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@@amaeo5170 totally understandable! I exclusively buy singles but that’s just my own preference! Renamon is about to get a much-needed boost in power when BT17 releases on Aug 9!

@@Zackathor every time, regardless of location! The only difference is whether or not any digivolving effects occur!

@@LozanoMotoRacing I hope you enjoy it!

@@alfonsomoreno575 check out project-drasil.online for a Duelingbook equivalent, or check out HoangZero for the EDOPro equivalent!

Thankfully it’s not nearly enough of a technical nightmare as Yugioh!

We’re currently in BT16, and there are some cards from BT1 that still see competitive presence! Things do get gradually stronger over time of course, but the inherent design of the game keeps things relatively balanced for the most part, and there’s really only a handful of cards that fetch a higher price tag(ShineGreymon Ruin Mode, for instance, but it’s also a secret rare and a high power blowout card that you’re only running one copy of anyway). Most of my decks I’ve built for $60 or less!

@@Shocari That's cool to hear, thanks for the info.

While yes, it is based on DP, it's also technically based on their Level since no Level 2 Digimon has a DP value. Mother D Reaper also isn't Level 2, either, os yes while the DP stipulation does affect King Drasil and Gate of Deadly Sins, they(alongside D Reaper) are also very niche, very fringe cases, though I did not in the video itself that there are exceptions(and they were not worth covering for an introductory video, imo).

Glad I could be of assistance! That being said, there’s definitely gonna be some new top decks around now that BT16 released!

It’ll activate once when digivolving, and then each time it finishes attacking!

Thank you so much

Were there any ones in particular? I might have explained one or two wrong, but I had the official rules and FAQs pulled up as I was writing this as well as having those linked so others could double check on their own

@@Shocari 2 off the top of my head: I saw multiple videos saying that there was no mulligans and a few saying that if you run out of cards then you lose. Both you stated the opposite. But idk, maybe you have the newer rules?

@@MakaiKishiZero you get one mulligan per game. world.digimoncard.com/rule/pdf/manual.pdf page 5, “setting up the game”, section 4. Mulligans were added last year or maybe the year before. Perhaps the videos you saw were from before that? If you cannot draw a card at the start of your turn, you lose. This was stated in the previous video, “how to play the Digimon tcg 2024”! I believe in this video I said that you can’t lose if you would activate an effect that makes you draw cards but are unable to, which is true. Pokémon has the same rule. The game only cares if you can’t draw as part of the natural phase of the turn. Same link as above, page 12c “ending the game”.

To my knowledge, almost every token has a play cost given to them for the express purpose of being able to be targeted by certain effects. Mother D-Reaper would be exempt since she doesn’t have a cost though.

@@Shocari Dang, alright thank you for the reply. I'm brand new to this game and coming from YuGiOh and Magic this game feels almost too straightforward sometimes. That being said I heckin LOVE WarGreymon so this actually came up when playing with a friend, eventhough Mother D-Reaper would have been immune due to it's own protective effect we were not able to find the answer to this question in any FAQ or ruling statement.

Blocker is indeed the only way, outside of some kind of “when your opponents digimon attacks” effect that would allow you to delete the digimon or reduce its dp etc. Non-suspended digimon effectively do nothing defensively

TCGplayer is always a decent choice!

Millith is the main milling strat in Digimon, utilizing the red/purple Guilmon line alongside Lilithmon, and it’s quite effective! It has top cut some tournaments as far as I’m aware! Apocalymon can also mill tremendously and was limited to 1 as a result because it was very easy to slap down 4 of them in one turn and mill your opponent for 32 cards right then and there, although with the limit the deck doesn’t really care about doing that anymore.

There is a few ways to play on line there is a site and a new auto sim

Where?

Did you watch the How To Play video that was before this one?

😂 same , but it’s such a good video . I just learn better in person .

Glad you’re enjoying it! Ragnaloardmon is getting INSANE new support in EX6 in June!

Glad I could help! I hope you continue to enjoy the game! 🫶🏻

It was explained! After the breeding phase is the main phase, in which you play cards until the memory passes. So you can take any action and as many as you wish until the memory passes to the opponent. Turn 1 this usually means either digivolving a 3 onto the egg and/or playing one additional card, since you’re starting at 0.

Not necessarily a bad thing! Experimentation is part of the fun! I personally try to just find archetypes that are similar to ones I enjoy in other tcgs!

Tcgplayer has been pretty good for me. Haven't got digimon from there yet but I have gotten pokemon and yugioh cards. <not sponsored>

Best of luck! hope you find something you enjoy! :)

That's actually my bad! I misunderstood a certain line amongst attack resolutions and by the time i realized it, the video was already posted! So definitely far less effective than I would like but at least being able to get some additional on-play effects and set up for future Blast Evolutions is always nice! But yes you are absolutely spot-on with how the interaction actually works

Where can I reliably buy new legitimate cards?

Dinorexmon checks at the instance of play declaration, which is before memory moves. So this will stop them from directly playing a digimon with 6000 DP or less from their hand or digivolving into one from their hand. Playing via effect is different. On play declaration doesn’t check the effect at that time. So if the opponent declares they’re playing either of those cards, the memory will shift first and then Dinorex will check if the opponents memory is 1 or more. If it is, those effects won’t play Digimon(flame hellscythe’s deletion effect still works. Playing a Digimon is an optional effect). If the memory is 0 or less, then those effects do not get prevented.

