The Digimon Card Game goes digital - a free-to-play online card battler built for mobile.
Digimon Alysion is the digital version of Bandai's physical Digimon Card Game, built as a free-to-play online card game for iOS and Android. It is set in the world of Digimon Liberator, the free webcomic and light novel, and adds a Story Mode that teaches newcomers the real card game through the eyes of Kanata Hondo. Pre-registration opened on October 28, 2026 across 49 countries and regions, with a closed beta run by 10,000 participants in August 2025 ahead of it. Official wording puts release sometime in 2026; the US App Store listing shows December 23, 2026 as an expected date, though that appears to be a placeholder rather than a confirmed launch date. This wiki covers the card game fundamentals, the archetype system, deck building, the competitive modes, and the Story Mode.
Not a licensed reskin - a genuine digital implementation of Bandai's physical Digimon Card Game, with the actual rules, the actual card list and the actual competitive structure that players already know.
Set in the world of the Digimon Liberator webcomic and light novel, both free to read on the official site. Story Mode follows Kanata Hondo learning the game from scratch, with in-game tutorials built into actual battles.
The game rewards mastery of the archetype system, evolution lines and the memory mechanic rather than raw collection strength. A smaller tuned deck outperforms a larger one more often than the genre usually admits.
Competitive ladder play alongside tournaments, plus a digital card pool that keeps expanding with new sets. The physical game's competitive ecosystem is the model being replicated.
Digimon Alysion is a free-to-play online card game for mobile, developed and operated by Bandai Co., Ltd. under the Bandai Card Games label. It was announced in May 2026 and is built as the digital counterpart to Bandai's long-running physical Digimon Card Game.
The setting is the world of Digimon Liberator, Bandai's free-to-read webcomic and light novel, both available on the official Digimon Card Game site at no cost. Rather than using that world as wallpaper, Alysion builds its onboarding around it - the Story Mode follows Kanata Hondo, an energetic newcomer to card games who learns the rules and systems alongside her online friend Futre, with actual matches functioning as the tutorials.
Pre-registration opened on October 28, 2026 across 49 countries and regions for both iOS and Android. A closed beta with 10,000 participants ran in August 2025, and the pre-registration milestone rewards are unusually concrete - a pack ticket at 50,000 signups, then Gemmon, MetalGarurumon and WarGreymon card rewards at 100,000, 150,000 and 200,000 respectively, delivered by in-game mail after launch.
On release timing, the official position is only "planned for 2026". The US App Store listing shows December 23, 2026, but the listing itself notes that this is not the confirmed launch date, and Bandai's own press material does not confirm it. Treat December 23 as a placeholder. A physical tie-in starter deck and the first card pack [BD-01] New Evolution are being released alongside the digital game.
The game is available in Japanese, English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Korean, though card text itself excludes Traditional Chinese. There is no console or PC version.
Digimon Alysion translates a physical trading card game into a digital one, and the interesting part is what survives the translation and what does not. The core battle structure, the archetype system and the memory mechanic all carry over intact. The things that change are collection, trading and deck ownership - all of which become account-bound and monetised.
New content arrives through an expanding card pool, with new sets adding Digimon and cards the physical game has not yet released. This is the standard digital-card-game model and it means the metagame will be a moving target for a long time after launch.
Beyond the core loop, Alysion adds features that have no physical equivalent - animated Digivolution sequences, and a Tamagotchi-style system for raising Digimon that sits alongside the card game rather than replacing it.