Desire being good is pretty debatable though, because it's basically a gamble of 1/4 your entire decks (unless you play more than 40 cards), no matter what deck you play it's kinda risky, unlike Prosperity or Extravagance

@@Fikri_A777well the only risk is when you’re playing a combo deck that requires specific pieces but if your deck is basically a pile with nothing but three ofs then you don’t really care

​@@Fikri_A777it's only risky if you have 1 ofs that you can't play without

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​@@harleypettersen9225id argue its still a calculated risk even with a bunch of three of but desires is still worth. I think it will come in and out if the meta forever

You draw 20 cards a turn in pokemon so i could understand why 🤣🤣🤣

​@@nickF_CA Throw in like 10 searches for good measure

@@Nekros4442 if a yugioh player ever considers playing pokemon read genesect V and i promise they'll run away 🤣

In the PTCG standard format we have what’s essentially skill drain as a field spell for ex/V/radiant pokemon called Path to the Peak. Even if you draw 10-20 cards in a single turn you still need to draw into the out, so it isn’t too crazy for him to figure this one out. He pretty much has to do this on a regular basis lmao

Path to the peak is just pokemon mystic mine and everyone plays 2-4 outs in the deck so its manageable so he prolly thought the same.

Attack stat is highly relevant in Pokemon

What if we power creep into 10000 atk/def vanilla monster :p

​@@larryla6121so Ten Thousand Dragon?

@@larryla6121kaiju

@@blankazure217 level 1 normal monster with 10000 atk/def. Would that be enough of a threat? Let's also make it a fire warrior type so you can search it and let it be able to combo of with spiritual art fire - kurenai for that otk/ftk potential! ;)

yugioh is built on the break my board concept so the people that lost to mine in a non burn deck where simply losing to skill issue.

@@anakinsmith4770 but mystic mine doesn't break the board... And also wins you the game... What You're saying is that the opponent either needs to run so much back row the deck falls apart, or literally out themselves with something like dark hole to lose on retaliation because they're playing in an open board Skill issue or not we like having fun here and that card is not fun, does not promote fun, is not satisfying, is not a skillful solution to any meta, has no restrictions that matter to you, and comes with a win condition that is heavily based around wasting time not playing yugioh Skill issue has never been more irrelevant, this is a no fun issue and mystic mine is the culprit

@@gregnog8119your delusional mystic mine may not be fun but to say it wins games when it's win rate is lower than droll or ash on a rogue deck is really saying something. mine, hand traps, combo not are fun

mans honestly making me want to get into pokemon TCG content

He's a great creator to follow from a competitive standpoint. I watch his streams and his KZfaq videos, and he is super informative about evert facet of the game. Definitely recommend him. Also, pokemon tcg is ridiculously cheaper than ygo.

@@lostcauze0012oh yes you could probably build every relevant meta deck for the same price as Fire king snake eyes. And these are probably like 10 Decks

Can't wait for Mr.Beast colab

All of the big three are at this point

@@John_1-1_in_Japanese mtg at least has popular "balanced" / casual formats i believe (im not a magic player but from an outsiders perspective it seems like that)

@@sadboyflrn5641 YGO has Time Wizard too. In either case, they're just not as popular as Standard.

@@John_1-1_in_Japanese yeah, but Magic has Commander which is their most popular format i believe which is very casual

@@sadboyflrn5641 As far as I'm aware, Commander is kinda the opposite. It's casual because it's HIGHER power format. Too unpredictable to place prizes on, but very fun to play with a friend group.

Its not about beigh smarter is just that in pokemon the game is faster that magic so they understand the things quicker

Pokemon is just closer to ygo than mtg.

It helped that he has a basic understanding of the rules as well. Most the magic people go what's a normal summon

Not a high bar to pass

Untrue. Pokémon is just more akin to Yugioh than MTG is. It makes sense why he’s good at this with that information on hand.

How are you everywhere at once? Do you follow Pokemon TCG too?

Also worth noting that pokemon basically has old field spell rules so you can remove a stadium by playing a new one.

Mystic Mine is a card that is hard to judge in general because it's obviously obnoxious and format-warping but it isn't even that good.

The thing is you didn't really plus off of for the most part. There wasn't easy ways to get thunder dragons in the gy without either sending from field, which triggered their effects anyways, or using hand eff, where shifter wouldn't trigger. Its more that they didn't conflict. Shifter was painfully mediocre in that deck.

@@shawnjaveryi feel like it's more that most thunder dragon cards just banished their own shit anyways with gold sarc, wolf etc.

As a thundra player, shifter isn't super great in that deck. Both Titan and Colossus need cards in grave for their protection effects. Also, the chaos banish style monsters don't work under shifter. You can play through shifter better than most decks, but it still doesn't feel great.

Free Colossus

@@Cms7899 sure, but any deck that can play Shifter will always have an advantage because there are always relevant decks that basically don't operate under it.

