YU-GI-OH! WITHOUT READING?! ft. TeamSamuraiX1

[@Dzeeff]

Who should I challenge next? 👀

[@Phantom_Gaming789]

JRB Jobber, Mkohl40, Pokerev

[@joelbarraclough6689]

CyberKnight

[@Gbdspaeth]

Cimo

[@veemon4390]

Dkayed

[@greekapplesauce7363]

Me

[@RuriMizuno]

The irony of this series is that after seeing crazy effects in battle, Doug likes to read the cards post-duel... And actually starts to remember what they do. In other words, dueling without reading is causing him to read *afterwards* and thereby learn... He's not just going to improve going forward in this series; this series is going to help him improve in all his other series!

[@MiyaoMeow588]

I love Sam's completely unfounded confidence lmao

[@gigamilk6981]

The moment that rlly made me say "this guys alright" was when he was on that old "we dueled using only..." cards series by cimo and constantly went like "oh this cards broken gotta play it", then add it to his deck and THEN proceed to read them for the first time lol

[@rivashanmolefi7326]

I need that kind of energy in my life

[@seanjohn4385]

I use to like Sam but his laugh to cringe for me he does it to much

[@dudeguy8686]

This is what happens when you channel the heart of the cards

[@Zekaria_Vanwood]

@@seanjohn4385 that has to be the point, right? Lmao. He's gotta be forcing the cringe it's too good

[@TheVikingKitty]

I love that Doug is just slowly memorizing all of YuGiOh. It's like he's training to never be "Dzeef doesn't read cards" 'd again

[@tatsuyakaiyo416]

Nah, he still won't read, because he won't have to, he'll see the art card and just know

[@Ninjasifi]

Ay, there’s the rub. For what happens if someone memorizes all 10,000+ cards, they probably wouldn’t be able to memorize EVERY effect of EVERY card.

[@rivashanmolefi7326]

Remember in the anime, some of thevpeople didn't even know how their cards worked. It fits so well in this format

[@darkmond8680]

Pot of greed

[@dorugoramon0518]

Minus the random soul theft and motorcycles, this is pretty much anime yugioh IRL

[@chhan7436]

Sam "reading" his cards was a good bit

[@WiccanNathair]

Nothing Sam dose is a "Good Bit"

[@457Shadowman]

@@WiccanNathair cry about it

[@lore766]

Ngl I'm really happy u could enjoy it

[@Itslunakat]

@@WiccanNathair "you know what I'm saying"

[@Kintaku]

Lol when he said, “gain 1000 LP” I was like, oh he can’t read 😂

[@dancostello4872]

My favourite part of this series (besides the chaos of the duels themselves) is seeing the finished decks and, knowing what most of the cards do, laughing at some of the inclusions because I know they'll be completely dead, for example Chaos Infinity. The wishful 'I hope I can activate this' and 'wait why _can't_ I activate this?' never get old.

[@Salacavalini]

Fun fact, Tlakalel is a Lair of Darkness support card, which is why his aesthetic is very similar to the Ladies of Lament and why his effect involves tributing.

[@lamrethal695]

He also has the torment tokens in his art! :D

[@kingkongsta4051]

Sam really having no idea wtf any of the cards too got me dead. Man sounded so confident even when dead wrong lol

[@MBTYuGiOh]

33:09 is that a...?

[@benlucas3151]

Tlakalel is the continuation of a series of monsters from the original diabolos structure deck, the originals all gained attack based on the attack of what they tributed, but Tlakalel is a more pratical modernization (and it's cool that he has monarch stats).

[@azurelightray4030]

One of my favorite cards is Glacier Aqua Madoor, so I laughed when Dzeef threw the game, NOT by discarding, but not doing it again.

[@imafireIsFroent]

Yeah, it would've helped. He could've made his normal monster indestructible by discarding a second time. Unfortunately his hand was not doing him any favors, so doing so may not have saved him still.

[@seadnamaccasarlaigh279]

I love when he sees Hibernation Dragon and he’s like ‘ah yes, parallel exceed This Is perfect’ It indeed was not perfect

[@OminousBuzzard]

In the beginning I honestly thought for a second that sam may actually know how to read japanese... then he started actually playing... the results answered for me. No. No he does not. Lol

[@RuriMizuno]

I know a little bit of Japanese and could immediately tell he was BSing the translations. 😂

[@CobaltSanderson]

What do you mean? This is how he plays with English cards

[@AshBlossomWorshiper]

Sam could literally tell me Drytron Thuben discards a card from hand to pop a spell/trap, and i'd velieve it

[@sleatery8067]

I love how those little editing details flow seamlessly with the vid. Great job as usual!

