Lorcana Review: A Look at Wilds Unknown and Attack of the Vine!
Transcript
Hey everybody, Z Garcia here and today I'm taking a quick look at the latest two sets of Lorana. They're called Wilds Unknown and Attack of the Vine. This guy right here. So, um, these sets are the latest two sets that have come out so far as of me recording this. and they introduced one big new thing combining the two that I am that I've been looking forward to for a long time to come to Lorana and that is Pixar movies. These two says introduced for the first time Pixar properties the usual suspects you would expect. I'll show you in the overview a little bit. Um so that's the big one and then of course have a couple of new ideas, mechanisms, combinations of concepts at play. Uh, I'm just going to show you a few of the cards in each of the two. Uh, this is not by any means comprehensive. I am not a professional Lurana player. I play Lurcana very very casually, but I like the game and I like what it does. Um, so we're going to take a look at what these two sets kind of feel like, sort of what they introduce, and then I'll give you a score for each of them. Okay, so let's go ahead and cut to the table. I'll show you some cards.
We'll talk about it and then I'll come on back. All right, so let's talk about Wild Unknown first. We're going to take a look at a few of the cards, talk about what the set sort of introduced, and the big one for me would be Pixar stuff. I am a big fan of Pixar stuff, especially early Pixar, was just unbelievable. Like every movie was an event and the set introduced Pixar properties um and introduced a couple of keywords to go with that or I should say, you know, types. So, we've got here, you're going to see some Toy Story stuff and Incredibles stuff, which is just uh some of my favorite uh intellectual property type things. And then a lot of tribal support. And by that, I mean cards that care about other types of things. So, the Madrical stuff, you're going to see a lot of that in the set. Uh with this card here, caring about that. Pizza Planet here cares about toys. And that was a new word introduced in this one.
Toy and super both are brand new and they get a lot of support in this set. So, Pizza Planet here, your toy characters can move here for free whereas normally it costs the two. And then whenever a character is challenged here, uh each opponent is going to lose one lore. Really like this one. That's cool. We've got Woody here with a nice uh treatment. Um this is a cool shiny card. And then it's got uh you know whenever this character quests uh it's going to you can play a character for two or less after that. And your other toy characters get plus one uh shield. So the uh defense value basically. Really cool. More madreal support. This one again cares about that. So whenever you have another when you play this, if you have another Madreal uh character in play, you may exert a chosen opposing character hopefully then attack them and take them out, right?
um support for super and hero. So hero is pretty common, but super that's a new one and you'll see plenty of that super suit here. When you play this item, if you have a hero character in play game, again, hero is not too tricky to get. Hero and villains have been around forever, but uh it ties obviously in the artwork to the Incredibles. Uh here we've got if uh return chosen character yours to your hand and if it's a hero then you draw two cards. I like that. Here we've got some more toys. We have Rex of course. Um and then some omni droids here in the back. Uh there's quite a few versions of this, but of course again really cool stuff from Incredibles. And so I like that. I like that a lot. You can you can build a deck of supers out of this. you can uh build a deck of toys with a lot of toy support out of this. Those were the main things that I feel it introduced to the game.
Uh and I like that a lot. You know, the Pixar idea. Now, we're going to take a look at set 13. This is set 12, Wilds Unknown. So, 12 uh and and then 13 following that called Attack of the Vine continued the Pixar supports and gave you a lot of other kind of wackier stuff. honestly. So, let's jump right into that. Whoa. Uh, so you're going to get from Pixar in this one, you're going to get first and foremost, uh, Monsters, Inc., and there's also Up, a lot of things from Up, but Monsters Inc. is going to get a lot of support in this one featured heavily. Um, and then a few other interesting things and a lot of floodborne stuff because the vines, these sort of living vines are copying characters, making copies of them created by the vine and they'll interact together quite well. There's going to be some tribal support in here as well where things will check for that keyword or that type across various things. Um, so we'll take a look at it. So, we've got that one. And then in this card, we see two, well, one returning thing and a brand new thing. So, we've got again returning dual ink cards where this card is both of these colors, but also this card is a Lelo and a Stitch card, which means when you shift this card, as it says right here, you can shift um you can pay three, in this case is shift three to play this on top of one of your characters that's named Lilo or named
Stitch. That's cool. So, you can, you know, put this on either one. uh you're going to see quite a bit of that. So, we got Lilo and Stitch ones. There's uh Woody and Buzz, Mickey and Minnie. So, those cards can go on either character. And then there's going to be this sing together idea where you can tap multiple characters to sing this cost. That's cool. Also, Red is one of the movies in this one. Um and a lot of focus here on helping multiple players, too. So like this card is going to have you and another player draw two cards when you pay for this. And then this one, the sing together also leans that way. Remove a total uh health or a total damage from various characters. So there's this sort of undercurrent of playing uh together, playing, you know, with another player by your side.
