Coder: "It's not fun" Gage: "that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard" It wouldn't be Magical Hats without him.

Gotta love how consistent the philosophy of "if Gage has a reasonable take he's imposter/vice versa" continues to be

This episode was really funny even if the imposter was fairly obvious, they're legitimately not wrong that the presence of Gage is integral to making the entire show work. Just absolutely unreal

Special summoning is so intrinsic to yugioh Maxx c is just broken. Like traptrix special summons 4 times for its basic defensive play that's 2 pot of greed. Honestly I rather it be a one time draw 2 at this point as an errata.

The best part of this is that MBT’s Branded Opening explanation is exactly what I do when they drop Maxx C on me.

In Gage's defense, his argument was moreso "I don't care about Maxx C" than "Maxx C is good/bad for the game".

I’m so excited for the “is Yu-Gi-Oh too expensive” episode.

This is the best reaction ever. This episode was already GOAT’d and with Joshua’s input and enjoyment, this might be the best reaction yugioh video of all time 😂

I knew it was MBT the minute he said it makes deck building creative. Also, Gage brought up Flow which is also one of my go to points with max c.

i recommend using a different color for the thumbnail's border. i almost skipped this video because it looked like it had the red bar at the bottom for previously watched vids.

the logical conclusion of gages take at the end that "maxx c it's just another yugioh card, I'm having fun" is to unban every single card at the next possible banlist drop.

All was needed for Josh to refine his thoughts about Maxx "C" was to play MD for a while. Also, gage has the takes of all time.

Imo MBT's points actually made a lot more sense than gage's, I was sure gage was the impostor. Really funny in retrospect

We HAVE to see you in one of these episodes as a special guest. Somebody needs to grab a whip and put a leash on gages unhinged takes, or maybe we get to watch you try and defend some harebrained take if you end up as the imposter.

My 2 cent, when combo decks have a cost I'll start caring about Maxx C not having one.

Could you make a rework of your Maxx c video?

Joshua said thay he changed his mind regarding this. Has he made another video after his 1st Maxx C video?

Tbh u can win through maxx c I do it often just kit pass in tear or go for avermax in spright with branded mirror jade pass and floww full combo

10:40 blue balls is a genius

Farfa "I don't know about math mech I never played that" That was be fore the *incident*

What if you just deck out your opponent by infinitely special summoning?

This was GOLD

the play going first and the play going 2nd have the same chance of opening maxx c. that's really the biggest problem with the card. but yeah it could keep combo decks in check if it resolved consistently and it does reward decks that can settle. the direction it pushes the game is good except for when it creates those non games where the player going first ends on board plus maxx c.

I finally beat a labyrinth player with my Chazz deck vs 2 max C's. Basterd never let me special summon once in 4 turns hardly but luckily I didn't need em. My opponent dropped em too fast honestly, they're always itching to drop it too fast sometimes. If more decks were like flow or had something like Ojamatch or maybe even ultimate offering, max c would be much more reasonable. Currently the game has too many special summons

"Gage.... was serious." 🤣

What if maxx c could only be used when you have no cards on the field?

Just make both players discard to the max hand size at the same end of turn lol

Joseph is such a habitual troll that its safe to assume he lies on every one of these.

Does Joseph's Branded line work? Asking for a friend...

Farfa was hilarous in this one

I love how Joshua uses logic something gage did not use this video

2:18 foreshadowing

Just as add gage likes to plays deck like spyral and still likess maxx c

So his idea is to make max c like super poly so neither player can respond to it. There is no way that can be a good idea. “Just build decks that play around it” aka never play combo decks again.

Honestly, I think Maxx C is interesting in formats with at most 3 or 4 special summons a turn and a decent cost for breaking boards. Deciding whether to build your full board but possibly give the other player the resources ro break that board, only make a partial board that's easier to break, hoping they are missing some card to turn the game around and so on would actually be interesting and create tactics upportunities.

I won "through Maxx C" because my opponent had a bad hand and I passed on Blue Tang normal summon lmfao. Of course I used Maxx C on them 😆

Gage is the part of the community I want be part of

maxx "c" being immune to being negated wouldn't help, because people would just run x3 heavy slump and x3 trap trick.

If tomorow Maxx C is banned (alone) The new stapple will be : Nibiru 3 Shifter 2 Gamma 2 Crossout for the gamma And in a world without Maxx C bannish deck will be better than pure combo deck And in a MD format, losing the coin toss is the best way to just die to an open Dim Fissure

it feels weird where maxx c is legal,yet rarely do i see droll. like every deck will play maxx c to the point every one save 6 card slot just to say no to it,why not play droll? every decent deck will add card from deck at some point

Imagine josh trying to be a sussy baka

Bro really said: "They're just different cards". Like it's a not the whole point of a banlist to ban cards that are not fun to have people play cards do different things.

Then there's floo, I just want them to go extinct

ok, that was fun and all, but as a boomer and returnee to the game, starting with master duel...why is everyone so butthurt about maxx c? can someone actually give an argument to even ban it? i can imagine why it was banned some years ago, but even so, why is it UNLIMITED in the OCG and why is it banned on the TCG? does is it all come down to "its expensive"?

