Magic: The Gathering Player Learns How To Play Yu-Gi-Oh! (Featuring Team APS)

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[@YawgmothWasRight]

Yugioh is actually extremely easy to learn, just show your hand to your opponent at the start of the game, and they'll know if they've lost or not.

[@TheChiefMoron]

These days you need to show each other the top 13 cards of your decks too

[@MaggotKing556]

Lmao.

[@bleudecoup6478]

But the text is "SO SMALL" (missed opportunity for the gorilla meme "i want a banana THIS big").

[@buhbbl]

Based on yesterday's championship matchups you not only show your hand, you also show your entire deck to each other on turn one.

[@katarhall3047]

Bruh, rough truths. LOL

[@theredheadrevolution4156]

'I feel like I'm supposed to have won by turn one' He already understands modern yugioh better than most people, well done

[@infernoplayzgames1684]

Glad I'm not the only one who caught that.

[@p.m.e.7311]

Turn 2 is the end unless it is turn 3

[@rangingaway92]

Nobody knows what these cards do. Ironic since nobody still knows what pot of greed do.

[@theredheadrevolution4156]

@@p.m.e.7311 Turn two? Whoa there, little ambitious there, don't you think?

[@p.m.e.7311]

@@theredheadrevolution4156 you can't attack on turn 1

[@Average-Joe851]

As a person who played both Yu-gi-oh and Magic the Gathering, I can tell you it's easier to go from Yu-gi-oh to Magic than Magic to Yu-gi-oh.

[@NinjaXFiles]

I'll keep that in mind lol

[@darkgladiator27]

Couldn’t play a hand when magic came out on Xbox

[@Wizard_Lizard_]

That's because MtG is far less complicated and less swingy.

[@alexrowson-brown6568]

It’s better to go to weiss though and just leave yugioh forever

[@memes_gbc674]

100% agree

[@willr2189]

Does the dragon have “flying?” “What!???” It’s the funniest reaction I ever seen! 😂

[@Hung_Nguyen_90]

Flying translated to Toon in Yugioh 🤣🤣🤣

[@wickederebus]

​@Hung Nguyen nah, more like the cards that have a clearly stated effect "this card can attack your opponent directly" Those are "Flying" for us yugioh players.

[@Hung_Nguyen_90]

@@wickederebus Since Flying can attack dirrectly unless your opponent also have flying ... or reach, I think Toon is closer to flying because Toon can't attack dirrectly If opponent also have Toons

[@soleo2783]

@@wickederebus That's "Can't be blocked", toon is flying

[@lPsychoMax]

The card does have flying but only in dungeon dice monsters. "What's dungeon dice monsters" Yugioh chess pretty much. Nobody liked it enough so it faded away.

[@mond256]

Professor spent 10 minutes setting up his first turn board just like a true yugioh player

[@tripleplay94]

Just to lose the next turn like an even truer yugioh player lmao

[@GraemeGunn]

The Professor.

[@TimmyTurner421]

This is so accurate

[@Modernsour19]

He took 10 minutes to play his first card..

[@rikvanengeland137]

He is a rookie and this was his first time playing Yu-gi-oh, give him some slack. And if he plays some more than he will become better at this, just like the old Netherlands saying: "one learns by doing".

[@TeamAPS]

*Thanks so much for having us on! This was a load of fun, even if things didn't exactly look close! But hey, you got to play the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!* 😅

[@belurso5179]

You guys make yugioh sound simultaneously like a lot of fun.. and a game I'm happy I've never picked up. I'm loving your collabs with the prof (and vice versa)!

[@flockinify]

I know Blue-Eyes is more iconic, but maybe consider giving the prof something more balanced? I don't know, Generaiders or something? The tokens act something like mana.

[@JStack]

Love your guys content! I couldn’t keep up with the monetization of Master Duel but you guys had great videos and deck techs

[@empty3102]

I honestly would've just started with some older starter deck. I think some of these newer cards just have too much text, which slows down the game unless you've played awhile. Every time i try get back into yugioh someones playing some deck 'proc'-ing effects non stop and I just end up not following and suddenly their boards full. LUL good times XD

[@basen89]

Love your recent collabs!

[@Tastingo117]

I love how that Trap card with 8 lines of text basically says "Choose a Blue-Eyes White Dragon you control. It has Hexproof ,Deathtouch and can't be damaged in combat until end of turn"

[@bmxriderforlife1234]

Yeah but yugioh doesn't have one word names for generic effects because there aren't really any generic effects. There can be very subtle tweaks to each type of effect given. And wording can play a role just like in mtg.

[@mrummgoat53]

​@@bmxriderforlife1234 all I have to say is piercing

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

@@mrummgoat53 Piercing is one of those cases where the text for it is so universal that it basically cannot be changed, meaning it can be abbreviated easily

[@drew8235]

Yeah, that seems to be one of the biggest problems with Yugioh. They dug themselves into a hole by not just coming up with some smart terminology like MTG did early on. Walls of text, and then the justification is well they have subtle differences, so it needs to be that long. It doesn't, though.

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

@@drew8235 The long text one is more so a case of avoiding implications, especially as far as targeting and non-targeting effects go, because by the gods people need to learn the difference

[@luisjuarez9271]

A few years ago, I was helping judge a Yugioh tournament for a local card shop. This card shop specialized in MTG but liked to have events for any card game that was popular. I went over a ruling about missed timing and had to thoroughly explain it to one of the players. That day I had given a lot of rulings and the guy behind the counter called me over. At this time, I had never played MTG and didn't really know much about it, except for the bit I picked up watching some of my friends play. He asked if I wanted to learn how to play Magic. I told him I didn't want to spend to much time on another card game and it seemed a little complicated. This man started laughing his ass off. He said "I just heard you give a thesis on missed timing." I'm sure you could figure it out. I started playing Magic with a friend of mine about a month ago. Now I know why he was laughing so hard.