To be fair the downside of Pot of Desires IS most relevant in a game like Yu-Gi-Oh compared to other TCGs because of how much targetted searching there is so the "just pretend it's the bottom 10 cards of your deck you'd never see anyway" is accurate and why it still didn't see univeral play while it was at 3 copies and SwoSo was running it and Branded wasn't because if you lost your Fallen of Albaz it was just game over. If Pot of Desires was like a 0 or 1 mana draw 2 in say Hearthstone for effectively the same effect it would 100% see play in any aggro or midrange deck because you RARELY actually get cards outside of drawing them off the top.

It's not really negligible, but a lot of decks just don't care so it might seem that way. I'd Prosperity's cost is the most negligible because, even though you banish from the extra deck, you pick exactly which things you're gonna banish, and this allows even combo decks to play Pot of Prosperity. Desires is more like Extravagance in that some decks just don't care at all, and others would be literally gambling every time they activated it.

If only they know the great Rahul Reddy is the comment section like a normal dude

@@fightinggamesandchill.5660 I'm a big Farfa enjoyer and I don't even understand YGO that well

@@RahulReddy yeah farfa has that effect I think, I don't play Yu-Gi-Oh anymore or care but a good farfa video is always a must

Rahul jumpscare!

same, ive seen a few digimon pros and a lot of mtg pros do this and ill give digimon the pass but mtg players more often then not seems to be way too pilled on mtg to be able to grasp anything that isnt analogue to mtg

@@YukiFubuki. true, people who play just MtG definitely have a problem with meta conceptualization of other card games. They have a really hard time figuring out if something would be good, often even with cards that, while they are bad in context, have plainly good effects in a vacuum, they are just worse at figuring out if an effect is good or bad in general unless there's a direct overlap with something an MtG card does.

@@admontblanc yeh and like not to throw shade at mtg players but ive noticed that a lot of people who play other tcg from mtg tends to lean towards tcgs that can be summed up as mtg adjacent/clones, meanwhile the people i know who plays other tcg from yugioh plays an assortments of tcgs though this can more or less be explained by how there isnt any other tcg that resembles yugioh rather then actually branching out

Tbf in pokemon there is a good chance you would.

Because you can just draw the out. Yugioh players just don't want to add the out into their deck because they'd have to *gasp* take out some monsters in order to run backrow removal! What a horrible notion, that they have to actually play spells or traps like the creator intended instead of running 39 monsters and a copy of terraforming.

@@NovusIgnis And lose 20% more games because you put garbage that will be useful once every 10 games.

@@randomdeliveryguy Weigh your options then. Don't whine and complain because the game is evolving to a point you don't like. I can't imagine the sheer level of patheticness that it takes to cry to Konami to ban a card because you don't want to run answers to it, but you also don't want to lose to it. You're the type of little pussy that goes tattling to the HOA when your neighbors do anything remotely disagreeable, aren't you?

​@@NovusIgnisin pokemon, there's so much draw power that drawing the out is more common. Pokemon decks also include "dead" cards much more often because engine + draw will actually allow a few dead tech cards and some matchups without much drawback

You're trying to make a comparison that is a bit of a stretch. It's hard to see dimenshon Shifter as a great card without context because the cost seems high and the reward seems unclear. In fact, d Shifter IS a bad card when the opponents deck plays around it.

@@manleyfgc7981 "In fact, d Shifter IS a bad card when the opponents deck plays around it." by this metric there is no good card in YGO because there are decks that basically can play around any conceivable card. The context he would need to know to evaluate Shifter is how reliant are meta decks on gy effects, cards being in the gy in general and the amount of effects that specifically need to send something to the gy to resolve properly (eg; cards that can't even activate under Shifter's effect). Your example is bad because the truth is that there have always been more meta decks that struggle under Shifter than those that can play under it or around it, even if you count all the formats from before that card was printed.

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I'm playing first. I'm gonna start the turn by activating Maxx C, any response?

Have you not realized that all the cards that get targeted as "unfair/must ban" are cards that make combo players inconvenienced? The same was true with Maxx "C", and with Master Duel I've been hearing the same crying about it that I heard in the TCG 7-9 years ago. These people are kind of mentally ill, imho, I play mostly Endymion, and I think Maxx "C" is fine because as long as it's legal people have more chances against my deck if they lose the die roll, and there's no need to just destroy my deck to make it "fair". Most combo players are complete degenerates without any respect for the game, they're all fine as long as they're having fun with their deck, but if you suggest that something like MM is fine they just need to play backrow outs immediately the cry rises: "and make my deck worse against everything else?"; why yes, that's how to actually make the game fair, to force every deck to either play more broad options or just admit that there will be match-ups you can't win. For my life I will never again concede an inch to these people who think they're entitled to both play the strongest decks and also not having to face hard cards.

