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Ep. 116 - An Intro to Deck Building in Disney Lorcana

·1 hr 59 min·5 clips

Dan reveals Disney Lorcana is 'dripping with nostalgia' and shares two ways to make your deck personal: favorite movies and characters.

Dan and Jim open with the usual housekeeping, then settle into a beginner friendly deck building conversation for Disney Lorcana players. The pace is loose in a good way. They sound like two friends working through ideas at the table, poking at old takes, laughing a little, and then finding the lesson again. The card examples carry the episode. Ariel, as an item focused card, gives them a clear way to talk about building around item plays and questing pressure. Jafar turns into the more personal example. Jim teases Dan for once writing the card off, and Dan admits that playing it changed his mind. That keeps the advice from feeling abstract. Sometimes a card only clicks after it actually hits the table. Mike Flores's 1999 Magic article gives the discussion its main frame: in a one-on-one game, figure out whether you are the aggressor or the player who needs to answer what is happening now. They are careful to say Lorcana is not Magic, but the old role question still helps explain going first, tempo, and pressure. The advice stays practical. If a player reads their role wrong from turn to turn, the game can slip away. Jim's outside angle matters here, and Dan keeps pointing to how that perspective catches assumptions he might miss. The close turns back to the community, with listener thanks, support mentions, and a deck building lesson that feels more like a hobby chat than a lecture.

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A clear deck building primer about role, tempo, and the choices that shape a Lorcana game.

This episode is a compact primer on Disney Lorcana deck building, and its main point is simple: a player needs to know what job the deck is supposed to do.

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