MTG Player Tries to Guess How Good Yugioh Cards Are w/

[@TheOneJameYT]

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[@adambryant6854]

Get saffron olive

[@alpha34098]

Actually there IS a format that is Exactly like MTG's Vintage and that is Traditional, a TCG Exclusive Format The Standard Yu-Gi-Oh format for both TCG and OCG is called Advanced and it is more like Legacy in MTG

[@adambryant6854]

@@alpha34098 I think he was more so saying it's not official format

[@alpha34098]

@@adambryant6854 IT IS a Official Format since Konami created it in response to the Banlist for Advanced. That high level Tournaments are not allowed to be competed with it, is another thing, which, again, that also applies to Vintage vs Legacy in MTG

[@1toplaystudio96]

I wanna see a no ban list tournament, using only magic the gathering players

[@TheOneJameYT]

Oh god that sounds insane

[@PeterStandring]

That is the best idea someone please make it happen

[@thecomradewarda]

Nah like a progression series it would be fun them not knowing anything about the actual meta and making horrible decks.

[@johncameron1935]

I'd watch this too

[@TheOneJameYT]

@@thecomradewarda and then progress into better and better decks as they learn more

[@maxinesenior596]

Nikachu is well known for not even properly reading MAGIC cards, so this ought to be a wild ride

[@TheOneJameYT]

Hope you like it!

[@iBloodxHunter]

Man is destined to be a yugioh player!

[@bobjones4469]

Seriously, I don't know if he's doing it on purpose or if the schools in Canada are just that bad.

[@antman7673]

He is reading chat in between, multitasking.

[@ich3730]

​@@bobjones4469 sadly it might be just to farm comments, like duel logs

[@xboxgamer474246]

“For Four Dragon Balls” Nikachu is a class act

[@TheOneJameYT]

I'd pay 4 dragon balls for a Denko Sekka any day

[@dirkwoodcock9376]

I agree, he’s a real sparkplug

[@matthewpopow6647]

It is 5 am and I laughed WAY to load when h said that

[@Sarge23]

"They watered everything down in this game!" Linear Equation Cannon: *allow me to introduce myself*

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣🤣🤣

[@RedEyesBlackDragon0]

I'll see your Linear Equation Cannon and raise you MORPHING JAR #2

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

@@TheOneJameYT Put Last Turn on the next one.

[@Metallicity]

18:30 Nikachu accidentally guessing that the battle phase in Yugioh works almost exactly like the "fight" mechanic in Magic, and it was completely missed.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I didn't think he was relating "fight" to the battle phase there but you could be right!

[@thekoifishcoyote8762]

My favorite thing with Gren Maju is that you can set it face down and OHKO your opponent with their own attack

[@TheOneJameYT]

I’ve actually lost like that before 🤣

[@crystonlight5804]

"I am prepared" *watches the least faithful anime ever*

[@TheOneJameYT]

The shadow realm is a real place!

[@Zeekfox]

I'm surprised we didn't give Nikachu a card with a text box that's an entire book! But it was nice being fair to him and not giving him any extra deck monsters when his first impression is "Four dragon balls with a thunder effect, which must be good."

[@TheOneJameYT]

Haha yea I'm trying to limit the number of extra deck monsters in these.

[@uS0ra]

​@@TheOneJameYTit is always fun to see the guests react to and try to decipher the super text heavy cards though

[@TheOneJameYT]

@@uS0ra that’s also true. I usually try to give people 1-2 cards with a lot of text

[@kurgtv5725]

Sixth Sense was printed in the OCG WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY back in their classic sets. It was banned when the first banlist was made. It existed on the banlist forever, and of course everyone assumed if it ever got printed in the TCG that it would be banned before printing; but apparently not. But the card existed in the OCG maybe an entire decade before it was printed in the TCG.

[@antman7673]

Honestly Nikachu asks all the right questions. That is the best job evaluating cards I have ever seen. He relates all the relevant information.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yea he was really good at it!

