Disney Lorcana: Every Keyword Ranked

Summary

• Vanish keyword allows for high-risk, high-reward plays by banishing opponents' characters.
• Evasive keyword offers protection from direct attacks but not from card effects.
• Support keyword enables combining strengths for questing while still tapping into character power.

Keywords in Disney Lorcana give your characters an additional edge on top of their already useful abilities. Some keywords are great for evading challenges from most of your opponent’s cards, while others allow you to strategically hand out buffs. How you utilize keywords is entirely up to you, with many keywords being important for certain decks.

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Every keyword does something different. Some are more useful than others. Is there one definitive keyword that is better than the rest or do they all fall in their own brackets of usefulness? Let’s stack them against each other and see which provides the best buffs.

12 Challenger

A Swift Strike

Cards with Challenger are great for when you want to beat down your opponent. Characters with this keyword gain an additional strength buff whenever you use them to challenge your opponent’s characters.

This works well if you want to nail characters on the board quickly, though this buff does not work if your opponent chooses your character for a challenge. So it is often better to crash into something and take it out rather than wait around with a Challenger character.

11 Evasive

Tricky To Nail Down

Evasive characters are naturally hard to hit. They can challenge anything but can only be challenged by other characters with Evasive. This allows them to quest without fear of getting attacked by another character.

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However, this does not make Evasive characters invincible. They can still be chosen as part of a card’s effect. So anything that damages or outright banishes a card can still get rid of these characters easily.

10 Reckless

A Flexible Strategy

Reckless is a pretty flexible keyword. You can have some low-cost characters that can hit hard but are forced to challenge each turn. Meanwhile, they are unable to quest and often cannot generate lore at all.

On the other hand, some cards allow you to give other characters the Reckless keyword. When used strategically, you can prevent characters with high lore generation from questing. Sure, they’ll hit you, but they aren’t getting your opponent any closer to victory.

9 Resist

Protection From Damage

Resist is the equivalent of wearing a bulletproof vest. Your opponent can hit you with challenges or card effects, but characters with the keyword ultimately take less damage. This also comes in useful when you want to hit a card without taking any damage in return.

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Resist is one of the few keywords that can stack. So a card may be able to resist two damage, but with other cards in play, you can increase that number if you set it up right.

8 Rush

Attack On The First Turn

Characters in Lorcana have a little trait known throughout many other TCG as summoning sickness. This means the first turn they are played, they can’t attack until they’ve had a turn to get settled.

Rush allows characters with the keyword to challenge right away. This can be useful when you want to quickly go on the offensive. This is also a keyword that generally makes any card more aggressive if you have an effect that can grant it to whichever character you want.

7 Sing Together

A Combined Effort

Sing Together is a keyword found on select songs rather than characters. There are powerful songs with high costs, but that can be sung if you have multiple characters in play using their costs to sing together.

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So a song may cost ten ink to play, but rather than having one character doing the work, you can just do the math and add multiple characters together. It’s a useful keyword that is great with decks that spam out multiple characters quickly but has one of the smallest card pools available.

6 Support

Combining Strength

The biggest question that Lorcana poses is whether you want to quest or challenge. If you quest, you can’t challenge and vice versa. Support lets you quest for lore but still be able to tap into that character's power by boosting another.

This way, while one character quests, another can hit with the combined strength of two characters. Nothing goes to waste here. This transfer of power happens whenever a Support character quests, and can be spammed if you can ready and quest multiple times in a row.

5 Vanish

High Risk And High Rewards

Negative keywords exist in the form of Vanish. Cards with this keyword cannot be chosen for any effects. If they are, they get banished immediately. On the bright side, you can get a pretty powerful character on the field early, forcing your opponent to trigger this effect to get rid of them easily.

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Your opponent’s ability to respond to these characters depends on their hand. So if they don’t have anything that lets them choose, they’ll have to rely on challenges to get rid of them.

4 Bodyguard

A Guardian Angel

If you need protection while your characters go quest, Bodyguard does the trick. All you need is a beefy character with this keyword to prevent your opponent from choosing any other character for a challenge.

Characters with Bodyguard will absorb the hits meant for other characters, so you can keep generating lore. Bodyguard is great for aggro decks that want to keep their high questing characters alive longer.

3 Ward

The Opposite of Evasive

Ward is essentially the opposite of Evasive. In this case, rather than having protection from challenges and a vulnerability to card effects, cards with Ward protect themselves from being chosen, forcing your opponent to challenge them most of the time.

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Many players prefer to choose characters for effects rather than seeing their own characters get damaged during a challenge. So forcing your opponent to challenge is often more useful than stopping them from doing so.