Being honest, if I ever leave EDH, I'm getting into boardgames and that's it, tired of companies fucking up TCGs, like a "game as a service irl".....

Anime live streamer card game more popular than Magic in Japan. Says to me more that Japan is a weird place unless that Magic is bad

Too many cooks in the KITCHEN !!!

Sooo... has Magic ever been higher on the list in Japan? I find it obvious that all the Manga/Anime IP's rank higher in Japan then Magic and without older rankings to compare this to it feels like hyped up not-news.

Your Waifus for Lifu is beating up MTG, LET'S GOOOOO! But seriously, Hololive is pretty fun.

Well.... I live in EU.... Where is magicon Barcellona 2025?!?

Bandai, has like games with 3-5 year lifesycles, they always do worse outside of japan and none of them ever stayed around. Weiss, still has a small community in Europe. And Dragonball super kinda got a restart now after collapsing on itself about 18-24 months ago. For YGO, Magic and PKM have better card quality in Europe then in the US. Opening Bundle's we often receive complaints about the card quality as they contain american cards, and when we receive japanse printed packs we can smell it opening the pack. Furthermore One piece is now on a huge hype here as well, but nothing about the game is stable or supported well and for many stores has the downside it's a bandai game and stores have been getting burned by bandai games for 2-3 decades and will refuse to buy it at all. Also singles industry here is very different.

so many nice TCGs in Japan (WS, UA, OP, Shadowverse, etc) why play Magic?

I appreciate the way you do streams. Some people i follow clog up my entire feed with streams I dont watch.

Still waiting for the day hasbro goes to 0, remember you said they were going bankrupt!!!! 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 this guy…

Aye I somehow called it

I truly hope that schools of business record everything that Hasboro does. Then, use Hasboro as an example of what not to do with a brand. A cautionary example of why a company should treat customers as emotional people rather than inanimate money bags.

I haven't had a standard paper deck for like 4 years now. At this point, I doubt I'll ever have one again. Pioneer, on the other hand, was really exciting, and I got 3 decks. I guess I won't have another one either.

There is an issue in the limited scene, making the game a casual format and increasing the overall cost of draft packs has seen the competitive players walk away from limited events. Prerelease having 2 packs per player prize support and with the price increase it is a pack person for draft prize support. What I have seen and talked with the competitive players in my area is that they are drafting older sets amongst a small group of friends. There needs to be a price drop in product and a focus on competitive play, casual play is killing the limited scene.

Hollow Live is popular because of the idol culture in japan. However, MTG falling to rank 8 is acceptable. 6-7 would be the safe spot. We need to save MTG from Hasbro.

The japanese showcase from DSK by touch and feel is definitely superior to the regular. I would buy them in singles i need to check them thoroughly because they don't feel like an MTG card in my hand. Hahahaha

I remember when Duel Masters came out in the U.S. It failed after a few sets. Then it came back as Kaijudo, and it failed miserably as well.

TIL the Japanese Liliana in Foil isn't worth like 5k USD anymore

Propaganda much

It's kinda hard to watch you Historian, card games or art can be Japanese/anime/manga/light novel inspired without being waifu if they feature a female character. it makes it very hard to take your thoughts seriously when you act so derisively and talk like you're still in the 2000s about what is now more mainstream. Thank you for covering anyway.

Too much format, 60 cards format cost too much money and also wotc want commander brackets, fail. I wonder if the mtg arena historic could work in paper ? Probably. It's a good idea for wotc

Go woke go broke...

Union Arena has no chance of overtaking WS. They shit the bed with the JP launch, and while there's been a course correction, they've already announced a new card game for Gundam before the game even properly launched to global.

all digital is MTG dream. Save printing, packaging & shipping costs... ... Video games ONLY

Commander is the dominant format now, standard just doesn't have such appeal.

It is because they are not printing directly for Pioneer. Gotta push horizons and marvel.

Honestly, Pioneer in Scotland is thriving-it's the best format right now. The only reason it's not more popular is because of Wizards rotating the RCQ season between Modern, Pioneer, and Standard. They really just need to cut Standard from the rotation; it's a dead format. At the very least, they should let stores go back to deciding what events to run, instead of leaving it to people who don’t know their own player base or what they want. I kid you not, I saw multiple stores in both the UK and the US refuse to run Standard when Wizards tried to push it for the Urza's Saga event. Some switched to Modern, some ran Sealed, and others chose Pioneer. I think my local store in Scotland was the only one that actually ran Standard, and we barely scraped together 8 players at the last minute after begging regulars. Wizards is out of touch with their constant gatekeeping of formats. It’s not their store-they don’t know what they’re doing. They should give the power back to the store owners. Don't even get me started on Lore......

Anyone remember when Store Championships had Standard promos and playmats? What about Game Day playmats for the winner? MtG Player Rewards where they mailed you promos according to how many events you played in? A plethora of Standard PTQs, GPTs, etc? It's like the opposite of Field of Dreams. If you don't support it, no one will play.

Love how your trying to make the Japan thing seem worse than it is and new somehow. It's a very obvious thing that Japan would have it's more Anime card games doing better in the top 10 especially Yugioh and Pokemon. Are we gonna sit here and pretend Mtg could ever beat Yugioh or Pokemon in Japan? Tbh the only thing surprising about this list is that Dragon Ball is so low and idk why but it has a really hard time and as this shows even in Japan it is. Honestly I would say MTG been in the top 10 at all in Japan is a good feat.