It's been a couple months, so I'm gonna give my take. Ban Maxx "C', but rework it and make a card that used teh effect of Maxx "C", but during the end phase, it banishes cards from your hand so that you only have 5 left, and negates the effects of the cards. That way, you can get a really good hand, but you won't have a HUGE hand.

Every time MBT speaks my eyes roll out of my head and into a vat of acid

Maxx C and many other cards do not belong in MD. But Maxx C is definitely the worst offender.

I think Maxx C is a necessary evil FOR NOW. It is, like it or hate it, the best deck equalizer we currently have. Maxx C allows for certain decks to compete where they otherwise would autolose to anything Meta. Now, do I think that means Maxx C should stick around for all time? Hell no, the card is busted. Instead, I think that Konami needs to print new, more fair equalizer cards that allow more decks to at least compete. That isn't to say cards that cause any deck it is slotted into to become Meta, just to become playable. There are numerous archetypes where, absent Maxx C, you have damn near a 0% chance of winning in a BO1, but with Maxx C can let you win maybe 20-30% of the time. I think cards that can do that are a good thing for Master Duel. So, should Maxx C be banned? Once new equalizer cards are printed and brought into Master Duel, yes. Until then, no.

Until they fix the mess that is Yugioh, which a rotation format might fix, Maxx C will always be best at 3. I get that it's really not fun when you get Maxx Ced, but it's a nessessary evil. If Maxx C gets banned in Master Duel and I have no way to deal with the BS of meta deck gameplay, I'm done with Yugioh.

Based Gage

I think maxx c isn't good for the game, but I think the game would be much better if maxx c was good for the game.

everything MBT says about british food is correct

At this point, i really dont see a need for banlists. Shit is so broken anyways whats the difference you could take everything off or put everything on and itd be the same result.

no offense but gage is actually kinda slow LMFAO

I want to see these guys play among us.

Maxx C should come back to TCG, that way EVERYONE WILL SUFFER! my region is now officially designated as the OCG region and so the cockroach is flying freely more than ever after playing 2 years of unofficial TCG. Also the OCG has Bo1 tournaments that resulted in floo map limited and the pots limited

I got Maxx C’d yesterday playing Tear against Swordsoul. Opponent had 9 cards in hand. And I still managed to hold them off using rulkalos, and cryme to negate the 8 and 10 synchro lines. Then used mudora and keldo to shuffle his Tenyi plays. And I won.

So you're telling me that this card would be more reasonable if you could not negate it? Because now you have to choose if it's smart or not to play the deck that you want to play? Yeah that's smart how about make the game boring and everything just be set five pass. That's worse than the fake take from Joseph and the real take from Gage here, people like playing things that they want to play and an unanswerable game over card is dumb

Maxx C is good because a player should be rewarded for sitting thru someones long ass string of special summons

I love maxx c. Miss that damn card. Also it’s funny how people say they gotta run ash and called by when damn near everybody been running those cards since they’ve been released lol

Part of the problem with maxx c is people are overly prepared for it, it's kinda hard to even resolve it if people playing 3 ash and 3 counter to stop it and if you draw more than one you're screwed it it get negated because you are now down 3 against a full field combo practically. Its not a must add cards in Ocg, and you certainly a mad man if you main deck maxx c in a deck labyrinth, you rather wants to see rivalry or skill drain asap going 2nd than having a maxx c, the chance of it will never resolve in tournament is too high.

Maxx C is fine. if it makes people ragequit from getting hit by it, then you take those wins. personally, ive had long runs where due to people not knowing my deck or just not paying attention i have been maxx C'd, gave no cards, and wasn't even playing a deck like floo or runick. let it stay at 3 in MD, heck, bring it to the TCG. it's not like it won't just take the place of some other staple card anyway.

Maxx C is based. I hate combo players. I will punish you for wasting my time, and you better believe i will crossout your ash.

Out of all Magical Hat videos this one was perhaps the silliest. "Does the core OCG card belong in a game focused on the OCG format with a near 80% revenue from Japan according to their 2022 report?" Yes. Anyways. The card is far and away the best bridge between the power discrepancy of going first versus going second. No floodgates or board breaker compares. It allows a going second player the best chance of winning in a game which already hyper heavily leans the going first player. If a going second player resolves Maxx C on Turn 1, that is a huge game changer. "Ahhhhh physics but what if the going first player makes a huge board of negates and then drops Maxx C on Turn 2????" 🤓 Then you were 99% of the time going to lose to the board of negates anyways. You aren't losing because I drop Maxx C at the end of my Adamancipator end board. You're losing because I was able to make an Adams end board. Maxx C also allows for control decks without ED support to flourish. Labrynth has remained in relative representation and Eldlich continued for a long while in the OCG. But... Maxx C also has problems. It reduces deck building cosiderably with a mini game, and further adds to the sackiness of the game. You can and will lose games due to Maxx C alone. But... you can also lose games because of a single Ash. Or an Evenly. Or HFD. Or a DRNM. Or a Divincarnate. The sacciness exists everywhere in YGO. And Maxx C's "problem" status has only increased as the game has become faster and faster and the probability of games turning into non games has increased. It is not a card problem. It is a power creep problem. And as long as Konami chooses to keep accelerating it this direction and keep the ultra advantage of a going first player, the roach will remain, at least in the OCG and its MD sibling.

I will not forget that Gage was not lying