Alfred Hitchmon's The Birds (Zephaga/Vortexdra)

Vortex goes brrrrrrr.

My main deck and my main focus. Not the first deck to give me a locals first place, but the first to give me multiple. I love Zephagamon and I love Vortexdramon so much.

Top 16 (Came 7th on day 1 out of 216 with 6 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw) at Oceania Nationals 25/01/2026 with the following list: https://youtu.be/IPKjCB3Zl38

Came 7th (out of 127, 5 wins, 0 losses, 2 draws) at Oceania Regionals 19/07/2025, with the following list: https://youtu.be/4ZJVodJevMo

Came 24th (out of 132,

Vortex goes brrrrrrr.

My main deck and my main focus. Not the first deck to give me a locals first place, but the first to give me multiple. I love Zephagamon and I love Vortexdramon so much.

Top 16 (Came 7th on day 1 out of 216 with 6 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw) at Oceania Nationals 25/01/2026 with the following list: https://youtu.be/IPKjCB3Zl38

Came 7th (out of 127, 5 wins, 0 losses, 2 draws) at Oceania Regionals 19/07/2025, with the following list: https://youtu.be/4ZJVodJevMo

Came 24th (out of 132, 4 wins, 1 loss, 2 draws) at Oceania Regionals 24/05/2025 with the following list: https://youtu.be/OeWBF2Geok0

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Notable Wins

17/03/2025 - Games Portal (first place)

03/04/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (tied for first place)

24/05/2025 - 24th at Oceania Regionals in Melbourne

29/05/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (tied for first place)

02/06/2025 - Games Portal (Evo cup, second place)

05/06/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)

05/07/2025 - Grand J Games (Evo cup, second place)

11/07/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (second place, undefeated 3-0)

13/07/2025 - Grand J Games (Evo cup, second place)

19/07/2025 - 7th at Oceania Regionals in Sydney

5/09/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)

08/09/2025 - Games Portal (Evo cup, tied first, 3-0-1)

10/10/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)

8/11/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (tied first place)

12/12/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)

18/12/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (Evo Cup, Second place, 2-0-1) Deck profile here: https://youtu.be/PFd9H0A202o

16/01/2026 - Ozzie Collectables (tied first place)

23/01/2026 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)

25/01/2026 - 16th at Oceania Nationals in Melbourne

05/02/2026 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)

5/03/2026 - Ozzie Collectables (tied first place)

12/12/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)

18/12/2025 - Ozzie Collectables (Evo Cup, Second place, 2-0-1) Deck profile here: https://youtu.be/PFd9H0A202o

16/01/2026 - Ozzie Collectables (tied first place)

23/01/2026 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)

25/01/2026 - 16th at Oceania Nationals in Melbourne

12/03/2026 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)

09/04/2026 - Ozzie Collectables (first place)

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Change Log

17/09/24: Very WIP currently, pretty much just two ST18s combined. Not playtested. I'll come back to it. 

20/09/24: Playtested with myself against two decks and made some changes with some EX7 cards, still not playtested in a real game.

22/09/24: Playtested with a friend, pretty happy with the deck but would love to improve on it.

23/09/24: Drop anemoi, +1 Digimon Liberator, LVL 3: run 4 of each Ptero + 4 Palmon (sub for P Pteromon). LVL 5s: 2 starter grandgale, 4 ex7 grandgale, 2 lilymon. Lvl4s 4 ex7 Gale, 4 starter gale, 2 Bt14 togemon (Currently missing: 3x BT14 Palmon OR 3x P Pteromon)

30/09/24: 3x BT14 Palmon instead of Much****, Drop 1 ST Shoto and 1 Zeph for 1 Ex7 Shoto and 1 Zeph.

7/10/24: Drop 1x ST Zeph for Paladin Ace

16/10/24: This deck is just now Digimon I really like :) Dropped 1x Togemon for Aquilamon, swapped out Shotos for Promo Shoto, swapped out some level 3s for two more Promo Pteros

31/10/2024: -1 Agility Training to fit in +1 AncientKazemon, -1 EX7 Gale and -1 BT14 Togemon for +2 Promo Gale, and apparently forgot to update that I did -1 ST GrandGale for +1 Rapid

13/11/2024: -1 ST GrandGale for +1 ST Rapid

20/11/2024: -1 EX7 Zephaga for +1 ST MegaGargo. What even are birds at this point.

