Magic Player Rates Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards 

"I know the rules" solid proof that he isn't Yu-Gi-Oh player

It appears the Magic Players have an edge over us Yugioh players with the ability to actually read cards.

“First hand trap ever was effect veiler “ Kuriboh: “am I a joke to you?”

- That's a little girl. - It is, yeah. Classic Yugioh discussion. lmao

"Banish 10 is a low cost for what it does" This man knows his stuff

Fun fact,when the Iris Swordswoul got out, everyone thought it was gonna be a staple,and she was kinda expensive

For clarification, the reason she's a zombie is because of censorship-based translation issues. The "zombie" type in japanese is called the "undead" type. Which is why most zombies are ghosts, not zombies. Same goes for why most "fairy" type monsters are angel-based. Because the japanese name for the fairy type is the "angel" type.

Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is actually based on the story of 'Hanasaka Jiisan'; About a dog that gave their elderly owners good fortune. This story includes the death of the dog, the scattering of their remains at a dead cherry blossom tree and even the effect is a reference to the tale, about how it will stop the greedy from finding fortune.

"And we're going to go to the last card. You ready?" "Yep." "Okay. Ash-" *STAPLE*

"the 1st hand trap is effect viler" poor kuriboh, everyone forget that it's the very 1st hand trap ever existed..

This was a nifty video! I especially like how Carl saw Pot of Desires and said "that's too low of a cost!" when the common sentiment before it was released was "I don't want to run a minus 9!" Truly, Carl understands card advantage better than most! Also, I'd say that Adam is half right on Effect Veiler being the first hand trap, since it was truly the first one to be a real Staple, but technically it was preceded by Honest and the classic Kuriboh.

For Ash I think you actually didn't quite show how good it is: He asked if Ash could negate Desires, and you said it negates the whole effect; but for a magic player I think you should have clarified that you still pay the cost.

Incredible how a magic player, with no real prior experience of yugioh, assesses pot of desires more accurately than a decent chunk of the yugioh player base which firmly believes the card is a "minus 9" lol

Correction; De-Fusion only gives back monsters if all the materials are in the user’s Graveyard. If you use De-Fusion on an opponent’s monster, unless it was summoned using only your monsters, then it would send that opponent’s monster back to the Extra Deck, but wouldn’t bring back the materials.

As a fellow Magic player and little knowledge of YuGiOh I got 4 out of 5 correct. I also got tripped up by The Iris Swordsoul. Really puts into perspective how good a card needs to be to reach staple status in a given meta. For the next video when reading the card make it bigger on screen so that it is easily readable to the viewer. I had to pause a few times to look up the card in a separate tab. Especially the cards with a lot of text. Even enlarged they weren't very clear either. Would make it easier for the viewer to play along.

"Oh, so in that deck [tier 1] this is a staple." "No, they don't run it." "Oh, no...." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

More like this please!!! Too often mtg players kinda look down on Yu-Gi-Oh, this dudes willingness to learn about the game is so damn nice!!!

Fun fact: There is an hand trap in mtg too. Fairy Macabre, is basically a DD crow that banishes two, and its design is a nearly dead fairy girl, so is even in theme with the ghost girls in ygo.

The first hand trap was kuriboh. Why does everyone always forget kuriboh? This is some kuriboh erasure right here.

I'm surprised he never drew the comparison between Ash Blossom and Force of Will. Cool video.

I would love to see a variant of this video where all of the cards are one extra deck type, like 5 fusions, or 5 Xyz, etc.

I love that Desire’s cost is explicitly mentioned but Ash isn’t given as the reason for why the 10 banish is real concern

When normal ash blossom is the play it’s the craziest line. Setting ash blossom is definition desperation but normal summoning it is super dominant feeling to me

In the TCG, 'Undead' was changed to 'Zombie'. Ash is a ghost, based off her lore. She is the ghost of a child.

Carl's positivity for a card game he doesn't really know too much about was super fun to witness!

I love how de-fusion actually saw play in speed duels, because since removal is much less versatile there, when XYZ union was meta it was a good way to out it.

Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring Re: “Thats a little girl” Seems like a sane response

The ghost girl hand traps are all based off famous Japanese ghost stories, the art and name of the cards references the story in question. Ash was based of a story of someone killing a dog and burying it under a cherry blossom and stuff happened then everything burned to the ground or something. The only story I remember completely is Ghost ogre snow rabbit.

I feel like he gave away the ash blossom answer lol, by calling it it's shortened name (if it was a lesser known card nobody would shorten it) and saying that putting it in face down defense position is something that comes up a lot

Really fun video, got a sub from me for this. Just wanted to point out that "Zombies" in the original version of the game are actually just called Undead which is way more accurate and fitting to some of the monsters that have come out since the early DM days. Zombie just seems like a bad localization change.

More of this, from card players from different tcg's. I want them to see how they react on Yugi oh shenanigans

Iris sword soul feels like a weird one to choose. whilst it is technically part of the sword soul archetype it's not really a swordsoul in the way the other sword soul monsters are, it's also definitely a going second tool which is a gameplan which doesn't have many good toolds right now. If I had to choose it would definitely be 'stinker' rather than 'staple' but I still don't think 'stinker' is quite right because primarily I don't think it's found a home. Maybe that's copium, but it's to me a middle of the road, not quite good enough yet card. Ash blossom is a dog girl not a cat btw.

I love seeing new players learn how insane and weird yugioh could be

The first handtrap was Kuriboh, the first good one is probably D.D. Crow, an era before Veiler.

The plot twist is that de-fusion was actually amazing when everyone was playing branded despia but not punk therion, it's great removal in the mirror (no they don't get the monsters back) and you can otk with it, trigger fallen of albaz in the opponents turn, or even just auto-win games by going branded fusion send fallen + kristya, cl1 albion cl2 de-fusion target albion and you have a kristya which also plays round super poly.

I'm hardly an expert YGO player, but to me, the cost of losing 10 cards to Pot of Desires is nothing; it's basically the same as not seeing the last ten cards of your deck.

i didn't realize how much Ash has sky rocketed in price, im really glad i bought my 3 copies of duel devastator a few years ago when i did

it is so satisfying and wholesome to see non yugioh player learning about yugioh card with passion toward card game and try to comprehend its unique game system. love to see more of this 💕

Pot of Desires has a bit of secondary math that comes up, which is the chance to draw into another one during a "critical window" of having used the first one. The cost may be considered low for what it does, but the 2nd activation starts to get steep enough that being "unlucky" is realistic enough that unless the deck cares even less about what it draws, to the point that drawing unusable cards still has a place, it ends up being that at 3 copies in ~40, you will get screwed over by pot something like 1 in 50 games, or 1 in 17 ish matches, which depending on the margins for winning in that tournament meta, can be a game changer. 2 copies ends up being safer most of the time.

De-Fusion is actually neat on older formats (and possibly also in the future with a certain GY oriented Fusion strategy), because it's usually being used like how you would use El Shaddoll Fusion/any Quick-Play Fusion Spell in combat or like he said, to dodge targeting effects, except a bit different.

You're kinda signaling staple status when you say "oh yeah that comes up all the time". You did it for pot and ash 😂

It's funny hearing calling monsters creatures because I was a Yugioh player first and kept calling creatures monsters and the library the deck. I understand! It took me forever to call them the right thing! Now I keep calling things creatures by mistake. Yes, please do more of these!

I love that Adam and Carl are sitting in the same spots as in the Magic Series, just moving the cards to the other side, it's like the tables have been quite literally turned on Carl.

3:48 Summoning the fusion materials is optional, so they don't necessarily get any monsters. Back in a day, I used to side this card for Shaddolls, where it acts as a quicker Compulse.

