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Hey man! I was wondering where to get tokens, as I don't own any but my decks make them. Do they only come from packs?

#duelistnexus epic pulls. wow. saw cards I am looking for. need those cards. wow

Very nice!

Oh, it warms my heart to see Accesscode Talker's popup with a clean eight-nine cent or two dollar price. That's the numbers I like to see on generic extra deck boss monsters (if they MUST exist). 11:02 Wow, that was funny to see. I didn't realize the packs could just have duplicate cards in different rarities like that. Well, at least Hope Harbinger is a cool card!

11:28 pointing at the screen, that's me, Gary! I said that! I made his videos just a little bit better! it is endlessly funny to me how Digimon prices and your awareness of the market work, such that your biggest pull is the promo you discarded almost immediately and instead you're getting hype over 5 dollar alt arts. Raremon is such an odd case because it's only distributed via these promo packs in this one set, so it's hard as hell to get, and it does the thing purple decks absolutely love to do, which is draw deep and discard fast, while also giving black access to it. Any black level 3 can pay 3 to evolve into this gloppy bastard and escalate your plans. So a ton of purple and black decks want it just to smooth out their hand but so few people have ready access to it, so high demand low supply, bingo bango 40 dollar card. Also I believe that when you're pronouncing a Chinese name like Zhuqiaomon, the "qi" is pronounced like "chi", so it's closer to "zhoo chi-ow mon" or "zhoo chow mon". And finally, Dianamon's red/fire/sun counterpart is Apollomon, who I think you even pulled in this box and have certainly pulled in the past. Seems like a really good box you got! I always love seeing you crack Digimon packs.

That proto, this box was extremely luck! i may need to buy a box for old times sake, great video

Was literally just thinking of making this gj

epic pulls. looking for those cards. wow. need those cards. good pulls. need those cards. wow

epic pulls. wow. saw cards I need in this set. looking for those cards. wow.

Also, I forgot to investigate this because I was at work when I watched this, but I was curious myself so I did do a search for level 6s sorted by attack. 14k _is_ the highest we've had for a level 6, but TyrantKabuterimon is not unique in having it. BT11 Galacticmon, BT13 Belphemon Rage Mode, and BT15 Leviamon X Antibody all match Tyrant at 14k DP. Just as a fun comparison point, the lowest DP on a (non-token, sorry Diaboromon) level 6 is BT1's SlashAngemon at 8k, but he does give -8k DP on evolving, so you could argue it's _kind of_ a 16k attacker.

Wow, that was quite a good box! I know Shadowhaunt may have gotten both Secrets with an alt-art Magna X (which is, what, over a hundred dollars rn?), but an alt-art Paildramon and a regular Magna X is certainly nothing to sneeze at! I'd say you're both winners, honestly. And with the two Paildramon, the Imperialdramons ,and Davis/Ken Tamers you pulled, you are already well on your way to building Imperialdramon, which is poised to be a very strong contender in the upcoming meta! I do like what they did with the Veemon and Wormmons where you pointed out that they evolve from totally different colors; that's both so that you only need one Digitama (both of them have a special trait to evolve off of their respective lesser form and their colored evolution requirements lets them evolve off of the other one, for example Veemon evolves off DemiVeemon but evolving off of green allows him to evolve off of Minomon as well), and it allows you to consistently change up how you evolve up the line to give you more versatility. It's okay if you draw just Veemon alongside Stingmon because Veemon can evolve into Stingmon just fine! Probably the most pedantic thing I'll bring up, but you mention "ah, I remember that episode" upon seeing the art for Advent of the Ancient Steel Angel, but I don't think you do! That specific scene comes from the second Japanese ending, and I don't know if that specific frame ever appeared in the English broadcast of the show! All of the DNA/Jogress Option cards use frames from that ED, which I find very charming. Where else am I gonna spread my "just recently watched the sub" trivia to a dub-only watcher? I'm very excited to build Insectoids from this set, so I'm gonna need to get some of those TyrantKabuterimon myself. Luckily they're only about 10 bucks each atm. I know you casually discarded it because it's not a "main character Digimon", which is usually a fair assumption, but don't be so sure _this_ time! TyrantKabuterimon is a _key_ player in the Insectoid deck and is their best top-end, being run as a consistent four-of while most other level 6s are just run as two-of to supplement it. Like Paildramon, it's projected to do very well going into the next format because it can brute force Magnamon X out of the way! Very excited to play Big Beetles.

