***UPDATE TO THE UPDATE*** So ST17 came out and it flippin slaps. I have a more detailed update about it on the community tab but in summary it's the best "starter" product by a substantial margin. It's powerful out of the box, simple to use, and has a very strong upgrade path. If you have the means, I highly recommend grabbing 2 copies. If you're still a bit on the fence and don't want to commit so much money, ST16 is my second place pick.
Competitive Yu-Gi-Oh Player here. Seen just barely enough Digimon content to know the barest of core concepts of the TCG, but this video was awesome! The content was well delivered and provided very good insight into the most important parts when picking up a deck, especially when transitioning between games or freshly learning. Even at 15 minutes this was a breeze to watch and enjoyed it all. Hope to see more content from you!
A few additional notes to each deck for those interested: -You can actually build Gallantmon in a mono-red way, which will prioritize its DP deletion effects; or in a red-purple way which will prioritize milling and really big swings to security, as well as a direct counter to other purple decks (the purple side also makes use of ChaosGallantmon and Megidramon, for those interested in flavour) -Ulforce will always play second fiddle to Imperialdramon, unfortunately. It will never get that much support. -Contrary to Ulforce, Imperial is extremely popular and its BT12 support is actually the 4th wave. This one is a sure bet for the future. There's also a BlackImperialdramon deck, but it's completely unrelated to the main one. -Mastemon usually gets indirect support as long as yellow and purple angel/demon cards get released. Some people go as far as to consider it an evergreen deck, tho I'm more of the opinion that Machinedramon is the only deck that has truly earned that title. -Jesmon has currently a card on the banlist, it's unknown when it will come out, if ever. It also started getting paired with Gankoomon as the Starter, and you can actually build a more defensive variant of Jesmon GX focusing more on Gankoo. -Ragna is indeed a lost cause, but a very fun deck regardless. As for future support... There's Armamon...? Maybe Bandaid will take its alzheimer medication and remember him one day. Even if that happens, he may not even be Ragna support and instead end up as part of a Barbamon combo (which we also don't have yet, funnily enough). Also, the next scheduled Starter will be the Beelzemon one, but that one actually follows a different rule, so I recommend anyone interested to look it up, just remember that building a fully upgraded Beelzemon deck is very expensive. If you come from Yugioh, Beelzemon is kinda the HERO deck of DCG if you catch my drift.
As far as BT12 is concerned I've seen a lot more Ulforce than Imperial. The BT11 stuff Ulforce got makes it pretty competitive. If you're going to assign a Yu-Gi-Oh! alias to Beelze it'd 100% be the Lightsworn of DCG.
As someone who got into the game a few weeks ago and built the Beelzemon deck, i bought the starter deck once for 30€, then everything else for 50€ from a fellow player + the 2 Beelzemon X Antibody from cardmarket for 10€ , and it's ready.Overall, 95€ total shipping included. I wouldn't call that very expensive compared to other TCGs , tbh.
This is a great video! I would like to add that it is highly recommendable to buy two copies of the starter new players want to play, as it greatly improves the consistency of any of the deck mentioned
@@Vintasticvin depends in some case you can buy 3 ygo structure for less of 8 euros for each one(obv i speak in my country idk if america is the same stuff)
Welcome new Digimon players and viewers of all skill levels! I can't believe this video has gotten over 1,000 views, thank you so much for the support and kind words.
I saw this in my recommended and as soon as I finished the video I thought "lemme watch more of this guy" and I saw that this was the first video 😭 Great stuff!!
This game just needs more current starter decks. I got into this game late last year and picked up Imperial, Mastamon, jesmon, and Ragnaloardmon. Now my nephew is playing but the only new starter is beezel and he doesnt want that. So he cant play until another 2-4 starter decks come out to choose from…. Which will be in 6+ months???
I started this game early last year with 2 copies of the Imperialdramon deck. I personally think that deck is the best start. It has a straight forward strategy (paildramon rush, defend with Mega Death), isn't TOO expensive to upgrade (plenty of budget options that make it semi competitive) and as you mentioned is getting ridiculous support in the future. Anyway, that's my 2 cents. Nice video.
Man, I really went in deep for investing into Ragnaloardmon… but man, I just love the sheer gas of it. I’ve always had this weird experience with TCGs due to gravitating to the dumb high roll decks that occasionally kill you before your opponent, but it’s just too gratifying climbing out of nowhere into an immediate and sometimes game-ending field presence that literally makes the struggle worth it all- to me, at least. That being said if I put aside my Stockholm’ed insanity, I can honestly agree on the recommendations that you put forward for the starters as entry products to the TCG. After watching this, I’m probably grabbing a one-off Jesmon starter to matchup against the one-off Imperialdramon and Mastemon starters to teach my Yugioh friends. I think the variance between the aggro, tool-box, and control decks would allow people to find their favorites. Overall, great video, and consider me a new subscriber!
Appreciate it! Ragna is a lot of fun, especially when you pass 10 memory after hard playing a level 6 to DNA digivolve. The do or die nature of the deck extends to both players, making for great matches.
I literally just watched this video after grabbing ragna instead of jesmon because he looked cooler. Only to realize my confusion around reaching his win con is not solely on me being an idiot but because it genuinely doesn’t explain it’s own core strategy well
Dude if you want that out of nowhere gratification with a bit of high roll involved, you HAVE to play Red/Purple Imperialdramon. That deck is insanely fun and the high roll can be mitigated with some smart deck building.
@@RedGalbot The risk of a high roll chaser putting in any consistency is that they'll eventually find that increasing consistency reduces the fun factor.
