Astel Leda Opens a Full Carton of Digimon Card Game EX-13 in Two Hours, Pulling Six Secret Rares
The Hololive streamer, who usually gets through four boxes in that time, said the haul was a win after the Royal Knights set produced a gold-foil rare and a long-awaited Magnamon.
HOLOLIVE — Astel Leda, a member of Hololive’s mcHOLOSTARS 2nd Gen (SunTempo), opened a full 12-box carton of the Digimon Card Game’s Extra Booster EX-13 “Chivalrous XIII” during a late-night stream that ran about two hours and 12 minutes. He called the result a win.
The set is built around the Royal Knights, a group of powerful Digimon characters. Each box held 24 packs of six cards. Astel Leda said the set has only 81 card types, fewer than a standard booster, so he checked the first box card by card and then sped up, flipping through the rare cards only for the remaining boxes.
“Magnamon came out too. A win.” — Astel Leda, closing the stream
The first major pull came about 17 minutes in: a gold-foil rare Sleipmon, one of 13 such cards in the set. Astel Leda said the set has 15 cards of that type in total, counting two secret rares, and that completing them would take roughly six cartons. A second gold-foil card, Jesmon, came out later. His final tally was six secret rares, three of them secret parallel (alternate-art) versions, including two Omnimon Merciful Mode cards.
The Royal Knights did not all arrive evenly. Magnamon, whom Astel Leda called the character that got him into Digimon, was the last of the group to appear, as a single super rare in the 10th box, after about 1 hour 36 minutes. He said he was frustrated that it took so long. Magnamon’s parallel version finally turned up in the last pack of the carton, and he said he was delighted.
Astel Leda also talked about upcoming Digimon Card Game releases and the franchise’s coming 30th anniversary. He apologized for an earlier stream in which he had been unable to show a card he later pulled off-stream, and said he plans to open a second carton in private, promising another apology if something extraordinary comes out.
He signed off by saying he would play a regular-season match day, which he called LTK Day 2, later the same day.
This report was written by machine from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.