SICK OF YUGIOH, EH? WELL HERE'S A SICKO'S GUIDE TO ELESTRALS! 

Honestly, I would have no issue if you decided to take a hiatus from yugioh, and share with us more of these other games. Giving us your analysis, seeing in real time how the game evolves since its infancy, making the foundation of its community, etc etc. To me it sounds like a more fun time. At least please consider to make more content of this stuff; your community needs the mental healing from being stuck in the same toxic game for decades.

Seconded, I've been looking for something to play that's not a big three game to fill the Keyforge-shaped hole in my heart.

When and where is the elestrals locals being held?

When's the Digimon TCG video then They even keyword their once per turns! lol

Looks really cool, unfortunately I can't get into it because there isn't a digital version and I live in a third world country, hoping they release an online sim soon

It's so funny, cuz when he brought it up I immediately thought: "Oh! It's me! The Esper Player!"

I can't believe we have Maro talking about Scam(inator) players in his blog

Absolutely! The app is completely free as well & you get every single playable card available to you out of the get go!

@@TailwindZ Hope it becomes successful then i can try on my Xbox one day. I do have this on my phone but not tried it yet.

Sweet! It's so much fun having an RPG mechanic like controlling how many spirits you use!

It's really interesting and spirit management (life management) is a key skill to learn. When life is resource is dmg every life matters notnjust the last!

This joke is too high brow for MBT viewers

@@tootsie_ as an MBT viewer, I agree, I don't get it

​@@tootsie_EXPLAIN THE JOKE

@chrishansen1842 you see, his current name is MBT-YuGiOh. MBT is a reference to his deck in Magic, Mono Blue Tron. He's known in the YuGiOh community as the "YuGiOh player who plays Magic". However, since he has been making more and more Elestral content, if he ever swapped to Elestrals from YuGiOh but made a new name with a similar name format to his current name, his name would be YugEl since its referencing the game he doesn't play anymore for the game he plays now. Yugi from YuGiOh, and El from Elestral.

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Absolutely dude. I just got my friends to check it out recently at TooManyGames and they were immediately hooked.

Hmu whenever you plan to play at blue bell again!

As the mobile dev for the client app, working on it I promise ;)

@@AboveAverageSteve Thank you for your work and efforts!

@@AboveAverageSteve thank you

@@AboveAverageStevegive us the desktop auto client and I’m in

Desktop would be amazing, but we'll have to settle for mobile for now. Any word on LGS distribution updates?

Most people that do this are extracting fun from their opponent's reaction, which more or less circles around to answer the question anyways. "Don't you worry about fun?" "No, because if my opponent isnt having fun, then I am." overall this kind of play is a liiiiittle unhealthy for games that have small playerbases but that's neither here nor there

If my opponent isn't suicidal by the time the game is over, I've failed

​@VorseRaiderStrike it's unhealthy if it's the best desk by a wide margin, otherwise it's mostly fine.

Our next set Daybreak which preorders open on July 12th INSANELY elevated the artwork Elestrals have to offer! The arts genuinely feel like they come from MTG with how amazingly detailed they are!

Completely agreed. Everyone shat on Palworld for blatantly copying Pokémon, but this isn't much better.

I don’t blame you the creator is a huge pokemon enjoyer and is trying his hardest to be the next pokemon.

@@TailwindZ😂

I just looked at the "improved" art from daybreak and its still giving deviant art fakemon crossed with nft tiered design ideology. It really does just not hit even remotely for me when compared to cfv, modern pokemon and the sheer spectrum of artwork available in ygo. If cards look ugly I will never have interest and unfortunately to me these cards all look clapped even down to the framing etc personally (cfv my beloved with the GOAT card frames)

Hi! I've been playing Elestrals for over a year now, so I'll try to answer your questions as best I can. 1) Finding cards outside the US is definitely difficult right now, but by no means impossible. There's a secondary marketplace Discord in place right now with a ton of sellers who ship singles internationally, you just have to ask! And the main Elestrals Discord server also regularly hosts webcam and app tournaments that are open to everyone. In fact, there have been several successful players from overseas who regularly play in these events, so you're definitely not alone! 2) I'd recommend trying out Wind! It's a very midrange toolbox-y deck that revolves around the exceptionally powerful divine rune Aoelus, one of the only runes in the game that searches Elestrals from deck. You have a lot of removal options between Peagust and Soarlet, and even a ramp option in the Hydrake line that can get you to a 3 cost Elestral with 15 attack in one turn for some insane pressure! It's super fun to play and fairly simple to learn, you can also find the vast majority of the cards in the Wind starter deck from 1st Edition!

@@JTSpeeed This is exactly the kind of advice I was looking for, thank you so much!

There are starter decks that while incomplete do come with lots of strong staples. If you grab frost Fall starters they also come with some boosters to help strengthen the decks and experience some other cards

I think someone made one recently but it got taken down because lawsuits

There's a mobile app in beta. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1mDVAfEMIf8.html

​@@Bigparr43pretty sure that was lorcana. Elestrals has an app that you can play

​@@MBTYuGiOhAnd with that, I'm in. TY, Mr. BT

@@MBTYuGiOh awesome!

aDrive is willing to ship to other counties provided you get your local game store to reach out to him about providing the product for sales. He is really trying to grow the brand. At a recent live event, he mentioned a store in Peru that hosts 30 man locals because of a dedicated player.

