Magic Player Rates MORE TOXIC Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards! ft. @covertgoblue

[@Radman1889]

Everyone: Can you really post content even though you're having a health crisis? Cimo: Does it say I can't?

[@bingomachine]

"Wait, you guys remove the entire intestine?" "Does it say we can't?"

[@Dinkbass]

Cimoo is the champ

[@ivakichan5724]

He is incredible, but yeah hopefuly he gets that cleared up soon

[@hoozzahgames9209]

There's no rule that says dogs can't play basketball

[@misteral9045]

This is a scheduled upload that was filmed at least two weeks ago if not a month or several months.

[@bingomachine]

Cimo has monetized vibing and nerding out with the boys and I respect it.

[@gothosfolly]

I never consumed a minute of Yugioh content before these videos. It's a great format.

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

Always love to see collabs with CGB. HIs charisma as a creator really comes across well in these, so much so that I've found myself watching Magic the Gathering videos from him despite having never played the game before, and likely would have no interest outside of casually playing MTG Arena at some point. He just makes it digestable and interesting enough for me to want to watch. Looking forward to when he's got all of this stuff down and we get to see him rock up to an actual game!

[@grzegorzantczak3775]

If you do not play magic but are curious I recommend his "worst commander show". Their games are fun and players explain what their strategy is and what their cards do. It's way more fun than MtG 1v1.

[@HaxDotCombo]

CGB solos LSV in the wrestling promo even if LSV wins that match

[@faereman]

Same, I also started watching his channel thanks to these, CGB's content is a lot of fun!

[@XGoldenx03]

Same i started binging his Commander show n i love it even tho i barely know whats going on but its super fun and entertaining

[@gothosfolly]

Samesies except I play Magic but never Yugioh.

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

That Witch's Strike was an evil, evil inclusion. lol

[@sammydray5919]

Just shows how much of a card's viability is impacted due to simply being a trap

[@monkeylemur]

There is no way an MTG player would know the difference between negating activation of an effect or negating a monster/effect, too. I mean, even a lot of YGO players don't really understand the difference, but negating activation is possible in Damage Step and such, which is an interaction that actually comes up. So Witch's Strike basically counters a very limited selection of decks and will be completely dead in many matchups. Not to mention summon negation as an effect is pretty rare now, and the one that could be played like Cosmic Blazar actually dodges Witch's Strike and comes back next turn, which may as well not even have done enough. It's a really damn good bait selection for somebody who haven't played YGO but understand card games

[@pietrocatalano4285]

Hearing CGB say "it's a much more painful choice" made me laugh out loud. It's like those stupid memes with "We really are a fantastic team." "Say that again?" But in Yugioh terms.

[@pink_plasticbag]

"what are we, some kind of Delinquent Duo?"

[@Malao558]

I'd love an episode where you look for Magic cards that remind you of Yugioh cards, and have CGB guess which Magic card is the most similar after evaluating the card. It might be interesting to see how each person's perspective may cause disconnects when adapting their game's mechanics.

[@sonofzeal]

I keep trying to convince my friend that Haakon reads like a YuGiOh card!

[@stolve8847]

I wish CGB brought up Liliana when they were talking about Lava Golem. It has a similar effect to make an opponent sacrifice a monster that gets around the various modes of protection and is a popular card in standard right now. Actually in my opinion that card SHOULD be banned for being so annoying. There aren't many black decks that couldn't run it, it's just so flexible and generally useful.

[@jamesaditya5254]

@@stolve8847 I thought of that artifact creature (forgot what it's called) that basically eats a target creature which makes it miserable for commander, but I agree that effects which forces your opponent to do the sacrificing is a closer parallel to lava golem with how they bypassing protection by way of basic game mechanic

[@MrTuas]

​@@jamesaditya5254That sounds more like relinquished if it stays on your side of the field. Both bypass regular protections.

[@nutty914]

@@sonofzeal Haakon, Stromgald Scourge? If yes then i guess you YGO players like to play/cheat cards from your graveyard/discardzone

[@TealVelvet]

I think it's time to show CGB some archetypes, like 4-5 cards of 3 different archetypes and let him decide which one is the good, ok and bad archetypes

[@tonyw-t9l]

Hey wait a minute that sounds familiar

[@adsventuresome7511]

I think CGB is ready for the archetype quiz. Show em the broken, the good, and the ugly.

