I Teach a Beginner How to Beat a Magic PRO

[@CardmarketMagic]

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[@funkid3369]

It was really fun to watch this video, plz more

[@tzaandor]

"These are precons from 10 years ago" bro I bought those to play with a buddy of mine in a café and now I feel myself turning into a skeleton

[@vincentxu8217]

I feel you. I also bought bought the same ones to play with my roommate, ten years ago...💀

[@MopeyN]

I bought 2. One for playing, one for ripping apart 😊

[@Keksoe666]

Got these as a birthday gift back then. Honestly didn't really know what to do with'em until I realized I could just take the two decks, strip'em of the blue and build a Mardu-Commander. I still have that deck (of course it changed a lot over the years) 😂

[@kendrickvickers2610]

How do you think i feel when they came out after i took a break

[@ahall9839]

It's okay, you still say "bro", at least you're still mentally a child.

[@CardmarketYGO]

I might be hooked now... can't wait to play more Magic in the future! Thanks for the fun! 😄 -Taylor

[@BaronSengir1008]

Glad to hear you had fun!

[@BaronSengir1008]

Now we need you to teach a Magic player how to play Yu-Gi-Oh! Lol

[@GaybrohamStinkton]

Shoulda brought Leoni in tapped ngl

[@KonoNana]

After the staple or stinker it really seemed like you'd feel at home here as well lol Glad you can enjoy both :)

[@daben7145]

Very well played sir, its apparent that you got quite some TGC experience. Here's a little tip for your magic future. Unless stated that you can use creature abilities only as a sorcery, you can use them in your enemies turn as well, so you could keep Krenko untapped as a blocker, and tap him for his ability while blocking or after the combat phase of your enemy. Can bait the enemy into traps that way as well, like spawning goblins after he decleared attack that might surprise him (unlikely against your card market buddies tho ^^ ).

[@mp1335]

That was like a perfect anime duel, straight out of yu-gi-oh! A talented young underdog that everyone's rooting for, hoping he can do well against the established master of the game. In the duel, suddenly the underdog begins to surprise everyone, going toe to toe with the master. Not only surpassing all expectations by surviving, but even putting the master against the ropes right at the crescendo. Then, right as the shocking finishing blow is about to happen, the master shows why he is who he is by suddenly pulling off he perfect counter and winning the game beyond the 11th hour, when all the spectators already thought he was done for. Good show, guys. Good show!

[@Korwinga]

The fact that they were both at 4 health when the uno reverse card came out was great.

[@ursulcx299]

I forgot will bender was a thing, I just expected a good old counter spell of some kind but hey, it was a good game for someone who literally just learned the game 2 hours ago, pretty pretty good in fact.

[@bertrambauer7357]

it's always willbender

[@TheMikeMMI]

I learned magic playing against the morph precon. It's ALWAYS Willbender!!

[@conlandoran8754]

Carl in the bottom corner is everything

[@sergeen2314]

I need myself a bottom of the corner Carl for my day-to-day tbh. He's the best hypeman!

[@breadpower]

it reminds me of japanese television with live commentary

[@amonprassodia1428]

Please, guys, make more of these! The coaching session, the challenge, the little Carl in the corner. Truly a masterpiece.

[@BruderSeth]

I'm here for the little Carl in the corner - I want a little Carl in the corner in my life!

[@freakgoingunder]

Cardmarket has such a good KZbin channel I‘m kinda scared they‘ll drop the ball some day. Thoralf, Carl and everyone else involved are vital to this channel they could easily run their own.

[@BruderSeth]

​@@freakgoingunder I think I read or saw somewhere that Carl basically has free rein on what he's doing with the channel (and let's be honest: the guy is a genius when it comes to Magic content, most of these videos are his idea) so I don't see them dropping the ball anytime soon. Magic fans are very loyal and the videos mostly have over 100.000 views.

[@chrisleblanc8074]

Agreed.

[@aryst0krat]

Willbender was the perfect end to this haha, very Yugioh feeling!

[@DarkYuan]

Right? Pulling Magic Cylinder out of nowhere? Feels like it was scripted!

