I was about to say that, 2023 is a loooong ass time ago 😂

Wouldn't be a rarran video without an error and we wouldn't have it any other way. This is a great video as usual.

The way i was so confused when Malefic Rook appeared on screen lmao, like i was genuinely wondering if my brain was wrong and that it released in caverns of time instead Love u rarran lmao thanks for the clarification

@Rarran This was a great video man! This is my favorite setup for a card rating video I've seen from any creator. Thanks bro

Hey rarran can you post the original that didnt get posted as clips

Isnt it Harth that announces pack opening? Not Brann?

@@NeedForMotivationn Yes but their joke was that all WoW dwarves look/sound the same

huh, i heard something like "god im comming" instead

​@@BaneHydra i assume this is an injoke of some sort but it looks really bad when you have no context

@@menderbug1 was in reference to this video only but probably a bit too unhinged, not an in-joke, i do not represent the MBT community

​@@menderbug1it's just a reference to how he kept mispronouncing rarram's name progressively worse in the video talking about his first "I played Yugioh" video

@@matiaspereyra9392 no i was responding to a now deleted comment that was...tasteless

​@@menderbug1ah

Ok, Im being 1000% serious when I day I HAVE to see this

That video would be an all timer

That would be the greatest crossover ever

*YES PLEASE* ~Although this would probably be very hard to do, now you need 5 people to have open schedules...

This

He is literally the goat

Personally I'm still waiying for HS-YGO-MTG-LOR jeopardy

I'm kinda curious. What made you click on the video if you don't play either of the two games featured in the video?

@@mikevanlieshout1624 read my comment again, but harder this time

This is such an underrated comment lmao

He ain't wrong

🤓👆 actually video was recorded in 2023

@@user-co4hw9ty1zum actually that was a typo he meant 2024 🤓

Joseph is such a treasure in our community man

Hard agree. The collab videos, now in hindsight, all feel like those individual marvel movies, and then we get these dual collabs that feel like the avengers-level movies where multiple characters crossover. Rarran's card game cinematic universe is one of the best things on yt for card games rn imo.

I think the best part is that Rarran's personality goes well with a variety of people. You wouldn't know it early on in his videos until you see his straight up rage clips, and now that he's become more accustomed to things, that is now channeled into stupid fun, hence the good vibes all his collabs give.

My guy, barfa and midtruetron isn't small creators.

@@r3zaful True, they aren't, I watch content from both (mostly MBT though). I was talking about other creators he has worked with, my guy

I was thinking the exact same thing lmao

OMG that was killing me!!!

Its actually like that in the gallery as well in the game, its awful and I wish they would move it. But its so they can have the little lore description on the right side of the card.

@@nathanielbowling2315 then the Behemoth’s Lure should be in the correct place. But here, there both wrong

Yugioh is a competitive game, especially with how archetype works. You might end up bantering their favorite archetypal instead

Yeah these 2 are more upfront. Gotta love em.

POGCHAMP, Fenrir bad, farfussy, pop dababy

well they lasted 2:30 anyway

To be fair it didn't take long

​@@Curelax more like 0:22

@@nozoill Surprised it took that long.

Nope. he only plays HS in any real capacity. Rarran is and always will be a hearthstone counterclaim.

@xbon1 what they're saying here is that even if you play say yugioh you'll know rarran if you play magic you'll know rarran etc

It is actually pretty smart of Rarran. Even if Hearthstone becomes unplayable he can switch his content pretty seamlessly. I would argue Rarran is a card game content creator.^^

