A Yugioh Player Judges Basic Magic Cards

[@CardmarketMagic]

Read a brief history of Hogaak Summer (with decklists!) at: bit.ly/4b0ZYQG

[@aventh1114]

Factual mistake. Sol Ring is restricted but not banned in vintage, which is a 1v1 format.

[@orlanmejia]

Great instincts, ask for his input every spoiler season. He’s like the opposite of that dog who predicts every sport championship.

[@andrespineiroc]

This guy is GOOOD! His analysis and explanations for someone who doesn't play magic are REALLY GOOD!

[@Oimfiel]

That just tells you he's good at cardgames

[@pinobluevogel6458]

Yep, very good analysis.

[@kyleanderson7026]

​@@Oimfielking of card games

[@loganshaw4527]

Except the first card.

[@su0tin731]

For a guy who doesn't play magic, he did it amazingly good. The analysis was spot on.

[@canadianbakn]

This guy is insanely sharp at evaluating general card game fundamentals. Not only did he get questions correct but he offered some pretty nuanced analysis on top of that. Good showing!

[@Gongibongi]

Part of me likes to think this was part of the interview process or something. The fact that the fundamentals of card gaming are so ingrained in his thought process is a massive win to wherever he ends up. I know veteran MTG players who haven’t been able to understand why Hogaak is good and dude just nails it with the “oh, any card?!”

[@chrisjett6232]

Funny to point at Hogaak's mana cost when talking about stuff Sol Ring can pay for... As always, fantastic stuff

[@CardmarketMagic]

Yeah that was a bit of a slip 😅 my bad

[@rominou77]

He is so impressive. He reads magic cards better than 90% of Magic players

[@vladtodorov4665]

Recruit this guy for the magic channel! He is ready!

[@mrrodgers0]

100% I'd love to see a series of him having to blind-play pauper or something.

[@DamienSmeets]

More impressive than the 5/5 was the thought process itself on each card. Taylor would be very good at Magic.

[@l.schaefer9274]

Generally speaking, I think it's far easier for a YGO player to transition to MTG than vise versa.

[@Saltymoles]

@@l.schaefer9274mtg is easy AF comparatively. I learned commander after like 2 games. Mtg is also so much more fun

[@bortle]

i liked the way he related the cards back to YGO. I've never played YGO for a second but I already feel like I understand it better! Fun to see his takes, smart guy!

[@Kylora2112]

Yugioh: imagine the only format people play is Legacy (but everything gets reprinted out the wazoo, so it's cheap to buy in), everyone is playing some flavor of Storm, and there's 5 different free versions of Force Of Will. The only major rule in Yugioh is the first turn player cannot conduct their battle phase (combat). It can get silly, but I love it! Oh yeah, it's also a game where a board full of walking 5/5 counterspells is fine, but a sorcery that simply says "Draw 2 cards" is the most broken shit ever :)

[@GodzillaFreak]

@@Kylora2112a board full of walking 5/5 counter spells is so accurate 😭😭😭

[@DarthTUK]

What an absolute GIGABRAIN CHAD. No smooth noggin, maximum wrinklage. Reads the cards (already better than like 69% of MtG players) and even understands them. 10/10 would let evaluate cardboard again 💕💕

[@Aetohatir]

I was waiting for this. The short teased me.

[@waves5249]

Hogaak was really easy to guess as a Yugioh player since there's an analogous card to it in Fairy Tail - Snow. Snow's used more as a stepping stone for your end board but they are practically the same

[@wmotomo]

Carl's trying to sustain a poker face in 12:50, was just amazing 😂

[@pinobluevogel6458]

Carl has too much of a smile on his face, you can't see if he's happy or trying to fake out someone. Permasmile is probably one of the stronger pokerfaces around.

[@praxis2896]

Taylor has a great sense of different tactics in magic even without playing it or knowing the decks these cards came from. I loved his personality and how he thought things out which would make him a great player/opponent if he played the game so I’m definitely going to sub to his channel to see those aspects in play when they play yu-gi-oh

[@krimhorn]

Sol Ring is legal in Vintage where it's Restricted. Only 1v1 format that it is legal in.

[@seangalexander]

This Vintage erasure will not stand

[@OathOfDruid]

@@seangalexander We will call forth the council!