Hi guys, I was wrong! Here is a quick update post, mostly dealing with how good these decks ended up being. We are now solidly in the middle of the BT12 format so we have data to show how well these decks perform. Mastemon unfortunately never really took off, even in BT11. I have to move it down to D. Needs more support to become relevant again. Imperial didn't fare too well either. Might be better than Mastemon but still not meta. C/D. New support was decent but didn't make as much of an impact as I thought. As for the others, Ulforce is right on the cusp of the meta. A solid deck but not a top pick. B. Very strong in Ultimate Cup (single color deck format). Gallantmon is always getting new support. It's not particularly meta relevant right now but is pretty good in Ultimate Cup. C? Jesmon gets support in BT13 but nothing major so I don't really expect to see it being played a ton, will hold off on rating it for now. Ragna has nothing and is basically totally irrelevant by now. F. Will update again in BT13.
Didn't need to watch all the video to know that this video is what I needed 2 months ago, your criteria is all what I was looking for, but never found. Tysm Edit: LMAO MY FIRST ONE WAS RAGNA, U SEE WHY I NEEDED YOUR VIDEO. Still, loved it a lot! It was for sure strange to understand but so fun and hype to play, after I upgraded my deck, learned about DNA and actually started reading all the texts, in my next match I was able to DNA into Ragnaloard with a power I never felt in a tcg. It may be luck-based (at least more than the average deck), but I would never regret it. Ragnaloardmon is now one of my favorite Digimon.
The reason I got into the TCG is because I like Digimon, not really because I expect to be playing a lot of competitive games. And when I saw that RagnaLoardmon contained some of my favourite Digimon, I knew that that would influence how much fun I will have playing, as I probably won't buy a lot of additional cards. It came as I expected, I made an uneducated decision. But I'm still sticking to it. It's about the fun for me after all.
My friend got me a starter deck for my birthday and this video was really helpful honestly and I can't wait to build multiple decks. Keep more videos coming 🤙
Heya current MTG player and ex Yu-Gi-Oh player here. First off great video! I heard that the Digimon TCG was "revived" but never actually saw anything about it. Your video poped up in my recomandations and because i am on a nostalgia trip recently i watched it. This is a really good introduction for beginners and the tutorial app you mentioned is also really good for beginners. I am a big Digimon fan and because of what Wizzards of the Coasts are currently up to i think i start with the Digimon TCG. I think you have convinced me to get the Mastemon Starter Deck. Never really played a crontol style deck but this looks fun. Thanks for your work!
I like a lot the ragna deck, but also I understand why isn't the best option in a competition. I want to left my personal top 3 ST too: 1-Paildramon 2-Ulforceveedramon 3-Ragnaloardmon Are funny decks to me
Hey man just wanted to say I watched your video two weeks ago and just got into digimonTCG. I took your advice and built a jesmon deck with a jesmon x antibody and a pulled jesmon Gx to use for my deck. I was able to go undefeated in my locals and am gettin more of the hang of digimon. Thank you for the informative video!
Great content bud !! I have just started playing digimon tcg I’m a long term Pokémon tcg player but digimon has really captured me ! I started with a green starter deck but am now trying to build a terriermon / mega gargomon deck for the fun of it ! X
What an excellent first video for your channel. This kind of content is so amazing to seenofr TCGs and I'm happy you're exploring it. This is THE most I've learned about the Digimon TCG and I'd love to see this style of content for other TCGs in the future. I expect great things from your channel!
This was really helpful. I have found it interesting to see the complexity of the decks increase and this is the best breakdown I've seen. Looking forward to the next video.
I'll make another starter deck roundup eventually but won't be doing a separate one just for ST15/16. Honestly this video is pretty old and outdated now, ST16 is clearly the best option currently IMO.
Keep up the great work and keep dropping the great vids! You got the target, most players are either starting or looking how to start engaging this game, and it is complex at first. You are clear and energetic with experienced input, so it is the perfect match, thanks :)
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I'm planning to buy a starter deck and your video is very informative. Thank you!
Ngl, I like Ragnamon's starter deck...with Izzy in it. I repeat. With Izzy in it. Because he gives nice memory and knowledge over what's coming up, which helps loads in terms of trying to pop the rookie effect off for the free play. Not even mentioning when going for some big brain on play effect strats to cycle out the cards. I feel that the deck does suffer on card draw though; although, I feel a 1 of metalgreymon bt12 might be able to bring the deck around. Frankly, I only really use the ragnaloardmon in decks where I need a nice finisher card in case a game's taking a bit too long or I don't have a nice upgrade path up from my bossmon (I actually been tempted to play him in Hina decks. Though that deck has gamble to 11, honestly worse than Ragnaloardmon in terms of praying your pieces come out since you have to pray a Hina gets in your hand. It's awful.
Which starter deck should I buy? Well, they released one with Gallantmon on the cover, and that's my favorite Digimon, so the choice was made for me. No, but seriously, I did mostly watch this to get a vibe on how "good" the Gallantmon deck is and what the other options were. I appreciate the honest nature and I'm glad Gallantmon got a pretty good Upgrade score. Maybe I can do a little something with it.
I'll always recommend playing what you like over playing what's good, unless you're looking to compete at a high level. If you can, wait for BT12 to come out before you buy singles so you don't waste money on cards that aren't used anymore.
I built d reaper last year as that was the deck I had originally wanted to build when I first heard about it being released in the ocg. I think its a pretty good and cheap deck to build for anyone looking to get into the game. Its pretty fun and you can upgrade it for not too much money (if you plan on buying deathxmon or not, I chose not to buy any). X antibody, and starmons are not expensive and can be picked up for cheap. The core of the deck looks to be really cheap on tcgplayer to build.
Great video! I own some of the original 6, the Jesmon, Ragna, Imperial and Maste decks. I agree that Jes is the strongest/easiest of them all. Those sisters just offer so much support while the others can easily brick or rely on certain specific factors to win.
Funnily enough my first deck was Ragnaloardmon and I had no trouble learning it, but I already have some experience in tcg games so that probably was why I learned it so fast.