[@pdb189]

The decision to include the live Carl commentary turned this from a good video into a great video

[@polarmage2577]

3:42 Haaank! Hank, he's lying! Don't trust a blue mage with open mana! Hank!

[@MetalGamely]

This comment encapsulates the video so well lmao, poor carl

[@CaptainWwowW]

😂😂

[@xolotltolox7626]

If he's telling you snow is white HE'S LYING

[@davidkrannich4074]

We need more "little Carl" in our lives.

[@Bloodrisesx]

Let's see 2 people who are not TCG players play magic. I love watching people who never played a tcg learn a new game

[@NiiRubra]

Great choice of decks, since it has all of these things that kind of mimmick some Yu-gi-oh stylings. Glad Taylor enjoyed it.

[@violaknapp7904]

That was very a very cool match! I wish we could have seen more of the actual teaching part, it would have been very interesting to see how someone well-versed in another TCG made connections to Magic mechanics.

[@CardmarketMagic]

We've been skipping more and more of the drekbuikding and learning segments that lead up to the game because most of the viewers were skipping them, which in turn hurts the video. The viewers vote with their clicks on what parts of the video they want to see :P

[@violaknapp7904]

@@CardmarketMagic Aah, that makes sense. I guess more people prefer tense gameplay to the nitty-gritties of planning and strategising, which I find a shame... Guess it's up to us viewers to change people's minds! Challenge accepted!

[@kylegonewild]

Played like a true Red player there at the end lol. Good intuition for assessing on board threats.

[@ryunocore]

Having a friend commentate your game like that feels a lot like the YuGiOh! anime, actually.

[@byrontheusurper6505]

0:25 that makes so much sense i did not know that

[@fr4sek]

The small Carl is great, hope to see more of him in the future videos

[@soasertsus]

I love Carl's reaction cam in the bottom corner lol, please edit him into every video from now on

[@byrontheusurper6505]

Taylor's playing great!

[@StetsonM]

Speed vs cunning was the first deck I ever bought. Me and my friend played on the playground every day during recess. Fun times, easy times

[@kodicraft]

I can only imagine this was one of the best first games possible to introduce Taylor to the game, full of twists and fun interactions!

[@Netro1992]

Literally the purpose of those decks. They are simple enough to be played by newbies but still fun and flashy enough for quick games by more experience players. They haven't really made them this good in ages.

[@Nalianna]

Watching that act of treason was gold. - And him understanding that he could look at what it was :)

[@naruyashan]

Carl seems like he'd be super fun to learn a board game with. So encouraging!

[@tonythepokemonguy751]

Every time i play a game of magic a little carl always talks me through it

[@byrontheusurper6505]

These old precons are so cool and weird!

[@PerunsZGRevenge]

Cool segment, hope you host Taylor for a challenge again sometime in the future. The little Carl in the bottom was like in a Japanese TV show.

[@sirwolf4985]

Great video! It feels nostalgic to see those Duel Decks in action. Perhaps, if there is enough interest, those decks can be featured more often? Perhaps dueling to see which one is the strongest?

[@xulomed]

First rule of mtg: It is always Willbender

[@BaronSengir1008]

@@xulomed Technically, the first rule is: "100. General 100.1. These Magic rules apply to any Magic game with two or more players, including two-player games and multiplayer games. 100.1a A two-player game is a game that begins with only two players. 100.1b A multiplayer game is a game that begins with more than two players. See section 8, “Multiplayer Rules.”"

[@electra_]

I think it's pretty silly. the first rule of magic is that a two player game... is a two player game. (And I'm not upset at all that they have rules to this specificity it's actually pretty dang cool. I just think it's funny.)

[@BaronSengir1008]

@@electra_ A two-player game vs a multiplayer game

[@idanbhk3875]

​@@electra_Not exactly. It means that a game that started with 3 players, where 1 died, isn't a two player game but a multiplayer game.