[@apoptosisduellinks109]

Is it because MTG is much simpler?

[@bmxriderforlife1234]

​@@apoptosisduellinks109 mtg is simpler in some regards but more complex in others. Part if it boils down to Konami changing rules a little more often instead of dealing with op cards properly. Among some other issues and the fact that yugioh isn't as based off a standard set of mechanics that apply to everything but a basic set of mechanics everything else works within till they break mechanics. Lack of mana makes it a very big difference in some aspects to other games. But also makes it simpler in some aspects. The faster game play design also doesn't help.

[@w8what620]

@@bmxriderforlife1234 magic is alot easier I love both games but in my experience magic is easier because its more predictable

[@clarencealger8380]

Yu-Gi-Oh was also my first game ever. I only moved over to MTG because my friends started picking it up. So yeah, Mtg is easier to understand. Because to me, MTG feel more like a board game than Yu-Gi-Oh. However, I do feel like Yu-Gi-Oh's chain links are a lot more straightforward than Magic's stack priority rules.

[@EthanKironus8067]

​@@bmxriderforlife1234That's something that Cardfight!! Vanguard has, more consistent mechanics that the cards operate within--and KEYWORDS, what a concept.

[@Total_DuDe]

"You have activated my TRAP CARD!!!... What does this do?" Is just the spirit of Yu-Gi-Oh summed up in one sentence.

[@itachizolden]

Nah the spirit of yu-gi-oh is not knowing what pot of greed does which still don’t know

[@AeonAxisProductions]

​@@itachizolden only rata knows

[@nunsluna8107]

@@itachizolden I looked it up and after a 8 hour video I think it lets you draw a card

[@itachizolden]

@@nunsluna8107 wait really

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

@@itachizolden if you really don't know, it lets you draw 2 cards.

[@wyattthewordweaver1992]

This serves mad “teaching your grandfather how to send an email” energy and I am here for it

[@B-MC]

And your grandfather ends up proving he understands entirely, although he proves it with typewriting jargon.

[@MikePhantom]

@@B-MC while also showing off how fucking stupid that emailing system is in the process without knowing he does.

[@lightup6751]

I disagree. If magic and yu-gi-oh are compared the correct comparison is teaching your grandfather who is the lead programmer of his company how to make tiktok memes

[@watch_addictz]

For a person who played both tcg this is gold, it's like being bilingual I understood all their references lol

[@ianco2437]

Same here

[@haydenj4738]

Just learned magic today as a Yu-Gi-Oh player and same for me, learning curve the other way around is wayyyyy easier it looks like

[@jbru9576]

“It’s like being bilingual”. That’s a funny analogy I relate

[@BaneOfV]

Yami: "It's time to DUEL!" Guy: "wait what does this do?" Yami: "you can take this one Yugi"

[@EvelynMcCormick-cf5yj]

😂

[@EvelynMcCormick-cf5yj]

🤣

[@OmegaChase1002]

Diabolical

[@papasweed.dispenseria5977]

Them just saying "sometimes" or "most of the time" when explaining a rule of mechanic of the game just sums up yugioh as a card game perfectly

[@exenator1489]

pretty much. as a magic and pokemon player myself i can say the other big 2 have mechanics that are pretty much set in stone, but then theres yugioh, theres so much stuff thats not even in the rule book they could make a second rule book out of whats missing

[@seththurman7735]

@@exenator1489 The thing about yugioh is that the cards are allowed to break the rules if they say so

[@jakovstojkovic8851]

@@exenator1489 They say sometimes because in some cards effect is writen something that can do something over basic rules

[@mtgrandomstuff646]

@@seththurman7735 may i ask for an Example please? Would be great to learn something about Yu Gi Oh

[@rft1076]

@@mtgrandomstuff646 Supreme King Starving Venom (a fusion monster, which you usually summon with the effect of a fusion spell card), says the following after the text for which monsters you need: "Must be either Fusion Summoned, or Special Summoned by Tributing the above cards you control (in which case you do not use "Polymerization").". This tells you that you can disregard the usage of a fusion spell to summon the card and instead tribute the materials from your field instead. A more basic example would be attacking a defense position monster with a card that says, "When this monster battles a defense positon monster, inflict piercing battle damage", which is already a contradiction to the basic rules.

[@DefinitelyNotReal627]

This is like watching somebody who only speaks Italian trying to teach their friend Italian, but their friend only speaks Spanish. It's real, real good.

[@izzymizzle]

why is this such a good metaphor

[@michelecastellotti9172]

It makes sense, the two languages descend from the same one, but are different even if certain things sound similar. Brilliant really.

[@paultheviewer]

In the OG Yugioh manga, Duel Monsters was originally a parody of Magic, Kaiba says something along the lines of "Duel Monsters is a popular game in the States, with a much smaller following in the East". Its roots were based on Magic The Gathering, and evolved into its own thing, much like how both Romance languages Spanish and Italian both derived from Latin. Shout out to French and Hearthstone ;)

[@jeyrm]

Perfección

[@kelvinsantiago7061]

Eso es cierto!.

[@Coolbreeze02050]

we need to see a video where you play a commander game with the 3 of them and teach them all how to play MtG, that would be a very entertaining video

[@swisssaga4419]

invite spice8rack to fill the table of four and the professer (and maybe two other mtg players) just help the yugio player’s playing the game

[@Noremak_Notrap]

really dont care too see aps play commander

[@IEgOImkAwx]

@@Noremak_Notrap too late!

[@Thelaretus]

'All your monsters have trample'. Quote of the day.

[@dudono1744]

yeah and some have better trample

[@pa7764]

... Unless the enemy monster is in defense mode in which case only some rare few does. Never came up ofc but that seems like another reason they could've used someone who knows both games on the explaining side.

