There have only been a few extremely stubborn decks that never seem to truly die. Bloomlord is (well was) one but now that Rapidmon X is around bloomlord can't do anything. Garuru X Refused to die, Gaogamon has been around for a bit. You still see lillithmon pop up from time to time when players who were around from the beginning decide to use it.

Appreciating your videos my dude. Question: have you tried contacting a spokesperson at Bandai for an interview to address some of the NA players’ questions and concerns about the game, market, and its future?

Taking the most recent judge test, I can say that Bandai needs to take a look at this and rethink their questions lol. (All I can say on the matter)

Quality video man, id love to see a longer card by card breakdown of each Starter/Set that still sees use today. Moreso the fun watch factor. Thats definitely a project you could work on when you have more spare time and inspiration.

I've been of the opinion for awhile that this game doesn't actually have as big of a problem with power creep as most tend to think. We have a couple of not so greatly designed cards that cause some issues to be sure, but that isn't an issue of the game's overall power creep imo and is rather just... Bad design in general. This isn't to say that the game's power level hasn't raised a great deal since the first few sets, but that's to be expected. Like, vanilla rookies were never gonna always be good, for example, 'nor were cards with very simple 1 sentence effects. The fact of the matter is that the game's overall power level in those first few sets and starter decks were extremely low, so obviously there would come a time in the game where the vast majority of those cards would see little to no use. And, while I'm sure there's plenty that would disagree, I don't believe that the game's overall power level has actually raised that much in quite awhile. Like, consider, DNA is still inherently a very powerful game mechanic, and that mechanic was introduced all the way back in BT 8. And while I question just how viable Mastemon is with the new support (love Mastemon but I don't think the new support really fixes the deck's core problems. ), I'm pretty sure we've seen both new and old DNA decks become competitive in recent metas. Red Hybrid is another deck that I believe has seen recent success, and while it has gotten new support that has certainly helped it in this regard, that's a BT 7 deck. I'm sure there's probably other examples that I could come up with if needed. Power creep is always gonna happen in any card game. Even games with actual set rotation can suffer from power creep that sticks around (just look at pokemon. HP values and damage output is generally much higher today then it was way back in the day. Pretty sure damage values are higher than they even were back in 4th gen. ) What folks need to consider is that set rotation isn't this end all be all magic cure to power creep. Set rotation wouldn't have prevented cards like apocylmon or Magnax from existing and causing problems. Set rotation wouldn't have magically prevented the game's over all power level from reaching where it is now either. Not having set rotation isn't why Digimon is where it's at now in terms of power creep, just like it isn't the reason why yugioh is where it's at either.

Those are some nice stats you gathered. Would be a nice project to build a semi-automatic tool around this.

Mannnnnnnn this made me never wanna max rarity another deck ever again 😂

Digimon ain't gonna force me to play any deck. I'm still playing Beelzemon and Wargreymon

the power creep allows for a sort of built in rotation but its unclear how sustainable that is over an extended period of time. Yugioh has managed to survive with a similar way of doing things for decades but this wasn't without some major drawbacks. Cards as it stand can do all sorts of crazy stuff compared to those first handful of sets. there will come a time when fans might start to drop off and the ability to get new people on board will decrease as the modern metagame becomes harder to penetrate. I don't personally have an idea for what's the best thing to do about that

Wow! Great video and I appreciate how far back you went and the stats you gave. I know powercreep is need to keep the game alive, but that sure does tank older card costs. If Digimon were to go to a rotational format, do you think the value of older cards will go back up?

It's natural; as more cards get added to the pool; it will become more diluted. Also; since new product has to sell... some level of creep is inevitable. The problem is with the last few sets; where it's the same few decks. No deck in EX7 or BT18 [seemingly] tops Nume/AncientGaruru/MagnaX, ect, the same decks dominateing previously.

Again another great video, I appreciate all the work you put into these. I’d be curious to see how these numbers stack up as compared to other tcgs like yugioh that also don’t have rotation or even some that do have rotation but maintain other formats like magic.

love to collection digimon do not care it i get money back

Thanks

I'm pro-rotation. I wouldnt mind seeing the games power level taken down a little bit by a rotation to slow things down a little and open more design space so Bandai can experiment with new mechanics that don't have to be stronger than anything they did before in order to be used by players. I also think roatation could really help with player retention and enthusiasm, especially now that everyone will be getting sets at the same time. My reasoning is twofold. 1) Rotation makes it easier to create legacy formats. Digimon is old enough we could have a legacy format, and that would be good for player retention. I don't enjoy playing or playing against Sukamon or Magnamon right now so I'm going to less events and I'd be playing more if there were events for legacy formats. 2) Set rotation could be done to build hype. Bandai could release a reprint set at the beginning of a format to reintroduce relevant old cards, and hint at whats on the future. Imagine we're going into the BT22 - 27 format and the reprint set has a bunch of Greymon cards. BT22 is hybrid focused, but all the greymon players are hyped because they know their boy is going to get support at some point tuis format. And older players get to keep the value of their cards since most of the important/valuable ones will become relevant again.

