Firamon, Lekismon, & Apollomon Previews for Booster Set EX-05

[MarcFBR]

The Digimon Card Game Twitter (2) (3) has updated with card previews from Booster Set EX-05 Animal Colosseum. This time it's Firamon, Lekismon, & Apollomon.

Firamon gets a nice actiony running pose, Lekismon gets a really nice dash, and Apollomon gets a really nice fiery hero pose, about what you would expect for him.


Previous previews for Booster Set EX-05 Animal Colosseum:
Packaging
MetalGarurumon X, Coronamon, Lunamon, Koh & Sayo, Sayo & Koh, & Aquilamon
Baihumon Ace
Xuanwumon Ace
Qinglongmon Ace & Zhuqiaomon Ace
Tokomon & Elecmon
Mercurymon
V-Jump Previews
Pajiramon & Caturamon
Loyalty Deeper than the Sea & MetalGarurumon X Parallel
Sandiramon & Mihiramon
Huanglongmon & Cardinal Directions of the Holy Beasts
Indaramon & Vajramon
Frimon & Duftmon X
Nyaromon, Hawkmon, & Garudamon
Shakomon & Octomon
Leviamon & Rostrum
Rostrum & Dagomon
BanchoLeomon & Flash Bancho Punch

Booster Set EX-05 Animal Colosseum is out August 25th, 2023.




We have early details for Starter Deck 17 Advanced Deck Double Typhoon.

We have early details for Booster Set EX-05 Animal Colosseum.

We have early details for Booster Set 15 Exceed Apocalypse.

We have clean card images from Limited Card Pack 1 Digimon Ghost Game plus Various Promo Cards.

And images from previous Digimon Card Game releases:

Starter Decks 1, 2, and 3, and first 10 promo cards
Booster Set 1 New Evolution
Booster Set 2 Ultimate Power
V-Tamer Promo Cards
Purple/Black Promo Set
Tamer Battle Pack 1 and Tamer Battle Winner's Card
Booster Set 3 Union Impact
Starter Decks 4, 5, & 6, plus Tamer Battle Pack 2 & winner's Card 2, & 1st 2 scene vote cards
Booster Set 4 Great Legend, Tamer Battle Pack 3, 3rd Scene Vote, Dark Digimon Promo Pack, & Apparel Cards
Booster Set 5 Battle of Omega, plus Tamer Battle Pack 4, 4th Scene Vote, & Vital Bracelet Pack-In Cards
Starter Decks 7 & 8, plus Delay Promos, Tamers Battle Pack 5, 1st Anniversary Promos, & Pulsemon
Booster Set 6 Double Diamond Cards, the 1st Anniversary Adventure Pack, and more
Booster Set EX-01 Classic Collection, plus Tamer Battle Pack 6 & 7, Tyranomon & dual Zeromaru Promo Cards
Booster Set 7 Next Adventure, Campaign Cards, & Tamers 20th Promo Cards
Starter Decks 9 & 10, plus Tamers Battle Pack 8, Ghost Game Promos, Online Promos, Tamers Evolution Box 1, & Amazon Starter Promos
Booster Set 8 New Hero, Starter Deck 11, plus Tamer Battle Pack 9 & Event Cards
Booster Set 9 X Record, plus Battle Pack 10, Special Promo Pack 2022, Update Pack, & Evolution Box 2
Starter Decks 12 & 13, Luxury Finished Tamers, plus Battle Pack 11
Booster Set 10 Xros Encounter, plus Battle Pack 12, Special Promo Pack 2022 v2, & Evolution Cup Cards
Booster Set EX-03 Dragon's Roar and Survive, DC-1, Memorial, Battle Pack 13, Illustration, & Espimon Promo Cards
Booster Set 11 Dimensional Phase, Battle Pack 14, & Special Promotion Pack 2022 Version 3.0
Booster Set 12 Across Time, plus Survive Promo Pack & Madanhai Cards
Starter Deck 14, Battle Pack 15, plus Siriusmon & Ritsu Promo Cards
Booster Set EX-04 Alternative Being
Booster Set RB-01 Rising Wind, Tamer Battle Pack 16, Special Promo Pack 2023 v1, Frontier 20th, & Ghost Game Promos
Booster Set 13 VS Royal Knights, plus Memorial, Anniversary, Event, & Selection Box Cards
Starter Decks 15 & 16 plus Many Promo & Parallel Cards
Booster Set 14 Blast Ace plus 3rd Anniversary Survey Pack & Championship 2022 Cards

 

[Bancho]

Koki's art can be very hit or miss and unfortunately these are without a doubt some of my least favorite arts by them on two of my top favorite digimon. Firamon is even my favorite digimon in the Coronamon line.
I am so freaking glad Sasasi got to do the Apollomon art, though. I love Sasasi and I know they have probably been wanting the Olympos twins just as if not more than any of us especially with how they've been slipping Coronamon and Lunamon into a few different arts since the first set of the game with Symphony No. 1 (Polyphony).