[@timw9745]

Yeah I was like hij it became banned in vintage? Not that anyone would care but still

[@OathOfDruid]

@@timw9745 i can assure you a lot of vintage players would care :-) a mox is more OP than a sol ring, so banning sol ring wouldnt make sense anyway and would go against the philosophy of the format

[@OtakuNoShitpost]

Doesn't vintage never ban, just restrict?

[@Xaintrix]

Super impressed! Well done. Hell of a way to introduce a new host. I already have immediate respect for his knowledge and analysis skills.

[@Joshimuz]

Pretty sure he analysed the cards better than I do lol, very impressive

[@erfarkrasnobay]

Dragonmaster Outcast was played in UR control decks Battle For Zendikar in sideboard for control mirrors, because in such mirrors you often remove cheap removal spells and 1 drop could stick on board for 5 turns covered with lot of counterspells.

[@ThePlagueHive]

Love Staple or Stinker! Have you ever thought about doing an episode with Flesh and Blood cards? I feel like the fact that it has such a different gameplay system would make evaluation of the cards really interesting!

[@crapparc]

Is Flesh and Blood only in paper?

[@TheSeptet]

​@@crapparcofficially that is the point of Flesh and Blood, to only be played in flesh and blood (real life paper). But you can find online fan services, same as magic. It's a really fun game, give it a shot!

[@crapparc]

Taylor is a well-spoken, intelligent guy with an eye for Magic on top of having an eye for Yu-Gi-Oh (I assume). You guys gained a hell of an asset with him.

[@taylord2006]

Flawless run. Perfect logic. Definitely has the card game brain! Great addition to the squad guys!

[@violaknapp7904]

Hey, a new face at Cardmarket! I'm sure Taylor will fit in well with the Yu Gi Oh crowd, and who knows, maybe we'll be seing him again on here, too

[@hazeljoy1]

Very impressed with Taylor! Looking forward to the future of the Yugioh channel with him at the helm

[@jessevazquez8984]

The heart of the cards guided him to correct answer. Like a true Duelist. Takahashi Sensei would be proud

[@lorenzklug3354]

rocking a similar style vest like Paris from gilmore girls in episode 3 of season 6! (styles actually return from 10-20 years ago) - yes I spent time with my wife watching gilmore girls

[@friskydrinklunkybank1108]

great performance from taylor! I play both games albeit casually but he definitely has the analytical mind 👏

[@lp.6559]

When I saw Sol Ring at the end I knew he was going to get it right. 2 easy

[@para111111]

thats true, it felt a bit too ez after seeing his previous analysises, but it might have felt different if he got some wrong before ^^

[@sonnic123456789]

Little did we know this was the final part of his interview to be on the yugioh channel. Good job!🎉

[@spinipsFI]

Man is he good! The way he can justify his decisions shows some true skill and understanding from card games. This is what I want to develop for my work one day!

[@simonteesdale9752]

Whoo! Glad to have this back. I'd love to see you hit someone with Lantern of Insight on one of these. Just to see a YGO player react to Lantern Control being a deck.

[@Sillysaurus1]

Carl: "tell us what you think about Hogaak, Arisne Necropolis" Me: *forcefully exhales air from my nose*

[@danielfcastro]

One of the smartest guys I've ever seen, I predicted he would nail 5/5! Congrats

[@SneoK]

Love to see people using logic to approach cards like this. Very friendly person as well, very positive vibes :) Please put it to the test and show him Nadu - if he can guess it right, its even more of a miracle how it slipped through playtesting :D Also i like to add, I think it is easier to rate magic cards comapred to yugioh cards. Just the wall of text on yugioh cards that also happen to be very specific and relate to a lot of mechanics you cant understand if you dont know at least a bit of yugioh. The concept of a 8/8 that has alternate costs and trample over small creatures is easier than a card that chains with something, that can be special summoned but only if its in your discard pile and only once per turn and and and....I used to look into yugioh when it came out and this is like a whole different game today, i dont understand sh*t these days xD

[@syrelian]

