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But today, the discussion aims to go over my thoughts on future products for the Digimon card game, and first up it’s starter deck. In some ways, when it comes to building cores, this is where a lot of my logic lies as well and if you’re looking at trying to move bulk or donate it, there are ways to make it more effective to get more people into the game!
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Will there be more Digimon Seekers?
It feels like the new starter decks coming out are an in-between of the old starter decks and the advanced ones. I think those should still go forward, and keep advanced ones as something special, since there's so much that seems to go into them.
9:20 I Don’t think we should do away starter decks because we need a cheaper product for new players
Nothing gets me hyped like a good starter deck. Im always down to buy a product if i can get a perfectly serviceable deck out of it for 30$ (2 copies), the new starters having reprints of trainings is just icing on the cake. I definitely think they're going in a better direction with starter product!
a ready-made deck is so good
Digimon liberator, What do you think of the current chapters, good or in decline?
wargreymon from bt 12 is a reference to an opening in which wargreymon was having problems with metaltyranomon… wouldn't it be better if it was with the rival machindramon, because if wargreymon loses to metal tyranomon I will be firm in the opinion that it is one of the lv 6 weakest
I REALLY like the Liberator Starter decks
So much that I bought 12 of each 🤣
I feel like having two eggs would complicate things for new players.
Remember, starters are mostly for people new to the game.
I would just add egg sleeves personally
I would still keep regular starter decks around. Yes, they lack some value, but they are STARTER DECKS and the others ARE NOT. They are meant as an easy introduction into the game. And also a cheap entry.
The purpusefully bad cards also give new players an easy step towards deckbuilding. You buy the new St18/ and upgrade it with the EX7 cards.
Advance decks provide a strong start out of the box if you want a dtrong deck for competition.
But you need to learn to walk first before you run(keep in mind your target audience does not only include grown up adults)
Honestly, yeah I first hated cards being locked behind starter decks. But the product is honestly great.
9:37 Honestly the idea with the Liberator Starters is a step in the right direction for regular starters while also having the Advanced as another possible for a strengthened theme deck with reprints
Starter decks for Rika and Rio? Bandai can't even give them good decks in general! (Doesn't stop me from trying to make them work though)
I do like that idea for those two specifically though, because they fit the Start Deck theme: A specific mechanic– Renamon cycling Option cards and Monodramon getting Tamer buffs.
I absolutely don't think they should stop making regular starter decks just because they're not as good as the Advanced ones, but I do think it's weird that they sell two similar products where one is labeled as "the good one". Like there's nothing that stops them from making regular starters as good as Advanced decks other than cost.
Speaking of cost, part of why I don't want regular starters to stop is because of cost; a lot of players will just spout "oh just buy two Advanced starter decks so you get a playset of all the cards", but that's 60 dollars you're asking a new player to drop on a game before they even know if they like it. Not only that, but most cards in an Advanced starter are four-ofs, usually the only ones that are two-ofs are the key cards the deck is built around, but you could probably get those as singles. Part of the reason Advanced decks are so expensive is because they cram them full of so much shit They put in stuff like sleeves, random promos, big chunky bric-a-brac that only serves to make the box bigger and more expensive. If you buy two Advanced decks, you have a ton of waste, just a bunch of shit you're never gonna use just so you can get two copies of maybe six or eight different cards. That's not fucking worth spending another thirty dollars! When I bought Double Typhoon, I'm pretty sure I could get the singles I was missing on TCGPlayer for 15-20, leaving me more money to buy other cards to help improve the deck.
I wonder if it would be worth it if the regular starter decks retained their budget 10 dollar price and became a sort of "trial deck" where it's built entirely around one specific keyword or mechanic. A lot of the regular starters in this game are one core Digimon line with a relatively coherent strategy, and then a second line that's just random whos and some assorted level 3-4 Digimon to fill out the ratios. What if they instead said "Okay, here's our next starter, it's a De-Digivolve deck. Your main line is entirely a line of Digimon that all have De-Digivolve X, and your second line are Digimon that might benefit from your opponent having low-level or sourceless Digimon. Doesn't have to be anything more complex than that, and building around a specific keyword does not guarantee a win condition beyond just hitting your opponent with big Digimon, so it's not like it's going to make them any more difficult to pilot than a basic starter, it just gives the player something to go on besides just "well I have the MetalGarurumon deck so do I just get more Gabumon and Garurumon stuff because they all do different stuff and I don't know which ones are good", but if your deck is built around a mechanic instead and you put the face Digimon on the box later, it ensures that your new player at least has an idea of what they need to do and having a lot of examples of one specific mechanic really helps them learn that specific mechanic. Hey new player, do you like attacking your opponent's Digimon in one on one fights? Here's the Raid deck, it's all about Raid, check this out and learn how Raid works.
When it comes to building cores do you just include the cards you think would go in the deck and at how many you think would be played or do you always do play sets of the cards.
Videos like this make me want to open my own card shop someday, one of my favorite things about card games especially irl with paper play is helping out new players. Whenever someone new comes to my locals I give them what I call the noobie tax, generally letting them take whatever they want/think they'll need for what it is their trying to build out of my binder(assuming its not something crazy like a 50$ card).