something really important is that the cards look beautiful, artistically consistent and actually look like a finished well trough out product. it looks tight.
Digivolutions have never had pretensions of following a natural being's life cycle like Pokemon, they just go wherever they may with a rough thematic underlining. There are some much weirder examples, like a Digimon evolving into an egg, a machine evolving into a living creature, a goblin turning into a teddy bear or just straight evolving into pixel art.
Gatomon's probably the weirdest 'canon' line because it's a dog that turns into a cat, who is a champion, and then it becomes an angel woman and then a Dragon. But digivolutions often just follow whatever atribute if there's not a canon line. Like any bug is probably going to turn into Okuwamon or Mega kabuterimon because they're the Bug ultimates, but they can also become Piximon because it's still in the Nature attribute. And sometimes you get weird cases where the attribute or type will just completely change on a whim, like with Dark Evolutions. I feel like Digimon World 2 did a weirdly good way of showing this because, sure, if you have enough evolution points then you're getting the canon line because that's the thing you'd expect out of a top-tier version. Or you could just evolve Biyomon and have it turn from a bird into a snake dragon because flying type.
Digimon are also data so weird ones make sense in that context. As long as the program is allowed to do (in this case Digivolve) a certain thing, then it can. I remember going down the rabbit hole on a number of sites getting the weirdest line I could.
Most people don't care, I think Angewomon "canoncically" digivolving to Magnadramon strikes a sour spot specifically, because people want to lewd Angewomon, and it turning into Magnadramon forces people to think about things that make them angry. Nevermind the fact that Digimon are unsexed anyways, and there's absolutely nothing stopping an Angewomon from being "male", thus the entire point of strife is moot, but I don't think the people upset that their waifu turned into Falcor have thought about it that much anyways.
The idea behind digivolutions is that the base mon gathers different and often times unrelated data as it ages, and so, it digivolves into something different. That aspect is more flashed out in the Tamers series.
The story behind the Angemon (and Devimon) having the same name. They were trying to eliminate religious references in America in order to not offend Christians. When they got to Angemon and Devimon, they couldn't find a way around it. They were an angel and a devil, so they just rolled the dice and left it at was and waited for the complaints to roll in. Never happened.
@@TheForeverRanger while it was never shown, Devimon's line either leads to Vamdemon (Myotismon) or Skull Satamon (or even Lady Devimon). The reason Digimon mostly don't have a single evolution line is that their evolution is dependent on attributes. One example is Bakemon. While most become Phantomon, one that may be particularly intelligent may become Vamdemon instead. In speaking of name changes, Vamdemon's (which is derived from the English words Vampire and Demon) name change makes no sense as Myotis is Latin for a Genus of bats...and not even vampire bats!
the memory gauge system is actually based on bandai's american only chronoclash system lcg, which was designed by one of the people who worked on duel masters, ryan miller
Kohdok should start a podcast. I could just listen to this guy talk all day tbh. Feature guests who also play other card games and what not. Could be a good time.
Just wanted to say since I've played the game some, moreso in case anyone looking at the comments wants more information i guess -the Memory Gauge actually kinda works out fairly well in my experience, the constant turn switching helps make it feel like its anyones game especially when its possible to play almost any card for a comeback if you're willing to accept the consequences. -I would recommend moving the Digitama to its own space and not on the deck since you evolve by placing cards on top of it, so it'd get weird and clunky if you leave it on the top of the deck I think. -Blue is generally considered fairly strong but its more for draw and memory manipulation as i see more than its destruction of evo sources, though also some strategies dont even care if they have evo sources so yknow -The game currently has Red, Blue, Yellow and Green as of the first set. Technically ONE white card as well. Black and Purple are confirmed to be coming in set 2. -and yes Color mixing is possible except you also have to know you cannot play an Option card from the hand unless you have a Tamer or Digimon of the same color on the field. -i think you overexaggerate how confusing inheritable/non-inheritable abilities are cuz most of the community basically has no problem with it and new players seem to latch onto it super fast, it also helps when translating the actual cards since the card text makes it CLEAR what the inheritable evolution source effect actually is anyway if anyones interested i highly recommend actually playing to get more info so here's the invite code for the discord server J8XAsPm
16:19 that’s actually a Digivolution route option in some games. Furthermore I think that the multiple evolution routes makes a lot of sense for digimon as Digivolution is the accumulation of data and then converts that data to something new to take on a new form.
Digimon world games do that, where different digimon can digivolve into branching digivolutions based on what different data they collect, so a branching evolution system isn't all that of a stupid system. Kind of like pokemon one but cranked up to 11
Pifilix XIV exactly, even in its origins as Vpets that was true. Even the anime which tends to stick to characters having rigid routes has characters going through different routes, whether it be the various methods in 02, the ever popular dark digivolutions, or even re-uses of old Digimon like agumon in savers/datasquad.
I believe the creator said he was forced to add the card game into the show, so I gusse they stopped caring the later the show went on. It sad they dropped it gave the Human partners have something to do other then just giving a encouragement, at less we talking about Marcus who a chad and punches digimon in the face.
@@jiabryant533 He was. They wanted Tamer to tie it into the marketing. Hence why Henry got Terriermon from the videogames and Rika was a queen at the card game. Personally I'm just glad that the show was as good as it was because that kind of corporate mandate could have gone soooo wrong so easily
They wanted to use the wild success of the card game to market Tamers. It didn't work- the card game was incredibly popular in the only market that mattered until it was murdered, while Tamers started putting nails into the coffin of Digimon anime that finally got finished by the Frontier movie bombing.