I'm not against rotation I think if it done right it can bring healthy metas and eventually reset power creep but as you said the card game has been "rotating" as most top decks use the most recent sets of cards, to me I'd like rotation to happen since I don't like seccon the yellow/purple variation its so annoying that every game I have faced seccon is always us going into timeout forcing both of us to draw or I lose cuz seccon got the first win on the game its so toxic IMO. I'm surprised you didn't talk about how digimon been keeping a block number every 6 BT sets and that they utilized it in JP in their side shop tournament EX Tamer Battle where they tried it during BT14 for decks to only be of Block 3 (BT14 and ST14/15 at that time) even tho they should test it out with more sets that came out, I'd love for community events to utilize these block numbers and do these side tournaments of block restriction like only block 2/3/4 playable making from bt1-9 ex1-2 st1-10 banned, mind you in RB1 they did update those old cards to what was current block at that time for the reprint set

I think that at the pace powercreep is going it's fine to not have rotation, staples usually remain playable unless they are outright powercrept so even if time passes I feel that my collection will still retain value.. Also I feel that most decks post bt9 that were relevant on release are still playable although having to run different lists.

Powercreep is a natural output of trying to sell product to the consumers however how powercreep is implemented is the real question cause you can powercreep cards so much that you have zero reasons to look at old cards like what's happening with MTG disrespecting it's player base or be sutile about it

rotations increase the price of cards and force everyone to play few decks

This is normal for most card games having a low retention rate on playable cards so the concept isn't really a new one. MTG started doing this with modern horizons sets as an example power spiking things too much to the point where there is usually a game that needs to get banned almost immediately after its release for the modern format. But with modern being an eternal format these horizon sets are their rotation due to power creep and other games are like this too.

I think Rotation is fine, what the local scene need to do now is host events that limit what sets can be used. say only being able to use cards that have come out since BT10, allowing people to bring out old decks. Any game will sooner or later suffer from power creep if only because it needs to keep the game interesting and change things up. It's why YGO has so many formats that limits which cards players can use in order to allow older cards to see play.

I’m against rotation, it feels like if I put in money and time towards learning a deck just for it to be useless a set later is a waste of time, effort, and money

Can we get a rosemon ace card lol

Set rotation this far into the life of the game would make me quit digimon. With way the game has been designed for the past 20 sets does not support such a rotation structure. It would kill 90% of the decks, and only make the newest decks coming out even more powerful. Even decks that needed multiple sets of the lifetime of the game to become 'playable' will instantly die. For instance, if we ban block 1, or block 1 and 2, good luck playing machines with only block 3 cards. Or even the posterchild of the game 'wargreymon' would loose 80% of the cards that are currently run in the deck. Block 1 and 2 cards are not problematic for the game, only some of the most recent cards are. Also if decks needed to be fully powered within 2 or so sets because of rotation, instead of being able to trickle out over multiple sets or even blocks, all future sets will only really be able to focus on 1 archetype/digimon line for each color per set. It will make game design very boring since you will basically be forced to play the 'new thing'. To keep the game healthy. I just think we need banlist updates more often, and the designteam needs to really keep an eye open on what future cards can and can't work together. Because I think Ukko + Monzae X, or Etemon + Valk ace where not intended design choices, and if they where bandai has completely lost it.

Real set rotation can actually make cards useable for longer periods. When powercreep is the primary way of making palyers buy new cards, older cards become obsolete faster as each new set needs to have stronger cards than the last. Rotation allows the designers to make the power level of sets and formats ebb and flow. Every new set doesnt need to be that much stronger than the old sets because players will have to buy new sets eventually to stay relevant in the rotation format. This also means that powercreep overall is slowed and cards can be relevant for longer in the non-rotating eternal format.

Honestly, anyone who says the game needs rotation doesn't ply Digimon, rotation and digimon are lliterally imposable, its not subjective