MTG YouTuber Tries to Guess the SHORTEST Yugioh Cards w/

[@garbagecan755]

"Oh so Barrier Statue is a new card then." "No it's an old card that became good recently." "Oh gotcha it was always good but recently it became bad." "No it's an old card that was bad and recently became good because of a new strategy." "Gotcha it's a newer card okay." "No the card is from like 1989." "Oh okay." Over 2 and a half minutes pass "This card was bad back then and became good today." "Oh so it became good!" Literally an Abbott and Costello bit I'm fucking DYING.

[@elvenatheart982]

Two peas, o e peapod

[@DragonWaffleX]

"I've never seen a wind monster in the anime" Harpies: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@freyachobi]

Baby Dragon/Thousand Dragon also says Hello, as does Kazejin

[@MagiRemmie]

Stardust Dragon says hi.

[@Aquilenne]

@@MagiRemmie Damn, beat me to it. That's probably the most egregious one.

[@MrJWTH]

Heavy Storm is actually limited in the OCG so it’s possible it may be off the ban list here soon.

[@nyanbrox5418]

How many duels did Mai win on screen in duelist kingdom? Well obviously she beat joey when she... wait nope Well when she played against Teá for yugi's star chips when he lost to kaiba tea didn't win... wait no Well ok no but then in the duelist kingdom finals when Mai finally learned to trust herself and Yugi was doing literally everything he could do to lose the game like running into mirror wall twice in a row for no reason she completely beat him... wait, no Oh you must have meant that offscreen duel where she fought Panik and... oh wait The only time we actually see her winning against anyone is like a 10yo where the duel was offscreen and she's just fantasising about playing Yugi, and yes she would have beaten Teá had she not literally let her win, but unironically, she never beat a single named character in duel monsters during duelist kingdom, then she later became depressed at how far she fell in a filler arc and was possessed by a green circle, because she lost yet another duel, and then she gets beaten again to knock her out of it Mai never even plays against rex raptor in duel monsters, they play a glorified game of top trumps to decide who gets his room, and that's only because she cheated Only time harpies saw any play was as a rogue strategy once or twice, and it was only ever meta in duel links, along side literally dark magician and blue eyes white dragon, any deck can be meta in duel links if it's popular enough

[@darkwolf9637]

The shortest text on a trap card is solemn judgment, which simply reads "no"

[@elvenatheart982]

No it doest, cuz it only negates summons, trap and spells. It does not negate monster effects. Sorry

[@TheOneJameYT]

Why didn't I think of this

[@TheOneJameYT]

@@elvenatheart982 solemn scolding just says no

[@elvenatheart982]

@@TheOneJameYT scolding, but he said judgement

[@leebulger7112]

​@@TheOneJameYTFor little over a month I have been collecting Yu-Gi-Oh cards that have been banned and I have a Secret Rare Dark Hole for less than a dollar😊.

[@Oxitono]

you forgot to mention that the reason that heavy storm is banned is because it can destroy your own spells, while duster is at 1 for only destroying your opponents back row, as there are many ways to plus from heavy storm for destroying your own

[@Pyroniusburn]

Not just plusing off popping your own spells, popping otherwise symmetrical floodgates on your own turn to ignore the downside was super degenerate.

[@samuelheddle]

I don't think stun decks would really play that way anymore, usually these days they try to win under floodgates a la runick stun. Popping your own pend scales can also be really good but really I think HS can be unbanned at this point.

[@MegaMetal96]

Using heavy storm to destroy your own floodgates is like playing apex avian in pendulum: yeah it’s really hype when it pops off but most of the time it’s a brick

[@ETREDROOMREVIEWS]

Earth Machine excelled at the removing your own floodgates by looping Anger Knuckle.

[@samuelheddle]

I think the real reason not to unban it now is that 1x Harpie's is arguably enough when it comes to a complete backrow wipe card being in the game

[@Petsinwinter2]

I know the card with the shortest text in the game is the most hyped card of 2017, Sea Monster of Theseus, whose only text is its materials of "2 Tuners"

[@ulisesmunguia8715]

How about fire opal head or the other pendulum vanillas? They have no text at all.

[@Petsinwinter2]

@@ulisesmunguia8715 they still have flavor text XD If you want the shortest flavor text, then "check THIS out"

[@the_cool_dudz9394]

​@@ulisesmunguia8715those still have flavour text goddamit!

