MTG Creator Tries To Guess How Good Yugioh Cards Are w/ KessWylie

[@kailee2166]

how about showing YUGIOG cards to MTG players while telling them one of them is banned, and see if they guess Butterfly Dagger Elma is banned

[@korutodark7855]

Yeah like 2 truths 1 lie.xD That sounds fun concept.

[@Jv615]

The content!

[@TheOneJameYT]

That sounds broken!

[@lainhikaru5657]

I guess they'll figure it's banned because in magic there is sword of the meek. It's almost the same combo as old school elma combo basically, it keeps returning to generate infinite resources.

[@crowcoregames1785]

yes and show cards like arkhana force the world that will throw them off because yeh

[@SnackMuay]

I’d love to see him return. He seemed to pick up the game of Yugioh incredibly fast

[@TheOneJameYT]

I agree he picked it up insanely fast

[@residentgrey]

This one defo needs to pilot some decks!

[@michaeltillotson3711]

Largely that's due to all of the concepts and strategies(as far as I've seen on any of these) that are present in yugi exist within magic. We just have to deal with a greater amount resource management. It's harder for yugi players to assess magic cards honestly

[@caidencarpenter6294]

Its funny that without any context he understood the issue of infernity players setting monsters in the spell/trap zone.

[@dudono1744]

Plot twist : they set an artifact

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yep!! Sneaky sneaky

[@DrewskiTheLegend]

I must be the only infernity player who wasn’t doing that, but my tournament results corroborate that.

[@michaeltillotson3711]

Mtg player here. There is a whole set of mechanical rules around preventing cheating in magic. Like searching for a card from your deck you must reveal it most times

[@helixier6629]

his analysis of cards is insane for someone who first sees them, figured out all the details for psyframes and mekk knights really quick, even the "catch them if they are lazy" with the column micromanaging which happened quite a lot whenever mekk knights would come and go in and out of the meta.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Makes sense since he designs games for a living!

[@EnergyBurst2]

I had a friend who played Mekk knights so I almost always tend to play around columns when I don't know the opposing deck, same goes for Relinquished Anima or Transverser, but in that case it was due to me playing both those cards fairly often in my decks.

[@Linosek279]

I love how cards like gamma, mekk knights, imperm, and even gorz have basically permanently programmed yugioh players to play a certain way regardless of their actual presence

[@TheOneJameYT]

Attack with the smallest monster first!

[@bradypahl]

i think my favorite part of small world as a card is its so open ended that we as a community have created a website to be a "small world" game where you get two random cards (the first card and the last) & have to find the small world target in the middle.

[@chrismiller3548]

Scapegoat was good in link format as well for a while, so much so that it was limited for a few formats. It had fantastic synergy with link spider and linkuriboh. Not to mention it was basically a free link 4 if activated during your opponents end phase

[@joshuahadams]

Only problem was it’s a bit slow, but still it was _so_ easy to fart out a Link-4.

[@chrismiller3548]

@@joshuahadams being able to use multiple copies a turn was also great to eat a battle phase and then activate another during end phase. Thanks old Konami card design! You're right though it was pretty slow

[@godzilia2]

@@chrismiller3548 you know he mentioned that it was used for that, also goat format named goat for a reason

[@chrismiller3548]

@@godzilia2 he specifically mentioned using it for synchro summons and that was it

[@godzilia2]

@@chrismiller3548 did he want to explain links to the new guy for essentially no reason other than, hey, this card was more used for this entirely different type of summoning that i have to explain, the reason he explained synchro was because next card was gamma, and it fit scapegoat

[@danielfawcett3991]

You guys were absolutely talking past each other around 38:00. Kess is asking whether you have to tribute monsters in order to set a level 5+ monster.

[@Lucifer_Crowe]

Aye that was frustrating

[@TheOneJameYT]

Damn I didn’t even notice he was asking about how to tribute set there. My bad.

[@Xavis0]

@@TheOneJameYT it seems a lot of magic players don't pick up on levels as quick and focus more on power. He did mention setting a 12/12. Maybe explaining the kind of power levels you can expect from certain level/tribute thresholds could help in the future? Though it did open up an interesting discussion... If you could guarantee your face down creatures wouldn't get flipped, could you just set whatever you want if there is no check stage after the game is over?