@@TheShinyFeraligatr there is a reason tamer is more favored by older audience, it was made for older audience when the previous audience is a child/kids, and frontier is so different from previous iteration
@@pepperbreath35 Japan's older audience also doesn't favor Tamers. Frontier was ok over there, but it had a movie that killed Digimon animation for a few years.
Well, considering that in Hacker's Memory you have 18 different paths to get to Knightmon from 4 of the 5 training 1 digimon, your not wrong. Yes, I actually took the time to work backwards from knightmon to training 1 so I could have an army of knightmon each with a different path.
@@Ninja_Geek Doing God’s work. I actually really like the fact that basically the data that makes up a Digimon can then be manipulated to become almost anything else you want. It just makes it easier (sometimes) to collect the mons you want, or at least try a different path. It’s more like Classes on an RPG character in my mind.
Okay, that security attack mechanic is actually really cool because it's basically incorporating a mechanic from the show where if a tamer is in danger then it prompts their Digimon to digivolve, but first evolutions achieved like this always either die or turn back almost immediately. So it's like your Digimon is forcing an evolution to Champion, Ultimate, Mega, whatever to protect you and if they pull it off then they just barely stop the threat from dealing another point of damage. I actually kind-of wish I knew some people who could play this because it seems really cool and I dig all the weird turnabout mechanics that force you to keep experimenting with different evolution chains.
Hopefully there’s a Discord-style community where people can jump into matches and play over web cam at least, since I doubt there’ll be a digital version. Was really hoping that with Bandai Namco releasing Zenonzard, we’d see a digital Digimon game too.
@@johnbuscher Turns out, there actually is. If you get Tabletop Simulator then there's a free fan plugin you can find for the card game that lets you import decks you make from digimoncard.dev/ . And on the page is also a link to a Discord with other people who play the game through Tabletop Simulator (TTS). This might seem like a lot, but it totally works. You just have to buy TTS from Steam, find the Digimon 2020 TCG add-on, import a deck by copy/pasting a code from the site I linked (make sure to import while the notebook is still on the code page), and then you can save the deck as an object and find some matches. It is worth noting that not all cards are set up with the TTS plugin right now, like they're not at the new starter deck cards or beyond, but that's still pretty far and there is a method to screenshot cards and get them into the game. You'll just need to hit alt to zoom in on them to read the effects as opposed to having them show up when you mouse over the cards. Hope this explained everything pretty well! I've been using this setup for a bit now and this game's pretty crazy.
Discoleumas I can totally understand that, his voice can do that, at least Rajin Caijun is good and now HunterSerge is making Digimon content, as well as a lot more Digimon tcg youtubers who I’m forgetting.
The first Digimon Digi Battle cards were edited by Upper Deck, and they had some sort of falling out with Bandai who then went on and edited the tcg themselves. That's why the rules are the same between series 2 and series 3, but the aesthetics are different ; Bandai were looking for a new visual identity, not a full on reboot of the mechanics. Series 3 started being edited under Upper Deck in the OG Digi Battle style in Europe, namely in France. Which is why you'll find French only series 3 Digi Battle cards with the cool old school artwork, as well as the exact same cards in that arguably uglier CGI aesthetics in English and other languages.
I really hope this game takes off a bit or at least gets a good english release. I effing love Digimon and I'd really dig having a lot of variety in a weird system like this that gives you this much potential creativity with things.
I find it slightly amusing that he starts explaining about the cards and not how to win, when in his rulebook video he talks about how the first thing you should talk about when explaining the game is how to win.
The idea behind digivolutions is that the base mon gathers different and often times unrelated data as it ages, and so, it digivolves into something different. That aspect is more flashed out in the Tamers series. Thats why they look so wild as they digimon and thats why many mon digivolutionary lines share the same starter baby form.
Yeah, inherited abilities are neat and if you design for it, it’s not as broken hopefully. It’s apparently somewhat like the XYZ stuff from YuGiOh, too.
I feel like Yu-Gi-Oh has found a happy medium when it comes to box size. For most of it's products anyway. For some reason Konami saw fit to charge £15 for a half-empty box this year.
The "Any sort of digimon can digivolve into a digimon of the next higher level as long as they're the some color" reminds me of the Digimon PS1 Card Game, which had a similar rule, with the four tribes in that being Black,Red, Blue, and Yellow. Something wacky I'd like to see transferred from that game is the Digivolution Cards, which are option cards specifically meant to bypass some of the digivoution restrictions. They were bricky but could allow for some crazy builds, like the Ultimate Armor Turbo I made, which had three rookies in the entire deck and was built around using the niche "Armor Crush Digivolution" to turbo out high powered Ultimate Digimon either second or third turn. Honestly the Digimon Digital Card Battle PS1 Game was fun, slow as hell, as the game only slowly spoon fed you cards 3 at a time, making grinding for any sort of decent library a huge chore. But the game had a few neat features. Like allowing you to mulligan your hand any number of times you want at the start of any turn, but you must discard your current hand to do so (and getting cards out of the graveyard/discard pile was difficult). And the rock, paper, scissors, combat which forced you to make a read on which attack your opponent picks for some major potential upsets. And you could 'hail mary' the top card of your deck into you option zone as a last resort if nothing in your hand can help.