[@ДимитърПоптолев]

I believe the vintage equivalent for Yugioh would be the Traditional format. Not that anyone has ever played that, but in theory it exists.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Haha yep!

[@freyachobi]

Correct, Traditional format is an unplayable mess of First Turn Kills

[@bellbro62]

My LGS in college did a traditional format tournament on Fridays. I went one time with a TefDAD deck that I just put like change of heart, pot of greed, and a couple other staples in. I won the tournament because it was a tiny tournament and everyone else playing in it had basically done the same thing. Beat a PePe deck in the finals.

[@FallstarFL]

Or GOAT format

[@Cloud9likeaboss]

When local Traditional format tournaments do happen, it's usually the players taking their regular deck, trimming some dead weight, and adding very powerful spells. Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, Delinquent Duo, Confiscation, Forceful Sentry, Soul Charge, etc. Very few people have a dedicated Traditional format deck though.

[@brolteon2740]

i dont play magic but nikachu’s YT streams is the only magic content i consume i love how he talks about and explains the cards and having him analyze yugioh cards…truly a treat 😂

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yea he’s awesome!

[@LordMajicus]

I have about Nikachu's level of understanding of Yugioh and was reading these cards exactly the same way "that's Faerie Macabre, that's Tarmogoyf" and had a lot of fun with this guessing game!

[@TheOneJameYT]

Glad you enjoyed it! There’s many more of these on this channel that are super fun

[@scarletterose1303]

Dimension Shifter is for 2 turns "End of the next turn"

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yes, in the video I meant "one turn cycle" but I should've been more clear about it.

[@definitelynotmany4972]

28:00 There is a format called Traditional, where no card is banned, but it is not supported at all, and it technically receives constant updates. (It has the same list as the standard format, but all the banned cards are restricted/limited.)

[@TheOneJameYT]

I honestly wish it was supported a little

[@MerlinGA]

well it's kind of pointless with the amount of possible basically 100% succes ftks. It only comes down to, do you open the right handtraps to prevent your opponent from ftking you. @@TheOneJameYT

[@dogf421]

exodia is funny because its constantly either been useless or oppressive as all hell, cool to see it in a "just ok" state

[@dudono1744]

Gren Maju is a fun card in Nemleria since the deck wants to banish a shit ton of stuff face-down anyway. Also you get to play a creepy demon is a deck themed around sleep.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yea that sounds like a blast

[@TheWackyWorkbench]

"I prepared by watching g the first four episodes" My favorite mtg KZbin is gonna get blasted and I'm ready for it

[@TheOneJameYT]

Enjoy!!

[@declanmckenna6854]

It's basically saying "I studied for my engineering final by watching an episode of Sesame Street" and I couldn't wait for the chaos we we're about to see.

[@natsukurosakii3794]

Dimension shifter is 2 turns as you activate it on your opponents turn and the effect is still active during your turn

[@annaliseazura]

Idk what's worse, the fact that I've played YGO since I was 8 and never heard of Sixth Sense, or the fact that the second I heard the card effect it sounded almost so broken that jt was a fake card

[@TheOneJameYT]

It does look like a custom card lol

[@annaliseazura]

@@TheOneJameYT It does! It unfortunately also brought back some Lightsworn-related PTSD

[@GiganticPawUnit]

I was just thinking the other day that Nikachu should do a video like this. I love the whole genre of people evaluating cards from different games, and this is one of the best.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I really appreciate that!

[@Flashofblades]

Vintage is just traditional format. No one plays it, but it's a format. And fits the description

[@Chooopy]

I don't know how hard it would be, but it could be fun trying to find a Yugioh player to rate Yugioh cards. I'm "fairly" new. I played duel links and masterduel on and off for years, but never completely seriously. I know all the big cards and some chokepoints in meta decks, but you still bust out cards I've never seen and I'm sitting here trying to evaluate if they're good or not based on my amateur knowledge of Yugioh. I think it would be cool to see someone that understand the game, but has limited experience/exposure try it rating cards if that's even possible.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I’m starting a series where I change mtg cards slightly and an mtg player tries to guess what’s wrong with them, I could do it for Yugioh too