You're not at all wrong, but I think thats an important part of why he was so keen on evaluation, despite the perennial memes about nobody reading cards, playing YGO WELL requires an ability to parse what things Do despite the complexity, and why that is Good or Bad, and combined with a decent sense for TCGs in general and its not terribly difficult to sniff out easier examples like these ones I think its well shown in his reasonings as well

[@DaichiAudios]

Taylor, not only being big brain, also has that Bob Ross vibe that would make him stand out as the Yu-Gi-Oh! host

[@RCTricking]

Yes! Was waiting for the whole video because the shorts were impressive 🎉🎉 Being able to generalize card game knowledge is harder than I thought 😮

[@creamabdul-jabbar]

dude deduced the concept of curving out in 1:30; his grasp of mana, coming from a game where everything ends before the end of the second player's second turn, is really impressive!

[@DaisyEdwards-md7jl]

Wow now that's a guy who's just straight up intelligent, was able to put himself in the shoes of a magic player and logic out the advantages and disadvantages of every cards even without the full context

[@Dexsting]

wow; and the fact there was no real guesswork, but actually correct thought process really makes it awesome.

[@GregJungg]

Amazing Crossover! Taylor seems super chill and knowledgeable. 5/5, lets goooooo

[@Shin3yBidoof]

Gosh I've been waiting for this one. The shorts were so good!

[@ShengFink]

Saw some of the shorts, been waiting for this one!

[@nataliem7719]

It was really fun to watch Taylor reason through all those cards! Bring him back for more :D

[@josephspeak6366]

Give this man a magic deck in a future video, please. I want to see that. He has such intuition

[@seanwayne4603]

Man.. Bro would've probably even correctly analyzed Oko in Spoilers. Great job!

[@dabo77777]

As a newer player, this is always to play along with, get to see /sometimes/ cool cards, and test what ive learned of the game

[@kylegonewild]

Shows this fella has a strong understanding of the potential concerns that introducing the resource management of mana could have. He's a Magic player disguised as a Yugioh player. Fun vid

[@Excalibur01]

"remember magic is slow you don't win one or two turns" after pro tour Nadu: Nah, I'd win.

[@devonflores9234]

I’ve noticed that it’s easier for yugioh players to know if other cards are good than vice versa

[@JackgarPrime]

Seems like this fella understands his card game fundamentals real well! I'd love to see you have him do some "YGO player tries magic" videos.

[@51gunner]

I love these crossover Staple or Stinker episodes, they're so fun. Taylor seems great, please do another episode with him!

[@maxinesenior596]

Yeah I mean in yugioh the resource concept we have is card advantage, so say a card said "discard 1 card; draw 2 additional cards, and every turn from here on out" in yugioh that would be roughly equivalent to sol ring. Lack of a mana system isn't so much of a strange thing to yugioh players. I think it also speaks to how complex Yugioh is, that it expands our ability to comprehend other tcg's mechanics.

[@as_below_so_above]

This was the best Staple vs Stinker episode I've watched 😂 This dude understands Magic without even playing it.

[@sentientbean7695]

missed the opportunity to say "you still take the damage" when explaining piercing

[@EclipseHighroller]

I miss when piercing was just called fairy meteor crush

[@AtomicNik]

Used to play yugioh when I was younger, might even watch some videos now and again I enjoyed his analysis. Now you have to do the same with YuGiOh cards!!!

[@cloudfiesta]

I really missed Staple or Stinker. Taylors analysis were spot on!

[@armandoapellaniz9531]

Great video! I missed this series, so I'm glad it came back! Great showing by Taylor too!

[@ThePuppyTurtle]

I didn't get all of them right like he did, but I'm proud of myself for successfully recognizing that Higaak is Fairy Tale Snow and realizing that it's therefore overpowered.

[@jaredwonnacott9732]

Now we need a series thats just devoted to stumping this guy. He's obviously too good for "Staple or Stinker",so lets get ready for "Let's Stump Taylor!"

[@doesnotexistyet11]

Great analysis and conclusions, you have to bring him back for a 'rematch', maybe ramp up the difficulty with more unique card types like Planeswalkers or Sagas or something that's a great card but not a staple because there's a slightly better version of it (e.g. one of the many downgrades of lightning bolt). Would love to see more of this guy!

[@GigaBoost]

More with this guy please. Very pleasant!