Can you please send the decklist here?

Great video mate! Enjoyed the content

Can you put the list in the comments?

Fabled and Jurrac were my favorites from Hidden Arsenal. This was a nice nostalgic trip 😈🤘

congrats on your pulls. wow. saw cards I am looking for. congrats on your mail day.

congrats on your mail day wow. saw cards I am looking for

I was waiting to see all of this opened. That collectors rare pull was sick dude hope you enjoyed!

Neat deck! I forgot about some of these Scrap cards, so it's nice to be reminded. I'm going to go through my bulk and see what I have then possibly build my own version. Keep up the good work, Commodore 😈🤘

interesting deck profile

mondrak is available at cardmarket for 19 bucks :o

Great pulls! I _know_ it's better to buy singles, but it's always more exciting (and fun) when buying packs works out!

Why no bone tower or alghoul?

I know you said you don't have much of a preference between the two decks, but do you have an overall preference between the Greymon and Garurumon lines just as a whole?

The surveil lands are only going up in price over time those are so much better than anticipated.

Pretty good box. Congrats on your Quarter Century pull 😈🤘

#duelistnexus epic pulls. wow. saw cards I need in this set wow. need those cards. need and want badly. need those cards.

Oh yeah, I did have another point I wanted to bring up. GraceNovamon does certainly have a novel of an effect, but I want to compare Digimon cards to Yu-Gi-Oh for a minute (I know, a shockingly fresh discussion about how many words Yu-Gi-Oh cards have). A Yu-Gi-Oh effect novel is a hard brick of text, with no line breaks, no bullet points, no numbers. It's just this long sequence of sentences you have to parse with weird awkward punctuation ("When you summon this, discard a card, and if you do, you can, once per turn, if you control a Spellcaster..."). In a Digimon effect novel, each individual effect is on one line, and it starts with how you activate it and/or when it's applied. I can see, at a glance, that GraceNova has two relevant keywords (Security +1, Blocker), an effect when it digivolves and attacks (and I know that's one effect for both), and an effect that applies on either player's turn (so if I'm facing this Digimon, I know to watch out for the All Turns effect when I go to remove it). It hits hard, it blocks, it trashes sources, and you can trash its own sources to protect it. Yes, you can describe a Yu-Gi-Oh card this way, but it takes a lot more reading to get to that point and you can still easily miss a word or two that changes the entire effect. Also, yeah, there's a Leomon deck in this set. It's a branch evolution from the Rookie, that goes down a green/yellow path with Liollmon to Lia Loader to Bancho and a green/black path with Elecmon to Leomon to GrapLeo to Heavy. I think you pulled every point in the lines. It seems like a fun deck, but it's more of a casual thing than anything relevant and you might need to fill out the deck with a few unrelated Digimon (BT14 Palmon is basically always good in green). I whipped up a decklist for it but I haven't tested it yet, I just think HeavyLeomon in particular kicks ass.

Do you know if these cards are made by the same company that makes DBS?

What do you recommend as a side deck, by the way, good video.

So here's a fun little trivia bit: this set has a Digimon World Dawn/Dusk subtheme (Digimon Story Sunburst/Moonlight in Japan). Coronamon and Lunamon are the two face Digimon for both games, which makes it really fun that two times, you pulled a Coronamon with a Lunamon right behind it. But what I didn't notice until just now looking it up, those two Tamer cards associated with those archetypes both depict the same two characters; one is "Sayo and Koh", the other is "Koh and Sayo". Koh is the canon protagonist of Dawn and Sayo is the canon protagonist of Dusk, but in both games you get to pick what gender character you want, so their respective cards also depict the Dawn version of Sayo and the Dusk version of Koh! Isn't that cool?