This raises an interesting idea. Could Rarran expand these types of videos to be cardgame agnostic? As far as his talent as a host and content creator is concerned, I definitely see it as possible. Rarran can have comforable discussions with quests that have very different audience and understanding, and work as a bridge between them, Hearthstone and Rarrans own audience. The issue is that it would be very hard to build an audience that was card game agnostic. Even if Rarran has done content about so many card games, all of these videos are still for Hearthstone audience. The content can be roughly divided to two categories: evaluating Hearthstone cards and evaluating ”other games”. In both cases Rarran is the perspective of his audience. When quests bring cards from ”other games” for Rarran to evaluate, the quests often start the explanation from very minimal knowledge. Then, when discussing the cards, the video spends a lot of runtime on Rarran talking about comparisons and differences to Hearthstone. Usually when the quest explains the correct answer, Rarran will re-explain it in a way that is more familiar to Hearthstone. However when quests are asked to evaluate Hearthstone cards, they don’t do the reverse. Rarran gives the basic explanation of the game off-screen. And only briefly recaps it when necessary. If Rarran needs to give more context for quests it’s often cut. The quest don’t re-explain Rarrans correct answer in manner that makes sense to their own audience. Sometimes runtime is spend on a quick comparison to an iconic deck in some other game, or the quest saying ”oh, we have something kind of similar”. But that’s it. I also like to watch the quests video featuring Rarran, and often they kind of flip the script. They sometimes make a more notable effort to introduce the visitors from Rarrans audience to their game, but the perspective is still an introduction to their game, not Hearthstone. So: what would it mean for these videos to be card game agnostic? It is very hard to imagine it. Audience would necessarily need to be assumed to have some ”universal” knowledge. The perspectives of first time viewers and subcribers would also start to drift apart significantly. Over time, this would become a real obstacle for new viewers, or drag down the pasing of the videos for subcribers. One radical answer would be creating something like UML en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language for CCG’s, and making an effort to introduce new audience in it. UML is/was an attempt be a language agnostic representation of software. It was supposed to bridge the gap between java, C++, python and other object oriented languages. This way multi-language software could be designed and discussed by engineers that each only know one of the languages, but all know UML. In reality, this didn’t usually work. Each programming language has unique, better ways for doing the same thing, and the abstracted representation of UML fails to actually capture some key aspects of each language. The same would likely happen if one would try creating an UML for card games: sure, you could design a way to represent the unique aspects of each game through some abstract, shared consepts. But would the best Hearthstone deck in terms of that abstraction actually be any good? Probably not.

​@@catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca I suck at explaining things and getting my point across (doesn't help that I'm high atm) but this kinda reminds me theduellogs and his various channels on other card games. He only does top 10s, lists and stuff like that though. He has a WoW channel, ygo channel, pokemon tcg channel... Ygo is most popular thougb. It's not feasible to have all these different card games under 1 umbrella and actually make it work since while there is overlap, their interest will be split. God I hope you understand what I'm tryna say cause I don't. Sorry if this soesnt make sense

Yeah its mark and no-one else

Came into the comments to see if I could find someone saying this because if not, I would've had to lol

Was gonna say that too 😂

Now he needs mark to rank ygo combos

@@BenP-te2uz Mark and Dane

THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA

I would DEFINITELY watch THAT

Oh maybe get pokemon tcg and Digimon tcg peeps too. Digimon's tcg is good

Up

This sounds like such a fun idea!

It's funny because I think they failed to absorb the fact that Jandice is a Rogue card as well and were purely thinking of her as a Mage drop. Most of their criticisms of Jandice did apply to the card in Mage, she didn't see much play in that class to my knowledge.

This was how I knew he was the worse of the two cards.

"I just wanna kill for god's sake!"

You mean MFG, right? (Mesa Falcon Guy)

I am convinced rarran Is a Mastermind that has plotted the whole thing

He wasn't pissed at Farfa, he was pissed at chat. Or, at least, chat was annoying him to the point where it bled into his reaction.

@@nirast2561 Also, a big part of it has to do with the fact that Rarran didn't get at the time that Farfa was being sarcastic in most of that video, and therefore was making fun of chat and not him.

They just reflect the game they play, YGO has no mana system so it's all gas no breaks, that's why they can yap non stop

Tbh most of the Yugioh creators rarran invited have a comedic factor in their videos or streams while f.e nyhmnim or cimooo are a little more serious. MBT and Farfa are just the "autism/gaslight" part of the ygo CC zone xD

yeah absolutely forgot about him xd

Yeah wth he's the go-to guy for stupid hearthstone combos

I think the way he was describing wasn’t exactly the same way as mark does it, or at least in my head. Wasn’t throwing shade or anything.

I too thought about Mark. XD

@@Rarran Your penance is to get him on for a VS video but it has to be some stupid combo to win or something! But to make it not just drawing to win you make combo decks for each other and you have to work out what the combo is as you play it? Idk

Exactly

TBH all of the cards were based off of the meta that were around them. Repackage needs to make it to turn 7 to be played, and last I checked making it to turn 7 was a struggle in the current meta.

