Summary

• Starter decks are the best way to get started in the Digimon Card Game, providing a basic understanding of the game and different play styles.
• The Venomous Violet starter deck introduces purple cards and deletion effects, while the Machine Black deck focuses on setting up powerful blockers for defense.
• The Giga Green deck suspends opponents' Digimon and deals damage using the Piercing effect, and the Heaven's Yellow deck stalls opponents with the Recover mechanic.

The best and easiest way to get started with any card game is with a starter deck. Whether it is with buying two different decks to play with a friend, or buying two of the same deck to make it competitively viable and take it to your very first local tournament, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Digimon Card Game starter decks give you a basic understanding of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:basics of the game and how different archetypes work.

As꧅ the card game grows and introduces new mechanics, newer and better starter decks are released to ease players into these new ways of battling their opponents. Given the number of play styles found in the Digimon Card Game, exploring your options between all the starter decks is a must when starting the game.

ST-11 was only officially released in Japan. It was not a proper starter deck, but rather a set of reprinted cards from the first ♎starter deck plus various red cards fr🅘om the first couple of booster sets.

Updated November 29, 2023 by Jesus Morales: The power of friendship and courage have been unleashed in the Digimon Card Game. The Wolf Of Friendship and The Dragon Of Courage starter decks are out now and they come jam-packed with a new mechanic and old faces. This gives us a chance to revisit the list and slot in the newest Digital Monsters.

15 ♌ ♌ Venomous Violet

A Great Introduction, But With An Outdated Mechanic

• Key Cards:
  • ST6-03 Gabumon
  • ST6-08 Devimon
  • ST6-15 Death Claw

Part of the second wave of starter decks, the Venomous Violet starter deck features the mighty CresGarurumon. If you're new to the purple color of cards in the game, this deck will show you how purple gains advantage by deletion effects and playing Digimon out of the trash from CresGarurumon's DigiBurst effect.

Being the first purple starter deck, it also includes staple cards like Death Claw and Blocker Devimon. These cards are an amazing addition to 🐓any player moving forward.

14 ✱ Machine Black

Defeat The Giant Wall Of Blockers

• Key Cards:
  • ST5-03 Agumon
  • ST5-11 Megadramon
  • ST5-14 Tai Kamiya

Paired alongside Venomous Violet and Giga Green, Machine Black focuses its game plan on setting up powerful blockers for a more defensive playstyle. With cards like Blocker Agumon, DarkTyrannomon, and Megadramon, you'll have no problem quickly climbing up your Digivolution stack into your Level six boss, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Machine Digimon, BlitzGreymon.

While the deck can set up some impressive defenses, it can have a bit of trouble keeping up with modern deck as BlitzGreymon's DigiBurst effect is underwhelming. The deck has some good bones, but it falls short of its top end Digimon.

13 Giga Green ꦛ

The Insectoids Make Their Debut

• Key Cards:
  • ST4-04 Palmon
  • ST4-08 Kabuterimon

The last of the trifecta of the second wave of starter decks. This deck specializes in suspending your opponent's Digimon and dealing damage by using the Piercing effect of HerculesKabuterimon. The second wave of decks relied on the new DigiBurst mechanic, but the game rewards Digimon with powerful inheritable effects, making the mechanic intuitive.

By using DigiBurst on one of your Digimon stacks, you have to trash the required amount of Digivolution sources to activate a certain buff. For HerculesKabuterimon, DigiBursting two sources lets you suspend one of your opponent's Digimon, meaning you'll lose the DP buff that Palmon gives you or the Security trashing that MegaKabuterimon can give you.

12 Heaven's Yellow

Recover Your Security And Stall Your Opponent

• Key Cards:
  • ST3-04 Patamon
  • ST3-15 Holy Flame

In the Digimon Card Game, Yellow's biggest game plan is to stall the opponent by using the Recover mechanic. Most of the cards in the Heaven's Yellow deck have effects that trigger when Digivolving or when played that let you rebuild your security stack by placing the top card of your deck on top of it.

The Heaven's Yellow deck is the easiest way to get started if you like decks with a stall game plan. Even though this deck was one of the first to be released, some cards in the deck, like Patamon, still see play in other yellow decks at the moment.

