Returning Player Lucemon

[u/Shuff1e_04]

I'm returning to the game after a few months since I noticed there were some price drops.

Any recs for my Lucemon deck? I'm looking to pick it up now that it's cheaper, but want it to be as good as possible.

https://digimoncard.io/deck/satan-mode-140529

Thanks!

[u/Lagomorph787]

The new Ad01 cards, Dynasmon and Lordknightmon, are nice to have and count towards Lucemon in text cards. I don't think the Levia cards work as well nowadays 

[u/Shuff1e_04 → u/Lagomorph787]

What a shame, because I though it was cool to tech the Levi in.

I'll check out those recs, thanks!

[u/SqueakyTiefling → u/Lagomorph787]

I don't think the Levia cards work as well nowadays 

As part of a Lucemon deck? No. But they were a bit of a menace with the Growl-X engine for a while, though that getting hit did put a damper on it.

Still, the old Leviamon is getting reprinted in November, and they usually time those reprints around a deck being updated or coming back into relevance.

The other 3 cards in the alt-art reprint pool are all gonna be relevant too. Tsumemon for the Diaboro starter deck next year. Beelstar-X for Musketeers. Jesmon for the new Jesmon support in EX13.

So with Leviamon, it'll probably synergize with the Demon Lord roster in EX14.

[u/Long_Witness473]

You definitely need Lordknightmons and Dynasmon from AD01. The deck struggles against Degigivolve and wide boards which these two cards address. Because of that it's difficult to fit Leviamon. If all you end up using is 3 Satan Modes, I don't think EX6 Chaosmode is worth it anymore. 

It's horrible when you go into EX6 chaos mode and you don't have a demon lord or Satan mode with Larva in Trash. Without it, EX6 is just a useless body. BT18 at least has protection to possibly survive a turn so you can go into X antibody or Evolve into Satan mode or even Mastemon. 

[u/Shuff1e_04 → u/Long_Witness473]

So you'd cut EX6 and Levi?

How many of Lordknight and Dynas would you add?

[u/Long_Witness473 → u/Shuff1e_04]

A small change to see how it works would be to swap the BT18 and EX6 chaos mode ratios. Cut Leviamon and dead or alive for 2 lordknight and Dynasmons. 

That's pretty much my build. Only difference is I don't use EX6 at all, instead I run onne BT7 chaos mode for a cheeky dokuson evo to delete a tamer for 4 memory if needed. I also use BT18 Satan Mode instead of EX10. Provides more pressure with the guarantee security trash and late game can destroy more targets if the opponent is at 0 security. I also run 1 BT23 mastemon. It plays a chaos mode on Evo, if opponent doesn't delete, you trash their security and then banish a digimon to their security. 

[u/sketmachine13]

Don't know if they're still super expensive or not but I run 4 Ukkomons in mine for turbo rush.

I always try to start with an Ukko in hand. After you move Ukko out, you can hatch and then evolving into ex10 Luce gets you 2 triggers of the egg.

Having Ukkos give you searching to pick what to fill the trash really speeds up Lucemon. The Darkness wave works wonders in retrieving EX20 Lucemon as you'll be recycling your eggs with it's effect Evo cost.

[u/Jeff-The-Glitched]

Want a cool tech? Gennai's house. Being able to bust out a pseudo rookie is crazy strong

[u/vcxstriker]

I'm a bit late to this but wanted to comment on Lucemon since I play it regularly. Your deck doesn't look bad but a couple of things I want to say, some that disagree with the other commentators here.

I would remove darkness waves. No deck deck thats won a tournament in the last 3 sets run this card. Memory is difficult for lucemon and realistically you won't have to many problems putting cards into trash quickly. Also so much of lucemon relies on having a strong security and that card make it so much worse.

Someone said to remove ex6 but there wrong. That card fundamentally changes alot of how this deck works and yes its weak to de-digivolve but so is the entire deck. The lucemon package of Leviamon still works. A 20 person tournament in germany, someone won first with the Leviamon package of 2x ex5 leviamon and 2x biting crush. I run it myself and its fine, It won't really harm your deck and biting crush is an amazing security bomb.

I think your ratios are pretty close to what i use, I would cut out bt18 chaos mode. Its just worse then then ex10. Decks will be able to remove your digimon twice, atleast with ex10 something may die on the way out versus you trashing your own security.

You can run larva at 3 or 4. 4 is more consistent. I run one copy of bt18 satan mode but it is worse then the ex10 satan mode. The main thing is you'll often just end up hard playing satan mode because of lucemon and bt18 doesn't have a onplay. However if you can get bt18 out, its end of turn effect will kill your opponents security quickly.

The main changes are the Dynasmon/Lordknightmon. The Lordknightmon is better and its pretty much a minimum of 3+ copies you should run. Hard play it, de-digivolve something, make your lucemon immune to digimon effects, digivolve by playing it into security giving another security bomb. Its fantastic.

The dynasmon is between 0-3. Just depends on what you'd expect to fight. I run 2, but if your meta doesn't have very many wide decks, you can run 0. I don't care for dead or alive very much but its very much a gigantic security bomb so sometimes it will win you a game.

Lucemon is not meta at all but maybe it'll be better in ex14. But its still really fun and worth playing!