Citizens of Lorcana

We had the chance to sit down with Disney Lorcana co-creator Ryan Miller to dive deep into the latest happenings in the world of Lorcana.

Tune in for a look at Disney Lorcana D23 happenings, community insights and more!

0:00 Welcome

0:21 Last Time on CofLorcana

0:41 Ryan Miller

1:36 High level thoughts about D23

4:41 Disney Lorcana at D23

14:44 How has Disney Lorcana impacted your family?

20:35 Favorite thing to announce at D23

25:56 How different franchises are selected for the game

28:08 Will we see the Ryan Miller pirate decklist?

31:52 D23 get together

34:00 Thoughts on the community as a whole

39:06 Anything surprising about the community

41:31 How does the Ravensburger team feel about the competitive scene

45:38 Spreading Lorcana cheer

49:12 What is Ryan’s in office nickname?

51:58 Anything you want to say to the community

54:53 Rapid fire questions

1:03:10 Thanks for watching

This week we are joined by Jason aka Lorcana Thanos to breakdown all the D23 news!

This week we are joined by the legendary RMB to talk about set 5, competitive mindset, and so much more. I’m on a tight schedule this week so no time stamps :-(

This week we are joined by Kingslayer store owner Travis Young to look back on the last yea of Disney Lorcana and to look forward to the year upcoming!

0:00 Welcome 

0:21 Last Time on CofLorcana 

1:07 Travis Young

2:52 Favorite Lorcana Moment from the Last Year

4:14 Card frame design success

6:54 An LGS Owners Thoughts on Year One of Lorcana

10:36 What has Ravensburger done well this year and what could they do better

13:58 What do you enjoy about the game, and what do you not enjoy?

19:01 Streaming and social media experience

26:10 Favorite card of the past year

29:25 Favorite Ink

32:35 Favorite Ink combo

32:17 Favorite convention moment

35:28 Favorite accessory

38:23 How healthy is the local Lorcana scene

47:42 Taking the local scene global

48:54 What one thing do you hope to see in the upcoming year  

52:11 What character or franchise would you like to see in the upcoming year 

54:10 Rapid Fire Question

56:09 Listener Questions!

1:00:23 We are going to D23!

1:05:02 Jeopardy

1:08:51 Where to find Travis

Today we are joined by Disney Lorcana Senior Graphic Designer Shane Smith to talk about how these cards are made to look so beautiful!

0:00 Welcome

0:16 Last Time on CofLorcana

0:38 Shane Smith Senior Graphic Designer

2:16 Early Community Involvement

4:14 Card frame design success

5:43 What does a senior graphic designer do?

10:17 Final card image approval process

11:32 Working on a new set

13:15 Frame design (enchanted Donald)

18:09 What exactly is a cold foil?

24:55 Into the Inklands MainStage presentation

29:51 What is your convention experience like

32:17 Favorite convention moment

35:58 Rapid Fire questions

41:00 Designing the gold Mickey

46:18 Advice for someone who wants to get into TCG graphic design

49:00 Shane’s Cosplay Experience

54:27 Words for the community

55:38 Lorcana News!

1:04:07 New Cards!

Today we talk with Disney Lorcana artist, Casey Robin. This was an incredible interview where we talk about art, life, and much more. You'll finish this podcast a better person foe having listened!

0:00 Welcome

0:16 Last Time on CofLorcana

0:45 Casey Robin

2:16 How did you end up working on Lorcana

4:06 Convention experience

7:01 When did you realize that you could make a living creating art?

12:27 What projects have you worked on before Lorcana

19:15 How do you find job as an artist

21:50 Examples of Lorcana art and more!

24:51 Was it difficult adapting to the Lorcana art style

26:52 What is it like to design a Lorcana Card?

29:53 How do you know when you are done?

34:00 What was it like too design an enchanted card

43:12 Cinderella and Yzma cards

50:33 How does it feel to know people are enjoying your art

54:30 How has the Lorcana community treated you

58:30 Is this a career highlight

1:01:26 Closing thoughts

This week we are joined by Disney Lorcana co-designer Steve Warner to get an inside look at what it takes to bring Lorcana to life!

