Read a brief history of Hogaak Summer (with decklists!) at: bit.ly/4b0ZYQG

This guy is GOOOD! His analysis and explanations for someone who doesn't play magic are REALLY GOOD!

Great instincts, ask for his input every spoiler season. He’s like the opposite of that dog who predicts every sport championship.

For a guy who doesn't play magic, he did it amazingly good. The analysis was spot on.

Recruit this guy for the magic channel! He is ready!

Funny to point at Hogaak's mana cost when talking about stuff Sol Ring can pay for... As always, fantastic stuff

This guy is insanely sharp at evaluating general card game fundamentals. Not only did he get questions correct but he offered some pretty nuanced analysis on top of that. Good showing!

Sol Ring is legal in Vintage where it's Restricted. Only 1v1 format that it is legal in.

Carl's trying to sustain a poker face in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="770">12:50</a>, was just amazing 😂

I was waiting for this. The short teased me.

What an absolute GIGABRAIN CHAD. No smooth noggin, maximum wrinklage. Reads the cards (already better than like 69% of MtG players) and even understands them. 10/10 would let evaluate cardboard again 💕💕

Part of me likes to think this was part of the interview process or something. The fact that the fundamentals of card gaming are so ingrained in his thought process is a massive win to wherever he ends up. I know veteran MTG players who haven’t been able to understand why Hogaak is good and dude just nails it with the “oh, any card?!”

i liked the way he related the cards back to YGO. I've never played YGO for a second but I already feel like I understand it better! Fun to see his takes, smart guy!

Taylor has a great sense of different tactics in magic even without playing it or knowing the decks these cards came from. I loved his personality and how he thought things out which would make him a great player/opponent if he played the game so I’m definitely going to sub to his channel to see those aspects in play when they play yu-gi-oh

Carl: "tell us what you think about Hogaak, Arisne Necropolis" Me: *forcefully exhales air from my nose*

Love Staple or Stinker! Have you ever thought about doing an episode with Flesh and Blood cards? I feel like the fact that it has such a different gameplay system would make evaluation of the cards really interesting!

When I saw Sol Ring at the end I knew he was going to get it right. 2 easy

Love to see people using logic to approach cards like this. Very friendly person as well, very positive vibes :) Please put it to the test and show him Nadu - if he can guess it right, its even more of a miracle how it slipped through playtesting :D Also i like to add, I think it is easier to rate magic cards comapred to yugioh cards. Just the wall of text on yugioh cards that also happen to be very specific and relate to a lot of mechanics you cant understand if you dont know at least a bit of yugioh. The concept of a 8/8 that has alternate costs and trample over small creatures is easier than a card that chains with something, that can be special summoned but only if its in your discard pile and only once per turn and and and....I used to look into yugioh when it came out and this is like a whole different game today, i dont understand sh*t these days xD

Dragonmaster Outcast was played in UR control decks Battle For Zendikar in sideboard for control mirrors, because in such mirrors you often remove cheap removal spells and 1 drop could stick on board for 5 turns covered with lot of counterspells.

Hey, a new face at Cardmarket! I'm sure Taylor will fit in well with the Yu Gi Oh crowd, and who knows, maybe we'll be seing him again on here, too

great performance from taylor! I play both games albeit casually but he definitely has the analytical mind 👏

He is so impressive. He reads magic cards better than 90% of Magic players

Super impressed! Well done. Hell of a way to introduce a new host. I already have immediate respect for his knowledge and analysis skills.

Gosh I've been waiting for this one. The shorts were so good!

More impressive than the 5/5 was the thought process itself on each card. Taylor would be very good at Magic.

Very impressed with Taylor! Looking forward to the future of the Yugioh channel with him at the helm

Saw some of the shorts, been waiting for this one!

Yes! Was waiting for the whole video because the shorts were impressive 🎉🎉 Being able to generalize card game knowledge is harder than I thought 😮

Great video! I missed this series, so I'm glad it came back! Great showing by Taylor too!

It was really fun to watch Taylor reason through all those cards! Bring him back for more :D

Man is he good! The way he can justify his decisions shows some true skill and understanding from card games. This is what I want to develop for my work one day!

Hogaak was really easy to guess as a Yugioh player since there's an analogous card to it in Fairy Tail - Snow. Snow's used more as a stepping stone for your end board but they are practically the same

Whoo! Glad to have this back. I'd love to see you hit someone with Lantern of Insight on one of these. Just to see a YGO player react to Lantern Control being a deck.

I really missed Staple or Stinker. Taylors analysis were spot on!

Excited to see staple or stinker again! Well done Taylor!

More with this guy please. Very pleasant!

Hell yeah, a few of these were tricky! This was fun to watch!!

rocking a similar style vest like Paris from gilmore girls in episode 3 of season 6! (styles actually return from 10-20 years ago) - yes I spent time with my wife watching gilmore girls

Give this man a magic deck in a future video, please. I want to see that. He has such intuition

Used to play yugioh when I was younger, might even watch some videos now and again I enjoyed his analysis. Now you have to do the same with YuGiOh cards!!!

Now we need a series thats just devoted to stumping this guy. He's obviously too good for "Staple or Stinker",so lets get ready for "Let's Stump Taylor!"

Taylor was perfect with all the analyses, from Outcast to Sol Ring. Would love to see Taylor return to be tested with even harder cards to analyze

Thumps up for Taylor, not only good analysis but also a man of the people.

