Card Slash

Card Slash (カードスラッシュ, Kādosurasshu; Dub: Digi-Modify) is a technique in Digimon Tamers, in which Tamers "Slash" (scan) trading cards from the Digital Monster Card Game, or certain other special cards, into their D-Ark Digivice to generate temporary power-ups, equipment and other modifications for their partner Digimon.

=Overview= Digimon Tamers depicts Digital Monster Card Game cards as having a metallic stripe along their side, containing code pertaining to that card's gameplay effects. This code is meant to be read by "Card Fighter EX" card reader devices that are used to play the game, by Slashing cards through a long slot in the device, but the D-Ark Digivice is able to use the code from the cards to generate augmentations for partner Digimon. (Card reading functionality of a sort also existed in the real Digital Monster Card Game, but it used barcodes along the base of some sets of cards instead.)

Card Slashing works similarly to how it does with D-Arks in an American Digimon computer game that Lee Jianliang once played, where he met Terriermon. This game uses a card reader peripheral that is plugged into the computer; Jianliang's card reader became his D-Ark when he Slashed a Blue Card.

There are several categories of effects that Digital Monster Card Game cards have when Slashed:


 * Digimon Cards: Basic cards depicting individual Digimon, which are used in the card game to fight against other Digimon cards. When Slashed in a D-Ark, they instead allow the partner Digimon to use one of the featured Digimon's attack techniques.
 * Item Cards: Cards which increase some aspect of the Digimon's strength and abilities. They serve this function both in the card game and when Slashed. Can be divided into several categories:
 * Equipment Cards: Cards which, when Slashed, equip the partner Digimon with a physical item that has abilities that the Digimon did not previously have.
 * Plug-In Cards: Cards which boost the attributes of Digimon. They can be used to increase a Digimon's offensive, defensive or speed stats, can recover a Digimon's energy and stamina, or can induce evolution to the Adult level. Each is named with a single-letter suffix.
 * Device Cards: A type of item card that Akiyama Ryo describes as a "wild card" that is usable only by "truly strong Tamers".
 * Program Cards: Cards which execute a more complex procedure involving the partner Digimon.

D-Arks are also able to read and execute effects from certain other cards which are not from the Digital Monster Card game, but do carry particular algorithms that are in some way intended for use with Digimon, such as Blue Cards.

=Items that were Card Slashed in =

Other Objects
=Trivia=
 * According to Digimon Tamers head writer Chiaki J. Konaka, the introduction of Card Slashing in Tamers was the result of a directive from Bandai to incorporate the Digital Monster Card Game into the anime, along with having Digimon be an in-universe media franchise.

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