The original Digimon card game's card size was actually slightly different from a standard card size. They are just as wide as a MTG card, but slightly taller.
the heavily borrows from duel master and mtg color theory, in the light deck and white deck of both duel master and mtg you either go wide or in dM super anthem effects, red is just red, aggro plane and simple, but remember blue for duel master it heavily focused on returning a creature to your deck and while it wasn't very strong it was able to "control" the board state at time.
Are deck boxes larger in America? I remember MTG having decks which basically contained 60 cards and a small leaflet and weren't any larger than that. That was around eighth edition though.
14:34 there is green for the plant and insect digimon. There is currently a white card omegamon (omnimon) and there are rumors of black/purple cards for machine and dark digimon.
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. So we have Fire, Water, Light, Nature, Machine, Dark, and Neutral for probably special circumstances like fusions or other weird situations. I think the only type we're missing is Filth, but I'd imagine that might be folded into one category or another. Maybe Numemon would be Black or something since I feel like Filth types are more associated with Macines, like how Machinedramon used a lot of Numemon as slaves.
The 2nd booster did introduce the new colors, but it also threw the color types out the window. There's now a yellow Agumon, that includes the GeoGreymon evolutionary line, a black Agumon that evolves the normal evolutionary line, & a purple Gabumon with it's regular evolutionary line. There's also green Tyranomon, MetalTyranomon, & RustTyranomon. Though I guess that promo Veedramon already kind of did it being a blue card, but that was just one card. Oh yeah, the Veedramon evolution line is blue, along with Veemon. Forgot about the green Agumon, I guess to go with the green Tyranomon.
I'm just waiting for them to announce Mastemon before I get too invested. There are already yellow and purple cards that gain effects of you have the other color on board, such as gatomon and wizardmon from ultimate power, so here's hoping she comes out soon.
I remember getting the very first Digimon card game here in Germany, probably 20 years ago. I think it was a starter deck and some boosters? I'm not sure. I went back to that shop a couple of weeks later and the game was already discontinued. Nobody I knew had interest in it, everyone preferred Pokémon. If this new game will be available in Germany, I'll maybe get two decks, just for nostalgia reasons and maybe I can even find someone to play with.
I actually like the idea of tiny reusable deck boxes. I remember MtG used to sell decks in something of that size as well (at least during the Mirrodin-Kamigawa era, probably quite a long time before that too) and I always enjoyed seeing store shelves behind the counter with lots of small colourful boxes neatly stacked. Modern deck boxes are showy for sure but they're such a waste of space and cardboard that you instantly throw away. I really don't like 'em all that much. Anyway, this seems like something I'd like to try if an English release rolls around. Get a few decks, try it out, probably just a fun thing to play for a few rounds.
You forgot about the D-Tector card game which is the Frontier one not that one you showed. Also I can only assume the 2nd one tried to make itself appear to be a different card game since the 1st one had failed already. And maybe that's why they kept releasing English exclusive card games afterwards, must have thought since we weren't buying those we must want a different type of card game or something. The card rarity is on the cards next to the card number. So despite them all essentially all being commons, the decks have Uncommon, Rare, & Super Rare cards.
The separation of abilities and inherited abilities is interesting. I guess it prevents overpowered ability mixing that might occur if they just had a single ability box. Still kinda weird that a lot of cards are vanilla cards until you can evolve them and get access to their inherited abilities, which are really less "inherited" abilities and more unlocked-after-you-evolve-this abilities.
I think the reason Digimon evolutionary paths go so weird, is that the original virtual pets could evolve in so many ways depending on how well it was taken care of. Interestingly, the baby one level (literally just hatched) Digimon that can evolve into angemon could also evolve into devimon.
Haos magna Ingram I think blue and yellow have the best starter decks but is definitely my opinion, but your right about blue really getting the spotlight in new evolution.
Obsidian Roost every game I saw of just starter decks (however some of these matches were the app starter decks which were incomplete so that definitely plays a factor), blue always had the hardest time and lost the most. Maybe it could come down to piloting poorly, but I’m just saying what I observed.
Those first two were very muvh the exact same game, they just commited Sin #0 and changed the back art for no reason. They're completely compatible and as long as you use sleeves mixing them is A Okay.
I assume there'd be nine colours because there are (usually) nine types in digimon; wind, electric, earth, fire, water, plant, light, dark, neutral. How does the game deal with attributes (virus, vaccine, data, free)?
you said one baby digimon can be in play one each side, but does that mean that you can have only one digimon on your side, or can you have a baby digimon along side an upper level digimon to then have 2 upper levels on your side later on? considering a good few of the higher levels are fusions, you would at some point need 2 digimon if they are made, omnimon for example, or heck shoutmon X5
You can have quite a few digimon in play baby digimon stay in the rasing area it can't attack and also can't be attacked and you can basically evolve your digimon all the way up in that area and can only be moved onto the battle area at the beginning of the turn (baby digimon stay in the raising area he kinda explained it wrong you have to evolve before it can move out) Fusion Digimon are white cards so far which can digivolve using one of the two colors so a LV6 Blue or LV6 Red digimon you only need one digimon not two and it dosent have to be Wargreymon or Metal Garurumon
I really want a translation. I want to collect them knowing no one else will in my playgroups will. But since I have all the decks, they'll have to play, right??? RIGHT!?!?!? Plus the clock mechanic is cute
Wait, what does the Backstreet Boys reunion tour have to do with getting Digimon cards? Also, why Magnadramon? It's already confirmed that Angewomon will progress into Ophanimon in 2020.
