YU-GI-OH! WITHOUT READING?! ft. MBT Yu-Gi-Oh!

​‪@MBTYuGiOh‬ and I try to play Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel after switching the language to Japanese (which we cannot read).
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[@Dzeeff]

Who should I challenge next? 👀

[@denisvodovozov1099]

Gage

[@James-mz8xy]

I really want to see a colab with the duel logs duel logs

[@Dx_Ach]

Have yall done a challenge where you make each others decks? So in this instance, you will get to decide how good (or hilariously bad) MBT's deck is.

[@Dannyo7o7]

Farfa of course PepeLa

[@gokrtkd816]

Farfa, gage, or Team APS

[@sheesh5904]

Ah yes, a normal Dzeeff video

[@RobinsAssistant]

Ikr

[@MBTYuGiOh]

Thanks for having me! If you liked us not reading our cards, can I interest you in Roulette?

[@frozenmon4866]

You 2 are made for each other, glad you started cooperating. Had a blast

[@kyleboddy5711]

Any chance you can do alien Mirror matches?

[@mh19926]

You are becoming more and more insufferable, joke of a man.

[@maskofthedragon]

Doug already refuses to read, so this just sinks MBT to his level

[@Ace_The_Espy]

Lol mbt aslo doesnt read cards

[@claire6452]

@@Ace_The_Espy Yes, but MBT knows more cards without having to read them, so it's less obvious most of the time.

[@maskofthedragon]

@@Ace_The_Espy Dude, I skip to his 1st turn every episode just to see how he locks himself out of the game

[@jshtng78]

Doug reads during his off-camera hand testing and MBT certainly reads copiously during TMT but obviously they don't hand test every older card in the game and does anyone honestly want to watch any Yugituber using Endymion for the first time having to spend 15 minutes understanding the card text on stream?

[@tbates2906]

@@jshtng78 Endymion is the most extreme example. Not 15 mins but maybe double check before you activate effects lol

[@JohnnyMacs19]

This is hysterical for a series We go from read your cards to you literally can't read your cards

[@riroufudo]

Finally the True yugioh experience

[@pumpkingkingoftoons6185]

FOR ANYONE WONDERING the card is Dark Alligator and it has 3 effects 1: You can tribute summon him by tributing 1 reptile instead of 2 monsters 2: When hes tribute summoned you can summon 2000/2000 tokens up to the number of reptiles tributed 3: When hes destroyed by battle or card effect you can add 1 reptile monster except another copy of itself LONG LIVE 🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊

[@Rhapsdos]

I'd 100% watch this every week if this was a series.

[@TylerMcVeigh1]

What do you mean? Doug uploads this series every Wednesday and Saturday.

[@leizero]

I would too if they extend this to when they actually check whether they could've won with the cards they had afterwards.

[@aristotlegranules92]

@@TylerMcVeigh1 you did not 😭

[@theredarmy4884]

HOW ARE YOU GONNA LEAVE US HANGING WITH WHAT THOSE MYSTERY CARDS DID?!? That was great fun though, really exciting to watch! Hope to see more

[@liberta363]

they should have gone through their decks and read what those cards do for content and laughs + possibly knowledge fpr the future etc

[@ZZI44418]

wonder if they saw that the cyberse wizard could've won the game due to its piercing damage. when doug changed the 200 def monster into defense position I thought he had it.

[@EmCeee411]

@@liberta363 They actually did that, it just didn't make it into the video.

[@EmCeee411]

@@ZZI44418 That was actually one of the first things chat pointed out after emote only was turned off. Sad it didn't make it into the video.

[@Xenonfuji]

The woman was performapal miss director

[@MrFanbase2]

Really enjoy the concept for this! I think if you want a more 'anime' like duel experience though, the decks should be built first, and THEN you switch languages, so you only don't know what your opponents cards do. Both ways of doing it would be fun to watch though!

[@juanfranciscomartinezfuent9611]

This Is a great idea

[@DemonFox369]

That’s a good idea. Knowing what your cards do may make the deck building portion of the video better. As funny as this video was, not knowing what your own cards do may get old fast.