[@rijkscheffers1844]

SPEED VS CUNNUNG were my first decks!!!!! Edit: sooo after hours of searching trough my bulk and the rest of my collection, even going to my brothers house (he lives close) and also searching his collection, because i thought i left my arcanis edh deck at his place, then realizing my arcanis deck was stored behind proxies i printed to make the cards more playable. I CAN NOW say, I have my speed and cunning decks back, I was even able to find a large amount of the original basics that were used in the two decks, so exept for a few basics i have the two original deck back

[@rijkscheffers1844]

DAMN THATS SOOO COOL

[@Flip4Crypt]

Holy hell, what an ending Super well played, great video

[@qwertasdfg3447]

This was way more fun to watch than a 10 min Nadu turn

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

nice video! fun seeing a yugioh player attempt to beat a pro mtg player!

[@1996MartinsMatheus]

those duel decks are the first mtg product i ever had! such nostalgia

[@soulreaper4107]

Should have briefly told him what each colour is about and their most important intricacies. You know ... the teachings of a certain MTG content creator that likes Powerpoint slides too much. Besides that, Taylor did amazing. He is really good at card games period. Also, please keep these amazing videos coming.

[@heirofheart766]

speed vs cunning were teh first decks i had i recently took em apart to put cards in my commander decks

[@caseypicklecopter]

Now I want to see the other way around! Thoralf learns yugioh

[@CaptainMarvel4Ever]

Fun, that Hawaiian shirt guy in the corner was great. You should get Joshua Schmidt to come back for the inverse (just don't give him a control deck or it's over).

[@SomeOfTheJuice]

Between this and determining what is a good and bad card in MTG, Taylor, despite not playing magic, is really good at gauging good plays and good cards in Magic!

[@AltamishM]

This was hella fun! :D

[@simongpunkt]

I need karl saying "No, you got this" in some 10 hrs ASMR loop fr 😩🤞🏻

[@obsidiansiriusblackheart]

This was an awesome video!

[@Swnkmstr]

"Duel decks from 10 years ago" was not on my checklist for things i wanted to hear today. My bones, they ache. 😅

[@Lumpalooza]

Hahaha the Carl Japanese game show style reaction cam was hilarious

[@NehNehPwn]

Japanese Game Show Carl is really something

[@UNCLEBEN2021]

This is how I got better at the game I was a new player and I made friends with a guy who always took local tournaments. We bought a dual deck set and played until I finally started winning 😅

[@victhefoxygamer_6180]

"I feel like I messed up the early turns a little bit" "Yeah, but that was still really good!"

[@Buchaus]

The first thumbnail was so good! I'm sad they changed it

[@XTimTheEnchanterX]

I'm a simple man, I see cardmarket, I watch, like, and comment on cardmarket

[@MV_Magic7337]

“Precons from 10 years ago” y’all this was literally the Duels box that got me into Magic!!! I’m crying and laughing at the same time

[@KnightPezz]

I think it would be really cool if there was someone there teaching them the combos and plays during the game, feels like it would be more informative that way :)

[@SKai2609]

The reverse uno at the end is wild

[@Futuristic271]

Maybe you were being genuine, but it kind of felt like you were hamming it up for the camera in the bottom right and I personally found it a little distracting I guess. I still liked the video and love most of your productions. I really hope this doesn't hurt any feelings as it's just my opinion and I'm sure other people loved it!

[@Travis7060312]

I think it's supposed to be obvious he's being over the top. It's for entertainment

[@cheeseitup1971]

I also could've used a bit less of the live Carl reaction lol

[@Futuristic271]

@@Travis7060312 I totally agree that's it's supposed to be obvious. I guess for me it just felt very artificial and took me out of it a bit

[@CruzadoTermo]

best Magic channel ever, you cant buy charisma

[@ShoutButterfly]

Me as a relatively new sealed deck player defeated one the best limited players at that time, who has been at pro tours representing our country. I didn't even know until people told me later xD

[@gewinner5379]

This is the second time I saw p Fantom seer today. Which isn't a lot, but it is wired that it happend twice. Never saw that card before today

[@nathanielreichley4640]

Oh my god I remember when those decks were new... 2014 was 10 years ago huh? Wow

[@Oimfiel]

You can tell Taylor is just good at games. He played really well, especially for a beginner.