I've been wanting to play digimon but have nobody to play with and no lgs here, but i might pick up the imperialdramon, mastemon and jesmon decks after seeing this, to have a little bit of each color to learn and teach my friends. I've played ygo, pkmn and mtg most recently, currently obsessed with commander since 2017. This seems like a really fun game to play and since i'm a cardboard addict, i really wanna get into it, tho i already have a set deck that i wanna make, beelstar. Maybe someday i'll have it.
Honestly? So I got into the game last week or so, and I wanted to approach Digimon in a way that I hadn't in any other TCG. I went for what I enjoyed, and not what was "great". One thing I love about Digimon, is that damn near everything is viable, with the right build, the right strategy, and the right play. I personally got the Venomous Violet starter, and the Mastemon starter. While I agree that the Mastemon starter has more upgradeability to it ... That purple swarm and boom boom deck is just so much fun to play. One of my favourite Digimon has always been VenomMyotismon, and I like the fact that while colour-combos came into effect, it didn't completely eradicate the old themes either. This isn't a game like Yu-Gi-Oh! where one meta controls absolutely everything, so you do get a lot more play-options when it comes to doing what you enjoy. I agree with the video for the most part, though with one caveat. Your ranking is stellar, but it's fair to say that any of these decks are good, if that's the style of gameplay someone wants to go with. I admit that Blue may trump purple in certain regards, but because Blue is just not my playstyle? It'll never be that good for me. Again, take what I say with a grain of salt, because I am a beginner in this game. Yu-Gi-Oh! was always my thing, and I'd frequently attend YCS for it. This game is just so very refreshing because of the freedom it offers. THAT BEING SAID. Love the video, and if you're someone that is incredibly knowledgeable about the game? I'd love some help with my VenomMyotismon build.
When I saw that Ragna was getting a structure deck, that was like straight adrenaline. I could take all the prior cards that came and use it as support to itself- while I can agree that the gambling mechanic is a bit wackadoo for new players, or at least I suppose? Personal experience aside honestly and there are better options for beginners, of which I would vouch for the Imperialdramon and Mastemon ones without question- at my locals those were the picks from the other players. However I can't deny that playing Ragna's structure just feels fun despite it's built in gamble on top decking into something beneath a playcost of 7 and being a Legend-Arms. With how the deck is stacked anyhow, you could go through the deck casually and not have to worry much about getting to Ragna immediately, 24 of the cards in the deck wouldn't really work to the effect from a rookie hard play. It just takes more patience, seeing Ragna pop up in starting hand is great and seeing him in security is funny for when it's a well timed check- or just the luck of it- but what I love about the deck is that from the original cards, the newer ones gave them some much needed TLC- Durandamon and BryweLudramon having their own ability to stand by themselves now is AWESOME- Durandamon being a pretty nice attacking digimon and BryweLudra being solid in it's ability to avoid deletion. I'd go against it for newer players because there are better options but DAMN if it ain't awesome to see it going in motion!!
@Digivolution Enjoyer mainly around Acient dragon. It's a pretty simple deck, with a lot of value, you just need to figure out the like 3 key plays for it. I'd personally even recommend it over Jesmon, because while Jesmon is powerful, it's a much more fiddly deck that just never seems to run right for me. But I also started with Ancient Dragon and have had terrible results with Jesmon so I'm pretty biased.
I only got two starter decks, Mastemon and Ragnaloardmon, Mastemon is definitely my favorite one, specially with BT11 around the corner! Ragna is a meme and I love it, though I'm probably going to use it as top end on my Raidenmon deck lol
i bought st7 & 8 just recently and i do not regret it, i adore the gallantmon line to bits and am hoping for the edition of crimson mode at some point, but by what ive seen, mastamon and imperialdramon starter decks are quite the pair with jestmon being a nice one aswell.
This video is awesome, I subscribed to the channel in hope to find more videos but unfortunately there was none yet, Im new to the game and waiting for my cards to arrive, it would be great if you could make a video about deck building and card ratios too
I will admit the DNA digivolution thing slipped me up when learning. But Imperialdraman was easily my favorite Digimon and the whole series, and I think think learning through him wasn't too bad, especially since I have played other card games before.
I started playing the Digimon TCG last year after one of my college friends basically forced me to play with them lol. I ended up getting the Mastemon starter deck to try and learn how to play and it did not go well. They basically destroyed me with their BlackWarGreymon deck called me a noob and didn't teach me shit. After going online and watching deck building videos and tournaments I basically taught myself how to play and it's actually really fun! I play 4 Great Dragons and Examon as of right now and yes, I kicked he's ass for not teaching me properly lol
One aspect that I think sometimes gets glossed over is booster packs. Some people do like to pull from packs to help build their decks, even if it's inefficient. In that respect, I think this is the one major weakness of Jesmon. To upgrade Jesmon, the biggest upgrades come from bt6 and bt10. Bt10 is fine, but bt6 is just not a very good pack to be pulling from. There aren't very many good or even fun strategies in it, and it's just generally old and irrelevant. Pulling your upgrades isn't even easy - there's a sealed-only series where the guy started with Jesmon and just gets dismal bt6 pulls, it's not very fun. And the nature of the deck means you can't really slot random stuff in that you pull. To contrast, I think this is where Gallant is king. You can pull from multiple recent sets, with low-rarity upgrades making each pack feel good, and each pack having varied, fun, and even meta archetypes in them. Bt9, ex2, ex3. You can even take the deck in multiple different directions. It's also true of Imperial to a far lesser extent. The deck notably has a very flexible bottom end, so you could theoretically open just about anything, although the obvious bt8s are just solid packs. Even if you don't support pack-pulling, trading is one major aspect of the game, especially in more remote regions ehere singles are rarer and more expensive. And you're way more likely to find help among your local groups for commons and uncommons from a wide array of recent packs, instead of hoping someone somehow has spare bt6 cards they aren't using.
Really cool video idea. I see you only have one video, unless you torched your history. You will probably get better videos in the future. As someone who doesn't know anything about the decks, if you would have highlighted the one you were talking about it would have made it easier. I had to study the boxes figure out what which you were talking about.. A lot of that information was wasted about upgrades because well a person wanting to know about best starters probably doesn't know what any of the cards do anyway. I'm not sure if your retention shows people skipping through the upgrades/tournament sections. Good luck making future videos.
