YGO Player Looks at Magic Commander Format Cards and Tries to Figure Out If They're Good or Not 

I’m glad to hear the somewhat niche/complicated rulings like “fail to find” being brought up and explained simply for non-MtG players.

Fun fact about that Asmor giant name card: the reason the last effect says target creature does damage to itself is because it is nearly impossible to fit her name on the card again. So they just got around that by using a different source.

You should have non-Yugioh TCG players reading Yugioh cards

I saw a game of Commander recently where someone cast Gamble with like 40 cards in hand and still somehow discarded the card they Gambled for. It didn't matter, because they had like 40 cards in hand and were in the middle of combo-ing off, but it's still hilariously unlikely.

The manual dexterity cards are actually banned from tournament play because of logistical reasons. There was a card (Chaos Orb) that destroyed what it touched. Players would spread out their cards so that it was only possible to lose one card, but would quickly start encroaching into other people's play space. There's even a rule that says you can't spread your cards out when one of these is cast. There's actually a story of someone who tore up a Chaos Orb into tiny pieces before throwing it. It was allowed and the player was able to wipe gis opponent's board. They printed a joke card referencing the story called Chaos Confetti.

"This card was a mistake, it's so good" as someone who has an Urza deck, fair.

I have an Asmoranomardicadiastinaculdacar deck, and the trick is that the Underworld Cookbook is your real commander, with Asmor in the command zone as a way to get the Cookbook out easily.

Commander started very casual, with people playing just whatever and basically anything being kinda viable. As they started directly supporting it though, it's power level spiked a ton and it went from a slow durdly format to a much more powerful and competitive one. Since it's still not really a proper competitive format though, if your group isn't serious it can still be pretty relaxed.

Reacting to the dexterity card blew my mind. This is probably the least card-game thing I'd seen in a card game. Might as well ask you to play a game of Mario Party in which the winner deals 3 damage afterwards.

In MTG, unless the card says to reveal your deck, because the information of your deck is not shared information, you may fail to search, because your opponent cannot prove that you could not fulfill the conditions of the card search.

Tapping a card in magic is often a soft once per turn, since it usually doesn't untap until your next turn. That's why cards that let you untap (Paradox Engine), or especially untap lands (Wilderness Reclamation) or especially especially untap everything (Seedborn Muse) are very very good. They're in so many combo pieces because they get over the soft opt.

I remember hearing about one MTG "combo" to kill yourself on turn 1. It involved playing a card that says "Name a card from your deck, send cards to the graveyard until you find a card with that name" So you name a card that isn't in your deck, and immediately deck-out. Whereas in YuGiOh, it sounds like the card would fail to resolve and not activate.

It's funny seeing the first "Commander format" cards being these cards I face in Legacy and Modern all the time.

Gamble would definitely be banned in YuGiOh. Imagine playing a Danger! but instead of summoning a lvl3 snake it just searches any card in your deck. At worst it would be 3 more copies of foolish burial, at best it‘s left arm offering for anything. In a GY deck, the discard might even be a positive. Overall gamble could never be a legal yugioh card. Just too insane.

About that last comment on Gitrog: Not having "once per turn" clauses, or other clauses like not having to pay mana for effects or "only as a sorcery" on effects is not very common these days, because a ton of old effects are busted exactly because they don't require mana or can be activated multiple times or can be activated whenever you want. A lot of recent cards have these clauses, and rightfully so, designers have learned what is too good after 20+ years

Next up we need a cedh review, maybe stuff like going over combos and seeing if you get how broken they are like breakfast hulk, yagmoths will piles, world gorger loops, stuff like chulane

I was really hoping gitrog would be in the video. Favorite commander of all time

The gitrog monster also pairs really well with something like Underrealm Lich, which says “whenever you would draw a card, instead look at the top 3 cards, put one in your hand and the rest in the grave” This does 2 big things for Gitrog: 1) you get to see 3 cards and force a land into the grave if you find one in the top three, maybe even 2 lands at a time 2) it replaces the draw effect, which affects the ruling on drawing a card while your deck is empty. Specifically if you DRAW a card while there are no cards in your deck, you lose the game. The Lich says INSTEAD of drawing a card, look at the top 3. So whenever you would draw a card, you don’t, which means you never lose to that rule.

Commander is my absolute favorite MTG format, its such a blast building themed decks around your commander or goofy strategies from the vast amount of cards available. Just recently finished building a new vehicle/mech themed deck from the newest set, can't wait to play it!

This series is so fun to watch as someone who plays like 5 different tcgs. P.S. can you do legends of runeterra?

Great video and good chemistry between the hosts. Should have a part two!

I love these magic videos with pumpkin. Please keep doing them!!!

I love this content and would love to see more!

Absolutely love this series, excited to see more; having an outsider card gamer looking into mtg is just wonderfully refreshing

One of the fun details about Asmornomardicadaistinaculducar is that she wrote the underworld cookbook while in service to a dread lord of the pit.... who was named Vincent.

