The Inkwell Gamers

50 EPISODES!! WOOHOO!! We're back and continuing with another set review episode... this time covering Amethyst! This color did not have very many vanilla cards for this set, which means we had a lot to talk about today! We hope you all enjoy this episode! 

Another set is now released so you know what that means....another set REVIEW! We're kicking things off with Amber for this week so give it a listen and let us know what you think! 

Ahh GenCon....the 1 year anniversary since the early release of Lorcana. We go back to where it all began except this time...we don't sleep on the floor in line waiting for product! Instead, we participated in three events and each won a convention exclusive mat and had a lot of fun while we did it too! Join us as we share our insights into how we approached these events differently than we would a constructed event. Also, Dalton recaps the DLC in Bologna from this past weekend and we discuss how the meta in Toronto might look for this upcoming weekend. All that and more, so hit the play button now! 

Join us as we recap our last weekend competing in the Set Champs for Ursula's Return! We also complete our last starter deck review using the Amber/Amethyst Madrigal deck. Did we like playing with this one and why or why not? Also, *spoiler alert* Dalton makes a completely new decklist for how he thinks Amber/Amethyst can be played competitively. Lastly, we give a special shoutout to all of the wonderful CC's who are stepping away from the space. We hope it's not forever, but we are grateful for the content you all have provided to the community.    Decklist: https://dreamborn.ink/decks/d7A1Hily2LUzvdEx2v3r 

Get ready for a 2-for-1 episode!! Join us as we recap our first weekend of set champ tournaments, as well as our first of two starter deck reviews for Ursula's Return. For this week, we covered the Sapphire-Steel SD. Then, Dalton also takes the hero package and upgrades it to how he would play that archetype in these colors. We hope you enjoy this episode and if you try the deck, let us know what you think!   Deck List: https://dreamborn.ink/decks/YudHq2CtwIbZFAu9hDlG 

Welcome back! Let's catch up! We have a lot of exciting things to address with y'all! We talk about the recent changes to Bucky and our thoughts on that, as well as how to prep for competitive events now that we can't grind games on Pixelborn anymore. Also, we catch you up on what we're currently playing with....which, you'd be surprised at this news! Come hang out with us! Link to tabletop camera: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08V4WLPX1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 

Well friends, we finally reached the end of our set review of Ursula's Return. We are finishing this out with our last ink color: Steel. We have a lot to discuss in this one, from the S's all the way down to the D's! We hope you enjoy this episode and hearing how we analyzed these cards.

Join us as we continue our Set 4 review of Ursula's Return, focusing on all of the sapphire (non-vanilla) cards for this episode. There are some cards that we think are definite front runners for this ink, and there are some we suspect might be getting slept on.....so give a listen to find out which ones those all could be!

We are now back and picking up where we left off in our Set 4 review of Ursula's Return, continuing with Dalton's favorite ink color....Ruby! There were a pretty good amount of decent cards that came from this color, so give it a listen and see which ones we think are the best!

Hey, hey! We're back! After a crazy few weeks, we have finally recovered from both the Atlanta and Chicago DLCs and are here to continue telling our story from them! In this episode, we recap how the Chicago DLC went for both of us, as well as how it compared to Atlanta. This time, Dana actually got to be on a featured match and opens up about how the experience truly was for her. Dalton also recounts his matches (in far better detail, we might say!) and how diverse his opponents' decks were from round to round. Now that the dust has settled, are we still playing the same decks? Tune in to find out!

We are officially home from the very FIRST North American DLC in Atlanta. Woo, what a weekend! Join us as we recount our experience participating in such a historical event and hear Dalton's experience first-hand as he talks about the experience of making it to Day 2. We also talk about some pretty fresh topics from this week, what we plan on bringing to Chicago, and what we hope to see at future DLC events. 

Ayyy we're back at it again with another set review for Ursula's Return! Today we're covering Dana's favorite ink color...Emerald! This one actually has some pretty sick cards, and the enchanted we opened is even from this group as well! Check it out and let us know what you think!