@@admontblanc Yup I noticed. I remembered getting into a discussion with someone about it on a YT comments section, and you could read them progressively melting down when I expressed that cards like MM and Colossus are "fair". Somehow blames me of using them as a crutch as if they knew me. To which I simply replied "I'll adjust accordingly then, should they get affected in the banlist". With that being said, I find it laughable how the combo players (especially meta players) tremble in fear towards Mystic Mine. I played Zombie World Vampire Aggro back when Halq was unbanned. Could set up upwards of 7 interruptions on the opponent's turn including a possible Scythe lock. However, it cost a lot in LP to set up board, and my 1st turn was vulnerable to a well-timed Ash or a Nibiru. And yet, it never bothered me that I could lose. Then again, I have a rogue player mindset, which I believe is in the business of making "gods bleed" with hard-earned victories. ^Some of the same combo players called the deck trash, until I was able to set up board. Then they called me "toxic". Few times, I side decked Mystic Mine (basically smokescreening the deck to a Going 2nd Zombie World control with board breakers), and they rage quit. Yeah, I strongly agree to never giving an inch to those whiney combo/meta players. It is not my fault if their "unfair" boards costing 100's of $$$ gets broken by cards like MM. While I currently play sporadically, I seem to gravitate towards Umi Control lately. I was always a Mako fan even in the OG Series. Highlight has still been beating Kashtira at full power prior to being hit hard in the banlist last year. I'm also thinking of making the Plants Deck since I do have the deck cores back from when said archetypes were considered "low tier". This is the rare case where it topped at some point, and am glad since it seems like a tight-knit category.

I concur with this. They whine and bitch about how MM and Maxx C are “ToXiC” but aren’t ready to talk about how they’re running turn 1 floodgates before their opponent has even had a chance to draw. Technically, yes, cards like MM and Maxx C _are_ toxic, but only because they’re a response to an equally toxic meta. They really do expose the hypocrisy of the modern Yugioh player, especially Maxx C. True, having half my deck in my hand is an absurd advantage, but remember I only have that much advantage because my opponent special summoned out half of _their_ deck in the first place. I even had an argument with a dude at locals about it. His argument was that preventing your opponent from playing is usually a win con in other games (i.e. checkmate in chess), so turn 1 floodgates must be a valid play. I responded that none of those other games allow you to do that on turn 1 and that you had to work for them. Using his example, I told him the earliest possible checkmate in chess takes 7 turns and even then, only if your opponent plays extremely foolishly, hence the term “Fool’s Mate”. I told him a chess equivalent to Yugioh would be wiping out all his power pieces and putting my queen or rook in his corner before he’s moved a single piece. Dude admitted that would be grossly unfair after he had literally just extra linked me and put an Iblee on my board.

The one thing that was never mentioned was normal spells that are not set would not be affected by Denko. As far as I can tell.

He forgot the peak time of Denko during Remote duels at COVID Format. You just slap down This dude and win , when the Camera didnt see it .

@@Glittersword this is true, that made it an always great pick for pendulum decks' side deck. The only card that sort of powercrept Denko was Red Reboot, but if for some reason you can't OTK, then Denko is still superior.

Denko Sekka also saw recent side deck play in decks like Bystial Runick that could afford to give up their Normal Summon to shit on Labrynth.

It’s too slow (trap card) and its destruction based removal (destruction cringe removal)

​@@theswarmsquad3606 Can Labrynth make it work given Butler lets you set and activate it on the same turn and one of the kitchenware lets you do the latter?

@@espurrseyes42 maybe, but you need to be willing to lose your speculated monsters and keep your one normaled one, provided you aren’t setting anything more useful

Yeah. I always prepare to face pot of greed as well.

Jesse be like - Fairy tail Snow’s effect, flip Mystic Mine face down.

Farfa being the best Yugituber is...a choice.

@@SparkShadow212 that would be a correct assumption my friend

I didn't see Dzeeff in the video

@@BLonsdale912 me neither, thankfully

​@@BLonsdale912Thank fuck we didn't. He's an insufferable ACKSHUALLY channel.

He essentially made it his goal to just appear at every Pokenon Worlds. He qualified for Worlds in VGC, TCG, Unite, and Pokken. I think he has yet to make a Pokemon Go debut but it is an option.

@@coolyeh1017 that's awesome, I'm just surprised he didn't main a Pokémon in smash

Going from yugioh to pokemon, yugioh is spoiled for content. Pokemon content creators kinda suck in comparison

Yugioh, partially due to having a great online client, has plenty and a large variety of content. On the other hand, Pokemon TCG just isn't as big or famous as the games and is pretty bland due to variety of factors. On major complaint by many contenr creators is that Pokemon TCG online tends to be neglected hard. They jave a very meh online client that is not supported by the main Japanese branch, unlike Konami who supports Master Duel.

@@manleyfgc7981 I agree yugioh has more variety content, but as far as pro focused content Pokemon has more. I'm pretty sure there isn't a yugioh channel that consistently reviews wcs level gameplay.