Disney Lorcana: Under the CCG

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CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

I signed up for the Amazon things, it was very easy to do and did not involve six hour queues.

Surprising nobody, they at least know how to pre-sell a product with extremely high demand.

# ? Dec 2, 2023 03:14

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# ? May 16, 2024 05:10

Yiggy: Sep 12, 2004; "Imagination is not enough. You have to have knowledge too, and an experience of the oddity of life."

Did they already send you some links?

# ? Dec 2, 2023 03:32

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Yiggy posted:

Did they already send you some links?

No, just confirmation emails that my request was received. But compare this queue and the signup process thereof to Ravensburger�s complete loving debacle; I went to a webpage, it loaded, I clicked three buttons, nothing crashed, and if I get in they�ll let me know and I�ll have 72 hours so there�s no rush.

Again, it�s almost like Amazon knows how to move product at scale or something.

# ? Dec 2, 2023 04:20

Eggplant Squire: Aug 14, 2003

I don't think I've ever seen a queue system for a high demand item not explode and piss off everyone. The lottery email was stuff sounds vastly superior..

# ? Dec 2, 2023 12:54

Ulta: Oct 3, 2006; Snail on my head ready to go.

Singles prices are on a downward trend, and it looks like another restock of chapter 1 on the 22nd.

This guy seems like a budget monster. He�s in the starter deck, and paired with pawsickle and Nick

you�ve got some real card advantage. Synergies with Noi, a very good 2 drop

and does something with Fishbone or coconut basket when your done with them. This tech slots really well into a lot of deck half�s like Amber healing, red aggro/removal, purple control.

# ? Dec 2, 2023 15:21

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012

Yeah Sapphire straight up has a better card draw engine than anything Amethyst can muster.

# ? Dec 2, 2023 23:50

Saltpowered: Apr 12, 2010; Chief Executive Officer
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One good thing about the drops at stores the last week and online is that there appear to be plenty of starters this time. I�ve seen 20+ starters at every store I�ve been the last few days so that should help people get into the game.

# ? Dec 3, 2023 01:43

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

This was the special Lorcana only line before the exhibit hall officially opened today at PAX Unplugged.

At 3 pm in the afternoon, when I got my lunch break, I thought I'd walk over to the Ravensburger booth and see how they were doing. I was greeted with the sight of literally hundreds of Floodborn booster boxes and them having a basically infinite amount of boosters and starters. So I got to walk up with no line, simply ask for the things I wanted, and buy them for MSRP. Like it's a product for sale, or something crazy like that.

But it does seem like Ravensburger is learning, because this is miles away from how completely unprepared they were at GenCon.

# ? Dec 3, 2023 01:59

Randalor: Sep 4, 2011

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Yeah Sapphire straight up has a better card draw engine than anything Amethyst can muster.

Eh, Amethyst has pure card draw, while Sapphire has more moving parts for the same effect. Though Amethyst now gets fun card drawing (and filtering, and lore gain, and challenging) engine shenanigans with Merlin/Arthur/Madam Mim, so there is that.

# ? Dec 3, 2023 05:06

Ulta: Oct 3, 2006; Snail on my head ready to go.

I did a 1st chapter draft last night. Went 3-0. I have drafted a lot in MTG, and this is very different. Basically, open 4 packs, end up with a stack of 48 cards, and you should cut 8 of them. No color restrictions, just minimum 40. Deck construction basically happens while you�re picking.

It�s neat to see cards that don�t get play get some play. Most of my games ended at 6 ink. Bodyguard and evasive have high value. My MVP of the night was the 3x Maximus (3/3 1 lore, 3 inkable, -2 to attack to target turn comes into play) since it usually could cause some good combat interactions in my favor. Mad Hatter is also stupid good (2/5 3 lore, 5 inkable, draw a card when challenged). Some of the cards I thought would be bombs were not, I got a dr fac, agent provocateur ( 4/5 3 lore, 7 uninkable, 5 shift, if a character dies on your turn in a challenge, return to hand). Games ended at 5 or 6, and being uninkable at 7 made him unplayable.

