Disney Lorcana Amber Emerald Aggro Deck: EU Champion's List

Updated October 20, 2026: rebuilt around the Europe Championship winning list. The old version had no decklist, called Dale an Emerald disruption card (he's Amber, and he changes how your characters deal damage in challenges) and quoted tier scores we could no longer check.

The Disney Lorcana Amber Emerald Aggro deck list

Złomek almost didn't play it. He'd planned to bring Amber/Amethyst, switched at the last minute, went 6-0 through the Last Chance Qualifier, then beat Fabrice Bailleux's Emerald/Steel in a best-of-five final that ran close to two hours. Ravensburger's recap says the Princess build had been strong since early Attack of the Vine but had "never topped a big event until now."

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List: 1st place at the 2026 Disney Lorcana Europe Championship (11-1-1), as shared to inkDecks and mirrored by BMJ TCG. Card text from the Lorcast card database, October 20, 2026.

Wojciech Złomek, 2026 Disney Lorcana Europe Champion. Photo: ©Disney, from Ravensburger's official recap.

Why it works: cheap bodies first, Elinor second

Every card in the 60 is a character, and that's the point. Mike Wazowski's reveal always finds you a card, Pocahontas - Guiding the Tribe always has a target, and Nani almost always has one in the top four. Sixteen of the characters cost one, so you see at least one in about nine opening hands out of ten.

The three discount cards stack. Aurora only discounts Princesses and Queens, and the list runs 19 of them (Aurora, eight Pocahontas, Rapunzel, Elinor). Willow and Pluto discount anything. One r/Lorcana player described the dream start against Amber/Amethyst as "T1 aurora, T2 willow, quest aurora, willow, pocahontas + pluto, then T3 quest everyone and elanor". That's four characters by turn two and Elinor on turn three, on two and three ink.

Elinor is the payoff, not the plan. With four copies you have her by turn four in only about half your games, going first or second. The list is built to win without her: Dale turns Thomas, David and Mike (4 willpower each) into real challengers, and two lore a turn from Dale himself adds up.

Two numbers that look scary and aren't: 16 cards can't go in the inkwell (Elinor, Willow, Mike, Pluto), yet you'll have four inkable cards by turn four almost every game. And only eight cards touch the opponent directly (Rapunzel, Ursula and Mowgli), because the deck doesn't need more. Pocahontas - Peacekeeper does the defending: shift her onto either Pocahontas for three ink, don't challenge that turn, and nobody can challenge until your next turn.

The opening engine: Aurora, Grandmother Willow and Pocahontas - Guiding the Tribe. Card images: Ravensburger via the Lorcast card database, ©Disney.

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The curve, going first and second

The starting player skips the first draw (Comprehensive Rules 3.2.3.1), and that matters more for this deck than most. One player in the same r/Lorcana thread called it "heavily favored going first, and averaging out to 50/50" overall.

• Turn 1: a one-drop. Aurora if you have a Princess to follow, Pluto if you don't.
• Turn 2: Willow or Guiding the Tribe (which brings a free one-drop), using the discounts you set up.
• Turn 3: quest with everything that's dry, then add Nani or another two-drop. With Willow, Pluto or a questing Aurora helping, Elinor can come down on three ink instead.
• Turn 4: Elinor or Dale. Peacekeeper the turn you expect a big challenge.

Going second, you have one more card and they have a board. That's when Ursula and Mowgli earn their slots: see the hand before it sees you, and take the song or action that would reset your board.

How the Disney Lorcana Amber Emerald Aggro deck matches up

Nobody has published matchup win rates for this exact list, so what follows is the official recap plus what players report.

Emerald/Steel: the hard one. Ravensburger's recap calls Emerald/Steel "generally thought of as a good matchup into the aggro", and one player put it bluntly: "It just does really bad against the steel decks." Złomek still beat it in the final. A player who won a small Set Championship with the deck suggests you "just build a huge board they can't answer" and don't quest every character every turn; a shifted Pocahontas helps here too.

Amber/Amethyst: opinions split. The player who calls Steel a bad matchup says the Princess deck "still does well against Amber amethyst." Another wrote that "if they go 1-drop , Tigger, Isis, Demona, I just lose." The advice in that thread: lean on the 4-willpower characters (Thomas, Mike, David, Dale), and keep a Bodyguard or a shifted Pocahontas between their challengers and your best questers. Treat it as a race you win when you go first and curve out.

Other Amber/Emerald: expect to see it a lot. Seven of the 16 Europe Championship Sunday decks were Amber/Emerald, and a Top 16 breakdown on r/Lorcana split them as "5 Aggro, 1 Circle of Life, 1 Kevin Items." Items is the slow, controlling take on the same colors; our budget deck guide has a full Amber/Emerald Items list from the Asia Championship.

Europe Championship Top 16 by ink pair. Chart: ©Disney, from Ravensburger's official recap.

Where it stands now

Across the 2,821 Attack of the Vine Core decklists BMJ TCG has logged, Amber/Emerald is the most played pair at 21.8%, just ahead of Amber/Amethyst (20.8%) and Emerald/Steel (17.4%). That figure counts every Amber/Emerald build, and Elinor shows up in only a bit over half of them; the rest are Songs, Toys and item lists. For the full Set 13 picture, see our Attack of the Vine best decks breakdown.

Hyperia City arrives in stores on October 23, so the format is about to move. Online, Duels.ink already has the new set: Dan Arnold's week one report, built on more than 28,000 ranked games, still gives Elinor Princess Aggro its own chapter (11:52).

Our take

Build this list as it is. It just won a 200-player continental championship in the most played pair, and because every card is a character, the discount and free-play cards almost never miss. Play it where you expect Amber/Amethyst and other Amber/Emerald decks. If your local events are full of Emerald/Steel, either practice the Bodyguard and Peacekeeper lines until they're automatic or bring something else. And once Hyperia City is legal at your store, check the first weekend's lists before buying anything new for it.

Want the other side of the matchup? Our Amber Amethyst decklist guide covers the North America Championship winner.

How we checked this: decklist from the 1st-place entry of the Europe Championship main event (inkDecks via BMJ TCG); event details from Ravensburger's official recap; card text from Lorcast; draw odds from an exact calculation on the 60 cards (no mulligan); meta share from BMJ TCG's Attack of the Vine snapshot, read October 20, 2026; player comments from r/Lorcana.