Welcome back to our set review of Ursula's Return where we are continuing with all the non-vanilla Amethyst cards! Tune in to see what we think is the best card released for this ink color! 

Happy Set Release Day! We are kicking off the weekend for the release of Ursula's Return by bringing back our in-depth ink-by-ink set review....starting with Amber! This time, we are excluding the vanilla cards (because, well, they're vanilla!) but everything else is fair game. We hope you enjoy this episode! 

Now that all of the set championships have been wrapped up and completed, we come back to discuss how this past weekend went as well as our overall impression of the marathon that was the past two weeks. Did Dalton finally get a first place finish? How did Dana perform? We cover all that and more, so tune in to find out!

Welcome to another episode of the Inkwell Gamers Podcast! We're recapping how Dana & Dalton both did this past weekend in the Pack's Tournament that was the largest one to date. We cover what we played, what we saw, and how we think our decks performed. Then, we jump into getting ready for a marathon these next two weeks with us going to compete in FOUR store championships! We'll talk about our goals as we go into the weekend and what decks we are going to be bringing.

This week we have the honor of having one of the best Lorcana players on for a special interview.... Brennan DeCandio will be joining us to talk all things TCG and Lorcana. We ask him about his deck building process, tournament prep, and all things in between. We hope you enjoy this week's episode as much as we had making it!

Join us this week as we talk about the ticket sales for the newly announced Disney Lorcana Challenge event in Atlanta, as well as how our most recent tournament went! We both tried out newer decks and dissected how we feel they performed in all of our matches. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did!

In this week's episode, we discuss ALLLLL the amazing announcements from the first ever Lorecast that was on Wednesday....but first, we talk about how Dalton finished Top 8 in The Pack's most recent tournament! What did he see? What did he beat and what did he lose to? Did anything surprise him? Tune in to hear all about it!

Welcome to the 30th episode of the Inkwell Gamers Podcast! We're celebrating today's episode by talking about the current meta scene. We're extremely excited to finally see a variety of decks being used competitively, and are actually taking a deeper look at NINE different decklists with you all! Are you ready?! Because we are!   Decks We Talked About Today (in order): Sapp/Steel Ramp - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/YUx7PxdmgNqgm55hj6ot Sapp/Ruby Control - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/LKgXMMGoqKekdIp3fW0U Ruby/Amy Control - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/m06yK5bVgmYa2GNJThHo Amy/Steel Jafar Wheel - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/0LNF3Ge2pb2esWuYT262 Amb/Steel Song - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/1xwUNVVC5YhsSc6aN3C4 Em/Steel Midrange - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/cCkhsXspAiJrDB98tQB8 Em/Amy Bounce Aggro - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/EtjLXRmBVVaSzivj581c Amb/Steel 1-Drop Flood - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/FN12WhvUquBflYVVViWu Amb/Em Rockstar Stitch Aggro - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/KKez2Bazp7WAgihhrkbR 

Welcome back to another episode! Today we're going over the other starter deck from Into the Inklands - Emerald/Amber. As always, we give our opinion on how we thought it played out as-is, then give you all two different ways to upgrade this deck. If you happen to try either upgrade out on your own, give us a shout for what you thought of it!  Budget Upgrade: https://dreamborn.ink/decks/YusB1EmotRlqSGBLk6DX  Non-Budget Upgrade: https://dreamborn.ink/decks/lAw2Ned5H28RhZVJrXzs 

We are officially one week into Set 3's release! Dana and Dalton are first taking on the ruby/sapphire deck and giving their analysis for how they think it played out (especially those new locations!). Ready to upgrade those starter decks already?? We also give you two different ways to make this a little more competitive. Come check it out and let us know what you think!   Budget Upgrade: https://dreamborn.ink/decks/cgx1RakbfauUjGzFzrZE  Non-Budget Upgrade: https://dreamborn.ink/decks/1MTbfx5rv5KgWRS0TFOq 

Happy Release Day, everyone! We're switching things up with our set review of grading the new cards, so come check it out and let us know how we did!

