Welcome to another edition of Disney Lorcana Mashup a casual format designed by my wife and myself, made to make learning and playing Disney Lorcana less expensive and more accessible (and easier to teach, too!). Here’s a quick recap of how this format works (and what you’ll need):
📝 First, the shopping list:
- 180 standard sized card sleeves (I recommend Dragon Shields, but any will do) – but this is important, make sure they are of the same color.
- 5 Dividers. These can be made of cardboard or index cards or scrap paper, but TCGPlayer does sell these, here for relatively inexpensive.
- A 200ct cardboard storage box. Any box will work if it will hold ≈ 200 cards, but this one is conveniently exactly what I’m looking for.
- And some cards…(see below).
And here are the rules for getting games started in Disney Lorcana Mashup:
- Your box contains SIX single-color, thirty-card decks called an inkmash.
- Before gameplay begins, each player starting with the winner of a coin toss or die roll, chooses a single color from Amber, Amethyst, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, or Steel.
- After the final player chooses their first color, that player chooses their second color from the remaining 3 or 4 inkmashes (if you have 2 players, there will be 4 inkmashes remaining, and with 3 players there will be 2 inkmashes remaining).
- Once each player has selected two inkmashes, they shuffle their inkmashes together, and play a few games of Lorcana.
- After you finish playing however many games you’d like, you can easily separate the cards back into their respective inkmashes by color. If you play again, the player who picked 2nd in a 2-player Mashup, or 3rd in a 3-player Mashup picks first.
The great thing about Disney Lorcana Mashup, is that it’s inexpensive, gives a reasonable taste of what each color of ink excels at (in Magic, this is called “color identity” or the “color pie”), and lets players mentally think up combos and synergies that could exist between the cards they are playing and the cards in the various inkmashes. As a bonus – you can build your inkmashes any way you want, and you can swap cards in and out when new sets release.
The only real rule to deck construction is that inkmashes must be thirty cards, and may only be one-color each.
Prices are DOWN for Lorcana, so these lists are even more budget than they were last time, and today I want to get your lists updated with cards from Rise of the Floodborn.
The total price for all 180 cards in these lists is only about $75, and if you know how Mashup works and just want to buy it all at once, click here to add it all to your cart on TCGPlayer.
Remember that rarity doesn’t really matter for inkmashes, just try not to make any single inkmash too lopsided in terms of power level.
Here are the updated lists for your perusal (click on the image to be taken to the list on dreamborn):
That’s it, that’s the update! Follow me on twitter @02drop and let me know what you think! See ya next week!