Carta Magica’s September Digimon Card Game Online Regionals — September 28th, 2024

Carta Magica’s September Digimon Card Game Online Regionals — September 28th, 2024

Hi Sparkies, I participated in Carta Magica’s September Digimon Card Game Online Regionals on September 28th, 2024. I’ll explain regionals, my overall experience, and my expected agenda for future events.

What are Digimon Card Game Regionals?
To put it briefly, these are competitions where Digimon card players compete for prizes that can’t be obtained from your local game store events. The top 16 players from these events will receive an invite to participate in Nationals and the top eight earn a serialized Omnimon!

To participate, you must register a deck of 50 cards and up to five Digitamas. Under Bandai's new rules, a regional consists of nine 50-minute rounds before a winner is determined, and it typically takes up to 10 hours to complete. During each round, you are paired up with an opponent with a similar record, and a best of three is used to determine the winner. The process is repeated until all nine rounds have been completed and rankings have been released.

My Experience
Due to my dog-sitting responsibilities, I played 5 out of 9 rounds and decided to try Lilithmon X for a change of pace. I had hoped it would give me an advantage since most players are not familiar with it. The premise of the deck is to provoke your opponent into deleting their Digimon, which triggers bonus effects. Unfortunately, that backfired, as I realized my deck struggles against the majority of the meta. Here’s an overview of my matchups and how I intend to improve this deck moving forward. Lilithmon X Decklist

Round 1:  Fenriloogamon: Takemikazuchi (L)
Playing against this deck is like playing against a ticking time bomb. There is not much interaction going on until your opponent is ready to go into their boss Digimon and that usually results in a game over. The reason is Fenriloogamon: Takemikazuchi aka Dog Sword, Zacian, can and will one hit ko you if given the chance. This is a tough matchup for me given that Lilithmon has protection, but she can’t avoid DP reduction. Additionally, my deck grants my opponent’s Digimon the effect of deleting themselves, but this deck can DNA Digivolve, creating a new Digimon and nullifying that effect. My best chances against this deck are security bombs, getting Lilithmon X out early, or hoping they brick.

Round 2: Bye (W)
In this round, my opponent prioritized food over playing resulting in an automatic win for me. I can’t blame him, his friend brought over tacos.

Round 3: Blue Armor Magnamon X (L)
This round was brutal, not only is Magnamon X immune to its opponent’s effects it also has an armor purge. This means that when a Digimon is deleted, they can prevent it by purging the top Digimon from their stack. By preventing deletion, I never get any of my useful effects to activate, leaving me as a vanilla Digimon on the field. Additionally, this player seemed to have every possible out, including Blinding Ray, Heaven’s Judgment, Flamedramon, and the starter deck Magnamons, which could trash my inheritances. This is one of the worst possible matchups; if I wanted to have a chance against this deck, I believe I would need to rely on luck.

Round 4: MirageGaogamon (L)
After round three, I thought things couldn't get any worse, but I stood corrected. At this point, I gathered that my deck is not good against blue, which is typical for purple decks. We want things to get deleted, instead, blue decks return cards to your hand or deck and can trash your inherits. Similar to round one, MirageGaogamon is another solitaire deck. They spend their time setting up by searching for pieces and playing tamers required for them to one-hit KO you. I was luckier this time and got my side set up, but Zudomon can trash the sources needed to prevent their Digimon from attacking, leaving me defenseless. This gave me the idea to run the old x antibody in my deck because it can’t be trashed. 

Round 5: Seven Great Demon Lords (W)
This was the last round I participated in and it was my only real win of the day before needing to drop for dog sitting. The win condition for Seven Great Demon Lords is the ability to tuck 7 different names of Seven Great Demon Lord cards under your Gate of Deadly Sins followed by playing Ogudomon to swing for game. The more cards tucked under your Gate of Deadly Sins help reduce the play cost of the cards you can play. However, Psychemon counters this deck by preventing any player from reducing play costs, which forces my opponent to play cards at their fullest. This card helped me win both games against this deck.

Conclusion:
Overall, I am happy with this deck and had a lot of fun playing it, but I would try tossing in Leviamon cards, allowing me to be more aggressive. I’ll continue experimenting with this deck locally and prepare for future events. 

Future Agenda:
The month of October is a busy one for Digimon. These are the following events I will be participating in this month along with Nationals which I intend to attend regardless of an invite or not. Of course, for all events, I represent Sparks by utilizing their merch and providing my coverage on the experience as a whole!

October 12th, 2024 Online Digimon Ultipcup by Versus Games
October 19th, 2024 Online Digimon Regional by The Booster Box
October 26th, 2024 Online Digimon Ultipcup by 401 Games
January 4th-5th, 2025 Digimon Card Game Nationals by Bandai

Sources:
[EX-07] Carta Magica’s September Online Regionals — Egman Events

Omnimon (Serial Numbered) - Battle of Omni - Digimon Card Game (tcgplayer.com)