Never played, but im on a digimon kick because I got a vital bracelet. I love yugioh and this seems like a really unique card game that goes in the total opposite direction and im excited to try it out.
It is such a nice change of pace from yugioh, at least in this game there is usually more of a back and forth and there is no such thing as a negate stopping your entire turn. Sure there are bad matchups but that's just part of the fun, you always have a chance with any deck
I don't normally comment on UA-cam vids but as a brand new player to the game this was a great video to watch, very informative and you clearly put a lot of time and effort in, hope you are planning on more future Digimon vids.
We bought Jesmon and Mastemon and it’s a lot of fun to play against each other. But to be fair i needed to Push my mastemon Deck with 2 or more mastemon and 2 more Gatomon from ebay, because the Jesmon Deck has 4 Jesmons and a bit more Utilities. So i Invested around 30€ in Mastemon and my GF invested 25€.
I like that Ragna's grade came out to FAD which is exactly what anti-meta decks are in my experience, fads that counter the popular kids but don't stick enough to be permanent
I rmeber when I started playing this game fall of last year and learning that the blitz greymon deck was useless after being given a ulforce deck as a gift. Then I tried to upgrade it and couldn’t do anything with it now I just use the cards in the as filler singles while I wait for pieces of other decks in the mail. And the bottom six are all still decks I have which are so fun ti use
I dont really understand why you talk about the match up between these specific decks, instead of the actual meta decks. The only time this would be relevant if you decide to buy one of each and play against each other with a friend. That aside great Video very informative and easy to understand. Thumbs Up.
I was thinking about buying Jesmon, as my first "buy for upgrading"-deck, and now that is settled. But will the be any good support for upgrades i BT11, or should I start cracking packs for older sets instead??
Most ironc Thing is ragnalordmon is better in dragon linkz. Because dragon linkz focuse on control and stun so they can easily get two level 6s out for Ragna. And Ragna can then be a blitz omegamon for game
i bought jesmon deck today and also the beelzemon deck, just because is one of my fav digimon i'm still learning though, what's your opinion of that deck? nice video
Ragna was the worst thing rated here and it just so happend to be the very first deck I ever bought for Digimon Safe to Say that i jumped ship extremely fast and i now play bloomloardmon
I really wanted to like the Mastemon deck but i feel it doesn't move nearly as well as the others I went to a begginers tournament back in november with a slightly modified Mastemon starter and a friend went with a Slightly modified Jesmon started, I ended up last and he ended up 2nd lol I could not for the life of me get any good draw, so since that mastemon deck was borrowed I ended up buying th UlforceVeedramon one, I still don't win sh*t but now I feel is my fault not the deck's lol
New TCG players learning Digimon - This is so confusing! its even harder than magic! Yugioh player learning Digimon - This game is so nice and simple. Its like the perfect balance of hard to play but easy to learn.
You can buy 2 if you want, it will ensure that you have 4 copies of all the important cards. Totally fine if you don't though, if you're having fun just do what feels right.
Just want to add digimon starter decks aren't good value compared to buying singles. Unlike other card games S-tier decks can be built extremely cheaply. Your main issue is card availability. Often times you will need to buy from individuals and only needing a few bulk items can be detrimental. It maybe easier to go to east or a digimon meta site and just give someone a list and $100
The real crime is the st8 veedramon doesn't have memory +1 as his inherited. Every inherited affect matches on the main line Digimon in st7 and st8 except the lvl 4s. Sure you could argue it's bc hammer spark but fck that card. I took all 4 out for 4 great maelstrom. Hammer spark sucks in security
***UPDATE TO THE UPDATE***
So ST17 came out and it flippin slaps. I have a more detailed update about it on the community tab but in summary it's the best "starter" product by a substantial margin. It's powerful out of the box, simple to use, and has a very strong upgrade path.
If you have the means, I highly recommend grabbing 2 copies. If you're still a bit on the fence and don't want to commit so much money, ST16 is my second place pick.
Competitive Yu-Gi-Oh Player here. Seen just barely enough Digimon content to know the barest of core concepts of the TCG, but this video was awesome! The content was well delivered and provided very good insight into the most important parts when picking up a deck, especially when transitioning between games or freshly learning.
Even at 15 minutes this was a breeze to watch and enjoyed it all. Hope to see more content from you!
A few additional notes to each deck for those interested:
-You can actually build Gallantmon in a mono-red way, which will prioritize its DP deletion effects; or in a red-purple way which will prioritize milling and really big swings to security, as well as a direct counter to other purple decks (the purple side also makes use of ChaosGallantmon and Megidramon, for those interested in flavour)
-Ulforce will always play second fiddle to Imperialdramon, unfortunately. It will never get that much support.
-Contrary to Ulforce, Imperial is extremely popular and its BT12 support is actually the 4th wave. This one is a sure bet for the future. There's also a BlackImperialdramon deck, but it's completely unrelated to the main one.
-Mastemon usually gets indirect support as long as yellow and purple angel/demon cards get released. Some people go as far as to consider it an evergreen deck, tho I'm more of the opinion that Machinedramon is the only deck that has truly earned that title.
-Jesmon has currently a card on the banlist, it's unknown when it will come out, if ever. It also started getting paired with Gankoomon as the Starter, and you can actually build a more defensive variant of Jesmon GX focusing more on Gankoo.
-Ragna is indeed a lost cause, but a very fun deck regardless. As for future support... There's Armamon...? Maybe Bandaid will take its alzheimer medication and remember him one day. Even if that happens, he may not even be Ragna support and instead end up as part of a Barbamon combo (which we also don't have yet, funnily enough).
