Can I resolve a full digivolution line?

Yes. digivolveCosts is machine-readable, so you can walk a chain from Digi-Egg to Mega with a single recursive GraphQL query.

Do you carry the Japanese release?

Yes, and it runs several months ahead of the English one, which is the single most common source of confusion in Digimon tooling. Filter by language and check the set release dates before showing a card as available, or players will try to buy singles that do not exist in their region yet.

How is the digivolve cost structured?

As an array, because many cards offer more than one route — for instance three memory from a level 4 red, or four from a level 4 of any colour. Each entry carries its own level, colour and cost, so you can check every path rather than only the cheapest one.

Are the BT, EX and ST sets all included?

Yes. Booster sets, extra boosters, starter decks, reprint boxes and promos are all carried with their proper prefixes. Starter decks reprint main-set cards under different numbers, so if you want one logical entry per card, group on name and effect rather than on card number.

Can I search the inherited effect text?

Yes, it is a separate indexed field rather than being concatenated into the main rules text. That distinction matters, because plenty of deckbuilding decisions turn entirely on what a card gives you from underneath and not at all on what it does when played.

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Digimon Card Game API

Play cost, DP, level, digivolve requirements, inherited effects and security effects across every BT, EX, ST and RB set.

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1,915
Cards: 4,444
Printings: 66
Sets: 4
Languages

Overview

What the Digimon dataset covers

The Digimon Card Game's 2020 reboot produced one of the most mechanically distinctive TCGs on the market. TCGGraph models play cost, digivolve costs by level and colour, DP, attribute, Digimon form and type, and separates the main effect, inherited effect and security effect into distinct fields so deckbuilders can query digivolution chains programmatically.

Main, inherited and security effects are separate fields, so digivolution chains are queryable instead of being buried in one block of rules text.

Formats

Standard
Japanese Standard

Price sources

Cardmarket

REST

curl -G "https://api.tcggraph.com/v1/cards" \
  -d game=digimon \
  -d limit=5 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TCGGRAPH_KEY"

GraphQL

{
  cards(
    game: DIGIMON
    filter: { level: 6, colors: ["Blue"] }
  ) {
    nodes {
      name
      digimon {
        dp
        playCost
        digivolveCosts { level color cost }
      }
    }
  }
}

Schema

Digimon-specific fields

Every card carries the shared core fields. These live under gameData in REST, and under the typed digimon field in GraphQL.

Field	Type	Description
cardType	Enum	DIGI_EGG, DIGIMON, TAMER or OPTION.
colors	[String]	Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Black, Purple or White.
level	Int	Level 2 to 7.
playCost	Int	Memory cost to play from hand.
dp	Int	Digimon power.
digivolveCosts	[Object]	Colour, from-level and memory cost triples.
attribute	Enum	Data, Vaccine, Virus, Free or Unknown.
form	String	Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, Mega, Armor…
inheritedEffect	String	Effect granted while in the digivolution stack.
securityEffect	String	Effect triggered when checked from security.

Plus 14 core fields shared by every game — see the full reference.

Live data

Digimon cards in the public dataset

Real records returned by the API right now, sorted by market value, with both the American and the European quote.

Card	Set	Number	Rarity	TCGplayer	Cardmarket
Regulusmon	RB-01: Resurgence Booster	RB1-030	R	—	€13.55
KaiserLeomon	BT-18: Booster Elemental Successor	BT18-077	R	—	€12.47
Gammamon	RB-01: Resurgence Booster	RB1-006	R	—	€7.50
Korikakumon	BT-18: Booster Elemental Successor	BT18-025	R	—	€6.34
AeroVeedramon	BT-11: Booster Dimensional Phase	BT11-029	R	—	€4.60
AncientBeetlemon	BT-18: Booster Elemental Successor	BT18-072	R	—	€4.16
DemiMeramon	BT-15: Booster Exceed Apocalypse	BT15-006	U	—	€3.81
Hokuto Amanokawa	RB-01: Resurgence Booster	RB1-035	R	—	€3.72

The European market for Digimon

European allocations are thin and the player base is concentrated in Germany and Italy. Prices on tournament staples frequently sit above the American market, which is the opposite of what most people assume when they set up a repricer.

Traded on Cardmarket in German, French, Italian, Spanish beyond English. How European pricing works.

Sets

Notable Digimon sets

BT01
New Evolution
112 cards · 2020-06-26
BT17
Secret Crisis
116 cards · 2024-08-30
BT22
Cyber Eden
118 cards · 2026-02-20

Modelling

Working with Digimon data

The decisions that catch people out when they first integrate Digimon. Each of these is a bug we have watched somebody ship.

There are two costs, and they are not interchangeable
Play cost is what you pay to put a Digimon into play from hand. Digivolve cost is a cheaper conditional price paid only when stacking on top of a Digimon of the right level and colour. A curve built on play cost alone badly misrepresents how the deck actually functions.
Inherited effects come from underneath
When you digivolve, the cards beneath keep contributing their inherited effects. That means a card's value depends on what it is played under as much as what it does on its own, and any evaluation that only reads the top card's text is missing half the game.
Level gates digivolution
Levels run from 2 to 7 and you generally digivolve one step at a time. Level is null on Options and Tamers, which are not Digimon at all, so a null check is required before any arithmetic.
Alternate art shares the card number
BT1-001 can refer to the standard print or to any of several alternate arts released later. They are identical for deckbuilding and wildly different in price, so card number alone is not a unique key.

Recipes

Common Digimon queries

Three requests that cover most of what applications in this game actually ask for.

Digivolution targets for a level 4

Find every level 5 that can be played on top of a specific colour and level.

Filtering on digivolve cost rather than play cost is what makes this query useful.

GET /v1/cards
  ?game=digimon
  &level=5
  &colors=Blue
  &maxDigivolveCost=3
  &sort=dp:desc

Tamers and Options in one colour

Support cards are chosen separately from the Digimon line.

cardType accepts multiple values, so support cards come back in a single call.

GET /v1/cards
  ?game=digimon
  &cardType=Tamer,Option
  &colors=Red
  &include=prices

Highest DP in the format

A straightforward stat query, filtered to cards that are currently legal.

DP is stored as an integer, so numeric filters and sorts behave as you would expect.

GET /v1/cards
  ?game=digimon
  &minDp=13000
  &format=standard
  &sort=dp:desc
  &limit=25

Glossary

Digimon terms, and the fields that hold them

What players call a thing on the left, what you query on the right.

Term	Field	Notes
DP	digimon.dp	Digimon Power, the combat stat. Null on Tamers and Options.
Play cost	digimon.playCost	Memory paid to play the card from hand.
Digivolve cost	digimon.digivolveCost[]	Array of conditional costs, each with a required level and colour.
Level	digimon.level	2 to 7. Gates what this card can digivolve from and into.
Form	digimon.form	Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, Mega and so on. Referenced by many effects.
Attribute	digimon.attribute	Vaccine, Data, Virus or Free.
Inherited effect	digimon.inheritedEffect	Text that applies while this card sits beneath another in a stack.

FAQ

Digimon API questions

Anything not covered here, email hello@tcggraph.com and a human who knows Digimon answers.

Also available

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