King of Yu-Gi-Oh Rates Classic Magic Cards

[@CardmarketMagic]

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[@adambryant6854]

Please bring him back he needs another chance show him cards that either started archetypes or heavily contributed to their success

[@CardmarketMagic]

@@adambryant6854 we can't show archetypal cards since they usually tend to be good because of other cards, which would be unfair unless you show the other cards. But if you present them 2-5 cards they will get rather suspicious :P

[@anthonybrainwood8015]

@@CardmarketMagic You should get Sam in for some MTG commander and see how he goes.

[@fintanb7234]

Yall should put helm of awakening in this

[@Addeand]

Sam calling every card he sees broken is so on brand!

[@mibbzx1493]

He’s converting mtg cards in his yugioh knowledge since they both have similar cards

[@Aigis31]

"The most BROKEN land ever printed! - MTG Undefeated Deck Profile!!" Lol

[@TheRussness]

i had a friend who was a casual player and felt the same way every time he found a combo. "dude, it has hexproof AND indestructible. it basically wins you game dude." cool story bro. now choose a sacrifice.

[@kedge]

Wait until he release the broken strategy of the troll 🧌 and a mat sale

[@Dareianrc36]

It really is. Was waiting for the vine boom with every card flipped up

[@DaCoolDawgs]

I love this guy’s unwavering confidence

[@chancylvania]

It’s kinda Sam’s thing

[@tylermurrow141]

@@chancylvaniaWas literally about to say the same thing

[@svankensen]

Yesss. He was the least knowledgeable in magic and Jamin explained very little. But he saw every card and loved it.

[@maaikevreugdemaker9210]

It's really what anyone'd want a yugioh champion to be like, so on theme

[@firebirdfilms2227]

Who is this guy?

[@eddievedderface]

This fella should be a used car salesman. He actually made me believe that Song of Creation and Magic Mirror are broken cards.

[@erikmiller11]

He single handedly made me proud to have Magic Mirror in my Mizzix deck

[@benkubisiak1459]

Song of creation is genuinely strong in the right deck. Just sort of a glass cannon.

[@ShonicBurn]

This guy in the yugioh community is the king of overhype so don't worry your not the only one. That being said we love the hype he brings to each game he's in so if he says your card is broken don't worry it might not be but he see's potential.

[@utoesc6241]

Song of Creation at face value is obviously broken and even pro players would immediately be very worried about it. I would think it strange is someone would not think it broken. The tragedy is simply that it is too slow and fragile to actually be competitive with, but when you go off oh boy do you go off.

[@sagii1372]

Well I wouldnt want a car salesman that tells me everything is broken

[@muhammadrafi4723]

Sam calling all 5 cards staple is so in character lmao

[@Rippi__]

Ya can't miss all

[@385thstu]

Canon event

[@mtgcalix8977]

Can we talk about how interested sam is ? He genuiely asks questions to understand further and compares it to Yugioh

[@AlienValkyrie]

Yeah his enthusiasm is infectious

[@xardas149]

He is way more intelligent then his "personna" would make you think at times. He is a close/barely pro level in yugioh when he is serious and well, that experience in TCG translates into good intuition/questions. Doesnt change the fact hsi content is unwatchable for anybody with 3 working braincells. It is purely made to purely cater to the algorythm and a very young audience that is hard to get off tiktok for more then 10 minutes. Insanely clickbaity and over the top screaming for pretty mundane content most of the time. Well hate the game not the player. Sam is playing the clown to make money, which is kinda sad cause he is smart and way more entertaining when he keeps to his natural self

[@mtgcalix8977]

@@xardas149 yeah i know. His Channel is a Lot of Hype and screaming . Ive Seen him on some occasion and He seems To be very smart and a really cool Guy .

[@Adam-yt8uz]

He seems super cool, I’d love to see him play some magic now

[@xardas149]

@@Adam-yt8uz On this channel maybe. On his own it would cause ear bleeding :(

[@sl3848]

A video of you guys each “adopting” a Yugioh player and teaching/coaching them to face off against each other would be awesome. LRR did something similar for Canadian Highlander, but with MtG noobs it would be fun

[@svankensen]

Ohh, you have my vote.

[@JWorthy30]

Please, they need to make this happen!