Ayy, I actually have this one. I bought it because 30 dollars for a deck that was basically done sounded like a great deal, except that I accidentally found what was apparently a _recommended_ decklist on the official website rather than the actual contents of the deck, a recommended decklist that assumed you have access to a playset of every card in the box. Thankfully, the deck is still MOSTLY playsets, but as you can see some of the most important cards are stuck at two. That said, people are quick to say "buy two copies so you can make the full deck" but that seems wildly ineffecient when you can get the missing playsets for like 15 bucks on TCGPlayer. I'm a little mixed on the Advanced Deck branding. It's not really that the deck itself is much better than your average deck; for example, the recent WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon decks also include mostly playsets but keep the cover card line at 2. But it does feel like every card in this deck does push towards a single game plan while your average 10 dollar deck does contain a little bit of filler and doesn't have the simple and effective "four consistency Options, two removal Options" that I've been working with. What makes this deck expensive is All The Other Bullshit that's crammed into the box to make it really big. It's got all those promos and reprints, it's got the pack that has an alternate frame of a random card in the deck, and it comes with a pack of sleeves, which you didn't show! The sleeves are very cute but they are BY FAR the most useless thing to put in a starter deck. You're not saving any money, because a pack of sleeves will probably run you 10 bucks anyway, and if you're gonna sleeve you probably have a favorite brand (and it's probably Dragon Shields). I don't know how well made these official sleeves are, but why even risk it? Just lower the price, give me the cards, and I'll sleeve them myself. I've got tons! That said, it's a great and fun deck. I invested in the EX4 BlackGargo/Rapid/MegaGargo line, who also have Alliance, to lean in more to the Alliance theme in the deck, but you can also take the deck in more of an Antylamon/Cherubimon direction, which is also Alliance focused, but I guess gets you access to some different colors or some other options? I mean it's basically the same deck with a different guy because MegaGargoAce is so good you probably still want to play him, but either way it's more options to customize your deck, which I think is nice. So nothing in this box except the alt frame pack is variance. The deck always comes with those full art reprints, and it always comes with two new Magnamons. This deck is the only way to get those Magnamon. That's one of the things they use to advertise this deck. I don't know why they put Magnamon as an added bonus in this deck. I don't know why they gave you two, other than to allow you to have a full playset by buying two rather than making you buy *four* (which would be atrocious), but those alt art reprints are only one per package, so I don't know what the idea is there. I don't know how that Magnamon was released in Japan, I don't know if maybe it's a stray promo or something they needed to find a way to distribute in America, but yeah, you're not missing anything. The deck just has two Magnamon that does not get used in the deck but has the same number code as the deck. It's just a new Magnamon to collect, maybe throw it in Armor Rush or build a Veemon-themed deck or something! But that's all there is to it.

Eiji Nagasumi and Satsuki Tamahime are both from a digital light novel called Digimon Seekers, and the reason why they clash against the usual Digimon art style is probably because they're grown adults (well, Eiji is 19) rather than kids. Seekers has a bit more of an edge to it than most Digimon media, with the DigiPolice dealing with cyber crime and hacker collectives, including the group Eiji is associated with, the Sons of Chaos. Loogamon is Eiji's partner and you somehow managed to pull every member of Loogamon's line except Loogamon himself! Satsuki's partner is that DigiPolice Numemon you pulled, which is extra funny that one pack had Numemon and Satsuki together. I've been reading Seekers myself lately, I'm nowhere near in deep enough to pass judgment on it but I'm _really_ interested in the premise!

The more I think about and learn about TCGs, the more I realize Duel Masters really had something with the shield system and general gameplay, and the more I play Digimon, the more I realize it's really the Duel Masters 2 I've been wanting. Almost every card does something coming out of security, even if it's just a Digimon trying to strike back at an attacker, but most Options and Tamers tend to get full or increased value out of being checked. Card flow is really good because so many cards search the topdeck and evolving draws you a card, and the resource system is really engaging and gets around the annoying "I have to put cards I would've played out of the game to generate resources" problem all "use cards as established resources" games have.