Also, the next scheduled Starter will be the Beelzemon one, but that one actually follows a different rule, so I recommend anyone interested to look it up, just remember that building a fully upgraded Beelzemon deck is very expensive. If you come from Yugioh, Beelzemon is kinda the HERO deck of DCG if you catch my drift.
As far as BT12 is concerned I've seen a lot more Ulforce than Imperial. The BT11 stuff Ulforce got makes it pretty competitive. If you're going to assign a Yu-Gi-Oh! alias to Beelze it'd 100% be the Lightsworn of DCG.
As someone who got into the game a few weeks ago and built the Beelzemon deck, i bought the starter deck once for 30€, then everything else for 50€ from a fellow player + the 2 Beelzemon X Antibody from cardmarket for 10€ , and it's ready.Overall, 95€ total shipping included.
I wouldn't call that very expensive compared to other TCGs , tbh.
This is a great video! I would like to add that it is highly recommendable to buy two copies of the starter new players want to play, as it greatly improves the consistency of any of the deck mentioned
thanks, that's the answer for my doubt!!!!!
Sounds cheaper than yugioh's buy three starter decks
@@Vintasticvin depends in some case you can buy 3 ygo structure for less of 8 euros for each one(obv i speak in my country idk if america is the same stuff)
Welcome new Digimon players and viewers of all skill levels! I can't believe this video has gotten over 1,000 views, thank you so much for the support and kind words.
I told you this would blow up
I saw this in my recommended and as soon as I finished the video I thought "lemme watch more of this guy" and I saw that this was the first video 😭 Great stuff!!
This game just needs more current starter decks. I got into this game late last year and picked up Imperial, Mastamon, jesmon, and Ragnaloardmon. Now my nephew is playing but the only new starter is beezel and he doesnt want that. So he cant play until another 2-4 starter decks come out to choose from…. Which will be in 6+ months???
I started this game early last year with 2 copies of the Imperialdramon deck. I personally think that deck is the best start. It has a straight forward strategy (paildramon rush, defend with Mega Death), isn't TOO expensive to upgrade (plenty of budget options that make it semi competitive) and as you mentioned is getting ridiculous support in the future.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents. Nice video.
Man, I really went in deep for investing into Ragnaloardmon… but man, I just love the sheer gas of it.
I’ve always had this weird experience with TCGs due to gravitating to the dumb high roll decks that occasionally kill you before your opponent, but it’s just too gratifying climbing out of nowhere into an immediate and sometimes game-ending field presence that literally makes the struggle worth it all- to me, at least.
That being said if I put aside my Stockholm’ed insanity, I can honestly agree on the recommendations that you put forward for the starters as entry products to the TCG. After watching this, I’m probably grabbing a one-off Jesmon starter to matchup against the one-off Imperialdramon and Mastemon starters to teach my Yugioh friends. I think the variance between the aggro, tool-box, and control decks would allow people to find their favorites.
Overall, great video, and consider me a new subscriber!
Appreciate it! Ragna is a lot of fun, especially when you pass 10 memory after hard playing a level 6 to DNA digivolve. The do or die nature of the deck extends to both players, making for great matches.
I literally just watched this video after grabbing ragna instead of jesmon because he looked cooler. Only to realize my confusion around reaching his win con is not solely on me being an idiot but because it genuinely doesn’t explain it’s own core strategy well
Dude if you want that out of nowhere gratification with a bit of high roll involved, you HAVE to play Red/Purple Imperialdramon. That deck is insanely fun and the high roll can be mitigated with some smart deck building.
@@RedGalbot The risk of a high roll chaser putting in any consistency is that they'll eventually find that increasing consistency reduces the fun factor.
Best starter deck comparison by far!! Extremely informative for beginners and casual games of just picking up 2 decks for a fun family game 🎉
Hi guys, I was wrong! Here is a quick update post, mostly dealing with how good these decks ended up being. We are now solidly in the middle of the BT12 format so we have data to show how well these decks perform.
Mastemon unfortunately never really took off, even in BT11. I have to move it down to D. Needs more support to become relevant again.
Imperial didn't fare too well either. Might be better than Mastemon but still not meta. C/D. New support was decent but didn't make as much of an impact as I thought.
As for the others, Ulforce is right on the cusp of the meta. A solid deck but not a top pick. B. Very strong in Ultimate Cup (single color deck format).
Gallantmon is always getting new support. It's not particularly meta relevant right now but is pretty good in Ultimate Cup. C?
Jesmon gets support in BT13 but nothing major so I don't really expect to see it being played a ton, will hold off on rating it for now.
Ragna has nothing and is basically totally irrelevant by now. F.
Will update again in BT13.
Didn't need to watch all the video to know that this video is what I needed 2 months ago, your criteria is all what I was looking for, but never found. Tysm
Edit: LMAO MY FIRST ONE WAS RAGNA, U SEE WHY I NEEDED YOUR VIDEO. Still, loved it a lot! It was for sure strange to understand but so fun and hype to play, after I upgraded my deck, learned about DNA and actually started reading all the texts, in my next match I was able to DNA into Ragnaloard with a power I never felt in a tcg. It may be luck-based (at least more than the average deck), but I would never regret it. Ragnaloardmon is now one of my favorite Digimon.
The reason I got into the TCG is because I like Digimon, not really because I expect to be playing a lot of competitive games. And when I saw that RagnaLoardmon contained some of my favourite Digimon, I knew that that would influence how much fun I will have playing, as I probably won't buy a lot of additional cards. It came as I expected, I made an uneducated decision. But I'm still sticking to it. It's about the fun for me after all.
My friend got me a starter deck for my birthday and this video was really helpful honestly and I can't wait to build multiple decks. Keep more videos coming 🤙
Heya current MTG player and ex Yu-Gi-Oh player here. First off great video! I heard that the Digimon TCG was "revived" but never actually saw anything about it. Your video poped up in my recomandations and because i am on a nostalgia trip recently i watched it. This is a really good introduction for beginners and the tutorial app you mentioned is also really good for beginners. I am a big Digimon fan and because of what Wizzards of the Coasts are currently up to i think i start with the Digimon TCG. I think you have convinced me to get the Mastemon Starter Deck. Never really played a crontol style deck but this looks fun. Thanks for your work!