[@SoloWing88]

Have one for the other direction too I don't want to be the only one being confused at ygo after years of magic.

[@rasen7721]

wait i wanna see that LRR video now what's it called?

[@suNn.K.O]

@@rasen7721 It wasn't MTG noobs, but MTG players on their team that don't play that format. Here it is anyways. kzbin.info/www/bejne/poKyqod_gdt0j9E

[@hayden32040]

I really don't think he understood City of Traitors enough to overthink it haha great job!

[@woodysmith2681]

Still not clear on why City of Traitors is broken. You can get a broken Turn 1 but you can't add more lands without losing it.

[@gregthewalnut603]

@@woodysmith2681because playing a 2 mana spell on turn 1 and then a 3 mana spell on turn 2 is broken, even if you sacrifice a land afterwards.

[@lunk642]

@@woodysmith2681 Because speed is always better than sustainability. In any game, not just MTG, the earliest moves are always the most impactful. Getting the upper hand in the early game can put you in a dominant position before your opponent has the resources to react.

[@angelo9024]

@@woodysmith2681you can use city of traitors to add the mana to your mana pool before you play a land and destroy it. The mana pool is separate from the land itself.

[@minu2910]

@@woodysmith2681You really should just see it in action to understand why. You can have 4 mana on turn 2 if you float a city and then play another one, then you’ll still have 2 mana to use on turn 2, and can even make 3 off of a basic if you’re willing to lose your city, and on turn 3 you can still play another city over top of whatever land you have.

[@Phbickle]

Bring back Sam, but every card you show him is a Divination varient and he’s gotta figure out which of those are staples or stinkers.

[@jasonreimer5736]

That's just mean xD

[@loganchristiansen564]

Torment him enough to think timetwister or ancestral recall is bad

[@mrgarneau4895]

Show him Rystic Study

[@LegitHarpyHunter]

You're all evil, I love it!😂

[@Curelax]

Bitter Reunion, Night's Whisper, Treasure Cruise, glimpse of nature and skullclamp

[@steveebeejodd]

Man, the editing on this was absolutely nuts. Slamming down the "manas", Clark, banger. Sam is being a real lil' adorable gem as well!

[@mstieler8480]

I liked the whole "grabbing mana out of the air" bit :D

[@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai]

Clark killed me lol. I read the name before looking at anything else and was like “Wait there’s a card just called Clark? Wtf?” 😂

[@TheShapingSickness]

When the troll came up with the superman shirt I lost it 😂

[@Yammenkow]

I love that he's so excited to see each card's potential that he guessed staple every time

[@Dr.CaveCurinas]

Yeah he's always really excited in all of his videos, and people are generally really surprised to see that he's just as enthusiastic IRL. Another yugituber, MBT (funnily enough that stands for MonoBlueTron) once described him as follows: "In 2011 the spirit of yugitubing briefly inhabited an otherwise normal child one day at recess, and he had so much fun making videos that it never left. Sam is but a vessel for the eternal spirit of yugitubing"

[@Spoon8lld]

​@@Dr.CaveCurinasI read that in Joseph's voice

[@Snipergod1024]

@@Dr.CaveCurinas See, I respect Sam's enthusiasm and energy for the joy of Yugioh. But I, personally, find him a bit overenthusiastic and I struggle with his energy. Which I personally find a bit of a shame, because I'd love to enjoy his content more.

[@jacobdentes]

You should have two of you each choose a stinker from the series and play an against the odds style deck against each other to try to make them work

[@wixspartan6584]

Yessss

[@whaleofdarkness]

Well, Seth from MtgGoldfish did an Against the Odds Song of Creation and Clackbridge Troll. The Magic Mirror is the only thing missing.

[@waves-]

This

[@NStripleseven]

Play as many stinkers in one deck as possible and see if it functions at all

[@jaysal_dies]

I've never seen this dude before he's a lot of fun. Also yall editors went nuts on this episode

[@CardmarketMagic]

It's our new editor, Fele :) we always just have one editor per episode (usually it's always me, Carl, but we just hired Felizian and he's doing a great job!)

[@peteryanes3413]

He a yugioh KZbinr he the 2st biggest one

[@lars_rosenberg]

This guy is hilarious! Everything was a staple for him, I love the enthusiasm!