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

YGO player looking at legal commander cards: "Wait, this is broken. This isn't banned?" Commander players looking at banned Yu-Gi-Oh cards: "Yeah, we have something like that in the format, except ours is better and also still a bad option."

A better example for the “fail to find” rule is actually Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, because it searches for a card named The Underworld Cookbook. If you then search your deck and don’t find that specific card anywhere in the deck, you “failed to find” a card that fits the criteria. Then similarly, your opponent can’t prove that you don’t have a card to search for without knowing the cards in your deck at that time so you can choose to not find a card. The niche uses of this rule are if you A) have a card in the deck you’d rather leave in the deck or B) are able to search for a variable number of cards, like “up to 2”, and choose to get fewer than the amount you could have gotten

Haha this is the funnest part of the channel - love it! More please

Please do more of these I loved it as someone who plays both games

@ DuelLogs: I can’t wait till you get into magic properly, Excited for your content that will come from it

Love all the flavor around the card Hex. It cost 6 mana, has 6 words in its flavor text, and Hex is also the prefix for hexagon (6 sided object). Mmmmm yummy.

Love this series, I wanna see even more!

I think it would be interesting to see your thoughts on some of the lore of magic. It gets pretty insane

This is fun, I’d love to see more

About the 'once per turn' rarely being in magic; magic's mana system is the main way the game limits itself while Yugiohs native limiting system was the normal summon at once per turn. Yugioh outgrew its limiting system and thus needed to start tacking on "once per turn" on things.

"It's weird to have once per turns in magic" O man, things are about to change for sure. A lot of once per turn effects coming up in magic standard i foresee

I play Commander a lot, and have NEVER played YGO. Tis video was extremely fun! When Urza showed up, I knew what was coming and it made me giggle out loud. Excellent video!

I have a few cards I personally use that I'd like you to check out! One is even a commander in my deck right now! >Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim >Scheming Symmetry >Loxodon Lifechanter >Gravewaker >Ghostly Possession >Razaketh, the Foulblooded

These are the only vids of yours I watch. And I fuckin love em

I love this series. Please never stop

Can't wait sto see this kind of video with Runeterra / LoR cards!

Plz plz plz do more content like this can watch it all day for Magic.

Now THIS was the episode I didn't know I was waiting for

please do more of these!

I spent half the video thinking I knew this voice and couldn't figure out why. Then I saw your other channels haha

Check out the video "Failed to find" from Rhystic Studies, He explains really well that issue.

I absolutely love theses videos I would love more

Really like this type of video, would like one on Legends of Runeterra

Not to mention that Altar of Dementia posibilitates 1TKO's with some combos. Asmora has some nice combos with Brash Taunter, if you have a reliable way to get tons of food tokens fast, Asmora+Brash will be your win condition. This is my current favorite deck.

Yo you should do more of these!!

When are you going to do another one of these vids? I love these!

Absolutely love this

I flicking love this series

I have Narset in a Niv-Mizzet Parun commander deck with a bunch of wheel effects. It's pretty great.

Dude I would watch this s*** daily. Please keep them coming

Would be interesting to see takes on cards from Force of Will

Teasing me with my boy Norin... He's one of my favorite commanders.

About that comment of Urza; "it was a mistake, its too good." No, I think its JUST right for the practical GOD OF ARTIFACTS! He had a whole block named after him, so him being printed was too long in the making!

Followed this channel just for this 😂

Remember when Yugi and Kaiba got kidnapped by Noah in that filler season, and they went to a virtual world where everybody chose a monster as their master card? Thats practically commander.

Thanks for this.

As a current magic player and formor ygo player I love watching these videos.

Yeah, the "resolving as much as you can" thing is a no go in YGO. Things like Frightfur Patchwork that have to search both a Polymerization and an Edge Imp cannot be activated at all if you, say, no longer have a Polymerization in your deck, even if there is an Edge Imp still in your deck. I know that pain, I've opened 3 poly before and my search spell is dead....

I really wanted to hear the evaluation of Norin!

These videos teach me what a good magic card really is.

I love these videos lmao

"When Amoranth enters the battlefield" Dude i'm on the ground dying of laughter! :)

Thank you Pumpkin-Swift!

That Gitrog ruling is also how Brallin can shred with Curiosity

The once per turn thing is so serious in Yu-Gi-Oh that I legit played mermails for 2 solid years before I realize neither of Abyssmegalo's effects are once per turn. You can double attack with all 3 copies if you can find tribute fodder. And all 3 copies can search abyss spells in the same turn if you can find discard fodder. For 2 years I just assumed both the search and the double attack were once per turn.

You can use Scryfall and download the PNGs of cards to get rid of the white corners

For Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar exists a catchy song to remember the name, it is von MTG Remy here on youtube

MTG REMY has a song about Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar. Its great.

That description of how Gamble would work in Yugioh was 👌👌👌

i don't know why I enjoy these video so much. i could look at them even if I know close to nothing about YGO.