0:00 Welcome

0:26 Last Time on CofLorcana

0:42 Steve Warner

2:32 What goes into making a new set? (Design vs Development)

6:30 Do You Get to play Lorcana for fun?

9:27 Thematic vs mechanic card design decisions

11:22 Process of creating the next set

16:09 How To Translate Theory into Cards

21:06 Testing Process

25:25 How to know when a card is right

28:12 Watching Movies to Inform Card Design

33:47 How to know when a card is approaching being too powerful

37:00 Current state of Lorcana

41:45 When did you know Lorcana was something really special

48:03 How is Lorcana connecting with the family friendly crowd

50:22 Closing thoughts

Today we are joined by Katie of Lorekeeper's Inn to talk all about why Lorcana belongs in the parks and the parks belong in Lorcana.

Katie also shares tips for building a local community!

Short video this week as Jared is spending time with his family.

We catch up on some listener questions!

This week we. are joined by Brandon Brimly of Brimly games to take a deep dive into deep trouble!

Brandon shares decks and tips to help conquer Ursula even on extreme difficulty!

This week we are talking about Disney Lorcana set 5 Shimmering Skies! We are joined by Brandon of Brimley Games as we break down all the news we learned from the recent LoreCast!

This week we talk the demise of Pixelborn, is Bucky too oppressive, and WHAT will they talk about in the next LoreCastt!!!

Today we. are joined by Liam of the Illumiteers and James to discuss their experience at the DLC as a player and as a commentator!

Lorcana set 4 has arrived and we have some thoughts! Also, James is getting ready for the Atlanta DLC, join us as he shares how he is preparing!

This week we are catching up with Adara to see how her TCG experience is going, and then we rank the legendaries from Ursula's Return!

0:00 Catching up with Adara

20:24 Tier List Ranking

1:01:29 New Card Talk

Today we are joined by our very own co-host James Riley to talk about his journey going from a complete TCG newbie to winning a stitch promo card in the Lorcana set championship!

Today we are joined by the Lorcana Tournament GOAT, Zach Bivens. He shares how he prepares for tournaments, how he chooses a deck, what he does at the tournament and so much more!

Find Zach on X:

https://twitter.com/zachbivens1

On Youtube:

www.youtube.com/@LorcanaCastle

And Patreon for coaching:

patreon.com/ZachBivens

Ok we don't go over a ton of numbers with Nive but it is a fun alliteration. We talk set championships, 2 game format, DLC's and more!

Also don't forget to join the discord!

https://discord.gg/MhR3RWJ3

Today we are joined by Eric of the Gamer to talk about set championships, the meta, and more@

This week James and I discuss comprehensive rules and the new organized play announcements!!

This week we are joined by Rebekah of the Lorcana Illuminary instagram account to break down all the news we got from LoreCast! We're talking:

• Set 4
• Organized Play
• Promos
• New Cards
• New Packaging
• And...best of 2 format?

Today we are joined by the great Jack Pattillo to talk about his journey into Lorcana, how he got into casting, hopes for organized play announcements, and much more.

Today. we are joined by Jonti of The Inkwell to talk about Disney Lorcana set 3, his perspective of the game as an LGS manager, and much more.

Welcome to another episode of the Citizens of Lorcana podcast, today we have myself, James (podcast co-host extraordinaire) and thee Lorcana Clerk Adar in studio.

We are joined by TCG players Lorcana guru, Scott Howling Mines to go over:

• How he got to where he is
• Advice for those who want to do similar
• Set 3 impression
• Hidden gems of set 3
• Hopes for the organized play announcement next month

Today, James and Adara are joined by Jedi Geek Girl of the I Rebel podcast to cover their three favorite cards in Ruby, Sapphire and Steel.

You can catch their top 3 favorite cards in Amber, Amethyst and Emerald on the I Rebel podcast!

We are joined by Steadfast to talk all about set 3 of Disney Lorcana: Into the Inklands!

• Initial thoughts on set 3
• How he goes about building decks
• Thoughts about locations
• How good will locations be
• Lorcana’s future
• And more!

We are joined by Dan and Jim of the Hobbies and Happiness podcast to talk about set 3 now that all the cards have released!

This week we joined by two very tired dads, Benny and Charles, of the Over Exerted Podcast, to talk about set 2 in review and set 3 in preview.

