Designers behind Disney’s ‘Lorcana’ card game face legal troubles

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Update June 6 9:52pm CT: A representative for Upper Deck reached out to We Got This Covered to clarify that the company is suing Ravensburger, the company desigining Lorcana, and not Disney. We have updated the article to reflect as much. We regret the error.

Disney’s upcoming trading card game, Lorcana, has encountered legal trouble, and it hasn’t even been released yet. Another trading card company has filed a lawsuit against Ravensburger, the company designing the House of Mouse’s new game. It claims that Lorcana is “nearly identical” to its own upcoming trading card game.

Lorcana was first announced in Aug. 2022, and the first sets of Disney’s family-friendly TCG were sold during the 2022 D23 convention. The game allows players to summon their favorite Disney characters from various IPs, each with unique abilities to help the player win the game.

The Upper Deck Company has submitted a 19-page complaint to the Californian courts, alleging that Lorcana‘s co-designer, Ryan Miller, designed a similar game for them. According to Polygon, the game in question, called Rush of Ikorr, ironically, has not been released either. The document claims that Miller has been involved with Rush of Ikorr‘s development since 2018 when he was invited to contribute to its brainstorming phase. By 2019, he held the title of lead game designer under contract until 2020.

“Looking to make its next hit TCG, Upper Deck held a Gaming Summit from December 15 through December 16, 2018. Upper Deck invited and paid expenses for several game designers, including Miller, to visit Upper Deck’s Carlsbad office with the specific purpose of aiding Upper Deck in the creation, brainstorm, and collaboration of a new and novel TCG.

“Like the other game designers who