Like in most other trading card games, the Purple color inDigimon Card Gameusually relies on setting up most of your pieces in the trash, which can be reused through a myriad of effects. There are many cards within different archetypes that can achieve this task quickly, but there are a handful of important staples that can be splashed into any deck to power up your game plan.
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From memory blockers like Gazimon to cards that mill your decks like Mist Memory Boost, most of the best cards in Purple help you control the board to set up explosive plays in the following turns.
10Psychemon
Just like the ST-13 Chikurimon, this version of Psychemon prevents all players from reducing the play costs of their Digimon. On release, this card wasn’t as prominent since there wasn’t too many Digimon that could reduce their own play costs besides D-Reaper.
With the rise of the DigiXros mechanic and the Xros Heart deck, which will continue to get support, Psychemon is essential for any Purple deck to compete against those heavy hitters.
9Jack Raid
With Purple’s ability to constantly dump cards in the trash and be able to recycle their trash, Jack Raid’s condition of having ten cards in the trash to gain memory is not a tough thing to meet.
While Hammer Spark is the superior memory gain card, Jack Raid can gain you far more memory if paired with decks like Beelzemon, which thrive on having more than half of your deck in the trash. Jack Raid hasn’t seen too much play in the recent sets, but it is such a versatile card that can be easily slotted in into any Purple deck as an extender or even a Security trap.
8Matt Ishida
Every deck needs a good memory setter. Matt Ishida can not only set your memory to three every turn, but it can also return a Purple card from your trash to your hand. It can recycle a strong Digimon that has been destroyed, whether in battle or checked in Security, or you can grab the single copy of Calling From The Darkness that you can run in your deck.
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Playing a memory Tamer on your first turn is always a good play, but sadly Matt Ishida only gets its maximum value as long as you have cards in your trash.
7Mist Memory Boost!
Mist Memory Boost is a bit different from the other Boost cards available in the game. Following Purple’s main goal of trashing cards, Mist Memory Boost mills two cards from your deck and then allows you to draw one.
While this Boost doesn’t search for cards, it sets up your trash nicely for the following turns. When playing decks that include cards with effects that proc upon milling, like Death Slinger, this card can be deadly. Not to mention the extra memory on the turn after it was played.
6Death Claw
Not only does Purple like trashing cards, but plenty of Digimon have effects that activate upon deletion. Many times you’ll try to get your Digimon to get deleted by a bigger body in Security, but sometimes, you’ll run into Digimon that you’ll simply roll over.
Death Claw can delete your Digimon while deleting one of your opponent’s. You’ll usually want to play this when you are okay with deleting your own Digimon and if it has an On Deletion effect.
5Flame Hellscythe
Although Flame Hellscythe comes with a heavy requirement to play, being a Purple and Yellow dual card, it’s an easy way to delete a level four Digimon. This card might seem expensive for it to only be able to remove a small Digimon from the board, but its second effect is what makes Flame Hellscythe so powerful.
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This card can remove that small threat that might be a bother to your plays like a Terriermon or a Syakomon, but it also plays a small Digimon from the trash. Especially in the Mastemon deck, it can speed up your plays by playing a MagnaAngemon that can Recover one to your Security.
4Eyesmon: Scatter Mode
Getting cards in your trash as fast as possible is usually the main goal with most Purple decks. Eyesmon: Scatter Mode will help you achieve this rather quickly. This effect, combined withone of the best Digi Eggsin DemiMeramon, and one of the Purple Gabumons, Eyesmon can get you to draw six and trash four.
This trashing effect can speed up your plays quickly, but it also cycles unusable cards in your hand, all while doing chip damage to your opponent.
3Gazimon
Just like every other memory blocker Rookie, Gazimon is an absolute must in every Purple deck. Gazimon can slow down your opponent by denying them memory outside Tamers. This card forces your opponent to not only be at a memory deficit, but they now have to find an out to this very problematic card.
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On top of all the utility that Gazimon has, BT-09 X Record introduced an X-Antibody form of Gazimon that can evolve for free and trash cards from your deck in the process.
2Calling From The Darkness
Calling From The Darkness is one of the cards in the game that should have been in the Restricted and Banned List way before it was included. This card can return two Digimon cards from the trash to your hand. It also allows you to delete one of your Digimon.
The reason why Calling From The Darkness is such a strong card is that the deletion effect is not a cost. The way that the game works is that you do as much as you may with the card, but if there are no valid targets, the first effect cannot resolve. If there are no Digimon in your Battle Area, you are still able to return two Digimon from the trash.
1DeathXmon
What does this card do? Everything. DeathXmon is a strong card with very few outs. This card is a staple for all Purple decks, but what makes DeathXmon so strong is that it can be easily splashed into any deck. This card can be hard played from the hand since its cost can be reduced by three for every Digimon and Tamer that your opponent has on play, punishing any deck that builds wide boards.
Not only is DeathXmon a huge body that is hard to deal with, but also every turn that it stays on the board it generates more value since it deletes the lowest-cost Digimon that your opponent controls.
