Disney Lorcana: Into the Inklands will be available at local game stores on February 23rd (pro tip: use Ravensburgers store locator to find your local shop) and will be available at mass retailers on March 8th.
Each new set release comes with these stand-alone decks so you can get playing straight away
Theres as much reliance on the luck of the draw as any TCG - the starter decks I played with didnt have too many abilities allowing players to draw extra cards, though there are definitely cards in The First Chapter with greater card draw effects - and it feels closely balanced to avoid players being steamrolled without good reason
Deveney explained more of the design process, saying: [There are] scenes that just don't happen , and so when we would have conversations like, "Oh yeah, it'd be so awesome to put this scene in there, and then we send it over to Square Enix to get their feedback, and they're like, "Why do you want the scene where they're talking about how much the inn costs?" According to Deveney, the scene Magic 's designers actually wanted was one from Final Fantasy 4 where Rosa tells her friends to stop fighting
Tidus rewards you for doing this by letting you draw cards and proliferate (add more counters), while his partner Yuna helps get your creatures on the board with extra counters to start
Whether you want to go deep on Ninjas or Flash creatures, youll find it plays unlike the usual suspects for the archetype