We also take some listener questions!

• Favorite card of set 2
• Overhyped card of set 2
• Most anticipated card of set 3
• What we'd like to see happen to the meta
• And much more

We are joined by a deck building maestro to share with us some tips on how to build better decks.

Lindzey is a prolific deck builder who is also generous in sharing her time and knowledge with hapless deck builders like me.

• What deck is she running this week
• The basics of starting to build a deck
• Thoughts on the current meta
• Thoughts about set 3
• Disney Jeopardy
• And more!

So much of the Lorcana organized play and content creation is focused on the competitive players. But what about those who aren't wanting to play Ruby Amethyst and claw their way to the top cut of a 1k?

Enter Live Laugh Lorcana, a. home for the forgotten fan, the casual players. Hear Katie and Becky's insight into why this game was meant for all.

Today we are joined by Baker of the Lorcana Villain youtube/twitter channel!

We talk organized play and much more!

https://www.youtube.com/@LorcanaVillain

https://twitter.com/lorcanavillain?s=21&t=Xi5OFZ_FOIuGgrEJX0TtaQ

We are joined by Scott and Dan of the popular youtube channel/content creators behind The Forbidden Mountain.

• What decks are they playing
• How will locations affect the game
• The making of the Forbidden Mountain
• The future of Lorcana
• Advice for fellow content creators
• And more

You can check them out on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheForbiddenMountain

This week we are joined by e-caster Thea Booysen to talk all things Lorcana.

Why she's hosting her own tournament

What Lorcana's potential is

And much much more.

You can find info about the tournament here: https://playlorcanatcg.com/events/72cd6adb-1845-45a7-8406-2a124ab8580d

This is a recording of a livestream we did to celebrate James and I podcasting 1 year together!

We have guests galore in this extravaganza!

As we close out the year, James and I share our Christmas wishlist for what we'd love to see in Lorcana in 2024!

We also reveal details about our upcoming 1 year podcasting together livestream!

Today we are joined by Lorcana streamer and the number one Kuzco fan, Ybreezy!

We talk about Lorcana locations, restocks how the name ybreezy came to be, and justt why he loves Kuzco soo much

This week we are joined by Eric Switzer of the gamer to give initial impressions of the set 3 news!

What's our favorite set 2 card?

Deck?

Thoughts on the meta?

Thoughts on competition?

We have thoughts (plus feature some of yours!)

Today, James and I look back on the first set of Disney Lorcana. From the very announcement up to this day, it's been a magical journey.

Favorite card

Favorite deck

Favorite highlights

AND listener comments sharing their own highlights!

This week we are joined by WDWNT Lorcana reporter Alicia!

Alicia is a lifelong Disney AND TCG fan and shares what it's like to not only cover Lorcana but to play it competitively as well.

We also go over set 2 spoilers, and some Disney Jeopardy!

In this episode we included a very special 12 minute livestream we did where we were able to reveal a brand new Lorcana card! For the reveal we are joined by Adara.

Then, James and I chat about the set 2 roll out and our thoughts on OP

This week we are joined by none other than the one and only Zbexx. We talk about all the exciting news revealed this week and we dive into ZBexx's journey with Magic AND Lorcana.

Today James and I talk about our experience with Lorcana set one halfway through the first set.

We share our thoughts on the good the bad and the ugly. We share listener comments as well.

We also tackle the subject of toxicity in the community.

Today we are joined by Lorcana royalty!! Twitter user Lorcana Queen and her husband join us for a discussion all about collecting and playing Lorcana. We also dive into their content creation journey!

This week we are joined by Eric Switzer of the Gamer to talk about Lorcana set 1 and set 2 reprints, product availability, playing with new players, and much more!

This week we took to the twitters to have a discussion all about FOMO, or the fear of missing out and how that relates to Lorcana. We got some great questions, and hopefully gave some good answers! Thanks for all the questions!

This week we are joined by Ross, aka LorcanaDad to talk all about the Lorcana meta.

Thanks to the Forbidden mountain for sharing with us the currrent meta, we share where we think, and we rank the inks from best to worst.

This week we catch up with returning guest co-host Adara AND we talk about all the Set 2 news!