Not my favorite format, since there isn�t any reading of packs in the drafting format. I haven�t done sealed yet so I�d like to try that.

# ? Dec 3, 2023 13:09

Jade Rider: May 11, 2007; All the pages have been censored except for "heck," and she misread that one.

Showed up at my usual supermarket last night at the exact time people were restocking Lorcana, grabbed some starter decks and boosters. Didn't pull anything valuable, but still good to have some physical cards. :toot:

# ? Dec 4, 2023 02:45

DalaranJ: Apr 15, 2008; Yosuke will now die for you.

Ulta posted:

I did a 1st chapter draft last night. Went 3-0. I have drafted a lot in MTG, and this is very different. Basically, open 4 packs, end up with a stack of 48 cards, and you should cut 8 of them. No color restrictions, just minimum 40. Deck construction basically happens while you�re picking.

It�s neat to see cards that don�t get play get some play. Most of my games ended at 6 ink. Bodyguard and evasive have high value. My MVP of the night was the 3x Maximus (3/3 1 lore, 3 inkable, -2 to attack to target turn comes into play) since it usually could cause some good combat interactions in my favor. Mad Hatter is also stupid good (2/5 3 lore, 5 inkable, draw a card when challenged). Some of the cards I thought would be bombs were not, I got a dr fac, agent provocateur ( 4/5 3 lore, 7 uninkable, 5 shift, if a character dies on your turn in a challenge, return to hand). Games ended at 5 or 6, and being uninkable at 7 made him unplayable.

Not my favorite format, since there isn�t any reading of packs in the drafting format. I haven�t done sealed yet so I�d like to try that.

Seems like draft would be a rough format because making the rule �you can play whatever color you want� would completely flatten the flavor of each deck, but making it �you can only play 2 colors� turns 60% of your deck into basic lands, ugh.

# ? Dec 4, 2023 07:17

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012

Here's a breakdown of the top decks from the GalaxyCon Lorcana 2k.

https://youtu.be/QSy1QTQe2W8?si=mZ0TDUBdkCk1FUE7
Lists: https://inkdecks.com/lorcana-tournaments/ppg-galaxycon-lorcana-2k-bo3-tournament-decks-148

# ? Dec 4, 2023 08:01

Yiggy: Sep 12, 2004; "Imagination is not enough. You have to have knowledge too, and an experience of the oddity of life."

Finally got around to introducing game to my 7 y.o. We played hands-face-up games and talked through everything, moved really slowly. Lots of reminders and tip giving. Kiddo has a natural, non-confrontational hesitancy towards using characters for challenges and prefers to just quest race on lore. They are on amber amethyst starter and I've been on sapphire steel. The reception is positive but I can tell we're going to be moving fairly slowly and probably just jamming unaltered starters for a good while.

DalaranJ posted:

Seems like draft would be a rough format because making the rule �you can play whatever color you want� would completely flatten the flavor of each deck, but making it �you can only play 2 colors� turns 60% of your deck into basic lands, ugh.

Feels like the next half step to me would be rather to allow three color, maybe four color, draft decks vs. eliminating the card distinction entirely. There have been one or two draft formats over the last couple of years in MTG that age into a meta where everyone is trying to construct the 5-color good stuff deck and once that gels I find those to be really tedious drafting formats. Whereas having some color restriction still in lorcana would allow the existence of something like color pairing lanes and interesting draft choice decisions beyond "What is best card in pack flat stat wise".

# ? Dec 4, 2023 09:09

Ulta: Oct 3, 2006; Snail on my head ready to go.

DalaranJ posted:

Seems like draft would be a rough format because making the rule �you can play whatever color you want� would completely flatten the flavor of each deck, but making it �you can only play 2 colors� turns 60% of your deck into basic lands, ugh.

All the decks I played against (and played) all felt the same. Lots of cards that don�t see constructed play got play, but there were some clear trends.