Speaking of Apollomon!! When I read his [Your Turn] (Once Per Turn) effect, all I can think of is how easy it is for red to raise its DP and attack Security compared to any other color; Firamon in this same reveal even gives DP raising as an Inherited Effect letting him delete 14,000 DP Digimon! Being able to potentially delete any Digimon without too much effort means you can win games without even needing GraceNovamon who is also teased in Firamon and Lekismon's [On Play] effects. Not bad for the god who can melt anything! (maybe even Huanglong ore? )


Firamon
Champion | Vaccine | Beast / Light Fang
(Digivolve: 2 from Lv.3 w/[Light Fang] or [Night Claw] trait)
[On Play] [When Digivolving] Reveal the top 3 cards of your deck. Add 1 card with the [Light Fang] trait and 1 card with the [Night Claw] or [Galaxy] trait among them to your hand. Place the rest at the bottom of your deck in any order.
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Inherited Effect: [Your Turn] This Digimon gets +2000 DP.

Lekismon
Champion | Data | Beastkin / Night Claw
(Digivolve: 2 from Lv.3 w/[Night Claw] or [Light Fang] trait)
[On Play] [When Digivolving] Reveal the top 3 cards of your deck. Add 1 card with the [Night Claw] trait and 1 card with the [Light Fang] or [Galaxy] trait among them to your hand. Place the rest at the bottom of your deck in any order.
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Inherited Effect: [Opponent's Turn] This Digimon gets +2000 DP.

Apollomon
Mega | Vaccine | Shaman / Olympos XII / Light Fang
(Digivolve: 4 from Lv.5 w/[Light Fang] or [Night Claw] trait)
[When Digivolving] <Blitz>
[Your Turn] For every 3 cards in this Digimon's digivolution cards, this Digimon gains <Security Attack +1>.
[Your Turn] (Once Per Turn) When a card is removed from your opponent's security stack, delete 1 of your opponent's Digimon with DP less than or equal to this Digimon.

Spoiler: Reminder Text - Blitz

This Digimon can attack when your opponent has 1 or more memory.

 

[HadesForce-X]

I'm really liking the Dawn and Dusk callbacks in this set. Hopefully they eventually release Chronomon HM and maybe even the Grimmon line in a future set.

 

[Muur]

I just really dont like Koki arts I guess...Lekimon looks cursed

Apollomon doesn't even need GraceNovamon dudes a busted boss mon on his own can just be his own deck on his own and wreck shit already

 

[vincenzocyan]

I absolutely love the Lekismon.

 

[Bartz]

Firamon doesn't look too bad to me, but I have to agree that Lekismon looks off. I can't put my finger on it, but something looks awkward about it for me. Apollomon on the other hand looks great, I love the pose and the flames.

 

[Bancho]

Firamon doesn't look too bad to me, but I have to agree that Lekismon looks off. I can't put my finger on it, but something looks awkward about it for me. Apollomon on the other hand looks great, I love the pose and the flames.

what I believe makes it look bad for me is Koki's choice to use very muted colors on an already almost white digimon and then deciding to give it a white background. Sure the blues pop out but even those blues are a bit muted and the yellows and hot pinks should be popping out as well but those are muted even more than the blues. As my eyes are struggling to make out the silhouette of a white character on a white background in an artstyle that already makes things super blobby, I then have the card text and Sample watermark also doing a huge disservice.
Firamon got off a little easier due to its character design being orange-red and Koki using hints of super muted pinks in the background but I still think it suffers from the use of muted colors in a primarily white setting in a blobby artstyle just like Lekismon. There's also a general issue throughout Koki's arts in that the nature of their art style makes it much more difficult to sell impact in action shots. They're much better at cutesy art

 

[miru]

Nice to see callbacks to the Story games, does this mean we could get more video game-based sets and possibly even manga sets?