[@chairwolf5446]

Sam determining that City of Traitors is a two-for-one because it makes two mana where most lands only make one is actually next level Magic player logic. He'd be the type of Magic player who tells you that he doesn't need fixing with all the card draw in his deck and I love him for that.

[@chairwolf5446]

I also love that he's a Thalia simp. Aren't we all

[@WestSideWilliam]

I feel like Sam could make any card sounds awesome

[@zulfyby]

He got the energy for it 😅

[@delta3244]

The multicolored understatted vanilla legendary creatures from Legends might be too much for him, but aside from those, I think you're right! And now that I've taken some time to think about it, I think he could even manage to make those sound good if he tried.

[@timw9745]

He would make ‘one with nothing’ a eternal staple

[@Starcrash6984]

I know you already get this in every video, but the editing is incredible. The sound effects, the cute animations -- it's so well-done.

[@CardmarketMagic]

It's always nice to hear :D thank you!

[@sgtflamingo6532]

I love that he has this gleeful curiosity with magic. Love the unwavering confidence in choices as well haha.

[@ragnaomega5827]

Jamin : okay so this card is ... Sam : staple, staple, definitely staple

[@lucaslahlum6331]

He was so good at identifying what was good about cards. Some of these cards were hard to guess because knowledge of what makes a card good and knowledge of what meta each format is in can be very hard.

[@Schneedrache06]

I don't like YGO in the slightest but even I have a good time watching Sam's vids when they come across my youtube feed. Excellent guest!

[@francescofavro8890]

i love this format so much. the utter simplicity of: "THIS GOOD!?" "IT ACTUALLY BAD!!!" Just gets me everytime

[@ChibiRuah]

I do love the energy on this one and also the little animation really fit this guest energy. I would not say to do it on every video. but like when people are getting so animated like this, it felt really cool

[@williamw8590]

I don't think I've ever seen someone in this series fail to grasp how magic works as much as Sam 😂

[@mr.wafflesrz1137]

He's not the sharpest tool in the shed tbh

[@Kalenz1234]

It seems he thinks there are "mana cards" in your deck and City of Traitors puts 2 mana cards directly from your deck unto the battlefield.

[@mr.wafflesrz1137]

@@Kalenz1234 I'll say it in the nicest way possible. Sam is not the sharpest tool in the shed

[@AB-sw4kb]

Nah he's chill I like his energy

[@meathir4921]

@@mr.wafflesrz1137It always makes me laugh when people say Sam is dumb when he’s topped YCSs

[@tylerduncanson2661]

I like the one frame at 8:49 of upside-down and color-shifted video.

[@chriswolfMG]

Love this cross content going on with yu gi oh / pokemon / MTG. As a player of all the games, I love seeing my favorite creators get to interact like this! More of this please! Get Ruxin on this please!!!

[@CardmarketMagic]

I just looked them up :) Ruxin's currently too small for us to justify paying for flights all the way to Germany + hotels and such, but maybe one day if they grow (or our budget grows!) 🥳

[@lucasporter726]

I would love to see an explanation of deck archetypes to non-magic players. Stax would give them a heartattack.

[@KunouNoHana]

Not really, they all played with Mystic Mine. They know what Stax feels like.

[@KaoruMzk]

​@@qckngdcksDredge is just Tearlaments, we have experienced that pain as well.

[@DuncanHarbison]

The thing yugioh players would find hard to adjust to is how simple combo decks are in magic. Even stuff like kci is relatively basic compared to some of the more intricate yugioh combo decks, while most combo decks are "I have card A, card B and card C on the field now so I win". Its all because of no extra deck in magic.

[@KunouNoHana]

@@DuncanHarbison To be fair I would consider YGO to have almost no combo decks. None of their cards combo with each other in new or interesting ways most of the time, no, what they have are "Here's a thing that generates more advantage, here's an archetype searcher, heres both on the same card." Meanwhile, we have I dunno, any creature that taps to generate at least 2 mana (at least one blue) and Pemin's Aura and suddenly infinite mana. 90% of YGO combos are archetypes interacting with themselves to do the thing the archetype is designed to do. It's like calling Slivers a combo deck.

[@abentevent]

Lantern control?

