Whenever there is a set launched forDisney’s Lorcana, there are starter decks filled to the brim with cards of all kinds and ink costs. Deciding which starter decks you’d like to purchase can be difficult, especially if you aren’t planning to eventually collect them all.

But knowing what’s included in each deck can make that choice clear. Plus, it can give you some insight against an opponent who is using one of the starter decks as a base for what they bring to the table against you. So, if you’re looking for every card included in the Lorcana starter decks, you’ll find them all below.

Updated July 29, 2025 by Marissa Fiore: Archazia’s Island is here and with it are not just the two starter decks from set seven, but also the two sets from Azurite Island. This guide has been updated to include the deck lists for each of these new starter decks while also going over an exciting new ability and dual-ink colors. It has also been brought up to current publishing standards.

Set One Amber And Amethyst Starter Deck

The First Chapter

Just like with every starter deck,there are 60 cardsincluded in theAmethyst and Amber starter deck. Thismatches the deck size used in any game of Lorcana, making sure that you don’t need to purchase any other cards. Unless, of course, you want to.

In this deck, you’ll findpowerful magic users who take center stagein the Amethyst portion of the deck. In the Amber part of the starter deck, you’ll finda total of five song cards, one of the things that Amber is most known for. Other common themes with the Amber cards arehealing and getting characters into your hand quickly.

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Cinderella, Gentle and Friendly

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Set One Emerald And Ruby Starter Deck

The next combination in set one isEmerald and Ruby ink colors. This deck helpsintroduce players to Action cards, a staple of the Emerald suite, no matter which set you’re looking at. It also featuresa lot of villains, making the card Vicious Betrayal even more powerful.

It also includes Mother Knows Best, getting players used to the idea thatthey can bring back banished characters. This compliments the ability of one of the faces of this deck. Cruella De Vil, Miserable as Usual allows you toreturn a character back to a player’s hand, showing off that once a character is on the field, they can be bounced back to their owner, forcing them topay more ink to bring them back or get rid of them.

Set One Sapphire And Steel Starter Deck

The name of Sapphire’s game isItem cards. It has a total ofseven Items, showing off that some items, like Coconut Basket are excellent for staying on the field,giving you benefits every roundyou keep them there or activate them. Meanwhile, other Items, like Frying Pan,are meant to be banishedin order to give you buffs or weaken your opponent.

Then Steel shows off bothBodyguardand Challenger cards. These are abilities thataren’t unique to a specific character, but that any character can have. These mechanics can help you shift the power dynamic by either forcing your opponent into challenging a certain character or by giving your character more of an upper hand when they’re the one on the attack.

Prince Eric, Dashing and Brave

Set Two Amber And Sapphire Starter Deck

Rise Of The Floodborn

The movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is featured heavily, not just through the face of the Amber side of the deck being The Queen. But it’s filled up with the Dwarfs themselves, as well as a Snow White variant, Lost In The Forest.

This showcased synergy between characters, including abilities or gameplay thatcould only be used if other qualifying characters were on the field, like Bashful not being able to quest unless there were other Dwarfs in play.

Then, to no surprise,Sapphire continues to showcase Itemsand features Belle, Inventive Engineer who makes it even easier to bring an Item onto the field by making it cost one less ink if you play it after Belle quests. Andseven Items in this deck can make use of that ability, all of them being from the Sapphire suite.

Set Two Amethyst And Steel Starter Deck

Merlin and Madam Mim run away with the Amethyst portion of this starter deck. Similarly to the Seven Dwarfs, Madam Mim and Merlin show offhow powerful certain character card combinations can be.

Merlin, Goat can gain you lore not just every time you play him, but also when he leaves the field. Then, Madam Mim can bounce him safely back into your hand,setting up a vicious cyclethat, if it isn’t stopped, can give you a huge lore lead.

For Steel, Tiana, Celebrating Princess showcases that if you keep your hand empty, you can actually gain benefits.

