Official Digimon Card Game teaching app launched on App Store & Google Play

Bandai’s promised teaching app for the 2020 Digimon Card Game is now live on Google Play and the App Store. The Android/iOS app features two short tutorial levels explaining the rules of the game, followed by three open-ended free duels with an AI using preset decks. While the first two duels are scripted and played with full 50-card decks, the last three allow the player to try a 30-card “half deck” version of the three Starter Decks launching this April. The app is currently only available in Japanese.

The half decks usable in free play are missing several cards, including Angemon and Angewomon, Gaia Force, and Cocytus Breath among others. However, the app also revealed several previously-unseen cards from the Starter Decks:

Hououmon

Card Number	ST1-10	Level	6
Card Type	Digimon	Play Cost	10
Color	Red	Evolution Cost	2
Digimon Type	Holy Beast	DP	12000
Attribute	Vaccine	Rarity	Rare
Stage	Ultimate	Artist

Main Effect	—
Source Effect	—

Bearmon

Card Number	ST2-04	Level	3
Card Type	Digimon	Play Cost	3
Color	Blue	Evolution Cost	0
Digimon Type	Beast	DP	4000
Attribute	Vaccine	Rarity	Common
Stage	Child	Artist

Main Effect	—
Source Effect	—

Hammer Spark

Card Number	ST2-13	Level	—
Card Type	Option	Play Cost	0
Color	Blue	Evolution Cost	—
Digimon Type	—	DP	—
Attribute	—	Rarity	Common
Stage	—	Artist	—

Main Effect	[Main] +1 Memory.
Security Effect	[Security] +2 Memory.

Sorrow Blue

Card Number	ST2-14	Level	—
Card Type	Option	Play Cost	2
Color	Blue	Evolution Cost	—
Digimon Type	—	DP	—
Attribute	—	Rarity	Common
Stage	—	Artist	—

Main Effect	[Main] Choose 1 of your opponent’s Digimon with no Evolution Sources. Until the end of their next turn, that Digimon cannot attack or block.
Security Effect	[Security] Choose 1 of your opponent’s Digimon with no Evolution Sources. Until the end of your next turn, that Digimon cannot attack or block.

Tokomon

Card Number	ST3-01	Level	2
Card Type	Digitama	Play Cost	—
Color	Yellow	Evolution Cost	—
Digimon Type	Lesser	DP	—
Attribute	—	Rarity	Common
Stage	Baby	Artist

Main Effect	—
Source Effect	[During your turn] [Once per turn] When your opponent’s Digimon is destroyed by having its DP reduced to 0, this Digimon gets +1000 DP.

Holy Angemon

Card Number	ST3-08	Level	5
Card Type	Digimon	Play Cost	7
Color	Yellow	Evolution Cost	3
Digimon Type	Archangel	DP	7000
Attribute	Vaccine	Rarity	Rare
Stage	Perfect	Artist

Main Effect	—
Source Effect	[When it attacks] During this turn, 1 of your opponent’s Digimon gets -1000 DP.

Holy Flame

Card Number	ST2-15	Level	—
Card Type	Option	Play Cost	2
Color	Yellow	Evolution Cost	—
Digimon Type	—	DP	—
Attribute	—	Rarity	Common
Stage	—	Artist

Main Effect	[Main] Until the end of your opponent’s next turn, 1 of their Digimon gets <<Security Attack -1>>. (Decrease the number of Security this Digimon checks by 1.)
Security Effect	[Security] Until the end of this turn, all of your opponent’s Digimon get <<Security Attack -1>>. (Decrease the number of Security this Digimon checks by 1.)

The app clarifies several points about the game rules:

Evolution Source Effects do not apply to the Digimon the effect is written on, only to the Digimon they evolve into.
Evolving a Digimon does not affect a Digimon’s “summoning sickness.” (If the Digimon was placed this turn, it still cannot attack after evolving; if it was placed on a previous turn, it does not become unable to attack after evolving.)
Drawing for the Evolution Bonus is a mandatory effect, but if the player has no cards in deck, they do not lose the game as a result of evolving. Players only lose from having no cards in deck if they reach their Draw Phase.

For the purposes of learning the game, the Half Decks each contain copies of their respective deck’s Super Rare, Cost 6 Blocker, Level 3, 4, and 6 vanillas, their main line’s Level 5, and two Option Cards each.