19/01/2025: Updated with Ex08 and BT20 stuff, can't test until 2.5 releases next month, but it's good to be prepared.

25/02/2025: -1 mem boost +1 zeph ace becase it's too good to just be a two of

16/03/2025: -1 Lily Ace +1 BT2 Argo

24/03/2025: -1 BT20 Shoto +1 Omni X (Blame Sean)

31/03/2025: -1 Lily Ace (RIP I miss you already), -1 Ex2 Argo (Kinda want to find a spot for it still here), +2 BT20 Crowmon (Second Promo Gale can evolve into it and it doesn't miss in my Ptero search...so...)

5/04/2025: -2 Promo Ptero +2 floodgate Pomu

26/04/2024: -1 ex7 ptero +1 st grandgale. I keep bricking for level fives. Either st grandgale or bt2 Argo. Went for grandgale so I can Evo from new promo gale and the inheritable is pretty good under Zeph ace.

28/04/2025: -1 omni X, +1 valdur arm

13/05/2025: -2 Crow +2 st grandgale (I'm sorry Sean for initially doubting your endless wisdom). -1 st fluffy for +1 ex7 fluffy 

21/05/2025: -1 ST Fluffy. Finally down to four of the egg!

27/05/2025: -1 BT20 Shoto, -1 ST Grandgale, +2 Tropical Venom

30/05/2025: -1 ST Gale, +1 Tropical Venom (goodness, this card is absurd here)

10/06/2025: -1 ST Gale, -1 ST GrandGale, +2 Green Memory Boost. Thinking about -1 Tropical Venom +1 Agility Training

15/05/2025: -2 Pomu +1 Agility Training, +1 floodgate Terrier

27/06/2025: -4 ex7 Fluffy, +4 bt6 Pina (for testing, need card draw, either this or ex2 Gummy), -1 promo ptero, +1 ex7 Ptero (I rarely hardplay a level 3 unless it's a searcher, if I want to hard play to suspend I'd rather do so with v2 promo gale)

28/06/2025: -4 bt6 pina, +4 ex4 koko, -1 floodgate Terrier, +1 Bt16 Ukko (testing more things)

30/06/2025: -1 Tropical Venom -1 Training, +1 Ukko, +1 Pallie Ace, -1 Koko, +1 Fluffy (Came second at Games Portal Monday night locals with these changes but not a huge fan of the Palli Ace, Koko is good for the extra draw power though!)

2/07/2025: -1 Paladin Mode Ace, +1 Training, -2 Fluffymon, +1 Koko, +1 Gummy (Came second at Grand J Games Wednesday night locals with these changes)

5/07/2025: -1 Agility Training, +1 Tropical Venom (Came second at Grand J Games' Evo Cup) Thinking about taking out Valdur arm for another agility training as it hasn't been too helpful for a bit.

22/07/2025: After coming 7th at Sydney Regionals over the weekend, the Valdur arm is absolutely staying for now.

16/08/2025: After a bit of a break from Zephaga, I'm back trying things for a bit; -1 Tropical Venom, +1 Agility Training, -1 ST Grandgale (I do not like you), +1 St Rapid (I love you)

25/08/2025 -1 Boost (I'd say it's not you, it's me, but it's the fact I keep bot decking my shotos), -1 Training (tentatively, I like training at 4 tbh), +1 ex7 Gale (trying it out to be more memory efficient, might take it out for the training again though), +1 Tropical Venom (welcome back, let's get you restricted, yes?)

5/09/2025: Did a few undocu***ted changes, mainly playing around with Ex7 gale and no memory boosts, but ex7 gale doesn't help me too much, so back to 0 Gale and 2 green memory boosts (-1 Ex7 gale, +1 mem boost from last change). Came first at Ozzies (3-0) going 2-0 every round on the 4th of September.

11/10/2025: Musings: current meta favours bot decking over deletion, so thinking about testing -1 medi +1 ex7 zeph. Came first at Ozzie's last night with current build (3x medi, 2x zeph), valdur arm shuts down galaxy, so that's not leaving any time soon. Ex7 zeph stops Pyramidi's Fragment. Week prior at ozzie's had me coming second where Ex7 Zeph did well against Guil Creepy and Dark Masters (Valdur also helped against Dark Masters), but I came second because of bricking against Royal Knights. Is there space for a second Valdur?