While a bit contradictory with the Amethyst portion of the deck, which has you constantly sending characters back to your hand,if you keep bringing them to the field, your opponent may be put in a difficult situation,unable to use Actionsif you play your hand right.

Set Three Amber And Emerald Starter Deck

Into The Inklands

Locations, locations, locations.Into The Inklands introduced Locationsacross all of the gem-colored suites. For Amber, this is Never Land, Mermaid Lagoon and for the Emerald side of the deck it’s De Vil Manor, Cruella’s Estate.

Both of these Locations don’t have a unique ability, butthey ease the player into using themby being cheap, ink cost-wise, while also gaining you one lore at the start of your turn, so long as the locations stay on the field.

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Set Three Ruby And Sapphire Starter Deck

While theAmber and Emerald starter deckgets you used to using Locations, the Ruby part of this deck has a card, Voyage, thatmakes it easy to move characters to these placesonce they’ve been set up. Then, thanks to Moana, Born Leader, the deck also shows youthe value of having the majority of your characters at a Location.

Sapphire continues the trend from Rise Of The Floodborn ofshowing how powerful synergy between characters can bewith Huey, Dewy, and Louie. Particularly with Huey’s ability, Three Nephews, which allows you to draw three cards if one of each of the Nephews is on the field.

Set Four Amber And Amethyst Starter Deck

Ursula’s Return

The family members of Encanto dominatethe Amber and Amethyst starter deck.Both suites are made up of most of the family members, all of them working together to give you a strong, set four, deck.

Thoughmost of their abilities can also be very effective on their own, such as Julieta Madrigal, who can not only heal your characters, but allows you to draw cards if you do use her ability to do that.

They are featured in the AmberSing Together card, which isa mechanic that was introduced in set four. Look At This Family is a cost seven card thatallows multiple characters to come together to sing it. This helps you get characters of your choice into your hand. This is excellent for when you are looking for a key character but they haven’t shown up on their own yet.

Look at this Family

Lost in the Woods

Set Four Sapphire And Steel Starter Deck

Franchise-wise, Hercules, Mulan, and Sleeping Beauty are the big representatives in this starter deck. And, despite Sapphire always being known for Items,that changes in this deck, showing off Songs instead, as well as the Location Thebes, The Big Olive.

This Locationrewards you for getting into fights while your characters are there, gaining you lore when your characters staying at the location are successful in banishing opposing characters.

Dig A Little Deeper is the Sapphire Sing Together card, letting you look ata massive seven cards at the top of your deck before choosing two to place into your hand. The other two songs, Seldom All They Seem and One Last Hope, cost less to play, making it less of a drain if you decide to pay ink instead of havingyour characters sing them.

Set Five Amethyst And Ruby Starter Deck

Shimmering Skies

The Amethyst and Ruby starter deckfor Shimmering Skiesis mainly about two franchises:Frozen and Wreck-It Ralph. With that, we see some differentvariants of Annaandthe inclusion of a lot of the racers featured in Sugar Rush, the game within the first Wreck-It Ralph movie.

Mickey and Friendsalso dance and food fight their way into this deck, making up foreight of the Ruby cardsincluded in the starter deck.

Of course, however, the highlights areElsa, The Fifth Spirit and Wreck-It Ralph, Demolition Dude, both of which are featured on the cover of the deck.Ralph will gain you loreas he remains on the field damaged. Meanwhile, Elsa hasthree abilitiesthat make her a scary and impressive force on the field, particularly when she enters play, as shecan challenge immediately and exert an opponentin order to do just that.

Set Five Emerald And Steel Starter Deck

Not to be too surface level when describing this deck, but Scar and Kronk both feature on the outside packaging, and, as you can imagine, that meansthere are quite a lot of The Lion King andThe Emperor’s New Groovecardsin this set five deck.