Yah, either you have to open twice as many pack (then just play sealed), limit to 20 card decks (interesting but I think bombs would be too powerful because decks would be too consistent), or say all cards are uninkable, you can have as many of these �basic inks� as you like (too weird).

# ? Dec 4, 2023 15:55

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Next expansion: Into the Inklands.

New mechanic with Locations, no information on how they work yet, and our first non-animated movie properties: DuckTales and TaleSpin! It's '90s afternoon TV time, apparently.

# ? Dec 6, 2023 17:41

SettingSun: Aug 10, 2013

They're already at their third set? I have never seen this game available for purchase at a store.

# ? Dec 6, 2023 17:47

Eggplant Squire: Aug 14, 2003

I saw an empty shelf at Target where it was sold out, does that count?

# ? Dec 6, 2023 18:01

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

I actually saw some at an LGS recently. It was a nice change.

# ? Dec 6, 2023 18:04

Owlbear Camus: Jan 3, 2013; Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?

CapnAndy posted:

I actually saw some at an LGS recently. It was a nice change.

They scalping? Even the "good nice" LGSes locally are scalping.

# ? Dec 6, 2023 18:13

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Owlbear Camus posted:

They scalping? Even the "good nice" LGSes locally are scalping.

$7.99/booster. Above MSRP, but I wouldn't call it scalping.

There's another very not nice LGS that absolutely is scalping, I've complained about them previously. And not just cranking prices, I mean I'm almost certain they're the guys out there meeting the delivery drivers with a bribe of a few $20s to buy the booster boxes right off the truck.

# ? Dec 6, 2023 18:18

Eggplant Squire: Aug 14, 2003

Yeah I've seen some at the local game store but they were $12 a pack which is pretty laughable but I guess people are still buying for that high.

# ? Dec 6, 2023 18:23

Fish Of Doom: Aug 18, 2004; I'm too awake for this to be a nightmare

CapnAndy posted:

Next expansion: Into the Inklands.

New mechanic with Locations, no information on how they work yet, and our first non-animated movie properties: DuckTales and TaleSpin! It's '90s afternoon TV time, apparently.

Are we going full MTG now where the new set has been out a week and already they're dropping spoilers for the next? Would be cool if you could actually find these things anywhere.

Also those sideways "locations" are straight out of the 90's Star Wars tcg

# ? Dec 6, 2023 19:54

Ulta: Oct 3, 2006; Snail on my head ready to go.

Can�t wait for a year from now and we�ve got Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz - Nickle Collector and Zack and Cody - Hotel Pranksters

# ? Dec 6, 2023 19:56

Owlbear Camus: Jan 3, 2013; Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?

Fish Of Doom posted:

Are we going full MTG now where the new set has been out a week and already they're dropping spoilers for the next? Would be cool if you could actually find these things anywhere.

Also those sideways "locations" are straight out of the 90's Star Wars tcg

I wonder if they can just flat out eventually roll Star Wars into it the way the licenses are currently apportioned and agreed.

# ? Dec 6, 2023 19:59

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

My extremely unlikely hope is still for a Disney Parks expansion. Let me play the Orange Bird at Spaceship Earth and then tap him to sing It's Tough To Be A Bug.

Fish Of Doom posted:

Also those sideways "locations" are straight out of the 90's Star Wars tcg

If you're saying that like it's a bad thing I will fight you

# ? Dec 6, 2023 20:13

Randalor: Sep 4, 2011

Fish Of Doom posted:

Are we going full MTG now where the new set has been out a week and already they're dropping spoilers for the next? Would be cool if you could actually find these things anywhere.

Also those sideways "locations" are straight out of the 90's Star Wars tcg

Rise of the Floodborn was released mid-November (Big Box store release is 2 weeks after small store release) and is having locations printed in landscape format supposed to be a bad thing?

Edit: And for what it's worth, Magic has gotten to the point where spoiler season for the next set starts before the current set is actually released.

