@gerardobrito3408 jamming only works if you connect with security, and right now both TyrantKabuteri and MagnaX will make sure that doesnt happen 😅 raw dp is just too important to topple a format of tall stacks packed with immunity, so i opted for Tai to help make sure we clear the dp thresholds that are asked of us. Very notably, a Machinedramon backed up by a single Tai reaches 13k which means MagnaX cant safely swing through it and needs another way to trigger his immunity on followup turns

@chrisjohnson4402 Yeah, the diving in Costa Maya was pretty so-so, but to be fair the waves were 3-4 foot and we didn't even attempt the second dive 😅 they had us in a tiny little fishing boat packed with like 10 people, then the storm started picking up even more and we didn't want to risk it. I wound up seeing a sea turtle myself but that was aboutbit aside from the plentiful reef fish. The reef itself was pretty cool though, massive chasms and cracks in the rock formation

Ive made that exact argument before. As it stands he just doesnt have a strategy he fits cleanly into. He still does like... okay? In Tyranno lists but theres very little incentive to play him over other alternatives

Red Hybrid in my experience is heavily slanted in Machine's favor, but its a question of speed. If they cant kill you outright, they get punished hard on the crackback. Its a deck that relies strictly on normal deletion so it plays into Machine's strengths.

That is incorrect, no such errata exists. Burst digivolving is just an alternate digivolution condition, it's in the same vein as DNA Digivolving or any of the other such methods. If you meet the special digivolution method requirements you are free to use that alternate method, but as long as there's base digivolution requirements (a colored circle that outlines what you digivolve from on the left side of the card) you can digivolve using that method at any time. Just like if I have bt8 Kimeramon, obviously digivolving through the DNA method is preferred, but he can still digivolve from any color level 4 for a cost of 4

I picked up the materials for purple base and am just waiting to get a few things in the mail atm! I think purple base has a lot of strengths, it just also has some scary weaknesses. If you cant establish a black source you can have a hard time doing much during the course of the game, but Ukko and Demimera can obviously help to hopefully keep that from being a problem

@@AvidHerpetologist yeah, it's rough playing out the supreme connections if you don't have analogman and the opponent has a chokehold on the field, like versus numemon or yellow decks for example. floodgates that prevent supreme connection and or ex1 machinedramon's memory gain is also a problem, and numemon can comfortably run both

Idk what it is but my silly inner child just gets so hyped hearing him shout the name of the attack. I get the same goosbumps I do when I hear Omnimon shout "Supreme Cannon". It just resonates in your gut, good stuff 👌

I mean sure I dont NEED to, but nostalgia and reminiscing on those moments from childhood is the purpose of the video! I try to keep my explanations in alot of my content fairly concise, especially when im aiming for a full 10-point discussion, but with this one I wanted to take my time and really explore the references and why they were so emotionally impactful in the first place 🙂 it's a hard balance to try and make it digestable for people who may not have known one particular reference and want to know the backstory, while also giving people who DO know the reference a chance to enjoy and remember the moment itself.

Totally agree, basically every iteration of Malo and the cards around him have been great, id honestly be hard pressed to pick just one and would likely have to discuss them all 😅

That approach is def not one ive heard! I like the d-brigade package alot but hadnt considered how well it synergizes with Ryo. As far as top end yeah, I strongly recommend swapping out the machines for connections. Im actually adjusting my list after some more testing, going down to only 7 rookies and 5 champs while bumping up AHMD to 3, its just utterly vital to be able to blitz in EX1 on pivotal turns. Ex1 is by far the best card in the deck right now, ive considered bumping him up to 4 even, but i think that could be a few too heavy on the topend. I will say time and time again Tai is proving to be exceptional this format, the dp boost is relevant in just about every matchup right now. Im still very wary of EX3 Cyberdramon though, there are situations id rather just have the boost, especially in the Tyrant matchup where if its Cyberdramon you cant swing over it unless they choose to redirect, and i tend to shy away from scenarios that put the decision in my opponents hands. That being said, including a copy of ex3 WITH the bt6 pair sounds solid. I even said in the video, db buffs are hugely relevant right now.

​@@AvidHerpetologist when you attack with machine, you can suspend ryo to give machinedramon 1k, and when he becomes suspended he keeps your ex3 cyberdramon's DP buff active when you attack, giving +3k in total both on your turn and your opponent's turn, but yeah it definitely can be bad if you don't see both when you need to, i understand the preference of consistency with the DP megadramon/gigadramons

Tbh i love everything about the RK archetype. I need to refresh on the X Antibody storyline before including it in a vid though! But considering Omni went from the ultimate hero to literally attempting genocide, Id say the story is interesting enough to cover 😅

Depends on how you mean. If youre referring to Mother-D, then no, shes unaffected by the effects of your Opp's Digimon under any and all circumstances. But let's say your opp was somehow in a position with multiple searchers on board, yes it would target one and delete them all

@@AvidHerpetologist okay that makes sense. One of my friends likes to run the D Reaper deck and I was just curious if that would be a good counter

Both great ones!

The dub music might be campy, but gosh darn it if it doesnt just add to that early 2000's atmosphere for me today. Wouldnt have it any other way!

@@AvidHerpetologist I still own that soundtrack album. It's a time capsule.