[@Squirrel_eater]

I love this guy's energy! The confidence in his voice while talking about the city of traitors was amazing

[@smartkaboose3806]

God i LOVE how excited he is over the cards' mechanics and possible interactions :)

[@Akari-br7ci]

I love how excited he is. He's like a kid in a candy store!

[@michaeltanne9515]

For those viewers who want to guess alongside the guest, it would be helpful if you showed Cardmarket price only after the reveal. 200 € pricetag on a land was a bit of a giveaway that this card might be good.

[@stillwellstillhere1374]

This guy is honest and doesn't ask 40 questions to just get the answer right. Some of the previous guests have been really boring but he nails the concept of the video. I'd watch 100 of these with him in it.

[@s4ad0wpi]

Staple or Stinker is probably my favorite show on this channel! Especially with Yu-Gi-Oh players who don't understand how the Mana system works!

[@chromaticchrome3746]

Kinda interesting though that Sam overrated all the card draw but guessed correctly on all cards that interact with the mana economy.

[@roguebanshee]

@@chromaticchrome3746 I would have been interesting to see how he would have rated the cards if it went in the other direction.

[@amatheuslc]

@@chromaticchrome3746 YGO players tend to overrate card draw because their game restricts it heavily. Consider, if it were a YGO spell card, is an instaban. Any one mana cantrip looks like an Upstart Goblin without downside AND with an upside. It's the result of the game's only resource system, aside from normal summons, being cards in hand (and, as a consequence, having no resource cards to flood you)

[@Hajutze]

@@chromaticchrome3746 The reality is - he just called everything staple, and 2 of them happened to be.

[@chromaticchrome3746]

@@Hajutze Yeah, but he also provided reasoning with that and it was mostly sound.

[@robinvikstrom9763]

This dude needs to come back for another episode. Love his enthusiasm!

[@H01YD1V3R]

This was the most entertaining one yet. Love that this guy tried applying his yugioh knowledge and walked us through the comparisons out loud. Love when people are open to learning and aren’t afraid to be wrong. Props to this guy!

[@thomasyoung5572]

Sam is the only Yu-Gi-Oh! creator I watch cause he is just so funny and so hype about everything! Great collab

[@El_guapo_123]

Sam after seeing any mtg card: "YOOOO BRO OMG THIS CARD IS SO BROKEN!!!"

[@newfresh9042]

I watch Sam all the time and I have no idea how to play Yugioh but I just love the energy! Also this series rules!

[@Morgilson]

this man is entertaining as all hell, bring him on more. let him play a magic deck vs mengucci, just somthing simple.

[@CardmarketMagic]

He from North America, it's incredibly expensive to fly him over 😅 we can't do it too often

[@eliomolla8659]

This man has such a nice energy, please bring him again ❤

[@jokersjacket3174]

Honestly this was one of the more fun staple or stinkers to watch. Sam had great energy through n through

[@elifeldman7753]

These were some hard cards to give him. Only seen the first two so far but the more complex cards get the harder it is

[@Lappy486]

His strategy of "say everything is broken" is essentially the old "a broken clock is right twice a day" adage. I love his enthusiasm about every card. I wanted all those stinkers to be really great too!

[@Krunschy]

You really threw him all curveballs. Considering this, going 2/5 is really quite commendable.

[@Robin93k]

As they always do 2/3 or 3/2 derivations only. Picking 5x the same is thus literally just a coin flip between these 2 results. Which basically he lost... 2/5 is literally the worst possible result he could have gotten, given the setup.

[@LezbionestHere]

So far he is the best person you have had on for this. His enthusiasm is infectious!

[@BaronSengir1008]

Staple Or Stinker is always a good watch!

[@tantordoe5958]

One of my new favorite videos on the channel. Seeing first impressions is so much fun

[@dbhDilemma]

As someone who comes from Yugioh and has only gotten into mtg as I got older, I'll say having prior yugioh knowledge is such a detriment in trying to find out what is and isn't broken in mtg 😂 I feel your pain, Sam

[@jamessalvatore6858]

Amazing content! I love this. Bonus: At 8:49 you can see the video editor hiccuping for a frame or two. Pretty funny!

