If you’re looking to jump into Disney’s take on trading card games, you’re going to want to keep up on the best Lorcana cards in the game. There are six different colors of cards, their ink colors, and each ink comes with its own strengths and weaknesses.
Amber cards are great at healing your own cards and keeping your opponent on the back step with powerful characters. With a few strong cards with the shift ability and some incredible draw power, these Amber cards are some of the best the color has to offer.
10 You Have Forgotten Me
Hand disruption won’t win you the game, but it can put your opponent back a few turns to give you a significant advantage. You Have Forgotten Me is a four-ink action card that can be used as ink, giving you some versatility in how you can use it.
When You Have Forgotten Me resolves, each opponent discards two cards. This card gets better if you’re playing a game with multiple opponents and leaves the potential open for different formats as Lorcana grows.
9 Be Our Guest
This song card helps you dig through your deck to find a creature to keep your board full. For just two ink, Be Our Guest lets you look at the top four cards of your deck for a character card, reveal it, and then put the rest on the bottom of your deck.
Since it’s a song card, you can exert a character that costs two or more to cast, effectively giving you a free card and letting you play the character you just got from Be Our Guest.
8 Part Of Your World
Another song card, but with a unique effect. Part Of Your World is a three-cost action card that returns a character card from your discard pile back to your hand. Cards that return characters are extremely rare in Lorcana, potentially making Part Of Your World a powerful utility card.
Of course, Part Of Your World would be better if it returned the card directly to the battlefield, but if you’re playing a deck with a few characters with shift, losing that character can set you back quite a bit.
7 Just In Time
This card is uniquely placed in Lorcana. A three-cost action card that lets you play a five-cost character card for free this turn. There are 25 five-cost characters currently in Lorcana across all ink colors, giving you a good number of targets to cheat into play two turns earlier than you normally would be able to play them.
Of course, Maui Hero to All is a fantastic card to put into play this way, a Ruby ink card with six strength that can challenge the turn it comes into play. Another great target could be Beast Wolfsbane, an emerald ink card that exerts all your opponent’s damaged characters when it comes into play.
6 Lantern
This item card is incredibly unique in Lorcana and helps put you ahead of your opponents by making your character cards cheaper. For just two ink, this item can be exerted to let you pay one less ink for the next character card you play this turn.
If you play this on turn two, on turn three, you can play a four-ink character, helping you play stronger characters ahead of your opponents and potentially start taking control of the battlefield. If your opponent doesn’t have a way to answer your larger characters, you can start pulling ahead in lore.
5 Hades Lord Of The Underworld
A better version of the card Part Of Your World from earlier in this list, Hades Lord of the Underworld has a great enter-the-battlefield effect. When this Hades comes into play, you return a character card from your discard pile back to your hand.
The downside is that Hades’ stats are a little underwhelming compared to his cost, and he is one of only a few characters that can’t be played into your inkwell. However, this Hades becomes much better, considering he has a stronger version that can shift on top of him.
4 Hades King Of Olympus
Speak of the devil, Hades King of Olympus is the upgraded version of the previous Hades. Normally costing a staggering eight ink, it can be shifted onto another Hades card for just six ink.
If you’re playing Hades, you’re going to want to build the deck entirely around him, jamming as many villain cards in it as you can. Hades’ ability lets him quest for one extra lore for each Villain character in play.
3 Rapunzel Gifted With Healing
An incredibly powerful card, Rapunzel Gifted With Healing not only helps save one of your characters from damage but also helps keep your hand full later in the game. Rapunzel’s Gleam and Glow ability heals up to three damage from one character and lets you draw a card for each point of damage healed.
This ridiculously powerful ability comes attached to a 1/5 character that can quest for two lore, both saving one of your characters from being banished while drawing cards and likely netting you four or more lore while she’s at it.
2 Moana Of Motunui
A powerful lore-focused character, Moana of Motunui is a Princess-themed character that lets you use your Princess characters twice. When Moana quests, you get to ready your other Princess characters, but they can no longer quest this turn.
Moana lets you quest with all your Princess characters first, readies all of them when you quest with her for an extra three lore, and then lets you use your other Princess’ exert abilities, or you can send them in to take out a few of your opponent’s characters.
1 Stitch Rock Star
This six-ink Stitch Rock Star is an incredibly powerful card that can help you dig through your deck by drawing tons of cards. You can keep your curve low with Sitch by shifting it for just four mana onto another Stitch card, giving you access to the Rock Star’s ability earlier in the game.
With Stitch’s Adoring Fans ability, you can choose to exert a character you play that costs two or less ink to draw a card, turning all your cheap characters into cantrips. Keep drawing cards and flooding the board with cheap characters, and you’ll quickly take over the game.