[@mattevans1643]

Little does CGB know the Ice Barriers were the good guys. That's why they suck.

[@MrGnarVar]

Since CGB mentioned hos love of dinosaurs in magic, it would be very fun to get his reaction to some of yugioh's most powerful dinos. Would be fun to see him read Misc.

[@crazedlink]

There's nothing like summoning Lava Golem, and then Relinquished the same Lava Golem

[@hurrdurrmurrgurr]

How about double lava golem + remove brainwashing.

[@sendouvincent8232]

​​@@hurrdurrmurrgurrand I thought I was trolling with sunny's snitch + Masquerade the Blazing Dragon before Branded Summon, huh (yes, I tried Despia Live Twin once)

[@MisterDramastic]

I’ve been having just as much fun with Illegal Knight lately. Bounce two opponents cards, Dracoback Illegal Knight and do it again next turn.

[@h2opro420]

Love that CGB references painful choice at 17:27

[@unsungangel7269]

Witch’s Strike exists: Me: **Laughes in Labrynth**

[@Someone-lg6di]

That was my thought with opponent asking your trap

[@XGoldenx03]

🎉🎉

[@neoaquadolphin]

About lava golem I wish cimo would have described it "imagine you spend 10 minutes building up your super mega ultra timmy cards, and then you pass the turn, I sacrifice them and give you this doofus in their place"

[@Unicron187]

'dingus'...

[@crab230]

One important note about Rivalry of Warlords is that Spell and Trap removal is often done through the extra deck (though I think CGB doesn't know about that yet). This combined with the weird rulings (if you control two Warriors you can't Link Summon into a single FIend, for example) leads to it being extremely hard to remove unless you draw a Twin Twisters or something similar.

[@valun360]

In 2013 Yu-Gi-Oh Rivalry of Warlords won me multiple store tournaments in a six sam shell! It absolutely deserves a ban, but until it is I will run 1 in any monotype sideboard I play!

[@balistikscaarz1959]

"Good players make good choices and that's bad for you" unironically very well spoken in this context

[@jk844100]

It would have been perfect if Heat Wave was immediately after Cold Wave

[@SpearMKW]

In several of these quiz episodes i've had moments where the contestant says something and i think "hey you should show him this or that card in response, that would be really funny" and he just never does /o\

[@adriancardona2172]

I do think Magic not being as fast as Yu Gi Oh is make "draw the out" logic more appealing, but if you NEED to see the removal in your opening hand to make plays, than playing outs in the main can only do so much, since you'll see so little of it. Magic you can both mulligan AND expect to see beyond turn 3, so you'll more than likely find SOMETHING, but in Yu Gi Oh? If it ain't there first thing, it might as well not be there

[@laytonjr6601]

Most of the spell/trap removal is in the extra deck, so you basically have access to it in your opening hand. Spell/traps that prevent you from special summoning (like Rivalry of Warlords) tend to be problems

[@Begeru]

Yea it’s harder to imagine that Warlords making your opponent skip a turn basically means they lose the game because Yugioh is way faster than Magic.

[@andrijor]

Honestly CGB is my favorite guest. I'm so glad to see him again

[@peteryanes3413]

My too he funny

[@pachekaoo]

Since Rarran got to play his first commander match a few weeks ago, I would love to see how Cimo would do in a commander match, also you guys could do a little "visit" to each other's games and do like a Bo3 just for the fun of seeing how the mentality of each TCG would affect the matches

[@oscarmeldgaard5407]

Cimo has played commander before, so it might not be as impossible. I think his partner is a commander player

[@younasdar5572]

It would be fun to have all three of them and possibly someone else who also is making these "X player rates Y cards" videos together, unfortunately ygo and hearthstone don't really have multiplayer (as in more than two) so for them doing the other games it would have to be multiple 1 on 1s.

