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DISNEY LORCANA’s FABLED Set Is Its Most Interesting Release (Review)

Originally posted on Nerdist | By Tai Gooden | Last updated Aug 25, 2025 2:43 PM ET

Disney Lorcana’s newest set Fabled is a soft reset of sorts, but new rarities of cards may not convince longtime players to invest in a reprint-heavy set. After two years of fast-moving storylines and new mechanics, Lorcana is taking a break with Fabled, its ninth set. The new set offers no new mechanics for players to dig into and it only brings one new Disney franchise (A Goofy Movie) into its expanding world. Still, Fabled might be Lorcana’s most interesting set yet, if only because it primarily serves as a reset for competitive play.

Fabled is the first set under Disney Lorcana’s new rotation ruleset. Like Pokémon and Magic, Disney Lorcana has declared that only cards from the prior two year’s worth of sets are legal for use in standard competitive play. Rotations are a necessary evil in the world of competitive card games. No one likes to see their precious cards rendered obsolete. However, rotations are a chief choice to prevent power creep and the need to endlessly futureproof card design. Even if a card winds up becoming too dominant within the metagame, a two-year rotation guarantees that it will only terrorize players for a limited amount of time.

With Fabled, Disney Lorcana is opting to try to both have its cake and eat it too. The set is 80% reprints from the first four sets of play. It includes numerous popular cards used in some of the top decks. Basically, Disney Lorcana is jettisoning most of its cards from the first year, including several problematically dominant ones. However, not every card will get discarded. This means that players may be able to salvage their precious Steelsong and Blurple decks with the use of clever modification.

As a sign of good faith, players who already have a card being reprinted in Fabled won’t need to buy an updated version of the card to make their deck legal. An Elsa – Spirit of Winter card from The First Chapter can still be used in Amethyst decks because it also appears in Fabled. Disney Lorcana also fully revealed Fabled’s set list weeks in advance so that players knew exactly which cards are legal moving forward. This gave players a jump start on their deckcrafting.

So, if seasoned Lorcana players already have 80% of the cards from Fabled, what’s the draw for buying into the new set? Well, that’s where the new rare card come into play. Fabled triples the types of secret rare cards that appear in Disney Lorcana. Previously, Disney Lorcana had a single type of Secret Rare card – the full art Enchanted card. Typically, players could expect to get approximately one Enchanted card per booster box of Lorcana cards, although they weren’t a guarantee.

Now, Epic and Iconic cards have joined the fray. Epic cards feature the same art as their standard equivalent, but have a borderless treatment and special rainbow foil. Iconics are the new chase cards of the set, featuring unique artwork, 3D foil stamping AND a special “lore star” foil style. There are only two Iconics in Fabled, featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse in connected artwork that’s also featured on Fabled’s booster box. I’m expecting the Iconics to be serious collector items, although I doubt that they’ll reach the heights of an Enchanted Elsa when the game first came out.

To be blunt, it was long-past time for Disney Lorcana to catch up with other games and offer a more robust selection of alternate art cards. Not flooding the game with alternate art treatments was prudent, but the low pull rate of Enchanted cards was a detriment to the game. Epic and Iconic cards are a much-needed boost for the card game, providing more dopamine hits beyond guaranteed foils and rare cards.

For those looking to jump into the game, one of Fabled’s two Starter decks is a solid place to start. One Starter Deck focuses on the set’s new Goofy movie cards, with Powerline, Goofy, Max Goof, and other characters from the movie appearing in a Song-focused deck. The other Starter Set is a new princess-focused deck. It features Amber and Sapphire cards that focus on flooding the board with Princesses. Personally, I’m more of a fan of the princess-themed deck, even if the cards are primarily reprints.

All in all, Fabled comes at an interesting time for Disney Lorcana. With its World Championships out of the way, now is a good time for the game to “reset” and perhaps find some new audiences to appeal to. Interest in the game is shrinking and its playerbase is agitated by uneven communication about future competitive events. While the game wasn’t stagnant, it felt like the metagame was dominated by a handful of card archetypes. By wiping the board (perhaps ironically so, as Lorcana is cycling out its famed Be Prepared board wipe card), perhaps Lorcana can find a fresh start.

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