[@pi_xi]

Allvain the Essence of Vanity is very similar, but Level 2 and requires 2 Normal monsters.

[@cladiosanchez6865]

I mean it's a great target for insta fusion, level is good, it's a tuner.

[@fritothedemon6647]

Watching him be exposed to graceful charity was a great moment lmao

[@philgoad5587]

Seeing Nikachu react to a barrier statue gave me an idea for a video. Have him react to "Cycles" like the Barrier Statues, or the Solemn Brigade and have him guess which one has seen the most play

[@TheOneJameYT]

That’s a good idea

[@NovusIgnis]

If by Cycles you mean cards that follow the same theme but go around the different attributes like Magic's Titans, some other good "cycles" would be Mirror Force, Monarchs, and the Spirit Charmer traps

[@01Bokaj]

i like how he exactly explained why jar of greed isnt good nowadays and then went "yes but what if you recur this mediocre card" and concluded it must be busted

[@jofx4051]

*Jokingly abuse this in Labrynth*

[@mihaimorar2043]

To note on Barrier Statue of the Stormwinds, it ORIGINALLY saw a lot of play in Tri-Brigade as a target for Simorgh, Bird of Sovereignty. It being used in Floo came later.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I did really like that Tri-Brigade deck

[@CatManThree]

The link simorgh was more of the problem in this case though.

[@benito1620]

​@CatManThree link simorgh isn't a problem though.

[@baileydombroskie3046]

I don’t pay that much attention to meta but I swear I remember barrier statue of the stromwinds being played in a wind bird deck being summoned off of simorgh b4 tri-brigade and floo. I can’t recall if it was banned then or the deck itself got powercrept so it stopped seeing play til another deck got to utilize that dirty wind package.

[@greenhillmario]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@baileydombroskie3046probs lunalights, once wise strix, simorgh and union carrier came out the deck could do a bunch of comical shenanigans that got Tiger banned

[@najawin8348]

Barrier Statue was also used in Bird Up. Floo just happened to be the more recent version of the problem. But the card will be an issue whenever there's a strong wind deck that can end on specialing Barrier.

[@Pyroniusburn]

That stupid simorgh link casually summoning it, giving it targeting protection, and only bringing it out during the end phase so it didn't disrupt your non-wind plays.

[@619Slipk]

Glad he realized how Graceful Charity can be even better than Pot of Greed. Took him a second thought but he got there. One of the few cards that got reverse powercept throught the years

[@numberhunter62]

Another reason why Heavy Storm is busted is because you destroy your own Spells & Traps, which means you could use a floodgate during your opponent's turn and then use Heavy Storm to get rid of it so you aren't effected during your own turn.

[@beaureed8613]

Technically, barrier statue IS unplayable. It's just not garbage 😂

[@matthewpopow6647]

Solid point

[@samuelheddle]

The real reason upstart is bad right now is that decks are already having trouble fitting in all the non-engine tech choices they want, and are far more consistent with one-card starters than they used to be. You routinely see 41/42 card decks in top cuts nowadays because they didn't have 15 slots for handtraps back when Upstart-at-three was a popular tech choice.

[@vandagylon2885]

It was never anything too good to begin with.

[@miro5052]

@@vandagylon2885 Wrong. It was limited for years because of how good it was at making your deck more consistent.

[@freyachobi]

Upstart Goblin is a mandatory 3 of in Spell Counter Pendulum and Sky Striker, but both decks are absolutely bodied by anti-spell fragrance and as soon as either does remotely well anti-spell just hops into side boards because it's also not terrible against any other deck not named Labrynth, Altergeist, or Traptrix

[@WingedEspeon]

It also isn't good because going second it doesn't actualy make your deck 37 cards, because when you upstart into a hand trap your opponent has already comboed off and your hand trap isn't useful now.

[@ZerodragonSP]

I think a fun video would be one focusing on the banned cards. Like presenting cards that are currently on or have recently come off the banned list and having the guest try to guess if it's currently on the banned list, recently came off, or was recently added. Examples being Smoke Grenade, Snatch Steal, Isolde, Cannon Solider, etc. Might be best after the next ban list comes around. Similar thing could be done with the limited/semi-limited list.