[@zendicarreborn8896]

now i want a little carl in the corner of my games cheering me on x)

[@ikolino]

brilliant gameplay

[@arivald6677]

0:33 It's better to play out your last land more often than not. If you want to bluff play out your last land for few times then when you draw into another one then you keep it. It's not good to have one pattern of actions. You should mix things up sometimes play your last land pointing it out and laughing, sometimes keep it in your hand this makes your gamestyle harder to read for your opponent. Other than that I usually play my land every time I can. Why? Let's say you got 5 lands in play 1 in hand, you draw divination that cost 3 mana, you draw a another land and 4 costing card. You can't play two lands the same turn so by holding land to bluff you now wasted chance to play your card right away. This whole bluffing last play depends on type of deck and begginners shouldn't be taught this rule.

[@BIGPILGRIM420]

how is what you described easier to explain to a new player? Carl is 100% right.

[@EliasSutter]

Day 12 of asking cardmarket to make Toralf Play this Toralf God of Fury Deck. 1 Toralf, God of Fury 1Abrade 1 Arcane Signet 1 Arcbond 1 Artist's Talent 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer 1 Basilisk Collar 1 Brigi, God of Storytelling 1 Blasphemous Act 1 Brash Taunter 1 Calamity of Cinder 1 Chain Reaction 1 Chandra's Ignition 1 Chandra's Incinerator 1 Chaos Warp 1 City on Fire 1 Comet Storm 1 Crackle with Power 1 Darksteel Plate 1 Demand Aswers 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods 1 Dualcaster Mage 1 Earthquake 1 Electrodominance 1 Faithless Looting 1 Fall of Cair Andros 1 Fiery Emancipation 1 Fire Diamond 1 Fire Servant 1 Forbidden Orchard 1 Furnace of Rath 1 Hell to Pay 1 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 1 Insult // Injury 1 Jeska's Will 1 Koth, Tyrant of Resistance 1 Leyline Tyrant 1 Lightning Bolt 1 Magebane Armor 1 Magmaquake 1 Magmatic Galleon 1 Mana Geyser 1 Mind Stone 1 Mithril Coat 1 Mizzium Mortars 28 Mountains 1 Myriad Landscape 1 Neheb, the Eternal 1 Nykthos, shrine to Nyx 1 Pinnacle Monk 1 Pyromancer's Goggles 1 Reverberate 1 Rolling Earthquake 1 Ruby Medallion 1 Runaway Steam-Kin 1 Seething Song 1 Shatterskull Smashing 1 Sol Ring 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus 1 Spinerock Gnoll 1 Star of Extinction 1 Starstorm 1 Stuffy Doll 1 Sunspine Lynx 1 Swiftfoot Boots 1 Thrill of Possibility 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 1 Tyrite Sanctum 1 Valakut Awakening 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle 1 Vandalblast 1 War Room

[@EliasSutter]

If you have any suggestions to make IT better write down here

[@idanbhk3875]

Maybe change thrill of possibility to one of the red wheel effects, to draw more cards. ​@@EliasSutter

[@rodneybrown6359]

I liked this video a lot!!

[@matthewdanielle]

Can't wait to see what it is like when 2 ygo players play magic head to head ❤

[@bunnysslayer]

Reminds me of SCG commander "it's always willbender"

[@dansouth1973]

Great game, best of 3 next time!

[@janmelantu7490]

It’s always Willbender! Except for all the times it’s Exalted Angle

[@derpyderperson2912]

Good call using precons, imagine giving a brand new player amulet titan or lotus field combo for their first time XD

[@CardmarketMagic]

That would have likely not played out the same way :P

[@shredhead67]

Ha! Timing, I've just been teaching friends how to play. Should help bolster the lessons well.

[@matthugenberg8869]

Ah, yes the classic morph way to win. "Its a willbender, its always a willbender" XD

[@salihhtamer]

Best to learning a new card game playing online games with auto rules. I play mtg, yugioh, pokemon, vanguard, dragon ball, shadowverse… And I learn every game with video games or mtg arena like games

[@BaronSengir1008]

Arena does have a very good tutorial...

