Your First Disney Lorcana Weekly Play Night

Walking into a game store for the first time can feel like walking into a party where everyone already knows each other. Here is the good news: in Lorcana, the weekly event is designed for you. The official tournament rules sort events into levels, and the entry level is meant to be relaxed, fun, and educational, with organizers responsible for making less experienced players feel welcome.

This lesson covers how to find a night, what to bring, how it runs, and how to be the opponent everyone hopes to sit across from.

What is weekly play?

Weekly play is the regular, recurring Lorcana night at a store. The store picks a format players can expect each week on the same day. The current store kit lists Core Constructed, Infinity Constructed, Pack Rush, Draft, and Sealed as options, and the kit supports a 12-week season of play. Stores hand out promo cards to participants at random through the season, alongside any prizes they offer.

There is one detail aimed squarely at you. The Hyperia City kit includes 12 lore counters for stores to give to players at their first Lorcana event in that store. The kit says the point is to help new players feel welcome and want to return. You are the person they are hoping to meet.

How do you find one?

Use the Ravensburger Play Hub. You can search events by location, format, and category, including weekly play and Learn-to-Play events, or use the store locator. Create a Ravensburger Play profile; signing up for an event there reserves your spot.

Before your first night, contact the store and ask two questions:

1. Which format runs that night?
2. Is a starter deck welcome, or should I try a Pack Rush night first?

Pack Rush is the friendliest first event. Everyone opens two booster packs and plays with whatever comes out, so nobody has a stronger deck going in. The marketing cards from the packs go into your inkwell as 2 ready ink, you draw 5, and the first to 15 lore wins.

In Indianapolis, our game nights guide lists a weekly Lorcana night downtown, and our game store guide shows which stores run card game events. For first word on local learn-to-play nights as The Ludarium grows, join the Indianapolis list.

What to bring

• Your deck. At least 60 cards for a constructed night. For a Pack Rush or Sealed night, the store provides the packs; ask what the entry covers.
• A way to track lore. A lore tracker, pen and paper, or the official Companion app.
• Damage markers. Dice or counters. Plain dice are fine.
• Sleeves, if you like. If you sleeve your deck, every sleeve must match and have an opaque back.
• The entry fee, if the store charges one.

How a night runs

The store usually pairs players through the Play Hub, round by round. In each round you play one opponent, sometimes for one game, sometimes for the best of three. You report the result, then get your next pairing.

At the start of a match you decide randomly who chooses to play first. In a best-of-three, the loser of each game chooses who goes first in the next one. The player going first still skips their first draw.

Rounds have a time limit, often about an hour. If your game is close to time, ask the organizer how they handle it.

Table manners that make you welcome

• Introduce yourself and shake hands, or offer a friendly nod.
• Shuffle well and offer a cut. The rules ask every player to offer their opponent a cut after shuffling.
• Say your actions out loud. “I’m questing with this one for 2.” It prevents nearly every argument.
• Keep your lore total visible and say it when it changes.
• Keep your board readable. Characters, items, and locations go in front of your inkwell, and your inkwell stays countable.
• Ask before touching your opponent’s cards. You can always ask to read one; everything in play is public.
• Call a judge, kindly. Officials at Lorcana events are called Lore Guides. Asking one is not an accusation. It is how disagreements stay friendly.

Win or lose, say “good game.” Our guide on how to be a good loser covers the rest.

For parents

The official Community Code expects everyone in the Lorcana community, of every age, to treat each other with courtesy and respect. Stay nearby for the first night, help with the lore count if your kid wants it, and let the organizer know your player is new. Helping newer players is part of an entry-level organizer’s job.

After your first night

Write down two things: the card that beat you, and the turn you wish you could take back. Those two notes are next week’s lesson, and the upgrades lesson shows how to turn them into upgrades.