Why Disney Lorcana’s Winterspell made a Magic player build a Darkwing Duck deck

A Magic: The Gathering–experienced TCG player wrote in a Polygon preview that Disney Lorcana’s upcoming Winterspell set won him over after he leaned into nostalgia. Winterspell contains 384 cards and is slated for prerelease on Feb. 13 and global release on Feb. 20. The player said Lorcana’s card layout and deckbuilding differ from Magic: instead of most of a card being a single color, Lorcana uses a narrow strip of color in the middle that denotes six ink types named after gems.

Those ink types act as loose deckblueprints: Amber focuses on swarming characters, Amethyst on card draw, Emerald on control and hand disruption, Ruby on removal, Sapphire on ramp, and Steel on direct damage and combat. He found that successful Lorcana decks lean into two ink types that work together, rather than centering around a single legendary as he would in Magic.

The player noted that Ravensburger designed Lorcana primarily to showcase Disney characters, and that nostalgic character choices drove his deckbuilding decisions. The previewer described building a Sapphire–Steel Darkwing Duck deck after pulling the legendary Darkwing Duck – Cool Under Pressure (a 6/8 that costs seven ink, generates two lore when it quests, and has shift 5 to play for five ink on top of another Darkwing).

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