedraza147]

I like the replace cards rule. Be cool if yugioh tcg allowed us to replace 2 cards for redraw.

[@BrimleyGames]

Yeah, I really like it too! It makes it a lot more fun!

[@robertritchie5305]

I played this wrong for 5 months... I collected Lore from questing at the beginning of next turn, making challenging stop Lore collection, it made the game more strategic and involved. But went to a league today, too find out I've been oddly wrong with wife for 5 months, my deck was not built for speed, lost every match, nor I get to rebuild!!!

[@emogeese]

Can you play action cards or any card on your opponents turns?

[@victoriavaldez280]

Sorry I’m confused is this an online game or like a card game-card game

[@BrimleyGames]

This is a physical card game. I just used the digital images of the cards for the video to make it easier to learn. I hope this helps!

[@DoughBob86]

So once a card is placed down in the inkwell it cant be played later for whatever was on it's face up side?

[@BrimleyGames]

Great question! Yes, any card that is placed in the inkwell is gone for the rest of the game. You can’t get that card back at all for its abilities on the front side. **Sidenote: this is with the current abilities in the first set. In future sets, we may see a card that lets you get cards back from your inkwell, but for now, you can’t. I hope this helps! Hope you have a great day!

[@DoughBob86]

@@BrimleyGames perfect thanks! I got 3 decks and 2 boxes coming can't wait

[@BrimleyGames]

That’s amazing!!! Congrats!! I know it’s hard to find, so that’s exciting!

[@DoughBob86]

@@BrimleyGames yeah our lgs sold out just on pre orders. He has a case of hanger boosters for sale and thats about it limit 3 or 5 packs a day i think

[@BrimleyGames]

Yeah it’s crazy how limited it is!

[@Guyu]

Can you do TerraFyte next?

[@staceydaves7280]

For someone who is new to the game, as far as the start of the game to putting to putting my first card into the Inkwell, would it be recommended it be the lowest number of ink or am I getting confused by the number inside the frill? That was one of the couple things I was trying to understand in the instructions. Like for example, I had a card that had 2 inside the circle.

[@crisp__]

Each card is worth one ink. You place it face down in your inkwell. The number is the cost to play the card, meaning if your card says "2" then you must have 2 inks in your inkwell to play that card.

[@camotophat]

So its MTG, but you're counting up to 20 instead of counting down, and your creatures are also your mana?

[@EcstaticPyro]

Good video!

[@BrimleyGames]

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

[@LomasneyAaron]

So this game a copy paste WoW TCG with a Disney skin?

[@philllllllll]

How do you know your opponent played a legal ink card? Do they show what they put down when they do so? Or reveal them all at the end of the game?

[@BrimleyGames]

Great question. When you play a card in your inkwell, you MUST show it to your opponent. That way they can verify that it is a legal play. I hope this helped answer your question! I hope you have a great day!

[@philllllllll]

@@BrimleyGames it did, thank you. It's information that is oddly missing from every video and website I've looked at searching for the answer. (And I'm assuming damage carries over between turns?)

[@BrimleyGames]

@@philllllllll haha 😂 that’s hilarious! But yeah, it’s a rule. And yes, damage does carry over between turns!

[@dylanthomson6400]

Magic with extra steps but seems cool

[@bigchris327]

I was thinking more Duel Masters than anything

[@thecrazydisneyparksfanatic921]

Some kind of question I got is for a card that requires six or more ink but you can only have five ink on your board at a time how does that work?

[@fickminne]

There is no limit to the amount of ink you can have..

[@PatrioticMasks]

The only cards REALLY worth anything in Lorcana are promo and tournament winner promo cards. Basically if you want to make money later you better get good now and play to win.

[@Venjamin]

So... is there any way to prevent your opponent from gaining lore? Or is the only viable game strategy rush lore to 20?

[@BrimleyGames]

Great question! There are ways to slow an opponent down. Here are 2: -challenging: make favorable trades for you to slow down your opponent. -removal: cards that banish their characters without challenging This is a fun balance in the game. You have to figure out what the decks goal is. A lot of decks, just want to quest and go for 20 lore fast. But there are a lot of other decks that rely on expensive cards, and so they challenge / remove more in the early game and then play the big characters in the late game to win. I hope this answered your question! Hope you have a great day!

[@ladyamberskye]

There are some cards in the Aladdin Cruela de Vil deck that have action opponent loses lore and an Aladdin that takes 2 lore and gets 2 lore for every character banished he defeats.

[@grahamovermyer5987]

Kinda neat. Basically Magic but Disney

[@anthonysmith6767]

So how do you deal with opponents "READY" card? Why not leave all cards in ready, seems like that makes them invincible?