[@botindeldiablo]

5:38: your turn? OUR turn tovarich *bass boosted apex avian in the background*

[@CatManThree]

Raigeki also exists when it comes to dark hole. Literally a no cost wrath card that only targets the opponet.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Weirdly enough sometimes Dark Hole is better than Raigeki too lol

[@tiggerbane4325]

Having played masterduel with dark hole/raigeki in main deck for a few months. The cards are basically the same card but sometimes Dark hole pluses you or removes something the opponent puts on your board.

[@ill_hex8103]

@@TheOneJameYTShould also note that (at least in Master Duel) certain decks prefer Torrential Tribute over Dark Hole because they'd like to use that effect during their opponent's turn (especially when their archetype lacks a natural destruction effect) and don't care too much about their already existing monsters, or utilize their effects upon destruction or when they're in the GY or Banish zone depending on the condition. So even though it's a normal trap and has another requirement, it's arguably better than Dark Hole in certain cases (though is probably still preferred as a side deck option).

[@CatManThree]

​​​​@@TheOneJameYTIt depends on the deck. Dark hole allows you to blow up your own cards but most decks dont want that. Theres a reason Raigeki is semi-limited in the ocg and dark hole is not. Blowing up your own board of monsters just isnt as insane as backrow. Granted most people will just side in and out other things like evenly matched or Nibiru instead.

[@zed60k47]

@@CatManThree That is kinda true in grind games but in this game where most duels end on turn 2 the downside isn't really there, if you use going 2nd and your opponent is the only one with cards on the field it might as well be copies 4 5 and 6 of raigeki, but with the added utility of being able to remove cards like Iblee your opponent gives you (which tbf is not as common anymore).

[@Creepy___]

it would have been funny if after showing him the wind statue, you showed him another barrier statue that would have baited him into thinking its also good and then its just unplayable

[@TheOneJameYT]

Why didn't I think of this lol

[@lifedeather]

@@TheOneJameYTyou should make a video showing all the attribute barrier statues and cycling through all of them just to realize only the wind one is good 😂

[@TheOneJameYT]

@@lifedeather lmaoooo

[@andypandy00]

@@lifedeather Torrent was good in Toadally Awesome... before that deck got turbo banned to hell. I think it's even currently run in a couple Marincess variants

[@thescrubduelist6874]

The Fire stautue is so good in Rush Duels to the point of being the first and only banned card of the format

[@TheLastPhoen1x]

"Your opponent like spews their hand.... they overextended." In Yu Gi Oh it's more like "spews their entire deck onto the table"

[@dresdenlancer9012]

If you ever do another Archetype video, I'd love to see what people think of Elemental Lords and ElementSabers (support). "Phosphorage, Windrose, Palace (field spell), Makani, and Lapuila Mana" would be my picks for the group. It's really fun and easy to play in Master Duel's solo mode, even if you're not gonna take it into real ladder matches. Plus, the two big Lords are Board Wipes, so they might throw off the scent of whomever you bring on for the episode.

[@Onibushou]

Even MtG players can see how busted Graceful Charity is, it might be one of the least likely things to come off the banlist. After Heavy Storm, I was half expecting Giant Trunade. Could be a fun card to look at regardless (bouncing your own continuous and all). It could be funny to do a set of cards with punny names (Toadally Awesome, Oh Fish!, Gogiga Gagagigo, etc), but most of those are pretty obviously terrible (there's even one called "Terrible Deal") so dunno if there would be enough to work with.

[@dstreetz91]

Yeah when Nikachu brought up looting I was thinking the more direct comparison is a powercrept brainstorm, which by all metrics should be banned everywhere and restricted in vintage and it says draw 3 put 2 on top of your deck. I imagine if brainstorm was draw 3 discard 2 it would be banned in legacy from the inception of the format when type 1 and type 1.5 banlists were split though and it would have easily been restricted in type 1 before they started calling it vintage where it got restricted in 2008 or 2009 IIRC.

[@Yslohr]

Dragunity can (but usually doesn't but they can) end on Barrier of the Stormwinds + Savage + Areadbhair and Crystal Wing.

[@sr_pallmeto4542]

I thought for sure you would pull out Transaction Rollback when Nikachu talked about recovering traps from your GY, but Lady Lab makes sense too.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Rollback was a good choice to mention here too!

[@nutmegdoesstuff1339]

Backrow removal in yugioh is especially surprisingly powerful against more casual decks just because it seems like generally the better the deck, the less traps they have.

