Lorcana: Into the Inklands Guide | Release Date, Products & Cards
Disney Lorcana’s third set, Into the Inklands, has been announced, and we have everything we know about it so far, including the official release date, a look ahead at the cards that have been revealed so far, and even a first glance at some of the products you’ll be able to buy.
Get ready to go Into the Inklands!
*Article updated March 5, 2024 with current Into the Inklands market prices.
What is Into the Inklands?
Into the Inklands is the third set of the Disney Lorcana Trading Card Game. If the first two sets – The First Chapter and The Rise of the Floodborn – are anything to go by, then Into the Inklands is likely to be a fantastic trading card game expansion.
Lorcana: Into the Inklands release date
Into the Inklands has a full release date set for March 8, 2024. However, products from the third set will be available once again on an early, limited release from local game shops, select Disney Parks, and from secondary card markets like TCGplayer beginning February 23, 2024.
How many cards will be included in Into the Inklands?
Into the Inklands will include a total of 204 new cards – the same number as the first two sets. There are also an additional 18 secret, enchanted rare cards.
All Into the Inkland Cards have been revealed!
Every single card from Lorcana: Into the Inklands has been revealed. See our complete Into the Inklands card list and review for more insights into every single card.
What are the rarest cards in Into the Inklands?
Enchanted rare cards are the most valuable Lorcana cards and the hardest to pull from packs. All of these ultimate chase cards have already been revealed, and you can see all 18 of them below.
For a more detailed analysis of each of these cards, you can read our overview of the Into the Inklands Enchanted cards.
What is the theme and story of Into the Inklands?
Ravensburger and the Disney Lorcana team has been doing a solid job of slowly introducing us deeper and deeper into the world that inspires the gameplay of Lorcana and vice versa. That’s right – the world of Lorcana is actually a separate place from the worlds that the Disney characters on the cards inhabit. These cards are only glimmers of these characters, and those glimmers can change and take on new looks, talents and abilities based on various external, magical forces.
Into the Inklands is all about location cards
While we’ve been exposed to how it is that character glimmers can change shape and form, we’ve yet to be introduced to the world outside the Grand Illuminary. Into the Inklands is taking us out into that precise world, and the Inklands really are what location cards are all about.
You can watch the full Lorcana video trailer featuring the events leading up to Into the Inklands as well as get our summary of fan reactions.
Disney Lorcana has released a new trailer featuring additional characters and items that help further tell the story of Into the Inklands. See it below.
Into the Inklands – Location Cards announced
“This set will change up your game with a brand-new element: location cards! Discover new landscapes as you venture across the Inklands in search of lore that was scattered by the recent flood. These locations add a whole new dimension of gameplay and a fresh new spin to every deck.”
While Location Cards have a firm footing in Lorcana’s lore, they also have a practical impact on the Disney Lorcana TCG. And that impact is going to be big. Given the gravity of the announcement, Disney Lorcana’s team held a session where they reviewed how Location Cards work in considerable depth. Here are a few important points you should know about Location cards:
Locations have an ink cost.
They can be inkable or not inkable (same as all other cards).
Locations have will power – it works the same as will power on characters.
Locations have a movement cost cost. That odd symbol on the left side is the cost it takes to move a characters to that location.
While getting location cards are really cool, it’s not necessarily a massively new mechanic for TCGs. While it will undoubtedly modify the way Lorcana decks are built, other TCGs have similar sorts of cards that alter the terrain of battle, like Field Spells in Yugioh or Stadium cards in Pokemon.
For a complete guide to location cards and how they work, read our Lorcana: location cards explained article.
Into the Inklands includes new Disney properties
In addition to exciting new location cards, Into the Badlands will also be introducing several new Disney properties into the game, including:
DuckTales
TaleSpin
Treasure Planet
More specifically, Ravensburger mentions sending “Disney's Kit Cloudkicker questing through the air on his airfoil” drawing “a solar sailing Disney's Jim Hawkins card into your hand, and more!”
