Lorcana Attack of the Vine Mechanics: Shift, Hunny, Dual Ink

Updated October 22, 2026: We rechecked every rule against Ravensburger's set release notes and card text, added the full list of cards that use each new Shift, and replaced two older-set card images with Set 13 cards. The step-by-step section is gone; the rulings below cover the same ground.

Which Attack of the Vine cards use the new Shifts

The new variants are rarer than the preview buzz made them sound. We pulled every Set 13 card from the Lorcast card database and counted:

That's eight cards in total. Most of the set's shifting still runs on plain Shift, which sixteen Set 13 cards carry, and most of those are Team cards.

Image: Disney Lorcana card images (Ravensburger), via the Lorcast card database. Attack of the Vine cards 99, 133, 125 and 91.

Team cards and two names

Team is a new classification for dual-named characters. Set 13 has sixteen of them, from Sulley & Boo to The Madrigal Family. A two-name card matches either name for Shift. Ravensburger's own example: to shift a Flotsam & Jetsam, you need just one Flotsam, one Jetsam, or one Flotsam & Jetsam in play.

Duo Shift rules

Duo Shift needs two different characters, one for each name. To play Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse - Adventuring Duo for its Duo Shift cost of 0, you need a Mickey Mouse and a separate Minnie Mouse in play, and the Duo goes on top of both.

Two rulings catch people out:

• Another Duo underneath only counts once. If you shift the Duo onto a Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse already in play, that card counts as only one of the two names. You still need a second character.
• One Morph isn't enough. Morph can stand in for one of the two characters, never both.

When the two characters under it are in different states, the Duo takes the worse one. Dry plus drying makes it drying. Ready plus exerted makes it exerted.

u/skeptimist summed up the reaction when the rulings first came out: "These rulings are all pretty tough. They are mostly reasonable individually but it does make Duo Shift even more onerous altogether."

Combo Shift rules

Combo Shift is the flexible version. Dash Parr & Violet Parr - Super Siblings can go on a Dash Parr, a Violet Parr, or one of each. Sulley & Boo - Scare Buddies works the same way with Sulley and Boo. If you use two characters, the same state rules as Duo Shift apply, and you stack the two cards underneath in any order.

In the same thread, u/AncientPhoenix put the difference in one line: "Duo shift is mandatory to use both characters. Combo shift lets you use either character or both."

Why use two when one is enough? Dash & Violet's Incredible Tactics draws a card for each card under them whenever they quest or challenge, so a bigger stack means more cards.

Temporary Shift rules

Temporary Shift is the Turning Red keyword. Meilin Lee - Popular Red Panda costs 6, or 3 with Temporary Shift onto a character named Meilin Lee. At the end of your turn, you remove all damage from her and return only the Temporary Shift card to your hand. Ming Lee - Giant Red Panda does the same at 7, and her Path of Destruction readies her after she challenges, though she can't quest for the rest of that turn.

The return has two conditions:

• If the Temporary Shift card was banished, it stays in your discard.
• If something else was shifted on top of it, it still comes back from the middle of the stack, and the damage comes off the top character.

Sun Yee - Red Panda Spirit has Temporary Red Panda Shift, which needs any Red Panda character instead of a matching name. Our Turning Red Ruby guide covers how those cards fit together in a deck.

Potato Shift

Posey - Vampire Potato is the first card that shifts onto an item: pay 5 to put her on one of your items named Potato. If that Potato was in play at the start of your turn, Posey can quest, challenge and sing right away. If you played the Potato this turn, Posey is drying.

Hunny and the Christopher Robin ruling

Christopher Robin - Hunny Sage's Gather the Party reads: "You can have other Hunny characters in your deck regardless of ink type." Set 13 has fifteen Hunny cards, so there's plenty to pick from.

Image: Disney Lorcana card images (Ravensburger), via the Lorcast card database. Attack of the Vine cards 61, 126 and 174.

The ruling people search for: Christopher Robin can't put himself into any deck. He's Amethyst and Sapphire, and the release notes are blunt that he "can’t be put into a deck that has any other ink types." That holds even if you own two or more copies. Once he's legally in an Amethyst/Sapphire deck, a Ruby Tigger - Hunny Barbarian can join it.

The exception covers characters only. In practice that doesn't cost you anything in Set 13: the three Hunny cards that aren't characters (Big Book of Hunny, Magical Hunny Staff and the Hundred Acre Wood location) are all Amethyst or Sapphire anyway.

Players asked early whether you should have to show Christopher Robin before playing off-color Hunny cards. u/boolean87's answer is the sensible one: "If you suspect your opponent isn’t playing Christopher Robin and you’ve seen other Hunny characters, call a judge." Our Great Hunny Rescue guide has more on building around him.

Dual Ink in Set 13

Dual Ink cards belong to two inks, and you can only include one if your deck plays both. Set 13 has sixteen Dual Ink cards. Fifteen of them are Team cards, and Christopher Robin is the one that isn't. Tod & Copper - Best of Friends goes the other way: it's a Team card with a single ink, Emerald.

Sorcerer's Hat's video goes through every new Shift variant in Attack of the Vine:

Our take

The rule that matters most at the table is Duo Shift's two-character requirement. It's why Mickey & Minnie's free Shift cost isn't as broken as it looks. Combo Shift is the one you'll actually use, because it never forces you to have both halves. And if you're building Hunny, start from Amethyst/Sapphire and add the off-color characters second. For which of these cards made real decks, see our Attack of the Vine best decks.

How we checked this: we read every rule against Ravensburger's Attack of the Vine release notes (July 10, 2026) and counted mechanics across all Set 13 cards in the Lorcast API on October 22 with scripts/sims/lorcana-aotv-mechanics-count.py.