[@tv_tim]

I do enjoy watching Nikachu try to guess how good/bad a card is, it's kinda fun. I almost want to see how he'd react to a full meta deck duel being played out with how many cards fly on/off the field.

[@DictatorTan]

I recently watched a video on banned MTG commander cards and realized that a few of them have effects that seem to mirror YGO cards that are either also banned or are cards that are very similar to things we already have like, i think there was a card that reminded me a lot of Colossus and something somewhat similar to Evenly Matched as well. It could be interesting to find analogues to the MTG banlist for the YGO card guessing game.

[@matthewstrunk5581]

I think it might be interesting to also show people some Engines Yu-Gi-Oh has and have them evaluate how good it is based on the space each engine takes and what they do. It could also be interesting to show them current and previous competitive decks and what their typical end board looks like and ask them to rank them.

[@Zetact_]

Graceful Charity is so broken that it's even broken in Rush Duel, a format where Pot of Greed is mid due to the draw 5 mechanics. Upstart Goblin isn't even that good now, but that's in part because the new "card that costs you nothing and replaces itself immediately" is a 2400 beater that can banish your opponent's cards every single turn.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Fenrir do really be like that

[@benito1620]

Upstart is bad in masterduel too and fenrir is limited to 1 in that format. The only people who play upstart are exoida or decks that gain something from loading their GY with spells like endymion or sky strikers and even then it is by preference.

[@zed60k47]

Upstart used to be good when you didn't have enough good cards to hit the 40 card minimum. Running upstart basically lets you cheat that limit by letting you run 37 cards instead. Nowadays you do actually have good cards to put in your deck as non engine like handtraps or board breakers so you don't need it

[@dstreetz91]

The only way a card like upstart goblin can be bad is because of people running cards that make it actively bad like droll and such. In the hypothetical where there is no downside to running upstart goblin each deck runs 3 always because a 37 card deck is better than a 40 card deck. If you ask a deckbuilder to build the best deck they can in as few cards as possible they'll do it, which is why standard deckbuilding rules say minimum of 40 cards.

[@Aquilenne]

​@@dstreetz91 The downside is that it's a delayed card draw if you don't go first. If you go second, you wont see the upstart that lets you draw into a handtrap until after your opponent has played their entire first turn. It's a less extreme version of the same reason Jar of Greed is bad, also it gives the opponent life points, which can be quite relevant on game 3 due to life points deciding the winner when a match goes to time.

[@Bob_Bobinson]

We had the longest cards in yugioh. Now we have the shortest cards in yugioh. Up next the medium cards in yugioh.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Featuring every fish in yugioh

[@baileydombroskie3046]

Lol

[@OpDDay2001]

@@TheOneJameYT I mean, getting him to read Super Ancient Deepsea King Coelacanth would be amusing.

[@rstada8]

It's great to have Nikachu on again for a slightly different format! I'd love to see other returning guests with the new "was it good, is it still good" and the "check out these 5 cards in an archetype" format.

[@619Slipk]

"I've never seen wind monsters in the anime. They're always on the ground" Mai: 😡

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣

[@lifedeather]

For jar of greed you should have shown him upstart goblin if he wanted to thin the deck by 3

[@amadogarduno]

i love that jar of greed is played in goat as bait that cycles

[@SyxxPunk]

My favourite thing is someone summoning Barrier Statue of the Stormwinds and my response would be "Okay. Draw, standby, main, activate Magnificent Map, response?" 2 out of 3 times, the response was "chain surrender"

[@TheOneJameYT]

LMAO

[@ragenaros4475]

Ultimate counter to Wind Barrier - Gadarla xd it alwayd felt good

[@saito853]

Barrier statue is banned not because of any good Wind monsters, but because there's ZERO good Wind archetype. It's searchable in Floo since it's a "Winged Beast". Imagine if Fire barrier statue is searchable and can be summoned consistently, it would do nothing because the meta is full of Fire decks.

[@gab4198]

fire barrier would be good against snake-eye pure, they have to use some monsters from the extra deck that have other atributes, they would lose access to i:p, apollousa, linkuriboh, baronne, formula synchron, borreload savage dragon, zealantis and even diabellestar, that is why they use promethean princess as an extender but the players try to get rid of her on field as fast as possible it would also stop voiceless voice because they are all light atribute, raidraptor wouldn't be able to do anything at all because the entire deck is dark. The only deck i think would actually survive would be the fire king variant of snake-eyes and it started to loose ground to the pure snake-eyes deck recently since poplar.

