When James said "12.99" I felt an internal organ clench.

1:08:30 Graham's Wardrobe killed a lion and a witch

For the Chameleon fans out there, Pascal quests for a full eleven points of Lore- their quest for the last point of the game secures them as having gained more than half of the lore in Graham's win. True MVP.

One thing to note rules-wise is at around 52:46 Wheeler looked at the card that Mickey Mouse Detective put into his inkwell, and that's not allowed. That is hidden information from all players until the game is over. This also goes for any card once it's inked, even though they're usually revealed first. If you are very careful exerting your ink and you have a good memory for this stuff you can keep track of them that way, but there's no peeking at anything in the well.

Just as a note if you want to play Lorcana don't even try at this moment unless you want to pay scalper prices

At this point I don't know if it's been said already but, when characters have wet ink, that's... Summoning Slickness

15:00 as someone who has played every week since pre-release, each color has a pretty distinct identity to it's playstyle. Amber is the wide color, and to play it effectively you'll either play a bunch of characters, then play a big character to protect them (goofy/maximus with body guard, rapunzel to remove damage and draw etc) or play a big character, and then get value off of your smaller characters played afterwards. They are the secondary color for support, which can allow a high willpower card to challenge more effectively, or let your 1 drop trade with a much more expensive card. Amber is absolutely the color of removing damage as well. Amethyst is all about recycling. They are the only color with completely unconditional proactive draw, and the way they affect the board is from two different angles. They are the only color currently to have cards that go to hand instead of the banish zone when they are banished in a challenge, and also are the only color that can proactively exert the opponent's characters. You want to be proactive about challenging the opponent's characters in Amethyst while singing and using other effects to keep card advantage over your opponent. Amethyst is the secondary color for evasive after Ruby as well. Emerald wants you to play to the board in the same way that a stompy deck would in magic, but has a lot of effects that punish enemy challenges such as the mad hatter drawing you cards when he is challenged, or kuzco banishing any character that banishes him in a challenge, or flynn rider making it so the opponent has to discard a card when challenging him. Shutting off opponents from being able to quest is also a big theme. Emerald is one of the two colors with only a single 1 cost character. (Amber has 4, Amethyst has 4, Emerald has 1, Ruby has 2, Sapphire has 1, and Steel has 3.) You should be playing big and dangerous cards to the board and making life tough for your opponents. This is also the color of actions, you can play them cheaper, you get effects when you play them, you can get them back from your discard etc. Ruby is the primary color of evasive, rush, and reckless, meaning that you want to be aggressively challenging and aggressively questing with your flyers (evasive is almost a 1:1 analog for flying/shadow/horsemanship rolled into one). Ruby is one of the only colors that can ready any character, allowing them to effectively challenge through a bodyguard, double challenge with a single character, activate tap effects (mostly an Amethyst thing) twice in a single turn etc. Ruby is also the only color with an unconditional wrath of god, and unconditional murder, and a murder on a stick. Blue is the primary color for ramp, items, and support. Their characters generally have less strength than willpower, and quest reasonably well. They have the most permanent removal which puts opposing characters into their inkwell, instead of in the discard. They are also the only color that reduces opposing character strength, allowing them to challenge very efficiently. They are the secondary color for removing damage. Steel is all about two things. Doing direct damage to opposing characters without challenges, and preventing challenges (and also destroying items). They currently have the only Wheel effect in the game, which normally would be punishing against an aggro opponent, but steel naturally plays very well against go wide strategies. Steel also has the only rummage effects in the game. So in conclusion, Amber is about protecting their stuff and going wide, Amethyst is about card advantage and recycling cards, Emerald is stompy and it hurts when you challenge them, Ruby is aggressive challenging and kill spells, Blue is ramp and efficiency in challenging/removing characters, and Steel is about doing damage directly without challenging opposing characters. Ultimately, this first set is extremely simple in it's mechanics, and as such the most important aspect of playing and deck building is understanding tempo, card advantage, and board state advantage.

"This is just a normal drobe!!" Was way funnier to me than it had any right to be.