@@leadpaintchips9461 The issue is that they had no way of knowing that the two shown 7 mana Priest cards were around in different metas instead of being contemporaries.

One of the most prominent complaints in Yugioh right now is that modern decks aren’t xenophobic enough. And I’m not even kidding.

​@@alisethera9349Oh fuck it took me a second lmaooooo

​@@alisethera9349 YES. For hearthstone players, imagine the boss monsters are the regular cards, not themed into your class and not like pirate and those others (only played the game like 3 hours several years back, be kind plz), and EVERY class played them. Doesn't matter if you're priest (best class), Hunter or demon. It all amounts to those cards only.

Yeah it's crazy how well people from Glasgow can nail a Scottish accent!

⁠@@TheKnightOfBuquiciouskinda blows my mind tbh. Glasgow must have many talented voice actors if they’re known for their amazing Scottish accents. If only the Scottish people could have heard Farfa speak in their native tongue. 😂

What being a theater kid does to a man

@@m0002856 If only Scotland was real, man

You mean the Scottish guy is really good at doing a Scottish accent?

I SMELL GOLD IN THEM WATERS

GET'CHER OWN PAN!!

He might be a common, but it's a noble in our hearts.

Haha exactly!

As a Yugioh, player, that’s exactly what I thought. It’s a lot worse then. I was imagining summoning a beast with charge so that beast can immediately attack and trigger Tavish again.

I know lol heart was a core of one of the strongest meta's for hunter that isn't face, which was big face with like reviving 4 king crush and stuff, at one point it was literally top of the meta based on data sites

But this is a really relevant thing for priest, i dont know i dont played at the time, this often happened in the time?

What was the Yu Gi Oh fiasco?

idk I kinda like everything being revealed in the second section and being completely in the dark with them thru the first part.

Yeh I appreciated that it was more lax and less produced.

The colossals being in the wrong order was surprisingly upsetting

@@hugomendoza5665 That's where I mean, when he starts going over the cards again, that's when he should show the score (to the audience, not the participants).

Big Beast Hunter was a good deck, but many of them ended up cutting the Heart, as a win more card.

Hes just wrong. Jive never saw play until recently for like a week and then got cut again from lists. Heart was in the best deck at the time

Yeah I'd have to agree on that. Whether they're going by "most played" or "strongest," Jive AFAIK was only ever played in the recent combo nature Shaman (which was only good for like a couple weeks maybe). Meanwhile Stranglethorn Heart has been played in multiple meta Hunter decks.

Jive Insect was used with Criminal Lineup for an insane otk strat when it came out.

Yeah, value in YGO primarily comes from recursiveness, which is why YGO players tend to (over)value eg. Reborn as a mechanic but not "Lose tempo now to gain value later" cards.

​@@Rynjinivarbecause in ygo, there is no later. Quite a number of people dislike players that take it slow like stun and control players. They like doing combos that end on 4 negates and having hand traps to counter their opponents while not realising it's basically the same as having floodgates on the board. You make a board that denies the opponent. And as MBT has said in a different video, it's literally the same thing

@@HazeEmry This isn't an either/or thing. There's plenty of decks that end up with a bunch of points of targeted, non-negate interaction and a focus on recursivity. Recent examples include Branded (pre-Expulsion) and Sprights. Having different types of interaction (pops, banishs, monster negates, spell negates, etc.) is a lot better at skill-testing a player than either having a board full of Omnis (which basically only require you to jam them at every effect, few decks can play through 4 omnis) or flipping Floodgates (whcih are an utterly binary mechanic; the opposing player either has "the out" or loses instantly).

Almost the same thing:p

Negates are huge in YGO. Infinite Impermanence and Effect Veiler both essentially read "Discard this card from your hand, Silence the opponent's monster" and the former is one of the most powerful cards in the game, and the latter was before Imperm powercrept it. A well-timed negate is a game-ender in YGO because they're reactive (you can do them on your opponent's turn).

As a Yu-Gi-Oh player myself. I guess they were just hopeful that the built in searching made it good enough 🤷‍♀️

You can go check out their individual channels/streams, all the big YGO personalities (primarily MBT, Cimo, and Farfa but a few others less frequently) basically spend as much time on each others' channels/streams as their own doing solo stuff.