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

No master saga this week?

[@Shiny_Plume]

Sam doing a challenge where he doesn’t read cards. That’s just called Duel Night.

[@wumpmas2]

i think both 20 and 30 packs have merit in this series, 20 packs really forces both competitors to use cards they straight up don't know, which is fun, while 30 packs gives more room to trying to create little "combos" that may or may not work with half-remembered cards, which is cool. I would def be interested in both being a part of the series going forward

[@axd1419]

The best upside to 20 packs is you just need to spend 2k gems lmao

[@Snargglecraft]

You should go back to 30 packs if possible! 20 is just too few to build a deck with any synergies, so the games become very beater-reliant

[@TrueGamer22887]

So they’ve been BASED is what you’re saying?

[@mustabindawind]

I'm pretty sure that was the intended point of this series...random stuff with no synergy

[@klutzmtg2310]

@@TrueGamer22887 no

[@popoch2]

man it's will become generic card that eveyone know about, not some underdawg card

[@__-be1gk]

@@mustabindawind Turns out watching people set a bunch of vanillas and waiting 10 turns to out a big monster at random is boring to watch

[@evan3466]

Take a shot for every time Sam says "you know what I'm saying" and you 'll be dead by the end of the episode

[@RuriMizuno]

Right? It was annoying the hell of out me. XD so glad it stopped once he actually got into the duel.

[@animatepokemonadventures7889]

I love that Sam just creates his own effects for cards and acts like it’s 100% facts

[@rhc128]

Would be the best anime duelist for sure

[@ebox147]

Man, it sucks we couldnt get to see the second duel end

[@AnRuixuan]

"There's time out in duel rooms?!" LMAO

[@linko9720]

The actual strat to win the game LOL

[@stevethompson9150]

That's hilarious that they both didn't get a single ur in the 1st 10

[@kaylaa2204]

Took me a minute to realize watt giraffe’s name in Japanese is a portmanteau “Ereki” is electric, and “Kirin” is Giraffe, so it just put the words together. That’s actually a better name for this obscure card

[@TheWizardMus]

Wait so Wattkiwi would be Erekiwi too. I feel like I need to take another look at this deck

[@spearsage]

Elekkiwi, elekkirin, elekkhimera, elekkingyo, elekkid, elekkingcobra, elekkitsune, elekkastle, elekkannon are what I can recall on top of my head...

[@itsjayn4538]

i love how Sam starts acting like he understands the cards while opening his packs , but mostly ends with "this card is .... uhhh YEAHHH"

[@jayd.doubledubs]

Sam has a great maniacal laugh. Shame he doesn't know what Mathmech Addition's effect is lol

[@biggameboy]

I saw Noble Knight Brothers and I knew it was going to be a problem. Can only attack if you have 2 other Noble Knights

[@manynukes11]

We need an MBT reaction to seeing Sam pull Geh

[@VinegarPotato]

I can't believe he pulls both equip spells that he has now read

[@__-be1gk]

Then immediately forgot their effects

[@centurion2396]

"Parallel eXceed, i need 2 more copies of it" I dont know what card he was looking at, but that did catch me off guard.

[@coh27]

Finally, a series where Doug has the advantage

[@poaked2514]

I'd love to see an Archetype version of no reading! Like, imagine putting together a Chronomoly deck without reading a single word of text on those cards. Finding the Solfachord searcher, or the Ogdoadic reborn, without knowing what a single card says.

[@darkmond8680]

Like the fire fists from last ep

[@slippers8000]

Great idea honestly, just pull the archetype name in Japanese before you start and get crafting.

[@anti-arbiter7754]

"THERE'S TIME-OUT IN DUELROOMS?!" 🤣

[@rivashanmolefi7326]

Sam's energy though 😂 Could have a terrible decl but will rock up like "THIS is the best deck in the room. Unmatched. You can't stop me." What does the deck do? "It wins. That's all you need to know." It's like super optimistic 😂😂😂

[@TrueGamer22887]

I used to not like Sam because I was a bit of a hater and thought he was over the top in a phoney way, but one day mbt watched a bunch of wicked old videos from yugitubers. When he played the Sam video he was like 12 and he was EXACTLY the same, same energy , same optimism even the same manner of speaking, and I’ve loved the guy since.