We've got here then this idea of things created by the vine and they will help each other. Floodborne things listed right there are going to help each other. Okay. And there's a vineling as well which is a new word uh subtype there which is going to matter. So in this case whenever you play this or another floodborne you gain a lore. Here we've got Mrs. Incredible created by the vine. Whenever one of your floodborne characters quests, you pay one less for the next character you shift this turn. Okay. Peter Pan created by the vine. Uh whenever one of your Floodborne characters is challenged, the challenging player chooses and discards a card. This incredible treatment here. Really cool. I don't know if you can pick that up, but yeah, scar created by the vine where he's going to have a couple of things, but again, um during your turn, whenever one of your floodborne characters banishes another character, you gain a lore and then when it's their turn, if uh whenever one of yours is banished, you draw a card. It's a very rare card to be fair, but that's really cool. So, you can see that kind of idea, that support. Um and then before I get to potato, I'm going to put potato right there. a couple of other things that this introduced that I thought were really wacky. It did some some strange and interesting things.
There are different shifts that it introduced. So shift was always, you know, put a character on top of another character, but now you have the the dual characters, this duel of characters that can shift on top of either one. There's also temporary shift where you play that card, it does its thing, and then it'll bounce back to your hand. um floodborne shifting and sort of weird shifting. And then this this is if you don't understand what's coming next. This is the weirdest, wackiest, most sort of I I did not understand this when I first saw it out of context. Potato. It's an item that enters play exerted and it doesn't seem to do anything. And I thought that that was I'm like clearly there's more to this, right? Well, there's this kind of card in the the game. Uh, this is potato shift. Potato shift five here says you can play this on top of one of your items named potato. Uh, and now it's uh insane and it's amazing and has quite high values.
So, potato shift is also one of the things you're going to find in this one. So, it did a lot of funky things. It did a lot of weird things with that keyword, specifically shift and doing a bunch of things off of that. introduced more of the return to dual link cards. It did more Pixar properties. Very happy we're getting a lot of Pixar properties right now. I tend to love those. Um and there's even this is not out yet, but this is bringing us the third uh set that is uh the cooperative/solo set, the Illuminers Quest. So, this is bringing us the uh the Great Honey Rescue, which is not out as of me recording this, but I tend to review those on their own anyway, so I wouldn't have thrown it in here. But I'm looking forward to that one, too, because the first two, the one with Ursula and the one with Jafar, I've really enjoyed those two sets. I can play them solitire, I can play them cooperatively, and they are uh really great way to bring your cards out to test out a deck just to see kind of what you've been messing with. So that's it. That's uh a quick look at the two sets. Let's go and go back up top. I'll tell you a little bit more about what I think of these. So from what I understand, Attack of the Vine here is the conclusion to a story arc that has been going on in Lana. And I'll be honest with you, I have no idea what that story arc is. I am not following that part of the game very closely. To me, every set just kind of seems like a new setting, a new vibe, a
new location, something new that they are doing, right? And that's great. That's enough for me. It does mean that sometimes when you get into a set that feels very thematically important, I guess uh I feel a little bit lost. And I think Attack of the Vine is one of those sets. And when I say a little bit lost, I mean that like if you crack open a pack of this, you'll look through the cards and it feels like at least half of those cards have these inky tentacle things that, you know, encroaching on our on our heroes and villains attacking them. I don't know why that is. I'm not, like I said, following the story here. Um, but you do feel like you're missing something when it's so prevalent. You know what I mean? So that's neither here nor there. I'm just pointing it out so that you know kind of the the aesthetic you are getting is that that or you know setting concept is that it does mean that we get some really cool card ideas and this whole created by the vine concept is really really neat and I like that a lot. this uh set, well, both of these sets really push the um that idea of making tribal decks. And this has been going on forever, of course, right?