[@pa7764]

I haven't played yugioh in 10 years and even then I wasn't half the player those two gentlemen by Prof's side are, but even I could've translated the game more for Prof without overwhelming with too much info, just cuz I know magic too so you can tell what things will trip him up and what things will immediately make sense. Like telling him you can set magic cards too not just trap cards, that you can never cast things from hand at instant speed unless the card specifically says it can do that (don't even know if that exists but probably does, Kuriboh?)

[@Pocket-Calculator]

​@@pa7764The game now revolves around effects that trigger from the hand. Cherry Blossom & Joyous Spring is the single most important card nowadays, present in 99 % of all decks. It discards itself to negate effects. There's also some Trap Cards that activate from hand under specific circumstances like Evenly Matched and a few Spells that play during the opponent's turn like Runick Quick Spells.

[@phantom6]

@@pa7764that's the "better trample". in the OCG it was called Piercing.

[@crondog]

I like how they choose Blue-Eyes vs. Dark Magician for the first match and the significance of those deck choices flew miles over Prof's head.

[@OG-512]

@@nmr7203 They explained how the game goes, he learned.

[@marshall4439]

For those of us who only know magic, what is the significance?

[@revolioclockbergjr.6780]

@@marshall4439 They're iconic monster designs in the show/franchise. The Dark magician is the main protagonists ace monster and gets a lot of screen time in the show. Blue eyes white dragon is probably yugiohs most iconic card/monster and is the ace monster of the shows main rival/antagonist. In the TCG they each have their own support cards specific to the archetype. As far as I remember the deck itself have never been super good but they're still the most recognizable cards from the series

[@marshall4439]

@@revolioclockbergjr.6780 Gotcha, thanks for the info.

[@omegazx999]

@@revolioclockbergjr.6780 Blue Eyes White Dragon actually won the World Championship in 2016 so I wouldn't say it was never super good. Dark Magician never won anything worthwhile though.

[@alecfields1153]

The Professor is such a good sport putting up with Larry's deck building and my coaching 😅 Thanks again for having us on!

[@corpsefoot758]

And thank you for introducing more Magic players to YGO This is the kind of collab YT should be all about IMO

[@Crusina]

You're awesome! I'm having so much fun watching everyone. I can't stress enough how much every colbab makes me smile.

[@bosH0g]

your reactions were priceless. Best parts of the video!

[@OriginalVoiceBox]

Yes I also loved your reactions haha.

[@RockyRaccoon162]

Your reactions in this video are hilarious! As someone who plays both games I've experienced the same when magic players have questions lol

[@ZandrousGNA]

YuGiOh is the US Tax Law of TCGs

[@zephyrstrife4668]

For the blue eyes trap that has the blue eyes ultimate on it: Your blue eyes becomes indestructible and gains deathtouch until end of turn. The spell has flashback so you can also play it from your graveyard but you exile it at the end of the effect.

[@gloomygloomstalker3878]

Me literally using the keywords as he was going through it as well 😂

[@Reluxthelegend]

The friendship that has budding between the professor and teamAPS ever since the professor invited Paul is amazing.

[@belurso5179]

It's so fun to see them bouncing off of each other.

[@EdElric21]

Téa would be proud

[@CoreysCards]

The Yugituber community is ALL about collaborations. Seriously, it's like a family drama how close they all are. It'd be a CCG fan's dream to have that level of community in the WOTC-sphere.

[@NachozMan]

@@CoreysCards Facts my fave YT content over the years has always been collaborative stuff,

[@PommyDragon2525]

I knew it was coming, but seeing The Professor tap his Blue-Eyes to attack just shook something deep in my soul.

[@RegiRuler]

Never show him Borrelsword.

[@joshuaduck4139]

Trample

[@klutzmtg2310]

You can hear Kaiba screaming in the distance.

[@Sky-CladObserver]

He should have been playing Superheavy Samurais

[@anonymous71207]

@@Sky-CladObserver Karakuri would also work

[@b00tybu77chks]

16:27 as a magic player, I too often skim through what a card does only to find out later that it does not do what I thought. Phyrexian Negator is a great example..

[@spottedfiregaming2248]

Showing results for: Phyrexian Obliterator

[@b00tybu77chks]

@spottedfiregaming2248 yea o basically thought it was gunna be like this when I skimmed over it

[@mattm7798]

I could see PN being goodin the late 90s if you manage to steer clear of red decks and your black removal could clear all the blockers.

[@L0ztZ0ld13r]

As a player of both games and as a subscriber of both channels, I love this colab between Team APS and The Professor XD

[@GandhiLeftNipple]

Prof relentlessly using magic terms while confusing the APS boys is hilarious

[@lambrosgeorgakopoulos8904]

Yeah and is kinda annoying too :/

[@elsesome2707]

I feel like he is definitely playing it up for the video (likewise with completely unfounded Assumptions), since I trust Prof to have played other games and is able to shift into other terminologies. That said magic terms are easy shorthands when you are talking with fellow players who know the lingo and can easily explain any nuance your generalization is making. ...maybe this would have worked better as highly edited and scripted sketch comedy bit with all the camp and extravagance of YGO anime?

[@ricardoamendoeira3800]

It's probably for the audience to follow along more easily, since this channel is mostly for Magic players.

[@1235Gdog]

@@lambrosgeorgakopoulos8904 he is 100% playing his character. This is on his channel after all.

[@lambrosgeorgakopoulos8904]

@@1235Gdog indeed, but it still is a little bit cringy though :p

[@isaacfaith9369]

Paul casually asking the Professor if he's into reading novels as they start their duel really got me.

