Cynically, its not difficult to imagine Lorcanas creators banking on this extra attention to drive excitement for its upcoming trading card game, which is due to release the first of an apparently regular set release schedule this autumn
There's some great cards in here that will be useful in your Rise of the Floodborn collection, particularly the Merlin and Madam Mim cards, but otherwise this is the least competitive deck you can get.
Both of those properties are heavily featured in this deck, including the two foil cards, which are depicted on the box art
However, there are a few solid cards included in this deck list, including the highly effective Dual-Ink Giant Cobra character which is currently Amethyst/Steels Dual-Ink card of choice
It does give you a sneaky strategy to play with, where you'll steal opponents' lore and interfere with their board state while buffing your own questing and challenging characters
Occasionally we may have issues where some cards crop up and are a little too powerful, but its far better than everything is way too safe and unfun. So theres a steady balance that we have to maintain. The health of Disney Lorcanas metagame has always been top of mind for Warner and his team at Ravensburger, and while Hiram has been out in the wild for a good long while it was only with the release of the most recent set, Archazias Island, where things began to get a little unbalanced