[@Majoraspersona]

It will always be funny when Magic players look at atk/def values when trying to assess cards. 9 times out of ten, those funny little numbers don't really mean anything

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yep! Hardly anything at all 🤣

[@metleon]

Sixth Sense was released in the OCG back in 2003, and they never printed it in the TCG back then. It eventually got banned over there (though not in the first round of banning cards in 2004, surprisingly). Then they finally decided to print it in the TCG ten years after its OCG release. Of course, they didn't want to print a banned card, so they put it at 1 copy in the TCG (this was long after the TCG and OCG started using different lists, so it was still banned in Japan). Sixth Sense wasn't actually the only card to be released Limited in the TCG. Back when the TCG and OCG used essentially the same ban list, some cards would get hit before they got printed in the west. Elemental Hero Stratos was available from a pre release only like a week before it became Limited, so it was hit before the set officially released. Gorz, the Emissary of Darkness I think was a promo card in Japan, so it took longer to come out in the TCG. By the time it did come out, it was already Limited.

[@NikachuMTG]

There are no pathetic cards in my video.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Shut up Grandpa!

[@cr0wn9001]

Bruhhhhh. The nostalgia when I saw Gren Maju Da Eiza. I pulled that when it cam out and thought it was the coolest shit ever.

[@TheOneJameYT]

It’s still the coolest shit ever 🫡

[@ragenaros4475]

Denko Sekka won me so many duels vs Labyrinths and traptricks, i love that card so much. So satisfying when you open it vs trap deck

[@TheOneJameYT]

Same!!

[@santiariza15]

I’m glad this series is doing well! It’s always so funny to see other card players react to how crazy YGO is

[@TheOneJameYT]

I’m glad it’s doing well too, it’s super fun to see the players reactions

[@Rumple108]

Completely clueless guests are the best!

[@TheOneJameYT]

I love it

[@B-MC]

"Then whats the trap?" is how i sum up so many trap cards. If they dont directly counter stuff, theyre just slow spell cards.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yep, exactly

[@YukiFubuki.]

i feel like the whole literal handtrap part shouldve been prefaced by how they have exuberant cost or conditions like both imperm and evenly requiring you to control no cards and reboot costing half your lp including giving the opponent a free trap of their choice which can be your undoing if you cannot win the turn you use it since you're most likely using it against a trap heavy deck the majority of traps being played still requires setting them first and even imperm is still set for the column negate

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yea setting them first is a huge downside that not many people see as a huge thing

[@RNGHater]

11:00 Not quite. Shifter last TWO turns. The turn it is sent and the following turn. Meaning you would also get your stuff banish or your opponent would get their turn under that effect. But if your deck does not care about it (Exosisters) or even benefits a little bit from it (Floowandereeze), then it's pretty good. Very good video overall, though.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Well yes, 2 turns, 1 turn cycle! Glad you enjoyed the video

[@Piokkoko]

But there is (or at least was, last time i played tournaments was in 2013) a format where everything on ban list moved one thing up, so for example you could play one victory dragon or if something was restricted to 2 you could play 3. It wasnt fun and only peps that had too many cards played it but it existed

[@jannis4387]

12:07 Ah yes. Neo Space Connector into Isolde is my favorite classic grandpa combo.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Connector into Dolphin into Isolde 👌

[@啊啊啊啊-m4s]

The thing I like about no banlist format of Yugioh is that you can build a huge board even before you get your first turn, just like if you had Leyline of Anticipation + Black Lotus in your opening hand.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yea Tearlament is so good at that

[@ich3730]

Leyline + lotus dont allow you to play before your first turn. You cant cast spells before the first turn begins

[@啊啊啊啊-m4s]

@@ich3730 I mean when you go second, you get to play before your own first turn begins, which is on your opponent's first turn.

[@jamesaditya5254]

Surprised at how many specifics points that Nikachu just nailed

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yea he was awesome!

[@WarpsmithAdam]

When he actually reads cards, his analysis is solid. He's just extremely prone to getting distracted by chat & skimming instead of actually reading cards during his streams.

