Vortex goes brrrrrrr.
My main deck and my main focus. Not the first deck to give me a locals first place, but the first to give me multiple.
Came 7th (out of 127, 5 wins, 0 losses, 2 draws) at Oceania Regionals 19/07/2025, with the following list: https://youtu.be/4ZJVodJevMo
Came 24th (out of 132, 4 wins, 1 loss, 2 draws) at Oceania Regionals 24/05/2025 with the following list: https://youtu.be/OeWBF2Geok0
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Notable Wins
17/03/2025 - Games Portal (first place)
03/04/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (tied for first place)
24/05/2025 - 24th at Oceania Regionals in Melbourne
29/05/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (tied for first place)
02/06/2025 - Games Portal (Evo cup, second place)
05/06/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)
05/07/2025 - Grand J Games (Evo cup, second place)
11/07/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (second place, undefeated 3-0)
13/07/2025 - Grand J Games (Evo cup, second place)
19/07/2025 - 7th at Oceania Regionals in Sydney
5/09/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)
08/09/2025 - Games Portal (Evo cup, tied first, 3-0-1)
10/10/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)
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Change Log
17/09/24: Very WIP currently, pretty much just two ST18s combined. Not playtested. I'll come back to it.
20/09/24: Playtested with myself against two decks and made some changes with some EX7 cards, still not playtested in a real game.
22/09/24: Playtested with a friend, pretty happy with the deck but would love to improve on it.
23/09/24: Drop anemoi, +1 Digimon Liberator, LVL 3: run 4 of each Ptero + 4 Palmon (sub for P Pteromon). LVL 5s: 2 starter grandgale, 4 ex7 grandgale, 2 lilymon. Lvl4s 4 ex7 Gale, 4 starter gale, 2 Bt14 togemon (Currently missing: 3x BT14 Palmon OR 3x P Pteromon)
30/09/24: 3x BT14 Palmon instead of Muchomon, Drop 1 ST Shoto and 1 Zeph for 1 Ex7 Shoto and 1 Zeph.
7/10/24: Drop 1x ST Zeph for Paladin Ace
16/10/24: This deck is just now Digimon I really like :) Dropped 1x Togemon for Aquilamon, swapped out Shotos for Promo Shoto, swapped out some level 3s for two more Promo Pteros
31/10/2024: -1 Agility Training to fit in +1 AncientKazemon, -1 EX7 Gale and -1 BT14 Togemon for +2 Promo Gale, and apparently forgot to update that I did -1 ST GrandGale for +1 Rapid
13/11/2024: -1 ST GrandGale for +1 ST Rapid
20/11/2024: -1 EX7 Zephaga for +1 ST MegaGargo. What even are birds at this point.
19/01/2025: Updated with Ex08 and BT20 stuff, can't test until 2.5 releases next month, but it's good to be prepared.
25/02/2025: -1 mem boost +1 zeph ace becase it's too good to just be a two of
16/03/2025: -1 Lily Ace +1 BT2 Argo
24/03/2025: -1 BT20 Shoto +1 Omni X (Blame Sean)
31/03/2025: -1 Lily Ace (RIP I miss you already), -1 Ex2 Argo (Kinda want to find a spot for it still here), +2 BT20 Crowmon (Second Promo Gale can evolve into it and it doesn't miss in my Ptero search...so...)
5/04/2025: -2 Promo Ptero +2 floodgate Pomu
26/04/2024: -1 ex7 ptero +1 st grandgale. I keep bricking for level fives. Either st grandgale or bt2 Argo. Went for grandgale so I can Evo from new promo gale and the inheritable is pretty good under Zeph ace.
28/04/2025: -1 omni X, +1 valdur arm
13/05/2025: -2 Crow +2 st grandgale (I'm sorry Sean for initially doubting your endless wisdom). -1 st fluffy for +1 ex7 fluffy
21/05/2025: -1 ST Fluffy. Finally down to four of the egg!
27/05/2025: -1 BT20 Shoto, -1 ST Grandgale, +2 Tropical Venom
30/05/2025: -1 ST Gale, +1 Tropical Venom (goodness, this card is absurd here)
10/06/2025: -1 ST Gale, -1 ST GrandGale, +2 Green Memory Boost. Thinking about -1 Tropical Venom +1 Agility Training
15/05/2025: -2 Pomu +1 Agility Training, +1 floodgate Terrier
27/06/2025: -4 ex7 Fluffy, +4 bt6 Pina (for testing, need card draw, either this or ex2 Gummy), -1 promo ptero, +1 ex7 Ptero (I rarely hardplay a level 3 unless it's a searcher, if I want to hard play to suspend I'd rather do so with v2 promo gale)
28/06/2025: -4 bt6 pina, +4 ex4 koko, -1 floodgate Terrier, +1 Bt16 Ukko (testing more things)
30/06/2025: -1 Tropical Venom -1 Training, +1 Ukko, +1 Pallie Ace, -1 Koko, +1 Fluffy (Came second at Games Portal Monday night locals with these changes but not a huge fan of the Palli Ace, Koko is good for the extra draw power though!)
2/07/2025: -1 Paladin Mode Ace, +1 Training, -2 Fluffymon, +1 Koko, +1 Gummy (Came second at Grand J Games Wednesday night locals with these changes)
5/07/2025: -1 Agility Training, +1 Tropical Venom (Came second at Grand J Games' Evo Cup) Thinking about taking out Valdur arm for another agility training as it hasn't been too helpful for a bit.
22/07/2025: After coming 7th at Sydney Regionals over the weekend, the Valdur arm is absolutely staying for now.
16/08/2025: After a bit of a break from Zephaga, I'm back trying things for a bit; -1 Tropical Venom, +1 Agility Training, -1 ST Grandgale (I do not like you), +1 St Rapid (I love you)
25/08/2025 -1 Boost (I'd say it's not you, it's me, but it's the fact I keep bot decking my shotos), -1 Training (tentatively, I like training at 4 tbh), +1 ex7 Gale (trying it out to be more memory efficient, might take it out for the training again though), +1 Tropical Venom (welcome back, let's get you restricted, yes?)
5/09/2025: Did a few undocumented changes, mainly playing around with Ex7 gale and no memory boosts, but ex7 gale doesn't help me too much, so back to 0 Gale and 2 green memory boosts (-1 Ex7 gale, +1 mem boost from last change). Came first at Ozzies (3-0) going 2-0 every round on the 4th of September.
11/10/2025: Musings: current meta favours bot decking over deletion, so thinking about testing -1 medi +1 ex7 zeph. Came first at Ozzie's last night with current build (3x medi, 2x zeph), valdur arm shuts down galaxy, so that's not leaving any time soon. Ex7 zeph stops Pyramidi's Fragment. Week prior at ozzie's had me coming second where Ex7 Zeph did well against Guil Creepy and Dark Masters (Valdur also helped against Dark Masters), but I came second because of bricking against Royal Knights. Is there space for a second Valdur?
21/10/2025: -1 Tropical Venom, +1 Valdur arm. Testing as this shuts down decks like RK, Dark Masters, and Hudie for a turn. Still wondering about -1 Medieval for +1 Ex7 Zeph.
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