 

[Sparrow Hawk]

...? What's up with Apollomon card's evo requirement including blue?!

 

[geoomega]

I love that Apollomon card, looks like he can shoot fire from his mouth. if given a new attack like Giga Storm.

 

[e105zeta]

Normally I love Koki's plush-esque artstyle but cripes these are not great.

 

[YongYoKyo]

...? What's up with Apollomon card's evo requirement including blue?!

Because Lunamon. Evidently, this new deck 'archetype' is combining both the Coronamon and Lunamon lines into a single cohesive playstyle (hence why they also evolve from both [Light Fang] and [Night Claw], not just one or the other).
It's nothing new. There are several dual-Color Starter Decks (e.g. Imperialdramon, Mastemon, RagnaLordmon) that had plenty of cards that evolved from both Colors, including the mono-Color and/or non-Jogress cards.

 

[Muur]

...? What's up with Apollomon card's evo requirement including blue?!

Because Lunamon. Evidently, this new deck 'archetype' is combining both the Coronamon and Lunamon lines into a single cohesive playstyle (hence why they also evolve from both [Light Fang] and [Night Claw], not just one or the other).
It's nothing new. There are several dual-Color Starter Decks (e.g. Imperialdramon, Mastemon, RagnaLordmon) that had plenty of cards that evolved from both Colors, including the mono-Color and/or non-Jogress cards.

TBF tho, as it says lv5 night claw they dont even need to list blue. cuz crescemon is a lv5 night claw.

 

[Sparrow Hawk]

I see I see... I finished reading their effects. Honestly IMO, listing Night Claw there to Apollomon card is a bit weird and strange. It should be GraceNovamon card's evo requirement instead but the internet comments disagree strongly which seemed odd to me...

They don't want GraceNovamon decks as it seems... Huh so totally weird.

 

[Bancho]

I see I see... I finished reading their effects. Honestly IMO, listing Night Claw there to Apollomon card is a bit weird and strange. It should be GraceNovamon card's evo requirement instead but the internet comments disagree strongly which seemed odd to me...

They don't want GraceNovamon decks as it seems... Huh so totally weird.

I think you misunderstood. Muur and I were saying that Apollomon's abilities allow it to be a great and game winning digimon even if you don't have GraceNovamon in your deck but we weren't saying anything bad about GraceNovamon. I'm still excited to see what GraceNovamon can do once it's revealed

 

[Sparrow Hawk]

Actually... "Internet comments" I was referring to other sections like reddit, official Digimon Card twitter, youtube comment sections, etc. I read their entire comments strongly suggesting Apollomon card being so amazing without needing GraceNovamon card and also even some suggested Sun/Moon doesn't have to focus on GraceNovamon support as the deck which they confuses me out of it.

 

[YongYoKyo]

It's not really about 'want', but 'effectiveness'. The most effective playstyles don't always match the complete and/or intended deck design.

For example, an intended 'boss monster' could be very inefficient and costly to use, when you could just as easily win matches with cheaper and easier alternatives. In that case, using that 'boss monster' would end up being just for flair.

 

[Sparrow Hawk]

Oh... So in other words, Digimon 2020 Card game direction took Yugioh style approach...
Pure Archetype aka Pure Evolution line deck, Effective deck aka 1st turn or go second deck and others in similar ways...

Hmm I see. Then the future will grant us some new cards to support their "bosses" eventually. No problems.

 

[Muur]

It's not really about 'want', but 'effectiveness'. The most effective playstyles don't always match the complete and/or intended deck design.

For example, an intended 'boss monster' could be very inefficient and costly to use, when you could just as easily win matches with cheaper and easier alternatives. In that case, using that 'boss monster' would end up being just for flair.

Yeh I just use Jesmon and not Jesmon X and GX. They don't feel nessesary for me and honestly unless GraceNovamon is stupidly over powered Apollomon is fine as the boss of this deck he's really good

 

[Sparrow Hawk]

So the important win conditions are to have just go Ultimate once with personal selective methods of using Lower levels to stack up their effect transfers and not bother going Ultimate+1 or +2?

I feel bad for any Ultimate cards without effects. The way I see it, popular characters/Ultimate levels always show up everywhere.

I'm really curious about GraceNovamon card's effect....