[@zwingler]

I tell you. Necroface looping with Metaphys is THE TITS. You get so many resources that you legit loose track of all the once per turn effects its hilarious.

[@gerharddamm5933]

This guy sounds like John Mulaney

[@TheOneJameYT]

You're not the first one to say that!

[@chrismiller3548]

Im pretty sure sixth sense was in the anime. I remember joey using it and the art looks like it orginated from the anime too. Joey had another broken draw card too called roll of fate that did something similar

[@najawin8348]

It was, but the specific issue was that at the time OCG and TCG had the same banlist, so there were some cards banned that TCG didn't have yet.

[@AwesumVloggin]

Yeah the card was printed in like 2003 or something in the ocg so the insane power level of it makes more sense than when it came to the tcg in 2013 or whatever

[@BurnedSoap]

Recently started watching Nikachu's stream vods and I can hear the siren sound effect going off for every single one of these cards

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣

[@weckar]

I would love to see a MTG player try and evaluate an overly complicated yet coherent card. something like Deskbot 004

[@TheOneJameYT]

Most KZbin commenters have a panic attack when I give people extra confusing cards lol

[@jamesbuccino376]

I love nikachu, i'm like 1 minutes in, and I absolutely love this so much! XD

[@TheOneJameYT]

Hope you enjoy!!

[@Wgar1]

"Isn't this game all about the trap cards" I feel like he heard the term hand traps before and that set him a stray

[@TheOneJameYT]

I honestly think he got that from the common saying "You've fallen into my trap!"

[@freyachobi]

The game was all about the trap cards for the first 10 years, torrential tribute and mirror force and bottomless trap hole kept everything in check for a long time

[@ich3730]

​@@freyachobieven then the game wasnt "all about traps". It Was about vanilla beatsticks and broken spell cards

[@chrismiller3548]

If the monsters for huge revolution could be tutored by ties of the brethren that would be really fun for a gimmick. Turn 1 activate ties, summon the 3, then set something like trap trick to search the huge revolution

[@freyachobi]

Sixth Sense ran amok in the OCG long before it's TCG release, and when we did finally get it, it was only legal for about 1 format. While I would say this card still can not come off the forbidden list, it would be almost too slow to matter outside of trap decks specifically, and is susceptible to Ash Blossom. It would ultimately have less impact than Maxx C coming back

[@dubsinthetubs]

When Nikachu said that the game was all about trap cards I almost spit out my drink

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣🤣

[@LamunesADV]

I think our friend didn't know how fast YuGiOh really is. Better banishers in YGO are so common, but most can't be used during your opponents turn one and that's when D D Crow shines.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Exactly!

[@GrapeCheckerBoard]

The original anime doesn’t convey the speed of modern Yugioh at all. Extra deck (sorry, *fusion deck*) summoning is really sporadic, and there’s not a lot of special summoning either. There’s no way this guest would have known how combo-heavy modern Yugioh is.

[@Kaisingsens]

as someone who stopped playing ygo in 2008 it makes me very happy D.D. Crow is still a thing

[@TheOneJameYT]

It very much is!

[@olvynchuru1663]

17:55 On the contrary, a 30/30 trampler for 3 mana with no drawback in MTG would be utterly broken. You could easily win turn 3 with it: turn 2 Lightning Greaves, turn 3 30/30 trampler, attack for 30. Or if you're worried about removal, turn 4 cast 30/30 trampler, then with priority, cast Thud, sacrificing it to deal 30 damage to the opponent without giving them a chance to remove the creature unless they have a counterspell. And no, it's not going to die to everything. Good luck killing a 30 toughness creature with Lightning Bolt or Unholy Heat. It essentially has protection from red.

[@GrapeCheckerBoard]

One of the less obvious differences between Magic and Yugioh is their removal spells. In Magic, creatures die when their toughness is depleted while in Yugioh monsters die either when they battle another monster with attack equal to or greater than their own or through an effect that banishes them or puts them in the graveyard. Magic creatures can gain protection from some removal options by dint high toughness, while Yugioh monsters won’t gain an equivalent protection from removal through high defense (except against fringe non-competitive options like Dragon’s Gunfire and Makiu the Magical Mist).

