DigiStrategy | To Battle or Not to Battle - That is the Question.

[@bobakitty6575]

Gameplay theory is so needed right now so players don't just get wrapped up in just optimizing their deck but have enough strat and cards to play around almost all decks they will play against at Nats.

[@DIGI-PANDA]

Agreed! There's not as much on gameplay theory - and I think it's partially because a lot of creators look for what gets the clicks and views. It's a balance to navigate.

[@bobakitty6575]

@@DIGI-PANDA I get it's part of the job, but it's nice when creators like yourself give real information and actual starts that help players improve their playing techniques and gaming levels. It helps the community and the game to gain more players and popularity.

[@spikypeach]

3:43 wide fast green end on quartz

[@DIGI-PANDA]

The build wide and fast with Quartz is so funny ha ha. Green doesn't seem too great right now but I think we'll get some more support for it soon.

[@spikypeach]

@@DIGI-PANDA in a hybrid meta, bloom turbo is fine. I want to see your tamers, because if you get rid of quartz I’m throwing little things at your face if you don’t you’re on a timer

[@dovesr0478]

It definitely depends on how you're building your board and how much sauce your boss monster has. It's very hard to keep level 3s and 4s around because they catch strays so easily, might as well get the check in before they die, especially if your level 6 can't close out the game by itself. A lot of decks need the early chip too, either to guarantee the OTK later or simply to start the clock. Relative power level is also important. If your deck is weaker than your opponent's, they're gonna out-value you regardless. You have to somewhat bank on them bricking a bit and take your advantage where you can get it because if you both reach an endgame board they're gonna win every time. In even matchups you can be a bit more methodical IMO and try to slowly accumulate advantage before going for the win. I agree that in a vacuum it's optimal to try to OTK your opponent, especially if they can get a ton of value from lucky security hits, but it's not always feasible and definitely not without risk. Building up to lethal on board before attacking extends games, making it easier for slower decks to catch up, plus it eats up the clock in a tournament which may come back to bite you. Def an interesting video!

[@DIGI-PANDA]

Definitely agree with a lot of your talking points! Frankly, more and more players can accelerate quickly to a Ruin Mode or even just find DeathXmon and drop it on board and be like.. ok now what? And since they just got reprinted to, it's now even easier.

[@TeamDeathSlingerTCG]

Awesome video, I looooooove gameplay theory conversations and would be thrilled to see more videos like this!

[@DIGI-PANDA]

Wanna kind of return to some of the roots of the channel. We'll see how well these do.

[@DogmaDraws]

Digimon used to be more easily confronted as a game of aggro vs set up. This video just makes me sour, yeah we have decks now that theoretically you should wait to hit in a establish board, yet can chomp your board away on their way to their wincon. On top of "if your deck even can play like this" the game is really a war of "do you have the out?" now every decent deck can do everything and is not allowed to have any inherent weakness

[@DIGI-PANDA]

I look back at a lot of old card games and feel like this is ultimately what happens - they start out slow and fair, and then the results of powercreep to stay relevant causes huge shifts that inevitably you're constantly creating board breaking conditions in which you have to continue outdoing.

[@enigmaticheart666]

It really boils down to "just be lucky" and don't hit tamers and options lmao, that's literally all you can do

[@DIGI-PANDA]

I also feel the more you play against other decks, the more you understand the variation of the deck itself - then it becomes a statistics game on what you've seen.

[@mellow_speaks1006]

keep up the good content!

[@DIGI-PANDA]

There's a few small videos I wanna do before Nationals - because I've been seeing them more commonly in recent events.

[@DragonsRiver]

I main Terriermon biomerge and tend to do well vs hybrid matchups even in regionals. How I normally approach the matchups is 2-3 body's on board, chipping & searching quartzmon. Rapid x tends to help vs the stragglers with low DP from swinging, megagargomon helps because you can tag up to FOUR targets. Ex: they have 4 tamers on the field swing with an ukkomon, blast, suspend 2 tamers tag the other 2 with no digivolution. Ikky situation for them

[@DIGI-PANDA]

This is one reason why I love blast digivolution Digimon. It counters potential crack backs that can end the game.