[@esrohm6460]

classic dzeeff running head first in without reading

[@Tudsamfa]

Dzeef's equip spells were nuts this episode, and yet we didnt see a single one. The staff is "Archfiend's Staff of Despair" which on spell speed 1 lowers all opponents monsters Atk by half of the equipped monsters Atk for a turn. The 1000 refers to the LP you can pay to return it to the hand. The guy swinging the sword the wrong way is "Mordschlag" which makes a normal summoned monsters be unaffeted by special summoned ones, and also reduces their atk/def during damage calc. And "White Veil" says your opponent cant activate spell/traps when the equipped monster attacks, opponents Spell/traps are negated during that battle, and if the monster wins the battle, all opponents spell/traps are destroyed. Also you take 3000 damage if it leaves the field, which is why it is banned in events. I knew white veil and Mordschlag in parts, but every single one of these is clearly worth it in restricted formats...

[@Hoixon]

Sam normal summoning the noble knight that can special himself if you control a light monster first WHEN HE HAS LIGHT MONSTERS IN HAND was painful to watch lol. Just part of the beauty of this format

[@aduck2569]

Specials in defense anyways, much more useful as a big 1900 attack in a format like this

[@LordCrota]

Ah the cocaine episode

[@JadeHex]

I can't believe you haven't heard of Tlakalel, His Malevolent Majesty. I've had to enter this thing into Duel Link Meta databases and it is certainly in the Top 2 Tlakalel's I know of.

[@thewimpyman3670]

Obligatory master saga question

[@pretsal4955]

"You know what I'm saying?" No, Sam, I don't think I do.

[@maskofthedragon]

Doug should have tagged in Spheal plushie for game 2

[@silverottsel6257]

I definitely prefer when you open more packs. I don’t think the appeal of this is to get you to use a bunch of cards blindly, because that just kinda turns into normal summoning big dudes that don’t do anything or setting spells and traps that are just dead the whole game. I think the appeal is pulling cool stuff and seeing if people know how to use them correctly, and having more packs creates more opportunity for that.

[@Billy_Wyatt]

The right meta for this format would be vanilla beatdown with equip spells and battle traps (in case you don't know the effect of the monsters). Pretty much early yugioh format. Awesome duel regardless! And great collab.

[@MrHerbertbauer]

Nice "parallel exceed" sam

[@mageius]

I really do wish at the end both players would go over their decks more. Gotta say though the 1 amusing thing from this is it's getting players to read and look at a lot more interesting cards because they don't know what they do.

[@pokeperson1000]

Pretty sure they do in the VODs on Twitch, but Doug cut them out of the video version because viewer retention for the post-duel portion was low or something.

[@mageius]

@@pokeperson1000 That's fair but it's still worth having a little bit more.

[@pokeperson1000]

@@mageius Hey, I complained too, it's what he replied with. Clearly he doesn't think the drop in viewer retention is worth it. Dunno what the algorithm/ad payout or whatever does to videos with drops in viewer retention before the end, but clearly it's enough for him to decide to cut it out.

[@johnnyhall9154]

Crackhead energy vs introvert chuckles

[@stev4v]

Sam just fits perfecto for this

[@nm2358]

Has a pendulum card, therefore, Sam is correct: Best Deck

[@PiePie453]

Gonna be hard to be that level of obnoxiousness in the next one

[@Grimjr7]

18:30 Tlakalel, His Malevolent Majesty

[@amoose5715]

Doug challenged Sam to a no reading duel but little dies he know Sam never reads anyways

[@genm4827]

Tlakalel really was the MVP of this episode

[@jonahprate8192]

“This is umm… yeah” is the quote of this series

[@Marco3.0]

and Samurai landed of the field let's goooo !

[@williamtysoe295]

Sam cracks me up, thats not rescue rabbit thats wind up rabbit friendo. XD

[@Marco3.0]

gagagaga TeamSamurai let's gooo

[@misterghoul9457]

As a cubic player, sam could tell me that Vijam the cubic seed requires you to banish 3 cubic names to gain 500 attack per monster on the field and I’d Believe him.