[@serenablood6826]

i play jar of greed just for laughs. the looks i get at my local card shop for playing it is priceless. 🤣

[@newbiesama]

12:30 Lord of the heavenly Prison: "Why would I"?

[@TerryHintz300ATK]

Nice concept, looking forward for more paired concepts like low/high Star monsters and generic/very restrictive cards on the series.

[@P3ndragon025]

Harpie's feather duster also clears your opponent's backrow but its not banned. the reason why heavy storm is banned is because it sweeps your board too. it can free you from any continouos effects that requires you to pay for upkeep or send spells and traps that you would like to be in the GY in the first place.

[@benito1620]

Also HFD actually had interaction with the harpie archetype so konami probably wanted it to be legal so they can search it and be slightly less unplayable as a deck.

[@terras6418]

In Yugioh there is no my turn, there is no your turn, there is only our turn.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Exactly 🤣

[@smedleycheswith1272]

I just realized Jar of Greed is literally Urza's Bauble

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yup!

[@RagnanoFM]

One upside Dark Hole has that can lead you to sideboard it over other similar board wipes like Raigeki or Lightning Storm is that it also deals with monsters that your opponent summons to your side of the field, like Knightmare Corruptor Iblee

[@Arkius__]

Watching him use babycerasauras as an example and not the entire unchained line up made me laugh haha especially seeing unchained popping off recently. And heavy storm in unchained would also be primo

[@jcmsaucey6555]

I think the only card with less text than Jar of Greed is Sea Monster of Theseus, but that's not even effect text, just it's fusion requirements

[@TheOneJameYT]

Ah that's fair enough, I didn't even think of that one

[@williamholtzclaw3029]

I love his assessment of heavy storm "so heavy dark raigeki destroys all cards? Well i guess there might be metas where cards are powerful, seems pretty situational to me"

[@jkid1134]

On Pot of Greed vs Graceful Charity and their impact on format health: even in retro Yugioh, there are a lot of situational blowout cards available, and Graceful Charity provides so much power and fixing that it encourages decks to play in a more inconsistent but powerful way. This generally leads to more games being decided by draw rng, even the ones where you don't see Graceful. Pot of Greed, however, actually has something of the opposite effect: the +1 is incredibly important for value-oriented grind games, and you want to play cards that brick as rarely as possible not only to make the most out of your own +1, but in case your opponent +1s and you need to survive being ground down. At some point, the power level of the game becomes such that generic draw spells this good just can't be legal and none of this analysis is really valid anymore, but it's certainly noticeable in the historical formats where they are legal, and probably in like cubes and draft. This is a very in-the-weeds conversation for Yugioh players. "Which is stronger" is about as far as the discourse usually gets, and not usually accurately 😂 Very fun to me that you wondered on first viewing.

[@tripleparakeetshoes4613]

I would love to see Nikachu's reaction to Fiber Jar in a "Is this card banned" version of this game.

[@mattevans1643]

It must be really cool to have John Mulaney as a friend. Seriously Nik has the exact same voice. Even the enuciations are the same.

[@breakfaith3031]

Graceful Charity is such a cool card. I love that discarding used to be considered a cost in yugioh.

[@deadlineuniverse3189]

Nikatchu: “I guess Barrier statue was good at one point in time but is unplayable now” Me: You are technically right for all the wrong reasons.

[@Soumein]

I was going to say Fissure the Wind Statue, but Floowandereeze has less ATK, and has upside to being destroyed. I play Trap Hole! Oh wait, that only works if I went first, and if I went first I already Summoned everything I need.

[@ralonnetaph6450]

should have mentioned when talking about how busted graceful charity was, that if you use it to draw the pieces of exodia, you win before the discard half of the card even happens so you would win even if it would normally have caused you to discard the pieces of exodia.

[@TheOneJameYT]

I didn’t even know that 🤣

[@YukiFubuki.]