What do you mean what does it have to do with getting Digimon cards? You realize that shipping is all jacked up as a result of the current situation right? To say nothing of something that has to be imported from Japan
So far two booster sets have come out for it and a third one was already confirmed. I hope It doesn't fall into the 2 year curse cuz I'm playing this game on Tabletop Simulator with my brothers and we all love it. So I hope we see more of this game and have an American release
@@ricardonunez9360 Hello from 2024! We are now 16 regular sets into the game with 6 smaller extra sets and something like 15 starter decks. Soon the English and Japanese releases will happen simultaneously. The game is great and more people should play it!
I like to call them by their Japanese names. Because the localization in my country calls all of their name by their original Japanese ones. Also, when i first heard their English name, i was confused about who is who, because i was so unfamiliar with those Cuz for me, Tailmon is Tailmon! Although as a kid i always calls her Teirumon because of how the dubbing make it sound like...
something really important is that the cards look beautiful, artistically consistent and actually look like a finished well trough out product. it looks tight.
Digivolutions have never had pretensions of following a natural being's life cycle like Pokemon, they just go wherever they may with a rough thematic underlining. There are some much weirder examples, like a Digimon evolving into an egg, a machine evolving into a living creature, a goblin turning into a teddy bear or just straight evolving into pixel art.
Pixel art @DOTShineGreymon
Gatomon's probably the weirdest 'canon' line because it's a dog that turns into a cat, who is a champion, and then it becomes an angel woman and then a Dragon. But digivolutions often just follow whatever atribute if there's not a canon line. Like any bug is probably going to turn into Okuwamon or Mega kabuterimon because they're the Bug ultimates, but they can also become Piximon because it's still in the Nature attribute. And sometimes you get weird cases where the attribute or type will just completely change on a whim, like with Dark Evolutions.
I feel like Digimon World 2 did a weirdly good way of showing this because, sure, if you have enough evolution points then you're getting the canon line because that's the thing you'd expect out of a top-tier version. Or you could just evolve Biyomon and have it turn from a bird into a snake dragon because flying type.
Digimon are also data so weird ones make sense in that context. As long as the program is allowed to do (in this case Digivolve) a certain thing, then it can. I remember going down the rabbit hole on a number of sites getting the weirdest line I could.
Most people don't care, I think Angewomon "canoncically" digivolving to Magnadramon strikes a sour spot specifically, because people want to lewd Angewomon, and it turning into Magnadramon forces people to think about things that make them angry.
Nevermind the fact that Digimon are unsexed anyways, and there's absolutely nothing stopping an Angewomon from being "male", thus the entire point of strife is moot, but I don't think the people upset that their waifu turned into Falcor have thought about it that much anyways.
The idea behind digivolutions is that the base mon gathers different and often times unrelated data as it ages, and so, it digivolves into something different.
That aspect is more flashed out in the Tamers series.
The story behind the Angemon (and Devimon) having the same name. They were trying to eliminate religious references in America in order to not offend Christians. When they got to Angemon and Devimon, they couldn't find a way around it. They were an angel and a devil, so they just rolled the dice and left it at was and waited for the complaints to roll in. Never happened.
One thing that is also neat about those two is that their canon lines or logical since it was never shown that Devimon digivolves into Myotismon.
@@TheForeverRanger while it was never shown, Devimon's line either leads to Vamdemon (Myotismon) or Skull Satamon (or even Lady Devimon). The reason Digimon mostly don't have a single evolution line is that their evolution is dependent on attributes. One example is Bakemon. While most become Phantomon, one that may be particularly intelligent may become Vamdemon instead.
In speaking of name changes, Vamdemon's (which is derived from the English words Vampire and Demon) name change makes no sense as Myotis is Latin for a Genus of bats...and not even vampire bats!
the memory gauge system is actually based on bandai's american only chronoclash system lcg, which was designed by one of the people who worked on duel masters, ryan miller
Kohdok should start a podcast. I could just listen to this guy talk all day tbh. Feature guests who also play other card games and what not. Could be a good time.
agreed!
Just wanted to say since I've played the game some, moreso in case anyone looking at the comments wants more information i guess
-the Memory Gauge actually kinda works out fairly well in my experience, the constant turn switching helps make it feel like its anyones game especially when its possible to play almost any card for a comeback if you're willing to accept the consequences.
-I would recommend moving the Digitama to its own space and not on the deck since you evolve by placing cards on top of it, so it'd get weird and clunky if you leave it on the top of the deck I think.
-Blue is generally considered fairly strong but its more for draw and memory manipulation as i see more than its destruction of evo sources, though also some strategies dont even care if they have evo sources so yknow
-The game currently has Red, Blue, Yellow and Green as of the first set. Technically ONE white card as well. Black and Purple are confirmed to be coming in set 2.
-and yes Color mixing is possible except you also have to know you cannot play an Option card from the hand unless you have a Tamer or Digimon of the same color on the field.
-i think you overexaggerate how confusing inheritable/non-inheritable abilities are cuz most of the community basically has no problem with it and new players seem to latch onto it super fast, it also helps when translating the actual cards since the card text makes it CLEAR what the inheritable evolution source effect actually is
anyway if anyones interested i highly recommend actually playing to get more info so here's the invite code for the discord server J8XAsPm
We need an English release
@@bryanmerel while waiting for the official, there is this platoform to play online with fandom traductions, which works pretty damn well
@@Retruyomyl5 Wich plattform?
