Six Qualifiers, One Challenge: Lorcana's Busiest Week in Months

One event is ending today. Several more are about to start. And the price feed had a genuinely strange week. Let's go through all of it.

What's ending right now

The Through the Decades Collectibles CCQ is running in Kentucky and wraps today, October 25. A CCQ is a Championship Qualifier, meaning a finish high enough earns you a seat at a larger Championship event.

If you're in driving range and haven't registered, today is the day to check. We don't have entry details beyond what the official calendar lists, so look it up directly before you leave the house.

Bangkok, and why it's the lead

Disney Lorcana Challenge Bangkok 2026 starts October 30. A Lorcana Challenge is a step above your local CCQ. These are large-scale competitive events that draw players from a much wider region, and the results tend to reflect what the format actually looks like at a high level.

If you're not going, that still matters: what wins Bangkok will shape the conversation about what decks are worth building for the rest of this competitive cycle.

Bangkok is the one event this week worth tracking even from your couch.

What wins Bangkok will shape the conversation about what decks are worth building for the rest of this competitive cycle.

Six qualifiers in eight days

Right behind Bangkok, the qualifier calendar stacks up fast.

October 31 brings two at once: the Osaka Wave-1 CCQ in Japan and Inkbound Invitational Qualifier 1 in Hyperia City, UK. The following day, November 1, Osaka runs its Wave-2 CCQ and the UK hosts the Hunny Alliance Cup, Team Trio.

That last one has "Team Trio" in the name, which suggests a team format, but we don't have format details confirmed beyond what the calendar provides.

Then on November 7, Leaf Peeper CCQ opens in New Hampshire. Six qualifiers across three countries in eight days is a lot of competitive Lorcana concentrated into one stretch. If you're chasing Championship qualification and any of these events are reachable, this is the window.

The price swings that actually matter

Three cards moved hard this week, and two of them moved in the same direction.

Above the Crowd fell from $33.13 to $4.20, a drop of 87%. That is not a correction. That is a card the market decided was no longer worth holding at its old price.

If you were sitting on copies hoping to sell, that ship has sailed. If you wanted to play it and couldn't justify the cost before, now is probably the time to look again.

Merlin - Ink Drop Tinkerer dropped similarly, from $13.49 to $3.29, down 76%. Two major drops in the same week suggest something shifted in how these cards fit the current format, though we're speculating on the reason, since we don't have result data to pin it to.

Judy Hopps - Uncovering Clues went the other way. She moved from $1.21 to $2.29, up 89%. She's still under three dollars, so this isn't a crisis for anyone building around her.

But an 89% move on a card that cheap usually means someone found a reason to play her, and that reason tends to show up in competitive results. Worth watching.

What to do with all of this

If you're local to Kentucky, check the Through the Decades Collectibles CCQ right now. Today is the last day. For everyone else, put October 30 in your calendar and follow what comes out of Bangkok.

The results there will tell you more about where the format is heading than anything else happening this week. And if Above the Crowd or Merlin - Ink Drop Tinkerer have been sitting in your wishlist, this week's prices are meaningfully different from last week's.

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