[@oscarmeldgaard5407]

@@younasdar5572 Best way would probably to have Cimo VS CGB in HS, Rarran vs CVG in Yugi, and so on

[@pinkfrappe_]

First Lancea trigger, Raiho is always my pick. Even if it's only an annoyance, it still slows down decks and keeps people from running away with the game. And he gets to be a magnet for removal he's *really* annoying my opponent. Also, with Rivalry of Warlords, it may not be the meta pick but my favorite way to run it is in my Zombie World deck. I don't care what you're playing, it's probably not Zombies. As long as you have one monster on your field, you can't play anything else because now it's a Zombie and monsters in your hand aren't.

[@adriancardona2172]

I am surprised Cimo didn't mention how Rivalry's rulings make it pair REALLY well with other floodgates, and even the type/attribute changing Pseudo-floodgates

[@michaelpendlebury30]

Witches strike has 2 main problems cimo didn’t mention: 1: It does not stop your opponent negating your card, meaning you have to intentionally lose a card to activate this. 2: It only responds to your opponent negating the ACTIVATION, but many negates negate the effect (Ash Blossom for example).

[@YukiFubuki.]

it alos has to destroy both opponent’s field and hand so it requires at least 1 card in either location meaning if either of them is empty like say the hand because opponent spent it all for a full field or is on a trap deck like labrynth for example and they set everything then witch’s strike cannot legally be activated for the time thing

[@alchemicpink2392]

I love that Konami US decided to make "Thunder Bolt" into "Raigeki" but "Majo no Ichigeki" becomes "Witch's Strike". Just the sheer, unadulterated, bold-faced unwillingness to communicate anything between localizations.

[@laggalot1012]

To be fair, these cards are from a completely different age, and old Yugioh was littered with, shall we say, strange translations. Like, what the heck is a "Trunade"?

[@TectonicImprov]

​@@laggalot1012 Yeah there's no way the same people who named Raigeki were involved with naming Witch's Strike lol

[@jorgito93700]

Tbh i understand the logic. With Raigeki : the japanese name is in english to sound exotic and cool so you reverse it and have it in japanese for the english version to keep the effect, meanwhile witch's strike is in regular japanese so you translate it normally

[@jaeusa160]

@39:30 I agree, the flavor complaint is huge. That's why Last Turn being two SPIRIT monsters is also a flavor fail because they can't be special summoned by Last Turn! It is functionally impossible to create the battle depicted on Last Turn with Last Turn!

[@meepers0179]

The dinosaurs that are frozen are the same colour as Spells/Traps. That's the flavour.

[@yargolocus4853]

"what is he talking about??" was a fun moment, but it did explain to me what I didn't understand before. Apparently in yugioh, trap cards area already too slow (so you run handtraps instead, which need not be set). This thing is a trap card that is meant to counter trap cards negating your cards you play on the next next turn. And then it can get negated.

[@hannessteffenhagen61]

I mean there are trap cards that are getting played, but only if you get them for free as part of some combo or they literally win the game if you resolve them. Usually it's not enough for a trap card to have a merely good effect for it to be playable on its own.

[@TheMetallingOne]

CGB of the ice barrier

[@bruhthisnamebruh]

Mesa Falcon of the Ice Barrier

[@Hanmacx]

CGB with Eyes of Blue 😅

[@neoaquadolphin]

CGB's reaction to witch's strike and writing on his notepad was peak content

[@AaronOneal-e7h]

Zombie World+Rivalry of Warlords is my jam.

[@MiyaoMeow588]

Raiho is balanced by the fact that only two decks can really play it, neither of which are meta (and even then, it's really just a tech in the other). If more decks had easy access to it, it would be *soooo* much worse

[@tyfallon]

It's crazy how EVERY new player simply cannot grasp how Witch's Strike just isn't that OP

[@U1TR4F0RCE]

I think it really doesn’t help that people don’t know the whole negate effect vs negate activation. Negate activation is more rare and a lot of the best and generic are banned or limited

[@BlackJustice2637]

It's because no one new realizes how fast Yugioh is. An effect like Witch's Strike seems like it'd matter before the earliest turn one could play it. But what's the point if your stuff gets negated before you have a chance to even set the card?