Was missing this. Nice to see it back

please please please carry on with the launch of these channels, I would love to see one for flesh and blood and I really think the community would rally behind a channel with a higher production value, and it could attract new players to our game. I absolutely love this channel despite not actively playing magic and I feel a flesh and blood channel could do the same for my favourite game ever created.

im pretty new to magic, but it feels like card advantage and drawing cards is the most OP thing in the game

I love this series. I always want more! 🎉

wow; and the fact there was no real guesswork, but actually correct thought process really makes it awesome.

dude would make killer commander decks xD well done

Man.. Bro would've probably even correctly analyzed Oko in Spoilers. Great job!

Welcome Taylor! He nailed it!

Loving the line "magic is slow" as someone who started mtg from lor which was even slower 😭 i was out there paying 9 mana for a boardwipe

One of the smartest guys I've ever seen, I predicted he would nail 5/5! Congrats

wohaa... Taylors' perspective is outstanding.

Seeing how much Taylor loves the buzzer.. he needs to invite Carl for a Staple or Stinker on Yugioh cards! Also, damn he did great, getting every single one right! I mean he got the logic of them all 100% right!

I would have thought that Duskmantle Seer would have a place in topdeck manipulation decks. But I guess the problem is that you cannot play instances between the "every player reveal their top card" and "then put it into his or her hand" effects. If you could force players to show their top card first, then hit them with a deck shuffle instant effect before they draw, that would be useful. Or if you could turn the effect off and on as needed, combined with lantern of insight.

Shows this fella has a strong understanding of the potential concerns that introducing the resource management of mana could have. He's a Magic player disguised as a Yugioh player. Fun vid

I think this is a good Yu-Gi-Oh guy. Doesnt look like they drink Elmer's glue on the reg

Carl always looks like he‘s sweating

dude deduced the concept of curving out in <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="90">1:30</a>; his grasp of mana, coming from a game where everything ends before the end of the second player's second turn, is really impressive!

Ah, the good ol' days of Khans and BFZ Standard where Dragonmaster Outcast came in for grindy matchups. It's absolutely a stinker, but MAN was it fun.

Return of a classic series!

I like him! He can evaluate cards great and with awesome reasoning!

Taylor is quite smart. Getting all correct on first try is quite impressive. Would be nice to see Shadowgrange Archfiend in this.

I thought of a potential video idea today. You could stack magic decks or set up a game State from pro-tour situations and have different card market players play from that point in the game to see if they would come to different outcomes. Would Toralf make the same decisions as the pro that won that game? Or maybe Jamin does something so differently from the pro on the other side that it throws off that potential outcome. I love the experimental content!

I've been playing magic off and on for 20 years, and I only got 4/5, this guy was good

Dragon master outcast was the first card I thought of when Obeka splitter of seconds was spoiled

He struggled a little bit with Dragonmaster Outcast not understanding when you were allowed to play it and how many dragons it would make. Understandably so since Magic is so card advantage based. Other than that it was very impressive. Sol Ring analysis was extremely good. He will love Mana Crypt haha

Fantastic insights!

He has a sharp mind, he must be a great player indeed

This guy was so good, it might make me watch Yugioh content.

I miss when piercing was just called fairy meteor crush

"Everything kills a 1/1!" *sad ornithopter noises*

absolutely killed it!!!

super happy that you got someone to continue the yugioh channel if just for staple or stinker with magic players 😂

I miss these episodes!

No traps there, but for someone who doesn't know anything about magic his analysis was really concise and spot on! Amazing

Man, Taylor did quite a bit better than Thoralf on the Yu-Gi-Oh channel. These weren't exactly the hardest cards to judge, apart from Hogaak, which surprised even seasoned magic player by how much more broken it was than first believed. Great job Taylor and have fun on the channel!

Taylor have a very good reading and analysis overall. he's pretty good

I would love to see this in format specific context. Idk if you go deep with like limited, modern or you just split between 1v1 formats vs commander.

That was brilliant to watch

Gotta give this guy more challenging cards B)

Wow Taylor thinking through all of them logically and coming to conclusions correctly, amazing! He should try MTG with y'all sometime. Excellent fun peeps!

Whoaah whoah whoah - I play my sol ring in Vintage and Old School all the time! And it's great

"remember magic is slow you don't win one or two turns" after pro tour Nadu: Nah, I'd win.

I’ve noticed that it’s easier for yugioh players to know if other cards are good than vice versa

Kudos to Taylor, what a champ! Also, cool shirt Carl!

Dragonmaster Outcast is even WORSE once you realize the Dragon he summons does not have haste... So turn 6 a 1/1. Turn 7 a 5/5. Turn 8 you can finally attack.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="319">5:19</a> That was intense

I just love how Duskmantle Seer's face just looks like Grumpy Cat.

Been missing the Yugioh content

Sol Ring actually can be played in a 1v1 format, that being Vintage, however it's restricted because it's equal to or better than a mox in a lot of decks.

He is leaps ahead of most Yu-Gi-Oh players in that he has actual reading comprehension!

I think it’d be fun to see Taylor and someone else on the team who has never played Magic play a game as a tutorial

Hope there's Staple or Stinker 2: Combo Edition with him on board. Show him a pair of cards and see if that combo is infamous or not in 60-card Magic

Dragonmaster outcast saw a ton of play in jeskai black decks the second time it was in standard!

He articulated why sol ring is good better than I could've, insane performance. If I didn't already know ravager is good I probably wouldn't have gotten it

The second I saw that last card I knew how the video had to end

rather than just saying staple or stinker I feel like some format context would be super helpful not only for the person playing this little game but for us watching too

It really shows how important the fundamentals are