[@catta11]

@@Xavis0 sure, it's like when Infernity players would set monsters in the back row to get an empty hand, not really any way to stop that

[@TheOneJameYT]

@@Xavis0 yes, but if you’re ever caught it’s bad news. The rule in Yugioh is you just have to trust them lol

[@minabasejderha5972]

I feel like important context of W Nebula Meteorite is that its archetype *is* one of the few ones which special summons cards face down..

[@carwyn3691]

"Pot of Greed is Ancestral Recall but for 0 mana, and you get 2 cards instead of 3" That's a really good description, I can't think of a more concise way to explain that card

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣

[@ich3730]

Why not "Pot of greed is divination but for 0 Mana". Recall not only draws a different amount of cards but also targets any player, PoG cant do that. Divination is literally the same text but with mana on the top right

[@MrMarnel]

@@ich3730 It was a "but what does Pot of Greed do?" joke.

[@minabasejderha5972]

I can! "Draw two cards."

[@carwyn3691]

@@minabasejderha5972 that doesn't make any sense

[@dragojess]

I'm amazed how you get better and better at explaining Yugioh to Magic players each episode

[@TheOneJameYT]

I’m trying my best!

[@felixrodriguez5050]

This is such a great improvement to the series, not that the previous episodes are bad but the flow of this one was just better. The way you introduced the guest to the mechanics of yugioh was soooooo much more succinct and engrossing.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I’m getting better at it over time 🤣

[@brolteon2740]

the way he understood small world so quickly....incredible

[@epthopper]

Small world is just one complicated effect. It’s way easier to parse for a non-YGO player than a giant block of text with 3 different effects in it

[@epthopper]

Plus it doesn’t require any context to understand, the effect works in any card game and would be good in any card game

[@Ańtierror404]

It’s just a card that has a very complicated text but when put into play is so incredibly simple to understand

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yep!!

[@cpMetis]

It might be cool to do some sort of "find the cheat/cheese" episode, where you show or describe the idea behind a card/deck and see if they can guess how it cheeses or how you'd cheat while playing it. See if they can figure out the good ol' Infernity "set spell". Alternatively: Maybe show them a set of cards (like eight at once) and see if they can pick out the broken interactions from the red herrings, like Library + Bamboo Swords + Exodia, the Yata Lock combo, etc.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I like those ideas!

[@Hajutze]

You can also title the video "KessWylie figuring out the best Infernity strats in real time" (during the W Nebula Meteorite discussion)

[@dudono1744]

Shame we don't have a Infernity monster that can be set face-down (or at least a Infernity Pendulum)

[@TheOneJameYT]

Lmao that’s one of my favorite parts of the video

[@saito853]

@@TheOneJameYT You should have told him how Infernity players would cheat by setting their monsters as S/T because they needed an empty hand, then immediately scooped when you use a S/T removal lmao

[@kenja0685]

Notice that when he evaluated W Nebula Meteorite, he talked about the advantages of flipping all of the opponent's monsters facedown to blank them as the defining feature of the trap card. So if given a card to read like Book of Eclipse, he would most certainly say that that card is amazing. The only thing he didn't account for in this case was the fact that Trap cards are way too slow.

[@jacobst-pierre2849]

Scapegoat a pretty good card in the past is kind of an understatement. "Goat Format" was a thing. It was a meta defining card then banned for many many years, and then became good again in 2018 and hasnt seen play since

[@leebulger7112]

Was Scapegoat Banned or Limited when Link monsters were initially introduced?

[@zed60k47]

@@leebulger7112 It was at 3 iirc but was limited again soon after

[@leebulger7112]

@@zed60k47 I thought so but when I looked up Scapegoat it said unlimited.

[@zed60k47]

@@leebulger7112 it's unlimited rn but at the start of link format it was limited again for a short while iirc

[@jacobst-pierre2849]

@@leebulger7112 yeah it was unlimited when link came out, became limited again soon after and since then was unlimited again

[@randommaster06]

"The most roundabout way to tutor for a creature"was a great moment. How about an episode where you show Magic players Yugioh players?

[@TheOneJameYT]

That would be insane 😅

[@IcicleSlime]

W Nebula isn't a bad card, it's just the archetype it's attached to. If Worms were broken, this card would be banned immediately, or when a light reptile deck can abuse it.

