Attack of the Vine Lorecast: Every Reveal, Decoded for Collectors

Ravensburger's Attack of the Vine Special Lorecast just wrapped, closing out the multi-set "vine" storyline and laying out a roadmap that runs into 2027. Set 13 prereleases at local game stores on July 17 and goes wide everywhere July 24, 2026, with 207 cards — the first main set to break the long-standing 204-card ceiling. Here's everything that landed, and where we think the market moves.

The chase: showpiece alt-arts and the return of two-character cards

The set's headliner alternate-art cards are its showpieces, and reviewers covering the stream are already calling them among the most striking the game has produced — the kind of card predicted to command the set's highest prices. Alongside them, "Tag Team" cards (a single card featuring two characters) officially debut, teased by Rapunzel & Flynn Rider – Unlikely Pair and revealed with Belle & Beast – Certain as the Sun and Lilo & Stitch – Fun-Loving Friends.

Two new mechanics worth knowing

Temporary Shift lets Meilin Lee – Popular Red Panda shift onto a copy of Meilin Lee, then "unshift" back to your hand at end of turn — clearing damage in the process. And Floodborn Shift powers the set's big bad, The Vine – Towering Stalk, a 10-cost 10/10 that can shift on top of any Floodborn character.

The Vine — and the villains it spawned

The Vine isn't acting alone. Feeding on the ink it has absorbed, it spawns Floodborn versions of familiar villains — Pete, Gaston, and Ursula, each "Created by the Vine" and each buffing your entire Floodborn board. It's a tidy build-around package that should slot into multiple ink combinations.

The good guys break a core rule

Christopher Robin – Hunny Sage bends the rules: it lets your deck run "Hunny" characters of any ink — the first time a Core Constructed deck can legally go beyond two inks. It ties directly into the new Illumineer's Quest: The Great Hunny Rescue. The set also debuts three more Pixar franchises: Up (Carl Fredricksen – On the Move), Turning Red (the Meilin Lee cards), and Monsters, Inc. (Sulley, Mike, and Boo).

Products, prerelease and promos

The usual lineup is here — booster boxes, an Illumineer's Trove, a new Illumineer's Quest, playmats at $19.99, and a $35 foil exclusive sold at Disney locations. Prerelease kits include six booster packs, a random promo, damage dice, a paper deck box, a rules sheet, and one of three retro movie-poster prints (just under A4 size). The prerelease promo pool is six hot-stamped cards — one per ink — including Merlin – Envisioning the Future, Buzz Lightyear – Providing Cover, and Vixey – Expert Fisher, with a Disney-location-exclusive Maleficent – Exultant Spellcaster on top. Promo season is stacked: a seasonal-foil Sully – The New Boss at events, a Buy-a-Box Tigger – Hunny Barbarian, Weekly Play promos (Morph, Randall Boggs, Meilin Lee – Lead Vocalist), and the Set Championship promo Rapunzel – Escaping the Tower (non-foil for participation, rainbow foil for the top eight) — paired, for the first time, with a playmat whose art (Sully and Mike) doesn't match the promo card.

Rotation alert

Attack of the Vine triggers the second Core Constructed rotation, taking everything from Shimmering Skies through Reign of Jafar out of the format.

On the horizon

Three more sets got screen time. Hyperia City (Set 14, built around Coco) prereleases October 16 and goes wide October 23, 2026, with Miguel and Hector Rivera – Street Musician and the song "Un Poco Loco" shown. Into the Inkdark (Set 15) follows in Q1 2027, pairing characters from Onward with a gloriously metal Hades. And Set 16, due Q2 2027, will stage the first-ever Disney Lorcana face-off between Stitch and his forgotten nemesis, Leroy.

Bottom line for collectors

The headliner alt-arts and the Tag Team cards are the names to pre-track; the three-ink Hunny enabler is the one to watch for a release-week playability spike; and the rotation is a reason to check your older-set holdings now rather than later. We'll have daily Attack of the Vine prices the moment listings appear — keep an eye on our Value Finder and the Attack of the Vine hub.