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Mikey Mouse Club #8 The 10 Best Rise of the Floodborn Cards

Now that the dust has cleared and Rise of the Floodborn is maturing, the best cards (at least in my opinion) are starting to rise to the surface. And no, Tuk Tuk, Pacha, and Rabbit are not among them....

Mikey Mouse Club #7 – The Best of the First Chapter

It seems like you can’t walk into a Target these days without finding Lorcana in stock. Over the holidays, I saw quite literally hundreds of boosters on shelf pegs. We’ve got more than our fill of the supposed “endorphin...

Mikey Mouse Club #6 – The Storybook TCG

In my days of writing about board games, it was always important to me to express that games can be a powerful tool for creating narrative experiences. It can be magical to watch mechanisms, game states, context, interaction, and...

Mikey Mouse Club #5 – Unhand Him, By Order of the Princess!

With the introduction of the Rise of the Floodborn set, the scope of Lorcana’s deckbuilding possibilities has expanded tremendously. In many ways, the new set effectively completes what was started by The First Chapter. There were almost hints of...

Mickey Mouse Club #4 – Pixelborn

We’re almost there. Lorcana is starting to become at least somewhat more available and folks are -gasp- walking into Target and finding not only Rise of the Floodborn boosters, but also First Chapter boosters. Ravensburger may have burgered up...

Mikey Mouse Club #3 – Is Lorcana Worth It? (A Review)

As I write this review, it’s been just a couple of weeks since Lorcana’s second set, Rise of the Floodborn debuted in a limited, LGS-focused release ahead of its 12/1 general release a big-box stores. The release was an...

Mikey Mouse Club #2 – The Magic and the Madness

It’s about 7pm, and my kids and I are putting on imaginary clown suits to walk into a Target. It’s a meme I picked up back during the Great PS5 Hunt, you’d go get in the Sony virtual queue...

Mikey Mouse Club #1 – The Lure of Lorcana

Welcome to the first installment of Goonhammer’s Lorcana column, the Mikey Mouse Club. I am the titular “Mikey”, being one Michael Barnes – a longtime (20+ years) games writer that just recently semi-retired from reviewing and writing primarily about...