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Got BT9 opened last night and made my customary finishing order. No SECs and I didn't buy any - they're sitting at ~$30 each, so that's what, $250 for eight cards? No thanks. I did finish out the promo Gammamons and Hiros, though, in anticipation of getting BT10 and building Canoweissmon.

What I'm really disappointed about price-wise is the promo Okuwamon from the Update Pack included with each box. That's running $25 and it'd be perfect for my Insectoids deck, but I just cannot justify that price point.

I'm bringing alt-arts with me this Thursday to try and trade for some EX2 AAs for Joc's Renamon deck, maybe someone'll have Okuwamons for trade.

This set has pieces for Shoutmon Blitz, Armor, Garurumon, Cats & Angels, Insects, Alphamon, and Machinedramon. Gonna take a look at each later, see if I can't expand them out. I am missing some of the pieces I'd want to use, but it's a start. I also really like Gaiomon, might try and slap together a BlackWarGreymon deck.

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Digi-Eggs (4)

• 4x Tsumemon BT5-005

Digimon (42)

• 4x Keramon BT2-053
• 4x Keramon BT5-059
• 4x Keramon EX1-044
• 4x Kurisarimon BT2-059
• 4x Kurisarimon BT5-063
• 2x Grumblemon BT7-060
• 4x Kurisarimon EX1-046
• 4x Infermon BT2-062
• 4x Infermon EX1-051
• 2x Diaboromon BT2-082
• 4x Diaboromon BT5-084
• 2x Armageddemon BT5-085

Tamers (4)

• 4x Arata Sanada BT5-090

Options (4)

• 4x Catastrophe Cannon BT5-104

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Shoutmon Blitz

Digi-Eggs (4)

• 4x Gigimon BT2-001

Digimon (42)

• 4x Agumon ST1-03
• 4x Shoutmon BT5-009
• 4x Shoutmon BT6-008
• 4x Greymon ST1-07
• 2x Agunimon BT4-011
• 4x BetelGammamon BT8-013
• 4x OmniShoutmon BT5-014
• 4x Asuramon BT6-014
• 4x ZeigGreymon BT5-017
• 4x Shoutmon DX BT5-019
• 4x Omnimon BT5-086

Tamers (4)

• 2x Tai Kamiya BT1-085
• 2x Tai Kamiya & Matt Ishida BT5-093

Options (4)

• 4x Gaia Force ST1-16

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Digi-Eggs (4)

• 4x Bebydomon BT1-002

Tamers (40)

• 4x Agumon ST1-03
• 4x Agumon ST7-02
• 4x Agumon BT3-007
• 4x Agumon EX1-001
• 4x Tyrannomon BT1-016
• 4x DarkTyrannomon BT1-019
• 2x Arbormon BT6-049
• 4x Tyrannomon EX1-005
• 4x MetalTyrannomon BT1-024
• 4x MasterTyrannomon BT8-016
• 2x RustTyrannomon BT2-051

Tamers (4)

• 4x Taiga BT2-088

Options (6)

• 2x Gaia Force ST1-16
• 4x Flower Cannon BT1-110

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I've tweaked most of my decks, and made several completely brand-new ones, so over the course of the next few days I'll be posting deck techs for each of them. The only one that's unchanged from the version currently on this site is Eosmon Yellow. I do have some thoughts on that one, below, but nothing I've committed to. I've also got some prognosticatory deck ideas fot BT9 and BT10.

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Got our BT8 preorder in today, and it was a decent pull. Also got the starters plus the entire rest of the set ordered. I considered getting some other expensive cards that have fallen in price, but I think I'm gonna have to hold on those a bit longer - we're still talking $10-20 cards in playsets. Hopefully their prices will continue downward; maybe rotation will finally hit and some of these will be affordable.

Gotta think about what needs updating. I think this is the shortlist;

• MasterTyrannomon into Taiga
• Betelgammamon into Shoutmon
• Review Imperialdramon to account for all the new Blue/Green stuff
• Review Insectoids for additions
• MetalGreymon into Machinedramon
• Build Whamon/Magnadramon deck
• Build X-Antibody Black

There are a couple other neat bits or buildarounds that might be worth investigating, and Veemon Armor looks like it could be fun. Several of the Veemons are tied up in Blue/Green Imperialdramon though.

Next set on the horizon is EX2, which we have to get because it's Tamers themed. After that I'm mildly interested in BT9 - X-Antibody plus the remaining Armor digivolves that didn't fit here. I might have to be much more conservative post-EX2, though, if only because childcare eats up so much of our budget. Hopefully my wife will be moving up the ladder at her job, and it sure would be nice for me to get a cost-of-living raise…

In other news, lots of Jurassic Park things happening. Dr. Sattler vs. T Rex finally shipped, and there've been reports of copies of the JWMG in the wild, in Europe at least. Hopefully that'll come here soon too. That'll be fun to review, but I'd like to trick it out with some tokens and sleeves, and I already covered finances.

I'm hoping we hear more about MonPoc soon too.

I got my pledge for the Hellboy RPG Kickstarter today. To put it shortly, I'm not impressed. The fulfilment company that was used was bottom-barrel stuff - my box had an open end covered with tape, the books loose inside. It was missing my dice, too - whether because they fell out or were just never put in I don't know. Finally, the book itself is chintzy - the cover's a bit flimsy-feeling, the binding doesn't feel solid, and one of the pages of my copy was pre-creased.

I've emailed Mantic support, but considering it's Friday and they're 5 hours ahead I will not hear back until Monday at the earliest. Hopefully I can get those dice, or maybe even a replacement core book, but honestly I'm not expecting much. Might even just box these up and call it a day. So disappointing.

Update 2022.06.02: A couple days ago I got a shipment directly from Mantic with replacement dice and a new copy of the core book. I wish I hadn't had to ask for them, but that's good CS and I'm much happier with the campaign as a result. I still think the game and especially its layout work was half-baked - the stat blocks are horribly ugly and not very table-friendly, for example - but it'll be a good browsing book and Hellboy reference at the least.

I spent last night making a few more decks - Red Shoutmon Blitz, Blue Omnimon, Green Insectoids, Black Cyborg Blockers, and Purple Trash. I'll work on deck techs for these soon. I'm still looking forward to a black Ouryamon buld, but that's gotta wait until mid-May, probably.

I spent some time updating my decks, in light of BT6, EX1, and some of the promos I've gotten. I haven't had a chance to test these (or Eosmon) yet; I hope to be able to soon. As a reminder, most of these decks already saw some modifications from their original listings.

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I've been playing some Endless Legend lately and it's been really fun. My first proper game since I've started used Vaulters, though I think I'm going to need to abandon it - I didn't make efficient tech choices, I didn't prioritize military development, and my neighbor was the Cravers so I really shouldn't have done that. Last couple of turns Cravers were rolling me.

Gotta decide who to run next - Broken Lords and Drakken look to be the most interesting right now, but Ardent Mages and Morgawr also look fun. Then there's Endless Space 2, Kingmaker, and Jurassic World Evolution 2, but I'm trying to focus on one game for now.