Also we debate the inclusion of a sideboard in this weeks Lorcana Lexicon.

Today James and I go over our strategies when building Lorcana decks. They may not actually be perfect...but we share the strategies we use to make the best decks we can with what we've got.

In this episode we are joined Heath of Be Our Guest Lorcana to talk about what to do now that we have actual Lorcana cards in our hands. Whether you have limited product available or lots of it available we got you covered.

You can find Heath here:

https://youtube.com/@BeOurGuestLorcana?si=humJfV6ZyDM9TXgh

James and I share our Lorcana experience since last week.

What we liked, what we didn't like and what we'd like to see going forward.

Also, yes I realize that one of the answers for jeopardy...I should have awarded James a correct answer for.,,.my bad lol!

How has your Lorcana experience been so far?

We are joined by our first returning guest, Eric Switzer to talk about Lorcana.

Eric shares some behind the scenes experiences he had a Gen Con. We talk storage solutions.

And does Eric get Disney Jeopardy redemption in this episode?

This week I, Jared, shares my experience about what happened at Gen Con. There were lots rumors and lots of hear say that was spread around but today I share what happened from my point of view!

This was definitely an event to remember.

And I apologize to everyone who I connected with that I wasn't table to shout out during the episode. Gen Con was a big experience with many many memories and I appreciate every person I met along the way.

This Week we are joined by by Eric Swittzer of thegamer.com to talk all about Lorcana Week. Our guest is especially prepared to chat with us about Lorcana Week as he is the originator of the term and author of many many many articles and pieces of breaking news that have come to us this week!

This week we have a special bonus episode for you as we are joined by three guests who attended the Berlin Lorcana event!

Join us as we join Martin, Rafael, and Artem to find out what happened in Berlin!

This is easily one of my favorite episodes that we have recorded. We are joined by Gavin and Sara Jane as they discuss their experience helping teach people play Lorcana at the UK Game Expo!

They share some incredibly amazing stories and are very entertaining while doing so. This gives me hope for the future of the game!

In today's episode we are joined by Travis of Kingslayer Games, to get his perspective on Lorcana.

We met Travis at GAMA and have been friends ever since, and with Lorcana's release (in LGS's) being just over a month we thought this was the perfect opportunity to talk Lorcana shop.

🚂 Full Steam Ahead 🚂

Today we are joined by our guest co-host Adara to talk about the exciting week that was Lorcana last week!

New cards! New articles! OP and HSP announcements for local game stores!

And here are the articles referenced in this podcast:

https://www.thegamer.com/disney-lorcana-rapunzel-card-reveal/

https://www.ign.com/articles/youre-welcome-maui-joins-disney-lorcana-tcg-exclusive-reveal

https://nerdist.com/article/disney-lorcana-art-design-interview-shane-hartley-new-cards-reveal-ravensburger/?utm_campaign=social+flow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/disney-lorcana-new-donald-duck-card-exclusive/

Today we chat about new Disney Lorcana cards (no not that batch with Zeus and Ariel, we are talking the batch before!).

And our special guest today is Brandon of the BSqaured24 youtube channel!

In this episode we share some of our favorite new Lorcana content creators. If we didn't mention you, I do apologize, there are soooo many! But we do appreciate all Lorcana content creators!

This week we have on guest Brandon Brimley with Brimley gaming to discuss the broader tabletop gaming space along with some discussion about the Lorcana UD lawsuit.

We recorded this podcast before the news of the upper deck lawsuit broke!

Join us for a bit of time travel as we talk about the lawsuit and then kick it back to our old selves to talk about no news.

00:00 Intro

00:19 Upper Deck Lawsuit

14:29 Welcome welcome!

14:56 How Has James Kept Up With All the Recent News

21:54 Is the hype dying?

29:45 UK Game Expo Thoughts

37:37 New Community Manager

41:01 Lorcana Lexicon

42:29 The No News Roundup

43:00 Disney Jeopardy 

46:36 Ending Segment

Today we are joined by Dawn aka Dragonrider as you may know her from Hearthstone!

Dawn has had her eyes on Lorcana for months EVEN though she is not a huge Disney fan.

Join us as we talk gen con, becoming a great content creator, breaking into casting and much much more.

