Sample cards: Lorraine, Festive Night

Announced 3 days before Christmas 2021, Lorraine, Festive Night is a holiday promo sample card released near the end of the Kickstarter campaign.

SAMPLE PROMO-000

Three days before Christmas on 22nd December 2021 the Grand Archive developers announced Lorraine, Festive Night as holiday promotional card in Kickstarter update #7.

Illustrated by 十尾 and announced at the same time as the Clarent, Sword of Peace Kickstarter promo, the SAMPLE PROMO-000 Lorraine, Festive Night was the first Grand Archive promo card to be revealed in full.

Being a sample card itself, this card - with its ability to allow all players to win simultaneously - is sadly not tournament legal.

Trivia: Despite featuring a different name and artwork, Lorraine, Festive Night is officially regarded as the 3rd iteration of the Lorraine, Wandering Warrior sample cards.

Lorraine, Festive Night promotional artwork.

This was the first card printed to feature Silvie, and the first card to include two champions in its artwork.

Variants

Two foil variants of the Lorraine, Festive Night card were released together: star foil and normal foil.

Lorraine, Festive Night star foil (left) and normal foil (right).

Star foil features a layer of holofoil star outlines of various shapes between the background and the two champions. Presumably as an oversight, the star foil pattern also covers the material cost and life count icons.

The developers later went on to publicly say that they weren’t fond of the foil that had been applied to the Lorraine, Festive Night samples, saying that it was too much and took away from the artwork in general.

Distribution

Lorraine, Festive Night normal foil and star foil both have an official population of between 300 and 500 copies.

The normal foil card was given as a freebie to all Champion Tier, Grand Champion and Designer Kickstarter backers (148 total), with an additional 100 backers chosen at random to receive the card.

Both the normal foil and star foil were given out individually in Discord events and content creator giveaways (see Individual card giveaways below).

The star foil card also appears in SAMPLE (1 in 3 chance) and SAMPLE2 (1 in 6 chance) promotional packs.

Individual card giveaways

This section notes events which directly awarded cards to winners/participants. This does not include cards distributed within Promotional Packs, which has its own dedicated page.

Discord Giveaway #1: PnP 1.2 photo contest

On 7th January 2022 the developers announced released of version 1.2 of the Lorraine and Rai print and play decks. To accompany this, they added an event asking people to take pictures of them playing with the cards they’d printed out.

In total, 20 people were selected on 15th January 2022 to receive the star foil variant.

Discord Giveaway #2: PnP 1.2 Tabletop Simulator play

Announced at the same time as the above photo contest, the developers were also looking for the community to play Grand Archive with one another using Tabletop Simulator. The developers would randomly jump into games being played on any of their Discord voice channels and award cards.

It’s unknown how many copies were distributed in this way, but both the star foil variant and Lorraine, Wandering Warrior (CMT-013) samples were given out through this event.

Content Creator Giveaway #1

On 13th January 2022, Dan Green from Maindeck published a video on YouTube announcing 8 star foil and 4 normal foil Lorraine, Festive Night cards were to be given away across the Maindeck YouTube channel, their Discord server and on the Grand Archive TCG Community Facebook page.

The Facebook event ended up being shut down as it breached Facebook’s Terms of Service. In total, 6 star foil and 2 normal foil variants were distributed.

Content Creator Giveaway #2

On 7th February 2022, Red Zone Rogue published a video on YouTube announcing 10 star foil and 5 normal foil Lorraine, Festive Night cards were to be given away across the Red Zone Rogue YouTube channel, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and their Discord server.

Content Creator Giveaway #3

On 14th February 2022, Tyler Lee (OnceInLuv) of The Magic Library TCG published a video on YouTube announcing 10 star foil and 5 normal foil Lorraine, Festive Night cards to be given away across YouTube, Instagram and their Discord server.

Content Creator Giveaway #4

On 11th April after the failed Facebook giveaway from 13th January, Dan Green was back on the Grand Archive TCG Community Facebook page to award 1 star foil and 2 normal foil Lorraine, Festive Night cards.

Content Creator Giveaway #5

On 11th April 2022 it was also announced that Maindeck would be holding their own Grand Archive league on their Discord server.

This tournament awarded the winner with a star foil variant, as well as star foil variants going to four random participants.