Not sure if you mentioned it but Gabubond using the Ancient Garuru and ukko engine is also pretty nasty. Made a few tops in JP bt17 but now topping pretty consistently in bt18! I'd honestly place it a little higher than red hybrid
The problem for us is that we are gonna be missing a key card for that deck till december unfortunately Gabubond ace was released at the same time as BT17 in japan
@@LaIslaFileTCG the deck still works fine without the ace tbh, you're usually not keeping a gabumon on the field and usually just deleting and rehatching with the analog/lui engine to do it again.
this, but usually people hide behind "but the west is BO3". that doesn't change much. the only thing that might make a shift is when cards are released in different timeframe, e.g. Ukkomon (IIRC west got it quicker than JP relative to the set), or when they are hard-headed af, e.g. the Blue Hybrid era - Tommy did nothing in JP yet got banned lol.
You can still predict. NA players and Jp players have (usually) fundamentally different play styles. That and card releases are a bit more wonky here with good cards in side set. Like for Jp they had scramble by now. We won’t.
![Digimon Card Game : Lucemon (Satan Mode) VS Susanoomon (Red) [BT-18]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gag3vIxunt4/mqdefault.jpg)
reason ancient garurumon is so strong and seeing a lot of tops in Jp is because its super aggro while also being a counter to numemon
Hey what about the omnimon ace deck?
How do you feel about Cherubimon/Alliance?
Not sure if you mentioned it but Gabubond using the Ancient Garuru and ukko engine is also pretty nasty. Made a few tops in JP bt17 but now topping pretty consistently in bt18! I'd honestly place it a little higher than red hybrid
The problem for us is that we are gonna be missing a key card for that deck till december unfortunately
Gabubond ace was released at the same time as BT17 in japan
@@LaIslaFileTCG the deck still works fine without the ace tbh, you're usually not keeping a gabumon on the field and usually just deleting and rehatching with the analog/lui engine to do it again.
Fire 🔥
Kinda pointless to "predict" how good decks are when we've seen exactly how good they are in japan already...
this, but usually people hide behind "but the west is BO3". that doesn't change much. the only thing that might make a shift is when cards are released in different timeframe, e.g. Ukkomon (IIRC west got it quicker than JP relative to the set), or when they are hard-headed af, e.g. the Blue Hybrid era - Tommy did nothing in JP yet got banned lol.
You can still predict. NA players and Jp players have (usually) fundamentally different play styles. That and card releases are a bit more wonky here with good cards in side set. Like for Jp they had scramble by now. We won’t.