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Disney Lorcana’sAmber and Amethyst starter deck is perhaps the strongest of the three included with The First Chapter right out of the box. The aggressive playstyle of Amber pairs well with the card draw opportunities that Amethyst presents, and it can be a difficult deck to deal with once it starts flooding the board with characters.
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There are a number of changes you can make to improve its consistency and add even more aggro appeal. In this guide, we’ll be covering three different versions: a budget version, a more advanced one that will require some investment, and finally, a top-end version that will perform well in a competitive environment.
There may be other Amber/Amethyst archetypes, but these upgrades focus on refining what makes the starter deck work.
Cinderella, Gentle and Kind (x2)
Hades, Lord of the Underworld (x1)
Moana, of Motunui (x1)
Sven, Official Ice Deliverer (x2)
Yzma, Alchemist (x2)
For a budget version of the deck, work onadding consistency, card draw, and aggression. Removing the low-impact items and actions like Dinglehopper, Control Your Temper, Part of Your World, and Hakuna Mata, and replacing them with more copies of Friends on the Other Side and Maleficent, Sorceress helps keep your hand full.
Amber has a lot of great songs, but for this deck archetype you want to be spending your ink on characters as often as possible, only sacrificing tempo in order to generate more characters to play. You can also trade out a few vanilla characters like Minnie Mouse, Beloved Princess, and The Wardrobe, Belle’s Confidant for more impactful characters like Simba, Protective Cub, and Lefou, Bumbler.
These characters will help us quest more and protect our high-lore characters. The goal here is to play as many characters as possible and quest every turn, forcing your opponents to try and stop you, which in turn inhibits their ability to quest and earn lore for themselves.
There are quite a few swaps here, but we’ve only added common and uncommon cards to the deck, so you shouldn’t have too much trouble finding these cards.
The strategy of this deck remains the same:playing cheap characters and quest aggressively, and utilize synergies like Mickey Mouse, Wayward Sorcerer and his brooms, as well as the Dr. Facilier’s and the Flotsam and Jetsam package to out-value your opponents and keep your hand healthy.
If you lose a high-value character like Dr. Faclier, Agent Provacateur, you may use Hades, Lord of the Underworld to retrieve it from your discard and play it again. This deck doesn’t excel at fighting for the board, and its chance of winning decreases the longer the game goes on, so it’s important to play aggressively and keep the pressure on.
Cinderella, Gentle And Kind (x2)
Moana, of Motunui (x2)
Stitch, Rock Star (x1)
Stitch, New Dog (x4)
This version of the deck leans heavily into the starter’s best synergies, so you can add another Mickey Mouse, Wayward Sorcerer, Moana, Of Mounui, and Dr. Facilier, Agent Provacateur.Dr. Facilier in particular can be a win condition for this deck, because once you get it on the board it becomes incredibly difficult for your opponent to deal with your characters.
You will be able to maintain a hand advantage and sustain much longer into the match, which should give you the advantage you need to pull ahead and win. Though these cards are rare and super rare, they should be easy enough to get your hands on if you’re willing to buy multiple copies of this starter deck.
You can also addStitch, Rock Star, which is an incredible engine for generating cards into your hand and flooding the board. Paired with hyper-aggressive cards like Lilo, Making a Wish and Maleficent, Biding Her Time, Stitch, Rock Star can help you quickly create a board state that’s almost impossible for your opponent to deal with.
This version of the deck is meant to be played aggressively, but even if your initial draw isn’t the strongest, you’re able to still catch up and stabilize with a well-timed Mickey Mouse, Wayward Sorcerer, or Dr. Facilier, Agent Provocateur.
For this deck, you want to try to keep both versions of Stitch in your opening hand, which will give you an early-game advantage and allow you to flood the board quickly with high-lore, low-cost characters.
You Have Forgotten Me (x2)
The top-tier version of the Amber/Amethyst starter deck is one of the most aggressive decks in the meta, and a worthwhile deck to pursue if you plan to play competitively.
You can remove some of the pieces from the starter deck in favor of new tools like Rapunzel, Gifted With Healing and Maximus, Palace Horse, which will give us additional card draw and help us protect our high-lore characters, respectively.
you may also commit more resources to the Dr. Facilier package in hopes that we can play Agent Provocateur consistently once you’ve used Stitch, Rock Star tofill the board with low-cost characters.
This can be an expensive deck to build. With four copies of the legendary Rapunzel, eight super rares, and 12 rares, it might take some time to build up to this deck.Stitch, Rockstar is the highest priority card here, since you can use it in a multitude of aggro decks that are typically low-cost, like Amber/Emerald and Amber/Steel.
Once you have those, you’re able to slowly add the other pieces, improving the deck with each new addition. Don’t be afraid to experiment with different versions of this deck as well. Some people prefer to keep the Sorcerer Mickey and his brooms in and remove some of the draw, while others find that having as much draw as possible will help you keep your foot on the gas and win matches quickly.
This deck has 13 non-inkable cards, or in other words, about 20 percent of the deck is non-inkable. This is a comfortable ratio, because drawing too many non-inkable cards can make you quickly fall behind, but some people don’t mind taking a higher risk and adding more non-inkable cards to their deck.
Keep in mind that eight of those cards are Lilo, Making and Wish and Malefient, Biding Her Time, which you should have no problem playing.
