Magic Player Rates BEST and WORST Yu-Gi-Oh Cards! ft  

*Big thanks to the Professor for squinting through all the Yu-Gi-Oh card text! How do you guys think he did?* 😆 Now watch us react to Magic the Gathering cards! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CMEuWA_5ZrI.html

I’m proud of the Professor for figuring out why Mystic Mine is good, but I also hate that the Professor figured out why Mystic Mine is good. 😂😭

Prof in Magic: "Reading the card explains the card." Prof in Yu-Gi-Oh: "I don't understand what this says."

"How do you read this stuff?!" "Here's the secret... *you don't* " That's the most honest, eldritch truth that has ever been spoken by a human.

As a magic player watching this, I’m honestly amazed at all these Yugioh cards with an entire novel printed in size 6 font. It’s not like the effects they do are that complicated, it’s just that they are written like you put a legal proceeding through 10 layers of google translate.

I loved the confirmation sound when the professor said “This card is stupid” when reading Mystic Mine.

Hearing the Professor swear legitimately feels like I met a teacher as an adult and heard them swear for the first time

I’m dead. The ding the professor got for calling Mystic Mine stupid had me rolling.

Laughed my ass off when professor was reading the pot card and he was like "but what does it do though?"

I love that Prof immediately knew what mystic mine's deal was. Every experienced MtG player knows that when a deck deliberately runs "symmetrical" effects, someone at that table is in for a BAD time.

"Man, please don't be a lot of text." I can't imagine Prof's reaction if he saw Endymion's essay worth of text.

It's genuinely amazing how Yu-Gi-Oh makes so much more sense when you find out it was created as a plot device in a manga with no rules that had to be added in later.

Magic text: Flying, Lifelink, Haste, Scry 3 Yugioh text: If you own a 2002 Toyota Camry and have had a Big Mac in the last 49 days and 16 hours, search your deck for 1 DARK type level 4 or lower effect monster with exactly 1600 ATK and 200 DEF and add it to your hand. You can only use this effect once per turn. And that's why I love Yugioh! 😎😎

I love that the Professor started describing Sky Strikers when explaining the type of deck Mystic Mine should be in

That idea of translating cards from one game to the language of another sounds like a super interesting idea in both directions

+1 for redoing YGO cards with magic terminology. You could have a whole series and I would binge that hardcore.

I laughed so hard when Prof. said "you can make the font bigger, c'mon fill in the box" 🤣 we know that won't happen with any that has a small text length

Hilarious that he read a pot spell card and unironically said “what does it do?”

Hearing him say, "You've activated my trap card. " Great moment

Choosing to end on "this one's evil" while the Professor gestures at Mystic Mine is editing perfection.

Friendly reminder that old Yugioh text was *A LOT WORSE* than it is now. For example: "Select 1 Monster Card from either your opponent's or your own Graveyard and place it on the field under your control in Attack or Defense Position (face-up). This is considered a Special Summon." For comparison's sake, this is Monster Reborn's current errata: "Target 1 Monster in either GY; Special Summon it."

I would like to see you guys and the professor translate cards from one game to the other.

Hope we see more collaborations like these. Seeing people from separate TCG’s discussing about them in one place is great.

This is awesome, I would love to see more MTG and YuGiOh crossover content, seeing how games like this are similar and different and how it is often subtle is amazing

In the Professor's defense, Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon might have seen more play if it actually came out earlier in the TCG's history.

7:30 to 7:42 Rewriting YuGiOh cards to make mtg versions of them would indeed be a very nice video idea. Same for the reverse. I really hope that you'll collab with the professor again and do that. It'd be awesome.

Its genuinely impressive how good Professor is at understanding the power of ygo cards thanks to his experience in mtg for years

"What are you going to do? be upset that you lost half your life? You're about to lose all your life." bro that made me laugh way too hard

Imagine the Professor reading the effect of "Endymion, the Mighty Master of Magic". I'm glad that the card didn't come up in this video, because losing his reaction would be a huge missed opportunity. Hoping for a next episode ❤️

their should be a video where the professor rewrites the cards wording. also one where he creates his own cards.

I swear the Professor never curses this much on his channel. This is hilarious.

Surprised they didn't give him a pendulum card. I would have killed to see his reaction due to how much text those cards can have and how small the card text is.

“This could be said without the cumbersome language” No one tell Prof that PSCT *is* cards without the cumbersome language

The professor understands that complexity doesn't breed depth ... Very well done Professor ... Nice Collab too 👍🏻

He really said. How do you read this!? 😂

i would LOVE a magic "translated" yu-gi-oh video! i honestly think its so interesting how similar yet different these games are! certain strategies that are staples for mtg are nonviable in ygo and vice versa

As a Magic player who somewhat understands YGO PSCT, I instantly understood what made the Ra egg good. Prof just needs to think of it as forcing your opponent to sacrifice three creatures.

I think there is something to be said about how Yu-Gi-Oh! is originally written in Japanese and then localized, whereas MtG is written in English first. It’s not the only reason the text is like this, but I think it’s a factor.

