Ravensburger Maps Disney Lorcana Through Q2 2027
Ravensburger used its D23 panel in Anaheim on August 14 to outline the next stretch of Disney Lorcana, with product plans running through the second quarter of 2027. For collectors, the biggest takeaway is not the set arriving this fall, but a rarity tier that will not show up until early 2027 and could reshape the top end of the market.
The announcements point to a future where Lorcana finally introduces a serialized chase card, adds a premium booster configuration, and widens the reach of one of its convention-exclusive promos. Each of those changes matters in a different way, but together they mark a major shift for a TCG that has so far relied on pull-rate scarcity rather than printed numbering.
Illustrious Brings Serialized Cards to Lorcana
The most significant reveal came from the product page for Into the Inkdark, the Q1 2027 expansion. That page confirms a new rarity tier called Illustrious, with the first previewed card being Maleficent - Biding Her Time. The card is a callback to the original First Chapter Maleficent, and the official product information says it appears only in Collector Boosters.
Panel coverage from D23 adds that the print run is limited to 23 serialized copies, a reference to 1923, the year Disney was founded. That same coverage identified the illustrator credit on the previewed image as Kendall Hale, although that detail is not confirmed on the official product page.
Until now, Lorcana has stood apart from other major trading card games by not printing hard-numbered chase cards inside a set. Its rarest cards have been driven by pull odds instead of a visible serial number, which means collectors have never been able to point to a fixed population for the top tier. That changes with Illustrious.
The impact is easy to understand. Iconics and Enchanteds have already reached four-figure prices because they are scarce, but they have done so without a numbered ceiling. A 23-copy card creates a new benchmark for the highest end of the market and gives collectors a rarity tier that is immediately more defined than anything Lorcana has offered before.
Collector Boosters Change the Pack Structure
Into the Inkdark also introduces Collector Boosters, a major addition for a game that has used a single booster format since The First Chapter. Standard Lorcana boosters have contained 12 cards, broken down as 6 Common, 3 Uncommon, 2 Rare or better, and 1 Foil.
Ravensburger confirms that Collector Boosters will be different in several important ways. Every card in the pack will be a Foil, Enchanted and Iconic odds will improve, and Illustrious cards will be available only through this premium product. Panel coverage says the packs will contain 12 Foil cards.
That structure is familiar to collectors who follow other trading card games. Premium booster products tend to pull chase cards out of standard packs and concentrate them in a higher-priced configuration. When that happens, the market usually responds in two ways. Standard sealed product can lose some of its chase-driven appeal, while the rarest cards become even more expensive because they are being chased through a more limited and costly route.
For Lorcana, that means the top of the market may become more stratified. Cards that once sat at the top because they were the hardest pulls in the game will now have to share that space with a serialized rarity that has an actual print count attached to it.
Hyperia City Arrives in October
Before Into the Inkdark arrives, Lorcana players and collectors will get Hyperia City, set 14 in the game’s release schedule. The set reaches local game stores for prerelease on October 16 and gets a wide release on October 23. Ravensburger says the set includes 204 cards and marks the debut of Coco in Lorcana, with Miguel Rivera - Street Musician and Héctor Rivera - Street Musician among the confirmed reveals.
Hyperia City is also important because it does not remove anything from the legal pool. The 2026 rotation already took place alongside Attack of the Vine!, which cleared Sets 5 through 8. Since Hyperia City is the second set in that block, it joins the existing pool rather than shrinking it.
That matters for sealed product and for singles. Sets that add cards without taking anything away can spread collector attention across a larger pool, which often makes it harder for one release to dominate demand. Early August preorder tracking reportedly showed sealed prices drifting lower rather than rising, which fits that broader pattern.
What the New Roadmap Means for Attack of the Vine!
The roadmap also puts current high-end Lorcana cards in a new context. Attack of the Vine! has already produced some of the game’s biggest sales, and the numbers remain strong.
Belle & Beast - Certain as the Sun, one of the set’s two Iconics, is selling around $2,100 ungraded. Lilo & Stitch - Fun-Loving Friends, the other Iconic, is sitting near $1,500 raw, while graded 9 copies have sold for $3,000. Winnie the Pooh & Piglet - Hunny Mages, the set’s top Enchanted, is trading around $911 ungraded and has a graded 10 sale at $3,000 behind it.
Booster boxes are also holding up, settling near $205 against a $143.76 list price. That is a strong sign that supply for the set remains tight and that collectors are still willing to pay above retail for sealed product with meaningful chase potential.
Still, the arrival of Illustrious changes how those prices should be viewed. The buyer paying $2,000 for an Iconic is paying for the scarcest thing Lorcana has produced so far. In early 2027, that will no longer be true. A 23-copy serialized card gives high-end money a new destination and gives collectors a number that can be compared directly across sales.
That does not mean Iconics from Attack of the Vine! or Wilds Unknown lose all value. It does mean their premium for sitting at the top of the rarity chart may be less secure once a numbered chase tier enters the game. The market will have a new standard for what true top-tier scarcity looks like.
The Curator's Collection Expands Beyond D23
Ravensburger also used D23 to debut the Curator's Collection, a six-card promo set that includes Angel - Siren Singer, Pocahontas - Following the Wind, Mushu - Stealthy Dragon, Hector Rivera - Gone to Pieces, Judy Hopps - Uncovering Clues, and Mr. Incredible - Taking Out the Trash.
What makes this release notable is not just the cards themselves, but where they will be available. In addition to D23, the set will also be sold at Downtown Disney at the Disneyland Resort and at Disney locations in the UK, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia.
That is a major departure from the usual convention-exclusive model. Previous D23 promos were prized in part because attending the event was the only way to get them. The Curator's Collection still sounds limited, but it is not locked behind a single event in the same way. Instead, it will be spread across several Disney retail locations in multiple regions, which creates a different kind of scarcity.
Collectors comparing this release to the 2022 and 2024 D23 exclusives should keep that distribution difference in mind. Wider access does not mean unlimited supply, but it does mean the market may need to price these cards differently than past convention-only promos.
Why These Announcements Matter for Lorcana Collectors
The D23 panel did more than preview upcoming cards. It changed the structure of Lorcana’s chase landscape. Serialized cards are coming. Premium Collector Boosters are coming. A major fall set is coming with a 204-card checklist and a Coco debut. And a new promo collection is being distributed through more than one retail channel.
For collectors, the biggest shift is philosophical as much as it is practical. Lorcana has grown quickly on the back of strong art, Disney branding, and a chase model that rewarded scarcity without printing serial numbers. Now the game is moving into a more familiar premium-TCG structure, where the rarest cards are not just hard to pull, but individually numbered and concentrated into a special booster product.
That should affect how collectors think about sealed product, how they compare older chase cards to future releases, and how they evaluate the long-term ceiling for current Iconics and Enchanteds. The next year and a half of Lorcana releases will not just add cards to binders. They will establish a new hierarchy at the top of the game.
For now, Hyperia City is the next set on the calendar, but the more important story may already be the one waiting in early 2027.
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