[@Chris-cf6ul]

Honestly is hard to comprehend how fast it is lmao just learning the game enough to understand is a brain killer​@@BlackJustice2637

[@reaflor91]

I really can't wait for this series to start introducing archetypes; a lot of cards that they've presented so far act relatively generic, but the heart and soul of the game lies in Archetype design, and I feel like they'll really understand how YGO works once they get into it But until then, I'll keep eating good with these videos! (Also, take care of yourself too, Cimo)

[@jamesaditya5254]

I think the reason "drawing the out" is more toxic in Yugioh than Magic is the speed of the average game. In case of floodgate effects especially, you're more than likely only get 1 more turn at best if you can't play the majority of your cards so the chances of getting to silver bullet-type cards are less likely than in a slower-paced game such as Magic. This also sparks the argument that putting stuff in the limited list makes for a worse feeling if you're playing against it that your opponent draws the only copy in their deck. It's salty and admittedly, very juicy when you win in those scenarios but that's more than likely because you also drew your one out lol

[@patrickwienhoft7987]

How can you show him Rivalry but not question his "not banned" call with There can only be One right afterwards?! I 1000% expected this as soon as I saw Rivalry

[@MikeMozzaro]

I was actually expecting Evenly Matched later on tbh.

[@SnailBot]

CGB might really like ice barrier a lot if he decide to play yugioh. Can combo a bit but generally try to make your opponent play difficult.

[@howlingzangetsu]

Ice barriers are a series of floodgates that aren’t quite floodgates. Like, why play a monster that becomes anti-spell fragrance if you control another monster over, well, anti-spell fragrance?

[@SparrowHawkwood]

@@howlingzangetsu Because that other monster will also likely do something? At least that's my logic.

[@DaviRenania]

@@howlingzangetsu because it is searchable, Anti-Spell is not

[@sommeone]

My favourite YGO youtuber is back!!! Let's goooooo!!!

[@drowsyCoffee]

54:17 For more context, Lava Golem (And all its dozen or so clones) are essentially yugioh's equivalent of "target opponent sacrifices a creature" style of effects, just, the weird off costed removals that are used for dealing with pesky voltrony Hexproof creatures and the like

[@laytonjr6601]

Except you're choosing the creature the opponent sacrifices

[@kuromoriofi]

and they cant proper counter, even if you counter the summon your oponent still loses the 2 tribute

[@HakureiIllusion]

CGB: "Eww." Cimo: "What do you mean 'eww'? This is right up your alley!" CGB: "I mean, yeah..." Average control mage

[@sebastianl4135]

Another CGB collab! I love these! Real wholesome guy and Cimo is just too sadistic for such a wholesome fella. Hey CovertGoBlue! Guess what? I just ordered 3 fresh new Witch's Strike after watching this! Also I've been watching a lot of videos on your channel in the last month and I love the Worst Possible Commander Series even though I've never played Magic before. I just watched and commented on the video, either episode 118 or 119 where you had Eluge, the Shoreless Sea as your commander and it's the first time I ever saw you completely pop off as a mono blue mage, and my buddy was telling me today about how that was *tame* compared to the stuff that people can do in commander. Imagine if anybody had played something like Witch's Strike as an Instant against you in that game! EDIT: also bucket list goals, food for thought. After Cimo's surgery, after he recovers, I would love if you could talk him into coming onto your Commander show. Hey Cimo! Add that to your list! Make it something to look forward to! I wish you the best and hope everything goes well for you!

[@dani007a]

I always love the collabs between these two, as well as Rarran. I would love to see at the end of these series battles between the three of them in the other games. So, for example, Cimo moderates a Yugioh duel between CGB and Rarran.