[@ryanmurphy9068]

Good vid

[@DIGI-PANDA]

Thank you! Appreciate your support on the channel.

[@StarkMaximum]

The answer is simple, either you attack into the security and get blown out, or you wait to go in and get blown out. At least, that's how it goes when I play!

[@DIGI-PANDA]

At this point, that's usually the strategy. Can't overthink too hard because being too passive is equally as bad.

[@blakegocey]

It has been 1,022 days since a Rasenmon was printed

[@DIGI-PANDA]

I responded to the other one, but I'll say the same thing ha ha, because of the success of the game, I do hope Rasen gets some more love.

[@blakegocey]

@DIGI-PANDA Me too! Thanks for the comment 🙂. I'll be spreading this message on every digimon related video I see 🦔

[@nycboi6720]

Tbh as a Red hybrid player I just pray sometimes not gonna lie because although I can 2 turn otk I have to be lucky in getting the otk in the first place then praying about no options in sec if there’s no Aldamon under. The crack back thing is SOOO REAL tho, the amount of times my board got cleared and they swing into my sec hit 2 tamers and die because of it is crazy!

[@AwesomeRhombus]

@nycboi6720 Red Hybrid feels like rolling dice at a casino sometimes, but it feels sooooo good to get that 5 security check Ancientgreymon into blitz omni for game lol

[@DIGI-PANDA]

Definitely agree. Red Hybrid can sometimes open the most bonkers hands and then just crack back win if your opponent chips one at a time. Offensively I'd say it's really strong. It's just defensively it can suffer sometimes.

[@justinarreaga4731]

Been having some success with purple base Machinedramon. Most of the time I'm just chipping trying to get on delete effects and trash my hand. Played against SecCon-Mother D Sunday night.... that was a very hard match up, not much I could do 😂

[@pn2294]

I hate purple base. It feels like a cancer

[@DIGI-PANDA]

The Daipenmon and Jetsilphymon from BT18 are so crucial now. And they're much better than previous DP buffers.

[@DIGI-PANDA]

@pn2294 - Unfortunately, it's arguably the best engine for the deck at this point.

[@pn2294]

If a Player has BT14 Patamon in raising then you have to attack as soon as possible.

[@DIGI-PANDA]

Jokes on you, you have a Digimon in play and they're going to play back Patamon from the trash with scramble.

[@ArtDadDraws]

I think there's a level of paralysis that can happen with all of MUs unfortunately. It's extremely incumbent on non-meta crackback decks to build wide and fast. But if that takes even ONE turn too long all the effort was for nothing and then you're forced to attack with what's left... And suddenly you've got multiple tamers or option cards in security and it's still GG.

[@DIGI-PANDA]

I see this frequently happening all the time with not just the games from events, but my personal games too. It's usually not a card you're missing. It's just a single turn. XD

[@ArtDadDraws]

@DIGI-PANDA haha yeah! Like good example, I was poised to faceroll this PH deck the other night with my fish deck. But I got hit with a surprise instant trash of my Hexebalumon and if I'd had gotten a Kaiser Nail earlier I could have protected my board and cleared them out.

[@dlscrub6207]

Just gonna play purple and say no to their board and security. Demon lords best deck

[@DIGI-PANDA]

Demon Lords Lucemon was doing work this last weekend!

[@AliHussein-z4u]

They should just create a lv 3/4 digimon inherit that says. “Whatever” place an opposing card from the opponents field that has no sources and have inherited effect to the bottom of the deck.

[@DIGI-PANDA]

I noticed more and more Digimon are getting the bounce to the bottom of the deck. It's better than what blue previously had.