@@hectordanielhernandezmaldo OCTGN
If no one is going to say it I will: Cardd ass.
I was just thinking that
That was an eyesore! I couldn't concentrate on the video lol
yeah running gag^^
its pronounced cardudassu in japan i think
JWittz said it
Matt is what they called Yamato in the English Version of Digimon. I'm not afraid to admit it I love anime.
Gaming Nerd1993 Matt was more of a nickname since on the first episode they show the Japanese names for all the kids
@@WahWhoopie he's Ishida in both languages right? All I remember is TK and Matt don't share last names. Like Takeru Takeishi or something
redundancycheck should be, yeah since they went with the nicknames they kept the original names as the full ones
"This is a completely different beast."
>Mimi
I agree.
Lmao
@@codyhanson1344 Why is there no online variant of this TCG hello?
The website says that the MSRP for these are supposed to be roughly $5 each! That's super reasonable given the packaging.
I assure you, you won't find any of these for 5 dollars. 15 dollars if you're lucky, but mostly you'll be seeing 20-25.
16:19 that’s actually a Digivolution route option in some games. Furthermore I think that the multiple evolution routes makes a lot of sense for digimon as Digivolution is the accumulation of data and then converts that data to something new to take on a new form.
Digimon world games do that, where different digimon can digivolve into branching digivolutions based on what different data they collect, so a branching evolution system isn't all that of a stupid system. Kind of like pokemon one but cranked up to 11
Pifilix XIV exactly, even in its origins as Vpets that was true. Even the anime which tends to stick to characters having rigid routes has characters going through different routes, whether it be the various methods in 02, the ever popular dark digivolutions, or even re-uses of old Digimon like agumon in savers/datasquad.
@@haosmagnaingram6992 mhm, plus this system could enable some fun combos
I remember Digimon tamers incorporated the cardgame into the show, then I think they just kind of dropped it after the first 20 episodes.
I believe the creator said he was forced to add the card game into the show, so I gusse they stopped caring the later the show went on. It sad they dropped it gave the Human partners have something to do other then just giving a encouragement, at less we talking about Marcus who a chad and punches digimon in the face.
@@jiabryant533 He was. They wanted Tamer to tie it into the marketing. Hence why Henry got Terriermon from the videogames and Rika was a queen at the card game. Personally I'm just glad that the show was as good as it was because that kind of corporate mandate could have gone soooo wrong so easily
They wanted to use the wild success of the card game to market Tamers. It didn't work- the card game was incredibly popular in the only market that mattered until it was murdered, while Tamers started putting nails into the coffin of Digimon anime that finally got finished by the Frontier movie bombing.
@@TheShinyFeraligatr there is a reason tamer is more favored by older audience, it was made for older audience when the previous audience is a child/kids, and frontier is so different from previous iteration
@@pepperbreath35 Japan's older audience also doesn't favor Tamers. Frontier was ok over there, but it had a movie that killed Digimon animation for a few years.
English Digimon announced for January 2021, with early release this November. Starters are $10 MSRP.
That’s still super reasonable. Thinking about ordering the starter decks and some Final Fantasy TCG to have some non-magic if possible.
Had to pay 20 each for mine but they each came with a booster pack and managed to make my money back with a lucky pull
@@jacob-da3956 managed to get all three from Walmart MSRP
"The Backstreet Boys reunion tour"
Ah, I see you're a man of Grump as well.
Was about to say the same thing
who?
@@flufflepants362 Game Grumps (Arin and Dan).
"The Digivolution system is a bunch of confusing spaghetti" never have I seen a more effective summary
I mean, it's spaghetti coding at its finest
Well, considering that in Hacker's Memory you have 18 different paths to get to Knightmon from 4 of the 5 training 1 digimon, your not wrong. Yes, I actually took the time to work backwards from knightmon to training 1 so I could have an army of knightmon each with a different path.
@@Ninja_Geek Doing God’s work. I actually really like the fact that basically the data that makes up a Digimon can then be manipulated to become almost anything else you want. It just makes it easier (sometimes) to collect the mons you want, or at least try a different path. It’s more like Classes on an RPG character in my mind.
Okay, that security attack mechanic is actually really cool because it's basically incorporating a mechanic from the show where if a tamer is in danger then it prompts their Digimon to digivolve, but first evolutions achieved like this always either die or turn back almost immediately. So it's like your Digimon is forcing an evolution to Champion, Ultimate, Mega, whatever to protect you and if they pull it off then they just barely stop the threat from dealing another point of damage. I actually kind-of wish I knew some people who could play this because it seems really cool and I dig all the weird turnabout mechanics that force you to keep experimenting with different evolution chains.
Hopefully there’s a Discord-style community where people can jump into matches and play over web cam at least, since I doubt there’ll be a digital version. Was really hoping that with Bandai Namco releasing Zenonzard, we’d see a digital Digimon game too.
@@johnbuscher Turns out, there actually is. If you get Tabletop Simulator then there's a free fan plugin you can find for the card game that lets you import decks you make from digimoncard.dev/ . And on the page is also a link to a Discord with other people who play the game through Tabletop Simulator (TTS).
