Digital Monster Card Game Alpha



The Digital Monster Card Game Alpha (デジタルモンスターカードゲームα) is the second Digimon card game, being released in 2006.

=Information= The Alpha card game is split into two categories. One set of cards are played normally, while the other set, Battle Terminal, have a bar code on the bottom of the cards, making them compatible with the Data Carddass machine, and arcade machine where card games become playable in a 3D environment.

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 * Cost (コスト): The number of cards that have to be paid as the 'cost' (e.g. Cost 7), when this card turns face-up during the Evolution Phase.
 * Speed (スピード): The Digimon's speed (e.g. Speed 2), which affects which player acts first in certain parts of the game.
 * Evolution Requirements (進化条件): States which Digimon this card can evolve from (e.g. Rize Greymon, Wingdramon, Groundramon). For cards who have two Digimon joined by a '⇔' in their evolution requirements, Jogress Evolution (ジョグレス進化) must be carried out; when you have one component card on the field and the other component card in your hand, place the card to be evolved to onto the component card on the field, and discard the one in your hand to carry out the evolution.
 * Battle Type (バトルタイプ): An icon on the card's top right depicting either A, B, or C (e.g. Battle type B). Your Digimon's battle type will determine the type of attack the opponent has to use.
 * Hit Points(ＨＰ): The stamina of your Digimon (e.g. HP 1230). During battle, when the opponent's attack power exceeds your card's HP, your Digimon gets deleted.

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 * Card Name (カード名): The name of the Digimon on your card (e.g. Shine Greymon). Digimon with the X-Antibody (Ｘ抗体) in their names may be treated as the base Digimon without the X-Antibody when used for evolution requirements (for example, a War Greymon X-Antibody can meet evolution requirements that just state 'War Greymon'). However, X-Antibody Digimon are counted as their base Digimon when considering the '◎One card limit'; when you play a War Greymon with a one card limit, you may not play a War Greymon X-Antibody at the same time.
 * Card Number (カード番号): The card's number (e.g. DM02-095). A 'Dα-' prefix denotes Card Game Alpha series Digimon cards, a 'DM-' prefix denotes Battle Terminal series Digimon cards, a 'DM02-' prefix denotes Battle Terminal 02 series Digimon cards, and an 'SP-' prefix denotes promotional Digimon cards.

Abilities Box

 * Attack Type (アタックタイプ・攻撃): Your Digimon possesses 3 attack types - A, B, and C; the attack type used will depend on the opponent's battle type. The attack power written on the card is also known as the basic attack power' (基本攻撃力) (e.g. Shine Greymon has a basic A attack power of 1120). If your Digimon's A attack goes to zero due to the opponent's attack C's effect, '0' is now considered your basic A attack power.
 * Field (フィールド): The Field that your Digimon belongs to (e.g. Dragon's Roar). The Fields included in this game are Dragon's Roar (DR - ドラゴンズロアー), Nature Spirits (NSp - ネイチャースピリッツ), Nightmare Soldiers (NSo - ナイトメアソルジャーズ), Jungle Troopers (JT - ジャングルトルーパース), Wind Guardians (WG - ウインドガーディアンズ), Deep Savers (DS - ディープセイバーズ), Metal Empire (ME - メタルエンパイア), and Virus Busters (VB - ウィルスバスターズ).
 * Level (レベル): Your Digimon's level (e.g. Ultimate level). The standard levels are Level III (Child level: Yellow) > Level IV (Adult level: Red) > Perfect level (Blue) > Ultimate level (Purple). （　→　　→　　→　） There also exists Hybrid level Digimon (ハイブリッド体), used for Digimon that evolve through Spirit Evolution in previous series; in this game, their cards will typically state a level equivalent for them to follow.
 * Type (種族): Your Digimon's type (e.g. Light Dragon).
 * Attribute (属性): Your Digimon's attribute (e.g. Vaccine). Attributes typically come in 3 types - Vaccine (ワクチン), Data (データ), and Virus (ウィルス), as well as Unknown (属性不明) and Variable (ヴァリアブル). Variable-attribute Digimon will gain whatever attribute their opponent has (e.g. when a Variable-attribute Digimon faces a Data-attribute Digimon, their attribute becomes Data), and will also change along with the opponent if the opponent Digimon's attribute changes due to card effects or otherwise; when facing a Variable-attribute Digimon, their attribute remains as Variable-attribute.
 * Group (所属): The group that your Digimon belongs to, if applicable.
 * Special Abilities (特殊能力): Any effects and abilities are listed here. Abilities marked with Battle_terminal_effect.png are Battle Terminal effects used in the Battle Terminal Arcade game; abilities marked with Card_game_alpha_effect.png are used when playing the Card Game Alpha game. Of the Card Game Alpha abilities, abilities marked with '◎' are either constantly active, or activate immediately during their activation timing. Abilities marked with '[Action:]' are special abilities that are only activated when the player decides to, during the activation timing stated in the ability.

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=Card Sets= See also: Full Card List Alpha
 * Barcode (バーコード): The barcode that has to be scanned to use the card in the Data Carddass Battle Terminal arcade game. These barcodes are not present in Card Game Alpha series cards, and are not used when playing the Card Game Alpha game.

Alpha and Cardass Promotional

 * Promo