[@Dzeeff]

Hmmmm

[@Rhapsdos]

A good middle ground could be the pack openings are in English and then gets moved to Japanese by deck building. That way we can still get some understanding of what the cards do, but its very ripe for misremembering the exact details of the card during deck building and play.

[@DuskoftheTwilight]

You should include some footage of looking over the cards in English afterwards. Alternatively: Have an extra duel at the end where you both set your accounts back to English, but are required to still use the same deck.

[@gabrielpelletier6202]

"Can you play yugioh without reading a single card?" Doug, what's different from your other content?

[@mokeymale8350]

For anyone curious, Doug’s main cards he didn’t know were Dark Alligator, a reptile support card that searches a reptile on destruction, and Performapal Miss Director, an odd-eyes support card that makes them not destroyed by battle.

[@ebox147]

What does the 1 2000 number mean?

[@mokeymale8350]

@@ebox147 on Dark Alligator, if it’s tribute summoned using a reptile monster, you summon Alligator tokens equal to the number tributed and they have 2000atk

[@zerglinator]

@@ebox147 if reptiles are used for its tribute summon, it summons Level 1, 2000 Attack tokens up to the number of reptiles tributed

[@ravaniphoenix5431]

miss director also revives a level 1 performapal and synchroes with it.

[@Fauix]

@@ebox147 dark alligator can be summoned for 1 tribute of a reptile, and creates a 2000 atk token for each reptile tributed for its summon edit: should really refresh the page before responding to a comment to see if it was already covered

[@esrohm6460]

every time i see japanese cards i get reminded how much superior their cards are. bulllet points? numbers that indicate a new effects begins? where is that for us why do we only get random block of text go

[@thestormtrooperwhocanaim496]

I cri errytime. Truly the american translators did not have ocd and decided to hit translate on an app and said eh go.

[@Br0oham]

Very rarely our cards get bullet points. It's hardly good, but it's... text

[@lucidreverie3024]

but my opponent not reading my card is my wincon

[@cipher_db8992]

Having only played the game in Japanese (I got into it after a blind readthrough of the original manga after moving to Japan a few years back), I have been consistently baffled every time I look at English cards. I can't believe they take an already text-heavy game and make things even harder to parse.

[@stardust9470]

Just separating in paragraphs would make it easier to read,but the translators decided to throw a random wall of text

[@_Prismadoll]

50:54 “I got lethal on board. You wanna scoop?” The balls of steel on this man to bluff that hard on something that obvious lmao

[@tvftw1]

Give us the post-game where they read their most baffling pulls, and this is a perfect series

[@nolandost3070]

This would be absolutely hysterical as a series. I'm 100% on board for this in combination with the master roulette format. That would make games that are not only funny as hell BUT it would also test the players and their knowledge of their archetype in the case they get paired with a pack they know anything about.

[@Salacavalini]

Bonus points if they have to roll for packs in japanese, hear the name spoken out loud in a text-to-speech program, and only find out what it actually is after they choose to keep it or not.

[@marinperkovic2117]

This vid definitely needed an ending section where we get to see what the cards do, i was CONVINCED that the crocodile guy makes tokens but then he just didn't and now i don't know 😭

[@delta3244]

Agreed that an ending reading section would've been great. For the crocodile guy specifically, other comments have mentioned that it makes tokens up to the number of reptiles tributed for its summon

[@chrish6415]

@@delta3244 yeah, it's just a tribute summon guy who CAN tribute 1 reptile instead of 2 for its summon, and makes tokens for each reptile sac'd. The fact that the card is brand new in tcg (2022, 2020 ocg) should tell you how much they love reptiles.

[@garbagecan755]

Honestly, I would KILL to watch this continue as a Master Roulette spin-off with you and Joseph using the same pack picking rules and giving you each 1 minute in english during deckbuilding to try to make the decks functional. It'd be a blast.

[@haydenlee8332]

this is genius. they should try adding this as one of the options for "roulette of many things" because why not do something similar to the "Deck of Many Things" for the roulette series too?

[@PerfectChaos7]

“I like this one’s artwork more; I think I’ll go with this one.” is probably my favorite line from this. ROFL Also, Dzeeff reads numbers and MBT calls it cheating. XD

[@PiePie453]

The manic glee in Doug's voice as he declares "It KILLS IT MBT" is hilarious

[@ZombieMushmom]

This series can only end well, lol! Love that you turned the running gag into new content.