EDIT: When this episode was recorded, we were misinformed about how gaining lore worked with locations and misspoke during the episode. Please note that lore is not gained whenever characters move to a location, unless their card specifically states so.    We're finally talking about the biggest introduced concept coming out with set 3.....LOCATIONS! How do they work? How do we think they will impact the game? Which ones do we have our eye on? All those questions answered and more in this episode. So go on and give it a listen!

Today we're challenging the status quo and building an unconventional deck right on the fly with you all! We're using a color combo that isn't typically seen, but we're going to try our best to figure out the best archetype and gameplan for it! Stay tuned for a complimentary video where we'll be testing this out to see if it's viable against the current meta...   Deck List: https://dreamborn.ink/decks/4YZoE76dYXbXXn7KUVtJ

This week we talk about some pretty big announcements recently made regarding Lorcana TCG Gateway, a competitive tournament layout, and much more! Now that official competitive play has been announced, are we going to see card rotation or bans? If so, what cards could we see getting banned and why? Tune in to find out! 

Thanks for hanging out with us for another episode of the Inkwell Gamers Podcast! Today we talk about two large tournaments from this past weekend, which includes an emergence of decks that aren't all Ruby-Amethyst or Steel-Song (whaaaaattt?!). We also talk about how Dana is salty that Dalton came back and got 18 lore in one turn to beat her with his item deck. What does this mysterious item deck consist of? Would he make any changes to it and if so, what would they be? Listen to hear us talk all about it! Dreamborn link: https://dreamborn.ink/decks/EKDnz884rVC5oWJEu2AY 

In today's episode, Dana and Dalton talk about their favorite decks since Rise of the Floodborn has come out. They also discuss the upcoming SCG Con Cincy, the current metagame, and whether we'll see viable monochrome decks?! Dalton's Decks: Ruby/Amethyst - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/3ZYQ6I7cWfdny1AESYKy Items - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/EKDnz884rVC5oWJEu2AY   Dana's Decks: Emerald/Sapphire - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/m2GU8uhny5OkYEJ9iQ6p You Want Some Emerald With That Steel? - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/frcEjPgfFUeD9V3EGhJ4  The Royal Discard - https://dreamborn.ink/decks/1bgBtnMJm5r2CIzyH44g 

Welcome back to another episode! We are finally wrapping up our ROTF set review with all of the Steel cards, which includes what we think is the best card of Chapter 2!

Hey Illumineers! Welcome back to another episode of the Inkwell Gamers Podcast! We're continuing our set review of ROTF with all of the sapphire cards today. We definitely were on the same wavelength for many......and some not so much. Check it out and let us know what you think!

We are officially halfway through our set review of Rise of the Floodborn, and today we covered all of the Ruby cards! We discussed a lot of very strong ones......and a lot of not so strong ones. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Continue to follow along with us on our Rise of the Floodborn set review! Today we are covering Dana's favorite ink.....Emerald!

We are continuing our set review of all of the Rise of the Floodborn cards! Today we are covering those in Amethyst....please give a listen and let us know what you think!

We're back at it again doing a full grading review of all the cards from Rise of the Floodborn! Starting with.....Amber! Check out some spicy takes and let us know who you agree with!

We have a lot of fun stuff to talk about in today's episode including a recap of our Disney Trip, a tournament we competed in, and a little D100 homage with grading some of the classics!

In today's episode, we talk about one of the most popular TCG articles ever written. Listen as we try our hand at translating this concept into Lorcana!   Original "Who's the Beatdown?" Article: https://articles.starcitygames.com/articles/whos-the-beatdown/  Our Discord: https://discord.gg/GyYRP5H8 

Come hang out with us as we talk about some of the cards spoiled from Rise of the Floodborn! We bring ones we think are good, ones we think are bad (but interesting!), and ones that Dana feels are part of the storyline's canon thus far. Which ones stood out to you the most? Let us know in the comments! Discord link: https://discord.gg/GyYRP5H8 