I like a lot the ragna deck, but also I understand why isn't the best option in a competition.
I want to left my personal top 3 ST too:
1-Paildramon
2-Ulforceveedramon
3-Ragnaloardmon
Are funny decks to me
Hey man just wanted to say I watched your video two weeks ago and just got into digimonTCG. I took your advice and built a jesmon deck with a jesmon x antibody and a pulled jesmon Gx to use for my deck. I was able to go undefeated in my locals and am gettin more of the hang of digimon.
Thank you for the informative video!
Great content bud !! I have just started playing digimon tcg I’m a long term Pokémon tcg player but digimon has really captured me ! I started with a green starter deck but am now trying to build a terriermon / mega gargomon deck for the fun of it ! X
Thank you! I love Digimon and want to try to grow the game with my videos, very glad to hear you enjoyed it as a new player.
What an excellent first video for your channel.
This kind of content is so amazing to seenofr TCGs and I'm happy you're exploring it. This is THE most I've learned about the Digimon TCG and I'd love to see this style of content for other TCGs in the future.
I expect great things from your channel!
been waiting for videos like this for digimon tcg man. this was awesome, well edited and informative. love it!!!
I picked up the Jesmon and Gallantmon decks just because I liked red, glad to know they are the top two you recommend !
This was really helpful. I have found it interesting to see the complexity of the decks increase and this is the best breakdown I've seen. Looking forward to the next video.
Thank you, I really appreciate the support!
Great review! Thanks for the video. Could you review the black st15 & purple st16?
I'll make another starter deck roundup eventually but won't be doing a separate one just for ST15/16. Honestly this video is pretty old and outdated now, ST16 is clearly the best option currently IMO.
@@digivolutionenjoyer Looking forward to that!
Keep up the great work and keep dropping the great vids! You got the target, most players are either starting or looking how to start engaging this game, and it is complex at first. You are clear and energetic with experienced input, so it is the perfect match, thanks :)
I'm planning to buy a starter deck and your video is very informative. Thank you!
Ngl, I like Ragnamon's starter deck...with Izzy in it. I repeat.
With Izzy in it. Because he gives nice memory and knowledge over what's coming up, which helps loads in terms of trying to pop the rookie effect off for the free play. Not even mentioning when going for some big brain on play effect strats to cycle out the cards. I feel that the deck does suffer on card draw though; although, I feel a 1 of metalgreymon bt12 might be able to bring the deck around.
Frankly, I only really use the ragnaloardmon in decks where I need a nice finisher card in case a game's taking a bit too long or I don't have a nice upgrade path up from my bossmon (I actually been tempted to play him in Hina decks. Though that deck has gamble to 11, honestly worse than Ragnaloardmon in terms of praying your pieces come out since you have to pray a Hina gets in your hand. It's awful.
Which starter deck should I buy? Well, they released one with Gallantmon on the cover, and that's my favorite Digimon, so the choice was made for me.
No, but seriously, I did mostly watch this to get a vibe on how "good" the Gallantmon deck is and what the other options were. I appreciate the honest nature and I'm glad Gallantmon got a pretty good Upgrade score. Maybe I can do a little something with it.
I'll always recommend playing what you like over playing what's good, unless you're looking to compete at a high level. If you can, wait for BT12 to come out before you buy singles so you don't waste money on cards that aren't used anymore.
I built d reaper last year as that was the deck I had originally wanted to build when I first heard about it being released in the ocg. I think its a pretty good and cheap deck to build for anyone looking to get into the game. Its pretty fun and you can upgrade it for not too much money (if you plan on buying deathxmon or not, I chose not to buy any). X antibody, and starmons are not expensive and can be picked up for cheap. The core of the deck looks to be really cheap on tcgplayer to build.
Great video! I own some of the original 6, the Jesmon, Ragna, Imperial and Maste decks. I agree that Jes is the strongest/easiest of them all. Those sisters just offer so much support while the others can easily brick or rely on certain specific factors to win.
Funnily enough my first deck was Ragnaloardmon and I had no trouble learning it, but I already have some experience in tcg games so that probably was why I learned it so fast.
I've been wanting to play digimon but have nobody to play with and no lgs here, but i might pick up the imperialdramon, mastemon and jesmon decks after seeing this, to have a little bit of each color to learn and teach my friends. I've played ygo, pkmn and mtg most recently, currently obsessed with commander since 2017. This seems like a really fun game to play and since i'm a cardboard addict, i really wanna get into it, tho i already have a set deck that i wanna make, beelstar.
Maybe someday i'll have it.
As a yugioh player, this is a pretty great guide and its easy enough for other tcg player to learn
All my gallantmon SD and its set supports came in last week. I just learned to play yesterday and this game is fun asf.
Honestly? So I got into the game last week or so, and I wanted to approach Digimon in a way that I hadn't in any other TCG. I went for what I enjoyed, and not what was "great". One thing I love about Digimon, is that damn near everything is viable, with the right build, the right strategy, and the right play. I personally got the Venomous Violet starter, and the Mastemon starter. While I agree that the Mastemon starter has more upgradeability to it ... That purple swarm and boom boom deck is just so much fun to play. One of my favourite Digimon has always been VenomMyotismon, and I like the fact that while colour-combos came into effect, it didn't completely eradicate the old themes either. This isn't a game like Yu-Gi-Oh! where one meta controls absolutely everything, so you do get a lot more play-options when it comes to doing what you enjoy.