11 Cocyꦓtus Blue ꦺ

The Ice-Cold Wolf

• Key Cards:
  • ST2-13 Hammer Spark
  • ST2-15 Kaiser Nail
  • ST2-16 Cocytus Breath

Ever since its inception, the color blue in the Digimon Card Game has been one of the most versatile colors in the game. With powerful tools for memory gain, effects that strip Digivolution cards from your opponent's Digimon, and removal cards that return Digimon to the opponent's hand or deck, Blue consistently stays at the top of the metagame with every set that is released.

Although 💝a bit older, Cocytus Blue is still a fun and powerful deck to play with, if only for its powerful staples like Hammer Spark, Cocytus Breath, and Kaiser Nail.

10 Gaia Red

Everyone's Favorite Armored Dragon

• Key Cards:
  • ST1-07 Greymon
  • ST1-11 WarGreymon
  • ST1-16 Gaia Force

Red decks in Digimon Card Game like to hit fast and hard, and Gaia Red is no different. The basis of every red deck that came after it, Gaia Red's game plan is as simple as Digimon Card Game can get. You slowly build up a powerful stack of Digimon to delete your opponent's security in one go.

With WarGreymon and a Greymon in its Digivolutions card, you can check up to four of your opponent's security cards in one attack. Greymon, being a generic red card that can trigger its Security Attack +1 effect at all times, makes Gaia Red an extremely valuable starter deck.

9 ✱ UlforceVeedramon

The Fastest Royal Knight

• Key Cards:
  • ST8-02 Gabumon
  • ST8-06 Coredramon
  • ST8-08 AeroVeedramon

Veemon is one of Digimon's fan-favorite characters, but despite that, the UlforceVeedramon deck is a bit underwhelming compared to others. The deck relies on UlforceVeedramon's ability to unsuspend itself and using low Digivolution costs to climb up as soon as possible.

The best part about this deck, and what puts it above the rest, is the inclusion and first-time introduction of Memory Boost cards. These cards allow you to search for each color of Digimon and give you two⛦ m🤪ore memory to work with next turn, speeding up the game immensely.

8 🔯 Gallantmon

Aggro Has Never Looked This Good

• Key Cards:
  • ST7-06 GeoGreymon
  • ST7-11 Lightning Joust

The Gallantmon deck does almost the same as the Gaia Red deck but does so in a slightly different way. While the deck still focuses on gaining Security Attacks on a single Digimon to wipe your opponent's security, it does so with different option cards like Lightning Joust or through its inheritable effects.

This deck also has many effects that net you board advantage while deleting your opponent's smaller Digimon. This deck also comes with Memory Boosts cards for every color packed in, enhancing the deck's consistency, which is one thing that red continuously struggles with while playing.

7 ﷽ RagnaLoardmon 𓃲

The Tallest Digimon Stack You'll Ever Make

• Key Cards:
  • ST13-06 RagnaLoardmon
  • ST13-09 Ludomon
  • ST13-08 Chikurimon

RagnaLoardmon was released as a standalone archetype in a set previous to this deck, but at the time of release, the archetype was a bit underwhelming ꦿand a bit hard to play with only a base core as support for the decܫk.

With the introduction to the Ragnaloardmon deck and the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:DNA Digivolution mechanic, the deck becomes much faster and lore accurate with fusi🐷ng both BryweLudramon and Durandamon. Different from most DNA decks, Ragnaloardmon uses On Play effects from lower-level Digimon to search and play out Digimon directly fro🌸m the deck.

6 💝 Dragon Of Courage ⛎

Ace Digimon Are Here To Stay!

• Key Cards:
  • ST15-01 Koromon
  • ST15-02 Agumon
  • ST15-08 Greymon
  • ST15-14 Tai Kamiya

ST15 is the first introduction to Digimon Card Game's Ace cards. These Digimon cards can be used as a "handtrap," ala 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Yu-Gi-Oh!, when your opponent declares an attack. With Wargreymon Ace, you can bait your opponent into attacking your suspe🔴nded level five Digimon, only to be met with an 11,000 DP wall of courage.

The deck introduced many great Greymon ca♒rds, especially those of the black variety, but as a strictly sealed product, the deck falls apart when facin⛄g newer and faster decks.