Hold onto your enchanted hats, Illumineers! The very foundations of Disney Lorcana are trembling as Ravensburger unleashes its most seismic shift yet – set rotation crashes into the inked realms like a meteor shower! 😱💥 This isn't just an update; it's an apocalypse for stale decks, a glorious purge that'll vaporize the first four sets from Core Constructed when Fabled descends this September. Can you feel the collective gasp echoing across every local game store? The age of Merlin's mischievous bounce-backs and Steelsong's symphonic tyranny is crumbling! Yet amidst the chaos, a phoenix rises—the Infinite format promises eternal glory for every cherished card. One thing's certain: this isn't evolution—it's revolution!
💣 The Great Purge: Core Constructed Armageddon
Ravensburger wields rotation like Mickey's sorcerer hat—with terrifying precision! Witness the annihilation of:
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The First Chapter (The innocent beginning!)
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Rise of the Floodborn (Oh, the watery horrors!)
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Into the Inklands (Farewell, adventurous maps!)
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Ursula's Return (Even sea witches get evicted!)

Gods, the brutality! But oh, the necessity! With sets lasting merely TWO YEARS in competitive play (a blink compared to Pokémon or Magic's glacial cycles), this culling ensures Lorcana's meta stays fresher than Tiana's beignets. Yet despair not! Reprints in Fabled—over 50% are resurrected classics—grant immortality. Imagine wielding that shimmering Elsa from Chapter One alongside new nightmares! 😈❄️
⏳ The Ticking Clock: Rotation's Relentless Rhythm
Mark these dates in blood-red ink:
| Event | Date | Significance |
|---|---|---|
| Prerelease | August 29, 2025 | First taste of chaos! |
| Fabled Launch | September 5, 2025 | Rotation ARMAGEDDON! |
But wait—the carnage continues! When Set 13 arrives in 2026, it’ll exile:
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Shimmering Skies 🌈
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Azurite Sea 🌊
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Archazia’s Island 🏝️
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Reign of Jafar 🐍
Ravensburger’s message? Adapt or perish! The rhythm feels like a heartbeat racing toward oblivion—thrilling yet terrifying!
♾️ Infinite Salvation: Where Legends Never Die
Rejoice, hoarders! While Core Constructed burns, the Infinite format emerges as a sacred haven. Picture it: a Valhalla where every card—even that foil Maleficent you sleeved in 2023—breathes fire again! 🔥✨ This eternal playground channels Magic’s Vintage and Pokémon’s Unlimited, transforming attics full of "useless" cardboard into arsenals of nostalgia. 
The sheer relief is palpable! No longer must we mourn retired favorites—Infinite whispers, "Play your jank!" One trembles imagining the degenerate combos brewing... Mickey brooms uniting with future abominations? Yes, PLEASE! 💀
🌪️ Metaquake: Shattered Strategies & Broken Dreams
Let’s weep for the fallen titans:
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🎩 Merlin & Mim’s bounce circus (Good riddance to annoying card advantage!)
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🍦 Pawpsicle’s draw engine (No more healing your way to victory!)
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🎵 Steelsong’s song spam (Silence, finally!)
The devastation is... beautiful. Competitive Lorcana had fossilized into predictable rock-paper-scissors, but Fabled’s rotation dynamites the landscape! Could we see Amber/Amethyst aggro rise from ashes? Might Sapphire control dominate with reprinted beasts? The uncertainty is intoxicating—like facing Jafar’s riddle without a lamp!
❓The Eternal Question: Salvation or Division?
As dust settles, a haunting duality emerges: Does rotation fortify Lorcana’s future by butchering sacred cows, or fracture its soul by alienating veterans? 🤔 Will Infinite become a beloved sanctuary... or a graveyard of forgotten combos? And what of new players—daunted by reprint chases yet seduced by fresh starts? Ravensburger gambles everything on this upheaval. We stand at the precipice—one foot in nostalgia’s warm glow, the other in Fabled’s uncharted abyss. Will history remember this as Lorcana’s renaissance... or its reckoning? Only the ink knows. ✨