I wonder if we can get him to do this for Chaotic cards, always loved that game.

I have an urza cedh deck that regularly wins on turn 2 I love him so much.

You should do one either looking through tribal or some of the mechanics or even better go through each block/set look the 3 of each worst and best from pumpkin listing.

Ahhhhh, Commander. My forte. Also the worst thing to get combo'd by with a Narset is a Teferi's Puzzle Box.

we gonna need to listen to remmy's "asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar" again

Are you planning on covering Legends of Runeterra in this format? Currently it's the only card game I play and it's actually a lot of fun! The player base is really small though so every shout-out counts!

Seeing Gamble reminds me of a turn 2 win i pulled off bc i Gambled for an Echo of Eons and was able to discard it off the random discard. Gamble would be the best ROTA in Yugioh if it was printed there ngl

for context on armoranomardicadaistinaculdacar she was on the flavor test (basically cute sayings or bits of lore on the bottom of cards) that referenced her, she got brought back for kinda a meme.

I’m a mtg player and never played yugioh but I do enjoy watching yugioh videos, so these videos are AMAZING

I always thought of the ygo deck-master system from that one anime arc as something of a commander format

Do you think you could see the Bakugan cards (the old ones, not the Reboot ones) for these videos?

Alter would be fun in a deck with allot of morbid effect spells Morbid is a type of effect where cards have a specific effect but the effect is Boosted when a creature dies. example Tragic slip is a a 1 black mana instant that usually only gives a measly -1/-1 but if morbid kicks in it becomes a -13/-13 so yeah it can get crazy fast if your not carfull.

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar can also be "cast" through cascade, the way living end decks run.

First time I saw Commander format I immediately thought of Deck Master from Cyber World Arc of Yu-Gi-Oh anime. The concept felt so cool.

Did duel logs say “amouranth” when they were looking as Asmo?

Hoping that Fire Emblem Cipher gets a spot in this series.

There are cards in magic that require you to name cards to have an effect against them (usually to shut them down in advance or the opponent has to discard the card if they're holding it), so I guess Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar is a fun card to play against people to make them say its name.

Its my format! Oh boy! Lets have deep dive!

10:50 The problem is Red and Black don't have much Food support too. So it's better outside of Commander where you can work in Green. 18:00 In the old Decipher Star Wars: CCG, if you couldn't find what you were looking for with a tutor effect, your opponent got to look through your library equivalent to make sure you didn't actually have one.

"Casual" format ahahahaha

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar was in one of the first magic novels.

the craziest games of Magic I've ever played were all in a homebrewed ruleset, I stopped working on it when I moved and decided to quit the hobby that was eating my life instead of find new people to play with...still miss it though. short version is that I was trying to make a tabletop strategy game out of MTG and came up with rules for unit movement/attackrange/influencerange based on power/toughness, type, and any abilities it had with terrain also giving bonuses/penalties based on element/type/abilities, sometimes both at once from the same trait. since your plansewalker was a unit on the field too this meant that it often made sense to give them abilities...shifting equipment around was something I had a lot of trouble balancing and ended up having to make a logistics ruleset for transferable items. controlling terrain generated mana income (you had a bank and a natural income, as health got lower bank shrank but income increased) placing lands altered the terrain type of a 7-hex-clump and/or expanded the field of play, combinations of land types created advanced types with more income value and more powerful/different/numerous effects you could even drop them down unattached but you needed a way to summon remotely to actually occupy that (was still trying to figure out if that was game breaking or really interesting, if both sides had some way to interact with detached terrain then it was all sorts of fun but if not then it was just busted, needed to figure out what the deckbuilding opportunity cost was for using it and doing _anything_ at long range was crazy valuable in this so nobody I tried playing it with tried making anything that didn't do some of that) you almost always ended up with a running fight on constantly shifting terrain with all sorts of extra shenanigans you could get up to even compared to MTG, _but_ all those shenanigans required you to get units able to act in the same area and controll field conditions for the moment you needed, this made combos and other nonsense into tactical/strategic goals rather than "I win" buttons and usually required tricking the opponent into doing something specific to the terrain on their turn for you to really abuse a thing. what else...oh! decking out was no longer a loss condition, even a complete loss of operable resources could still result in a draw if you could successfully get the heck out of there (retreat off the field) or even (technically) a win if playing with objectives, though a resource-empty plainswalker was not dangerous enough to get through even minor defenses, just respectable baseline mobility and probably stacked with a bunch of mobility bonuses.

I'm sad that with asmoran, there wasn't a mention of Interplanetarypurplythorny dragon

Funniest thing about cards like falling stars and chaos orb and such is some players were such malady they activated the card tore it to a bunch of tiny pieces and just tossed it like confetti on the opponents board to wipe it some even carried a tiny handheld fan to blow them towards their opponents more effectively almost as good as the minotaur with Denim walk causing some players wearing jeans to remove their pants to remove it's ability to attack them directly