Disney Lorcana: How To Upgrade The Emerald/Sapphire Starter Deck From Azurite Sea

Azurite Sea's Pirates vs. Robots theme comes alive in its two new starter decks. Disney Lorcana's sixth set is a high-seas adventure featuring swashbuckling heroes, rescuing rangers, and tech enthusiasts from Big Hero Six.

Genius Reinvented is Big Hero 6-themed deck that features strong synergies between both Inventors and Robots. Its build-around character, Gadget Hackwrench, requires you to have lots of items in play, so items are another focus of the deck. It also features several sub-themes, like Ward and optional activated abilities known as Kicker in other TCGs. This is the first Emerald/Sapphire starter deck, but this unconventional color pairing packs a serious punch.

Which Deck Is Best For You?

This guide features three upgrade paths for this starter deck.

• The 'Good' version features only a small increase in the number of rare cards so that you can get started making tweaks right away without needing to buy any expensive cards.
• 'Better' is a more streamlined version that will include all the rares you need and some Super Rares for added power.
• The 'Best' version is made of cards from all six Lorcana sets, including legendaries.

This guide aims to improve the deck's consistency and performance without sacrificing its core themes.

While all of the original deck's various themes might not be present in every version, you can expect to see an emphasis on Inventors, Items, and Big Hero 6 characters in all three.

Good – Budget Emerald/Sapphire Deck

Disney Lorcana's Shimmering Skies Emerald/Sapphire Budget Deck Upgrade
Aunt Cass, Biggest Fan (x4)	Baymax, Personal Healthcare Supervisor (x1)	Belle, Inventive Engineer (x4)	B.E.N., Eccentric Robot (x3)	Clarabelle, Contented Wallflower (x4)
Donald Duck, Strutting His Stuff (x4)	Emerald Chromicon (x1)	Gadget Hackwrench, Brilliant Boson (x2)	Gadget Hackwrench, Perceptive Mouse (x4)	Go Go Tomago, Darling Dynamo (x1)
Goofy, Expert Shipwright (x1)	Hiram Flavershim, Toymaker (x4)	Hiro Hamada, Robotics Prodigy (x4)	Hiro Hamada, Team Leader (x1)	Honey Lemon, Chemical Genius (x4)
Institute of Technology, Prodigious University (x4)	Pawpsicle (x4)	Wasabi, Methodical Engineer (x2)	Yokai, Professor Callghan (x4)	The first upgraded version of this starter deck aims to improve consistency while maximizing the Inventor synergy. A lot of the one-of and two-of cards have been increased to four, or removed in favor of cards that compliment the decks core strategy better.	Baymax's Healthcare Chip (x4)	Belle, Inventive Engineer (x2)	Cri-Kee, Lucky Cricket (x1)	Donald Duck, Strutting His Stuff (x2)
Emerald Chromicon (x1)	Gadget Hackwrench, Brilliant Boson (x4)	Gadget Hackwrench, Perceptive Mouse (x4)	Go Go Tamago, Darling Dynamo (x4)	Goofy, Expert Shipwright (x2)
Hiram Flaversham, Toymaker (x4)	Hiro Hamanda, Robitcs Prodigy (x4)	Hiro Hamada, Team Leader (x4)	Institute of Technology, Prestigious University (x4)	Megabot (x2)
Nick Wilde, Wily Fox (x3)	Pawpsicle (x4)	Sail the Azurite Sea (x4)	Yokai, Professor Callaghan (x3)	Maxing out some of this deck's most powerful Rare and Super Rare cards improves this deck significantly. Go Go Tamago can earn you tons of un-interactable lore and punish the opponent for making favorable trades - something Lorcana players are conditioned to always do.	Baymax, Armored Companion (x3)	Baymax, Personal Healthcare Supervisor (x4)	Cri-Kee (x1)	Emerald Chromicon (x1)
Gadget Hackwrench, Brilliant Boson (x3)	Go Go Tomago, Darling Dynamo (x4)	Goofy, Expert Shipwright (x2)	Gyro Gearloose, Gadget Whiz (x2)	Hiram Flaversham, Toymaker (x4)
Hiro Hamada, Robotics Prodigy (x3)	Hiro Hamada, Team Leader (x4)	Institute of Technology, Prestigious University (x4)	Megabot (x2)	Oswald, The Lucky Rabbit (x4)
Pawpsicle (x4)	Sail the Azurite Sea (x4)	Yokai, Professor Callaghan (x3)	You Came Back (x2)

The best version of this deck includes significantly more item synergy. There's a variety of Sapphire cards that benefit from an item-heavy deck like this one, and by including them here, you can squeeze some extra value out of them. With access to the Legendary, this deck also benefits from another Baymax, increasing Robot synergies and adding an additional way to benefit from high WIllpower characters.

Oswald, The Lucky Rabbit has too much potential value for an item deck to be ignored. His ability allows you to play items for free and negate the tempo loss one usually occurs by playing items, especially early in the game. You can use this ability each turn once Oswald is in play, and when combined with Sail The Azurite Sea, you can use it twice.

Of course, with only 11 items in the deck, it's unlikely that the card on top of your deck will be an item. Fortunately, we have a couple of tools that can help stack the deck.

How to Play The Best Emerald/Sapphire Deck

Hiro Hamada, Robotics Prodigy, lets you search your deck for an item and put it on top, while Gyro Gearloose, Gadget Whiz, will let you take items out of your discard and put them on top of your deck - a perfect way to get Pawiscle back after Hiram Falversham banishes them.

Combining these characters' abilities with Oswald's means you can ensure that you'll always have an item to play for free when you ink.

There's some setup required to get this item engine going, but the nice thing is that even if the pieces don't align, these characters still have value independently. Questing for two lore with Oswald is going to be good enough in a lot of situations, and Gyro's 1/4 stat line makes him an annoyance for the enemy to remove. Hiro can retrieve items or Robots, so you might consider putting a Baymax, Armored Companion on top of the deck if you're headed into turn five.

Baymax, Armored Companion has good synergy with Baymax's Healthcare Chip, but he's also just an inherently valuable character. He can generate two lore instantly when he's played and remove two damage from a character, then do it again each time he quests. He's a significant threat at a moderate cost and a great addition to this deck.

Finally, Ariel Treasure Collector is a no-brainer for a deck that plays this many items (and gets them into play consistently, thanks to Hiro Hamada). Her abilities ensure she will always quest for five if you have more items, which means your opponent will be under a load of pressure when she comes into play. Save a You Came Back (or two) until Ariel is in play, and watch your opponent panic when you go from 5 to 20 lore in a single turn.

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