[@nodot17]

You mean like snake rain being busted on paper but because there's no great reptile decks the card doesn't do much

[@helixier6629]

nebula will never be good again, it sucks and if a new wave of worms come out they probably wont run trap cards unless they are searchable through their combos.

[@scarletterose1303]

I was about to say, W Nebula Meteorite is an incredible card that made the otherwise terrible Worm archetype playable back in the day. This is one of the worst cards to show someone because the card requires massive amounts of context (that Worms have effects activate when they are flipped up, that Worms are bad, that this is intended to work with Worms) and this card by itself is COMPLETELY INSANE even by today's standards. Lastly the summon effect of W Nebula Meteorite gets revealed to the opponent before it's set because of the rules of the game.

[@mapeus]

Right, from someone who doesn't know the archetype, I was like "can't you just special summon some relevant monsters in defense position (which, with lightning storm existing, you probably wanna do anyway), flip them all face down if they don't get outed (big if tbh but still), draw some AND get a free summon from the deck, then flip them face up? Maybe on the slow side (all of this is basically turn 3-4), but beyond that (like maybe back in the day?) seems really good

[@jamesaditya5254]

Yugioh has plenty of these cards, busted in a vacuum but trash with context. It's kinda unfair giving them in these cross-TCG format unless you forgo the idea of it being a bad or good card entirely and explain the circumstances around it

[@saito853]

Great episode, Kess was absolutely spot on for most of the cards and I can't believe how he got Small World in like 10 seconds. One thing he kinda missed about the Mekk Knight is that while your opponent can play around it by positioning their cards, if you have a S/T in your hand you can set it and summon the Mekk Knight to the same column as their monster regardless. I would describe the YGO board like this: Both players has a 5x2 area, the top row (closer to their opponent) are the Monster zones, the "back row" is for playing sorceries, instants and traps. You have to physically put sorcery/instant on the board to activate them, which means if you have 5 cards in the back row you can't use another sorcery/instant. Most S/T are sent to the grave after they resolve, but those with the infinity symbol stays on the board instead, and usually has some effects you can use as long as they are still on the board. In the middle between you and your opponent's board are two bonus zones where only very specific types of monster can be summoned into, and you can only occupy one of them (most of the time). If both zones are free, you pick one to play your monster and your opponent is forced to play in the other zones, and vice versa.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I can’t believe he got small world right away!

[@salamahadielturco420]

I don´t know ANYTHING about Magic but I´ll definitely would watch another video of this guy guessing YGO cards, he´s thought process is very interesting

[@TheOneJameYT]

It would be awesome to have him back on the show again!

[@GodzillaFreak]

Scapegoat was good even link format because trickstar was just that weird. It even got limited because they were making borreload dragon of all things.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Borreload was so hard to deal with back then lol

[@Ishyraya]

I loved how he understood exactly all the ruling you told him, repeating it with magic words on point. This guys seems clever. Hearing his thought process was interesting and shows that he knows cards games ! (I play both magic and yugioh, loved it !)

[@TheOneJameYT]

Glad you loved it!

[@W.LLofficial]

He gave me the impression he was clever too, the speed at which he figured out what small world does was incredible, one read was all it took

[@SahlinAxel]

I think that one thing that could've been explained about "small world" is that yu-gi-oh has the ability to use the "banish" zone way more than magic can use cards that becomes exiled. Great video!

[@TheOneJameYT]

Thanks!!

[@OyVeey]

While this is true, options for interacting with face-down banished cards are still very limited. As it applies to Small World specificially, a couple strategies can search for Gizmek Naganaki and use its graveyard effect to get back one of the things you banished, but that only ever came up in Rescue-ACE builds before the second wave of support. I think bringing it up would cause unnecessary confusion, because face-down banishing is about as permanent as exile in MTG.