0:00 Intro

0:20 Welcome Welcome

02:15 How We Met

06:14 Tell Us About Your Hearthstone Career

13:14 Is it Possible to be Good at Creating Content and Playing? And Advice for Breaking into Casting 

19:30 Growing up in an LGS

23:05 What Interest You In Lorcana if you Aren’t a Disney Fan

27:25 Advice For New Content Creators

34:00 Tell us About Amber Flight Games

36:33 You Are Going to GenCon!

44:05 Can You See Yourself Playing a Physical Card Game

46:58 Lorcana Lexicon: Playing on a curve

49:36 News: Gen Con 1 Ticket, OP partners in Europe and news from Team Lorcana about OP in North American

1:00:43 Disney Jeopardy

1:04:22 Closing Segments

This week we discuss my terrible experience with Gen Con event registration, in the which I got NO Lorcana Starter Deck Challenged because I was umber 5974 in line haha!

We Also discuss some exciting news out of France regarding the development of the game and some organized play news.

This week Adara assumes co-host duties and joins us as we interview Shawn of Uncommon Cardboard aka leebarbs to pick his brain about all the things he's learned about preparing for Gen Con and Lorcana.

00:00 Introduction

00:20 Welcome!

01:41 What Was the Inspiration for Your Road to Gen Con Series

03:05 Did Anything Surprise You

05:49 Biggest Gen Con Take Away From These Interviews

07:55 What Are You Doing to Prepare

10:30 Lousy Roommates for Gen Con

14:27 How Are You Preparing to Top 8 A Starter Deck Tournament

19:13 What Else Are You Doing At GenCon

21:36 Thoughts On Star Wars Unlimited

22:27 Will There Be Promos For Lorcana At GenCon?

26:00 Why Only 59 Spots in the Starter Deck Tournaments

31:44 Why 64 Spots for the Finale But Only 56 Top 8 Finishers from Previous Tournaments

34:21 Top 8 Playmats

36:13 Finale Tournament Prize Support Guesses

41:35 When Do You Think We Will Have Full Starter Deck Info

45:00 Inspiration Behind the Name Uncommon Cardboard

48:00 Tell Us About Your Diversity Series

53:55 Lorcana Lexicon: Goldfish

56:58 News Round Up 4 Animal Cards, French demo’s, Toymaster Show, and UK Game Expo

1:03:33 Jeopardy

1:09:15 How To Find Us Online

Can you believe we have only 100 DAYS (as of this recording) until Lorcana releases in your local game stores?

Join us as we take a look back on how we got here and take a look forward on where we are headed

This week James and I delve into the land of click bait as we rank the 6 inks of Lorcana!

Also I realize that one of the Disney Jeopardy questions I asked was incorrect. I would like to blame chatGPT for generating those questions, but I only have myself to blame for not double checking.

00:00 Intro

00:19 Welcome

00:55 Six Ink Recap

16:00 Six Inks Ranked

39:01 Couple More GAMA memories

45:22 Jeopardy

48:42 How to Follow Us

We recorded this podcast live from GAMA EXPO in Reno NV., The audio quality is not the best as a result, but we share our thoughts and experiences surrounding this trip!

Hey there and welcome welcome to another week of Lorcana!

Join us as we talk about organized play, allllll the new cards from last week, AND(!!!) our plans for GAMA next week!

We've waited since August to get the rules to Lorcana and today, we are joined by Adara to break it all down!

There’s no way to deny that we are starved for things to talk about in the Lorcana community. Which inevitably brings us back around to the same topics, same conversations and the same arguments. 

So when LoreMadness was announced and running, it got a lot of us talking. Meme battles, electioneering and much debate was had during the course of LoreMadness.

Today we are joined by the creators and hosts of LoreMadness, Stephanie and James to discuss the madness that happened!

The Lorcana community is being built with care by people like Stephanie and James and in this episode we get to hear the behind the scenes!

Lately we have been hearing these three terms being used quite a bit on twitter and discord, but what exactly do they mean? Join us as we do our best to tease out the differences in these three terms.

In this episode we are joined by THREE special guests to discuss the story side of Lorcana.

Those in the Lorcana HQ discord will recognize them by their user names:

Surreal-George

Levram-Blake

Parkerob-Parker

Our story is taken from disneylorcana.com and from this write up in thegamer by Eric Switzer.

