Disney Lorcana isn't one of the five headline games in Good Games' 2026 Championship Series, but it's a genuine, regular fixture in their weekly events calendar, with league nights running across several stores. If you're newer to the game, or just curious, Good Games' constructed league format is a low-pressure way to get a feel for it without needing to commit to a big event first.
A meaningful expansion into new territory
Lorcana's biggest story of 2026 so far is Wilds Unknown, Set 12, which marked the game's first expansion beyond purely Disney-owned characters, bringing Pixar Animation Studios into the card pool for the first time. For a game built entirely around Disney IP since launch, that's a genuine shift, and it opens the door to a much broader well of characters and stories for future sets to draw from than the classic Disney animated catalogue alone could sustain indefinitely.
Set 13, themed around Turning Red, is the next confirmed main release, continuing the newly-opened Pixar thread rather than treating Wilds Unknown as a one-off experiment. Alongside the card releases, Ravensburger has also launched official Lorcana Collector's Guides, covering the game's artwork and lore in detail across its first two years, plus a companion Lorcana Notebook. Dedicated collector-focused products like these tend to show up once a game's audience has matured past its early, purely-competitive phase, a reasonable sign Lorcana's player and collector base is settling in for the long term rather than being a passing trend tied to launch-year hype.
What this means if you're new to the game
Lorcana's core mechanics are genuinely approachable compared to some of the more established TCGs, part of why it's found an audience with players who might not have picked up a card game before. Ink cost and lore counting, the two central resources, are simple enough to explain in a single game, which is part of why league nights work well as an entry point rather than needing a separate beginner-only event structure.
If the Wilds Unknown Pixar characters are what's caught your attention, that's a reasonable set to start collecting toward, and Good Games' weekly league nights are a good place to actually play rather than just collect. Once you know which cards you're chasing, C3's live Lorcana market tracks current AU pricing, and if you want to test how well you actually know the game, or just have a bit of fun with it, our quiz hub includes a Lorcana-specific quiz worth a look before your first event.
Why the Pixar shift matters
Bringing Pixar into Lorcana isn't just a marketing move, it substantially widens what future sets can draw on. Disney's classic animated catalogue is enormous, but it's also finite, whereas folding in Pixar effectively doubles the pool of source material the game can pull new characters, mechanics and set themes from for years to come. Set 13's Turning Red theme is an early sign of what that expanded scope actually looks like in practice, a distinctly different tone and visual style from the earlier, more classically Disney-flavoured sets, closer to a modern coming-of-age story than a traditional fairy tale.
Rockingham's Lorcana League
Good Games Rockingham runs one of the more established weekly Lorcana leagues, alongside a full casual and competitive Pokemon calendar at the same store. That kind of overlap, multiple card game communities running out of the same venue on different nights, is fairly common at Good Games' larger stores, and it means a single store visit can often introduce a player to more than one game if they're curious to branch out.
How Lorcana's economics differ from older TCGs
Because Lorcana's card pool is still comparatively small, individual card values tend to behave differently from a game with a decade or more of releases behind it. There's less of a deep back catalogue of rotated-out staples to track, and pricing is more directly tied to what's currently in print and actively played, rather than layered with years of format history. That makes it a comparatively simpler market to follow if you're used to more established games, fewer variables, a smaller set list to keep across, and price movement that tends to track fairly closely with what's actually seeing table time rather than older speculative trends.
A game still early in its life
Lorcana is young compared to most of the games covered in this Championship Series, and that shows up in a few ways, still-evolving competitive infrastructure, a collector base that's only just started getting dedicated reference material, and a card pool that's still expanding into new creative territory rather than settling into an established formula. For players who like being early to a scene rather than joining an already-mature one, that's arguably the appeal, and the Pixar expansion suggests Ravensburger is still actively investing in growing the game rather than coasting on its early success.
This coverage is independent, C3 has no partnership or affiliate relationship with Good Games or Ravensburger, we're simply tracking what's happening in the Australian Lorcana scene and what it might mean for the cards you're collecting or playing.