[@Flygoniaks]

[24:53] This joke is underappreciated. The delayed "get it?" really sells the bit. Meanwhile [1:03:13] is one of the best improv monologues Doug has done in a while.

[@bijuutamer729]

I was so invested in this 59:35 scene because Doug literally had game here and if you know anything about Cyberse Wizard. It has like the weirdest push in Yugioh because it’s like a good card from 2004 that was released like 10 years late.

[@kingpapakai]

Can’t believe MBT thought he stood a chance dueling Doug in his non reading element 😂

[@alfiearmadillo]

I think it woulda been nice to include you guys reading the cards you didnt know after the duel, im curious too 😊

[@mtmcdougall7097]

The card with all of the effects that you couldn't figure out was Performapal Miss Director, who's 3 effects are all field based and either require also having an Odd-Eyes monster on field or a level 1 in the grave to immediately go into a level 7 synchro.

[@michael_betts]

59:40 This whole thing was great, but I looked up cyberse wizard just in time to see that it gave cyberse(including itself) piercing when it flipped that monster to defence, so Doug wiffed a 50-50 shot at game by attacking randomly with the wrong monster. Edit: If you could post some way for us to figure out what some of these cards are as well after the game. Even just a post-game english deck screenshot Also the killing blow was dark alligator, which is not a Barbaros, it summons lvl 1 2000 attack tokens for each reptile tributes for it's summon.

[@jamesdeslaurier7413]

Before I even watch this video I'm going to say this concept is hilarious and awesome can't wait to see more

[@someonesaltaccount854]

It would be great if next time we could see the card names and texts after the match. The players reading the cards for the first time and reacting to them (and realizing what they could have done in the duels) would be hysterical.

[@ifdy1361]

I don't get why you upload a normal yugioh gameplay today, was expecting some yugioh with challenges and then Doug zeef loses

[@FallOnFridays]

Ironically I think this is exactly what schoolyard Yu-Gi-Oh! really is.

[@SuperPatinator]

This was soo amazing. The second duel towards the end and especially the final blow with three headed crocodile monstrosity felt like it belongs in the anime. The crocodile thing is def Doug's new ace monster😂😂

[@BramLastname]

The thing is, it's not a bad card, He just didn't trigger its on summon effect to summon 2 tokens with 2000 atk.

[@SuperPatinator]

@@BramLastname not saying its bad, but this was the funniest shit ever using a card u have never seen in life with such a ridiculous art work and 5 billion effects u had no clue about😂😂😂

[@BramLastname]

@@SuperPatinator I play Duel Masters Plays, A japanese Magic the Gathering spin-off that was named a bit unfortunately, Every time I open up the app I have that experience.

[@SDREHXC]

>me watching the card opening “That card looks cool, I’d play that” Wow it really is like playing as a kid lol

[@Dr.CaveCurinas]

I would love a segment where after the game you switch the language back and react to the effects you didn't know. That would be a ton of fun!

[@AshBlossomWorshiper]

IM CRYING XD This HAS to be a response to the recent master roulette episodes. This has been so much of a ride. I might have to go and watch master saga now

[@Expelsword014]

Although it makes it logistically more difficult to film, this could be done like the Master Challenge where Dzeeff spectates two other competitors. In this case, he could keep his game in English so that we would know what the cards do moment to moment, but the players don't.

[@mystoclown8506]

Omg I was in tears just seeing MBT immediately try to read a card and be like “oh god” Golden idea for a video

[@ironblaster_8838]

Wait, I don’t get it. Was anything different about this episode than usual?

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

Wait. I'm confused. How is this any different from normal Yu-Gi-Oh?

[@RuriMizuno]

This was so funny; I loved it! I know it's already an hour-long video, but I would have liked to see you both look at you decks in English in the post-game. 😂 As a pretty new player, I didn't know the vast majority of the cards, even some of the ones you two actually recognized. I think it would be great to see the post-game "Ohhh so that's what that does!" Also, might I suggest a rematch using the EXACT same decks, no changes, but this time in English? I wanna see how that changes things!