Make sure to check out Surreals project at dreamborn.ink and check out Levram's new youtube channel.

Today we discuss story stars, and inklands, and the great illuminary, and what it means to shift, and inkcasters and more.

Check out Blake’s new YouTube Lorcana lore video here: https://youtu.be/nNZx9U-2uWg

We are joined by a special guest who has had zero experience playing trading card games before. Our guest Adara shares with us potential barriers she sees getting into Lorcana, but also the benefits of why she is pushing through.

We also discuss the new steel card Gantu as well as the article discussing the lore behind Lorcana.

Join us as James shares his experience building a local fan club and Jared shares his gameplay for building a local Lorcana community.

I'm not much of.a collector, and James collects a small amount of stuff, but neither of us are as fanatical about collecting as today's guest, Nathan Kellenicki.

Nathan talks about collecting Lego, and hotwheels, and his plans to collect Lorcana (including his 14 Mickey Brave Little Tailor cards).

He gives advice to those who want to both collect and play Lorcana.

If you find yourself like James and I...new TCG players, then maybe you aren't very familiar with the lingo of the TCG world. In this episode we break the lingo down from board state to mill. If you are are a TCG veteran, make sure to share this with your friends and family you may not have the patience for!

We are joined by Sugi of the LorcanaCast to discuss what it takes for a good card game player to become a great card game player.

Sugi shares 11 key points that have helped him become a great player, and these are the traits that he has seen in other top TCG players.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcKzK05CfQ9iK1lh7rr2_pA

Today we are joined by our very special guest Shawn Marshall of Parks and Cons to talk about convention preparation. So many of us are excited for Gencon that it was a no brainer to bring on this con veteran.

We also share a piece of breaking news regarding Lorcana!

You can find Shawn on YouTube and at his website

https://www.youtube.com/c/parksandcons

https://www.parksandcons.com/

https://twitter.com/ParksAndCons

This is much less Lorcana focused.

Celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Walt Disney Company, James and I share some of our favorite Disney things.

Today we finish our conversation with Mark Woodin as he shares with us how he went from casual play to competitive play and shares some tips he picked up along the way.

Make sure to check out his coaching servies at https://metafy.gg/@raijinku/sessions

On Jan 17 2023 IGN dropped an article with a lot of new Lorcana news. While we originally planned to talk about organized play at a higher level, we ended up breaking this podcast into two. This episode focuses on the IGN news and next episode will focus on organized play at a higher level.

We are excited to have on our very first guest. Mark Woodin aka Raijinku. If you would like to receive coaching for the One Piece card game you can find him at https://metafy.gg/@raijinku

Thanks again Mark for coming onto our podcast and chatting!

First off, I made a mistake...I used my airpods as my mic (ugh) so I sound like I'm talking into a tin can! I apologize and promise to not let that happen again!

This episode is designed to be a resource for new players looking at getting into weekly tournaments.

How to overcome the fear of the unknown and the fear of rejection so that you can make lifelong friends and a lifelong hobby!

Last time we talked about the (short) past and present of Lorcana and today we talk about the future of Lorcana! Including:

1. How to prepare now for Lorcana
2. What we expecnt/wish for the game
3. What we see happening to the community

It's been almost a month to the day since my last podcast, but the search is over. Today I would like to introduce you to my official co-host.

And why do I believe that date will be January 27, 2023?

Today, November 22, 2022 Disney Lorcana posted on twitter and Instagram. Joining me today is Sugi from Lorcana cast to share in the moment!

On November 16, 2022 TCG Player announced that they would be supporting Lorcana on their website. Find out why I believe this is another signal of the future success for Lorcana. And if you want to read the article for yourself you can find it here:

https://seller.tcgplayer.com/articles/disney-s-lorcana-coming-to-tcgplayer

Lorcana is yet to release and so what better time to dream about what the future of the game might hold? Join me as I discuss what a future in Lorcana could look like, what it might look like, and what it will probably end up looking like.

In today's episode we go over the three pitfalls that can doom a trading card game.

Hello, and welcome! As we embark on this journey into Lorcana I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself to you. Look forward to more exciting content headed your way.