#DCGS

[digi-lov]

MetalGarurumon BT17-027, Omnimon Ace BT17-078, WarGreymon BT21-015, WereGarurumon Ace BT15-026, Agumon BT17-007, MetalGreymon Ace BT14-014, Garurumon BT15-024, Gabumon BT17-019, and Greymon BT14-014 Alternative Arts by Tonamikanji from the PB-19: Omnimon Binder Set

[laxmon]

Digimon Evolution Lines 60/∞

A new evolution line introduced in Digimon Liberator, based on various fairy tales. Shoemon and its evolutions are featured as the partner Digimon to main character Kinosaki Arisa in the web novel.

Stages: LV1: Pafumon LV2: Kyaromon LV3: Shoemon LV4: Shoeshoemon LV5: Chaperomon LV6: Cendrillmon

Artwork by Nakano Haito from the DCG (Pafumon/Kyaromon) and by Bandai from the Digimon Reference Book, respectively.

[dranathedragon]

Congratulations to Amanda Tapping for winning of Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series for Dead Boy Detectives episode 5, “The Case of the Two Dead Dragons!” So deserved, it’s one of my favorite episodes and I’ve loved Amanda Tapping since SG:1.

Also, I love that Steve not only posted it on his instagram, but tagged Netflix in it lol.

[apocalymons]

Our DCG Divination Deck

Okay, I'm finally gonna stop putting it off and actually talk a bit about our Digimon card game (DCG) divination deck.

Under a read more, because it's gonna be long.

So, the theory behind our DCG div deck is based loosely on these two posts by @miracleeye and @mahouowo respectively. The former is specifically about Pokemon TCG divination, while the latter is a bit more broad.

This is gonna focus on the process we went through to build our DCG div deck. It's technically a WIP, but that's because we have to order a few specific singles that we don't have yet, and are liable to switch cards as new sets come in. I've split this into a few headings, but a full list might be a later project if folks are interested, even though we have a spreadsheet to keep track of things.

Card Selection

Selecting cards is really the most personal part for us. We're Digimonkin, and have a lot of members in our system which adds to the flexibility and personal aspect of card choice. On the most basic level, what we were looking for were cards to represent different members and their different stages, because they have close associations with specific experiences/journeys/emotions.

This creates an "arc" in a similar way to certain groups of cards in Tarot. The Major Arcana tells a story; Digimon lines do the same, because Digimon evolution is often closely tied with spiritual and emotional growth.

It's also worth noting that the way Digimon work on a fundamental level means that growth, despite this chart, is largely nonlinear. Some Digimon revert back to previous levels. Others don't always evolve the same way as they did before. Reincarnation is also involved in certain cases (anime, v-pets, and Digimon World style games included).

All that is to say that, while we included specific "lines" in our DCG div deck, some of those lines have multiple stage representatives in order to highlight the plasticity of growth. This deck also has duplicates of the same stage/Digimon in order to represent different aspects of life, even when on the surface that form is the same or similar (3 Beelzemon cards, 3 Apocalymon cards, 3 Impmon cards, for example).

Beyond that, other card selections also focus on elements related to our experiences. For example, we have a grouping for Jeri, which includes her tamer card, ADR Searcher, Blue Card, Leomon, and Calumon. This same grouping also bleeds into Tamers Impmon's grouping, of which we consider Blue Card and Calumon included, but also has Ai and Mako.

Selection in our case is also most down to what artwork resonates with us most in a symbolically relevant way. We recently switched out BT15 DemiDevimon with EX 8 DemiDevimon, for example. Parallel art is common in the card game as well, to the point we technically have two arts of one card in the same deck.

Part of this change is also down to what the cards do. The former focuses on supporting Myotismon (a Digimon unrelated to our system). The latter focuses on supporting Nightmare Soldiers, which is more in line with the way that stage feels to our headmate who identifies with it: a resignation to the lot others see in you as a servant of evil.

[ID: two Digimon Card Game cards, both depicting DemiDevimon, an orb-shaped demon with bird-like talons and bat-like wings coming out of a leather hat. The first artwork, by Yamuretsu, shows DemiDevimon flying away from a group of agitated Digimon with a mischievous tongue peeking out of its smile. The second artwork, by Minato Sashima, shows DemiDevimon hanging from a tree branch, backlit by unnaturally purple-red moonlight.]

Also, we've included a few cards that aren't DCG cards. Specifically, we have an Apocalymon card from the old Digital Monster Card Game (we usually just refer to it as "Hyper Colo" tbh), and a Satellamon card from the Data Cardass Appli Monsters game.

