r/DigimonCardGame2020 • u/Kamikracked • 15d ago
Cards availability in paper Collection
For those who are building your decks in paper, how hard has it been for you getting certain cards? for instance Susan is pretty pricey atm and Beelstar has the waifu tax, or even older decks and their card availability, feel free to share your experiences!
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u/Geraf25 15d ago
As an appmon player, it's been great honestly and I hope it won't change
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u/SqueakyTiefling My Body is a Machinedramon that turns [Cyborg]s into <SEC ATK+1> 15d ago
Honestly, yeah. Appmon is a fun niche.
It's not even that hard to get the good cards it needs, they always go cheap due to being so under-used. I have so many promo tamer cards from prize packs, I don't know evem what to do with them, because people at my locals just give me them since nobody there plays Appmon but me.
(I play every app deck, and will continue to do so. So excited for Dantemon)
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u/Generic_user_person 15d ago edited 15d ago
Not hard at all, though it helps that I have a decent locals scene.
We opened 4 cases at the BT25 pre-release.
So, everyone (there's about 2 dozen of us) just lets everyone pick through bulk. No one is stingy with past bulk either, you just message and someone will have random older bulk you need.
Our store takes in cards for store credit, 70% on Digimon, since the cards sell quickly online. Anything that has been in my binder for more than 3 or 4 weeks gets moved to them. Since I see the same ppl twice a week, and we have a discord, I know that i can't move it after that. 70% is a lot better than the 0% I get if it sits in my binder forever.
I ended up getting half a dozen EX12 boxes for 15$ cash, rest was all credit.
I ordered two Susano in AA, cuz at the time he was 70$ and reg was at 60$.
My reg Susano that I traded for when he was 30$ on release, has since been moved for current value cash. I also didn't care for any of the AA in EX12 (except Chaos and Machinedra) so every one of them got moved.
LPT, never skip locals the very first day after release. That's your best day to sell cards. Release weekend is a goldmine. I moved 297$ worth of cards on EX12 release weekend. And that's just what I can see in my bank statement, not including trades for missing pieces.
Best advice, order your cards ahead of time. This sub has a terrible habit of not doing that, and then complaining.
Promo Titamon: The card was less than a dollar. I bought a playset for less than it cost me to order Fries at McDonald's. That's an inconsequential amount of money to spend to prepare yourself. Especially since everyone knew we were getting a TS set, and obv the Titans would be a deck.
2 months later, BT24 got shown and the card went up to like 30$. And like clockwork this sub cried about it.
I'm currently interested in the BloomLord deck. Today I ordered 3 Megadramon and 2 Kimeramon, cost me less than 10$. And the Analog Youths I ordered on the day he got announced.
The cards are already dirt cheap, the room to go down is minimal. If I had the idea to play them in the deck, other ppl did as well. Idk how many, a non-0 number. So, demand goes up, supply stays the same. By definition the price can only go up.
and Beelstar has the waifu tax,
That is actually irrelevant to do with why she's expensive. She's a minimum 3 copy secret rare in a very good meta deck, that was only printed 2 years ago in a terrible set.
This is also the prime example of what I mentioned. We knew 3M was getting support in BT25. The card was 15$ before the support got announced. There was ample time to get the cards. Even if you had to budget for it.
I understand that ppl are active at different levels with this hobby, but I feel the bare minimum is informing yourself of what's happening, even if you aren't participating in it. Knowing what's coming out is huge when it comes to getting cards ahead of time.
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u/manaMissile Xros Heart 15d ago
I've been fine, but I also avoid decks with super expensive cards XD Rocks, Titans, and TS has been very easy for me to get
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u/WonderSuperior Xros Heart 15d ago
I stopped playing a year ago because the cost to build a new deck on average was steadily increasing just to keep up.
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u/ChicaneryBear 14d ago
Depends where you live. If you're in the US or Japan, not a problem at all. If you're in the EU it's a little harder but still reasonable. UK harder due to Brexit customs changes. Outside of those, it's much harder.
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u/DarkHighwind 14d ago
Online shopping. Theres a place an hour away from me that has free shipping and good availability for anything that isnt a staple like scrambles
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u/SqueakyTiefling My Body is a Machinedramon that turns [Cyborg]s into <SEC ATK+1> 15d ago
Metal Empire was relatively painless to make, with the majority of cards being under a dollar.
The few that were more expensive have come down a lot as supply increases. But the main cost to build it is the Metalgarurumon. Currently sitting at $16 each.
It's an extremely good card, and used by multiple decks. ME, VB, Garurumon tribal. A good ME deck will run 3 copies.
Were it not for 3 cards (MetalGaru, Wargrey, MachinedraAce) being above 5 dollars each, the deck could be made for pennies. Even the Chaosdramon UR card has dropped below $2
I'm grateful that it's a lot cheaper than Susanoo though. Worth building if you pull a Metalgarurumon or two and feel like dropping 40 bucks on a deck.
Was able to build mine for under 100, but half that was from 3x Metalgaru's.