Dana and Dalton talk about the two 1k tournaments they have both participated in recently, as well as the largest Lorcana tournament to-date that happened this past weekend in Miami! We also answer some tournament-related questions, so give us a listen to follow along!    Dana's Tourney 1 Deck - https://lorcania.com/decks/t560nkyxMhZ4bAwP  Dalton's Tourney 1 Deck - https://lorcania.com/decks/zdQ2i6V4cdGchSR1  Dana's Tourney 2 Deck - https://lorcania.com/decks/lQhhJ14SVR8t5kut  Dalton's Tourney 2 Deck - https://lorcania.com/decks/8bM0a76IPcKNu0TS 

Join us for our last starter deck review and upgrades episode of Chapter 1! Dalton makes another case trying to push that (bad) item ramp deck, and we answer a listener question from our Discord. Also, listen for how you can enter to win a FREE starter deck! We hope you like this episode as much as we enjoyed making it. :)   Links: Budget Upgrade: https://lorcania.com/decks/qsnifnwRSkIz46Zg  Non-Budget Upgrade: https://lorcania.com/decks/AreHXnfPIumilWup  Complete Rebuild Item Ramp: https://lorcania.com/decks/vFrJHvzFVdwdIudh  Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1095854906977566801/1160292254364209173 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theinkwellgamers

Woah, we've now hit a double digit episode?! We're celebrating by talking about the journey so far, our experience at league, and threw in more details about our starter deck giveaway (yes, you heard that right, we are giving away starter decks!) But mainly we go over the Emerald-Ruby Starter Deck and give you two ways to upgrade it: both as a budget deck and a non-budget deck. Then, we give a third deck that is a complete rebuild of this color combo for a pretty powerful and sweet archetype.  Links: Budget Upgrade: https://lorcania.com/decks/aannRsvh5fDJ1OaC Non-Budget Upgrade: https://lorcania.com/decks/f3GJ446xfVa6zpv8 Complete Rebuild Challenge x2 Mulan: https://lorcania.com/decks/DffBEN802xGa6DyP Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1095854906977566801/1160292254364209173 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theinkwellgamers

We have a fun episode lined up for today! We go over the Amber-Amethyst Starter Deck and give you two ways to upgrade it: both as a budget deck and a non-budget deck. Then, we give a third deck that is a complete rebuild of this color combo for a pretty powerful and sweet archetype.  Ps. We also have a surprise announcement, so stick around and find out what it is! Dalton's Budget Deck: https://lorcania.com/decks/e7xj7nSBJIzrQBzQ Dana's Non-Budget Deck: https://lorcania.com/decks/TZM1r5s6rb9lNoMh Complete Rebuild Stich Rockstar Deck: https://lorcania.com/decks/Yc4jyy9rIe8KwBEe

Welcome to Episode 8 of the Inkwell Gamers Podcast! We're switching it up today by doing an interview-style episode. Join us as Dana asks Dalton all of the important questions you need to know for the deck building process. Where to start? What things to take into consideration? We answer all of that and more!

Join us for the last episode of our Chapter 1 Set Review going over the ink color of Steel!

Join us as we grade all the cards in each of the colors for Chapter 1....continuing with Sapphire! 

Join us as we grade all the cards in each of the colors for Chapter 1....continuing with Ruby! 

Join us as we grade all the cards in each of the colors for Chapter 1....continuing with Emerald! 

Join us as we grade all the cards in each of the colors for Chapter 1....continuing with Amethyst! 

Join us as we grade all the cards in each of the colors for Chapter 1....starting with Amber!

Welcome to the first ever episode of the Inkwell Gamers podcast! Meet Dalton and Dana, learn of their history with TCGs and Disney, hear their experience at GenCon, and learn what's to come of the next several episodes. Are you new to the game and need a crash course of terms and mechanics? We have that for you as well! Come listen to us discuss our favorite Disney movies, which cards we hope to see soon, and what we think is the most underrated Disney movie of all time.

We are a husband and wife duo bringing you a competitive-minded Disney Lorcana variety podcast! We'll discuss anything from new set releases and deck building, to art and lore. Check us out on other platforms for even more content beyond this podcast.