I really enjoy your videos, despite your channel-size its rather high-quality. Keep up the good work! You got my sub

For new player I can explain how synchro summoning works : to perform a synchro summon you need a tuner and a non tuner whose level equal the total level of the monster you want to summon, which doesn’t matter cause you use them to summon the only synchro monster of the game halquifibrax the not yet forbidden one and win the duel

Going through my old Yugioh cards made me realize how many crazy old gems I have. LOD blue eyes white dragon, etc. Very fun nostalgia

“The first hand trap was like effect veiler” Kuriboh: “Am i a joke to you”

A misunderstanding on defusion though. If you use it on an opponents card they dont get the fusion material back because the card specifies that the required monsters have to come from your grave not either.

this is great you gotta do the opposite though where a yugioh player rates magic cards

De-Fusion was such an inspired pick for the video! Really enjoyed it

I'm a long time MTG player and have recently started playing Yu Gi Oh Master Duels because I can't afford to play real anything right now and it scratches that itch. I've really found these videos fun because I'm trying to guess alongside each person and it teaches me some new things I didn't already know.

The reasons why defusion is a stinker baffle me It's bad cuz barely anyone played fusions and now there is way more versatile removal Also, if you defusion you opponents monster, they don't get the materials back

Iris is super summonable turn 1 - cards like Living Fossil can drop it super easily, and you don't even need to drop it turn 1 for it to be useful. It hard counters DRNM and also lets you go plus off your own Imperm, Veiler or your opponents Imperm. Calling it a stinker is silly when this card sees experimentation (albeit not in Swordsoul decks, funnily enough!).

Lol I thought I was losing my mind hearing a bell for way too long lol. Great video. And a new subscriber

"All the ghost girls are zombies" Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit would like to know your location

if this gets done again i'd like to see witch's strike and upstart goblin being featured. the first one seems good because it takes literally everything away from your opponent and the second seems bad because it "does nothing" (aka "just play good cards instead")

I thought De-fusion was going to be a combo stable. Sacing a creature to get multiple creatures back sounds op.

I love these! I love all your videos, but especially these because it’s so cool to get an “outsider’s” perspective on cards! Two comments: 1) I would’ve enjoyed it more if the card was bigger! I can’t read all the text on iris soulsword when it’s down in the bottom right corner 2) plz play unbanned storm in next unbanned modern? Keep it up y’all are the best!

great series, definitely make more.

Your opponent doesn't get their monsters back with Defusion if you use it on them since it's your own grave yard. You can summon the monsters from your graveyard to your field if you had them. Swordsoul has some self negates in their cards. Plus there are negate handtraps Ash doesn't stop draw phase.

I love this because you can tell that he's familiar with the common ground, But the ones he messed up are the most easy to misjudge.

I love that you put ash next to desires, reminds me of these painful table-flipping moments when your desires get ashed :D

Another good thing about ash is that it's a tuner. There are alot of situations in which you use it for halq plays like the accesscode line in striker or just lvl 10 synchro plays like the brave piles.

De-Fusion just needs the right meta to be a good side deck card. Like if Thunder Dragon Colossus came back or something, it's non-destruction removal that also doesn't give another GY resource.

Honestly i run Iris in Dogma Invoked. And its pretty gud 80% of the Time you have a negated card on the field. Rip Aleister. Also man just disrespected Kuriboh, D.D Crow and Gorz the OG Handtraps

More content like this please!! Super entertaining

I always see these videos and for some reason it’s always Magic and Yugioh players. I would love to see this same format but with players from different card games, like Pokémon, Flesh and Blood, or like Vanguard

The ghost girls have different types (e.g. Ghost Ogre is a psychic)

"The first hand trap was Effect Veiler" Poor Kuriboh :(

Please do more of this!!!

You should do a video that teaches magic players summoning techniques of Yu-Gi-Oh like ritual,synchro, pendulum, xyz ect

"This fist hand trap was effect veiler" Kuriboh: Am I a joke to you?