[@FuriedHearts]

The best part was the ending where professor asked them genuine questions out of curiosity about the game, costs, etc. It’s fascinating to listen to someone learning about Yugioh coming from Magic I do wish they would’ve let professor play the Magician deck. Or they should’ve built two similar decks with similar mechanics. I’m worried that first game gave him an awful impression of the game lol

[@YukiFubuki.]

yeah… the blue eyes isnt exactly known to be anything but bricky, its jokingly called brick-eyes for a reason on the other hand dark magician isnt even able to come anywhere even close to blue eyes in terms of raw power

[@NostalgicOccultist]

@@YukiFubuki. Ironically enough a red eyes deck might have been comparatively perfect for learning the game, it has easy to learn combos, rarely bricks, and covers a ton of the games mechanics

[@mattm7798]

@@YukiFubuki. So it's like old Modern Jund vs Pre Treasure Cruise ban Delver or something in that Jund, card for card, is more powerful but Delver sees a ton of cards but it's individual creatures aren't as powerful? Is there a good beginner deck that's in the middle, like it's more complex than Blue Eyes(basically get giant creatures into play) but not as insanely combo-y as dark magician?

[@mattm7798]

@@NostalgicOccultist Just learning YuGiOh...can you explain the red eyes deck?(LOL I selected the red eyes avatar for my master duels badge)

[@YukiFubuki.]

@@mattm7798 people tend to say swordsoul is an extremely good beginner decks because of how simply yet powerful their gameplay is with minimal plays the tutorial shoudve brief you on how synchro summoning works so to get to the point swordsouls are a group of wyrm type monsters (the original japanese term is phantom dragon instead of wyrm) focus on synchro summoning lvl 8 and lvl 10 synchro monsters and is very simplistic in how they do so; they've a couple main deck monsters in total but the 3 you wanna only bother using is swordsoul of mo ye and swordsoul of taia which is both lvl 4 and swordsoul strategist longyuan that is lvl 6 with the 3 extra deck synchro monsters of theirs being the lvl 8 swordsoul grandmaster chixiao and both swordsoul supreme sovereign chengying and swordsoul sinister sovereign qixing longyuan (yes hes shares a name with strategist longyuan because in lore they're the same person) who are lvl 10 all 3 of these main deck monsters (mo ye, taia and longyuan) has an effect to summon a lvl 4 swordsoul token to your field that carries the tuner sub-type in which they would then tune with to synchro summon a lvl 8 (mo ye and taia 4+4=8) or lvl 10 (longyuan 6+4=10) synchro monster but they each have a different cost to summon the token with mo ye having to reveal another swordsoul or wyrm type monster in your hand when shes summoned (is an on-summon effect), taia having to banish a swordsoul or wyrm card from your grave (is an ignition effect, you manually activate it anytime during an open gamestate on your turn) and longyuan is an in-hand (ignition) effect to discard another swordsoul or wyrm monster to summon both himself to the field and the swordsoul token the lvl 8 grandmaster chixiao has an effect when synchro summoned to search out another swordsoul card so a common first turn play is to use mo ye to summon him and to search out strategist longyuan who can then use his effect to get himself and a token to field to either summon the lvl 10 chengying or an off archetype monster called baronne de fleur but typically baronne most of their play either start out with mo ye (taia requires a banish from the grave so not suited for turn 1 play) if not longyuan so swordsoul decks max out on mo ye for highest chance of seeing her in opening hand, alternatively there is also a monster called incredible ecclesia the virtuous who can special summon herself from your hand if the opponent controls more monster then you do (or you can normal summon her if mo ye or longyuan isnt in hand either), her effect is to tribute herself to summon any other swordsoul monster from the deck which is typically either mo ye or taia depending on if you got a swordsoul or wyrm card in hand or grave to reveal/banish (shes not a wyrm or even a swordsoul card but she can do this due to lore reasons) but basically in a 40 card deck 3 copies max of mo ye, sword soul emergence (a spell to add to hand from deck any swordsoul monster) and ecclesia is 22.5% of the deck so you have a very good chance to open with either of them if not at least longyuan with another swordsoul/wyrm in hand the gist of it is that swordsoul can consistently open with both chixiao and baronne who has 2800 and 3000 atk respectively that comes with negation effects (chixiao negates monsters effects only and requires banishing swordsoul/wyrm from hand or grave while baronne's is an omni-negate but only once while shes faceup on field) and some decks just arent able to immediately deal with this power play of an opening since even later game swordsoul supreme sovereign chengying exist for them who can banish any card from your grave to prevent his own destruction by card effect, if a card is banished he can non-target banish a card from the opponent's field and grave and for every card banished he gains 100 atk and def while all opponent's monster loses 100 atk and def instead swordsoul can also access to icejade gymir aegirine who is scarcely accessible to most synchro decks since she requires a water tuner which is the exact attribute the swordsoul token is but is very underrated since she has a quick effect that will make it so for the rest of the turn the opponent cannot destroy by card effect or banish monsters you control and if she activates this effect in response to an opponent's card you can banish every copy of that card from the opponent's field or grave that shares its name including the very card she used her effect in response towards too

[@Dracula_sb]

I started laughing as they started listing off the colors of Yu-Gi-Oh cards 😂

[@Wingedmagician]

“blue with a hexagon” got me 😂

[@MTGBear]

This radiates "grandpa learns his grandsons card game" energy

[@Gh0stClown]

Or high school students and their one cool teacher.

[@Radiodragonofdoom]

Just came here to say the exact same thing!

[@KhanGarth]

@@Gh0stClown or college students teach their professor perhaps

[@benjaminjameskreger]

The reverse Yu-Gi-Oh.

[@thekittenfreakify]

You'd be suprised. We had a 60yr old playing ygo at my locals back in 2012 he was wrecking the top guys with anti-meta decks

[@retro.7673]

The crossover we all wanted ❤HE SAID THE THING HE SAID THE TRAP CARD THING! As a Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic player it was wholesome watching the prof learn the game like we did when we were little kids.

[@endlesswanderer1753]

He almost said it right!