[@GodzillaFreak]

In magic, there are good decks that use the graveyard. In yugioh, good decks use the graveyard.

[@TheOneJameYT]

This is a good response

[@rescuerex7031]

Funny part about the Watering everything down, that pretty much was Duel Monsters' original purpose, but like the readers of Yugioh loved the game so much, that it became like the main focus of the Manga, and then eventually Konami made Duel Monsters on the Gameboy which then eventually evolved into the Game we know today

[@Onibushou]

Shout out to Gren Maju's best friend, the Gizmek Orochi. Decent body that can block attacks, push for lethal, help make rank 8s and repeatedly summon itself on a quick effect, all with a banish 8 "cost". I win more games by blowing up their board and ending on a 4 mat Zeus, but its always fun when you just drop a normal summon and swing for lethal. Other cards that might be fun... Sekka's Light, Trickstar Reincarnation (I like using it in MD events just for fun), Flower Cardian Lightflare (has a lot of levels, stats, and text), Thunderdragon Colossus, Armed Samurai- Ben Kei, Chicken Game, Paleozoic Dinomischus (trap monsters in general are odd), Magical Sumo Dice Games (that is a bizarre and fairly unique mechanic), search at a cost cards like Painful Choice or Left Arm Offering.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Thanks for the cool ideas!

[@devdog007]

The format that Nikachu is asking about is called Traditional, which uses the Standard ban list, but all cards that are forbidden, are limited instead and it's an insane format.

[@realzionygo]

Yugioh Card: *exists* Nikachu: "It Danger."

[@ViperTCG]

When I saw huge revolution my mind when “WHY DO I KNOW WHAT THIS CARD DOES????”

[@TheOneJameYT]

Why does ANYONE know what that card does 🤣

[@richardduska1558]

27:50 That's not completly true since there are cards that has effect to set Normal Traps from your deck/copy their effect or activate them on the turn in which you set them. So turn 1 win/combo is possible.

[@TheOneJameYT]

anything is possible in Yugioh with the right amount of Garnets 😏

[@CatManThree]

Yugioh has an official format equivilant to Vintage, its called "Traditional". It has existed for a very very long time but noone remembers of acknowledges it. It was introduced originally in response to backlash towards the introduction of a banlist.

[@blue-dragon]

The graveyard in yugioh is like your 2nd deck you setup during the game basically lol. 6th Sense is so busted.

[@acetraker1988]

Card Request: Cold Wave. I have history with this card, as I was going through a commons pile, I was like WHY is no one playing this card, from looking that would have been around 2005 to 2006 based on formats of the time...

[@TheOneJameYT]

Cold wave is so insane 😅

[@ClubbingSealCub]

'send this thing to the shadowverse' was gold

[@TheOneJameYT]

I laughed so hard 🤣

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

Further context for Six Sense. On the OCG it was on the first banlist that put cards to 0, and is the ONLY card banned in that list that has never come back since. Imperial Order and CED technically never left either since they came back after they got nerfed into the ground with erratas (YES, the errata'd and re-banned Imperial Order is MUCH worse than the original, let THAT sink in), but if we ignore erratas, Sixth Sense is the oldest banned card in the OCG, and is almost certainly in it for life. On the TCG, it came, as mentioned at 1 on release, out 10 years later than the OCG, in the middle of one of the most powerful formats in Yugioh history. No card or deck in that time could come even CLOSE to how broken this card was in just about everything. It lasted less than 6 months before it went from 1 to 0.

[@alexMendoza-wl5oj]

This was really fun, now i want custom coffee made by A.I.

[@quieness]

Very charming guest. Loved watching this!

