Highlights
- The Disney Lorcana trading card game is generating high anticipation and rare cards have already sold for hundreds of dollars online.
- Last weekend's Gen Con 2023 event allowed fans to buy Lorcana cards early, which are now filtering online and selling well.
- The Enchanted-rarity cards are in exceptionally high demand, with prices ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars, indicating potential value for collectors.
The Disney Lorcana trading card game may not be available to the public yet, but that hasn't stopped certain rare cards from already selling for hundreds of dollars online. Anticipation for Lorcana's official release on August 18 is at a peak, but a few Disney fans at this past weekend's Gen Con 2023 event had the opportunity to buy cards early. Those cards have begun filtering online and are selling well. The rarest Lorcana cards, in particular, are exceptionally high in demand.
Disney and Lorcana publisher Ravensburger decided to make last weekend's Gen Con 2023 a special preview event for the TCG. Not only did the event host Lorcana's first Starter Deck tournament, but boxes of Disney Lorcana: The First Chapter Booster Packs, Starter Decks, and accessories including sleeve packs and play mats were fully on sale. Further, prior to the event Disney announced that Lorcana featured a previously unknown card rarity named Enchanted, a rarity seemingly designed to drive values for certain cards through the roof.
It's now been a week since Gen Con 2023 and expectations that Enchanted-rarity cards would sell for high prices are already being met. Enchanted Lorcana cards on eBay are selling for hundreds of dollars. An Enchanted Belle recently sold for $490. An Aladdin and Genie pair of Enchanted cards sold for $495. Aurora of Sleeping Beauty's Enchanted card sold for $1,050, but even that isn't the highest-selling Enchanted card yet. An Enchanted Mickey Mouse sold for $3,000, a Tinker Bell sold for $4,000, and a Simba sold for a shocking $5,000.
It isn't known at this time just how rare Enchanted cards will be when Lorcana fully launches. The current belief is that they're rare enough that even buying a box of Booster Packs, which includes 12 packs in total, may not guarantee the inclusion of even a single Enchanted card. That could mean prices will only increase when Lorcana launches. It could be incorrect, however, and prices will go down from here.
The allure of rare and valuable cards is certain to draw card collectors from Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering to Lorcana. Enchanted-rarity cards aren't even the first wave of Lorcana card purchases lighting up resellers like eBay. Disney released a set of Lorcana promo cards during D23 2022. These cards, sold individually or as a set, have been listed and sold for thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars. Disney and Ravensburger clearly know how to capitalize on excitement for very rare cards.
Lorcana will officially launch with six different card rarities. The first five, Common, Uncommon, Rare, Super Rare, and Legendary, make up the standard cards in Lorcana's first set, The First Chapter. There are 204 of these cards in total. The sixth rarity, Enchanted, is treated as a series of secret cards beyond the set. There are 12 in total, numbering 205 through 216, and have new artwork and a foil treatment but are otherwise copies of cards from the base set. Casual collectors can rest easy knowing they don't need to collect Enchanted cards to complete their sets. A second Lorcana set has already been announced.
Disney Lorcana arrives on August 18.
Source: ComicBook