Each time Professor said he hopes for not a lot of text, I had hope you gave him Endymion, the Mighty Master of Magic

Hearing the prof actually curse uncensored was weirdly hilarious.

As a Magic player (little bit in junior high, mostly been heavily into it since Scars block) that played Yugioh from Legend of Blue Eyes until Invasion of Chaos-ish and got back in as an adult and played plant synchro until they brought in Xyz, I've loved seeing the crossover stuff between you guys and the professor. I'm not a fan of whay the game became, but I have my nostalgia for it and love seeing how different player bases look at stuff from other games.

love these crossovers, can't wait for a Magic Match and then a YGO Match and/or viceversa

Plot twist, the number in the stars idea is in Rush Duel. Good on Konami for listening to the Professor.

His criticism of the confusing walls of text is fair lol. It's why I love speed duel so much, takes the game back to the fundamentals

For reference on the professor's take on mystic mine being kinda like stasis, stasis is basically a continuous spell (enchantment) that basically says that the resources you need, can't be used during your following turns if you use it. I know I'm butchering it for the other mtg fans here but I just wanna help my other fellow Yu-Gi-Oh lads

Yeah, prof figured Mystic Mine right away, every seasoned MTG player knows the power of Moat/Ensnaring Bridge and it comes with a conditional Humility effect on top of that? 10/10

Yugioh cards look so cool. The art style has always been unsettling but fascinating. It's one thing I'm jealous about.

Just wanted to say. I used to play magic a LOT and found this video because I still watch the professor. You guys got me into yugioh from this interaction. I bought skystrikers yesterday

I'm here from the Prof's community! So glad y'all hooked up and made some videos, you guys do great work

Nice to see Tolarian. Great channel and great guy. It’s fun to see how someone who plays MTG reacts to YuGiOh and vice versa. Especially as someone who plays both.

"Everyone talking over each other" on the subtitles, lol

Hearing the Prof cussing is actually a treat lmao

"This on is evil" *pointing at Mystic Mine* That's sum's it up pretty good

This was absolutely hilarious, would love to see this become a series if possible. Also, I support the professor's idea of making a video out of trying to convert YGO cards into Magic effect formatting and/or simply cleaning up the effects. If that happens, I really want to see Dark World Snow get tackled, especially in the category of trying to simply reword it while still following YGO effect text rules. I have personally spent at least an hour attempting that, to limited success, card is a nightmare. On a related note, another idea could be having the professor simply look over "problem solving card text" as a concept lol, showing him some before and afters and seeing his reactions.

This is the most wholesome video. 😁 Again, what an awesome collaboration, thank you so much for posting this guys. It's also hilariously accurate, how the professor mentions the card text can be summarized better. 😂

For some reason the professor throwing out f-bombs shocks me. I'm so used to hearing the censoring on his channel 🤣🤣. The way he questions how you read the effects is amazing.

I gotta say, massive respect for you guys and prof, and as a player of both yugioh and mtg, it’s cool seeing how card and game theory translate over to one another

Here's the thing with Magic, it's got clear text, sintaxis wise, even when it's long, it has a very logical preposition structure. Yu-Gi-Oh on the other hand is all over the place. Both games are fun AF, but for me, MTG edges it out due to clarity as well as variety of ways to play (formats).

My friend was talking to me and was saying about why there's so much text is to reduce questions YuGiOh cards are meant to be literal

I'm glad we still got this video regardless of angle.

Serious answer on "how do you read this": with experience you learn to quickly parse the card text and the syntax is static between cards so you skip a lot of the filler to understand what the card does, then you can read it slowly to see if there's a detail you missed or how exactly the effect works. Also a lot of archetypes share common effects in part, so once you learn what a deck's gimmick is you know what to expect. For example, basically all maindeck Burning Abyss monsters (an archetype based on the Divine Comedy, Prof would proly like that) have the same self-summoning effect and a "if this is sent to the graveyard: do X" effect, with the same restrictions. In the end, the only words that matter is the very last sentence of each card so you quickly cut down on how much you need to read. Yugioh cards do tend to have a ton restrictions and requirements compared to other card games, yeah, to the point where it's sometimes more than the actual effect like in the Pot. Because there's no resource system, the cards have to be limited by their text, otherwise we get 0 mana draw 2. Anyway Prof is great.

He isn't used to seeing foiled cards without any natural bend to them

I absolutely love this type of video. It's so fascinating seeing what elements of different tcg's carry over and which dont

buying a pack and then reading every cards affect again and again on the way home is how we learnt to read.

The Prof played his very first game of Yugioh and you didn’t film it??! This is a travesty!!

Never played Magic before, but I do watch some of the professor content and I’m thrilled he’s dipping his toes into YGO!

I love everything y'all do with the professor. I stumbled onto your channel from a collab y'all did on his channel and now I've actually gotten into Yugioh solely from watching you guys. Great job

Another wonderful crossover 😊 It's fun to see the great minds, based from the other game, figure each card out. Nice going.