[@1337Cammy]

Literally the first person that I have seen that didn't say "wait, let me read it again to be sure" on small world and he instantly understood it after walking through it in his mind for just a minute. I am increadibly impressed.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I was impressed too, shocked even

[@wierdtromebonekid]

I think these should be accompanied by an image of the playfield for a bit of context

[@MrMarnel]

This doesn't get mentioned often because it's kinda getting into the nitty-gritty of rules but cards referring to themselves by name does function very different in Magic and Yugioh. In Magic "CARDNAME" basically means "this object" and is used akin to Yugioh's "this card". In Yugioh, "CARDNAME" means "all cards named this". Very fun episode. I think it'd be a bit better if you more often let the guests finish their questions. I understand why you sometimes answer early, I've also played a lot of both games and often understand where they're going to go, but it makes for a better viewer and guest experience to let it play out. The video can go a bit longer, it's not a big deal.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Sometimes I answer early because I want to tell them something really important about the general rules of yugioh before they answer lol

[@TomsTCG]

Amazing how quickly he was able to intuit the gameplay choices players starting making with Mekk-Knights just from seeing what would probably be one of the worst Mekk-Knight cards

[@monocrown3911]

Clearly you have forgotten about Mekk-Knights Green Horizon and Orange Sunset, they're way worse than Red Moon

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yep!! Super impressive

[@Pyroniusburn]

It's interesting I've now seen a few people just have the knack for perfectly understanding small world first try. I guess helps that you don't actually need the majority of context beyond "search for something that has exactly one thing in common" and most card game players know searching cards is good. I wonder if there's something about how it's written that it just clicks for certain people and not others, given there's a good number of *yugioh* players who don't really understand it.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I thought it would be more confusing for him but he got it right away 🤣

[@shadowfox4562]

Forgot to mention that scapegoat was massively used in a deck as late as 2019, the tokens were used to link climb in trickster. And also facilitated a play called the firewall dragon otk in said deck.

[@YukiFubuki.]

shouldve shown him psy-framelord omega just to see driver riding gamma (hes a scooter actually)

[@elvenatheart982]

No way😂😂😂

[@TheOneJameYT]

I should’ve!!

[@james123428]

This was really interesting! Alex was very good at just asking relevant questions and understanding the concepts of everything. Great job on this one!

[@TheOneJameYT]

Thanks James! (That’s my name too)

[@smeatar]

I like hearing this guy’s thought process, it feels good for some reason

[@TheOneJameYT]

He’s a game designer!

[@TheNewblade1]

I love the fact that even a magic player can see the absurdity in "auhah u triggered my card you could have had zero way of knowing i had or playing around"

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣

[@Jv615]

This guy is a true card player , did a pretty good job

[@TheOneJameYT]

Wholeheartedly agree

[@kuraokatana94]

"Does it punch thru them and turn them into a donut... maybe" lol, love to see random One piece memes references

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣🤣

[@lmr4403]

Scapegoat was also good early link format.

[@thekoifishcoyote8762]

Early link format was ~5 years ago

[@lmr4403]

@@thekoifishcoyote8762 yes, I mainly mean that instead of synchro, it was links that were the ones really abusing the card. Scapegoat was co-link with masterrule 4 so opponent couldn't summon from extra deck at all if it successfully resolved (in addition to 1 negate+banish and pre-errata firewall dragon and many more).

[@Pathoslogical]

Im not 100% sure why but this was one of my favorite episodes yet. I think you two had good energy with each other, like natural cohost chemistry or something.

[@TheOneJameYT]

We’ve known each other for awhile!

[@TheWatchmanOfTheEnd]

@ 0:33 it would have been good to make him aware of the fact that scapegoats can still be tributed for costs and summon conditions, which are not the same as being tributed for a Tribute Summon.

[@hillrp1]

It may be a lot of extra work, but for some of the more difficult to intuit good cards it might be cool to show a replay of the card working. Not a full duel, but almost like the puzzles you get in YGO video games where you're against a board of stuff and you show how you can (for example) set up your own Red Moon and get in for game. Or something like that

[@TheOneJameYT]

That’s a good idea!

[@mitchellwhite9307]

I want to see how they react to continuous traps that turn into monsters

[@elvenatheart982]

Thats easy to guess kinda

[@valvadis2360]

Magic players are used to Artifacts and Enchantments that turn into monsters, so i don't think it would be a problem.

[@faeb.9618]

absolutely loved the vibes analysis of the scapegoat card tho, he's correct the vibes are immaculate

[@MaxWeb2599]

7:30 "I would hang out with them" there are plushis of them, so it could technically be possible. Plus seeing in the original holiday cards they are edible

[@TheOneJameYT]

Oh god, don't give him any ideas!

