Ravensburger has just revealed the first look at several cards from Disney Lorcana's second set, Rise of the Floodborn, and I already love them. We have Winnie the Pooh as a hunny-wielding wizard. We have Gaston as a genius inventor. We have Cinderella as a knight. We have Elsa on a horse. We have Mickey Mouse... well, he's just there kinda doing nothing. But really, what does Mickey Mouse even do? And then there's Belle as an archer. I love this card. I hate this card.
I'm currently less than 20 cards short of a full set from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Lorcana’s First Chapter, and (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:beloved Elsas aside), I'm still missing my favourite card - the glorious Big 🐼Tink, AKA Tinker Bell, Giant Fairy. So that doesn't bode well going into the second chapter, as (Elsa aside once more) the standout is Belle, Hidden Archer. She's a Legendary card, or Gold rarity in super cool street slang, so she will be one of the hardest cards to obtain. As much as that pains me as someone who wants to have all the cool cards, it soothes me as a Lorcana player that encountering Belle, Hidden Archer will hopefully be a rarity - at least amongst my casual card playing friends, if not the scene at large.
The biggest frustration so far when playing Lorcana has been running out of cards in my hand. With only drawing one per turn, the reliance on inking, and the fact you actually have to play cards to play a card game, it can be easy to run out of them. There 🐎are ways to mitigate this with experience, of course. Building your deck in a bell curve, with limited low or high cards and a lot of mid range cards that give you options to ink up and then play consistently is a solid strategy. A Whole New World, Friends On The Other Side, and Rapunzel, Gifted With Healing are excellent cards for 1൲68澳洲🐲幸运5开奖网:helping you draw more to your hands too. With early game cards limited in their effectiveness, you can resist🌠 playing early to ensure you have a smorgasbord of Disney carnage to unleash later.
Running out of cards in your hand can be a problem in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Disney Lorcana, but if you plan ahead, you'll be fine. At least, you would have been. Enter Belle, Hidden Archer. Exit all planning or preparation you might have done. Whenever you challenge Belle, Hidden Archer, you need to discard all of the cards in your hand. Every time. She has three Strength and three Willpower, so she's not impossible to get rid of, but at just five cost (which drops to three if you Shift her onto another Belle), she can wreak havoc from mid-game onwards, and a deck could feature four of them. She can quest for three lore too, so she's an all around powerhouse.
Right now, Belle, Hidden Archer can be played as early as the fourth turn thanks to being shifted onto 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a three c𒁃ost Belle, Inventive Engineer - if the Second Chapter brings a Belle that costs one or two, you could be dealing with Belle, Hidden Archer as early as the third turn. She's not entirely broken, though - actions or items that deal damage without challenging can remove her and keep your hand safe but these methods of removal aren’t as common as challenging, and will run down your hand in other ways as you waste items and actions on her over and over again. In the meantime, Belle, Hidden Archer quests for three lore each time, safe in the knowledge that challenging it is a kamikaze mission.
The one silver lining with this is it pulls us much closer to understanding what Emerald does. We know Ruby is a risk taker with fire and fury, that Amber heals and sings, and that Steel slowly crushes you with its might. Emerald lacked a bit of an identity in the First Chapter, but Belle, Hidden Archer underlines that it is a disruptor. Add in Cheshire Cat, Not All There's and Kuzco, Temperamental Emperor's mutually assured destruction, Flynn Rider, Charming Rogue forcing you to discard (just one card), and Mother Gothel, Selfish Manipulator's ability to stop opponents questing, and Emerald decks will quickly become the most annoying to play against.
Belle, Hidden Archer is the most interesting card I've seen yet, and it would have been easy to call it DiSnEy LoRcAnA's MoSt BrOkEn CaRd YeT in a headline where I clasp my face in shock while staring at the camera. But the fact Belle, Hidden Archer exploits a common problem in the game only makes it more fascinating, especially as we put together more plans to cope with all the hazards that could come our way. Just never stop making Elsa cards and I will play forever.