[@tranced42]

Loving the line "magic is slow" as someone who started mtg from lor which was even slower 😭 i was out there paying 9 mana for a boardwipe

[@ratdoto2148]

Sol Ring actually can be played in a 1v1 format, that being Vintage, however it's restricted because it's equal to or better than a mox in a lot of decks.

[@CardmarketMagic]

I skipped vintage there because it would have just confused most viewers and is not really relevant to the explanation :)

[@ratdoto2148]

@@CardmarketMagic That makes sense.

[@DMG551]

Excited to see staple or stinker again! Well done Taylor!

[@SpinAroundU]

No traps there, but for someone who doesn't know anything about magic his analysis was really concise and spot on! Amazing

[@sebbbi2]

I realized that Sol Ring was good when one of my friends played a turn 1 Sol Ring and turn 2 Juggernault. It had to attack every turn, so he killed one player before he could play anything. I traded myself 4 Sol Rings and 4 Juggernaults. Turn 1: 3x Sol Ring + Juggernaut was fun while it lasted. Juggernaut got banned and Sol Ring restricted. Sol Ring was a staple must have in every deck, so I had no problem trading away the extras and Juggernault was unbanned in 1997. It was still very good, but not broken. Today Sol Ring is even more busted, while Juggernaut is sub-par. Creature power creep has been massive. While spells just got worse (Sol Ring, Time Walk, Ancestral Recall, Balance, Lightning Bolt, Swords to Plowshares were all in alpha/beta).

[@johncameron1935]

This is someone who got hit with the fundamentals, and kept them in mind while looking at these cards. He'd be pretty good at Magic probably.

[@ShinyCooper]

That dude is so smart, he undertand the card games

[@theweirdlyfriendlymushroom7920]

For a moment I thought Skallagrim was a yugioh expert

[@aidennoir597]

He figured out Hogaak is good faster than Magic players did.

[@stone5against1]

Seeing how much Taylor loves the buzzer.. he needs to invite Carl for a Staple or Stinker on Yugioh cards! Also, damn he did great, getting every single one right! I mean he got the logic of them all 100% right!

[@sheckleberg]

please please please carry on with the launch of these channels, I would love to see one for flesh and blood and I really think the community would rally behind a channel with a higher production value, and it could attract new players to our game. I absolutely love this channel despite not actively playing magic and I feel a flesh and blood channel could do the same for my favourite game ever created.

[@ManaPirate]

Dragon master outcast was the first card I thought of when Obeka splitter of seconds was spoiled

[@michaelabere6770]

I finally got a 5/5! The hardest one was that it took me a long time to realize that the big guy could tap/exile stuff for colored mana and wasn't just completely unplayable

[@Ljrobison]

Id love to see a video or series on this guy learning to play magic.

[@PinguinGD361]

Carl always looks like he‘s sweating

[@alex_oxGee]

im pretty new to magic, but it feels like card advantage and drawing cards is the most OP thing in the game

[@Franciscomeirajr]

It seriously is. In pokemon for example in your first turn of the game if all goes well you should draw like 5 or 10 cards. In Magic, it is very rare to do that in a whole game.

[@JustAChickn]

It is, just because it gives you much more options

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

There are two limits in magic: the mana you have, and the cards you have. It's much easier to get more mana than more cards, so anything that gives you more cards is pretty good.

[@Bongus_Bubogus]

Yep. Cards can get you more mana, it’s harder for mana to get you more cards. Both cap each other, but card advantage comes first.

[@CallMeAirChaps]

Drawing cards is part of card advantage but yes, card advantage is powerful in pretty much any tcg. That's why one of the most broken Yugioh cards ever just says "draw 2 cards" That said, because of magic's mana system, the benefit has to be worth the cost. If you're only spending a little mana for something early that is constantly drawing you cards or creating tokens, that's strong. Paying 6 or 7 mana to draw some cards or make some tokens is pretty bad though, because there are cards for 6 or 7 mana that win you the game almost immediately

[@jonathanpatze87]

Thumps up for Taylor, not only good analysis but also a man of the people.

