Ravensburger is fully leveraging the capabilities of its art team. The Reign of Jafar card reveals continue as Disney Lorcana features a new panoramic illustration.
The trio of Louie, Dewey, and Huey are now lending their aid to the Amber ink color alongside their beloved uncle Donald Duck. Hopefully, they’ll get to find their missing piggy bank, too.
The Nephews
The three nephews, Louie, Dewey, and Huey, are coming back for their second outing. Introduced initially back in the third set, Into the Inklands, this trio of ducks is now featured in one of Disney Lorcana’s many panoramic illustration cards.
Louie - One Cool Duck
Louie comes as a pretty average 3 ink cost body. His ability, Spring the Trap, acts like a pseudo-Resist as it lowers the strength of the opposing character challenging him.
Thanks to their 2 Lore gain, Louie will definitely be exerted and open for challenge.
At the moment, Louie doesn’t add much to existing Amber decks. Once Set Rotation comes in, however, Amber’s early game seems to be promoting a hyper-aggressive lore gain with all these early game, 2 Lore characters.
Dewey - Lovable Showoff
Dewey - Lovable Showoff, unfortunately, is the odd man out of the trio, as he comes in just as a vanilla body. Even then, that vanilla body comes in swinging with 4s across the board, in ink cost, in Strength, and in Willpower.
Dewey does falter in the Lore race a bit with just a single Lore gain for his cost. Given his more robust nature and his rarity level (common), this comes as no surprise.
If anything else, Dewey - Lovable Showoff can help fill in the gaps of any new player’s deck list as they are starting out their journey in Disney Lorcana.
Huey - Reliable Leader
Rounding out the trio is Huey - Reliable Leader. Despite Huey’s uninkable nature, players may want to consider running him at maximum copies once the Set Rotation begins.
At 2 ink cost, Huey can start accelerating an Amber deck’s ink curve. It’s not a perfect plan, though, as Huey would need to stay on the board long enough to quest for his discount to come into effect.
If he does get it to activate, however, then Amber can start playing 4 ink cost characters a turn early.
We’ve seen how dominating getting Belle - Apprentice Inventor early could be. While this isn’t up to the same level of quality, having it as an in-house option for Amber can lead to some creative deck building.
Donald Duck - Coin Collector
Accompanying his nephews, we have Donald Duck - Coin Collector. As an 8 cost inkable character, his stats are pretty lackluster. That said, he becomes a lot more palatable if you’re able to get a discount due to his ‘Here, Piggy, Piggy’ ability
Practically speaking, it would be highly unlikely to get more than two copies of The Nephews' Piggy Bank out in time. Even then, as a 4 ink cost, 3 if you happen to use Huey - Reliable Leader, this is a huge singing body.
Of course, there are a lot of moving parts to this theoretical plan. Should the stars align, however, an intrepid player could get Donald - Coin Collector out as early as turn 4 or 5.
This frees up precious resources to accelerate Amber’s game plan depending on the partner ink color.
On top of Donald’s potential to sing almost all the current songs in Disney Lorcana, Donald's Coin Collector ability gives all his allies the ability to exert in exchange for drawing a card.
Admittedly, you will be trading your capability of questing or challenging for this, but given how important drawing cards are in Disney Lorcana, this still might be an enticing proposition.
This might become especially true when Set Rotation comes online.
The Nephews' Piggy Bank
Finally, we have Donald Duck - Coin Collector’s enabler, The Nephew’s Piggy Bank.
As a 2 cost uninkable card, by itself, it leaves a lot to be desired. Especially since its first ability, Inside Job, is reliant on a Donald Duck to already be on the field to get its discount.
Currently, there are not a lot of Donald Ducks that can be played in the early game. Unfortunately, the ones that do exist are soon going to be rotated out.
Right now, we’re still in the early phases of spoiler season. So there still exists the possibility that we may get another Donald Duck that can promote the playability of this item card.
Or a player could venture off into the Sapphire roster. Aside from all the multitude of item focused plays there, Scrooge McDuck - Resourceful Miser may not mind giving his family members some help.