@@TheOneJameYTnot possible anymore, thats a ruling that was issued by upperdeck and has since been declared unofficial by konami it could still work if it doesnt conflict with any official rulings or gameplay mechanics but alas konami actually issued an official statement on draw and discard types of effects that would complete exodia mid resolution but dissemble it upon full resolving as not allowing you to declare victory until the effects fully resolve so cannot exodia for game anymore like this and the very card they used to exemplified this scenario is graceful charity itself

[@Eddie_Enfer]

Jar of greed in the past could be used to to bait your opponet into destroying it with their backrow removal by chaining it to the removal card, pretty good, you wasted one of your opponent's resources without losing any card advantage

[@RyuNightmare]

As a huge Hero fan, I would love to see him evaluate Hero cards! :D

[@baileydombroskie3046]

As a Destiny HERO player, I agree. Id love to show off a DH combo that ends on like 60k+ DMG. It’s only a couple cards off from my current DH OTK decklist. It’s not per se, THAT consistent, but it’s hella fun to pull off. I’m sure if I made a deck that discards consistency for pure power I cud manage a board w 70-80k+ DMG. Just thinking about it is giving me a mindgasm.

[@moldybones142]

I would love to see his reaction to the fact that neos alius was the scourge of multiple formats in the past

[@RyuNightmare]

@@baileydombroskie3046 you think that DPE, Dark Law, dark angel and Plasma would be too easy to evaluate? :D

[@baileydombroskie3046]

@@RyuNightmare ez? Idk... nikachu mightn’t have enuf IQ to understand dark angel tho. Lol. I wud enjoy hearing wat some1 who has no experience has to say about them w no context.

[@RyuNightmare]

@@baileydombroskie3046 yeah, even a lot of yugi players don't understand the concept of Dark Angel.

[@MrJWTH]

Heavy Storm is was recently moved to limited in the OCG so I can see that coming on the ban list in the near future.

[@acetraker1988]

Heavy Storm is also banned for being able to destroy your own traps or more likely Floodgates. This is a useful note. Also, some traps/cards have effects when destroyed in the S/T zones.

[@usuariob4948]

I want to see the other video happen! The colab was great

[@TheOneJameYT]

Coming soon!

[@Calonsus]

Put Superheavy Samurai in there. Everybody loves a Wall Tribal

[@soasertsus]

Man looking at that bird statue I instantly thought "this thing must be banned, there's no way you don't just play out your whole turn 1 and then drop this and lock your opponent out from playing." In magic that would be like "both players can only spend 1 mana per turn" or something where you just combo off and then lock your opponent out from responding, except even better because you somehow have infinite mana on turn one to set up before dropping it. I'm surprised he didn't think it was good enough it's obviously ridiculously oppressive if you can find the deck to use it,

[@TheOneJameYT]

Yea it was pretty oppressive lol

[@williamoldaker5348]

I like pairing Gunkan Suship with Reckless Greed. The Gunkan Cards draw on XYZ summon and the Gunkan Trap card is a non-once per turn effect both on from set and graveyard ability. One could easily play over the "Skip your next two Draw Phases" from Reckless Greed. Fun Fact: I was playing this against Mayakashi Zombie Mill. They managed to mill on their Turn 1 but I activated my set Reckless Greed. I survived 2 additional turns because Reckless Greed prevented me from drawing from the nothing that was my deck due to state based actions. 😊

[@acetraker1988]

Also Note: Jar Of Greed was power creeped by Legacy of Yata Garasu.

[@ezmoneyy149]

Il be back for every time you do this idc how many you do love this

[@TheOneJameYT]

Perfect 🤩

[@曾華偉-l6g]

just want to appreciate nikachu, such a fun lad.

[@pi_xi]

Legacy of Yata-Garasu is usually better than Jar of Greed unless you are playing Jar Turtle, because Spirit monsters like Kinka-Byo, Nikitama or Ama-No-Iwato sometimes see play even in modern decks.

[@NovusIgnis]

There's a trap card that's shorter than Jar of Greed actually! Solemn Judgement Card text: NO!

[@TheOneJameYT]

🤣

[@Gex...]

Can't wait for the next time when you have this man and his dragon balls back :D

[@nyanbrox5418]

Jar of greed could be anything, it could even be another jar of greed

[@TheOneJameYT]

Could be a vase!