Randalor fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Dec 6, 2023

# ? Dec 6, 2023 20:20

Failson: Sep 2, 2018; Fun Shoe

Ulta posted:

Can�t wait for a year from now and we�ve got Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz - Nickle Collector and Zack and Cody - Hotel Pranksters

Tron themed wave. Black Hole. Zorro. Condorman. Not Quite Human. Do it Ravensburger. Mine ALL the things.

CapnAndy posted:

My extremely unlikely hope is still for a Disney Parks expansion. Let me play the Orange Bird at Spaceship Earth and then tap him to sing It's Tough To Be A Bug.

If you're saying that like it's a bad thing I will fight you

All of this. Defunct attractions too. I want to put down the House of Tomorrow.

# ? Dec 6, 2023 20:23

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Failson posted:

All of this. Defunct attractions too. I want to put down the House of Tomorrow.

SIR, Malevolent Receptionist and Alien, Encountered will define a meta!

# ? Dec 6, 2023 20:27

Owlbear Camus: Jan 3, 2013; Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?

I exhaust Captain EO to sing the Song of the South.

# ? Dec 6, 2023 20:29

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012

Ulta posted:

Can’t wait for a year from now and we’ve got Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz - Nickle Collector and Zack and Cody - Hotel Pranksters

Touchstone Pictures expansion when

# ? Dec 6, 2023 23:32

CitizenKeen: Nov 13, 2003; easygoing pedant

Four Expansions a year, the two week LGS -> Big Box gap, two months of previews... We're basically always in Lorcana preview season, forever and ever.

# ? Dec 7, 2023 00:49

Failson: Sep 2, 2018; Fun Shoe

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Touchstone Pictures expansion when

*GASP*

An entire wave dedicated to the Ernest P. Worrell franchise.

# ? Dec 7, 2023 01:08

Fish Of Doom: Aug 18, 2004; I'm too awake for this to be a nightmare

Randalor posted:

is having locations printed in landscape format supposed to be a bad thing?

Never said it was a bad thing, I loved the Decipher Star Wars ccg as a kid. Just saying they also had landscape locations with various stats along the border.

CapnAndy posted:

My extremely unlikely hope is still for a Disney Parks expansion. Let me play the Orange Bird at Spaceship Earth and then tap him to sing It's Tough To Be A Bug.

If this game lasts more than a few years, I think we'll absolutely see park characters like Figment or the Hitchhiking Ghosts make their way into it. They're already branching into the Disney Afternoon stuff.

Where's my Bonkers card?

# ? Dec 7, 2023 19:40

goodness: Jan 3, 2012; When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

If anyone wants an Enchanted Cinderella I'd do $40 off tcgplayer

# ? Dec 7, 2023 20:27

Owlbear Camus: Jan 3, 2013; Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?

I'd do the same for Aurora.

# ? Dec 8, 2023 04:17

Foolster41: Aug 2, 2013; "It's a non-speaking role"

My one criticism of the locations is the cost being vertical while everything else horizontal is stupid looking.

# ? Dec 8, 2023 05:06

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Foolster41 posted:

My one criticism of the locations is the cost being vertical while everything else horizontal is stupid looking.

I imagine it's so that you can fan it out in your hand without doing big obvious HEY I'VE GOT A LOCATION signals.

# ? Dec 8, 2023 05:34

Foolster41: Aug 2, 2013; "It's a non-speaking role"

oh true, that'd be awkward to have it the other way in your hand, good point.

# ? Dec 8, 2023 06:42

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# ? May 16, 2024 05:10

Owlbear Camus: Jan 3, 2013; Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?

"Location" cards being in landscape (hmm) is the presentation in pretty much every TCG/LCG I've ever played. The Call of Cthulhu one did the same thing, as does the MTG Planechase set.

I remember my friend made a Decipher Star Wars deck back in the day that's whole gameplan was to drop the cantina as his only location and stuff it with weird aliens.

# ? Dec 8, 2023 15:48

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