[@kurtislawrence8381]

Remember kids. Reading is fundamental

[@phoenixw4699]

44:22 I'm going to craft that card no ifs and buts, useful for board control decks or for useful outs especially when no extra deck fest happens maybe again

[@evangriffiths4070]

Sam doing the Seereax voices sometimes is pretty fun.

[@EmperorAzriel]

When was the last time Sam read cards?

[@NAAAAAIL]

I am commenting this before finishing, but if sam wins without playing phatasm field spell I will be flabbergasted.

[@MrBrendon999]

Man as a Rikka player I was pretty sad to see him not put in Snowdrop and Erica... but I suppose would be hard to know exactly what other monsters were plants

[@MediKitt]

rikka was my first archetype I made (that wasn't a suggestion by the guy who got me into ygo), so happy that they're better in the tcg bc of konkon/support

[@coldwolf7014]

What makes this more difficult is that the art work for some of the foreign cards are different so you can’t even go off the art work to remember the effects 😂

[@magicalnewsmaneditsbumpers4374]

These are the greatest series of all time

[@WiccanNathair]

was untill sam was on it

[@rairaidani]

Punishment without even stacking his ED 🤔

[@visarden2091]

That dark door play the 2nd game was crazy

[@RegiRuler]

Brothers has a restriction on attacking because of its unusually high defense. Don't ask me why they did it that way.

[@IsikPalion]

You missed that you could have wiped his entire board of tokens with that 1 tribute summon and then wiped his only monster as well if you knew what the card did.

[@Official.Youtube.ly.]

Hurry up and like this we seriously need Rhymestyle!!!!!!

[@hannessteffenhagen61]

I can't believe not activating the madoor again, there's only so many effects it could have been and the cards in hand were useless anyway

[@jonoolala9132]

Bring seereax on this. Idk how much synergy you guys would have but I think it’d be a good duel and good exposure for both of you

[@montetribal]

They both pulled Pacifis, the Phantasm City and neither played it 😩

[@ultimatedude80]

Sam with that pirates hat representing

[@thed4rknss673]

This is how Sam actually duel

[@Cryonoct]

where's master saga? Did you skip an episode...

[@christiangallietmo4585]

What was that monster that dzeef summoned with 2400 that popped aqua madoor

[@jaybojones3473]

No one told Sam to move his camera because it’s blocking some of the cards

[@travisthemantis]

🤔 shall we expect our Dzeeff on the wheel of yu gi oh now?

[@AngelofDeath333]

Got the guy who’s best at not reading

[@TheRealKotaro]

Where master saga? 🥺

[@EduardoWeidmanBarijan]

That was funny. I thought for sure Samurai knew how to read Japanese for a hot second

[@Marco3.0]

commentary at the beginning of the video : (i like to comment "live" on YT ;p) he has asian origin so of couuuuuuuurse he reads japanase..... mouhahahahahahaha hilarious ^^ if US people spoke other language, we would konw ! hahahaah (i'm french) TeamSamuraiX1 is one of the 1st streamer i ever watched (i'm kinda old, don't laugh) , i love his energy ! have a great duel guys !

[@daygoplayer2228]

Play the phantasm spiral field spell it summon a 2000 token if your opponent activities a eff

[@nonliquidprince]

I like TSamX1 because he has a great deal of love for heroes...

[@jamesdeslaurier7413]

Let's gooooooo illiteracy

[@mustabindawind]

The thing about Sam is...everything is top tier 0 and will probably be banned for how broken it is...

[@bizzareswordsman1232]

sad he never used checksum dragon

[@NoJonts22]

Both pulled that phantasm field spell and neither played it that’s a free 2k beat stick lol

[@dzer3]

Konami just needs to make draft dueling a thing. There was a draft mode on the ps4 game.

[@Jolfgard]

18:40 Look at the stats, that thing's a monarch.

[@Grimjr7]

Tlakalel, His Malevolent Majesty

[@hypersninji6940]

Im playing master duel while watching this video and the music synced up 👌

[@lobbynotlob]

38:15 bike horn

[@oygemprime3864]

Kunamzan specials itself from hand, but requires you to control another Karakuri to do so. Sorry.

[@TimothyGod]

I think the rule was specifically to a "language you don't understand"?

[@impctz]

It makes it so much mire funny when you actually understand japanese partely and listen to sam

[@kaylaa2204]

Interesting how Archfiend Staff of Despair just reads “Demon Staff” no qualifier attached at all. Oh and the Archfiends are called Demons in the OCG, so that’s basically no different