Disney announced Lorcana at the end of August as a more "beginner friendly" sort of trading card game compared to the likes of Magic: The Gathering or Pokemon. The game will feature iconic Disney characters and villains and arrive sometime in 2023.
We got our first look at a few of the cards coming in Lorcana at the D23 Expo. The general layout of each card certainly seems to have a lot in common with Magic, with a text box below an image, power and defense stats, and what is presumably some sort of resource cost listed in the upper-left corner. Some of the mechanics might even have direct equivalents in Magic, with Evasive being similar to Flying, Exert seemingly identical to Magic's tap mechanic, and "banish" possibly the same as "exile" or "destroy."
Lorcana seems to be so similar to Magic that one Reddit user just decided to translate the previewed examples into Magic: The Gathering cards. MakesOnAPlane took the art from each preview card, gave it a Magic background, and then picked some colored mana that seemed to fit the flavor of each Disney character. Note that Lorcana does have colors assigned to cards, but we're still not sure what those colors do, and they're different from Magic's color pie, so we could argue a few of MakesOnAPlane's mana choices.
For example, I think Robin Hood would be a much better Red/Green Legend, while Cruella de Vil's mechanic has much more in common with Blue than it does mono-Black. Maleficent's Red/Green typing and Elsa's Blue color are both spot on, however.
Unless the rules of Lorcana are vastly different from Magic, it looks like there will be some Lorcana cards that will fall way behind Magic's power curve. Mickey Mouse, Brave Little Tailor translates as a 5/5 Flying creature in Magic, but with eight converted mana cost, he's far worse than a Shivan Dragon.
On the other hand, Captain Hook, Forceful Duelist would be pretty strong by Magic standards, and so would Stitch, Rock Star. They'd also both make great Commanders for a Disney-themed Magic deck if you're willing to play with a few printed proxies.
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