[@Aaronrules380]

it might be funny to do a master roulette style series with this but the language switch inly happens after deck building if possible so it’s like an anime duel where cards can’t be read during the duel but they are allowed to plan a strategy if they can remember how to make it work

[@DeezN464]

It’s neat to see Doug do master saga one offs with indie vtubers such as the guy from progrussy

[@Alx501]

If Dzeeff had attacked the monster he changed to defense with Cyberse Wizard he would’ve won with the jump scare piercing effect that apparently neither of them knew about 😆

[@TrueBlueMcgoo]

If you turn this into a series you need to have a segment at the end where you go through the decks!

[@YamiToast-cc5us]

I'm the shout-out, I knew this idea was going to turn out funny. The Performapal Miss Director was cracking me up since I've never seen that card before either. Seeing MBT being confused over what his own cards do is something else.

[@mrsali741]

This is the funniest series idea so far, please continue these. You guys laughing and gambling on random effects is hilarious. The hootcake dino loop was godlike . I wouldn't mind if you scrapped the other series just to focus on this

[@rokolin5t]

This was awesome watching it live! Maybe for next video you could have someone else make the decks so you both have "negative" effects on monsters, Imagine activating a card like heavy storm without knowing what it does.

[@hillrp1]

I sort of want the opposite. For someone to make a constructed deck of archetypes they have no knowledge of. So that they can trigger effects and know they'll have targets etc., but not know if they're special summoning the target or pitching it from hand to grave etc. And even if they've done it before so know it's going to grave, then they don't know which ones have good graveyard effects for example

[@MiyaoMeow588]

All it took was for MBT to also not read his cards for Doug to win

[@Cavernasu]

That was amazing. Wish we got to see their reactions to what they were playing once they switched back to English.

[@TwistedBOLT]

"I'm using the card artwork to figure out what these cards do" I remember saying this in primary school while looking at cards what a nostalgia trip.

[@iceinblack7603]

This gotta become a series lol. I haven't had this much fun watching a game in a while. Refine the concept and make it a series

[@KushiKush]

I'm a huge Yu-Gi-Oh nerd, I used to read every single cards effect just so I could be better at deck building. I feel like this challenge would be so easy for me.

[@maahesghulainn9480]

I wish that we got to see the reactions in the video to what the cards really do

[@adonnis1]

This was extremely entertaining! Especially with the random cards where neither person knew what they did 😂😂

[@DeltaLink]

After the duel, you guys should do a follow up where you turned the game back to english and read some cards you didn't knew what does!

[@1rmfrk]

Absolutely incredible... It was almost like the heart of the cards made them both bilingual

[@blahmaster6k]

The trap that MBT didn't know what it did is Terrors of the Underroot. Basically it says choose up to 5 cards from your opponent's graveyard and banish them, and choose the same number of the opponent's banished cards and return them to the graveyard. It's a pretty bad card.

[@Sp3llmen]

This is probably one of my new favorite ideas for yugioh content. This was genius. So funny and really interesting because theres a lot of cards you can get that nobody has ever read

[@donesparce6915]

Should have switched back to English and read the cards on cam, just so we get to see your reactions to what you're playing

[@Captaindragonfire]

Doug has been playing this format for years, no wonder he's an instant pro

[@agent8d235]

Bro, MBT threw with wizard in the 3rd game,it gives piercing to all cyberse monsters for that turn

[@nro2990]

at 59:44, it would've been game if he had attacked with Cyberse Wizard, and it's very painful

[@NARFNra]

Knowing most of these cards was like, beyond hilarious. I can also read Japanese, though, so I had to pause the video and learn what the batteryman art trap did in real time. The sheer tension of waiting for you guys to learn what was reallly funny

[@MobiusGT]

can u include reading what the cards do in english at the end of the games or maybe overlay the english text for us while the duel is going?

[@Altasetra]

This is incredible. You guys should do this with viewer-submitted decks of archetypes you don't play XD

[@dorugoramon0518]

Why do i feel like this format will give Dzeef the advantage since he doesnt read his cards to begin with?

[@ariesetyo5797]

I just realized that Japanese card have little number beside each effect,that makes the card so much easier to read,i hope they import that feature to English translation

[@terrafimeira]

Holy moley, good idea. Make it a series. Get everyone to play. *Everyone.*

[@emred4653]

This should be series its interesting. Also its fun to know the effects of cards thst neither of you know.