[@reaflor91]

I always love this series, and I gotta say, his comment on Gamma is 100% on point! Lore-wise, all the hand trap Psy-Frames are either parts of Driver's suit, or parts of Driver's wack hover motorcycle thing.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I never even thought of that until he said that and it makes PERFECT SENSE

[@Gradashy]

@@TheOneJameYT Omega is just a Driver with all Hand-Traps equipped to him.

[@zerotalent297]

Great guest! Very good understanding without having too much context. Itd be nice to set ground rules for good/bad, as many mentioned nebula is good, but you cant play it in any good decks, its like saying any archetype draw 2 is bad, yes if those archetypes are bad it wont be played but power level is there. Not a critic or anything, might help the guests if they knew in which context the card needs to be good, is it its own power level, is it in todays meta or something else.

[@red2794]

31:01 is it bad that I still watch for columns?

[@TheOneJameYT]

Not bad at all!!

[@Teixas666]

nah mekk knight were trend setters much like gorz is the reason you always attack from lowest ot highest or you avoid activating important cards in a column with a set back row as imperm defense

[@Pyroniusburn]

Despite none of it being super meta relevant it is funny just how much you could get completely owned for "incorrect" placement. Put something behind an EMZ? Oops, Relinquished Anima. Something in the far left or center? Here comes Geonator Transverser. Placed it on the far left *or* far right and put a spell/trap behind it? Now a vaylantz can easily shove it into the backrow and destroy the spell/trap at the same time. Nowhere is safe lmao.

[@esrohm6460]

fun fac the symbol in the top right is the type or attribute of the card and then right above it stands the type or attribute of the card. wana(trap), ma(spell), hikari(light), yami(like that one yugioh character people know most, dark), kaze(wind), hi(fire), mizu(water), ji(earth), kami(divine). they aren't JUST fun looking symbols, but they still are fun looking

[@DillonChichester]

45:10 Oof that One Piece reference

[@kesswylie]

I’m glad someone caught it 😂

[@foeller13]

A yugioh streamer named MBT would hold a monthly tournament back when in person play was mostly impossible (through simulators) and alot of them coincided with new product formats, so a good place to gauge the new format, but no one would take them seriously as someone would show up with mechknights in like 2022 and get to top cut to a point so frequently that they were called mechknight monthlys, luckily now he runs the only worth a crap tournaments in masterduel and no one shows up with mecknights

[@alchemicpink2392]

I think Kess misunderstood Normal Setting: You still pay your tributes when you set cards. Their stats do not change because Flipping them face up is something you get to do for free on your Main Phase 1. Not doing so would be cheating like morphing a non-morph.

[@4c3fr3h1y]

Scapegoat was an early mr4 staple as well, bc it contributed to link climbing. it even got put on the list from that format.

[@MusicalBoarder]

I would maybe just have a picture of the playfield for yugioh. It seems like he was asking a whole lot of questions that could be answered with one that is just labeled. And maybe also explain hard vs soft once per turn effects. As an additional fun idea, showing archetypes of cards, so like the best 3 or 4 sky strikers, 3 or 4 best zoodiak, 3 or 4 best drytron etc etc would be interesting if you brought back former guests.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Something like that is coming soon!

[@yura37]

i used the gamma package in numeron and it was super satisfying. if you get the magical calling interrupt you get 7500 on board pre-buff, and if you get it earlier on you get the synchro which rips a card from hand and clears itself.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Broken!!

[@Sunaki1000]

W Meteor is pretty interestimg and was moderatly decent in like 2011, or 12. I mean it triggers flipp effects, is a free book of moon, lets you draw, and summon your big beater. Worm won some smaller tornaments because of that. And its just very well designed to do what worm wants it to do.

[@ssjEasterBunny]

Hey man, I love this video series. As someone who teaches a lot on r/yugioh101, I do just have a friendly suggestion for something that comes up in most of your videos. Most of your guests get confused on Normal vs. Special Summoning, and you typically give a somewhat narrow explanation that focuses on the current card, which makes sense until the next card raises more questions and you need to ammend your previous explanation. I would just explain it concisely as, _"Since it costs no mana to summon a creature in Yugioh, you're instead limited to summoning just one creature from your hand per turn. This is called a Normal Summon/Set, and Level 5 or higher creatures require you to sacrifice other creatures. Summons by card effects and from the Extra Deck are called Special Summons and don't count toward this limit."_ Again, just a friendly suggestion. I've been loving this series so keep it up!