Brooo, i hadnt actually considered that 🤔 Also, just as an aside, still get goosebumps hearing him growl "I'm Greymon now."

@@AvidHerpetologist also the new Diaboromon win condition card is called “Clock of the End” you win the game by having all 4 of these cards in the battle area. Its the reference to how they had to defeat diaboromon before the nukes exploded

You're just jealous you never got to enjoy Wendigomon jammin to Smash Mouth 😏😂 yeah its campy but its also very early 2000s, it might be cringe, but its still my childhood 😅

@@AvidHerpetologist im glad this time the german dub didnt just copy the usa dub XD i feel bad for the americans ngl

@cycle1990 dont lol it really isnt that bad. I enjoyed the 2020 show enough to watch through it twice but my issues with it were more structural than anything. (Idk why they thought it was a good idea to start the show off by copying the Our War Game plot.. the reason that movie was so hype was because of the payoff after the original show)

@@AvidHerpetologist idk about that, do you still do your own music? Or are you keeping the original? :D imo always watch in original dub with subtitles

Haha low hanging fruit or not, sometimes it's just nice to reminisce 🙂 tbh I wish id played Digimon World back in the day, I know there are a ton of references to that game but it's alot harder to catch up on than just watching a TV series 🙃

I agree, there are quite a few Savers cards ill likely cover in future entries! Idk how i feel about burst mode in the tcg though... bouncing a tamer is just... odd? Idk how else to describe it lol it very obviously works that way for game balance mechanically, but functionally i dont know how to interpret that action 😅 but yeah, Marcus punching things to create digivolution, the Gizamon cards and honestly even Ravemon hitting and then dissapearing is pretty cool!

I stole a prototype copy of the Angela card, and my opponent's parents got divorced when I played it.

I was looking over the Ulforce cards but outside of references involving Rina there isnt much sadly, Ulforce's whole thing is being super fast, which is why most of his cards do things to unsuspend himself, but thats about it 😐 i really like both Ulforce and Examon's support but the cards sadly dont make much in the reference department

Color requirements! At the time of EX2 Leomon was a blue archetype, but once they started expanding it they abandoned blue completely and went into yellow / green / black, so since Leomon isnt named on Fist, the only leos that can use it are the old ones 😅

@@AvidHerpetologist you play a blue Tamer in the deck.

@redblackdg you can! But my point is Leomon cant fulfill the play requirements for his own Option card

I mean, Im not really sure what point you're trying to make 😂 they reference Adventure alot in the card game, and as I mentioned it's a video concept I plan to revisit. Why not cover some of the obvious ones in the first entry to introduce the concept 😅 also yeah, people like adventure 🤷‍♂️ OWG is widely considered some of the best Digimon media out there so why wouldnt I cover it. I feel like I gave plenty of time and attention to all of the entries except maybe Angemon because there was less to discuss, just seems like unusual criticism 😅

@@AvidHerpetologist It's not really a criticism of you specifically, it's more exasperation that pretty much any video talking about Digimon is obligated to spend half of its runtime reminiscing about Adventure because it works better with the algorithim. I don't hate the player, I hate the game.

@StarkMaximum totally fair! Like i said there are plenty of cards I wana cover and I promise you, they wont all be from adventure 😂

@@AvidHerpetologist And I do apologize for wording my issue as if it was a direct criticism towards you, that was my mistake. I was making a joke of it, but a poorly worded, misinterpreted joke is a failing on my part, not yours.

@StarkMaximum no worries man! I try my best to take any criticism and feedback in stride so I can improve my craft, I just wasnt sure what to make of the initial comment 😅 I think the point you made is totally valid and ill be sure to diversify a bit more in the next installment 😊

And Paladin mode was (i think?) The first Digimon with 16k dp, so he can attack over it despite his effects being turned off 👍

@@AvidHerpetologist Yep, plus Paladin Mode gets its effect also when attacking so it bypasses Armageddemon's lockdown

It is, but hes saying "I'll stop you" 😂 Digimon has done plenty of stabbings though so the misunderstanding makes sense 😂😂😂

@@AvidHerpetologist i know it is early 4kids censorship. i watched that episode for the first time in dutch, and i compleetly forgot that some of the lines are lame. than again, i was about 7 to 9 years old at the time. now i refuse to watch any anime in any spoken word but japanese (the original)

@skullwolff9442 meh, the original series was always extremely campy, thats part of the charm for people who grew up with it. I watched the 2020 reboot subbed and dubbed, either way i still didnt enjoy it as much as the original tbh 😅

@@AvidHerpetologist i fell in love with skullgreymon. when i first saw him, i tought it was the coollest digimon out there, was dissapointed that metalgreymon was the intended. i thought skullgreymon was way more awesome. defently left a lasting impact on me. scary, cool, ferrosios, love it. he is still one of my favorete digivolution lines. together with metalseadramon, and mastemon. 1rst metalseadramon, 2nd machinedramon, 3th mastemon, if you wanted to know where i rank them.

Not low hanging at all! Also to put a finer point on it, Machine was created in lore using the parts of 5 cyborgs, which is why he uses that particular number. And yeah, they just happened to be the 5 the card was released with! Gotta love it 😊