Sakuyamon: Miko Mode & Option Card Defense Plug-in C Previews for Booster Set 10

[MarcFBR]

The Digimon Card Game Twitter has updated with a card preview from Booster Set 10 Xros Encounter. This time it's Sakuyamon: Miko Mode & Defense Plug-in C.

Sakuyamon: Miko Mode continues the run of really top notch art for Renamon family evolutions in this set with a nice cherry blossom theme throughout the image, plus we get Mode & Defense Plug-in C for an option card, and it looks like... a plug-in card.



Previous previews for Booster Set 10 Xros Encounter:
Packaging, Shoutmon, Shoutmon x4, Taiki, & More
Dorulumon & Ballistamon
Pickmons & Starmons
Gaossmon & MailBirdramon
Troopmon & MadLeomon
Bosamon & Angoramon
SymbareAngoramon & Ruli
Breaclaw & Pyon Dump
Sanzomon
Venusmon & Healing Therapy
Tyutyumon & Damemon
Bunbun Fist
Magazine Previews- Sparrowmon, Shoutmon x5, Shoutmon x5B, Kiriha, Greymon, & MetalGreymon
Blucomon & Regalecusmon
Assaultmon & Cannondramon
Asuramon & PileVolcamon
Shoutmon x5 & Sparrowmon & DeckerGreymon Magazine Preview
V-Jump Previews
Minervamon
Monimon & Hi-VisionMonitamon
Coatlmon & Sandiramon
Golemon & Gogmamon
SkullKnightmon: Big Axe Mode & DarkKnightmon
Renamon & Kyubimon
Taomon & Strengthening Plug-In O


Booster Set 10 Xros Encounter will be out on May 27th.



We have clean card images from Starter Decks 12 & 13, Luxury Finished Tamers, plus Battle Pack 11.


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

 

[Muur]

What a ridiculously good effect this Digimon has, you can use an option card twice for free with it

Also you could stack a lot of Sakuyamons on top of each other with this and reuse the effect 4 times in the same duel

 

[Noni]

Really lovely art. It showcases her design well.

 

[Bancho]

Sakuyamon: Maid Mode
Mega | Data | Deity
[When Digivolving] You may play an Option card with [Plug-In] in its name or a yellow Option card with a memory cost of 5 or less from your hand without paying its memory cost and ignoring its color requirements. Then, instead of trashing the Option card played by this effect, place it on top of your security stack face down.
[When Attacking] This Digimon can digivolve into a card named [Sakuyamon] in your hand for a memory cost of 1, ignoring its digivolution requirements.

Defense Plug-in C
While you have a Tamer in play, you may use this card without meeting its color requirements.
[Main] 1 of your Digimon gains <Blocker> and <Reboot>, and can't be deleted by your opponent's effects until the end of your opponent's next turn.
[Security] Reveal the top 3 cards of your deck. You may play 1 Digimon card with a play cost of 4 or less from among the revealed cards without paying its memory cost. Return the remaining cards to the bottom of your deck in any order. Then, add this card to your hand.

 

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

Called it.

Interesting that it can evolve from sakuyamon for 2 and then into sakuyamon for 1, presumabley so you can spam option cards and then recycle them with EX-02 sakuyamon.

 

[Sparrow Hawk]

Oh great artwork on Sakuyamon Miko mode! And how interesting effect... Sakuyamon can go Miko mode then Miko mode changes into Sakuyamon! Option cards and Plug-in cards support like as if I'm witnessing Rika slashing cards in action to crush her foes.

 

[Mattman324]

Sakuyamon: Maid Mode

...is that seriously what it got dubbed as?

 

[YongYoKyo]

Sakuyamon: Maid Mode

...is that seriously what it got dubbed as?

It's actually an accurate English equivalent. While everyone specifically thinks of 'French maids', a 'maid' or 'maidservant' just refers to a female domestic servant (technically speaking, the 'maid' part refers specifically to a 'young maiden'). That's what a 'miko' essentially is, down to the maiden part: a temple's maidservant.