[@Mekaizer]

i learn in some decks i only need attack when i can deal with tamers or options... because i lose vs many Imperialdramon because the tamers were in sec x,DD

[@DIGI-PANDA]

Imperial is one of the worst one XD when you hit double Davis and Ken you're like.. you got the combo? If your opponeent's smiling, you know the answer.

[@Mekaizer]

@@DIGI-PANDA one time I hit 3... It was gg

[@nicolasmartinez1317]

I was playing gracenova agains an imperial and it seems their D&K were lost. I had an apollo do 3 checks and... They were 3 D&K... I was cooked afterward

[@Salty010]

im preparing for my bcf next month still on fence either got dbridgage or go for galacticmon deck.... is there any good black deck anti meta?

[@DIGI-PANDA]

Galacticmon requires a really good pilot. Will say that the one that recently topped in Ultimate Cup was wrecking hybrid decks.

[@Vansjoo7966]

I play Virus Imperialdramon Check 3 & boardwipe. Next turn opponent needs to get rid of it since i can potentially self delete and do it again with bt16 Worm. (After i remove last 2 security)

[@DIGI-PANDA]

See this is where that Partition is more handy ha ha.

[@Vansjoo7966]

@@DIGI-PANDA not even Partition, just promo Shadramon inherited On Deletion

[@Sstteevveerrzz]

I say chip away. You should have follow up plans in place if you hit options or tamers

[@DIGI-PANDA]

LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROYYYYYYYYYYYYY JEEEEENKINS.

[@Nano_GJ4]

The moment they drop MagnaAngemon/Angewomon with Patamon in the breeding, i know it's over for me ~_~ i've never manage to score a win against angels, i've played Bees/Mirages/Pure Ice-snow deck/Leomon ect, non of them worked against them & worst of all they got their hand on ShadowSeraphimon!

[@DIGI-PANDA]

Mirage you should have a fairly decent chance against Angels. Bees, Ice-Snow and Leomon is a little harder for the set up. The funny thign is, since two of your decks have black top ends, you could also run ShadowSeraphimon ACE as a counter :P

[@Nano_GJ4]

@DIGI-PANDA Lol that was before i get my hands on ShadowSeraphimon xD now i do i'll include him there

[@melvanaltena83]

Imma just yolo i litterly check for ace potential most of the time even if there is the ace potential imma still yolo. Im all fairness i am just a casual and dont do anything competetive so maybe thats why im just way. My first couple turns i use to build and control as much as possible and then i just go full yolo mode fingers crossed the turn comes back to me with something still left on it XD

[@DIGI-PANDA]

I can get on board with the yolo sometimes ha ha. If I'm hungry or I gotta use the bathroom XD

[@imposifle9792]

This sounds like a miserable way to play, thankfully i dont bother with meta “Oh let me sit back and do nothing until i can kill u all at once” that’s just YGO with more turn passing Lucky i can just concede if i ever see a logamon deck online, make sure they don’t get the satisfaction

[@DIGI-PANDA]

It's the feeling I get when it comes to watching game play sometimes. It feels like players have to account for crack back more than ever now.

[@StellaEFZ]

So thinking about your plays is miserable????? Lmao

[@kirbdog315]

@@DIGI-PANDAthis is definitely true… and is there any way to stop every top deck from being/becoming this? It feels like most decks are just ignoring me, assembling their pieces, constantly gaining lots memory (or in takemikazuchi’s case stealing mine) and swinging for game in one turn. I see so many people dooming about how every deck does this now and that it feels is miserable (and I have a hard time disagreeing in most cases). Do you think there are ways to slow down the game in a healthy way, or are we stuck at a point of no return where everything ends up killing in one ignorant setup? I watch regional tournament videos from Asia (East the goat) and I think that’s really interesting gameplay. It’s just that the power level is so much higher than everything else. Maybe I should just wait for my favorite decks to get that top tier treatment too one day…