[@BrimleyGames]

Hi Anthony! Currently there are only a few ways. There are certain cards that can exert an opposing character, removal options to banish a chosen character (even if “ready”), or even cards that deal damage without challenging (like a lot of steel cards). In the second set, we are also getting more cards that give you options to deal with “ready” characters. In my experience, you can only leave them all in a “ready” position for a short time. If you keep them there for too long and never challenge, your opponent will likely win before you. Also, cards like grab your sword and be prepared can take out a lot of characters at a time which can really mess up a strategy of leaving them all “ready” at the same time. There isn’t a simple answer here, but I hope this helped a bit. Please let me know if you have additional questions. Thanks!

[@mathiasnielsen8419]

So it’s basically Dual Masters

[@Raffesetae]

I use this as a gateway theory in practice for Magic the Gathering with my girlfriend. *Evil mastermind laugh*

[@justfrankjustdank2538]

0:05 in the flavor text of that card they spelled sheer wrong xD

[@ihaveapipebombinmyass]

It’s a pun because he’s holding shears

[@mannywhiskey7872]

I’m not going to lie this looks really complicated to understand…looks like mtg that’s why I never really got into it too complex..I really want to learn but I people don’t have the patience to teach in person where I live

[@BrimleyGames]

Yeah, it does take a bit of a learning curve, but the thing I love about it is that the base game is generally simple and each card's ability does different things and that is where the "complexity" comes in. Quick question for you, do you think it would help to have a longer video where I go a bit slower and go deeper into the rules and scenarios? I am thinking about doing this and wonder if this would help you or the people you want to teach. Thanks!

[@mannywhiskey7872]

@@BrimleyGames yes that would help. because i myself learn better in person like to ask question and stuff. so slowing it down and breaking every detail would help.

[@BrimleyGames]

⁠​⁠@@mannywhiskey7872Awesome! I appreciate the feedback!! I am excited to make a deeper dive on this. Thanks again!!

[@starscreen85]

so this is basically keyforge, just with different names.

[@blackened6890]

More like MTG, Dualmasters/ Kaijudo

[@thefalsekingslayer3717]

The real trick is having any cards

[@BrimleyGames]

Great point! I think that’s why the Amethyst (Purple) Ink is one of the most powerful in the game because it has a lot of card draw!

[@Therush786]

So this is just duel masters disney edition

[@emmicd11]

Bingo

[@MrTwenty6point2]

a lot like monster rancher card battle meets mtg

[@barforlifebarforlife6019]

the first Player has a slight advantage ? haha no as in any game the first Player has a HUGE advantage

[@BrimleyGames]

Haha 😂 fair point!!

[@estishomeservices]

Confusing

[@kylehyde566]

So it's like 50:50 Duel Masters and Magic ripoff, gottcha

[@Thousandeyes85]

Pro tip: buy a case of this first set and never open it. You'll thank me later

[@rileymcphee9429]

Pro tip: proxy all your cards and watch scalpers cry when they can't cash out their racket.

[@FFXV]

What if we want to play this game and not take advantage of other people who want to play by buying the cards and reselling them?

[@DarkBunnyLord]

Scalpers are the worst people.

[@Metroidam11]

They’re printing these sets like crazy and everyone has the same idea to flip/scalp. Here’s hoping it’ll backfire and second hand cards in the market will be dirt cheap due to over saturation. 😁

[@davidstone281]

I goddamn fucking HATE scalpers.

[@lukeandliz]

Stop scrolling "So this is just copy of (Insert other TCG that's also a copy of something else) but disney?" - This entire comment section

[@petersnow5726]

Promo'SM

[@jennieh.6494]

Still confused

[@BrimleyGames]

I’m sorry to hear that, are there any questions you have that I can try to answer in more detail here?

[@jennieh.6494]

@@BrimleyGames actually you explained it very well. But still to confusing for my small brain

[@BrimleyGames]

It’s definitely one of those games that you have to play it a few times to have a good idea of how to play. Sorry that the video wasn’t as helpful to you. I hope you can play soon though!

[@joelatkinson4967]

This is magic the gathering

[@AnthonyDuLacWytefang]

How is this generic video the top promoted one on YT? 😅

[@12post]

Seems like they were copying Magic.

[@Neocronomicon]

Viel hat mir das Video nicht gebracht.

[@billyz90]

Okay now say all that again but use MtG verbiage so I can more quickly understand it all. I don't have the mental bandwidth for another tcg language.

[@beaver_warrior]

I thought autistic people were supposed to be good at learning new things?

[@anthonyvilla-real6763]

Terrible video. Consider remaking it, but taking more time to explain things instead of rushing through it all.

[@Tarrabyte]

I like how you did everything but you didn't go through a game.

[@rowrowflo]

Bruh this guy comments are all copy past XD

[@user-it6bx9tt5h]

step 1: Take out a bank loan of $1000 because theme decks are $50 and individual cards are $20+

[@camsiegel1439]

I love how this is a ripoff of the WoW TCG which was a rip off of Magic TGC... hard pass lol