Meta Mondays: Megidramon

Hello everyone, and welcome to Meta Fridays, the (not-so) premier bi-weekly Digimon primer series, now back from a week break! This week on Meta Mondays, we're going to be covering the Digital Hazard, and the pinnacle of evil among Dragon Digimon, Megidramon.

Megidramon and its other form, ChaosGallantmon unfortunately haven't seen much success in the past but that all changes with the rise of BT-21 Megidramon. Sporting a board wipe

and huge offensive presence, this deck is a force to be reckoned with in the BT-21 metagame. Being able to make functionally 3 checks on its own, with some help due to BT-21 WarGrowlmon's [On Deletion] Inherited effect trashing 1 security, helps this deck be extremely fast as well as leaving almost nothing on the board for you to play with next turn. This is complimented as well by Megidramon's [On Deletion] effect floating into another body, allowing you to keep up the pressure if you've kept turn, or follow-up if you haven't. This is also easily enabled by said WarGrowlmon, letting you easily reduce the digivolution cost of the Megidramon, all the way until it's free. You have even more memory gain yet though, as your line from BT-21 have [On Deletion] to gain 1 memory, easily letting you keep turn and extending your aggression to put up multiple checks after the Megidramon without fear of being stopped.

Speaking of this aggression, where does it come from? Well, let me introduce EX-4 "Rush"

Guilmon. This is the card you want to be playing the most from your EX-8 Growlmon X's [On Deletion] effect when you have an X-Antibody or Growlmon under it. When combined with your Megidramon's [On Deletion] to play another, you can swing another 2 times after your Megidramon's attack, and if both die in security, can even kill with a Gallantmon on field. Speaking of Gallantmon, both BT-13 and the new Illustration Pack help you push your aggression even further with more checks after. Both of them allow you to play them out for extreme memory discounts, with BT-13's cost reduction being based on if you have no Digimon on field, while Illustration's being based on there being a 13k DP or higher Digimon on any field. This also means that if you have BT-13 played out after your Guilmons died, you can slam Illustration for cheap as well. Illustration also sports the trademark 13k Deletion, but differing from BT-13's deletion, if Illustration doesn't delete a Digimon it triggers <Recovery +1> while also sporting Blocker on itself. These Gallantmons really let you push for game in a single turn when assisted by cards such as Jack Raid and Gravity Crush.

All in all, Megidramon has proven to be one of the most potent threats in the metagame right now, with it taking as much or more tops right now than Royal Knights. This weeks example list is from Simone Giardinelli's 1st place finish at Grand Tour's regional. As for the future of this deck, I don't foresee it getting another wave of support soon, but as it is the main deck of one of the most popular protagonists (funnily enough, most builds actually don't run any Takatos), with one of the most popular Digimon, support is never far away. However I do think we will see a limiting of EX-4 Guilmon with a future banlist, assuming they don't immediately creep the deck. This has been Meta Monday, and I hope to see you next time for Training Tuesdays where we'll be covering Mastemon!