[@TheOneJameYT]

Thanks for the help!! It’s hard to think of these things on the spot 😅 Glad you’re enjoying the series

[@annaliseazura]

This guy picked up quick! I think it helped that whereas a lot of the MTG players you have on approach it from an MTG perspective, this man looked at it from a more general perspective of games (particularly card games) in general

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yea it makes sense since he’s a game designer!

[@riotd.r.8363]

Dude talked into a full debate with himself a few times lol

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣

[@acetraker1988]

Psy frame Hand trap = Another mention is that both these cards on your turn can synchro into a level 8. What is important as there are many good generic level 8 monsters.

[@sorbet6465]

I think something you should do is get a bunch of previous contestants and rather than going one card at a time you show them a handful of cards that work together and ask them if they were a threat or not. This way they have to think more so about the core of the deck rather than generics and hand traps and see how their knowledge adapts.

[@TheOneJameYT]

That’s an idea that’s already in the works!

[@ivn_fgc8005]

Im amazed how fast he figured small world out, i got so confused first time i read it

[@TheOneJameYT]

Same!

[@josephcantu3562]

now i just want this guy to tell me the vibes he gets from various yugioh cards

[@TheOneJameYT]

That could be a whole video lol

[@stoevdragan]

im impressed he managed to accurately evaluate something as convoluted as small world

[@TheOneJameYT]

Same!

[@acetraker1988]

Scapegoat = is actually good, it is an easy 1 turn Link 4 card. Typically, you can go into Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax. You use SG in your opponent's end step. So you don't lock your summons.

[@crowcoregames1785]

notes: 1: there are a very small amount of monsters who don't activate but yes generally gamma is broken 2: you should probably have mentioned that mekk nights can move other mechknights, slight correction "cost down" removes levels from a card in hand , but typically you don't do that :) 3: a judge can check face downs to verify that they where legal, this is because of artifacts but genraly yeh you just have to trust people

[@supernova9361]

I think there was a miscommunication when explaining Normal Set. If the card would require tributes to be normal summoned, the card still needs tributes to be set

[@Tyty28173]

I'd like to say thanks for making so much of these so consistently! It is greatly appreciated

[@TheOneJameYT]

Happy you’re enjoying them!

[@RandomCrappyName]

I think it would make these a lot more interesting if you have an example of the play field (even untitled) so they can properly understand instead of trying to just describe the field. Especially if you’re going to have them evaluate cards like the Mekk knights that require knowledge of the board

[@TheOneJameYT]

Fair enough!

[@rstada8]

Something I've noticed in a bunch of these videos is the fixation on ATK/DEF stats when they are usually not really relevant in the modern format unless specific cards in the meta care about stats (e.g. TY-PHON, Scarlight RDA). Battle as a form of removal is often used as a last resort in yugioh

[@kesswylie]

Magic (and one piece for thet matter) both reallly focus on the combat step still.

[@Raithul]

Also, the confusion between DEF and toughness - the fact that usually only the higher between ATK and DEF actually matters, based on position, rather than both being important, is unintuitive coming from Magic

[@kesswylie]

@@Raithul oh yeah. I’m not sure I ever perfectly figured it out

[@joelsasmad]

All creatures have Haste, Defender, and Trample, but you can set them to cancel trample in most cases.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yep!!

[@Soumein]

Seems like the W Nebula Meteorite would be fun in a Flip effect deck, especially if there's some Light Reptiles with some. "I activate WNM, flipping over my Man-Eater Chameleon, who destroys any non-Machine monster! Then he'll flip back face down, at the end phase!" But I vaguely know that yu-gi-oh boards are built to just be "You and permanents you control have Hexproof and Indestructible."