[@Fanofstuff]

Hey CGB, just as some added context for why rivalry of warlords is super broken. Assuming you arent playing an archetype that is specifically ALL 1 type. In modern yugioh, monsters are your answer for basically everything and your extra deck is generally your toolbox for advancing or dealing with any boardstate. It lets you push to deal damage, it lets you answer problematic cards and it lets you get ahead on your board. The thing is the best extra deck monsters are all generally different types and attributes unless they fall into a specific archetype. So even if your deck is all 1 monster typing you still cannot access the best extra deck monsters which will generally be your way of dealing with a card like rivalry of warlords. The card not only possibly board wipes the opponent, but it locks them out of being able to play the game and through that, also locks them out of being able to deal with the rivalry of warlords. Also if your opponent NEEDS to keep a specific extra deck monster on the field to avoid dying and its typing is not the same as the rest of their deck. the opponent is effectively locked out of the entire game. You also cannot (for example) tribute summon a monster that is a different type to change the type you have on the field. If you have ONLY a king tiger wanghu on the field you cannot tribute summon general Raiho to change the type from beast to warrior. Same applies for synchro/xyz/link/fusion. Another common thing many decks do is use their archetypical engine to spam out a ton of monsters and then turn those monsters into generic extra deck monsters that have powerful effects, but of course, the typing/attribute usually doesnt line up since those generic cards arent within that archetype. Remember modern yugioh games last about 1/2 turn cycles (1-4 turns total), so rivalry turn skipping your opponent for 1 turn effectively ends the entire game, their isnt time to draw into spell/trap removal and stall out the game. Many decks also have ways of destroying their own stuff. So the card is almost always 1 sided, lock out the opponent and then either your playing a deck that doesnt care about the card OR you have plenty of ways of just destroying it on your own turn so it doesnt affect you anymore I wouldve brought up examples but i dont want to spoil, for any future videos, cards cimo might show cgb

[@Sirfredrickvlogs]

"annoying but not that good" sums up every control play style.

[@vincentwiliamphilips]

huge downside for witches strike is also that its not a counter right? so you cant react to solemns since they are counter trap cards

[@YukiFubuki.]

it can, just not in the same chain witch’s strike doesnt response to an activation because its not trying to respond to an activation but an effect’s resolution instead as its responding to soemthing bring negated and not to something that would negate so it doesnt need to chain to a solemn

[@SheruMuko]

I cast Mono Blue Tron in Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@MrObscureinsanity]

Show him Snake Rain, and Venomminaga. Remind him about painful choice too lol.

[@homunculus7]

Nohting makes me happier then CGB Collabs

[@ItsPForPea]

Only two cards in and CGB already got double the points Cimo had in the latest CGB video 🎉

[@MikeMozzaro]

1:05:17 is why I love CGB expressed in a manner of seconds~ (Also his resignation of Witches Strike being his personal Bishbaalkin is hilarious XD )

[@darkpendulumsystem]

Hope pendulum appears on this show soon

[@dudono1744]

Show him the sleepy girl.

[@darkpendulumsystem]

@dudono1744 yess

[@StriiderEclipse]

I’m disappointed you didn’t follow up his complaint about cold wave’s flavor by showing heat wave immediately after

[@luciogames9243]

39:24 you should show him Heat Wave next time lol

[@kinosnake]

I also think the added context of the extremely unintuitive ways that Rivalry of Warlords and friends work helps explain why exactly they're such a problem

[@Xanderj89]

Coming from earlier Yu-Gi-Oh! it is wiiild that getting hurt attacking a stronger defense monster is only just now coming up. That was like an every duel occurrence, and happened a ton in the show too

[@YamiNoAruji]

showing witches strike was really not fair in any way. I stand by this: If witches strike could trigger on all negation it would see play. But it doesnt so it is too narrow and sucks. (and it is a trap so its slow that part cimo explained well)

[@mawillix2018]

I love these! I'm glad you're doing these.

[@ChillingVlad1]

Witches strike can't respond to solemn traps right? Because it is a normal trap correct me if im wrong

[@HylianKnight00]

Witch's strike activates on a new chain after resolution. If your opponent solemns you, you can activate it after.

[@DaviRenania]

God is literally in the artwork. It would be crazy if it didn't negate him.

[@YungShaun170]

24:19 ooooooooo, he’s going to be one of THOSE players 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@mawillix2018]

Ey, I'm so happy the card that I suggested is on here!!

[@KDoodleNoodle99]

Glad to see another one of these 😊 wb

[@sealemnether3540]

oh ive been waiting for this! love CGB's reactions everytime

[@DevilWearsAdidas]

Yay! Hope youre feeling better Cimo!

[@Gorokk1]

Another thing to note about Witch's Strike is that many good control effects simply negate effects but not activations, leaving your Witch's Strike dead more often than you'd think.