The former is to represent an "archaic" feeling; something outdated, that has been processed but can ultimately not be purged from one's life. The latter is more down to the fact Satellamon is an Appmon, and we're only just now seeing those in the current DCG. (There's actually two Satellamon cards, and the one we don't have is the one we would prefer, but in a pinch, you take what you get.)

Information to Pay Attention To

In the Digimon Card Game, there are a few different card types as well, with information that puts them into groupings. The most basic card types are Digi-Eggs, Digimon, Tamers, and Option cards.

These may also be further grouped by card colors, which include red, blue, yellow, green, black, purple, and white (in the order of how they're sequenced in sets). Cards may have up to 3 colors.

These don't necessarily correspond to elemental divisions, but do often include them. I think this video does a better job explaining it than I could; divisions are much more about archetype than element, not just mechanically but also within the story structure of Digimon as a franchise.

If you're unfamiliar with Digimon, this also includes Digimon traits, such as Virus, Vaccine, Data, Free, and Unknown. Vi/Va/Da have a rock/paper/scissors relationship in other media, but very rarely interact with each other in the card game.

All Digimon also have stages, which represent levels of growth from In-Training (lv 2) to Mega (lv 6-7). In order, these are Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, and Mega. The terminology differs in Japanese, and elucidates the way you can also read these levels: Baby II, Child, Adult, Perfect, and Ultimate.

There are also other traits such as Field Types (Deep Savers, Nightmare Soldiers, Nature Spirits, etc.), protagonist groupings (Hero, Adventure, Liberators), type (Puppet, Dinosaur, Avian), and lore groupings (Seven Great Demon Lords, Three Angels, Four Great Dragons, Three Musketeers).

Appmon, which are only just getting introduced into the DCG, have similar stages (called "grades"), but 8 attributes. Appmon grades are Standard, Super, Ultimate, and God. Their attributes are in a larger circle than Vi/Va/Da, and are, in order of effectiveness on one another: Social, Navi, Tool, System, Game, Entertainment, and Life. Outside of this relationship is God attribute.

For people interested in using numbers for their readings, Digimon cards also have a lot of information in that regard. Digimon alone have play cost, evolution cost, Digimon level, DP, set/card number, and block number. More or less information is present on some cards.

The DCG also has all artists credited on the cards themselves, which has led us to notice some other groupings in our own readings.

Deck Size

In our case, we made our deck 50 cards large. This is the size that DCG decks are--- there is no variance, outside of egg decks, which are 0-5 eggs large.

Originally, the deck was 35 cards large, but we found this too small after experimentation, leading to unclear readings and ultimately encouraging us to tweak the count to its current number of 50.

Spreads

We've drafted up a few spreads inspired by the various Digimon card games. We've really only tested one of these spreads, as it functions well enough for our purposes without too much complication.

After a bit of messing around, we've found that our DCG div deck plays nice with a spread resembling the current card game. In order, we lay one card in the Raising Area, one card in the Battle Area, and one in Security. An additional clarifying card in each area sometimes helps.

The easiest way to explain it is that this spread represents Potential, State, and Protection:

Potential: something that can be nurtured, or is growing already.

State: elements regarding the current situation, physical or psychological.

Protection: elements that can be utilized to beneficial effect; what is keeping you safe.

We do our readings also on playmats with our own art.

Concluding Thoughts

So, I've told y'all about how our DCG div deck was constructed, but I haven't actually talked at all about the readings and how it treats us.

Generally, we try to do our readings at Digimon Locals, after we've done our matches for the tournament. The vibes are just there. Our cards are double sleeved in the official Bandai Beelzemon sleeves and some Dragon Shield outer sleeves. Anything more and we would literally be unable to hold it in our hands, let alone put it in a deck box.

Any time we do a reading, we also shuffle the same way we'd shuffle our for-play DCG decks--- a mix of pile shuffling and gingerly interlocking the cards in equal piles.

Here's a reading it gave us that's pretty straightforward, so it makes for a good example.

I've described this deck to friends as having the temperament of a high school gossip, but I also think one of our friend's descriptor of it as "roommate that steals your Dr. Pepper" is pretty accurate too. It doesn't really cut corners.

This reading in particular was so straightforward you could mistake it for a ruler, because it's a snapshot of a literal moment in Satty's and my exomemories--- these three cards are associated.

Specifically, Potential is in Satty, state is in Gallantmon, and Protection is in Blue Card. The exomemory this quite literally evokes is when Satty was killed by Gallantmon and death evolved (Blue Card represents evolution, "growth to overcome adversity" and wishes).

Satty evolved into me (Glut), which compounds just how funny this reading was to look at because of our interpretation of Gluttony (the sin) as being about dissatisfaction (ie: wanting; wishing without ever getting what you want).