Thanks for the nostalgia hit! Gonna go check my old box of TCG stuff, I'm sure I had a Bolshack Dragon in there somewhere!

The ratios for your deck are somewhat poor and cause anti-synergy (e.g. heavy forward at 2 in a pro infinitrack strategy, urgent schedule not at 3 in a blind 2nd deck). I personally lean heavier into the machina side of the deck, as it raises the combo potential significantly with ruinforce/earthslicer and Qliphort Genius. Genius also combos well with urgent schedule and can disable faceup cards.) People also run a single irradiator to fix dead hands caused by unclaspare. Of course, this doesn't affect your skill as a player. Deckbuilding can be complex. And at the end of the day, it's your deck and you make your own choices so take my criticism with a grain of salt. On another note, maindecking droplets are perfectly fine, since they can be used to counter droll & lock bird when going second. Most people don't know that. But adding a card through card effect let's you use droplets on resolution and by sending a monster, your opponent can't chain droll because as turn player, you have priority. Droll stops your turn, so knowing this trick is invaluable.

So is magic the gathering supposed be kinda like DnD?

Fun to see the old packs! Good memories from those days...

You're missing a comma in Apocalymon's effect. When you would play this, comma, by putting Dark Masters underneath it you can reduce the cost by 4 for each. It encourages you to hard play him from hand rather than digivolving up to him. I'm glad you did pull the Apocalymon just to answer your question about whether or not there was a "Dark Masters" deck and why you'd want to shuffle through so many of them. All four Dark Masters are in this set and they all have that cycle effect, and each Dark Master gets a "lieutenant" Digimon that all have the same effects in different colors; look for level 6s on play and delete a Digimon to place a Dark Master in your breeding area end of turn. You opened a few of them but didn't check them; MetalSeadramon got Scorpiomon (aka Anomalocarimon), Puppetmon got Cherrymon, Machinedramon got Gigadramon, and Piedmon got Ladydevimon, with Vilemon being additional support in the form of protection. Then you can absorb them all in the trash with Apocalymon and play him for cheap with a bunch of useful effects (because all of the Dark Masters have solid inheritables to give him) and win the game off of that. The funny thing is, Apocalymon is really cheap for a secret, because he was pre-restricted before the set came out. Apparently the JP meta was run roughshod by Apocalymon and EN just decided "nah, we're gonna bite the bullet and deal with this now" and limited not just an unreleased card, but a _secret rare_ at that, which are supposed to be the money makers. I saw some videos from around that time theorizing that Apocalymon needed to be hit but assuming they couldn't hit Apocalymon _itself_ due to being a secret, and trying to figure out what else to hit around it, but seems like Bandai EN went for the unexpected straight punch. Sooooo all this talk about the Dark Masters deck and it honestly doesn't even work because your boss monster is stuck at 1, and the whole deck was designed around him.

I'm enjoying these random pack openings. Keep up the good work 😈🤘

Great content my friend! I really like the pack openings. It's nice to see a fellow Yugituber from Canada 🇨🇦🍁

Commodore.. I just want to say as a fellow Yugituber and love of the Earth Machine deck, this profile deserves much more recognition than it has gotten so far. You have done a phenomenal job showing off the deck and explaining the cards. You have also shown a more unconventional approach to playing the deck. I've tested different strategies, shown several profiles on my channel and have tried to innovate since aerosolTCG created the dozer control deck several years ago. Needless to say you have inspired me to try new things and I'm very thankful for the time and effort you put into this. Keep it up my friend! 😁

Ive seen videos with punk and diabellastar, have you tried that?

Can you please post a list of cards somewhere so we can read them off instead of having to run through the video and try to remember everything?

interesting deck profile and strategy. wow.

epic pulls. wow. saw cards I am looking for in this set. wow. need those cards u pulled. need and want badly. need the cards u pulled.

I actually thought this was very entertaining i love your sense of humor haha just keep it up man

Your classy gloves gave you classy pulls. Love the Eiji