[@TheOneJameYT]

Thanks!! He was awesome

[@grimmreaper6354]

One of These episodes you've gotta Show them Like a DB replay of an one Card ftk in Yu-Gi-Oh and Just See how they react

[@TheOneJameYT]

Haha that sounds like fun

[@felixrodriguez5050]

PLANT FTK

[@KixMusaid]

Watching the first 4 episodes of the show is gonna work against him more than helping him😂

[@TheOneJameYT]

That's what's so funny about it lmao

[@SyxxPunk]

There is a format that no one plays called Traditional, that puts all the Forbidden cards to Limited. It's a goddamn madhouse.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Sounds like it lol

[@IslarfPokemon]

A fun video, could be to get 4-6 mtg youtubers to do a small tournament. Sealed Showdown style. Opening 24 packs from a single set. Get them to build and olay a bracket style tourny

[@TheOneJameYT]

That would be fun

[@darumanu9276]

Tbh, sixth sense probably could be unbanned. It's slow cause it's a trap, it can be horribly useless (mill 1,2) and games end really quickly.

[@TheOneJameYT]

It would be an interesting card to search with Labyrynth 🤣

[@iBloodxHunter]

It's funny the way people consistently underestimate that card. The pink cards trigger much more than you think.

[@RNGHater]

You want the OCG to keep playing Tear? Because that's how you get them to keep playing Tear.

[@epthopper]

Yeah. If you’re going to play a trap card, why gamble when you can play a lingering floodgate that skips your opponents turn lmao

[@stoeptegel4382]

Aahh, you want to go back to Tear Zero I see?

[@Cloud9likeaboss]

Yugioh for the longest time only had 2 formats. Advanced Constructed (which is regular Yugioh) and Traditional Format (Which is literally magics Vintage Format.) Traditional Format Yugioh uses the regular Ban List, but any Banned cards are instead limited to 1. This has always been a thing.

[@fuyumilockheart8242]

20:06 - A little ruling mistake you might have misunderstood there. Necroface if banished face down would NOT activate since a face down banished card is considered to have no identity. So you can't activate Necroface if banished by pot of desires

[@TheOneJameYT]

I was saying Necroface was in the deck, and how it was used. I wasn’t saying that Necroface triggers from Desires.

[@fuyumilockheart8242]

@@TheOneJameYT Ah ok ok. My bad then

[@TheOneJameYT]

@@fuyumilockheart8242 all good!

[@MANDALORE380]

Sixth sense is basically oko thief of crowns in regards to how fast it got banned

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yep!! I miss Oko

[@vo1ce147]

they did it in here ocg and tear just make everyone shed a tear

[@jackachugaming]

Something I find interesting with the no banlist tournaments yugioh tournaments is that zoodiac is probably the best deck. While it is historically one of the best decks of all time it is a midrange deck so while you'd expect the best decks to all be combo decks the number of handtraps zoo is able to play is enough to stop them and then they win the game in the long run by making drident/zeus.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yep! Tearlament would be one of the best decks too

[@freyachobi]

Don't want to be the actually guy but the best deck in Traditional/no banlist is simple burn FTK. There are a dozen cards on the list solely because they can play through interruption and deal the 8k in effect damage right away

[@orvatus6195]

I'd assume the hand traps include stuff like Droll'n'Lock Bird to counter exactly that, and the guy did say that Zoodiac play tons of hand traps. I think iirc at least one No Banlist tournament was won by True Draco Floodgate spam@@freyachobi

[@jackachugaming]

Well I'll be honest I haven't seen one in a while, before tear was a thing which was why I said zoo was probably the best deck as it defo was before tear. But looking at 2 recent ones from the ocg it seems that tear is by far the best deck, then zoo, and then an ftk deck (magical scientist).

[@kuroneko687]

If we talk about no banlist meta, tear is probably the best unquestionably, but I don't know if by far. It eats disruption, control, floodgates and outgrinds everything, but even such a deck cannot win before they even get to play. That's why FTK decks are an arguably close second choice, because you can build them to overcome handtraps and common combo breakers and win immediately with a 100% consistent combo. Besides from those 2 decks, you have all of the powerful strategies from the past that represented a tier 0 format by themselves and are still not that much powercreeped, like zoodiac or spyral.