I agree with the video for the most part, though with one caveat. Your ranking is stellar, but it's fair to say that any of these decks are good, if that's the style of gameplay someone wants to go with. I admit that Blue may trump purple in certain regards, but because Blue is just not my playstyle? It'll never be that good for me. Again, take what I say with a grain of salt, because I am a beginner in this game. Yu-Gi-Oh! was always my thing, and I'd frequently attend YCS for it. This game is just so very refreshing because of the freedom it offers. THAT BEING SAID. Love the video, and if you're someone that is incredibly knowledgeable about the game? I'd love some help with my VenomMyotismon build.
When I saw that Ragna was getting a structure deck, that was like straight adrenaline.
I could take all the prior cards that came and use it as support to itself- while I can agree that the gambling mechanic is a bit wackadoo for new players, or at least I suppose? Personal experience aside honestly and there are better options for beginners, of which I would vouch for the Imperialdramon and Mastemon ones without question- at my locals those were the picks from the other players.
However I can't deny that playing Ragna's structure just feels fun despite it's built in gamble on top decking into something beneath a playcost of 7 and being a Legend-Arms. With how the deck is stacked anyhow, you could go through the deck casually and not have to worry much about getting to Ragna immediately, 24 of the cards in the deck wouldn't really work to the effect from a rookie hard play. It just takes more patience, seeing Ragna pop up in starting hand is great and seeing him in security is funny for when it's a well timed check- or just the luck of it- but what I love about the deck is that from the original cards, the newer ones gave them some much needed TLC- Durandamon and BryweLudramon having their own ability to stand by themselves now is AWESOME- Durandamon being a pretty nice attacking digimon and BryweLudra being solid in it's ability to avoid deletion.
I'd go against it for newer players because there are better options but DAMN if it ain't awesome to see it going in motion!!
Very good video! Simple and to the point and as a veteran player I agree with most of your conclusions. Will be send this to some friends of mine.
Out of curiosity, what did you disagree with?
@Digivolution Enjoyer mainly around Acient dragon. It's a pretty simple deck, with a lot of value, you just need to figure out the like 3 key plays for it. I'd personally even recommend it over Jesmon, because while Jesmon is powerful, it's a much more fiddly deck that just never seems to run right for me. But I also started with Ancient Dragon and have had terrible results with Jesmon so I'm pretty biased.
How does one build a deck? Like if you dont wanna buy starter decks and you want to deck build from scratch?
I only got two starter decks, Mastemon and Ragnaloardmon, Mastemon is definitely my favorite one, specially with BT11 around the corner! Ragna is a meme and I love it, though I'm probably going to use it as top end on my Raidenmon deck lol
i bought st7 & 8 just recently and i do not regret it, i adore the gallantmon line to bits and am hoping for the edition of crimson mode at some point, but by what ive seen, mastamon and imperialdramon starter decks are quite the pair with jestmon being a nice one aswell.
i agree with you the yellow mastemon and paildramon starter decks are great my brother bought both of those twice.
This video is awesome, I subscribed to the channel in hope to find more videos but unfortunately there was none yet, Im new to the game and waiting for my cards to arrive, it would be great if you could make a video about deck building and card ratios too
I will admit the DNA digivolution thing slipped me up when learning. But Imperialdraman was easily my favorite Digimon and the whole series, and I think think learning through him wasn't too bad, especially since I have played other card games before.
I started playing the Digimon TCG last year after one of my college friends basically forced me to play with them lol. I ended up getting the Mastemon starter deck to try and learn how to play and it did not go well. They basically destroyed me with their BlackWarGreymon deck called me a noob and didn't teach me shit. After going online and watching deck building videos and tournaments I basically taught myself how to play and it's actually really fun! I play 4 Great Dragons and Examon as of right now and yes, I kicked he's ass for not teaching me properly lol
One aspect that I think sometimes gets glossed over is booster packs. Some people do like to pull from packs to help build their decks, even if it's inefficient. In that respect, I think this is the one major weakness of Jesmon.
To upgrade Jesmon, the biggest upgrades come from bt6 and bt10. Bt10 is fine, but bt6 is just not a very good pack to be pulling from. There aren't very many good or even fun strategies in it, and it's just generally old and irrelevant. Pulling your upgrades isn't even easy - there's a sealed-only series where the guy started with Jesmon and just gets dismal bt6 pulls, it's not very fun. And the nature of the deck means you can't really slot random stuff in that you pull.
To contrast, I think this is where Gallant is king. You can pull from multiple recent sets, with low-rarity upgrades making each pack feel good, and each pack having varied, fun, and even meta archetypes in them. Bt9, ex2, ex3. You can even take the deck in multiple different directions.
It's also true of Imperial to a far lesser extent. The deck notably has a very flexible bottom end, so you could theoretically open just about anything, although the obvious bt8s are just solid packs.
Even if you don't support pack-pulling, trading is one major aspect of the game, especially in more remote regions ehere singles are rarer and more expensive. And you're way more likely to find help among your local groups for commons and uncommons from a wide array of recent packs, instead of hoping someone somehow has spare bt6 cards they aren't using.
I didnt even know there was still digimon tcg or player base for that matter. Always wanted to play digimon. I had so many cards.
very good video. Excited for future content!
Really cool video idea. I see you only have one video, unless you torched your history. You will probably get better videos in the future.
As someone who doesn't know anything about the decks, if you would have highlighted the one you were talking about it would have made it easier. I had to study the boxes figure out what which you were talking about.. A lot of that information was wasted about upgrades because well a person wanting to know about best starters probably doesn't know what any of the cards do anyway. I'm not sure if your retention shows people skipping through the upgrades/tournament sections.
Good luck making future videos.
This was great! I worry that SDs either lack a good way to show all the cards or have gotten way too complex. Ragna unfortunately supports this. :(
Never played, but im on a digimon kick because I got a vital bracelet. I love yugioh and this seems like a really unique card game that goes in the total opposite direction and im excited to try it out.
It is such a nice change of pace from yugioh, at least in this game there is usually more of a back and forth and there is no such thing as a negate stopping your entire turn. Sure there are bad matchups but that's just part of the fun, you always have a chance with any deck
This video is based on every level, still gonna buy ragna though.