[@acario100]

That is the exact kind of dect that card was built for, yes. The problem with that deck, the worms, is just that tye flip effects are not good and there's no way to boost the speed of their playstyle

[@helixier6629]

the very last time spacegoat was in a meta deck it was in trickstar decks during the firewall dragon era of the game

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yep! I vividly remember that

[@monkeylemur]

W Nebula is so funny cuz everybody, even YGO players, would say the 2nd part of the effect is nuts. But Reptiles, in general, are so bad that they even have other draw/mills that would be broken in other other decks in yugioh but still doesn't need to be banned. Also Psy-Frame Gamma is also broken because in decks where you tribute your only monster on the board as a cost to activate an effect, now you no longer have a monster on the board, fulfilling Gamma's condition. If they use a hand trap to negate that effect, you can now chain Gamma to negate the hand trap, summon 2 monsters on the field, and also get your original effect off. Gamma and Driver are tuner and non-tuner, and they are combined levels of 8. Level 8s are some of the most powerful synchros in the game, so now you've made a strong monster and got to activate a tribute for an effect, which tend to be pretty strong due to the riskiness of the cost. Kess has to be the fastest person to ever understand Small World from scratch. I can tell he's a smart dude

[@TheOneJameYT]

Haha yea he’s the fastest to ever understand that card 😅

[@devinreadsbooks]

If an opp scoops we may not be able to see their cards, but in your example, they would have to at least reveal what they added from the deck so there’s a little bit of trust built 😂

[@thomassynths]

All these years I thought Richard Garfield was the MTG creator.

[@TheOneJameYT]

He’s an MTG Content Creator, not the actual creator

[@MindForgedManacle]

Ok, not knowing much about MTG, I thought the title meant this guy invented the actual TCG 😂

[@TheOneJameYT]

He is a game designer but he did not create magic!

[@BassGr00ve]

My favorote part of Yugioh card review is the guesser thinking theres any reassoning or theme to the card art XD

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yep 🤣

[@residentgrey]

W Nebula Meteorite can special summon summon a board wiper. There is a specific card it can summon outside the Alien archetype it was created within to make this possible. It is Edison-level Duel Links doable awesomeness. Dark Alligator, which is possibly what is what Jim Cook is carrying, also qualifies, making the card a good tech card for his decks in Duel Links.

[@YuGiOhPrO373]

I would love for a rating system doing one rating for current yugioh and one rating for throughout the history of the game if it was ever good.

[@TheOneJameYT]

That would be cool, I could try that

[@YuGiOhPrO373]

@@TheOneJameYT That would be awesome! You could even give the year the card came out to give some context for them. Like with W nebula meteorite it is so incredibly trash now but it had the tier 2ish worm deck back in Like 2013-14 or so where it was the best card in the deck. A lot more interesting than yeah this card is trash.

[@YuGiOhPrO373]

@@TheOneJameYT It would also be pretty interesting for cards that are super old but still played like book of moon or econ. Or cards that were bad when they came out but are now played like droll.

[@leadanarchy]

Scapegoat was also used in Pure Sky Striker

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yep! I used it myself

[@residentgrey]

I have a cyberse/link deck that splashes Mekk-Knights and the presented card is a great one to have. The lvl8 that can Senet Switch is essential.

[@jakethereaper2060]

its funny the fact that he was basically right about Gamma being Driver's motorcycle

[@TheOneJameYT]

I know right lmao

[@elvenatheart982]

I hope he will return to do another one

[@TheOneJameYT]

Same!!

[@Dragonfire-gq4qd]

i think it would be a good idea to show the person a YUGIOH field, especially with cards like Mekk-Knights or infinite impermanence and also in general since the board is kinda imortant and different to most TCGs.

[@kesswylie]

I liked figuring it out! Lol.

[@antman7673]

Enjoyed the discussion. On e suggestion, next time, I would also have shown an example of two synchros to summon with gamma and driver. Maybe omega and stardust.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I thought about it!

[@Flatfootsy]

"this is a motorcycle" kinda not wrong, Driver does ride the PSY-Frames across the circuit before merging with them.

[@johnoneill7955]

45:12 did he just make a WB joke? Tell me I’m not the only person who caught that.

[@zachwood3774]

ok you got me jame i have been watching your content for a while now you got my sub

[@TheOneJameYT]

Appreciate it!!

[@ladyinwight]

i realized what it actually meant after thinking about it for 2 seconds but when i read "MTG Creator" for a second i thought it meant the person who created magic the gathering lol

[@TheOneJameYT]

lol that would be cool though

[@kesswylie]

100% fine with everyone just assuming I invented magic

[@weckar]

I can't believe you finally did Small World. Hats off.

