Option Card Digital Translator Preview for Booster Set EX-04

[MarcFBR]

The Digimon Card Game Twitter has updated with card previews from Booster Set EX-04 Alternative Being. This time it's Digital Translator.

Digital Translator features art of Sakuyamon and SaintGalgomon being transformed into counterparts of themselves... or potentially vice versa based on how you look at it. The card is named after an identically named card from the original card game, which featured a number of Digimon and counterparts, Sakuyamon and SaintGalgomon among them.


Previous previews for Booster Set EX-04 Alternative Being:

V-Jump Previews
Omegamon Alter-S
Chocomon & Lopmon
Turuiemon & Antylamon
Promo Poster- Fake Agumon Hakase and Yamato & Taichi
Guilmon & BlackGrowmon
BlackMegaloGrowmon & ChaosDukemon
MedievalDukemon
Greymon & Garurumon
BlitzGreymon
Wendimon
Antylamon (Again)
Tunomon
Agumon (Black) & Gabumon (Black)
CresGarurumon
Cherubimon (Vice) & Tainted Hero
BlackSeraphimon
Agumon & Gaomon
GeoGreymon & Gaogamon
MetalGreymon (Virus) & WereGarurumon (Black)
Agumon Hakase & Fake Agumon Hakase
Renamon
Youkomon & Doumon
Kuzuhamon
Saikyo Jump Previews- BlackRapidmon & BlackSaintGalgomon
Cherubimon (Virtue)
Heaven's Judgement
Clean Packaging
Greymon & MailBirdramon
MetalGreymon
RizeGreymon
MachGaogamon
VictoryGreymon
Z'dGarurumon
Trident Gaia & Fullmetal Blaze
Pinamon & Falcomon
Peckmon & Yatagaramon
Ravemon, Ikuto, & Ame no Ohabari
Yamato & Taichi
GreyKnightsmon
Gold Beast Blade & Red Dragon Shot
Missimon & Gaossmon
Gaioumon & Gaia Reactor
Omegamon Alter-B
Terriermon
BlackGalgomon & BlackRapidmon
BlackSaintGalgomon
Jenrya & Shuichon
SkullKnightmon & DeadlyAxemon
DarkKnightmon
Kiriha & Nene
GoldV-dramon
DarkMaildramon
Terriermon Joshu

Booster Set EX-04 Alternative Being is out December 23rd, 2022.




We have early details for Booster Set EX-04 Alternative Being.

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We have clean card images from Starter Deck 14, Battle Pack 15, plus Siriusmon & Ritsu 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

 

[Lord Bearmon]

It'd actually be cool if something like this happens in the anime, just a simple color/mode change that gives an advantage in various situation.

 

[Notus]

That would be very Ultraman-like. And cool.

 

[Muur]

The original art featured sakuyamon > kuzuhamon, megagargomon > black, and locomon > to granlocomon so I imagine it's the same here (poor locomon missing out this time). The effect of this card allows you to evolve megagargomon to black but not the other way round so that one is regular to black. Kuzuhamon and Sakuya can evolve to each other due to the effect Kuzuhamon has to treat herself as Sakuyamon. You could use it to have a Digimon become its x form tho for 3 Memory you shouldn't. Can also do wargreymon > to blackwargreymon (But not the other way round). Both metalgarurumon can become each other (as they have the same name). It's an interesting card tho some name choices make certain evos not possible.

 

[Tarama]

UlforceV-dramon > UlforceV-dramon Zero

Not bad

 

[Bancho]

card reference St-675


Digital Translator
This card counts as having [Plugin] in its name. While you control a Tamer, you may use this card ignoring color requirements.
[Main] Select 1 of your Lv. 6 Digimon. You may digivolve the selected Digimon into a differently named Lv. 6 Digimon card from your hand that includes the selected Digimon's name in its name, ignoring digivolution requirements and without paying its cost.
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[Security] Return 1 Digimon Card from your trash to you hand and add this card to your hand.

 

[Sparrow Hawk]

Just bring the evo list for possible evos + Can't evo on Digimon Card 2020 for quick shortcut rulings.

 

[Rohan]

Huh, this card reminds me of the 80's anime Aura Battler Dunbine when Show goes Hyper Mode for the first time, his overwhelming Aura burns his mech's paint job and changes it to a much darker colour which although he won the fight, foreshadowed his dark future.

But yeah, interesting card and will be curious to see what applications people can think of for it.

 

[Mattman324]

his overwhelming Aura burns his mech's paint job and changes it to a much darker colour which although he won the fight, foreshadowed his dark future.

When Shou goes Hyper, it is immediately stopped by the people around him, resulting in a weird, half-hyper state. That also has nothing to do with Billbine becoming darker, which happens several episodes later because they painted it for night operations (thus why it's referred to as, uh, Night Camo Billbine).