This might seem like a lot, but it totally works. You just have to buy TTS from Steam, find the Digimon 2020 TCG add-on, import a deck by copy/pasting a code from the site I linked (make sure to import while the notebook is still on the code page), and then you can save the deck as an object and find some matches. It is worth noting that not all cards are set up with the TTS plugin right now, like they're not at the new starter deck cards or beyond, but that's still pretty far and there is a method to screenshot cards and get them into the game. You'll just need to hit alt to zoom in on them to read the effects as opposed to having them show up when you mouse over the cards.
Hope this explained everything pretty well! I've been using this setup for a bit now and this game's pretty crazy.
dude! please do the deck breakdown! im so hyped about this game!
Wossy Plays and Rajin Cajun have good videos doing that if you’re interested.
@@haosmagnaingram6992 thx for the info man!
It is getting a english release!!!
@@haosmagnaingram6992 I can't stand Wossy's videos.
Discoleumas I can totally understand that, his voice can do that, at least Rajin Caijun is good and now HunterSerge is making Digimon content, as well as a lot more Digimon tcg youtubers who I’m forgetting.
The first Digimon Digi Battle cards were edited by Upper Deck, and they had some sort of falling out with Bandai who then went on and edited the tcg themselves. That's why the rules are the same between series 2 and series 3, but the aesthetics are different ; Bandai were looking for a new visual identity, not a full on reboot of the mechanics. Series 3 started being edited under Upper Deck in the OG Digi Battle style in Europe, namely in France. Which is why you'll find French only series 3 Digi Battle cards with the cool old school artwork, as well as the exact same cards in that arguably uglier CGI aesthetics in English and other languages.
Each deck is valued around $5
decent
@@wolkaiserdrake9946 decent this is huge no having to scavige voor a deck that's costs under 100 that doesn't lose 60 procent of the time
That’s the cheapest I’ve ever seen.
It's arguably the cheapest it's ever been. 500 yen on a starter deck is fucking miniscule.
I really hope this game takes off a bit or at least gets a good english release. I effing love Digimon and I'd really dig having a lot of variety in a weird system like this that gives you this much potential creativity with things.
I find it slightly amusing that he starts explaining about the cards and not how to win, when in his rulebook video he talks about how the first thing you should talk about when explaining the game is how to win.
A case of "do as I say and not do as I do"
He's not a rulebook and this isn't a video solely to teach the game.
It might be fun to see how you break down this new version of Digital Monsters. Might even do a history of how each version of it was played.
The idea behind digivolutions is that the base mon gathers different and often times unrelated data as it ages, and so, it digivolves into something different.
That aspect is more flashed out in the Tamers series.
Thats why they look so wild as they digimon and thats why many mon digivolutionary lines share the same starter baby form.
that "Memory system" looks ALOT like Crono the Crono Clash syster O-O from the Crono Clash card games and sets
@Kohdok : Do you know Crono Clash ?
His name was matt in the English dub.
I like the inherited abilities. Kind of reminds me of MTG Ikoria's Mutate, but baked-in to the game itself
Yeah, inherited abilities are neat and if you design for it, it’s not as broken hopefully. It’s apparently somewhat like the XYZ stuff from YuGiOh, too.
I feel like Yu-Gi-Oh has found a happy medium when it comes to box size. For most of it's products anyway. For some reason Konami saw fit to charge £15 for a half-empty box this year.
The "Any sort of digimon can digivolve into a digimon of the next higher level as long as they're the some color" reminds me of the Digimon PS1 Card Game, which had a similar rule, with the four tribes in that being Black,Red, Blue, and Yellow. Something wacky I'd like to see transferred from that game is the Digivolution Cards, which are option cards specifically meant to bypass some of the digivoution restrictions. They were bricky but could allow for some crazy builds, like the Ultimate Armor Turbo I made, which had three rookies in the entire deck and was built around using the niche "Armor Crush Digivolution" to turbo out high powered Ultimate Digimon either second or third turn.
Honestly the Digimon Digital Card Battle PS1 Game was fun, slow as hell, as the game only slowly spoon fed you cards 3 at a time, making grinding for any sort of decent library a huge chore. But the game had a few neat features. Like allowing you to mulligan your hand any number of times you want at the start of any turn, but you must discard your current hand to do so (and getting cards out of the graveyard/discard pile was difficult). And the rock, paper, scissors, combat which forced you to make a read on which attack your opponent picks for some major potential upsets. And you could 'hail mary' the top card of your deck into you option zone as a last resort if nothing in your hand can help.
I want the Monster Rancher card game to come back. I played that on PS1 like the Digimon card game too.
The original Digimon card game's card size was actually slightly different from a standard card size. They are just as wide as a MTG card, but slightly taller.
Love the artwork, I was hoping you'd at least quickly show the cards in the other two decks.
the heavily borrows from duel master and mtg color theory, in the light deck and white deck of both duel master and mtg you either go wide or in dM super anthem effects, red is just red, aggro plane and simple, but remember blue for duel master it heavily focused on returning a creature to your deck and while it wasn't very strong it was able to "control" the board state at time.
Digimon also has Green, Purple, & Black.
Omg I'm glad "backstreet boys reunion tour" has caught on in speech...
Less glad it caught on and stays on in America
Are deck boxes larger in America? I remember MTG having decks which basically contained 60 cards and a small leaflet and weren't any larger than that. That was around eighth edition though.
Yeah, MtG's boxes are pretty big now, relative to boxes back then. There's a big plastic tray that holds the cards.