WRT the talks at the end, I think a big part of it is that in MTG, as long as you have a board presence you can usually do something about your opponent killing you, or at least slow it down. That serves as an inherent barrier to your opponent reaching their win condition. In Lorcana, as Paul pointed out, there's very few ways to prevent a character from questing before it can quest at least once, and if you challenge a character while you're behind, you're passing on an opportunity to quest yourself, killing (hopefully) a character that already quested, and on top of that marking damage on your own character. So it seems like it's really hard to catch up once your opponent is ahead. Oh and also, when you're playing a creature in MTG you can immediately block with it, whereas to do the equivalent in Lorcana you have to wait for a turn, which contributes a lot too.

Toy Story characters having some kind of mechanic where they’re not always “alive” like Vehicles from MTG could be interesting.

Thanks for playing the game and providing a great introduction. I really enjoyed the discussion of the psychology of the mechanics at the end. I do think the fact that lore is less of a resource to be leveraged is a big reason why facing a lore-win feels worse than facing lethal in Magic. A lightning bolt equivalent is probably not good for the game, but lacking that level of interaction with an opponent’s lore count does feel significant.

I'm really excited for this video. This is the high quality Lorcana content I have been waiting for. Good descriptions and gameplay explanations. The classic LRR experience. Would love to see more of this content.

The card game with "Loading, Ready, Run" as the starting steps could be a programming game - or at least use that as the theme. Perhaps fighting robots! Or ASCII art wars!

I can't wait to build an Organization XIII deck tbh

...ok I LOVEE the tablefriend box! I hope that stick around for future card streams

It's finally time for some LRRcana!

1:14:52 comment section below here: it has been 10 lore.

Watching the start of this I think it'd be a great loadingreadylive improv bit to have someone introduce their "new" card game which is just Magic the Gathering except they can't use any mtg terms when describing any aspect of the game or cards and see how silly things can get.

Based on the cards currently out all Floodborn have the Shift ability. So yeah it's likely just a way to refer to versions of characters empowered by ink.

Been hoping you guys would play this and I'm so glad you mostly had a positive experience! I genuinely think a lot of your grievances with the game (having few ways to interact with a strong board, having few options when an opponent pulls ahead) are due to the rather poor power level of the starters, proxy some 'good' decks and see how you all get on! I've enjoyed your MTG content for years and as you may tell from my username I'm VERY into Lorcana. Thanks for being open to trying it and not instantly poo-pooing it like a lot of MTG creators... I definitely think it has legs and can sit comfortably in the market alongside MTG and others as long as Ravensburger get their feet under themselves and get product into people's hands. From a fellow Canadian (well, Ontario resident at least) TCG lover. Thanks!

2:14:50 the most cursed part of this stream (context: Ariel with Human Legs comes up several times and is always named in full)

Shout Outs to the TRUE Questing Beast, Pascal

At 30, when Ben played Aladdin and then used him to sing Mother Knows Best, you can't do that. If the ink is wet, they can't sing.

Absolutely loved this, obviously it depends on getting product and how much you can afford,.but I'd absolutely love to see more Lorcana on the show.

The Challenge/Exert mechanic would be amazing for a multiplayer format. If somebody feels ganged up on, they just don't exert for that turn and everybody else has to fight.

Fun fact, I believe a Disney land was considered by Walt on a trip to Niagara Falls, but mentioned it would never work

I think “Banishing” should be “Erasing” because everything is ink-themed

I really enjoyed the soothing, magical background music c:

Oooh excited to watch! Can’t really follow without captions, hopefully YT will have some put in soon.

The new set: Into the Inklands. Have a lot of rescuers cards, including Bernard, Bianca and Medusa, and Mr. Snoops!

Path to Exile at 5 mana seems about right. It's funny having the "that's weaker/stronger than the mtg version" feelings and having to remember that, no, they balanced this game on a fundamentally different level even if some of the effects read the same.