[@Yslohr]

I keep saying it but seriously I think dragunity is a really interesting deck for non yu-gi-oh! players to review due to his historic evolution, it shows that wind monsters can be good, it shows that even a balls to the wall combo deck if you play it right can be played as a control deck effectively (although sure you won't be the most effective), it shows how the main deck + extra deck interaction works very effectively! They are many more reason why I think Dragunity should be reviewed but these are just a few. I am of the opinion that Dragunity is an important and core part of post Synchro yu-gi-oh! history.

[@winxclub998wizardmaster]

for got to say about statue is that its a fine card but the reasion it got banned is cause flew can summon it from the deck witch made it a problem so instead of hitting any flew cards they hit the old statue so if flew were gone it be fine

[@mageius]

God I hope a Rouge archetype or two is shown. Synchrons for example aren't meta but I'd put them in a sorta weird space. Because when it's good it can be very good and is basically just an engine and not a fool archetype

[@domotoro3552]

i love that you showed the Fortnite wrath of god when he brought the card up

[@TheOneJameYT]

I was waiting for someone to notice that, I put that one in the video on purpose to see how many comments about it we’d get 🤣

[@thomassynths]

Thanks. Now I can enjoy these without being sober enough to read walls of text.

[@TheOneJameYT]

Lmaooo

[@wolfvane16]

Please show Nikachu "Butterfly Dagger Elem" in a episode. He brings up Exode every episode and Butterfly was part of the first turn victory combo with Exode.

[@davidonpc815]

2:42 To be fair he said it used to be good but is now unplayable which is true because you can't play a card if it is banned

[@zerotalent297]

I can watch NikachuMTG wrestle yugioh history all day, protect this man!

[@reiezevan]

Jar of Greed is actually good in Edison as it baits Heavy storm or any backrow removal making it a one for one …

[@freyachobi]

It wasn't just Floo that abused Wind Barrier, Lyrilusc and Tri-brigade variants would go off full combo end on Simorgh of Sovereignty and cheat out Wind Barrier at the end of their turn. This got Simorgh banned first.

[@evilagram]

Great card picks, really entertaining!

[@TheOneJameYT]

Much appreciated!

[@KatrinaM3723]

I'll throw out a few cards that may have been recommended, but it might be fun to see a Magic player try and understand the. What about showing two banned cards(such as Rhongo and Verte Anaconda, or True King of All Calamities. Or Utopic Zexal), one limited(can't think of any of these off the top of my head), one semi-limited(Destiny Hero Malicious) and one unlimited card(what Rhongo should be. It's a completely fair card! Or one of the staple cards, like Ash Blossom). Then just try and have them guess which is meant to be which. Also, I kinda wanna see them try and figure out XYZ's monsters in general.

[@nutmegdoesstuff1339]

"this is like the ultimate removal" *raigeki laugh*

[@Vaniity_Velvet]

Barrier statue of the Stormwinds is one of those cards that seems really good at face value. Being able to lock you and your opponent to just Wind monsters seems very strong, especially today when Fire monsters are Sitting Big Chief. But, when you apply critical thinking to it, you realize that it's basically Fool's Gold. It has no protections, It doesn't negate monsters already on the field and is largely useless going second. Meaning if you aren't going first and don't get it in your first hand, it's kind of pointless. There are cards that you could use to give it protections but at best you'd be buying one turn with it as realistically it' safer to assume if they don't have a card to get rid of it then, they may on their next draw phase. Even if it does work, there is a good argument to be had you're just giving them more time to prepare their combos because it doesn't do anything other then negate special summons. What I'd propose for it, to make it a bit more useful, is to bounce all non-Wind monsters already in play back to both players hands on top of not allowing non-Wind Monster special summons. Because at least then, even if it's only out for one turn, you just broke their combo as there's no real counter to bouncing cards like there is banishing or destroying. Hell, this could be something that works even for people who don't use Wind Monsters. Bouncing a Card that has a good effect on summon back to your hand means you could do it again next turn. To prevent heavy exploiting give the bounce effect a hard once per summon. Meaning if you wanted to do it multiple times you'd either have to run multiple copies or figure out a way to get it back into your hand. And, of course, Elephant in the room: This card is still heavily dependent on what the Meta is. You don't want Wind Monsters being the strongest because then this becomes useless. But at the same time you don't want them at such a disadvantage they can't possibly counter the meta attribute. But, it does speak volumes to how maybe modern Yu-gi-oh is a bit too fast that something as half-baked as this card is so broken in a deck that just floods their side with weak monsters. Like, if this exact same strat was a thing back in... 2005, maybe, it would be damn near useless. One Lajiin and that entire deck is literally dead on arrival. It could beat over all of it *AND* it's a normal summon. But... no one plays Lajiin anymore. While it's still a pretty good normal summon beater, if it doesn't have an effect, it's usually overlooked.

