Digimon BT-26 Timeless Bonds Set Guide 2026: Cards

Updated October 24, 2026: Data Squad now ranks third on DigimonCard.io's two-week tier list, behind Examon and Glowing Dawn.

Should you buy Digimon BT-26 Timeless Bonds?

TCGplayer market prices on October 20, 2026:

Every card a Jupitermon or Data Squad player needs from this set is cheap in its regular print. The box money sits in a handful of special prints, the Rare Pull Wrath Mode and the SP Jupitermon above all, and you can't plan around opening one. So our call is simple: singles for players, a box only if you enjoy the opening.

The set has 108 card types, built around Digimon Story Time Stranger, the Olympos XII as dual cards, and characters from Digimon Beatbreak and Digimon Data Squad, plus Seven Code Appmon. The English version sold in the US and Europe had pre-release events on August 28 and hit stores on September 4, at $4.99 for a 12-card pack and 24 packs a box.

The Digimon BT-26 Timeless Bonds cards that matter now

We counted how often each one shows up in the 237 decklists published on Limitless Play from October 3, the day after EX-13's release, to October 19.

Jupitermon BT26-033 and Jupitermon: Wrath Mode BT26-103. Build it. Jupitermon adds your top security card to your hand when it digivolves, then lets you play or use an Iliad or Time Stranger card from hand for 5 less. While it's out, your Time Stranger Digimon and Tamers survive removal by moving its top stacked card to the bottom of your security. Wrath Mode trashes your top security card for Recovery +2, and once per turn, when security stacks shrink, it gives an opposing Digimon -15000 DP. Jupitermon was in 15 of those lists and Wrath Mode in 14, and Vpassion won a 19-player webcam local 5-0 with it on October 12.

Ravemon BT26-082. Build it if you like Data Squad. It plays itself from security for free at the end of your opponent's turn, and by deleting itself or trashing 2 cards from under your Tamers it deletes their highest-DP Digimon. It's in 17 lists. On October 24, 2026, DigimonCard.io's two-week tier list had Data Squad third with 8.8% of the points, behind Examon (11.1%) and Glowing Dawn (10.9%).

Chronomon: Holy Mode BT26-016, Chronomon: Destroy Mode BT26-060 and Giant Slayer BT26-085. Play it for fun. Holy Mode deletes an opposing Digimon with DP up to its own on play, digivolve or attack, then returns 3 cards from trashes to the bottom of the deck for Recovery +1. Destroy Mode is the 16-cost finisher that sends the top 5 stacked cards of 3 opposing Digimon back to the deck. Giant Slayer turns into Destroy Mode from hand or trash instead of leaving play. Holy Mode shows up in 18 lists, twice as many as the Chronomon deck itself, so other decks borrow it. The Chronomon deck went 14-16-7 in matches with no event wins. u/FadeToBlackSun put the problem plainly about a week after launch: "It's not as wildly consistent as some of the other decks though, unless you see Giant Slayer early."

Image: Bandai, BT26-016 Chronomon: Holy Mode art from the official BT-26 product page.

Plutomon BT26-059 and ZombiePlutomon BT26-079. Skip it for now. Plutomon costs 6 less when your hand is smaller than your opponent's and pulls Titan Digimon back from your trash. Once per turn, ZombiePlutomon makes both players trash down to 4 cards when your opponent plays or digivolves a Digimon. At launch this was the deck people couldn't wait to sleeve. "Man this is easily the most hype I have been for a new deck in the last year or so tbh," u/Lord_of_Caffeine wrote under a fan-made combo chart on pre-release weekend. Since EX-13, Plutomon has turned up in 5 lists.

Image: Bandai, BT26-059 Plutomon art from the official BT-26 product page.

Dantemon BT26-086. Skip it. The Seven Code payoff links up to 7 Appmon with different names from its digivolution cards and attacks without suspending. It needs 7 different Seven Code names to assemble, and it showed up in 4 lists.

What Digimon BT-26 Timeless Bonds did to the format

BT-26 gave the format two lasting decks. In our post-EX-13 count, Jupitermon finished with a winning match record and two event wins, and Data Squad picked up three wins. EX-13's Examon took over the top spot; Data Squad shares our Tier 1 with it, and Jupitermon sits in Tier 2. Our Digimon Card Game tier list has the full table and the head-to-head numbers.

The cards built for slower, grindier games didn't keep up. Chronomon's record is roughly even, and Plutomon and Seven Code have almost no published lists. If you bought into those at launch, they're still fine at a casual table.

Who should skip BT-26

• New players buying their first product: start with the rules in our Digimon Card Game how-to-play guide, then buy the singles for one deck.
• Players chasing the current top deck: Examon is an EX-13 deck; see the EX-13 Chivalrous XIII set guide.
• Collectors on a budget: the regular-print SRs are worth a few dollars, so the value of a box rides on the special prints.

Our take: if you play Jupitermon or Data Squad, pick up the BT-26 singles now while they're a few dollars. Leave the Plutomon and Chronomon money in your pocket until a new set gives them help. The Digimon Card Game complete guide has the rest of our coverage.

How we checked this

Card text from Bandai's official card list, set details from Bandai's global English BT-26 product page (rechecked October 24, 2026), prices from TCGplayer market data (via tcgcsv.com) on October 20, 2026, and deck counts from all 237 decklists published on Limitless Play between October 3 and 19, 2026 (scripts/sims/digimon-ex13-meta-limitless.py).

Correction (October 24, 2026): an earlier version said BT-26 came out on August 29, 2026, and dated the EX-13 release to October 3. Those are the dates on Bandai's Asia English site. The English version sold in the US and Europe, on Bandai's global English BT-26 page, had pre-release events on August 28 and reached stores on September 4, 2026; EX-13 followed on October 2.

References

• Timeless Bonds BT-26 product page (global English), Bandai
• Digimon Card Game card list (global English), Bandai
• Digimon tournaments on Limitless Play, Limitless
• DigimonCard.io tier list, DigimonCard.io