[@salihhtamer]

Back in the days I learned with playing ranked or casual with people to learn. I made a lot mistakes like forgot reach creatures or stacking but in the end I am mythic

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

@@BaronSengir1008 Too bad the rest is slop.

[@BaronSengir1008]

@@HighLanderPonyYT I have no problem with it at all...

[@dakkenly]

10:30 Chart a course + Isochron sceptre :^)

[@Pistolsatsean]

"Nobody told me Magic has trap cards too" Bruh if that counts as a trap card in the mind of a Yugi-Oh player MTG is entirely trap cards!

[@nolimbsjohnny]

When Karl said "duel decks from ten years ago" and the first card played was from khans of tarkir, I instantly aged 10 years all at once 😢 khans was my childhood

[@darthrevan8376]

This guy started out better then 90% of people I see at FNM.

[@lemonguy100]

I can feel the grey hairs settling in as "Khan's of Tarkir" is now ten years old...

[@rickstivens4240]

Rematch on the Yu-Gi-Oh channel perhaps? 😂

[@The1AndOnlyGoldenboy]

I'm sure at some point we'll see the opposite of this, getting Carl or Jamin to play Yu-Gi-Oh and see how they manage. It's okay if you get a headache. That's normal.

[@bajsbrev4651]

Carl would fit right into Japanese television

[@MrABK108]

I only keep a land in hand when it's late game and I am topdecking. Otherwise, I am playing to make sure I don't draw a 7 cmc spell and regret not playing the 6th land last turn!

[@CardmarketMagic]

If you only have 1 land in hand, it never hurts to keep it. If you have 2 lands, play 1 and keep the other. If you have 6 lands in play, and only one in hand, you can play a 7-drop that you topdeck with the land you kept in hand ;)

[@kurowasanabe]

Im shocked to see the facedown creature was Willbender.

[@jaysal_dies]

I need a tiny carl screaming at me when i misplay

[@teadeity363]

It's okay, Carl Cam isn't real, Carl Cam can't hurt you

[@grasscobra4379]

Needed best 2 out of 3.

[@JLH111176]

if you play a morph card are you required to turn it face up at the end of the game to prove that it could be played as a morph creature or do you have to show a judge ?

[@jacobisbell9388]

End of the game or when the morph card would leave the battlefield. At some point you will always know what the morph was.

[@CaptainMarvel4Ever]

I wonder if anyone in Magic ever did the Infernity cheat method but with morph cards?

[@milesmorey2733]

How does Thoralf play his Bone Splinters as a morph since it doesn’t have that ability/morph cost? Also it’s in the Jeskai precon?

[@CardmarketMagic]

Thoralf does not run Bone Splinters. Taylor does. As you see him play it in the video

[@frikifit]

Thoralf has NO CHILL hahahahaha

[@RedPandaStan]

the commentary was annoying until i imagined that carl put 5k dollars on this match and then the reactions make sense

[@danielmohel]

11:47 the card it should have been was mysical refpanal

[@MathisGries-ml5qv]

I feel like I am both Taylor and Thoralf, depending on the day.

[@Tletna]

Man.. I got click-baited. A Yugioh Player (TM) is not the same thing as a newbie to MtG. They're much worse since they've developed so many bad habits from playing Yugioh. :P Jokes aside, he was actually pretty skilled.

[@robertoiovine5147]

Taylor look like Walter White from BB in the thumbnail

[@CruzadoTermo]

which format was that? very fun

[@CardmarketMagic]

It's not a real format. It's just a Duel deck product they sold in the early 2010s :)

[@Joey-lo5wd]

ZURGOS THE GOAT THAT WAS MY FIRST DECK

[@seandun7083]

Turns out that 2 hours isn't long enough to teach them that the morph is always Willbender...

[@JustXen66]

All morphs are willbender until proven otherwise

[@CaptSicnastee]

There's a phrase in magic "Make them have it." Taylor did great and only lost cause he made Toralf have it.

[@chilean_seabass]

I was rooting so much for that reckless abandon

[@anthonyotlang1872]

It's ALWAYS willbender xD