I don't normally comment on UA-cam vids but as a brand new player to the game this was a great video to watch, very informative and you clearly put a lot of time and effort in, hope you are planning on more future Digimon vids.
We bought Jesmon and Mastemon and it’s a lot of fun to play against each other. But to be fair i needed to Push my mastemon Deck with 2 or more mastemon and 2 more Gatomon from ebay, because the Jesmon Deck has 4 Jesmons and a bit more Utilities. So i Invested around 30€ in Mastemon and my GF invested 25€.
Thanks for making this video!!!
Video is fantastic. You're great at explaining this game. Please add time codes!
Good call, I meant to but never did. Glad you enjoyed!
@@digivolutionenjoyer I'm looking forward to any videos you may make in the future. One on archetypes seems like a logical step forward.
I like that Ragna's grade came out to FAD which is exactly what anti-meta decks are in my experience, fads that counter the popular kids but don't stick enough to be permanent
This was very helpful thanks
I rmeber when I started playing this game fall of last year and learning that the blitz greymon deck was useless after being given a ulforce deck as a gift. Then I tried to upgrade it and couldn’t do anything with it now I just use the cards in the as filler singles while I wait for pieces of other decks in the mail. And the bottom six are all still decks I have which are so fun ti use
I dont really understand why you talk about the match up between these specific decks, instead of the actual meta decks. The only time this would be relevant if you decide to buy one of each and play against each other with a friend. That aside great Video very informative and easy to understand. Thumbs Up.
Good question. ALL OF THEM
Btw bandai announced Royal Knights support in BT13 a few days ago.... so there's hope for jesmon to be high tier
I was thinking about buying Jesmon, as my first "buy for upgrading"-deck, and now that is settled. But will the be any good support for upgrades i BT11, or should I start cracking packs for older sets instead??
Most ironc Thing is ragnalordmon is better in dragon linkz.
Because dragon linkz focuse on control and stun so they can easily get two level 6s out for Ragna.
And Ragna can then be a blitz omegamon for game
The fact that the rating for Ragna spells out FAD is very funny
Would be cute to get that yellow purple waifu deck some day.
Still annoyed we didn’t get 11
i bought jesmon deck today and also the beelzemon deck, just because is one of my fav digimon i'm still learning though, what's your opinion of that deck? nice video
My opinion is to stay tuned 😏 (Beelzemon is great, I like it a lot)
@@digivolutionenjoyer nice I’m already subscribed, I’ll be waiting that video 👍
Also I’ve wanted this video seven times
Ragna was the worst thing rated here and it just so happend to be the very first deck I ever bought for Digimon Safe to Say that i jumped ship extremely fast and i now play bloomloardmon
I was thinking of getting gallantmon
Banger video please make more
Would you do an updated video on the Beezlemon starter deck coming out early this year?
Yes definitely. I want it to be fairly in-depth so I will probably need a week or so to play a bunch of games and get my thoughts together.
I really wanted to like the Mastemon deck but i feel it doesn't move nearly as well as the others I went to a begginers tournament back in november with a slightly modified Mastemon starter and a friend went with a Slightly modified Jesmon started, I ended up last and he ended up 2nd lol I could not for the life of me get any good draw, so since that mastemon deck was borrowed I ended up buying th UlforceVeedramon one, I still don't win sh*t but now I feel is my fault not the deck's lol
New TCG players learning Digimon - This is so confusing! its even harder than magic!
Yugioh player learning Digimon - This game is so nice and simple. Its like the perfect balance of hard to play but easy to learn.
U help me a lot brotHa 🎉 thank u
As much as it hurts to admit, ragnaloardmon is definitely one of the worst starter decks to get into the game with 😂, but if you like gambling…
Does the game have a mobile version we can try?
I'm new to Digimon and one of the booths at last week's finals told me to get ragna for my first deck 😑
Also thanks for the discord info, will definitely check it. Probably also get another starter deck to try out
Is there a simulator for this game somewhere? Like ygopro for Yu-Gi-Oh for example
Not officially, but there is a Tabletop Simulator mod for it and there are also free options like Untap.io
It's weird when you say a 2020 deck ofp, when us old school Digimon fans remember the wave 1 Digimon starter deck in the 90's 😂
hi, for starter i need to buy more of one for play 4fun or can just buy only one?
You can buy 2 if you want, it will ensure that you have 4 copies of all the important cards. Totally fine if you don't though, if you're having fun just do what feels right.
@@digivolutionenjoyer thanks! for now i buy 2 of jesmon
@@digivolutionenjoyer i was undecided for galliantmon or jesmon
Me watching this after I bought a Gallantmon deck😅
Perfect
But I see Ragna in the top meta of Digimon tcg why is it a meme ?
Happy I have all them lol plus have some great pills
Just want to add digimon starter decks aren't good value compared to buying singles. Unlike other card games S-tier decks can be built extremely cheaply.
Your main issue is card availability. Often times you will need to buy from individuals and only needing a few bulk items can be detrimental. It maybe easier to go to east or a digimon meta site and just give someone a list and $100
Jesmon my darling
The real crime is the st8 veedramon doesn't have memory +1 as his inherited. Every inherited affect matches on the main line Digimon in st7 and st8 except the lvl 4s. Sure you could argue it's bc hammer spark but fck that card. I took all 4 out for 4 great maelstrom. Hammer spark sucks in security
Beelzemon
Buy 2 and have a Meta deck
So the game is no longer color themed?
Nope, hasn't been for a while. Check out the video I just uploaded, it goes over colors!
going to be linking this in the discord anytime someone asks which starter to get.
Ragna is playing as a full chuuni and embracing the bullshit
JESMAWN cuz......JESMAWN!!!!!
I should of bought some original starter decks LOL!!
The Waffle House has found it’s new host
So, ST17 🗿
-get 2
-win
(/j)
Basically, yeah. I'll update the pinned comment 😅