@@Shocari ok ty

Yeah most of digimon’s rulings are pretty easy to grasp and especially easy to find the actual ruling for to be able to resolve issues

Yeah before this deck, I was not familiar with any of the Devas outside of Antylamon, was familiar with the Sovereigns though. So it was pretty interesting

Thank you! I appreciate it! 🙂

I’d say cost-wise, start by using digi-tcg.online to be able to build/practice different decks so you can see what you enjoy before committing to a purchase! You can definitely buy sealed product if you want, but I fully endorse and recommend just buying the singles of what you want! Although if you’re interested in ST17, then buying two copies of it will give you nearly 4 copies of everything so you can have a pretty consistent list, and if you wanted anything else to throw in it probably wouldn’t be that expensive to acquire those pieces(depending on what you want of course)!

@@Shocari normally i don't start by building meta decks directly, usually i go for 1-2 starter decks and then just play it until i feel like investing into meta decks is a right choice (e.g. i went for One Piece and got some cards just to be left with this low stock, high price card game and no meta deck at all). I will try it online for sure, but what would you recommend going to for as starter deck? 2x ST17 will cost me ~60 bucks which could also buy a meta decks, buying any other starter deck two times will cost me ~20-30 bucks with something playable. I am also cool with just 1. Just need some reccommendation what would be playable in the actual state and what not, whats easy to get in and what not :) Thanks for helping!!!!

@@johnnypepperonii as a starter deck, I’d say either ST17 or ST14 for incredibly solid decks, ST14 especially doesn’t really need anything outside the box unless you really want something. ST16(the metalgarurumon ace) deck is also pretty decent by itself and that would be on the lower price end for 2 copies. Meta-wise, around the same price as 2 advanced STs would be MirageGaogamon, Numemon, Red Hybrid, and a few others I can’t think of off the top of my head. Most of the decks I personally play(their meta-relevance is questionable) are usually very budget friendly! So it really just depends on what you enjoy!

Hey me again, I just got the chance to play it IRL and it was amazing! My local store had ST17 in stock but it got sold out before I was able to say that I want to get into Digimon (even tho it was the same day). After doing some more search I found that I could get either 2x Gallantmon starter for 12 bucks or 2x metalgarurumon ace for ~25 off of Cardmarket. Do you have any other recommendation or meta/anti meta deck for around 30 bucks I could look into?

@@johnnypepperonii for around $30 your options will be fairly limited, especially for something meta-relevant, although metalgaruru would be the closest. You could probably assemble almost an entire Numemon deck for $30(which is a top deck in Japan currently, but you’ll need to use the Armor Purge Monzaemon instead of the RB1 Monzaemon, and your options for Lv6s might be a little limited). If you use digimomcard.io to look at tournament decks and then cross-reference with like tcgplayer or a similar website, you can probably get the majority of a top deck for around that price, but you can probably substitute some card as needed for the moment.

Some of them are in fact optional! “You can” or “you may” are optional as long as they aren’t followed by “then”! It’s roughly 50/50 on When Digivolving effects, unfortunately this was notcommunicated well

@@Shocari yeah, but the way it's worded makes it seem like you can choose not to activate when digivolving effects, even if it doesn't say "you may". Not the end of the world but I thought it was worth mentioning in case it generates any confusion.

@@facug21 definitely respect it! Digimon seems to have less confusion over its optional vs mandatory effects(as far as I’ve seen at least) compared to, say yugioh!

@@Shocari yeah, there are no missed timings in Digimon. You have to do everything the card says. The only case in which you would not resolve an effect that doesn't state "you may" is when the source of the effect is not in the battle area anymore. i.e. while your field has -5000 DP because of Shinegreymon Ruin Mode or a similar effect and you play a rookie, it gets deleted by game mechanics before activating any "on play" effects.

RIP Kaijudo (2012-2014)

@@TheKaijudist Ikik, I’d die to get the game back. DM/Kaijudo is the best game ever made

Several others. I couldn’t say off the top of my head but if you go to digimoncard.io and go to the card database, you can search each card and it’ll tell you what set they’re from

There isn’t really a good answer because most of the good Jesmon support is spread out across multiple different sets, and the same is true for the majority of decks. It would be very difficult to just take a starter deck and a booster box and make something cohesive, 9 times out of 10. It’s why I always recommend just buying the singles of what you want instead

so it definitely depends on the kind of deck you're wanting to build, for sure! based on the different decks and sets, at the current moment I don't think there's any 1+1 combination of them that would lead to anything super solid tbh! The most cohesive would probably just be 2 copies of ST14 - advanced starter deck Beelzemon! If you're willing to wait, ST-17 Double Typhoon comes out March 8, and that + EX04 - Alternative Being would make a very, very solid foundation for an Alliance deck, with all the cards you need from EX04 being common! That being said, you could build a fully competitive-ready deck for most archetypes for $70-80, which is going to be price of 1 booster box(more or less) anyway, so that's honestly what I would do!

@Shocari so get ex 04 and wait for the other one and those 2 box's will let me make a solid deck

@@lukepopham that's if that deck is something that you think you might like! again, you could guaranteed build a full deck for like $70-80, whereas you could buy like multiple booster boxes and not be able to build anything based on what you pulled! Which is just a generic TCG problem really

That is correct! According to the official Q&A for BT10, the digimon is suspended by Digisorption before the digivolution completes, so the inherited effect could not be triggered at that time since it was not given to a Digimon at the moment of suspension

Yes you can still activate it! Trashing 2 cards is the cost for the effect, so as long as you can activate that, you’re good! After that, the card doesn’t care if Weregarurumon was suspended or not. The next effect, “Then, […]” is able to activate if you trashed the 2 cards for the first effect, as its condition was being able to trash the 2 cards. Similar to how some other cards state “by doing X, do Y”, X is the cost required to activate the effect, even if the effect itself won’t do anything, since the game requires you to resolve as much of the effect as possible, so long as the cost has been met.

Exactly!