Scar, Vengeful Lionwill help with card draw,as every time you challenge an already damaged character, you can take the top card of your deck and tuck it safely into your hand. Card draw is one of the most useful things as the more cards in hand, the better decisions you can make and, of course, thesooner your most powerful cards are in your possession.

Then, with Kronk, Head Of Security, you canplay characters that cost five or less for free. The catch is Kronk will have needed to defeat a character in a challenge. It’s a very strong ability and, if you cankeep Kronk healthy and protected, can help youfill your side of the board with characters.

Set Six Amber And Ruby Starter Deck

Azurite Sea

Pirate fans are eating well with the introductions of the Azurite Sea starter decks. In the first of the two set six decks, we see the combination of Ruby and Amber andmany classic characters reimaginedasswashbuckling, sword-slinging pirates.

The homies from the Hundred Acre Woods join the fray with adorable takes on whatPooh and the other would look like as pirates. We also seethe Darling children adopting the pirate lifefor themselves while still in Neverland. Using these cards withother characters labeled as piratescan create quite the strong deck to face down.

Mr. Smee could make for an excellent companionfor cards like Jim Hawkins, Honorable Pirate if you decided totry out an Amber/Steel deck. Or Wendy Darling, Courageous Captain fora Ruby/Steel deck. If you do decide to go that route, pirates won’t be in short supply as quite a few, including some Captain Hook cards, have been introduced through the Steel ink color.

Set Six Emerald And Sapphire Starter Deck

Big Hero Six plays a big role in this starter deck as the whole crew has at least one card variant tucked away inthis Emerald/Sapphire deck. The theme isn’t so pirate-centric with this one, instead havinga lot of heroestaking on that traditional role, or the role ofbeing an explorer.

We also get a glimpseat the Megabot itemthat allows you tobanish items or damaged characters. But they aren’t the only bots that make a splash in this set. Althoughnot includedin these starter decks, another item you’ll want to check outisthe Microbots.

Microbots area Sapphire item, and similar to when the 101 Dalmations were introduced, you can haveas many Microbots in your deckas you want. Theyreduce the strength of a character by onefor each Micrbot you have in play. So slotting at least a few of these cards into your Emerald/Sapphire deck could be an unpleasant surprise for your opponent.

Heffalumps And Woozles

Set Seven Amethyst And Steel Starter Deck

Archazia’s Island

Be weary, those who pick up the set seven starter decks. Previous sets have introduced new mechanics, such asLocations in Into The Inklands. Well, Archazia’s Island bringsdual-ink colorsto Lorcana.

With it being a new mechanic, you won’t see dozens of dual-ink cards, but there are five of them you have access to in theAmethyst and Steel starter deck. They center aroundJafar, Newly Crowned, however, don’t be distracted purely by him.Giant Cobra, Ghostly SerphantandRestoring The Crownarea deadly comboto use against your opponent.

The new ability, Vanish, keeps the Giant Cobraprotected from actions, or at least ensures mutal destruction. Depending on the action, the threat alone might keep your character safe while youbuild up the ink you needfor Restoring The Crown. This card, even without the Cobra, can allow you to turn the tide of battle or completely dominate the other player(s).

Set Seven Ruby And Sapphire Starter Deck

It’s no surprise if you’ve seen the packaging for this starter deck that it revolves aroundthe Beauty And The Beast charactersgreatly, particularlyBelle, Mechanic Extraordinaire. But she is far from the only good card in this deck.

Player’s havefound success with Cogsworth, of all characters, as he is usually used tochallenge and banish charactersthanks to hisincrease in strengthif you have anitem in your discard pile. He synergizes well with thesong card All Is Found, as you can choose two of your cards to, well, discard.

This helps with quickly ramping up thenumber of cards in your inkwell, making it easier to play thehigh cost characterslike Belle, Mechanic Extraordinaire, who can also bea shift target, as well as Lyle Tiberius Rourke, Crystallized Mercenary, who is not only akey damage dealer, but also pretty darngood at questing.

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