As Disney Lorcana nears the end of its second year, the latest chapter Reign of Jafar has hit store shelves. In addition to Single Player Decks, booster packs, accessories, and another Illumineer’s Quest — this one called Palace Heist — a new Illumineer’s Trove is also available. Our friends at Ravensburger were nice enough to send me this latest collection, so let’s take a look at what’s inside and what I think of this particular edition.

[Alt-Text] Batman, an animated bat, and Robin, a robin, are in a room with an infinity gears machine. The Riddler is behind a locked door on an intercom.

Riddle me this Batman! The door to my room will only open if the last gear fully rotates, but you can only turn the first gear! How long will you be standing there? HAHAHAHA!

Holy sociological metaphor Batman! If you tired to fully turn the last gear by only incrementally turning the first gear, you would be standing there for 346 quintillion years! The Earth's orbit will decay before we catch the Riddler at this rate!

Batman picks up the infinity gears and then flips it over. This opens the locked door and reveals a surprised Riddler, who is a Tommy gun.

I was holding off posting until I opened packs in case I got something cool. =)

This is worth around $85 bucks according to TCG player.

https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/633099/lorcana-tcg-reign-of-jafar-bambi-little-prince-enchanted?Language=English&page=1

Disney Lorcana continues to impress, and Reign of Jafar might just be the best set yet. Every release feels like Ravensburger is finding more of their rhythm, and with each new expansion, I catch myself saying, “This is my favorite set so far.” That’s a great sign, it means they’re actively improving and making this TCG even more enjoyable. Here’s a closer look at everything Reign of Jafar brings to the table.

Since its launch in August 2023, Disney’s Lorcana has grown to eight sets and more than 1,500 cards to its roster. The ninth set, slated to be released in September 2025, will bring several notable changes to competitive Lorcana play, change the name of the game when it comes to collecting, and much more. Titled Fabled, the next set is arguably one of the most exciting updates to Lorcana yet.

When Ravensburger announced the first cooperative Disney Lorcana set that had players fighting against Ursula, I was instantly intrigued. However, the lack of product at launch locally to me, and a price that I found a bit too high, stopped me from picking it up and giving it a go. While I still think the price for this product is expensive, the latest cooperative release, Palace Heist, is so much better than the first release. If Disney Lorcana is your passion and you enjoy a good, tough cooperative experience, this is an easy pick up in my opinion.

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[Alt-Text] A cyclops considers his predicament. "This dungeon is known for plucking out an eye as part of a hazing ritual. I'll conspire to replace the current boss! That'll fix it!"

Spongebob Squarepants style time skip. "One adventuring party later..."

A cyclops wearing an eyepatch considers his predicament. "So an organization's culture can persist across multiple leaders... Systemic change will fix it!"

The eighth set of Disney's tabletop card game (TCG), Disney Lorcana: Reign of Jafar is adding another 18 stunning Enchanted cards to the collection. These cards are secret alternate art versions of others in the expansion, with illustrations that cover the cards to create miniature works of art. The rarity of the Enchanted type makes it difficult to pull even one of them from random booster packs, but also means they are quite valuable and special when someone does.

If you are consuming this meme then you are living during history.

Last year’s Illumineer’s Quest, Deep Trouble, was one of Disney Lorcana’s best surprises. No other TCG is doing these kinds of narrative-driven, co-op spin-offs, and in just two iterations, they’ve become an important part of what makes Lorcana stand out in a sea of other card games. It’s one thing to offer players an alternative, cooperative way to enjoy the game, but it’s another to deliver that experience in such a thoughtfully-made and well-designed package. With Palace Heist, the Illumineer’s Quest series proves it has the production value and level of quality to stand on its own exceptional deck-building game.

Reign of Jafar is Disney Lorcana’s eighth set and follows Jafar as he seeks to reassemble the broken Hexwell Crown. Using his serpent staff to hypnotize the detective Basil, Jafar takes advantage of the glimmer’s sleuthing skills and successfully acquires the missing pieces. With the Hexwell Crown reassembled, Jafar uses his new power to take over Arcazia’s Island, leaving the heroes scrambling to answer the great new threat.

Below you’ll find each card previewed from Reign of Jafar and information on the set’s various products. Be sure to bookmark this article for quick reference!

We've reached the second iteration. There isn't a lot separating us from the third iteration. And the material conditions were bad enough, at the latest, sometime between the first and the second iterations.

People know socialism exists. People are experiencing sufficiently bad material conditions that they want change.

People have picked up neoliberal ideas from living in a neoliberal society. These ideas give people a framework to process their material conditions so that they do not rise up in sufficient numbers. People need to learn that these ideas are part of an ideology designed to enrich the owner class at the expense of the worker class. Things will continue to get worse unless people understand that everyone needs to own their work.

This education is work that still needs to be done after hypothetically defeating the current fascist dictatorships and is probably part of what will be needed to defeat them.

I keep having this conversation with people and seeing the accelerationist line of reasoning, so I wanted to address it with a visual.