Beginner deck shell — Emerald / Sapphire

A deterministic 60-card beginner shell in Emerald and Sapphire, built from the August 25, 2026 card pool. Cost to build today: $240.18 in TCGplayer lowest asks.

EmeraldSapphireCore format · 60 cards21 unique cards

$240.18

Cost to build, August 25, 2026 snapshot. Sum of the TCGplayer lowest ask for every copy — lowest-ask listings, not sold prices, and not including shipping, tax or condition preference.

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The plan

A friendly, low-complexity shell — a bit of everything, no shift stacks, no combo puzzles.

Mulligan: Keep a hand with 2-4 ink cost cards and something you understand — beginners should never mulligan into complexity.

Most common mistake: Inking your best card because you drew it turn one — save the strong 3-4 drop for the board, ink an extra card.

Key cards

Cinderella — Dream Come True — Whispers in the Well

Diablo — Devoted Herald — Ursula's Return

The heaviest-weighted cards in this shell by copy count, then price. Every card image links to that card's own price page. Image: TCGplayer.

The 60 cards, by role

Roles come from our card-role tagger, which reads each card's printed rules text — the same tags the builder used to assemble this list.

Removal and interaction · 11 cards

Sherwood Forest — Outlaw Hideaway — Shimmering Skies

Tamatoa — Happy as a Clam — Archazia's Island

Card draw · 8 cards

Lore engines · 26 cards

Noi — Orphaned Thief — Rise of the Floodborn

Ichabod Crane — Bookish Schoolmaster — Whispers in the Well

Webby Vanderquack — Junior Prospector — Whispers in the Well

Rapunzel — Appreciative Artist — Promo Cards

Scrooge McDuck — Reformed Ebenezer — Winterspell

Dr. Facilier — Fortune Teller — Rise of the Floodborn

Tod — Knows All the Tricks — Winterspell

Ink ramp · 5 cards

Jiminy Cricket — Ghost of Christmas Past — Winterspell

Belle — Strange but Special — The First Chapter

Curve fillers · 10 cards

Scepter of Arendelle — The First Chapter

Mulan — Resourceful Recruit — Winterspell

Ursula — Deceiver of All — Into the Inklands

Cost to build, card by card

Card	Ink	Cost	Copies	Lowest ask	Line total
Alien — True Believer	Emerald	1	4	$1.44	$5.76
Pete — Born to Cheat	Emerald	2	1	$0.03	$0.03
Sherwood Forest — Outlaw Hideaway	Emerald	2	2	$0.08	$0.16
Mulan — Resourceful Recruit	Emerald	2	4	$0.99	$3.96
Ursula — Deceiver of All	Emerald	3	2	$1.95	$3.90
Diablo — Devoted Herald	Emerald	3	4	$6.51	$26.04
Webby Vanderquack — Junior Prospector	Emerald	4	3	$1.70	$5.10
Max Goof — Chart Topper	Emerald	6	3	$5.79	$17.37
Dr. Facilier — Fortune Teller	Emerald	7	1	$0.05	$0.05
Tod — Knows All the Tricks	Emerald	7	1	$1.76	$1.76
Scepter of Arendelle	Sapphire	1	4	$0.04	$0.16
Noi — Orphaned Thief	Sapphire	2	3	$0.05	$0.15
Jiminy Cricket — Ghost of Christmas Past	Sapphire	3	2	$0.03	$0.06
Belle — Strange but Special	Sapphire	4	3	$3.59	$10.77
Cinderella — Dream Come True	Sapphire	4	4	$13.99	$55.96
Ichabod Crane — Bookish Schoolmaster	Sapphire	4	4	$0.03	$0.12
Rapunzel — Appreciative Artist	Sapphire	5	2	$20.04	$40.08
Moana — Curious Explorer	Sapphire	5	4	$5.35	$21.40
Tamatoa — Happy as a Clam	Sapphire	6	4	$4.40	$17.60
Scrooge McDuck — Reformed Ebenezer	Sapphire	6	1	$1.79	$1.79
Hades — Infernal Schemer	Sapphire	7	4	$6.99	$27.96
Total			60		$240.18

What this shell has cost over time

Total lowest-ask cost of this exact 60-card list, recomputed for every day we hold a price for all 60 copies: 69 days between 2026-06-18 and 2026-08-25. Days where any card in the list has no recorded price are omitted rather than estimated.

Curve and role coverage

Check	In this list	Archetype target
inkable	47	45+
card draw	8	3+
removal	11	4+
Curve — 1–2 ink	18	18
Curve — 3–4 ink	22	22
Curve — 5–6 ink	14	14
Curve — 7+ ink	6	6

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