The deck itself kind of just looked at who was holding it and said "ah, okay, so this is you?" 9 days before I properly split into the system.

It also likes giving us some cards repeated in certain positions, which are specifically cards representing to us confidence in the self (in creative endeavors) which. Really funny considering we're nervous about applying to grad school for creative writing.

Anyways, all this is to say, testing is always required with this shit, but also, if you make your deck personal, it will go for the jugular without hesitation.

-Gluttony

[emlyn-y-gwyll]

[i3utterflyeffect]

selkie!dark: How DARE you corrupt my younger sibling with morals!

selkie!Alan: what

"I could have made them my apprentice in evil >:("

meanwhile it's just............

".......are we thinking of the same person here????"

[theunofficialleavingcert]

Completely forgot this existed. We have a Leaving Cert docs if anyone needs it. Just fill the form and we'll add you to the classroom!

Subjects currently included:

Languages:

• English (King Lear and MacBeth)

• Irish

• German

• Spanish

• French

• Chinese

Sciences:

• Maths

• Ag. Science

• Physics

• Chemistry

• Biology

Business Studies:

• Economics

• Business

• Accounting

Other:

• DCG

Preview:

[steampunkagumon]

I definitely have not come to the conclusion that Bandai made the new Red Hybrid stuff half purple for the doomed yaoi what are you talking about?

[sciuritoxin]

[skydigiblogs]

y'all bandai themselves is assigning me with the apocalymon autism

[ID: A photo of a someone holding a copy of the parallel art of Apocalymon from the Exceed Apocalypse expansion of the Digimon Card Game. The alt art depicts Apocalymon's humanoid body with an intense expression. The card itself is in a gold sleeve.]

we only bought four packs (the first time we have bought packs since 2021) and this was the last card in the last pack

we're getting the whole pizza with this one fellas

[kaiju-emperor]

Hey to anyone interested. Some friends and I have recently gotten deep into the digimon tcg thanks to the new free sim. If anyone is interested in getting into the game, learning, or just wanting to find a small group to play with lmk and I can get you a link to the discord.

[digi-lov]

Monochromon EX7-033 by koki from EX-07 Extra Booster Digimon Liberator

This card is another reference to the old pendulum artworks!

[Palmon: Here ya go | Monochromon: aah!]

[laxmon]

Digimon Evolution Lines 91/∞

Sand Blast! A newly completed evolution line was introduced for Sunarizamon in the Digimon Liberator novel! Sunarizamon (Virus-attribute) and its evolutions are featured in the novel as partner Digimon to Close.

Stages: LV1: Sunamon LV2: Goromon LV3: Sunarizamon LV4: Landramon LV5: Proganomon LV6: Pyramidimon

Artwork by Sanosuke Sakuma from the Digimon Card Game (Sunamon/Goromon), and by Bandai from Digimon Liberator (Sunarizamon) and the Digimon Reference Book, respectively.

[ramshitposts]

My favourite excuse for not doing something is having DCG homework because it's like Sorry I can't hang out tonight guys i have to draw cubes :/ yeah I have two a3 sheets of various sqaures due Monday :/ no I can't go to the park i have to conceptualise and sketch abstract shapes :/

[fyodorfiles]

No, Zeitgeist™ is NOT canon to DCG and Fuck You if You Say Otherwise

All y'all saying that Zeitgeist is set in the same universe as DCG but on a different plane you're all fucking WRONG and I will not stand for it.

Just because the cast is the same and the jokes are similar and Aria is a slightly more sassy nettle and Phoebe is writing it does not mean that it's the same. And it doesn't belong in the superwholockgala fandom just because Sheridan and Dove were both inspired by the like five different incarnations of Sherlock out there. If the DCG faerun was canon with Zeitgeist then how come no one has had one of the lords or ladies from the original cast be a patron? It'd make for a sick cameo and everyone would love the callback! Zeitgeist has guns, and guns would've drastically changed the nature of the DCG Nightmare Wars if they'd had them. JUST :clap: BECAUSE :clap: THEY :clap: SHARE :clap: ELEMENTS :clap: DOES :clap: NOT :clap: MAKE :clap: THEM :clap: SHARED :clap: UNIVERSES :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

[toadmancer]

never been great at faceclaims/dream casts/whatever theyre called for ur own ocs but ive been Struck By A Vision of don lee for osric. like a puzzle piece slottin into place. considering michelle rodriguez for maeve but thats 51% bc im gay. unfortunately i have NO idea what ferran looks like even remotely except the fact that hes short both as a dwarf and by hanging out with an orc and an elf who are both closer to 7ft than not