[@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters]

7:13 the fleshes have been reached!

[@Crash32378]

I wanna see a no ban list tournament. Yugioh vs magic vs pokemon! Deweeeetttt!

[@TheOneJameYT]

That would be insane 😅

[@CaptainPlayguy]

20:18 Wait but if Necroface gets banished face down by Pot of Desires, doesn't that prevent Necroface from activating? Since that wouldn't be public information.

[@stoeptegel4382]

yeah it does prevent it from activating but there are more ways to banish a card from your deck

[@Fauix]

You can probably make a custom card like this to illustrate how Yu-Gi-Oh's summoning rules work to an MTG player: Normal Summon (Enchantment) Begin the game with Normal Summon on your field (T): Normal summon a level 1-4 monster (T)(1): Normal summon a level 5-6 monster (T)(2): Normal summon a level 7+ monster You can sacrifice monsters to gain (1) to pay for this enchantment.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I like this!

[@necrominer3518]

Rather than saying to gain some unnamed resource it can just be listed as "(T), sacrifice a monster:"

[@najawin8348]

"It's ...about... as useful as in magic" Why did you lie to the poor man?

[@TheOneJameYT]

One of the best decks in the history of Magic is Hogaak, which utilized the graveyard almost like Tearlament, and Magic decks throughout the history of the game have used the graveyard immensely. What reason do I have to lie to him?

[@najawin8348]

@@TheOneJameYT Nah, Hogaak is real, dredge is real, but I'd say the median ygo deck is much more graveyard reliant than the median magic deck. (Hence the jokes about Bridge from Below just being a yugioh card, right?) Look at something like TG, right? The new TG support isn't top tier by any stretch of the imagination. But every card in it but one interacts with the gy in some way, either by having an effect that can be activated in the gy/on destruction, or pulls things out of the gy or both. And the only card that doesn't interacts with banished cards.

[@TheOneJameYT]

@@najawin8348 sure, I could’ve said “Yugioh’s graveyard matters a little more than Magic, but they both utilize the graveyard” but that’s a little nitpicky right?

[@najawin8348]

@@TheOneJameYT I'd have said "pretty much every ygo deck uses it consistently, but not always as much as something like Hogaak or dredge do". I think the difference in context is actually pretty important for evaluating banish cards - if you have decks running around that just don't use the gy, which _does_ happen in magic, and _doesn't_ happen in ygo, I think crow looks substantially worse.

[@ich3730]

​​@@TheOneJameYTi mean, you cant say "a little more" when YGO decks literally play GY hate IN THE MAINDECK xD that never happens in magic outside of very specific metas. Like, YGO players play crow or shifter mainboard, thats the equivalent to playing tormods crypt or leyline in main against goblins

[@spendle]

“I prepared by watching the first four episodes of the anime” He’s boned.

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣🤣

[@Aquilenne]

There is a no banlist (but limited/restricted list) format. Traditional.

[@Yaboinate01]

Exodia is tier zero is a sentence I never thought I would hear

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣🤣

[@cactynemann4356]

Thumbnail made me think it was one of Nikachu's videos

[@TheOneJameYT]

It’s half of Nikachu lol

[@jeffcorder5898]

he also forgot Dark Law when talking about cards like Leyline

[@TheOneJameYT]

That is true! That’s another good one

[@thepotato513]

There is actually a Yugioh format that's the equivalent of Vintage in MTG. It's called Traditional Format, and nobody plays it. It was created way back when when the first bans were introduced to the game, and it's literally just you play the game with the current banlist, but all the banned cards are at 1.

[@Griffingterra]

Havent heard of denko sekka before, might add that to my super heavy samurai deck.

[@TheOneJameYT]

It’s a great card!

[@freyachobi]

That is actually one of the decks that saw the most Denko Sekka play, as well as its spell Sekkas Light (Sekkas Light removes itself from the GY to not turn off Super Heavy Samurai)

[@Teixas666]

consider also "Light of sekka" spell card in such a deck that basically is a pot of greed provided your deck has no other spells other than copies of itself.