[@zachszlachta3740]

This was actually helpful. I never bothered to properly learn chain links, but this made it quite easy to understand

[@SwagJesus69420]

Yugioh players be like: "I HATE THAT CARD! What does it do again?"

[@clivedorrington4036]

"He is tutoring for dark magician.... at instant speed" and every magic player died a little inside.

[@Theycallmetomu]

Card is basically Worldly Tutor!

[@mikaela5938]

and dark magicians are a pretty weak deck in yugioh, there's a lot of decks that do way before

[@Theycallmetomu]

@@mikaela5938 No lie.

[@mikaela5938]

@@Theycallmetomu the were a pretty good control deck in the duel links version of the game a couple years ago but even in that one they got power crept really bad over the following years

[@arbbar2674]

@@mikaela5938 dark magician is pretty good rn in duel links, dont spread false information please

[@zevreth8826]

My favorite parts are when the proffessor mentions a magic keyword and the other 2 are just like "What...?"

[@yaqoubalshatti205]

Trample had me laughing

[@israeldelarosa5461]

@@yaqoubalshatti205 Trample is moreso piercing.

[@mansman2167]

@@israeldelarosa5461 Technically, all attacks in Yugioh have "trample" i.e. excess ATK/Power spills over as damage to the player. Defense Position simply negates that "trample", but "piercing" allows creatures to still have trample against Defense Position monsters.

[@gamerwolffang2722]

As a Yu-Gi-Oh I'm thinking the same "Nani?!"

[@Shuwa217]

This is why I always go through the rulebook first before playing a new card game But then again for Yu-Gi-Oh they don't explain hand traps, unchainables (spell speed 4) and timing (Mermail Abyssdine, *sobs)

[@Niteshiftmonkey]

As soon as Prof Brought the Glasses out I knew this was gonna be a GLORIOUS EPISODE!

[@vryerocker7867]

When he said, the blue eyes white dragon was one of the strongest cards, my whole body crumpled up like a piece of paper in my middle school backpack

[@jonathannorris9475]

**Laughs in Neumeron**

[@raven_knight_076]

​@@jonathannorris9475numeron aren't even that good unless you're a noob lol

[@NostalgicOccultist]

@@raven_knight_076 Wasn't Numeron a tier 1 deck? I guess I might be thinking of something else.

[@ObviouslyDeven]

@@NostalgicOccultist Numeron was never tier 1. It was never even tier 3. It was Tier 4 at best in 2021 with a single top. That's because numeron heavily relies on OTK. Which means you're gonna have a hard time against anyone who has a side deck. Like a single Battle Fader stops the whole thing and let's you set-up your board, break his board and potentially OTK him yourself. Also Numeron has a hard time playing through interruptions. Numeron is only really okay in a best of 1 format but even then, Decks like Mystic Mine, Floowandereeze and almost every other deck that tries to lock your opponent down is still better.

[@BradW.]

Professor: "Reading the card explains the card".... Larry: "Sometimes"... LOL this is exactly how I feel trying to learn this crazy game!

[@herbertwalter8693]

look up the cards "Small World" and "Inspector Boarder" and try to understand what they do 😂

[@guestguest9051]

The professor actually did it right by "I don''t need to read the rest of the cards" because cards with 2-3 effects usually only have 1 useful effect. Hell there is this card called Jowgen the Spiritualist that has 2 effects. - Discard 1 random card from your hand, destroy all your opponents monsters. - Neither player can special summon monsters and most people don't even know he has the first effect because the 2nd is just way more used. The game has been power crept so much that using up a normal summon for a board wipe is not always the best idea.

[@Guy1189]

@Herbert Walter I currently play Inspector Boarder, and I'm not sure I can tell you.

[@kindlingking]

@@guestguest9051 it's not that jowgen got powercrept, it's just that he doesn't fit in. Turning any of your cards in Raigeki is good, but: 1. It takes up your normal summon. Some decks can afford that, but others would search for an alternative, because they really need to spend their NS on their starter. 2. It's unsearchable and as a result unreliable. More often than not you either have him but don't need or need him but don't have. 3. It doesn't combo with anything on it's own nor does it advances your gameplan, therefore it takes the space of your staples, where it need to compete with highly specialised often niche cards that just do his job better. Dark Ruler No More and Forbidden Droplet are better going second board breakers, for example, and, while we don't have floodgates as strong as jowgen (in a vacuum) in practice a lot of them enjoy either some kind of support or niche in specific archetypes that take advantage of them (like Eldlich being able to run all kinds of floodgate traps). "Just powercreep" is very shallow way to analyze the game. It's more like the market - the power (value) of cards is determined by demand for them at any given time. And since modern staples are highly specialised and usually made in demand of game's progression, old "all around good cards" staples inevitably fell off, because this isn't what the game is about nowadays.

[@LadyGuinevereYGO]

MTG is order and YGO is chaos 😂. Saying this as a YGO player.

[@captaintalon4485]

Team APS explaining the Yu-Gi-Oh version of a mulligan is too relatable

[@TheSnisel]

I do love how they have a mat that has all the zones labeled and that’s the one the yugioh player uses 😂

[@longroadgames6592]

Bless team APS for suffering through this. I learned a lot about yu-gi-oh. Thanks!

[@pelusoft]

This was so much fun. Now I'm waiting for the crossover where APS learns to play Magic the Gathering.

[@belurso5179]

Imagine having Spice and Kyle being the duel spirits tho.

[@pelusoft]

@@belurso5179 that'll be awesome. I was also thinking of Spice.

[@kellywilson137]

Il'd love to see this.

[@Leif47]

Well Larry has picked up Magic now so maybe thats how he got into it

[@JustN4n0]

This!!