Calling Iris Swordsoul a stinker is so weird bc it’s definitely a card to keep an eye on. Some day some weird synergy might save it

I feel like this series will continue since this is your most viewed video ever on the channel and eclipses the 2nd most watched video twofold in only 5 days

Nice Video to watch as a mtg Player. I am quite suprised that this channel is much smaller than the mtg channel.

defusion is actually good going second against tearalments. Their fusion monster doesn't trigger its GY effect and they dont get their monster effect.

i don't understand why you don't explain the yugioh effects in mtg terms for the guy who doesn't play the game

Great video, I would make the card images larger for us to read next time!

Yugioh went through a period of time where each set had like this really neat high level monster that had a pretty crazy or interesting effects. The Iris Swordsoul, Bahalutiya, the Grand Radiance, and Heavenly Zephyr - Miradora are a few of these.

I got an Ash Blossom in my Beware of Traptrix structure deck and was really happy to see it. 😊

Fantastic video, looking forward to more!

If I am not mistaken I met you at the german nationals! We were talking about the table 1 match up. Funny to stumble upon this youtube channel right now 😁

On the Once per Turn bit: Probably the best way to teach it is either once per turn, per copy, or once per turn, per player. for example: "Once per turn: [effect]" is Once per turn, per copy, this also means that if control of this specific copy was changed after the effect was used, that copy cannot use its effect again that turn. "You can only use this/each/the effect of [card name] once per turn." Is once per turn, per player. this means that if control is changed after the card has used its effect, the new controller may choose to activate said effects. There are other variations regarding activation legality for different scenarios, but these are the most common.

I do like these interactions between different card games. Hoping to slowly dip my toes into Yugioh for the first time since playing with knockoff cards my brothers and I bought at the dollar store at the kitchen table, not knowing the rules.

These video's are amazing bro!!

Ahs is now in "Structure Deck Legend of the Crystal Beasts" as Common too.

As someone who doesn't play MtG it's always interesting to me to hear their opinions on specific yugioh cards!

I don’t know if I would have chosen these cards. I’d love to see his opinion on maxx c, zodiac Drident, witches strike, mystic mine, ghost sister and spooky dogwood, mirror force perhaps, phantazmay, and gizmek orochi.

This videos was awesome would like another one

Fun vid, looking forward to more

Decent analysis video! Thnaks for uploading!

Just went back into the yugioh scene in master duel 2 days ago. Last one I played was like the 5ds one, damn so much going on lmao, and I finally learnt the pain of getting negated by ash blossom.

Plz do more of these vids!

There are ways Iris Swordsoul could be good as an extender turn 1 just because there are cards that brings other cards but have their effects are negated (not by negating an activation), however you still have to find a way to search it out or hard draw it like a handtrap. Like in Synchron decks, Normal Junk Synchron (a Level 3 Tuner) use its effect to bring back something from grave (a Level 2 or lower for people that don't know) and it has its effects negated, Special Irish Swordsoul, and either use it as Synchro Material for a Synchro Summon (1 Tuner + 1 non-Tuner monsters, are the Synchro Materials listed on every Synchro Monster and they belong in the Extra Deck as a type of Special Summon. The Levels of the materials have to add up to the Synchro Monster's Level) or use it as Link Material for a Link Summon (They are a versatile mechanic of monsters that you can use any monster to Special it from the Extra Deck as long as they meet the requirements of the Link Materials listed on of each one. Also, they do not have a Defense stat and therefore cannot go to Defense Position. Instead they're given what's called a Link Rating that replaces it that tells you how many monsters are needed to bring the card out. Link-3 or higher Link Monsters would say, [x>1]+ [something], which means you use the Link Rating of a Link Monster to count as more than one monster. That's called Link Climbing.) and Crystron Halquifibrax is an abusable card that exists. Sorry for the explanations. It's just for the non-Yu-Gi-Oh card game players out there.

12:30 That was a shockingly good insight into a very niche aspect of a card, well done

"The first hand trap ever was Effect Veiler" *sad Kuriboh noises*

"That's a little girl" Yeaaaaah welcome to Yugioh...

the thing about Yu-Gi-Oh is like today you might be stinker, but tomorrow if like a new mechanic, or a card suit you very well, you might gonna be a staple

Gunna go ahead and say that Kuribo was the REAL first hand trap.