21/10/2025: -1 Tropical Venom, +1 Valdur arm. Testing as this shuts down decks like RK, Dark Masters, and Hudie for a turn. Still wondering about -1 Medieval for +1 Ex7 Zeph.

24/10/2025: Came second at Ozzies. R1 Bees 2-0, R2 Pyramidi 2-0, R3 Pyramidi 1-1-1

3/12/2025: ST22 support Hype! -3 Rapid +3 ST22 Grandgale

13/12/2025: -2 Tropical Venoms (I miss you already...) +1 ST22 Grandgale, +1 Agility Training. Came first at Ozzies with these changes. R1 Rocks 2-0 R2 Creepy 1-1-1 R3 Sakuya 2-1

19/12/2025: -1 Ex2 Gummy (No longer running Ukko, so no need for 5 eggs), -1 Training, -1 ST Ptero, -2 V1 promo Gale, -1 St22 Grandgale, -2 Ukko, +2 ST Mucho, +1 St Rapid, +2 ex7 gale, +1 Bt20 Shoto. Not sold on BT20 Shoto (might replace with ex7 Shoto). Came 2nd at Ozzie Collectables' Evo cup.  R1 Omni 2-0 R2 Machine 1-1-1 R3 Hudie 2-0

30/12/2025: -1 Mem Boost +1 St Ptero, -1 Bt20 valdur arm +1 Ex7 gale, -1 ex7 grandgale +1 st22 grandgale, -1 mem boost -1 st Shoto +2 Promo shoto

9/01/2026: -1 ex7 ptero, -1 bt20 shoto, +1 mem boost, +1 promo shoto, -1 rapid, +1 ex7 grandgale (Came second at Ozzie's with this)

16/01/2026: -2 promo shoto, +1 mem boost, +1 training, -1 Ex7 grandgale, +1 rapid, -1 ex7 gale, +1 v1 promo gale (Came first at Ozzie's with this. R1 Omni 2-0 R2 Megla 2-0 R3 Sakuya 2-1

23/01/2026: -1 promo shoto, +1 ex7 shoto. First place at Ozzies R1 CS 2-0 R2 RK 2-0 R3 Levia 2-0

2/02/2026: FINALLY can update for BT24 now that Nats is over (Top 16 bb!) -1 Ex7 Ptero, -1 St Ptero, +2 BT24 Mucho,******v1 Gale, +3 BT24 Kok

13/02/2026: EX11 let's go! -2 Ex7 Ptero, -2 ex7 gale, -2 mem boost, -2 training, -2 ex7 shoto, -1 zeph ace, -1 medi, -1 ex7 zeph, -1 valdur (I will always cherish the time together we had). +2 ex11 Ptero, +2 ex11 gale, +1 e11 zeph, +3 vortexdra +3 ex11 shoto, +3 Emblem 

5/03/2026: -2 St Mucho, +1 Bt24 Mucho, +1 Ex11 Ptero, -1 Medieval, +1 Ex11 Zeph. Came first at Ozzie's with this list.

11/03/2026: -1 St Shoto, +1 Ex11 Shoto

13/03/2026: Came first at Ozzie's on 12/03, but still feel the deck needs tweaking so I'm making the following change -1 ex11 Zeph, +1 Agility training

16/03/2026: -1 Green Scramble +1 HPD. Testing this but I fear I may miss the ability to recover which scramble gives me.

30/04 /26: LM Updates! -1 HPD, -1 Emblem, -1 Vortexdra, -2 ex7 gg, +1 ex11 gg, +1 Scramble, +1 Ex11 Zeph, +2 sprint dash training

2/04/2026: -1 kok, +1 ex11 gale, -1 sprint dash, +1 ex7 gg, -1 zeph ace, +1 ex7 zeph, -1 mucho +1 st ptero

7/04/ 2026: -1 St Ptero, 1 ex11 Ptero, +2 Ex7 Ptero, -1 ex11 gg, +1 rapid, -1 ex11 gale, +3 kok