@@SonofSethoitae gotta show off that foil rare planeswalker, I guess
14:34 there is green for the plant and insect digimon. There is currently a white card omegamon (omnimon) and there are rumors of black/purple cards for machine and dark digimon.
Haos magna Ingram black and purple are confirmed.
Obsidian Roost but do we know what they are for. Also is it cards that are black and purple or black cards and purple cards?
Haos magna Ingram we are getting both black and purple as separate colors in the new set.
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. So we have Fire, Water, Light, Nature, Machine, Dark, and Neutral for probably special circumstances like fusions or other weird situations. I think the only type we're missing is Filth, but I'd imagine that might be folded into one category or another. Maybe Numemon would be Black or something since I feel like Filth types are more associated with Macines, like how Machinedramon used a lot of Numemon as slaves.
The 2nd booster did introduce the new colors, but it also threw the color types out the window. There's now a yellow Agumon, that includes the GeoGreymon evolutionary line, a black Agumon that evolves the normal evolutionary line, & a purple Gabumon with it's regular evolutionary line. There's also green Tyranomon, MetalTyranomon, & RustTyranomon. Though I guess that promo Veedramon already kind of did it being a blue card, but that was just one card. Oh yeah, the Veedramon evolution line is blue, along with Veemon. Forgot about the green Agumon, I guess to go with the green Tyranomon.
If they could incorporate hybrid digimon like Grumblemon from frontier, then maybe I’d get some of these cards.
Do you mean hybrid colors, or specifically frontier spirit digimon? Either way I’m sure it’ll get there eventually.
I'm just waiting for them to announce Mastemon before I get too invested. There are already yellow and purple cards that gain effects of you have the other color on board, such as gatomon and wizardmon from ultimate power, so here's hoping she comes out soon.
Your wish is granted
@@jacob-da3956 His wish has been further granted
I like how all the changes you'd apply to the packaging are based on how negatively different the US and Japan are culturally.
I love the design of these cards like damn they look good
I remember getting the very first Digimon card game here in Germany, probably 20 years ago. I think it was a starter deck and some boosters? I'm not sure. I went back to that shop a couple of weeks later and the game was already discontinued. Nobody I knew had interest in it, everyone preferred Pokémon.
If this new game will be available in Germany, I'll maybe get two decks, just for nostalgia reasons and maybe I can even find someone to play with.
I actually like the idea of tiny reusable deck boxes. I remember MtG used to sell decks in something of that size as well (at least during the Mirrodin-Kamigawa era, probably quite a long time before that too) and I always enjoyed seeing store shelves behind the counter with lots of small colourful boxes neatly stacked.
Modern deck boxes are showy for sure but they're such a waste of space and cardboard that you instantly throw away. I really don't like 'em all that much.
Anyway, this seems like something I'd like to try if an English release rolls around. Get a few decks, try it out, probably just a fun thing to play for a few rounds.
You forgot about the D-Tector card game which is the Frontier one not that one you showed. Also I can only assume the 2nd one tried to make itself appear to be a different card game since the 1st one had failed already. And maybe that's why they kept releasing English exclusive card games afterwards, must have thought since we weren't buying those we must want a different type of card game or something.
The card rarity is on the cards next to the card number. So despite them all essentially all being commons, the decks have Uncommon, Rare, & Super Rare cards.
woah the pokestar studios music in the background threw me off fldjfkdj it was annoying me until i figured out what it was
The separation of abilities and inherited abilities is interesting. I guess it prevents overpowered ability mixing that might occur if they just had a single ability box. Still kinda weird that a lot of cards are vanilla cards until you can evolve them and get access to their inherited abilities, which are really less "inherited" abilities and more unlocked-after-you-evolve-this abilities.
Honestly this seems kind of interesting I never watched Digimon growing up but I sure do love me card games
I think the reason Digimon evolutionary paths go so weird, is that the original virtual pets could evolve in so many ways depending on how well it was taken care of.
Interestingly, the baby one level (literally just hatched) Digimon that can evolve into angemon could also evolve into devimon.
What...
A starter product that's constructed out of mostly playsets?
Am I still asleep?
I know right? Baffling. I'm so used to not getting actual playsets. Im already liking the game.
I think out of the first set Green and Blue are the two best colors. But out of the starter decks it might be blue.
Though yellow is good from the starter decks
Blue has the worst starter deck from what I’ve seen, but set one allows blue to construct probably the best decks.
Haos magna Ingram I think blue and yellow have the best starter decks but is definitely my opinion, but your right about blue really getting the spotlight in new evolution.
Obsidian Roost every game I saw of just starter decks (however some of these matches were the app starter decks which were incomplete so that definitely plays a factor), blue always had the hardest time and lost the most. Maybe it could come down to piloting poorly, but I’m just saying what I observed.
There was also the D-Tector card game which was really bad. It was basically rock paper scissors
Angewoman has an alt mega Ophanimon. She’s the female version of Seraphimon
It'd be nice if Angewomon and LadyDevimon got alt champions to better reflect the Angemon/Devimon line instead of coming from Tailmon/BlackTailmon.
Nah.
Magnadramon making people who want to lewd Angewomon upset amuses me greatly.
Ooh! I'd love to see a vid breakdown on fire emblem cipher!
Those first two were very muvh the exact same game, they just commited Sin #0 and changed the back art for no reason. They're completely compatible and as long as you use sleeves mixing them is A Okay.