[@TheOneJameYT]

My hat is off

[@CatManThree]

The 8000 starting life total in yugioh actuallt has an interesting origin. Originally characters would start games with 2000 life, mimicing magic's 20 life. In the original anime adaptation, the starting life total was always doubled to 4000. Then when the official card game came around, the life was doubled yet again to 8000 presumably to make games longer.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I didn’t even know that!! Nice

[@amadogarduno]

is there a term for a garnet like driver in magic

[@TheOneJameYT]

We just call it a brick lol

[@dsamurai4725]

Maybe mention the times the cards were good or how the cards are bad a little bit more. Like saying that there was a whole Goat format named after Scape Goats and that W Nebula Meteorite wouldve been good, if there was a good Reptile Deck back then.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Very true!

[@quieness]

I love how much everyone loves the phrase: A-HA! you've activated my trap card! x'D In pretty much all the videos i've seen of non yugioh players guessing yugioh cards the guest says the phrase in one way or another x'd

[@TheOneJameYT]

I know and it’s hilarious 🤣

[@Judexx]

I love this series! Is there any way you could show a standard board to whomever is guessing? because I feel like that would clear up some unneeded confusion about how many monsters are allowed to be played and how the board is divided between players 😊

[@TheOneJameYT]

I could but I think that would give away too much information for their analysis! Maybe I could show them something like that after they guess

[@mageius]

What would really be interesting for a MTG player to look at would be some archetypal cards or a card or 2 with synergy and see what they think of them. Although this is coming from someone that understands both card games. Personally love playing a deck like Synchrons which has a lot of synergies but although it's not a top deck some of the synergies are kind of interesting. So having a MTG player evaluate some card synergies really would be interesting to see their take on some combo lines.

[@ClubbingSealCub]

it's really hard to evaluate synergies if you don't have the overall context of the entire deck

[@mageius]

@ClubbingSealCub But giving them something from a combo deck does usually allow MTG players to see them. For example, in a Synchron deck Junk Converter lets you discard a tuner and itself to search out a card like Junk Synchron to then summon and bring back Converter. Which then let's you go in to a level 5, then bring back the Junk Synchron you just used to climb to another Synchro. So some cards can be looked at in context with some other cards. Also really would like to see an MTG player see that card.

[@minabasejderha5972]

He mostly evaluated Mekk-Knight Red Moon correctly, I would say. The only thing he missed is that you can create a column with your opponent's cards by setting spell/traps. But he still got there in the end. I wouldn't even be comfortable saying it's bad today. It's still a deck that is a solid rogue pick from time to time. And it can tear a Tier 1-2 deck apart if the pilot isn't prepared for it. The main point is that any time the deck is on people's radar, it gets worse, and when it isn't, it gets better. It isn't for *no* reason that we play around them still. It's because a lot of people still have memories of being caught off guard when they stop playing around them. To be honest, I do think people will stop playing around them in time. I don't think it will just be habit forever. After all, no one plays around Gorz anymore.

[@esseubo441]

Honestly all it takes is an archetype that punishes you for spreading your card through columns and Mekk Knights wouldn't suffer that much

[@EnergyBurst2]

I mean to be fair to W Nebula Meteorite it is, more or less, the best card in its intended archetype of Worms so in that context its good, but sadly Worms have (pretty much) never been, so the final evaluation is difficult to argue with.

[@janisir4529]

W Nebula Meteorite has like enough benefit where it'd be worth attempting to resolve at least back when it was released, but despite having 26 worm cards, there really isn't enough good ones for a deck. If I remember correctly there is one that summons and one that destroys a monster on flipping, and everything else is bad. Also Dinosaurs are NOT reptiles in Yugioh. But there is an archetype that evolves from reptiles into dinosaurs into dragons, but only the dragon cards were any good.

[@bobwaka1]

Surprised no one is mentioning how it is possible to have 7 monsters max not 6 since if you have a link monster pointing to the link zone you dint have a monster in you can then special summon to it from the extra deck.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Explaining extra linking to a new player sounds awful 😅

[@rogioo3-6]

would be fun to show them the card in action after the guess

[@TheOneJameYT]

True!