/dcg/ - Digimon Card Game General

>LINKS:
https://en.digimoncard.com/ (Asian English site)
https://world.digimoncard.com/ (Global English site)
https://www.tcgplayer.com/
https://digimoncard.dev/

>DECK LISTS:
https://digimonmeta.com/

>REPRINTS WHEN?!
Keep checking your local LGSs, resupply is in progress.
If you can't wait and have no other options, your best bet to get cards right now is singles from places like TCGplayer (see links section).

Never buy precon decks for over $21 (MSRP $16), boosters for over $7 (MSRP $5), or boxes for over $120 (MSRP $92). Don't feed scalpers.

>ROTATION WHEN??
Never, the best you can hope for is Block Constructed tournaments once there are enough sets in that block.

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QRD color overview
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Red:
Unga bunga. More DP gain and Security Attack than other colors, straightforward removal.
Mechanics - Piercing, Blitz, Raid, Progress
Removal - Deletion (often DP based), attacking unsuspended Digimon

Blue:
Aggro. Attacks early and often, frequently with Jamming and restands. Higher than normal consistency and straightforward memory gain.
Mechanics - Stunning, Evade, Iceclad, Decode, source strip, playing Digimon from sources
Removal - Bouncing (often level based), tucking, stunning

Yellow:
Control. Lots of recovery and removal, and the core of what makes Security Control variants work
Mechanics - Recovery, DP reduction, Security Attack reduction, Barrier, Overclock, looking at and manipulating Security
Removal - DP reduction, sending Digimon to Security

Green:
Growth. Evolves quickly and cheaply, speeds up the raising area. Lots of effects that involve suspending you and/or your opponent's Digimon.
Mechanics - Suspending opponent's Digimon, Digisorption, Piercing, Fortitude, Vortex, stunning
Removal - Suspending, tucking, stunning

Black:
Build-A-Boss. Strong inheritables with lots of keywords and protection. Lots of different gimmicks.
Mechanics - Blocker, Reboot, De-Digivolve, Decoy, Collision, Fragment, tamer removal, protection, Digimon with Security effects
Removal - De-Digivolve, play cost based deletion

Purple:
Combo. Lots of trash manipulation, lots of effects that trigger when deleted, lots of effects that delete your own Digimon, and lots of looping.
Mechanics - Milling, discarding, On-Deletion effects, Retaliation, Scapegoat, Execute, playing from Trash, adding from Trash to hand, some tax effects
Removal - Level based deletion, Retaliation

White:
Still more of a restriction than its own color. Consists mostly of support cards for other decks and level 7s. The White decks that exist in the game currently are highly gimmicky.
Mechanics - Cards that can be played at up to 50 copies per deck

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Basic beginner skeleton:
>14 Rookies
>12 Champions
>8 Ultimates
>4 primary Megas, 2 secondary Megas
>3 Tamers
>4 Option cards

>4 copies the optimal egg for your deck

The above ratios are only intended to be a STARTING point when deckbuilding, and should be altered based on your needs.
In particular, the addition of Memory Boosts to the game means that you can easily cut back on Rookies and Tamers without sacrificing much.

In the past, most decks played 5 eggs (4 good eggs, 1 suboptimal egg). Now that games don't typically last as many turns, players almost always opt to run only 4 eggs, with 2 main exceptions:
- Any deck running BT1 Mimi. Mimi speeds up the raising area and you can easily run out of eggs
- Any deck where you have 2 different eggs that serve essentially the same purpose. Greymon and Imperialdramon decks in particular can run 5 eggs that all say "when attacking, draw 1"

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Noob traps:
>running over-costed power cards, especially level 7s and removal Options
>running cards for their security effects only
>memory-setters in decks that don't really need them
>BT4 Anubismon
>running too many option cards
>stuffing too many different cards into your deck at low ratios (aka no consistency)
>trying to jam multiple different win conditions into a single deck
>not picking a strategy and sticking to it when building which leads to unfocused decks
>shotgunning Hammer Spark/delay effects at the earliest opportunity
>being overly conservative with memory even when it isn't beneficial to do so
>attacking the stack without a followup plan if you die to security
>playing roughly equal numbers of Rookies/Champions/Ultimates/Megas

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Fan-term Glossary
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Swing- Attack
Summoning Sickness- When a Digimon has been played this turn and therefore cannot attack
Bounce- Return to hand
Tuck- Return to bottom of deck
Pop- Delete
Restand- Unsuspend
Active- A Digimon that is Unsuspended
Rest/Tap- Suspend
Stun/Freeze- Make a Digimon unable to attack or block
Discard/Pitch- Trash a card from hand
Download- Digisorption (unofficial translation)
Vengeance- Retaliation (unofficial translation)
Memory Tamer/Memory Setter- Any of the 4 cost Tamers that guarantees at least 3 memory at the start of your turn.

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>Tourney Resources
Top Cut
Core TCG
https://player.rk9labs.com/
Carta Magia
https://www.cmprofessionalevents.com/
TAK
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/17442463505
Gencon
http://gencon.com/events/200039 / http://gencon.com/events/200038