[@argentbast]

Love these collabs, and prayers and well wishes of Cimo. Definitely want to see more of these in the future~

[@logandaley1544]

58:50 that evil laugh and mini monologue sounded like something from the anime.

[@Cosmic_K13]

I actually despise Raiho, as unless you run non monster ways to deal with it, you just dont get to play. Its a floodgate with atk points, and that sucks.

[@LocrianDorian]

Wow, the way you said "you would be.... correct" for Chain Energy, CGB was right to be spooked. 🤣🤣🤣

[@BunniBuu]

That last card was absolutely worth watching until the end for XD

[@squirrel_killer-]

I think the important thing to realize about Warlords is most ways to remove it requires a monster. In Magic most the counters to it are sorceries, in Yugioh most of our removal are monsters and getting them out might require multiple monsters of different types. We also use archetype more than type and archetype doesn't mean type will match. So Warlords shut down a lot of archetypes entirely.

[@icaruskidm]

Cgb and rarran doing this is some of my fav cimo content! Hope to see alot more jaw dropping reactions!

[@rufuspilula247]

Simply put: Witch's Strike is always one turn too late. That's why it's not played. As a player going 1st, you can only activate it on turn 2 when your opponent is most likely to use removal rather than negation. As a player going 2nd, you can only activate it on turn 3 and by that time your opponent would have already activated most of their negates. It *would* be broken, even banned, if it were a handtrap (instant) or a quickplay spell (instant during your turn) because it would be live turn 1 (vs handtraps) and turn 2 (vs established board). But, as a Trap, it just becomes live too late. And at that point it's better to have an extra combo piece or a negate, rather than a very conditional board-wipe.

[@declanmckenna6854]

What also doesn't help that the most commonly used negates are spell speed 3 so as a normal trap it's spell speed 2 so it can't even be used to respond to the cards you'd want to use it against.

[@brandonrajvong]

Yess, i always look forward to these

[@Sinzari]

btw, @cgb, we often call it "6 star" instead of level 6 just because it's easier to say and because you can use stars for monsters with both level and ranks, even though level 6 is the official way to say it.

[@Gravewhisper]

I haven't played Yu-Gi-Oh since Raigeki was banned. I don't know any of these cards, but the banter between these two is just really entertaining to watch! :)

[@timaeus22222]

Surprisingly, I accidentally played around Witch's Strike in Labrynth while running Weather Painters. What I did was bounce my opponent's set Solemn Strike (it was a soul read), and brought back remaining monsters and had enough negates to negate two cards AND the Witch's Strike anyway. That's the closest I ever got to being hit by Witch's Strike.

[@streiifi]

oh yeah more collabs! this is gonna be great

[@Sinzari]

What's ironic about witch's strike is that it's often best IN slow control decks. In those decks, you're often don't little but setting traps on your first turn, and you wait until your opponent plays stuff before you try to remove them. If you have a removal that is meant to remove their boss monster and they negate your removal with that boss monster, they won't have their whole board set up yet to also be able to negate witch's strike.

[@andrijor]

Ok that little notebook moment destroyed me HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@marcelo_vrda4589]

best series on the channel, the guests are always fire

[@OlgaZuccati]

cgb: "I wonder if you can make a deck with only dragons" oh, boy, so innocent

[@bradkohl99]

CGB is a treat to have on the channel. Hope to see more of him in the future.

[@danielcoats713]

Another thing about Cold Wave is that it's a lingering effect. Most folks might look at this like a normal person and think about countering it like you would a continuous effect, but you can't simply negate it by destroying it.

[@raygonzales2208]

To add onto witches strike. It only works if the ACTIVATION of a card or effect is negated. It cannot activate after your opponent uses ash blossom but it can activate after your opponent uses ghost belle.

[@acetraker1988]

Sad times, no Dimensional Barrier.

[@rocketpajamas6969]

I was literally just watching the last video and I see this one was just uploaded Love this series!

[@NymphieJP]

Witch's Strike is legit my favourite card and has my favourite art. It's such an amazing card and underrated. It's great because no one expects it lol I used it on Master Duel and they just sat there for like 30 seconds before surrendering.

