Set Overview · Lorcana | The First Chapter

In the beginning, the Great Illuminary opened its doors and the first Illumineers stepped into the Inklands — a luminous world where stories take shape and glimmers of legendary Disney characters answer the call. Everything was new: the shimmering Ink, the wondrous glimmers, the bonds forged across impossible distances. But even in those earliest days of discovery, long before anyone spoke of vines or darkness, the Inklands were more than they appeared. Some glimmers whispered of currents deep beneath the Ink — slow, patient, ancient — waiting for the moment the world above was finally ready to notice.

The First Chapter is where Disney Lorcana began. It launched at Gen Con in August 2023 and sold out fast enough that supply shortages became part of the set's origin story before it even hit wide retail. Every mechanic every later set builds on — the six inks, questing for lore, Shift, Song cards — started here, and its Enchanted rares set the visual template every chase card since has followed.

Mechanic debut: Eight core keywords (Bodyguard, Challenger, Evasive, Reckless, Rush, Singer, Ward, Support) — these foundational abilities define how characters interact and carry through every set that follows.

Narrative theme: Illumineers discover they can summon glimmers — legendary versions of Disney characters pulled from across the multiverse into the Illuminary, a vast magical library at the heart of the Inklands.

Ravensburger has never officially published pull rates. Community estimates have varied since launch, but the strongest consensus — corroborated across four independent sources (Chase Society, LorcanaCollectors, alongmainstreet, and early ScreenRant reporting from the set's 2023 launch) — lands on roughly 1 in 96 packs for Enchanted rarity, the same figure the rest of the Lorcana catalog has settled around.

These are community estimates, not official rates. A minority of sources cite figures as low as 1-in-576 or as high as 1-in-144 for this specific set — the 1-in-96 figure represents the best-corroborated consensus, not a guarantee.

There's no prior set to compare The First Chapter against — it's the one everything else in Lorcana is measured relative to. Its lasting relevance comes less from any single mechanic and more from being the game's origin point: the smallest print run of any Lorcana main set to date, never reprinted, which has kept its Enchanteds among the most consistently valuable in the game's history. On our Collector Interest Grade, it lands at A- (84.5), the second-highest score in the full 13-set catalog, on the strength of unmatched nostalgia and enduring chase-card demand.

The First Chapter lands at 84.5. Unlike a single-set launch reaction, this set's reception has been sustained for three years running — sold out at its Gen Con debut, cited repeatedly across the hobby press as the origin point every later set gets measured against, and still commanding first-set premium pricing in 2026. Nostalgia maxes out as the literal starting point of the game, and Chase Card Desirability stays strong on the back of Elsa's enduring grail status. Competitive Relevance remains dated — most First Chapter staples have rotated out of Core, with their legacy now living mainly in Infinity.

The First Chapter rotated out of Core Constructed in September 2025 with the release of Fabled, but remains fully legal in the non-rotating Infinity format. Its Enchanted cards, particularly Elsa, are frequently cited as the benchmark against which every subsequent Lorcana chase card gets measured.

The First Chapter's Enchanted cards pull at an estimated 1 in 96 packs — sources vary on the exact figure, but this is the best-corroborated consensus (see Pull Rates above).