You should open the new evolution booster set box this month and the ultimate power booster box in july
Have you seen Flesh and Blood? would you mind sharing your thoughts about it?
"Steven and the Stevens"
When are they going on tour?
8:31 I really like that Pokemon coin bit for no reason
That is the resource system nature and Godzilla chrono clash system use. Still love the video
I assume there'd be nine colours because there are (usually) nine types in digimon; wind, electric, earth, fire, water, plant, light, dark, neutral. How does the game deal with attributes (virus, vaccine, data, free)?
Ophanimon is an alternate mega evolution for Angewomon and the female counterpart of Seraphimon
Crystal Clans uses a very similar resource system. I think it makes more sense in Crystal Clans given the win condition of that game.
The back of the calmaramon card reminds me of digimon tamers cards in the show
The deck only coast 550 yen which is about 5 dollars.
Do we know if this will be released in america? I'd love to play it.
can you please do a review of the OG international Digimon TCG?
You havnt been in my feed for weeks. Howve you been?
you said one baby digimon can be in play one each side, but does that mean that you can have only one digimon on your side, or can you have a baby digimon along side an upper level digimon to then have 2 upper levels on your side later on? considering a good few of the higher levels are fusions, you would at some point need 2 digimon if they are made, omnimon for example, or heck shoutmon X5
You can have quite a few digimon in play baby digimon stay in the rasing area it can't attack and also can't be attacked and you can basically evolve your digimon all the way up in that area and can only be moved onto the battle area at the beginning of the turn (baby digimon stay in the raising area he kinda explained it wrong you have to evolve before it can move out)
Fusion Digimon are white cards so far which can digivolve using one of the two colors so a LV6 Blue or LV6 Red digimon you only need one digimon not two and it dosent have to be Wargreymon or Metal Garurumon
Mega man legends 3 is getting a kickstarter from the composer
You forgot the D-Tector Card Game! 😂
The memory mechanic is very interesting
it seems clunky when you're first learning about it but when you actually play using it, it's super smooth
could you talk about adventure times tcg, card wars. the physical version
Hope it gets an english release because it looks cool and I'm not finding anyone to play it with irl otherwise.
Yamato is "Matt." ;)
Blue? Strong?
How unusual.
Ban Island, Islands are too strong.
Try reviewing Yu-gi-oh Rush Duel. It's card design is more pleasing to the eye than that of traditional Yu-gi-oh.
Cool idea but the design thing is debatable.
Just to let u know, the deck is $5 or 500yen retail price.
him: because of the Backstreet boys reunion tour
me: XD ah yes, a man of culture
I really want a translation. I want to collect them knowing no one else will in my playgroups will. But since I have all the decks, they'll have to play, right??? RIGHT!?!?!?
Plus the clock mechanic is cute
Yamato's English name is Matt :)
Heh, Toke-mon. I forgot how funny that name was.
Looks very much like Chrono Clash in terms of how the power meter works.
you missed d-tector dude. it was just war card game but still. and that was frontier the CCG yellow backs was between shows.
Wait, what does the Backstreet Boys reunion tour have to do with getting Digimon cards?
Also, why Magnadramon? It's already confirmed that Angewomon will progress into Ophanimon in 2020.
What do you mean what does it have to do with getting Digimon cards? You realize that shipping is all jacked up as a result of the current situation right? To say nothing of something that has to be imported from Japan
@@SonofSethoitae
Rain, sleet, or snow, the mail goes through, but nobody said anything about the Backstreet Boyz raisin' a propa WAAAGH!
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 It would seem that the Corpse Emperor does not protect after all
The green cardback means it's its from Tamers the thrid one
epic
If only the backstreet tour didn't get postponed 😭
Could you link your twitter thread about the movie somewhere please ? I can't find it
Where did you get the decks?
I hope he does another one when it comes out in English
Dude!! Backstreet boys reunion tour fan!!!!
Good ol' Ya"Matt"o Ishida.
I have 18,000$ worth of digimon shit. Including a big binder fulllll of cards, including some of the most expensive ones.
I wish the colors of the attributes were the colors of the crests
I grew up with digimon tamer one of the gba games
So can he read Japanese now?
So, this is probably just a One-Off too, huh?
So far two booster sets have come out for it and a third one was already confirmed. I hope It doesn't fall into the 2 year curse cuz I'm playing this game on Tabletop Simulator with my brothers and we all love it. So I hope we see more of this game and have an American release
@@ricardonunez9360 Hello from 2024! We are now 16 regular sets into the game with 6 smaller extra sets and something like 15 starter decks. Soon the English and Japanese releases will happen simultaneously. The game is great and more people should play it!
Can you finish the cg sins
I never knew that you were a grumps fan and what’s ur twitter
Aaah the hero card thing is kinda off putting for me.
literally the only kind of cheap looking thing in this cards
Please take a bit of time to plan your explanation, I was so confused for so long. And still don't hugely understand the game.
I have Dysgraphia as well my man. 😔👍
oh hey, it looks like the same system as the Godzilla card game
Crystal Clans.
That is all.
I like to call them by their Japanese names. Because the localization in my country calls all of their name by their original Japanese ones.
Also, when i first heard their English name, i was confused about who is who, because i was so unfamiliar with those
Cuz for me, Tailmon is Tailmon! Although as a kid i always calls her Teirumon because of how the dubbing make it sound like...