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The card reveals for Into the Inklands are coming fast and furious. We've got a bunch more to look at here and probably three more that have been released while I'm typing this... for now, we have reveals coming from Team Lorcana's social media, and content creators LorcanaLeagueItalia, AntreJeux Studio, KeepSeven, LorcanaTactics and Ketal.
Boss's Orders
Action
Cost: 1 (inkable)
Chosen character gains Support this turn. (Whenever they quest, you may add their ✸ to another chosen character's ✸ this turn.)
Rarity: Common
Mr. Smee - Clumsy Sailor
Storyborn · Ally · Pirate
Cost: 2 (inkable)
Strength: 3
Willpower: 3
Lore: 2
Oh La La La La At the end of your turn, if this character is exerted while you do not have a Captain character in play, deal 1 damage to this character.
Rarity: Uncommon
Gyro Gearloose - Gadget Genius
Storyborn · Ally · Inventor
Cost: 3 (inkable)
Strength: 1
Willpower: 4
Lore: 1
Follow The Twists Of My Genius Brain ↩️ - Put an item from your discard to the top of your deck.
Rarity: Rare
Maui - Whale
Storyborn · Hero · Diety
Cost: 7 (inkable)
Strength: 8
Willpower: 8
Lore: 1
This Mission Is Over This character doesn't ready at the start of your turn.
Don't Worry, I'm Here 2 ⬡- Ready this character. He cannot quest for the rest of this turn.
Rarity: Rare
Maleficent - Mistress of Evil
Storyborn · Villain · Sorcerer
Cost: 5 (inkable)
Strength: 2
Willpower: 3
Lore: 2
Arcane Knowledge When this character quests, you may draw a card.
Divination Whenever you draw a card during your turn, you may move 1 damage counter from chosen character to chosen opposing character.
Rarity: Legendary
Magic Broom - Dancing Duster
Dreamborn · Broom
Cost: 6 (uninkable)
Strength: 3
Willpower: 3
Lore: 1
Energetic Cleaning When you play this character, if you have a Sorcerer character in play, you may exert chosen opposing character. They can't ready at the start of their next turn.
Rarity: Uncommon
Magic Broom - Fast Cleaner
Dreamborn · Broom
Cost: 5 (uninkable)
Strength: 4
Willpower: 4
Lore: 2
Rush (This character can challenge the turn they're played.)
Clean This, Clean That When you play this character, you may shuffle all the Broom cards from your discard into your deck.
Rarity: Common
Touched My Heart
Action · Song
Cost: 2 (inkable)
(A character with cost 2 or more can ↩️ to sing this song for free.)
Banish chosen item.
Rarity: Uncommon
Simba - Fighting Prince
Dreamborn · Hero · Prince
Cost: 7 (inkable)
Strength: 5
Willpower: 7
Lore: 2
Submit or Fight When you play this character or whenever he banishes another character in a challenge during your turn, choose one:
· Draw 2 cards, then choose and discard 2 cards.
· Deal 2 damage to chosen character.
Rarity: Super Rare
Zazu - Manager of the Pride Lands
Storyborn · Ally
Cost: 1 (inkable)
Strength: 2
Willpower: 1
Lore: 1
It's Time to Go! Whenever this character is at a location, he gains +1 ♢.
Rarity: Common
Kida - Protector of Atlantis
Floodborn · Hero · Princess
Cost: 5 (inkable)
Strength: 3
Willpower: 5
Lore: 2
Shift 3 (You may pay 3 ⬡ to play this on top of one of your characters named Kida.)
Perhaps We Can Save Our Future When you play this character, all characters get -3 ✸ until the start of your next turn.
Rarity: Legendary
Card Evaluations
Ok, let's do some quick card evals:
- Boss's Orders is Work Together in Amber. That card wasn't good and neither will this one be.
- Mr. Smee is a 2-cost 3/3 for Steel. We know from Madam Mim - Snake that that is a good stat line. And he even has 2 lore. Yeha, he pings himself down after three turns, if you have no Captains on board, but you will get plenty of value off of him before then. A very good card for aggressive decks.
- Geo is more item recursion for Sapphire. I would say he is not as good as Nick Wilde - Wily Fox but if you want to recur items other than Pawpsicle, he's not a bad option.
- Maui - Whale is meant to be a kind of board clear, you can play him and on the following turn, you challenge something and then can pay 2 ink to ready him and challenge again, and again, and again. He works sort of like a Scar - Vicious Cheater in that sense. Problem is he is very slow and very expensive, as he does nothing the turn he comes down, and then you are having to pay extra ink each time to ready him. Probably not worth it.
- The Legendary Maleficent is a nice card draw card for Amethyst. She reminds me a bit of The Queen - Wicked and Vain except you get the card draw from questing, as opposed to in lieu of questing. That's arguably better but her 2/3 body means she is not going to stick around on the board for long. And I'm not sure how to evaluate her damage moving ability. There are definitely situations it will be useful, but it does feel pretty niche. All in all, not the worst Legendary card but nothing meta-defining.
- Then we have the two Brooms. The 6-cost Broom feels very expensive for what it does. Yes, Elsa - Spirit of Winter is a powerful card but she can close out games with the combination of her ability and lore. This Broom won't be doing that, it's more a stall tactic, and it's situational. The other Broom seems much better. A 4/4 Rush is already quite good and being able to recur all your other Brooms will be key to keep your broom engine running. Either way, if the broom deck takes off, you are probably running both of these.
- A 2-cost inkable song that banishes an item? Break in shambles.
- Steel gets yet another Simba card. This one costs 7 ink, which is expensive, but he does something as soon as he comes down unlike the other Steel Simbas, Simba - Rightful King and Simba - Rightful Heir. And then you can get more value off of him on your next turn, if he sticks around and can challenge and banish something. Good card.
- Zazu is a nice early game card card for aggressive location decks. Ideally, you will have a way to get him to a location for free, but even if you need to spend 1 ink to do it on turn 2, it's not the worst. Going location on turn 1, Zazu and move him on turn 2 puts out two threats generating 3 lore total for you, which isn't bad.
- Kida is the first Amber Legendary card we've seen from this set.. and probably the worst Legendary Amber has gotten yet. Her ability affects ALL characters including your own and including herself. So this isn't setting up any value trades for you. Also, her ability does NOT effect characters that aren't on the board when you play her. That means if your opponent has any Rush characters, they get to play them next turn and rush them into your stuff and take very little or even zero damage in return. And guess what the best decks in the meta are playing? A lot of Rush characters. I don't think she's it. The art is amazing though.
More Spoilers
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