[@jamesk5510]

This guy has been the most entertaining outta all the guests cimo has had on these

[@thepotato513]

Something to note about Rivalry of Warlords is it didn't get limited due to decks that only play one type of monster, it got limited due to decks that play very few monsters in general

[@Takao0815]

You two are amazing. thanks for bringing that up, blue magician. would like more of this. With the last card, the fluff of the card could have been addressed. @CGB To put it more simply: Things that only become good on your second turn are too slow in modern Yugio. And on your opponent's first turn there aren't that many targets for this card. In modern Yugio you want to respond with cards that are good before your first turn. You want to play cards like Magic's "Force of Will" as a response.

[@Acre00]

The sheer resistance people in modern yugioh have to putting MST into their deck is insane.

[@alex7737]

I'm excited for him to get to Pendulum summoning!

[@epicponedge1177]

Pendulums will melt his brain.

[@Mudoraplays]

Just for clarification regarding witch's strike: Imagine you are going first. You're setting up your board. Your opponent uses handtraps to interact with you etc etc. Now since W strike is a trap card you cannot use it on your turn. So you set it face down. Your opponents turn starts. Who do you think is going to be negating the opponents card? Thats right! It is you! The player who started the game and set up their board. so witch's strike doesn’t do anything. On the flip side, you are going second. W strike is a teap card so it is a dead card in hand. It doesn’t help you break the opponents board.

[@smwg4187]

Cimo, best wishes from a Magic player, get well soon. Stay strong, you're in my thoughts.

[@IIXairII]

Gotta show him modern cards and blow his mind with link summon combos

[@Begeru]

I have fond memories of Cold wave. It’s one the older Yugioh cards that seemed really bad for a long time. Back in the day making your opponent pass a turn wasn’t that big of a deal. But in todays game skipping a turn means you’ll lose

[@laggalot1012]

After that Cold Wave reaction, please, PLEASE show "Heat Wave" to CGB, too. *The non-censored version specifically, for good measure!*

[@Mudoraplays]

Lava golem is interesting because it is essentially a stop button to when decks gets too out of hand with protecting themselves. Oh your monster can't be targeted, canteen be destroyed, has an omni-negate built in etc etc. Guess what? Lava golem eats right through them. The way yugioh works is that many decks can end on 2-3 very powerful flood gate monsters. So if the meta decks end board are all like that Lava golem sees more play.

[@BlackJustice2637]

The segment on witch's strike was really informative for me as an mtg player.

[@YukiFubuki.]

some more things about why witch's strike is not good aside from being slow as hell is that because of its wording that what must be negated to fulfill witch's strike's condition for activation besides negating a summon is the activation of cards and effects, the key word here is 'activation' so witch's strike cannot be used against anything that negates an effect of a card instead which really narrows down what witch's strike is applicable for if you're not quite sure what the difference between negating the activation vs negating the effect here is an example; there is a card called lightning storm that is widely used with an effect to either destroy all opponent's atk position monster OR all their spell/traps on field instead for the restriction that to play it you must not control any faceup cards and it also has a clause that states "You can only activate 1 "Lightning Storm" per turn." so if you got 2 copies of them in your hand 1 is a dead card as you cannot activate both within the same turn but if you were to use a copy and the opponent activated something in response to negate your lightning storm's activation then you can go and use the 2nd copy since the 'activation' being negated effectively means it was never activated at all, if it was instead the effect that is negated the 2nd copy is still a dead card since the activation still went through just that the effects got shot on resolution additionally witch's strike is also further restrained by its wording in that its effect to "Destroy all cards your opponent controls and in their hand." requires the opponent to at least have at min 1 card in both locations because it says "and" in their hand so if their hand is empty then witch's strike cannot be legally activated if the opponent were to negate a summon or activation of a card or effect because you cannot destroy what doesnt exist, same goes if their field is empty too though the latter scenario is very unlikely

[@comteqfr525]

I think you should ask him about Snake rain next time. He's gonna be like "oh, the graveyard is an extra hand so the card advantage is insane !"

[@Excellsion]

I nominate CGB'S initial reaction to the cold, dead dinosaur for a short.