[@linguotgr]

I’d love to see Staple or Stinker with some themed games. Like, five “win the game” effects, or five counterspell effects, or something like that.

[@outputcoupler7819]

Or just the five Epic cards. "Yeah, no....they're all terrible. Except the white one, which was occasionally fringe playable in some specific formats."

[@perrilloux]

More of these! You should queue up guests to do like 8 of these in a row, and release them every week. This is amazing content.

[@jozefkeresturi2139]

Interesting strategy of calling each card a staple. Bound to be correct

[@HeWhoSlayethCain]

7:08 He's actually spot on, where drawing cards is broken in YuGiOh, free Mana is broken in Magic.

[@tomyu6537]

I don’t play Yu-gi-oh but I always watch Sam and his hilarious videos.

[@Ariovisti]

That editing for Clackbridge Troll was super smooth

[@Starcrash6984]

Clackbridge Troll is a stinker... in constructed decks. If you get that in a limited format, it's a bomb. It's a clock in a format where the games tend to run longer, and where you also have less access to creature destruction and card drawing.

[@CardmarketMagic]

We are clearly not looking at limited for this series 😅 many of magic's staples are terrible in limited and so many constructed stinkers are limited bombs

[@619Slipk]

You show the word "Draw" to a man that comes from a game that the cards in hand require no resource to be put into play and he'll instantly be baited into thinking it's a staple

[@rodaivantis6843]

Hell yeah, wasn't expecting to see Sam.

[@Z3R0SAMA]

Hell yea, you guys got Sam! I love his yugioh shorts. I haven't played since the first wave of synchros, and I've never wanted to go back, but his shorts make me wish I still played sometimes.

[@SphealTV]

Sam has the perfect energy for this show please see if he wants to come back on! Also seeing remy do a yugioh staple or stinker or the yugioh channel would be great

[@CardmarketMagic]

They are both from North America 😅 it's terribly expensive to fly them over to Berlin. We might work with them again some day but it won't be any time soon :)

[@SphealTV]

@@CardmarketMagic perhaps Farfa (yugioh creator) could be in the future since he's in the EU which i assume would be significantly easier

[@CardmarketMagic]

@@SphealTV we already reached out to Farfa. Unfortunately, since he is a Konami branded content creator, he was too afraid of losing his deal with them by working with us. Konami can be really strict

[@SphealTV]

@@CardmarketMagic that's sad to hear but totally understandable not to many people are Konami sponsored. Thank you guys from the awesome videos and the effort to respond to silly comments like mine. Your teams are amazing!

[@harperna3938]

i don't play magic aside from jumpstart, but i worked in a gaming store where mtg was like 40% of their business. i can get 90% of these right based on how often i'd pull these cards for orders lol.

[@jamesaditya5254]

Your editor is running WILD on this video keeping up the pace with Sam's comedic timing

[@olli8545]

That red mana at 6:23, pat the back of whoever saw and made that! (you, Felizian or the other editor i couldnt find back from your making-of video)

[@CardmarketMagic]

It's only ever Felizian and I (Carl) and this video is the great work of Felizian :)

[@Gaming_Duck]

I love this series!

[@wyrdplae8586]

7:15 I think he got this right because he thinks you get to keep mana from turn to turn. It seems like he doesn't realise that it disappears at the end of your turn.

[@Ljrobison]

I aspire to have this man's confidence.

[@tsmangin]

Staple or Stinker...love it! One of my favorite CardMarket series. Educational and entertaining.

[@Cudcudcudcudcuscuski]

It’s so cool that you guys embrace the whole tcg community. I’m sure every magic enthusiast has seen this guy on reels before

[@CardmarketMagic]

Hahaha that's what we thought when we first considered inviting him. He's the guy from the reels we watch even if we don't play Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@theruder9]

I'm glad everyone here just seems to like Sam. He's very much one of those, "WHATS UP GUYS" kinda youtubers, so in our community people sometimes have a hard time taking a shine to him, but he's also just a really talented, good dude.

[@themugofthenorth]

The vibes Sam brings is so fun- one of my favourite vids so far!

