Disney Lorcana's sure been interesting to follow. Aside from the big, dramatic lawsuit where the words "the legal equivalent of alchemy" were used in a courtroom, it's also picked up some pretty good steam as a competitive card game.
Which shouldn't be a surprise, really: When you see an Elsa card going up on eBay for $7,000, things start to click into place. Disney's branding is potent, and from what I've heard, Ravensburger has put together a fun TCG to back the mouse up. It's honestly surprising that Disney's own-brand Magic: The Gathering didn't happen sooner.
And yet all that branding, all those highly marketable characters, even the pristine copyright-extending might of Mickey himself are powerless before the unstoppable force of the metagame, which has placed one of the least iconic Disney characters of all time into a position of godhood.
As spotted by TheGamer: Hiram Flaversham, Toymaker (which honestly sounds like the name of a Dark Souls Boss) is making waves, despite his humble origins. He's an inventor from The Great Mouse Detective—the only movie he stars in—who is kidnapped by Professor Ratigan to help him with his evil plans in a sort of Tony Stark situation. It's hard to be a genius.
I don't know that much about Lorcana specifically, but even I can see how Hiram is busted. He has an ability that allows you to banish an item to draw two cards. There's an item card, Pawpsicle, that's pretty low-cost, and also happens to let you draw a card when played. Nick Wild—yes, the fox from Zootopia—also plays a key part of the puzzle, since he can get that Pawpsicle card back into play after it's been banished.
So the combo goes like this: Play Pawpsicle, banish it with Hiram. That's three cards drawn. The next
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