Mixed deck match featured on FUN! DigiCa #10

The tenth episode of Bandai’s FUN! DigiCa YouTube series is the first to feature a mixed-color deck, with Cody playing a combined Blue/Yellow deck against Hideyoshi’s mono-red.

Cody combining cards from the second and third Starter Decks, Cocytus Blue and Heaven’s Yellow:

Quantity	Name	Color	Type
4	Tsunomon	Blue	Digitama
4	Gabumon	Blue	Digimon
4	Gomamon	Blue	Digimon
4	Plotmon	Yellow	Digimon
2	Garurumon	Blue	Digimon
2	Angemon	Yellow	Digimon
4	Grizzmon	Blue	Digimon
4	Unimon	Yellow	Digimon
4	Were Garurumon	Blue	Digimon
4	Angewomon	Yellow	Digimon
4	Metal Garurumon	Blue	Digimon
2	Holydramon	Yellow	Digimon
4	Cocytus Breath	Blue	Option
2	Holy Flame	Yellow	Option
2	Heaven’s Gate	Yellow	Option
2	Ishida Yamato	Blue	Tamer
2	Takaishi Takeru	Yellow	Tamer

While Hideyoshi played a souped-up Gaia Red supported by several promo cards:

Quantity	Name	Color	Type
4	Koromon	Red	Digitama
4	Agumon	Red	Digimon
4	Piyomon	Red	Digimon
2	Agumon (PR)	Red	Digimon
2	Piyomon (PR)	Red	Digimon
4	Greymon	Red	Digimon
2	Birdramon	Red	Digimon
4	Coredramon	Red	Digimon
4	Metal Greymon	Red	Digimon
4	Garudamon	Red	Digimon
4	War Greymon	Red	Digimon
3	Starlight Explosion	Red	Option
3	Shadow Wing	Red	Option
2	Giga Destroyer	Red	Option
4	Gaia Force	Red	Option
4	Yagami Taichi	Red	Tamer

Cody’s win in this game was extremely close; he was just barely in control throughout, as playing Holydramon directly from his hand right on the first turn gave Hideyoshi enough Memory to put out a completely set-up War Greymon, and Cody’s early attack with Gabumon was punished by a Security Digimon. Cody’s strategy was to play on a damage curve—taking at least one Security every turn he could attack while using counters against Hideyoshi’s to stall them and ultimately pace his opponent out of the game. Holydramon’s high base power prevented Hideyoshi from revenge-killing it with anything but War Greymon himself, as the only Option in Hideyoshi’s deck that could destroy such a high-DP Digimon directly was Gaia Force.

The key plays for Cody were putting down Cocytus Breath to bounce War Greymon back to Hideyoshi’s hand and discard its Evolution Sources, using Holy Flame on the following turn to prevent Garudamon from posing a direct threat even after evolving into that same War Greymon, and putting out Unimon to prevent Hideyoshi from having enough attacks to eke out a win. The takeaway from this that quantity is more important than quality–if Hideyoshi had poured his Memory into poking Cody with many small attacks rather than putting all his eggs into one basket with War Greymon, single-target Options like Breath would be preemptively neutralized. While the additional Security Attacks sound threatening on paper, in practice War Greymon did very little but hinder Hideyoshi this game by eating up his Memory for little real output.