"Ink that Dinglehopper" - the newest catchphrase of 2023

2:11:51 Ben belting out that impression of Gilbert Gottfried stun locked me

I'm so glad the LRR squad got their hands on some Lorcana. I hope yall can get more cards soon and do another thing like this! I love love LOVE seeing people's gears turning while reading and seeing the cards for the first time pretty much. Maybe next time around multiplayer? Give everyone a starter deck play a 4 player game and then open 3-4 packs and change up? Draft of course would be chaotic but seeing youtube footage of more than 2 players is pretty rare right now. Super fun stream and I'm so happy to see how the Bens are super pumped for this.

My favorite way to learn a game.

There has to be a The Dip mechanic coming at some point, right? (from Roger Rabbit)

I agree with James feelings on how the ink system works I think if you could mix up the iterations of the idea you could have something? Mana from magic, the Crystals from Final Fantasy (where you sack cards to gain more mana), and limit it to certain cards like Lorcana

next time we have to see the other combinations of decks

Fun thing with the ruby shield, you can use it on your opponents characters. Meaning you can ready a bodyguard character.

Banishing a card to the inkwell seems like Swords to Plowshares. Also it's now canon that Prince Eric has a bigger butt than Captain Hook.

I've always wanted a table friends box! I hope it can come back when applicable

it's Hearth Magic the Stonegathering in a way that is less derisive than that sounds

18:00 - Alright, concept time: Something's Gonna Happen: A LoadingReadyRun Card Game is a deckbuilder game in which you and your opponents are trying to see who can get the biggest Audience (points) by playing Crew, Crapshot, Gaff, and Prop cards to build the perfect livestream. All cards fall under certain shows (ex. Checkpoint, ...Now Kiss, Can't Draw Horses Club, etc.), so while you can build a livestream out of disparate cards, building a deck that focuses on one show will net you a bigger audience.

I really enjoyed this vid. I went to my first tournament tonight and had never played with a person yet! I recently found the starter packs and needed humans to play with. They did things with cards I never even could know be implemented. Easy win for them, glad I could help them win more booster packs lol😂 but it was fun and I have soooo much to learn! They way you commentate over plays is very entertaining and helpful.

Lorcana looks cool, thanks for sharing this!

I've said this a million times over to my friends but I would love to see Lorcana cards based around Disney TVA. Whether it's older shows likes Tail Spin, Winnie the Pooh, Chip & Dale, early 2000's shows like The Weekenders or Kim Possible or even more modern Disney animated shows like Gravity Falls, The Owl House or Amphibia. Mainly Amphibia for me but still I would hope for Disney TVA getting representation in this game. But a Kingdom Hearts set would also be awesome.

Now I want an alter of biomancers familiar as Stitch!

Oh, this was very fun to watch!

HOT MAMA MY MICKY CARDS ARE HERE ITS LRRCANA TIME

The Quest points vs Lethal damage topic, is interesting cause like; Magic, your opponent is the main target, so its more combative where the objective is to get good hits in on your opponent Where Lorcana, the target are the cards, gameplay is more race like, it comes down to if you can wipe their board before they catch up and overtake you in points

so are we in agreement that "cannon the chameleon" is the "bolt the bird" of lorcana or am i alone in that thought

to articulate grahams point about on board lethal: there is no proactive method of stopping a lore win, your opponent can do the thing before your on board cards can stop it. In magic you can play blockers to give yourself an extra turn but in lorcarna if you face lethal with an empty board you're dead.

I love you all so much. Thanks for making such cool content

I want a full lilo and stitch cast( idk how much is in the cards printed) and I’d like things of the same universe to have support together (if not already)

That shuffling hurt me.

Terms make sense. Nobody dies in Disney properties unless they were super evil or the MC's best friend; usually by falling off of something rather than actual "combat".

I really don't understand why they named the colors the way they did. They could have used Topaz instead of Amber and Platinum instead of Steel and all the colors would have stayed off each other's letters...

Oathbreaker format with a Hero//Villain paired with a song. Whivh will give you either the 1 or 2 color variant (probably highlander, once more cards are in rotation)

I heard a lot of Lorcana content coming but even though I won’t play this I really liked Villainous a lot.

More of this please!

Can't wait to see a Goofy control or Mulan aggro decklist!!

This looks really fun for casual winston draft.

1:29:43 "Get up on the hydra's back!"