I’d love seeing him try to translate yugioh cards into magic, could be fun to see how simplified we can get.

The Professor not only knows MTG, he's got yugioh pretty much worked out as well, Team aps these crossover have been class 👍

As a player of both its been fun to watch both of these channels dip their toes into each others game. Please make more content like this, it's incredibly engaging and cross pollinates the communities.

You guys are awesome. I remember finding you guys, Team APS, through the professors channels where you two were discussing the communities of both Yu-gi-oh! And MTG. I fell for both you're channels then and there.

"how do you read these?" "here's a secret: you don't" it's just that easy lol

So glad seeing videos like this honestly it's great for the TCG community in general

I love this video format! Thanks for this really enjoyable. Can't seeing more of Professor and Team APS!

The way he responded to flipping mystic mine is how every yugioh player has ever reacted to being on the other end of mystic mine.

Glad to see a creator of my current and favorite game collabing with creators from the game I grew up with and got me into tcgs even if I don't play it anymore still love the content.

7:36 i would love to see this idea become a video! magic versions of yugioh cards sounds amazing :O

I love this I was individually subscribed to both channels for years and to see this collab is great

Im glad you decided to upload this still. Most of us who know the Professor can clearly imagine the look on his face based on his words 😆

These recent videos you've made with the Professor have made me subscribe to your channel and I've since been watching more of your other videos too. I like the energy you guys have. It's clear that you love what you talk about.

This was brilliant man. Love it! Laughed my butt off! The Professor cursing had me dying. LOL.

Love these collabs with the professor! I would love to see a yu-gi-oh match AND a MTG match between you guys on the channel.

For mtg players to understand ash blossom's power, it counters Ancestral Recall, Demonic tutor, timetwister, andas pointed out by the comments, entomb. PS other tcg players complain about the yugioh text, but we are gluttons of punishment for the game, we are the spec ops of trading card games, and are willing to endure power creep for our love of the game.

I also redid Endymion's text to be more obvious using MtG vernacular. Pendulum Effect: Once per turn, you may remove six Spell counters from permanents you control. If you do, Special Summon Endymion from your Pendulum Zone, then destroy up to X cards on the field, and then place that many Spell Counters on Endymion, where X is the number of cards you control that can have Spell counters. Monster Effect: Endymion has hexproof and the effect “When Endymion is destroyed by battle, you may put one Normal Spell from your Deck into your hand.” as long as Endymion has a Spell counter on him. Once per turn, if a Quick Effect of any kind is activated, you may return one card you control with any amount of Spell counters on it to its owner’s hand. If you do, negate that Quick Effect and destroy its card. You may put the same number of Spell Counters that the returned card had onto Endymion. / Frankly the card seems sorta strong, like it can lock your opponents out of playing the game by just bouncing your cards back to your hand, while being immune to everything but combat, which is fine if you can counter their cheat-y spells and kill their best stuff if you got him through the pendulum zone summoning. The problem with the text is that the order in which the effects are explained is nonsensical. The most important, the relevant, effects, should always be mentioned first.

such a great video! a collab I've been wanting ever since Paul was on that podcast a year ago. love this kind of stuff cuz I play both games

I love these crossover videos! You got another prof fan to follow you here!

I'm glad this video got released. Your videos introduced me to the Professor and he is such a nice wholesome guy!

You guys should do more of these, these videos are f***ing amazing.

I'm glad yall decided to upload despite the lost footage, this is hilarious. Im a magic the gathering player who hasn't touched Yu-Gi-Oh for almost 20 years (and I forget almost everything about it) so I tried to guess along with the professor but he scored better than me. At least I knew blue eyes ultimate was bad though!

That was a great colab! I've been watching videos from both channels and it is great to see them together.

I LOVE these collabs with the professor, keep doing more! And a series with the professor translating YGO cards to MTG terms sounds GREAT!

As a MTG player and former YGO player I LOVE the collabs you guys make! Keep it up :)

Actually, due to the amount of info on the cards, I'm quite happy with the lack of face-cams and just using the single shot with multiple voices. Either way, I'm really glad that you made both of these videos! :D

As someone who left Yugioh around 2016 and joined Magic. I love seeing the professor learn and has encouraged me to relearn the game. Thank you.

Professor ain't wrong, number one thing I thought when I got into Master Duel a few months ago was "damn what's with all the text?" I honestly almost quit. Then I finally figured out Rule #1 of YGO: YGO players can't read. Sometimes, my opponents cards make me blow up, and sometimes my card makes my opponent blow up. Such is the life of a duelist.

The professor did more reading of yu gi oh cards that we're doing while playing

Very fun video, surprised you didn't show him Raigeki before you gave him the Link Monster, made it way more funny though. Would love the idea of yugioh cards translated to magic language and maybe a quiz game what card it was or something like that.

I love these sort of video's. It's great to have an outside perspective of a game that we know and love. To hear the Professor talk about the card text and font, is a big thing. If Konami had a Data bank of nomenclature, it would simplify the game.

Really enjoying these videos with the professor. My fave Yugioh and Magic youtubers in one place!