Is lorecana not sold Japan?

Not a surprise Hololive OCG is blowing up. Trying to get cards for that game is crazy right now since it just released. The gameplay is very much like Pokemon, but collectors are of course are going crazy since packs have a chance to have foil-stamped signed cards from the VTubers, and possibly even actual pen-signed cards. And this is coming the US. And Hololive’s fastest growing market is the United States. Bushiroad is probably hoping this will be the game that finally allows them to dent the US market, and considering how well Hololive’s concerts have gone in the US (sold out in minutes) as well as a successful collaboration with the LA Dodgers - much of the market that is tilted toward Bushiroad’s other games and the YuGiOh market can shift immediately to HOCG. That in turn could cause MTG & especially Pokémon players to jump ship. I’d expect HOCG to come next year. And it won’t even be the only VTuber TCG coming - as January 2025 will be the launch of Oshi Push by Japanime Games. There is also VCard TCG, as well as Rift Runners. All these games are pushing into the US market, and likely set to arrive next year.

As a huge fan of both Hololive and MtG, your "impression" of general anime girls is fantastic lol. That's the level of hilariously stupid nonsense I come to your channel for. Edit: Also, figured I should throw in that I've been quite interested in the Hololive TCG, but I'm not sure it's out in America yet, and have so far been too lazy to look it up. Perhaps this video will be the reminder I needed to check in on it.

Pioneer was an exercise in greed. They wanted to double dip modern. They found direct insert to modern more profitable

i know i finally got my arclight deck built

13:56 It's true. Konami of America hasn't got a clue what they're doing.

They can’t monetize pioneer like they can with standard and modern (now)

I live in Osaka and there is a strong group of MTG players here. There are daily events at the stores that host Magic. There are also quite a few stores that only have Magic products, but the consumer traffic is much slower compared to the non-MTG shops. I only started playing Commander last year, but the play styles are different here. I've also noticed some groups of Japanese players trying out different formats that were started in Japan. So it's interesting to see.

15:30 🤓 actually WOTC released duel masters twice, once in the 2000's (the version Japan is using)and then in the 2010's as Kaijudo.

Dragonball Super & pretty much all the games above MTG, are well played in NE Ohio lol just kinda wish Cardfight!! Vanguard would kinda take off a little more

Dragonball Super & pretty much all the games above MTG, are well played in NE Ohio lol

I have been living in Japan for ten years and learned to play Magic in Japan, so it is interesting to hear you talk about this. Despite living in a rural prefecture, I have an LGS that is hugely into Magic. They hold events for a different format every day. I started with Standard back in Ixalan, but I mostly play Legacy these days, occasionally dipping into Modern and Commander nights. Big cities have Magic focused stores like Hareruya and Big Magic, but for the most part cards shops are going to have Pokémon, Yugioh and one or two of the other games, depending on what's popular. Playing the Japanese Yugioh OCG certainly seems to be a lot better than the western Yugioh TCG experience (even if we only just got 増殖するG/Maxx. C semi limited here) because Konami seem more focused on the Japanese market and we get the cards months in advance. Packs are only ~150円 (compared to Magic packs which are 600円+) Staples are regularly printed at common in sets and structure decks, only to be printed exclusively as secret rares in the TCG. Anything that proves competitive here will be bumped up to higher rarities in the TCG. KoA appear to want Magic card prices for cards that are power crept or banned out of the one and only Yugioh format in a matter of months. I am a Hololive fan and have tried playing the card game. It plays like Pokémon but uses the life shield system rather than the prize card system. Also you have one girl as your "Oshi" who sort of works like a commander that is always on the field. The first set just launched, and it is very common for new games of popular franchises here to do very well. I am not sure if it will have the staying power to maintain its current position, or will drop off to become niché as so many card games do. But yes, Magic has a dedicated presence here, but it is nowhere near as dominant as it is in the west.

Duelmasters was the reason I got into magic. I remember my neighbor had gotten some of the base set and I went with him and his mom to buy Evo Crushinators packs at Toys R Us. By the time the TCG fell out of print we just jumped onto MTG around time spiral. I always thought that the purpose of DM was to ease younger kids into MTG.

No surprise with the games in Japan. They have the support for card games and companies willing to put out solid sets.

I don't think that's phenomenon unique to Japan. Here in my LGS, in México, people is leaving mtg, and Pokemon players are all around. There are even weekly tournaments of Pokemon here. As for mtg, the only format is still played is Commander, and we haven't had a casual tournament in years.

Wow duel masters is still around !? I tried that game when I was in highschool

Last booster box i was actually interested in buying was way back with OG Zendikar and Alara Block. All down from there. og singles 98% of the time for me.

Good no one cares about pioneer, focus on standard. Also you'd be a fool to think magic was anywhere on that list, Japan is a completely different market and demographic..Of course Hololive is doing better like what?

YuGiOh with better numbers from tournaments? LOL, just check YCS Cancun attendance, and check the prizes, a Nintendo Switch? which is a dying console with their successor being officially accepted by Nintendo

It's actually funny. I don't know why but I pick up interest more in seing people sending their custom designed card on reddit rather than on any spoilers from original wotc sets. I've stop playing paper since Ikoria, and there is nothing to regret tbh.

It was always a joke of a format