There's actually a store in Deer Park, NY called Rip N Ship Gaming that has the game already!

Is it? Watching the game play it looks very complicated

@@codynelson7575ikrrr. i was here thinking the game looks fun but i dont understand. more complex than mtg looks like

@@codynelson7575 they have a How to play guide that is more visual and goes into more detail on the Elestrals main YT! Should go check it out! Im familiar with old Yugioh tcg play and the transition was not difficult! Should take a look

@@codynelson7575Yeah don’t listen to what these people say they’re clearly bots who were paid to say good things about the game. It’s trying it’s hardest to be the next pokemon. If you want an actual tcg that has events and has a really good community go try Lorcana the league events are fun. Promos every month etc. Plus cards are cheap and the artworks actually look better than something made by someone with free time to themselves.

I live in the US and i still cant do it. If nobody in my area sells or plays the game then whats the point?

@@corbinkendall6330 You can use the app until the game expands to your area!

There a mobile app in early access right now

Online play? That's easy! We have online tournaments EVERY WEEK with webcam tournaments & we have the TCG app in Open beta so you can play the game either way & not feel completely left out!

PTA isn’t a staple but many decks do run it! It has delayed destruction. Very solid card!

That should be good to get you and a friend playing! I recommend the newer starter decks from the "Frostfall" set as they also come with 3 packs that can help power up your new decks!

Any couple of starters work. I would suggest the frostfall ones as they also come with boosters packs. Kryoscorch starter is also the easiest deck next to wind starter to upgrade out the box

We aren't going anywhere! Give us a shot!

I’ve been open about our desire to have an automated simulator that’s free to play with purely cosmetic monetization

@@Elestrals Yooo it's the official Mr. Elestrals. I really hope you succeed with that and that everything goes well for your plans for the future, the game looks very cool, a very nice blend of familiar mechanics from other games with it's own very unique stuff, and most importantly, looks fun

Yes, there is. There are currently 2 options to mill your opponent out. One is via Hummbust which allows you to sit back and cast spells while enjoying seeing your opponent cry as they have their best cards sent to the graveyard. The later also induces a crying state but is played with Lumaroo and Roominous which has a more aggressive strategy and forces your opponent to mill based on whether you destroyed an Elestral or depending on the damage done to your opponent.

@@Redbarron12 that's awesome! Thanks for the heads up!

Both are good, I'd recommend vanguard if you want a complete change in pace and digi if you just want something different. Both are very fun

Id say earth or forst is a good one to check out

They'll probably hit snake-eyes before they touch the fiendsmith stuff, to move the meta towards yubel and tenpai

​@@Element_Doomtenpai is the cheap deck, so dont worry, tenpai is definitely gonna get hit soon enough

@@nunocarvalho6671 oh right they already did in the ocg lmao 😭

@@nunocarvalho6671everyone was like tenpai is cheap because they want a cheap meta deck. nah. tenpai is cheap so they can kill it into the sun and not feel bad about it

In this video? Or in Elestrals itself?

@@TailwindZit’s copy free Music from motionarray 😅 if you really like I can find it in our library & send it to you

There's cards that recover your life resource and there are ways to reuse the life you've already spent

You can use spirits on the field in multiple ways to get effects to happen again, thats called Nexus. Lots of variety and opportunities for deck expression and gameplay!

They have a mobile app manual sim, it's a huge priority

@ecnoid that's exactly what I needed, thanks!

Yes! Hummbust is the core of a fun defensive mill deck and the next set Daybreak features offensive mill with Lumaroo and Roominous!

@@Elestrals sorry should have been more specific, I meant self-mill like lightsworn, tearlament, infernoid etc etc

@@frig7014 Frost has a lot of self mill tools and cards like Khione and Rise from the Ashes that interact with cards that hit the Underworld. I don't believe there's currently any cards that have effects when milled yet however

Yep, currently mulligan rule is you pay 2 spirits per mulligan.

Glad to hear it Earl! Join us!

Plenty of counter play!

You can get singles really really cheap

its no longer reliant on kickstarter. We have more than a base set. Preorders for set 3 comes next week. We currently are located in 100+ LGS stores and are still growing

Kickstarter was a while ago, we're moving into set 3 now and we're in over 100 stores in the states.

Getting Elestrals meta worthy decks are very cheap. $100 at most!

A FULL set of staples is like $60-100 and then any deck core is all commons that you can get for like $20. Those staples are also going to be meta relevant for many many formats so it’s a one time investment and you’re good to go for quite a while basically😄

@@reaperswar3401 Very interesting, thank you. I will absolutely be keeping that in mind

The most expensive card in the game (at low rarity) is $15 and it’s already been confirmed a reprint later this year. The second set released a month ago and no single card eclipsed that price. The main issue is the ability to obtain singles, since the game isn’t on tcgplayer, but this is remedied a bit by a secondary marketplace discord that has almost 1,000 sellers including some vendors/LGS’ selling most of everything.

I reprint staple cards to keep price down! Top tier meta decks run 50-$100! - aDrive

ID as in Idaho?

@@codynelson7575 Indonesian Sorry for making too simplified and hard to understand