Disney Lorcana · Set 7 Starter Deck
Archazia's Island Ruby & Sapphire: Upgrade Guide
Belle and Beast lead an item deck that banishes its own items for value and cheapens Belle's Shift with every item in the discard.
At a glance
Ruby & Sapphire · Items in and out
How it plays out of the box
Items go in, then come out for value. Belle - Apprentice Inventor and Maurice banish items for free characters and cards, the discard fills up, and Belle - Mechanic Extraordinaire arrives for very little.
It's a puzzle deck. Each turn asks which item to sacrifice and when, and a bad sequence leaves you with no items and no board. Out of the box it's one of the weaker starters.
The cards on the box
Belle - Mechanic Extraordinaire
Archazia's Island #126
Dual-ink Shift 7, 1 cheaper per item in your discard; quests for 3 and recycles items for lore.
Beast - Frustrated Designer
Archazia's Island #136
Dual-ink. Exert, pay 2 and banish 2 of your items to deal 5 damage.
Other cards to know
Belle - Apprentice Inventor
Archazia's Island #159
On your turn, banish one of your items to play her for free.
Maurice - Unconventional Inventor
Archazia's Island #138
Banish an item to draw; with Maurice's Machine, also banish a small character.
Maurice's Machine
Archazia's Island #151
When banished, return a cheap item from your discard.
The rating: power 2, difficulty 4
A clever item engine that is easy to misplay and short on early board presence.
Both numbers are TurnZero HQ's own editorial read, not an official Ravensburger rating. Power compares the deck out of the box against the other starter decks, not against a tuned tournament list. Difficulty is how much the deck asks of the person playing it.
What to cut first
Cut characters that don't interact with items and items that don't do anything when banished.
A Lorcana deck needs at least 60 cards, no more than 4 copies of a card with the same full name, and at most two inks, so every card you add means one you take out. The deck building rules →
Upgrade direction 1: Ramp into a big finish
Core Ruby and Sapphire has a better top end than this box: Belle & Beast readies your whole inkwell.
Belle & Beast - Certain as the Sun
Attack of the Vine! #132
Shifts onto a Belle or Beast; readies all your ink when it quests.
Let It Go
Winterspell #163
Removal that sends a character to the inkwell.
Dragon Fire
Whispers in the Well #133
Banish chosen character.
Belle - Snowfield Strategist
Winterspell #158
Ramps off your banished characters.
Upgrade direction 2: Cheap items with a payoff
Keep the item plan with Core-legal items that draw and characters that reward cheap plays.
Inkrunner
Whispers in the Well #169
A 2-cost item that draws a card when played.
Gadget Hackwrench - Resourceful Mechanic
Wilds Unknown #145
Plays an item for free.
Babyhead - Leader of Sid's Toys
Wilds Unknown #119
+2 strength to a character whenever you pay 2 or less for a card.
Ranger Plane
Wilds Unknown #167
Your characters gain Support.
Core or Infinity
As of October 2026, this deck is not legal in Core Constructed as sold, because Core uses sets 9 (Fabled) onward. A card counts as Core-legal when any printing with its full name is, so the cards from this box that were reprinted in Fabled or later can still be played there. The whole deck is legal in Infinity Constructed, which allows every set, and at any kitchen table.
Every upgrade pick on this page is from set 9 or later, so all of them are Core-legal. Core Constructed vs. Infinity →
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Belle and Beast starter deck good?
It's fun once you understand it, but it's one of the weaker starters out of the box, at power 2. It takes practice to sequence the item sacrifices well.
How does Belle's Shift discount work?
Belle - Mechanic Extraordinaire costs 1 less to Shift for each item card in your discard, so banishing your own items earlier makes her cheaper later.
Build the upgraded deck in TurnZero HQ.
Add the deck to the Deck Lab, make your swaps, and it checks the list against Core Constructed or Infinity as you go. Publish it to share the link. Free to start.
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