(The following was a submission for a game-writing job a a big company that I applied to at the end of July. They have since ghosted me, so I wanted to post my submission on my website. Job hunting sucks. I posted this as private to my website on July 25th, a few days after …
A breakdown of the things I found most interesting from the summer Partner Direct.
Paildramon is a very fast and effective multi-check deck. It banks very heavily on setup to try and end a game by turn 3 or 4, depending on the circumstances. The key playmaker, Paildramon, is a Starter Deck card with multiple strong effects. First, if he’s DNA Digivolved into, he bounces 1 of your opponent’s …
The nineth booster of the Digimon TCG introduced a new set of cards called “X-Antibody.” Rather than make them their own archetype (like with D-Reaper in EX2) or give them an exclusive skill (like Armors in BT8), X-Antibodies were given to multiple different existing archetypes to help punch them up. This gives the BT9 meta-game …
Chrom is one of the main protagonists from Fire Emblem Awakening, and as such, he’s got a very large number of variants and options in Cipher. Blue tends to have weak representation overall though, because it’s one of the only color options restricted to a single game with about 3 other characters from a spin-off. …
Introduction November 23 was the second Aichi Challenge Cup in Nagoya, and the last one that would happen before BT8 dropped on the following Friday. The event was restricted to players within Aichi, but we still ended up with about 50-something people that got cut to 32 in a lottery. I missed out on the …
“Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars” is a short but enjoyable RPG given a tabletop aesthetic. The game’s plot follows Ash, or whatever the player chooses to name him, and his partner Mar as they venture out to claim the bounty on a dragon terrorizing the kingdom. Along the way, they add a couple …
Lloyd is a very interesting Main Character choice. He, and a lot of other Black Fang cards, deal with support manipulation, which certainly isn’t special within purple, but to be more specific, they manipulate their opponent’s supports. Lloyd is one of the few Black Fang members that can be run as a main character, and …
Hybrid cards are a special typing in Digimon where a sizable chunk of them have the ability to Digivolve off a Tamer card by treating it as a Digimon. Hybrids were first released back in BT-4, at the end of 2020 and were only give a tiny bit of support in BT6. The following set, …
Ike is definitely one of the best-supported characters in Cipher when it comes to printed cards (being in two different mainline games probably helped with that). There are a total of 20 different Ike cards, not counting art variants, and between them all are a variety of different decks. The Path of Radiance Lord’s most …