[@peterkirk8510]

The other thing about arcbound ravager was that it had a sort of “lightning rod” effect where you basically had to target it first with removal, or your opponent would get extra value out of every single other thing you tried to remove. Then you add in skullclamp and it’s just ridiculous Tbh I feel like some of these were pretty softball cards, I think showing something like mana crypt would’ve been more interesting than sol ring, or more complex crazy powerful cards like oko or uro. Brainstorm’s always a cool one because it’s not particularly common (but does happen!) that people instantly grasp the impact shuffling has with it. Tarmogoyf is a nice one on the simpler end of card text. Sphinx’s rev. For stinkers, skaab ruinator is always a classic. Savage knuckleblade, fiend artisan

[@11epicnoob]

Taylor was perfect with all the analyses, from Outcast to Sol Ring. Would love to see Taylor return to be tested with even harder cards to analyze

[@wacosta13]

I have missed Staple or Stinker. So glad to see one again!

[@SomeGuy712x]

Flawless victory! He nailed it on every one of those!

[@bryanstokke6566]

This man is brilliant. Such reasoned decisions. I would fail so badly with Yu-Gi-Oh cards 😭

[@xxlpulselxx]

"Everything kills a 1/1!" *sad ornithopter noises*

[@friskydrinklunkybank1108]

Give it a peashooter and it's set

[@miguelrivera3621]

This guy was so good, it might make me watch Yugioh content.

[@RoxyGotMoxy.]

I just love how Duskmantle Seer's face just looks like Grumpy Cat.

[@isaz2425]

For some of them it was easy to guess (like sol ring) but the analysis was spot on. impressive for someone who doesn't play magic.

[@KAR1492]

Dragonmaster Outcast was played in the sideboard of competitive control decks

[@DuraheLL]

He has a sharp mind, he must be a great player indeed

[@MasterNeo92]

I would love to see this in format specific context. Idk if you go deep with like limited, modern or you just split between 1v1 formats vs commander.

[@jewski6852]

Dragon master outcast was gasoline in standard sideboards?

[@muditjohar5323]

Was missing this. Nice to see it back

[@Unelar]

I really like this guy. Please bring him more 🙏

[@migBdk]

I would have thought that Duskmantle Seer would have a place in topdeck manipulation decks. But I guess the problem is that you cannot play instances between the "every player reveal their top card" and "then put it into his or her hand" effects. If you could force players to show their top card first, then hit them with a deck shuffle instant effect before they draw, that would be useful. Or if you could turn the effect off and on as needed, combined with lantern of insight.

[@greysonjones9578]

I've been playing magic off and on for 20 years, and I only got 4/5, this guy was good

[@argentfang]

He is leaps ahead of most Yu-Gi-Oh players in that he has actual reading comprehension!

[@mikehawk8984]

Super proud as a YuGiOh player that he's the first to go 5-0! I'd probably say it would be much easier for primary YuGiOh players to play other TCGs or evaluate their cards due to the fact that it can be SUPER difficult to even evaluate our own card's value. Plus a ton of our cards have tons of effects with super specific rulings you need to know so we're used to trying to find the way to make a broken board with a card 😅

[@reirei_tk]

I also play YGO (only played three games of Magic like ~6 years ago) and this was my logic (I also got 5/5): 1) You can only use this your sixth turn, that's 12 turns of Magic and most likely the game is decided by then. I didn't even realize that you don't get the effect until your next turn, which instantly makes it bad. 2) This was the hardest one, by far, mostly because YGO doesn't really have artifacts (I guess the closest would be continuous spells?). This card's viability depends on how good artifacts are (specifically, sending them to the GY, which I am assuming is what happens when they're sacrificed). I was actually thinking of Endymion, which competitive play back in the day. 3) This one was easy, although I had to figure out how its second effect worked. Once I figured that part out, the first thing I thought of was Fairy Tail - Snow, which is banned right now lmao. 4) This was easy, it's basically a burn card. While I couldn't decide on if it was bad or not, but the fact that it's a burn card means it wouldn't be a staple. Typically, burn cards are part of a dedicated burn strategy or deck, which I think applies regardless of the card game. In YGO, sometimes burn cards are played as staples, because of the time rules we have, but they're not super common (it also depends on the format). 5) This one was free lmao, also isn't this card like famous or something? I feel like I've heard of it before.