Levels for Digimon start at 2 (In Training) and go all the way up to 6 and 7 (Mega), making it a nice and easy workaround the Digimon terminology for their “rank”.ĭP (Digimon Power) is the card’s power. Digimon can digivolve for a reduced memory cost, you also get the added bonus of drawing a card every time you digivolve too which helps build momentum and encourage even more to digivolve. Your play cost is how much it would cost to “hard cast” a card. The above image breaks down how a general Digimon card works. Image Credit: Digimon Card Game Rulebook.It’s simple yet can be quite tense as there are a lot of cards which only trigger when attack while as security. Once a player has lost all of their security cards, any successful direct attacks will instantly win the game for the attacker. A Digimon attacks a security card and will survive as long as it has a higher DP, the security card is then discarded unless it has a security effect. Security is checked whenever a player is attacked by another Digimon. At the start of the game after shuffling your deck, the top 5 cards are placed facedown to the side. Next is your security (think of them as your shield cards if you ever played Duel Masters). This is important in scenarios for where you may just want to pass instead of playing a card that costs 7 or more memory and resulting in a sudden huge tempo gain for your opponent.

It can cause really tense games where you try to slowly build up your own board while minimising the memory your opponent can get to force them into just playing higher cost cards to get back momentum.Īnother key rule to memory that is if you simply pass your turn, your opponent’s memory gauge will set to 3 for their turn. You don’t require time building up land or are restricted by what cards you can play/summon, it all depends on what memory you have to use.

This aspect is the best part of the game for me. This is because once your memory goes past 0, it overspills and immediately starts your opponent’s turn, with their memory for the turn being what was left over. You aim to try and maximise what you can do during each of your turns with your available memory while trying to give the opponent as little memory as possible. The memory gauge is a sort of bidding scale. This is what your general resource is and it goes from a 10 to 10 scale with each side representing the memory available to each respective player. The biggest thing about the Digimon Card Game is the memory gauge.

Digimon card game memory gauge