[@guestguest9051]

5:23 "Reading the card explains the card" "Sometimes" *remembers the novel length ruling nightmare that is Last Turn*

[@danielzakgaim2764]

Warrior of Atlantus searches "A Legendary Ocean" even though ALO treats itself as "Umi"

[@pentagonofpeople]

Who needs that when you have a five paragraph essay about "if" vs "when"

[@michelecastellotti9172]

Bro, i remember when magnet warriors would win just because it would take too long to read the effects so people gave up

[@syrelian]

@@danielzakgaim2764 "Always Treated As" is not the same as not having its listed name, an effect that said "Target a card who's original name is Umi" would not hit ALO, as ALO's original name is ALO, despite being an "Always Treated As "Umi""

[@tumage8592]

what even Means "draw 2"?

[@kingpearlshine]

This was chaos. Now I need to see a 4 man game of commander with Paul, Larry, Alec, and Prof.

[@CaptainWilliams101]

Love this video! When I was a kid, I traded Pokémon cards. When I got older, I played yugioh cards. I found out about magic when I went to spring camp, and got hooked. Now, I’ve learned how to play Pokémon cards, and can play all 3 with my kids

[@mulldrifterz6469]

The just... defeat from Larry when the professor called Blue-Eyes a weak card was heart breaking.

[@darthparallax5207]

It dies to Doom Blade.

[@ExeErdna]

It's true tho the GOOD Blue Eyes setup is easy to shutdown now and the "modern" one is powercrept out the ass.

[@mikaela5938]

it unironically is pretty terrible in the modern game even despite all the years of supporting cards it's gotten, it's one of the sad things bc of the structuring of ygo on power creep that a lot of decks will fall by the wayside as time goes on

[@hiddenmaster6062]

@@ExeErdna In master duel it feels super easy to get things started when you put White Stone of the Ancients in the GY and get Blue Eyes Solid Dragon on the field if the opponent has a monster on the field. It permanently negate a monster and dip in the inevitable event someone activates an effect. Thus getting Blue Eyes White Dragon on the field to do whatever it is you were planning on using it for. Best part, it doesn't matter how White Stone of the Ancients ended up in the GY. Dragon Shrine, link summon, tribute, Laundry Dragonmaid, face-down defense, whatever. :D

[@hannessteffenhagen61]

@@hiddenmaster6062 well, the issue is more no matter what you do you're still playing blue eyes at the end of the day so you'll lose to anyone playing a good deck. It's fine for casual play I guess, except some of the cards are inexplicably expensive too, for a deck that'll get you smashed in locals.

[@person-cn6cn]

"YuGiOh IsNt ThAt DiFfErEnT"... Paul set the professor up from the very beginning.

[@Reluxthelegend]

He knew what he was doing

[@Abigdummy4life]

HE FELL FOR/ACTIVATED HIS TRAP CARD

[@Jose_P936]

In all fairness, if you let your opponent tutor that many cards in magic, you're in for a bad time.

[@jonathannorris9475]

Well, yeah. That was the joke.

[@koko61336]

It makes me so happy to see team APS getting all this success with their channel their videos are stupid good and fun to watch, I remember many months ago seeing team APS pop up on my feed and hitting subscribe never looking back

[@heftylad]

For those wondering whats with all the "most of the time" stuff; in short, in Yu-Gi-Oh some cards have effects that let them work differently to the regular game mechanics/rules. If you're ever confused in such a scenario (e.g. "This trap says i can activate it from my hand, but you can't even DO THAT with traps!"), the card effect always takee priority over regular rules.

[@weberman173]

yep, thats also what the rulebooks say, i dont know if they changed it but iirc they had a section where they had a few "terms" etc they just explained every basically, and one of them was a small field labeld "card effect vs Game rules" and it essentialy just said "if a card effect contradicts the rules of the game, the card effect takes priority"

[@pa7764]

I mean that's just the same for all card games including magic, like "you can only play one land card per turn" but there's cards that say "you can play an additional land on your turn" or "mana doesn't empty from pool at the end of turn" or hell, "indestructible doesn't die from taking damage". If a card says you can do something that you normally can't, that's what the card is for.

[@MajesticSundew]

That's literally how all card games work, I don't know why YGO players think that their game is special for this.

[@nauticoom]

Can’t wait for the YuGiOh players learns to play Magic! Love these crossover videos you and Team APS have been doing! *imagine if Team APS tried to teach the tier 0 Tear/Ishizu format 😂😂😂*

[@arcticbull8845]

I was getting back into Yugioh and watching Team APS, but the past month in a half I completely quit and switched to Mag……oh what’s this………Flesh and Blood…..going 1000% into FAB.

[@cax1175]

Team APS actually has a few videos with the professor already!

[@StripedJacket]

@@arcticbull8845 now marvel snap is out and I’m stuck with that

[@Ms666slayer]

Ironically the mirror is fun, but i can see why is bad for spectator because a lot of stop happens on that mirror and you can go to chain 10 ans stuff like that.

[@androkguz]

@@arcticbull8845 it goes Flesh and Blood > magic >>> yugi

[@Mr_GoR_]

"Reading the card explains the card..." This is already way more advanced understanding of the game than most players.🤣

[@TheFollowerOfPain]

Just the optimistic confidence into "oh my god that's small writing" hit me SO HARD. still laughing 5 minutes later

[@SpankinDaBagel]

The editing and back and forth in this video never fails to crack me up. Team APS and The Professor are so funny together.

[@shotgunbadger]

One thing I love about prof and these guys' dynamics is while they obviously like to bust on each other's favorite game they all clearly respect the other and nobody's really trying to act like their game is 'superior' somehow. Just fun banter and genuine learning experiences to enjoy.

[@allmightjunior6917]

Prof : do i have to add up the levels ? Paul : not yet !! I loled so hard at this 😂😂

[@israeldelarosa5461]

And they never did 😂

[@mrgflan1]

7:12 This is really funny to me because when I was learning Magic I was like "oh, so instants are just quick-play spells, got it" fun to see the same thing in reverse

[@dellanpickle]

Team Aps was the first yugioh channel I discovered on KZbin. The professor was the first magic youtuber I ever discovered, when I wanted to try something other than yugioh. I can express how much joy this gives me

[@jennaeasley2277]

As a player of both yugioh and magic this is absolutely hilarious.