[@RIP_Texpert]

Wait until he puts contract from below on here, a card so good it's illegal

[@DUNE-Serraff]

Despite not playing yugioh I still watch his stuff often. You guys gotta get him back again for some more content

[@spliffi869]

Super fun video, these interactions between the tcg communities are gold. Also that dude was super sympathetic and loved his enthusiasm. You guys should totally play a round of Magic and/or Yu-gi-oh someday..! He seems like a fast learner and I think he would be able to pick it up rather quickly. Keep up the great content!

[@MegaMK13]

6:53 "every turn" taps and untaps the car lmao

[@GallyG]

His energy is great. He needs to do more of these.

[@daanclaessen7013]

I love the impulsive enthousiasm of thid guy😂

[@CromwellMTG]

Sams energy is contagious. If he played magic and freaking out about aggressive mining would be the best id watch him religiously

[@aboundingvampirekiller2048]

Release the Blooper Reel pls. Bet he said "Goddamn" behind the scenes 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AlanMalloy]

The editing on this video is even better than the typical excellent Cardmarket editing. I loved the crossover card images, the illustrations of stuff like floating mana.

[@maltramac]

"There's no way they'd give me five stinkers so I'm just going to guess staple every time" is honestly not a bad strategy.

[@sunseekerjules]

As someone who use to play YGO who now plays MTG, I love watching these types of videos.

[@morteskellington9047]

I honestly think Sam should give mtg a shot sometime; the level of stuff you can pull in magic plus his enthusiasm would be great fun. Especially commander, seeing what he'd run would be a treat.

[@vezokpiraka]

This was by far the best episode you ever made of this series. The guy was spot on with his analysis in a mana based game he never played. He was just too excited for some cards. Like imagine if the Magic Mirror or Song of creation was printed before Mirrodin. Those cards would be played. He just doesn't realise how much the game evolved, not how bad the cards are. And Clarkbridge Troll was reasonable in Standard. Sure in Magic 5 mana creature that does basically nothing for 3 turns is really hard to care about. But the card still saw some play.

[@Jamesserx10]

I love these so much. I've played both games so watching pros from both scenes who have little experience with the other try and figure out what concepts translate to the other game and what caveats exist between them is so fascinating. It reveals a lot about how they think about card games and the logic they use (which can help make others better players themselves).

[@kuragari1anonly]

I love how this man's reaction was basically my yugioh only friends when I show them Magic cards. 😂 That was fun to watch.

[@BearUmbra]

This guy sounds like when I look at cards for commander

[@AlexGarcia-xo3lp]

This guy literally looks at the upsides of every card while ignoring all of the drawbacks

[@nathanwilliams9158]

I can imagine the deck this guy would build. 4 Thalia, 4 city of traitors, 4 clackbridge, 4 magic mirror, 4 song of creation… a winning mix!

[@BREAKERisDEAD]

I love this guy! Get his energy into a game of Commander!

[@grnLogic]

I came here to watch Sam guess every card was broken, and I wasn't disappointed. 🥰

[@andresarancio6696]

I love how Staple or Stinker usually starts with the guest prioritizing the card effect and then slowly realizing the value of cost vs advantage of each card. Choosing to start with win more draw engines and then moving to stun pieces or mana accelerators is a very smart way of teaching those basics

[@__-be1gk]

I appreciate that you actually gave him difficult to evaluate cards, Sam actually knows his shit despite his KZbin persona

[@Narakiomal]

Oh heck yeah!! It’s been too long since one of these ^^

[@terryscheidt6105]

I would love to see a series where you bring them on for a full game of magic, that would be awesome!

[@daniellambeth6769]

You guys have upped the editing quality and it wasn't bad at all before, well played

[@AxiomofDiscord]

I was playing my girlfriends arena account and a guy gave me the three goats and I sucked the 8 damage next turn killed the guy attacking with three goats that where burning bright. Told her about it and she got me a plushy white goat with a scarf that says "thanks for the goats." One of my best MTG memories of all time.

[@incredibleflameboy]

His reasoning was solid on most of these especially clackbridge but without extra context from other cards and formats it's hard to tell

[@TheRealGurphy]

Easily one of my favorite shows! Having played magic for almost a decade its always interesting to see people introduced to its many...many rules and interactions haha

[@Varler_]

This guy has such great energy! And these Staple or Stinker videos are always a blast.

[@BestestBuddys]

Loved the editing on this one! The Clark killed me