 

[Rohan]

While everyone specifically thinks of 'French maids'

That's precisely the problem though? The aim of a translation is to make things clear and using a diminutive of "Maid" for "Shrine Maiden" is unintuitive since everyone's minds just jump to the iconic French maid. They should have either used the proper religious term of Miko or else translated it literally as "Priestess" (since 女=Female and 巫=Shaman).

 

[Notus]

It makes sense the Digimon line mainly connected to a pro card-game champion gets degenerate comboing cards.

 

[McGann]

While everyone specifically thinks of 'French maids'

That's precisely the problem though? The aim of a translation is to make things clear and using a diminutive of "Maid" for "Shrine Maiden" is unintuitive since everyone's minds just jump to the iconic French maid. They should have either used the proper religious term of Miko or else translated it literally as "Priestess" (since 女=Female and 巫=Shaman).

Wait, does that mean Mimi's name is girl-girl?
Edit: Oh, the Japanese for Priestess is Nuwu. nvm.

 

[robiu013]

Sakuyamon: Maid Mode

...is that seriously what it got dubbed as?

Yes, she has a mop. She cleans. lol

I mean the english term for miko is shrine maiden. Guess they wanted to keep it 4-letters. Doesn't exactly make the translation better though.

 

[Theigno]

While everyone specifically thinks of 'French maids'

That's precisely the problem though? The aim of a translation is to make things clear and using a diminutive of "Maid" for "Shrine Maiden" is unintuitive since everyone's minds just jump to the iconic French maid. They should have either used the proper religious term of Miko or else translated it literally as "Priestess" (since 女=Female and 巫=Shaman).

I agree that the lack of religious context of the term "maid" makes it a very inaccurate choice when that was really the whole point of the original term.
An older way of writing it was for example 神子 with the characters for "god" and "child" in reference to them serving as a medium, having magical powers etc, the point being that there never was a reference to being a maid or servant, and I would argue that the term misstates their actual status.

The "maid" part really only became applicable in modern times, when the whole magical part about actually getting possessed by gods, delivering oracles and performing exorcism became less predominant and their role shifted to assisting with the modern institutionalized form of rituals and such and even then I wouldn't jump to "maidservant" as an accurate description.
And that interpretation simply doesn't fit here.
Sakuyamon Miko Mode clearly represents the original shamanistic concept of the term "Miko", contact with gods, exorcisms and all.

The justification is basically a technicality at this point.
Imagine we had some sort of tool based Digimon with a "screwdriver mode" that ends up dubbed as "drive mode" you could argue all day long that, sure a screwdriver sure does drive screws into things, but in the end "drive" is its own separate word that has a whole range of more prominent meanings before you arrive at that specific one and having to go through layers of etymological gymnastics just to make that connection would make it a failure as a translation.

 

[TMS]

lol. Some people probably have mistaken an onusa for a mop.

 

[Rohan]

lol. Some people probably have mistaken an onusa for a mop.

I swear I vaguely remember some dub of an anime from the 90’s saying that the Onusa was a feather duster or something.

 

[robiu013]

lol. Some people probably have mistaken an onusa for a mop.

I swear I vaguely remember some dub of an anime from the 90’s saying that the Onusa was a feather duster or something.

yeah, I intentionally referred to it as a mop precisely because of the jelly-filled donut/rice ball Pokemon episode. xD

 

[Bancho]

yeah, I intentionally referred to it as a mop precisely because of the jelly-filled donut/rice ball Pokemon episode.

speaking of which, this talk of "Sakuyamon: Maid Mode" having people think of French maids was reminding me of the weird reoccurring theme of Pokemon dressing up their characters as French maids.
This digimon is very obviously a ripoff of Ash Ketchum: Maid Mode

 

[Mattman324]

Imagine we had some sort of tool based Digimon with a "screwdriver mode" that ends up dubbed as "drive mode" you could argue all day long that, sure a screwdriver sure does drive screws into things, but in the end "drive" is its own separate word that has a whole range of more prominent meanings before you arrive at that specific one and having to go through layers of etymological gymnastics just to make that connection would make it a failure as a translation.

...I mean, I've seen that done in other fiction, but it was in the context of a robot whose weapons were all construction tools, and it had two tools in the line, one of which was a flathead and the other of which was a Phillips Head as designed by a drunk, so as to push the point home.

Though with that one it was Driver in both languages.