[@FabulouslyTerrifyingEnt]

I'm a yugioh player, and still was highly amused 🤣 great video. Great personalities clashing here

[@Mochachocakon]

Yeah, I absolutely loved this collab!

[@vcool122]

I'm a MTG player that learnt to play Yu-Gi-Oh, I went through that and it's hilarious to see someone else going through it. There is some rules I still think doesn't make sense, like the fact we can't summon a monster face-up on defense position.

[@FabulouslyTerrifyingEnt]

@@vcool122 I think that's easily explained. To my understanding it's basically just a way of not letting your opponent know your next move. Why put a monster face up defense position before your opponent knows what it is. I mean if it's going from attack to defense then why not, because they already know what monster it is. It's all about subtlety.

[@cameronstandifird8210]

I love how honest these guys are about yu-gi-oh. He was like, so reading the card explains the card? And he was just like sometimes... As somebody who's loved both for a long time, it's super hilarious watching two people meet in the middle like this.

[@firestargaming9521]

dark world cards have entered the chat. Seriously have you read those cards' effects? Super convoluted

[@cameronstandifird8210]

@@firestargaming9521 I haven't read those cards in particular. But I'm a long time fan of pendulums, so it's kinda normal for me to have to read them more than once. But one positive thing I can say about Magic is that I rarely ever have to read a card more than once. Still love them both.

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

@@firestargaming9521 Oh goodness gracious, Dark Worlds are a whole nother can of worms because of how poorly the effects are worded on half of them

[@ALLORD-kf9yn]

This was very good. I like the interaction between you 4 guys. I would like to see more of this. Perhaps, APS doing MTG.

[@kurokamideri]

I love this! This is absolute comedy gold! Always love new people getting into YGO! Hopefully you play more!

[@notavapor]

At this point we just need a dedicated Team APS/TCC channel. I love their interactions so much in these videos

[@marcusmyers4822]

I love how almost every time they explain a rule they follow with “most of the time” which basically sums up the yugioh rules. “That’s how it always works except when it doesn’t” would also be accurate.

[@darryljack6612]

Lol facts yugioh is the Jojo's of card games with the whole "it just works" meme.

[@ToxicAtom]

I mean, that's also true for every card game to some degree. For a magic example, you can only play 1 land per turn... unless you have Exploration, Oracle of Mul Daya, Wayward Sawtooth, Azusa, Lost but Seeking, etc. Oh and you can only play lands from your hand... unless you have Ancient Greenwarden, Ramunap Excavator, Crucible of Worlds, or- oh hey Oracle of Mul Daya again, huh. Every rule in every card game is secretly appended with "unless a card effect states otherwise"

[@marcusmyers4822]

@@ToxicAtom i mean it as yugioh more than most. Most other card games generally will have a few exceptions, but with yugioh, it seems like the exceptions to the rules outweigh the rules themselves at this point in the games life.

[@herbertwalter8693]

screw the rules, i have money!

[@israeldelarosa5461]

Card Rules always supersede game rules. Like Floo. Infinite Normal Summons.

[@DiscipleofVenser1992]

Well this was truly entertaining to see how both games compare. Thanks Professor

[@xaneasiamah1523]

i just discovered this video and been playing both games for years. This is the most hilarious video on the internet

[@ToodleDoodle]

The smile on Alec's face when he got summoned as a duel spirit for the Prof to gang on Paul was priceless.

[@HamTheBacon]

I absolutely lost it at 13:10 when i saw the flash of envy when he said “he tutors at instant speed” i absolutely love this video.

[@SyxxPunk]

I've watched this three times and never noticed that!

[@apostleianlovelette]

Being able to "Tutor" at instant speed is a terrifying ability. It's no wonder the Professor was tripping. 😂

[@naxeli9901]

Great video! Small correction, True Light writes: If this face-up card is sent from the Spell & Trap Zone to the GY: Destroy all monsters you control. - It was banished so it would not destroy BEWD regardless

[@bmxriderforlife1234]

More of this please. As someone who plays both games this is literally gold. Also it'd be funny to watch the professor turn into a yugioh master.

[@talamran7499]

16:32 I can see prof's despair while hearing "you don't read the card, you just play the card"

[@SicDrykEst]

Yeah but 10 minutes later he's not reading with the best of them

[@donellebullock7404]

@@SicDrykEst I memorized the effects by image/name alone.

[@tylermccann848]

"I'm begining to direct a pattern that YuGiOh players don't know what any of their cards do" "It be like that." Yep. Ever since the beginning, it's been a tradition that has progressively gotten more true.

[@bmxriderforlife1234]

It was only like that in the beginning because of the terrible card effects on some early cards. Early yugioh was pretty easy to understand

[@OriginalKasym]

​@@bmxriderforlife1234 What does Pot of Greed do!

[@dpv007]

​@@OriginalKasymSo many years later, and we still don't know what it does.😅

[@NostalgicOccultist]

@@bmxriderforlife1234 Ah yes, the easy to understand and perfectly balanced effects of the older cards such as , "No matter what the situation, neither player can offer any monster as a Tribute." Unfortunately because not being included in your deck is a situation this card applies to everyone at all times regardless of it being played. Being rewritten is also a situation so the cards effect still applies despite the errata.

[@bmxriderforlife1234]

@@NostalgicOccultist nah more like old cards that let you attack 2 or 3 times per turn and attack lifepoints directly. Combined with other annoying strats like goats.