Like I have it at home. I have a a broom deck. Make a broom deck, you know, from the beginning, right? Um really like that deck. So, this continues that, but now we're getting some new words. The idea of like superheroes, I like that a lot. The toys from Toy Story, I like that a lot. That's cool. Um, but I will say I think Attack of the Vine here, this set introduces more cool ideas, sort of shakes up and and feels more bombastic a little bit as you're cracking these packs than uh Wilds Unknown does. Um, I like both. I think they are both I kind of grew them in my head because they're the Pixar set, but I think Attack of the Vine's a little bit punchier, uh, a little bit more splashy, like I said, and I like what it does quite a bit. I do like the dual colored cards, and it just gives you more flexibility to to build stuff.
I like the wackiness of like shifting, you know, temporary shift, potato shift, shifting this dual character onto either one of the other two. I like all that stuff. and it it it works well for me. So, I like this idea. From a casual point of view, these are good sets. Uh I do not know how they've shaken up the meta, how they have what what they've done to like set rotations. I'm not keeping up with that stuff personally, but this is a video I think for casual gamers, people who are just coming at this stuff because they like Disney or they like Pixar. If you are someone like that, if you dabbled in in um Lorana and then fell back off, I'm here to say, hey, if you were waiting or hoping for Pixar stuff, you're going to want some Wild Unknown. You're going to want some Attack of the Vine. Okay. Um if you've never tried the game out, I think it feels like it's in a really good place right now. I think there's a lot of different things you can do with Lorana.
You can build many different kinds of decks in Lorana. And I really like the uh Illuminers Quest stuff where you can play cooperatively against these packs, these ideas. There's even I was reminded because in one of these products I have uh they included this uh and this is from the Attack of the Vine pre-release. Inside of it was a little reminder of what pack rush rules are. Um this has been out for a while this idea, but it is something in which you get two booster packs. You get two of these. You crack them open. You don't look. You shuffle them together. Somebody else does that, too. And then you play against each other. And the color combination, you know, won't matter. You're not building a deck. You're just shuffling two uh booster packs together.
And those are super fun rules. You can find them online. They're a little hard to find. Uh I wish they were a little bit easier to find, but you can find them online or you can just, you know, look them up. Uh Packrush is what the format is called. I super recommend it. If you want to have a quick burst of fun in Lorcana and you don't want to go through the trouble of building a deck or whatever, you're tired of your starters, this is a neat way to do it. So, there you go. I like this. I like where Lorana's at right now. I'm really looking forward, like I said, to the upcoming Illuminers Quest uh third set. Um, it's going to be uh um the the the theme I'm like whatever. You know, it's going to, you know, it's going to be like, oh, Tiger and and Winnie the Pooh and I don't care for that one as much as I like the last two was Ursula looking all cool and creepy and then uh my favorite one of those two was the second one with like the Aladdin themed. That was cool. But I'm looking forward to seeing what they do because I do like the vine the viny thing. Apparently, they're like sucking all the color out of Lorana is kind of what I I gleaned from from the little bit of story I got.
So, that's what's going on. I like that theme a lot. So, that's cool. Uh I like the idea of that. So, there you go, folks. So, for me, if I was going to give these two kind of a letter, a number rather, uh rating, um I would say Wild Unknown gets a seven from me. I like it. It's good. Love the Pixar stuff. Uh the my favorite Pixar movie is The Incredible. So that that's going to help. And then Attack of the Vine uh would get an eight for me. I like this one a little bit better. So seven for Wilds Unknown, eight for Attack of the Vine. Really cool stuff. Definitely recommend it if you've been out or if you have never tried it. This is a good time, I think, to jump in. Give this a go. So there you go. That's going to do it for me everybody. Thank you for tuning in and checking this out. My name is Z Garcia. I will see you on the next one.
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