[@kyleanderson449]

Heavy storm is so strong that it is meta defining.

[@alexMendoza-wl5oj]

Woohoo! It's time to dddddddddddduel! Imagine Nika in dark magician armor.

[@placeholder6503]

Make him look at zoodiacs! On MD in their current form they aren't as strong anymore (1 Ratpier, no broadbull), but they threw me for a loop initially when they came out, because their endboard was quite unimpressive.

[@definitelynotmany4972]

19:59 Jar of Greed has always been trash. It became playable only when new players realized it was insane against back-row removal in modern Goat. Funnily enough, it is something I learned while I started playing, but better players than myself shut me down, so I gave up on the idea since it made sense that you would not always run into back-row removal.

[@zerocalvin]

one of the problem with dark hole is that it destroy monsters, many yugioh mosnters now days either are immune to destruction or trigger an effect upon being destroyed.. which is why people usually just use AA Zeus for board wipe instead of dark hole since Zeus send cards to grayveyard without destroying... not to mention, getting Zeus out is ridiculously easy, basically any deck can do it..

[@Wortigon2000]

"never heard of a wind monster" Stardust Dragon wants to know your location. So does Baronne da Fleur, and the entire speedroid archetype. Simorghs, mist valley cards, lyriluscs, harpys, and a bunch of others. I was really laughing out loud when my opponent played barrier statue of the stormwinds against my Speedroid deck. my only non-wind monsters in it are my 3 Ash blossoms, which isn't meant to be summoned anyway. Dark Hole / Heavy Storm? blowout cards. But the real reason why Heavy Storm got banned was it's ability to destroy your own spells and traps. Graceful charity a "no loss" ? no. With a proper deck, it's a +5 Jar of Greed as a normal trap can be a +2 in Traptrix, but that deck has a ton of better options too, and the extra +1s really would come from Traptrix Sera.

[@johndoe9200]

These videos unironically got me into MTG

[@TheOneJameYT]

Nice! How so?

[@johndoe9200]

I learned about a bunch of magic creators, checked out their channels and that made me want to try the game out through mtg arena.

[@johndoe9200]

@@TheOneJameYT I'm also just sick of the current meta

[@TheOneJameYT]

@@johndoe9200 that’s what I play on stream too 👌

[@johndoe9200]

@@TheOneJameYT you play what? I play a bunch of mono red and lightsworns for YGO

[@kazutokirigaya4208]

Do you think you could do labrith exodia and spam draw cards that way to on your opponents turn?

[@TheOneJameYT]

It’s harder to do on your opponent’s turn because you can get stopped but it’s possible to draw a lot of cards through cards like Reckless Greed

[@YellowFraggle]

POP DA BABY!

[@quinnpruett8280]

You should put in Domain Monarchs, I think, will give him a lot to think about.

[@wilhelmbecknee5870]

Yo hes back! Lets go!!

[@dresdenlancer9012]

Early! Under a half hour. Excited for this one

[@TheOneJameYT]

Have fun!

[@emred4653]

As a ygo players seeing how other people's train of logic is interesting

[@jacthing1]

I think one of the archetypes for that video should be Endymion. So he can see what the whole deck is about not just the boss monster

[@MrMichaelisaacs1]

I would argue graceful charity is more broken than pot of greed.

[@Aquilenne]

Could probably have gone into one of the reasons that Upstart Goblin isn't good nowdays, since it's quite relevant to the reason Jar of Greed isn't. Because Upstart Goblin is a sorcery, you can only play it on your turn. If you go second, that means you wont get it until turn 2, meaning you can't use it to draw into an instant that you could use to disrupt your opponent's turn 1 play where if you put in just another instant you'd be able to play it. Same reason as Jar of Greed. It's just too slow.

[@lorenztor1990]

Heavy Storm is banned because it destroys your own spell and trap cards too. Harpy's Feather Duster is not banned right now and it destroys only your opponents cards.

[@adawoo5494]

Nikachu is such a himbo but he's 100% correct about heavy storm