[@Jinzo126]

Gren Maju, is my favourit Deck.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Nice!!

[@wimbledon5353]

DD Crow is like the John Gotti of Yugioh Cards. I thought the Bystials were finally going to powercreep it but they haven't...

[@TheOneJameYT]

They only banish light and dark monsters! Not good enough sometimes lol

[@sammydray5919]

Bystials need your opponent to have a monster for them to be quick effect and must banish light or dark monster. Crow can be a quick effect at all times and isn't limited in WHAT it can banish

[@janeszz]

Hot take: Sixth Sense is actually not broken in modern yugioh, its fine at best. The fact that its a trap, its not searchable and it only mills a few cards 66,7 % of the time makes it quite bad. even if you get the draws, you NEED to draw handtraps. otherwise you have no interaction anyway and get OTK'd. Im not saying it should come back, cause making the game more luck based is a very bad design choice, but it would be mid.

[@Cloud9likeaboss]

I would have the most busted Mask of Darkness deck

[@Teixas666]

if anything its even more busted now that more decks have both the ability ot abuse the grave more and might havethe ability ot speed up traps. there is no world where a card that reads " either mill upwards of 4 cards or go + 4 / +5" is balanced when ygo players are willing ot snap their decks in 2 for just a + 1

[@janeszz]

@@Teixas666 Which deck can speed up traps except labrynth? And if youre talkimg about lab: that deck has no upside to milling a few cards. Also, milling 4 cards does absolutely nothing in modern yugioh, not even in mill decks like tear. Its not that a mill 4 is going to decide the game when theyre already milling upwards of 10 cards every turn. And as i said, the luck card design is frustrating cause this card MIGHT steal a few games because the gamble upside is stupid. You know what COULD be pot of greed 50 % of the time? Why is no one playing cup of ace? I know the downside is worse, but it essentially comes down to the same thing. I still think this card wouldnt see play except for maybe some rare side deck option.

[@drastic6411]

Don't forget that all monsters also have Vigilance

[@TheOneJameYT]

Also true!!

[@EmpyreanRagnarok]

"Is there a format with no banned cards?" "No." Traditional Format: "Am I joke to you?"

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣

[@dragojess]

Omg it's Nikachu I love his content

[@TheOneJameYT]

Same!

[@pilarius3973]

If a card was only playable with Death’s Shadow, Tarmagoyf, and Ragavan in play already, then it would be useless because you’re already in such a winning position the only times you can play it.

[@TheOneJameYT]

That’s also true lol

[@newbiesama]

at the start op Master dualwe had dritron to negate everycard every. SO I used pot of desires then summon eater of millions *banish your entire extra deck), then summon Gren to attack there beta with gren to do 8K damage in one hit.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Haha yep!!

[@ugh5880]

I'm addicted to these videos

[@TheOneJameYT]

They’re the best, but I’m biased 😅

[@bobjones4469]

Lol, Nikachu's reading comprehension skills is always a site to behold. Was he homeschooled?

[@TheOneJameYT]

He was great on the show!

[@andyony2]

I think, the equivalent to Gren Maju Da Eiza in Death's Shadow MTG Deck would be a power creeped version of Street Wraith with Cycling for 10 life. :) Great Episode! And it was wonderful to see Nikachu evaluating Yugioh Cards!!

[@TheOneJameYT]

Thanks Andy! More of these to come for sure. I'm also starting a "Do You Know Magic" series this week where MTG players try to guess what's slightly wrong with each card. Should be a fun time!

[@gundamzeta3447]

The no ban list format is called triditional

[@TheOneJameYT]

Thanks!

[@bradwhiteuk]

"People Running About"!!!! What a cardname 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TheOneJameYT]

haha i know those card names are hilarious

[@YukiFubuki.]

its part of a series of cards that references revolution/rebellions in human history with each of the 3 monster cards themselves referencing specific revolutions such as the French Revolution, American revolution, Dutch revolt and/or the Russian revolution