Deletion

is an action that can be performed by losing a battle, being reduced to 0 DP, and card effects. It involves sending a Digimon Instance and all of its digivolution cards to the Trash.
== What is Deletion? ==
Digimon are considered deleted from the Battle Area only. Deletion only affects Digimon Instances and not Digimon cards.
=== What causes Deletion? ===
* Game Rules: If a Digimon has 0 DP it will be deleted during the Rules Processing step.
* Card Effect: If an effect explicitly has "delete" in its card text, a Digimon will be deleted.
* By Battle: If a Digimon loses a battle against a Security Digimon or another Digimon that Digimon is deleted.
== Rulings ==
==Sources==
*Official Glossary (Last Updated 03/12/2021)
*Official Q&A General Rules EN (21/05/21)
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