...The thing that gets me to wonder is how they're going to translate this one in the west, because I can't immediately think of anything that the dub changed in terms of name that this card would affect unless they made one of the "Digimon (A)" into a "ADigimon" a la the difference between Metalgarurumon (Black) and Blackwargreymon, not at level 6 at least, but I don't remember all the dub renames and there might well be one - and there's probably one they've changed away from it too.

 

[Rohan]

his overwhelming Aura burns his mech's paint job and changes it to a much darker colour which although he won the fight, foreshadowed his dark future.

When Shou goes Hyper, it is immediately stopped by the people around him, resulting in a weird, half-hyper state. That also has nothing to do with Billbine becoming darker, which happens several episodes later because they painted it for night operations (thus why it's referred to as, uh, Night Camo Billbine).

...The thing that gets me to wonder is how they're going to translate this one in the west, because I can't immediately think of anything that the dub changed in terms of name that this card would affect unless they made one of the "Digimon (A)" into a "ADigimon" a la the difference between Metalgarurumon (Black) and Blackwargreymon, not at level 6 at least, but I don't remember all the dub renames and there might well be one - and there's probably one they've changed away from it too.

True that, I was mixing up the scenes from the anime with one from the recent SRW games in my mind where that happened.

Back to the card in question, I am not super familiar with the card rulings, but I would imagine something like WereGarurumon (Black) becoming ShadowWereGarurumon in Frontier wouldn't affect things because it ultimately still has the important bit in the name. Unless I am completely misunderstanding your point which is probable.

 

[Muur]

English hasn't changed anything to require any retcons as far as I'm aware. They aren't using names like BlackAgumon and shadowgarurumon.

 

[Noni]

Seems like the type of card that will become more useful as the card pool increases through the years. An interesting effect.

 

[D O R U g o r a m o n]

Seems pretty useful for sakuyamon and justimon combos but not much else.

 

[Muur]

Seems pretty useful for sakuyamon and justimon combos but not much else.

Justimon cards can't use it. Theyre named Justimon: Accel Arm, Critical Arm, and Blitz arm not Justimon.

 

[Mattman324]

Unless I am completely misunderstanding your point which is probable.

Because if you could use the card on Level 5s, you couldn't then transform "Shadowweregarurumon" back into regular Weregarurumon, whereas you could with Weregarurumon (Black) because the parenthesis'd part isn't written out.

 

[cactus_judy]

This seems kinda... idk
- "Metalgarurumon" from BT-1 can't go into the "Metalgarurumon" from Bt-5, for example, because its not a different name
- "Metalgarurumon" from BT-1 can go into "Metalgarurumon (X-Antibody)" because its name is different and contains the source's name
- "Grankuwagamon" can't use this to go into "Grandiskuwagamon".
- If, for example, there were a level 6 called "Kuwagamon", it could evo into either "Grankuwagamon" or "Grandiskuwagamon" using this option card despite it not working on either of them separately.

Does it work on the ex2 & ex3 "Megidramon" [whose name is treated as "ChaosGallantmon"] when digivolving over any "Gallantmon" or just the non-"ChaosGallantmon" forms? Does the ability mean you can go from a "Megidramon" whose name is treated as "ChaosGallantmon" into "Gallantmon (X-Antibody)" or "Gallantmon Crimson Mode"?

There must've been a more elegant way to word this but I'm stumped as to what it could be.

 

[Tarama]

I think Dukemon can go to Megidramon aka ChaosDukemon, but not the other way around.

 

[Muur]

This seems kinda... idk
- "Metalgarurumon" from BT-1 can't go into the "Metalgarurumon" from Bt-5, for example, because its not a different name
- "Metalgarurumon" from BT-1 can go into "Metalgarurumon (X-Antibody)" because its name is different and contains the source's name
- "Grankuwagamon" can't use this to go into "Grandiskuwagamon".
- If, for example, there were a level 6 called "Kuwagamon", it could evo into either "Grankuwagamon" or "Grandiskuwagamon" using this option card despite it not working on either of them separately.

Does it work on the ex2 & ex3 "Megidramon" [whose name is treated as "ChaosGallantmon"] when digivolving over any "Gallantmon" or just the non-"ChaosGallantmon" forms? Does the ability mean you can go from a "Megidramon" whose name is treated as "ChaosGallantmon" into "Gallantmon (X-Antibody)" or "Gallantmon Crimson Mode"?

There must've been a more elegant way to word this but I'm stumped as to what it could be.

I'm pretty sure MetalGarurumon should be able to evolve to MetalGarurumon, its name contains MetalGarurumon and the only reason Kuzuhamon - as seen in the image - would be able to use it to become Sakuyamon is because it has an effect to treat its name as Sakuyamon. Maybe a ruling guru can clarify. edit; oh, it has to be differently named. that makes the card a lot worse my bad