Wish that I was able to catch this live, I was in the hospital right after surgery

It's really great seeing Graham's crazy hair

Now im just picturing; Mickey: "Heya fellas, whatcha got goin on- **horse kicked** HEEUUGH!! Oh... oh jeez, why'd ya do that fo- **cannon'd** BORGH!!!....I . . . oooh, ok, i th-think we've had enough fun for the day- **stampede** Oh dear Walt, AAAHHAWHOOOO!!!! ...... Ugh, whoee... this game was a mistake.... imma need to talk to my lawyers..."

engagement comment! I'm hoping for a lot more Alice in Wonderland, especially Alice herself. Fav color combo? Sapphire/Steel is fun. Also a fan of Ruby/Amethyst control. But what I want most is cards I can buy without selling my internal organs

In this game you challenge and exile But the stampede still unalived Mufasa

I object to the badass Rapunzel being Dreamborn, btw. It just looks like her in the Tangled cartoon show where the thing was her hair grew back and became unbreakable.

A tuna fritata? noice!

I know cards are hard to get, but more Lorcana please. Proxies all day if need be.

Anyone knows which stream plugin/app is used to recognize the cards and bring them up on the screen? Me and my friends are playing through discord streams and this whould have been a great imporovement.

Hoping Lrrcana becomes a recurring stream.

The ink system for resources feels very like the Final Fantasy TCG

I'd anticipate characters that drain your own lore to power their abilities will come out at some point, then we'll really see "lore as a resource". Secondly, regarding the 'resource system' discussion, the other way to manage resources is to limit your actions per turn, like in Netrunner, Arkham LCG, or Vampire Rivals. Then the calculation becomes action economy with cards and resources being numbers in the calculations.

As soon as this game gets more Broom characters and a commander-ish format, I'm making a Mickey Mouse Brooms deck.

4:05 my 8pm PoGo walks will be much nicer when I can wear hoodies thank you, oddly specific but I feel seen

Wow... 8 minutes in and they're already introducing Morph Also: Can't wait to play LRRcana

Free for all Lorcana would be so awesome to see.

I love the rescuers

While Ariel having toe teeth is already egregious, i find it interesting Ben went for mouths before noses. Implies Ariel would be a mouth breather times eleven? Lordie.

20:13 *reads flavor text* Was Scar a tarnished? Is Margit coming for him?

1:56:08 OH NO. D: I regret that I know exactly what they meant.

I mean it's no wubrg, but you could have areas's or, my favourite, aresas (said Arses)

This game looks so cool, but I am so sad that Australia isn't in the current distribution.

I hope they do an Aliens vs Predator set. Then those cowards at Disney will have to acknowledge whether or not the Alien Queen is officially considered a Disney Princess or not. Also Danny Glover would look pretty cool in this artstyle. The face huggers also.

when cruella gets banished why didnt he choose to return it to his hand? seems silly, at worst its free ink right?

wheeler dying @ ben's gilbert gottfried is great.

Goddamn, James is such an inspiration for weight loss, I just want to know how he did it. He's amazing. I'm as big as he was before, so not too big, but I used to weigh like 100 pounds less. :(

My colour mnemonic for Lorcana is MYSTER: aMber, amethYst, Sapphire, sTeel, Emerald, Ruby.

Hopefully they get around to an official digital client sooner than later.

This game has the vibe of “what if we took hearthstone and made it paper-playable”

Hast Thou Considered the Coconut?

This game looks fun, but it is bothering me how many abilities the cards have which are things in Magic but have the names of different abilities in Magic. Or Terms from other card games being used for other things

Ok,so what is flood born???🤔

Didney!

I'm sad I can't make my sexy foxes deck since there is only one Robin Hood card as far as I can see

Detective mickey probably shouldn't be a dreamborn as a detective mickey appeared in the european donald duck and co comics and later in his own mickey mouse comics.

While it's quite good, I think 'friends on the other side' is a bit wasted on a basic draw card.

I'm hopeful because anytime I see Lorcana on tabletop on yt it's too hard to see the cads and LRR is good at showing the cards. Pixelborn yt videos are great though