[@SuperPatinator]

Why didnt Dzeff Forbidden Chalice his own monster for the attack boost?😅😂😂

[@ytmikelol]

And negate its awesome effects? What if it draws a card after killing a monster in battle? It could have done anything; it could even have done nothing!

[@AmethystOscuras]

This is basically how us non-Japanese OCG players feel when playing paper

[@B.27y]

Danger tshusinoko says the guy that always complains about reading

[@Bad5Wolf]

Very fun series! I would love to see a deck reaction at the end going over the cards you did not know.

[@raynorcampbell1807]

This made me and my daughter laugh so hard . Hope it keeps going

[@CountofBleck]

Dzeeff finally in his own turf, lets go.

[@brotherhoodofcreation]

Am I the only one think this should be a master saga challenge card?

[@tenaciouspoetry]

Would have been funny to go over the decks and find out the effects lol.

[@magiccardmaster9921]

Imagine not knowing what your cards do and relying on your memory

[@doopliss19]

It hurt to watch him be so close to winning with cyberse wizard then attacking with the other guy. 🤣

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

"get the fuck outta here skulldread" was satisfying af

[@charlottesfunandfreechannel]

Performapal Miss Director While you control an "Odd-Eyes" monster, your opponent's monsters cannot target this card for attacks. While this card is in face-up Defense Position, your "Odd-Eyes" monsters cannot be destroyed by battle, also you take no battle damage from that battle. You can target 1 Level 1 monster in your GY; Special Summon it, but negate its effects, then, immediately after this effect resolves, Synchro Summon 1 monster using only this card and the Summoned monster. You can only use this effect of "Performapal Miss Director" once per turn.

[@charlottesfunandfreechannel]

That's card dzeef said wasn't a card

[@lavalord96]

I was so dissapointed that mbt didn't play obelisk, he's perfect for this.

[@matija5748]

wait a minute you are already doing that in master roulette.

[@WarTex]

I really dig this type of series, and how you change these up or experiment with them. Definitely more of them, Doug!

[@gododoof]

Doug found his ace monster. Killer Croc.

[@incubx8944]

yes, I definitely want this to be a series.

[@hughjass2640]

And this is different...................... How exactly?

[@ItsPForPea]

0:23 "This is like in the anime where you don't know what the cards do" ftw the original Japanese version has texts in them

[@TuetchenR]

should have put you reading the cards in at the end

[@Sora-GrandCross]

I like the idea but at least in the editing try and cut through the pack opening, 25minutes of opening cards is a bit much

[@AlphaSquadZero]

I want to see Doug's reaction to the few cards he really wanted to see what they do or how to summon the ED monsters.

[@RamdomNooB800]

MBT’s “so there is no gay people in Japan” killed me.

[@aaronwillets1172]

Wow a normal duel for Dzeef and a handicap for MBT?

[@legendarydragoon]

Doug had the advantage in this challenge.

[@ragenaros4475]

That is actually fun idea, hope for moree

[@sirknightjcb9310]

Ah yes, the next series - Master Illiterate

[@theruder9]

Really enjoyed this, hope to see more of it, It would also be really cool to see you guys playing constructed, (With decks either of you aren't familiar with, dunno how'd you decide that, a wheel maybe?) or with Sealed packs, in different languages I think. It goes without saying that Dzeef's pulls were insane, its a massive shame that he didn't recognize some of the cards, imo, Ra'ten the heavenly general is just, one of the strongest generic Links in sealed, should definitely give it a look on the off-chance you ever pull it again. MBT not realizing he could've summoned his Gaia the Magical Knight is tragic. It would've been 'so' unlikely that he'd pull it off, but It would've also been really funny. (Assuming you guys still go by the wheel rule where you just kinda 'allow' eachother to use Polymerization)

[@EduardoWeidmanBarijan]

This is so fun BUT I can't believe you cut the part where you read the cards afterwards! I am curious about some of them and it would be nice to see how far you got remembering cards. Hopefully you keep it next time

[@GamingLairDX]

So normal Yu-Gi-Oh! Nice!