[@knowsage2429]

This was an actual fun video.Really enjoyed you pulling out magic cards nd drawing 3 at the end 🤣

[@aevum6667]

As someone who has played both MTG and YuGiOh since childhood, this was very very entertaining! :) Also thank you both for collabing with each other! Both of your channels are the best in your respective spaces in my humble opinion

[@Blacenger29]

When they were discussing the color of the cards and mentioned that there are cards with half colors, I completely expected the professor to say, "oh, so like hybrid mana".

[@andrewwenner73]

Professor being an absolute unit of chaos to these poor souls has had me silently chuckling and on the verge of tears. Great work everyone 😂

[@PCUnderdog]

Watching this brightened my day and put me in a great mood, much love professor and team aps😊👍❤️‍🔥

[@cttate]

"I am going to... What does this do??" had me cackling, i lived in both worlds (now firmly MTG) but this brings back many memories of the Yu-Gi-Oh! tcg days.

[@jarmandog413]

Many yugioh players wonder… what does that card do? It really helps to actually read your cards.

[@carding-mg4jg]

The pros dont read the cards, they just eyeball the effect and pray the opponent doesnt know any better

[@Badbufon]

reading is for chumps you just do the thing you want and if you opponent isn't a chump either, is a valid play.

[@FluffyTurbo]

I can feel the Blue Player Emanating off of Prof that counter reflex is honed to a deadly degree

[@fullgoldalchemist9780]

Hey professor the way you felt while learning how to play yugioh, is how I feel when I'm learning how to play magic. Each of the trading card games can be difficult and complex when you first learn how to play them.

[@marcwilliams1942]

Thanks prof! I really enjoyed the dark magician deck and will make it my first yugioh deck

[@theredarmy4884]

Shout out to the editor on this one! So much of it added to the humor and helped to keep things moving. More top-tier content from two fantastic creators. Thanks to everyone for their time and effort!

[@twarnold14]

I’ve been enjoying these crossover episodes, but that “they just raised the price”/“us too!” was perfect!!! Solidarity from card players in getting our cards during these times.

[@MrSilk13642]

I love this and I love how patient they were with you.

[@Ouvii]

What an unlikely combination of people. Absolutely hilarious-you guys executed this very well, and the editing is way on point.

[@skylarblackwell2279]

Now Paul has to play a game of magic with the professor lol

[@chilai]

As a Magic player and (former) Yu Gi Oh and Pokemon player this type of videos are insanely hilarious. Loved every second. Please MORE. I want to see APS guys play Magic now!

[@mikaela5938]

i would also like this bc i primarily play ygo and games like mtg are super confusing for me when i try to play them so i'm curious to see if other ppl have that same kind of trouble

[@vallisroyeaux4979]

@@mikaela5938 That’s interesting because most of MTG seems so intuitive to me but try as I might, YGO always feels like Solitaire: MTG Edition. While I love YGO, both sides aren’t really playing against each other a lot of the time, but trying to see who can build an OTK faster.

[@TheDevilslayer101]

I love both your content so this collaboration is great!!!

[@leaghbarkley2864]

This was so entertaining! Thank you for the great content!

[@jeffjose3910]

Imagine if for all the tv shows, instead of transforming into their alter egos, you just had the alter ego helping the protagonist learn how to play the game like this XD

[@gameguild2396]

You literally explained the premise of ZEXAL

[@neowolf09]

@@gameguild2396 literally the worst of all the animes imo. I havent seen vrains yet though

[@gameguild2396]

@@neowolf09 the main protagonist is stubborn to an extreme. They wanted him to go through a growth, but set him back so far that anything considered progress would seem that much more significant. You'll like vrains if you enjoy the game itself, seeing that the pace of the duels are pretty quick in comparison to the past.

[@neowolf09]

@@gameguild2396 that was one of the things I liked about arc V actually. Better paced duels

[@lucayaki]

Literally Hikaru no Go

[@shinykrishna8169]

I’d love to see this style of video with the professor playing a meta deck. Shit would be so funny watching him trying to play Tears lmao

[@exenator1489]

lol imagine just starting yugioh and trying to learn a meta deck, most people would quit on the spot and go play Pokémon or something like that

[@boba3597]

The rereading effects over and over is so true. Specific things like target, top of deck or bottom, etc can be easily forgotten

[@ajpieman1]

Love these guys. More colabs with them! Teach them MTG!!

[@mordredgx]

never played magic but this showed up in my feed and was a great watch! this professor guy is a total sweetheart and had a great dynamic with APS

[@tonybutler4440]

Magic is actually very simple once you understand the terms. I started on Yugioh but never understood it as a child but still don't understand at the level I do for Magic. I was about right where the Professor is on this one. XD Long text on any card is confusing. Most magic cards maybe 1 line of text. I like the idea you have to pay a cost to place cards more and gives more balance so not one player is more overpowered just because they have better cards. It's more about timing and using your cards the right way to circumvent against your opponents. Yugioh does have some balance but I noticed if you don't have hundreds to spend on a deck you will be destroyed.

[@andrewcook2625]

honestly the professor got me to start playing magic

[@zihuatenejo]

Magic is like yugioh goat format. Just not fun.

[@shavooo]

Not a fan of yu gi oh but I'm here for the wholesome interaction between both communities~

[@4und4zich]

​@@theblutaar9708thats is Not true at all, most Meta Staples are in the game for years now

[@eduraavida2702]

I love this chaotic energy. I wish to see more magic players trying Yu-Gi-Oh and Yu-Gi-Oh players trying Magic

[@mcpyronite5830]

This kinds of videos will actually allow both card game players to understand each others hahaha I love it

[@Antaro20]

33:07 I bursted out laughing at how professor just made up his own effect, and Alec's reaction 😂😂😂

[@tomax9863]

bro he was Yugi in that moment xd

[@Kalimier777]

Shuffle up and Play with Team APS????? YES PLEASE!!!!

[@hayseshouhda5730]

As a person who played both, this was a blast.

[@gomorrahstride9672]

Just wanna say I appreciate the editing here, this video is hilarious!