Into the Inklands Preorders, Products & Prices
Into the Inklands is now generally available!
Below you will find information on every single Into the Inklands sealed product, including their current market price. We’ve already opened many of the products below, so you can also find real pictures of what you can expect to find inside, as well as the best cards we pulled.
Into the Inklands Booster Box
Market price: $121.83
We had some amazing pulls from the booster box we got from Rise of the Floodborn, and I would expect that the booster box from Into the Inklands is going to be just as exciting to crack open. Preorder information isn’t available yet, however each booster box contains 24 booster packs with each booster pack containing 12 cards. Booster boxes are the best way to save money if you plan on opening a lot of packs.
See the rarest pulls we got from the Into the Inklands Booster Box below.
Into the Inklands Illumineer’s Trove
Market price: $78.76
Illumineer’s Troves are our favorite Lorcana products so far, offering a fantastic experience, beautiful storage boxes that we still use for all of our cards, all for typically a good price.
That’s not all that’s new in the Troves from Into the Inklands, however. Ravensburger has made significant improvements to them this time around, dropping the cheap deck boxes that nobody really uses in favor of card dividers to help you orgnanize your cards better and a really cool Lore counter.
If you don’t know what a lore counter is, it’s a little spinning dial that is ideal for tracking your lore during a game. I guess I will be saving a lot of battery running my lore counter app, now.
Contents:
1 Card storage box
6 Card Dividers
8 Booster packs of 12 additional game cards each
6 Damage-counter dice
1 Lore counter
We had the opportunity to open the Inklands Trove early. You can see our pictures of what it looks like in the gallery below, as well as the rare cards we got.
Into the Inklands Gift Set
Market price: $52.22
This reveal is actually pretty cool – we are getting a new gift set along with the rest of the usual Lorcana products in Into the Inklands. Into the Inklands returns to the initial style of The Fist Chapter, delivering two jumbo cards alongside the rest of the goodies (four booster packs and two promo cards).
Unfortunately, compared to how cool the Disney100 collection gift set was, it’s going to be hard for this one to compare. I would much rather have special artwork cards that commemorate Disney100 than jumbo cards that are probably going to get thrown out.
Still, it’s an exciting product that certainly would make a great gift.
The gift set includes:
• 2 oversized foil cards
• 2 playable foil cards
• 34 damage counters
• 2 lore tracker tokens
• 4 booster packs of 12 additional game cards each
Take a look at the two cards included in the gift set below.
Tinker Bell – Very Clever Fairy
Stitch – Covert Agent
And here’s what the actual product looks like, as well as the rare pulls we got from it!
Into the Inklands Starter Decks
In addition to these revealed products, we will also be getting two starter decks. These will be based on the following ink type combos:
Amber/Emerald: this starter deck features several new character cards from Dalmatians as well as a range of strong cards capable of searching for other character cards and questing for a lot of lore.
Ruby/Sapphire: this deck relies heavily on location cards and presents a strong, cohesive approach to gameplay that is almost ready to start competing direclty out of the box.
Read our strategy and upgrade guide for the Ruby/Sapphire starter deck.
Each starter deck includes:
• 1 starter deck of 60 cards, including 2 foil cards of the characters on the package
• 11 game tokens
• 1 rulebook
• 1 booster pack containing 12 randomized cards
Sapphire/Ruby Starter Deck
Market price: $13.79
Amber/Emerald Starter Deck
Market price: $12.23
Read our comparison guide to find the right Into the Inklands starter deck for you.
Into the Inklands card accessories
Additionally, these Into the Inklands gaming accessories will also be available:
Playmats featuring Moana and Stitch
Deck boxes and card sleeves featuring Robin Hood and Scroog McDucke
Into the Inklands Booster Packs
Market price: $5.34
Last but not least, you can also preorder Into the Inklands Booster Packs. Each pack contains twelve cards, and a chance to pull super rare and valuable cards.
