Exclusive: Frozen’s Anna – Soothing Sister and Do You Want to Build a Snowman? From Disney Lorcana’s Winterspell Set Revealed

IGN can exclusively reveal two new Frozen-themed Disney Lorcana cards from the upcoming Winterspell expansion that have exciting implications for both the lore and gameplay of the TCG, and they are Anna – Soothing Sister and the Do You Want to Build a Snowman? song card.

Disney Lorcana’s Winterspell expansion will be released at local game stores and Disney Stores on February 13 and everywhere else on February 20, and one of the Legendary cards players will be searching for is Frozen’s Anna – Soothing Sister.

To learn more about these cool (we had to do it!) cards, we spoke with members of the Disney Lorcana team.

“Anna – Soothing Sister is the first Disney Lorcana card with a 0 ink shift cost,” Lukas Litzsinger, Winterspell Game Design Lead, said. “This means that you can put together some truly impressive turns where you play another card, or two, from your hand in addition to shifting Anna. She can truly swing the momentum of the game in your favor. But that sort of power does come with a condition: a card has to have left a player’s discard this turn. Thankfully, there are several good options included in Winterspell for this to occur, including on her shift base.

“Her second ability, Warm Heart, likewise has synergy with cards in your discard. This gives players a strong direction when building the deck: not only do you want to have a card leave your discard for her shift ability, but you also want to get characters in your discard with high lore value.”

From a lore perspective, this card pairs very fittingly with Elsa – Ice Artisan, who herself is one of the leading figures of Winterspell.

“In Winterspell, we tell the story of a vine that’s growing out of control and sucking up flood ink,” Jenna Giuffrida, co-lead on narrative design for Winterspell, shared with us. “In an effort to quell its growth, the Illumineers of the realm summon powerful glimmers to help deal with it. One of them, an Elsa glimmer, accidentally freezes the whole realm in her attempt to stop the vine.

“Just as Elsa’s costume demonstrates her role as the powerful force of nature that caused the storm and froze the vine, Anna’s costume reflects the ways she balances her sister. When Elsa is in need of comfort (and thawing out, so to speak), she turns to Anna for empathy and hope, so you can see some of that in the spring theming of her character card.”

As for Do You Want to Build a Snowman?, this song brings together the sisters in a really wonderful way, but it was tough for the team as they really wanted to get it right.

“We get to see both these glimmers come together in Do You Want To Build a Snowman? and really feel the tension in the moment–Anna isn’t as upset with Elsa as perhaps she fears,” Giuffrida said. “We also knew it would be a missed opportunity in this gloriously snowy set not to provide fans with such an iconic and recognizable song card.”

“This was a difficult card for us to get right,” Litzsinger added. “We went through many iterations of what it meant to build a snowman in our game, but the breakthrough came when we took a step back and realized that it wasn’t actually about building a snowman. It was about asking someone else if they wanted to help you build a snowman. This led to a card effect where you ask that question, and also gave us a new template: you get to ask your opponent YES! or NO! and the card does something different depending on their response. We worked closely with Darla Kennerud and our editing team to make this new template happen, and the card is all the more charming for it.”

These cards are only two of the many that fans will soon be able to chase that will continue to build the Lorcana universe even larger, and the Lorcana team has been busy teasing exciting new details about Winterspell and beyond. Alongside these Frozen characters, Winterspell will also feature fan-favorite characters from Pocahontas, Angel from Lilo & Stitch: The Series, and Darkwing Duck.

Furthermore, the two Iconic cards of this set will be Moana – Curious Explorer and Pocahontas – Peacekeeper, and they will both sport a “Papercut Style” that evokes paper snowflake decorations.

Following Winterspell, Glimmers from Toy Story, The Incredibles, and Brave will join the roster in Wilds Unknown when it is released in game stores on the Ravensburger Play Hub on May 8 and everywhere else on May 15.

Lastly, Summer will bring the Attack of the Vine! set, and that will feature glimmers of Monsters, Inc.’s Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan.

Adam Bankhurst is a writer for IGN. You can follow him on X/Twitter @AdamBankhurst, Instagram, and TikTok, and listen to his show, Talking Disney Magic.