Love seeing MBT become increasingly bewildered by the direction mtg has taken in his absence lol.

I love mbt getting more and more aggitated with the cards double fisting beverages, incredible

Every time I hear the name Thoughtseize I think of it as Thoughtsies, which just sounds like a cute Pokemon or something.

I got a banger idea Show MBT a bunch of companions so he can flex his knowledge about Extra Deck monsters and how changes in execution can lead to wildly different results in regards to how well those two mechanics were received

Hopefully by the time Joseph decides to come back, Wizards will have introduced ten more new keywords.

I would love an all blue episode with Joseph. I would frankly love any episode where he comes back. As someone who has dipped back and forth between Magic and Yugioh for much of her life (with some breaks from both for life reasons), I love hearing Joseph talk about Magic. I find the differences endlessly interesting, and I feel like only speak to them quite as compellingly as he.

the funny thing about Serra Paragon is that they had to rewrite the rules to make it work because as written under the rules when it released it just straight up could not give the exile ability to the things you replay with it

One of my favorite ygo players. A game I don't even play.

No offence, MBT, but you are extremely witty and entertaining. I greatly enjoy seeing you work with different creators. Again, no offense meant.

MBT brought up the Cheerios deck! Although the Cheerios deck MBT is talking about uses Puresteel Paladin and Sram, Senior Edificer to draw its entire deck with 0 Costing artifacts. Not the Cheerios deck that will come up later... Also the Hammertime deck MBT references is from 15 years ago in standard and uses Loxodon Warhammer, the ORIGINAL Hammertime

I really like MBT. Great guy, funny and knows enough about magic to make nostalgic references. Keep him coming back on. He's a winner in my book even if he's not great at these videos.

Yay! I love mtb! He’s actually really good in this kinda series. He’s very good at using his deductive skills.

Wait, Case of the Crimson Pulse actually sees play? Also, MBT is going to be so mad when he learns about Deep-Cavern Bat.

I really like the thought process used by someone that has played the game but doesn't know the cards, the back and forth about past formats takes me back too. I know its probably a challenge to pick cards for someone that is familiar with the game, but picking from Standard would throw me off too, lol, Great video man!

Gurmag angler's a pauper staple ! I wonder how much either of you know the pauper format.🤔

I just had an idea. MTG commanders. Show a commander and two cards that can be used in that commander deck with it.

So since you asked, The original counterpart to power creeping was (power )nerfing, However nowadays power curbing is the more accurate (albeit underutilised) term.

"You just have to remember" In part, the motivation for things like finality counters.

The thing that he probably didn't get about Crimson Pulse is that it's draw 2 EVERY TURN after it's solved. It just gives you so many cards to throw out in the throw-out-cards-that-do-2.5-damage-each deck.

I would honestly love to see him have to read some of the more Modern Blue cards.

Just started watching the video, but does MBT know about companions? If not I would suggest showing him Lurrus in a later episode. That will definitely be a fun watch. Edit here and oh well 6:15 happened hahaha

I desperately want an MBT and Benjamin Wheeler podcast covering the history of type-1.

17:19 As a stargazing aficionado, my brain can't stop seeing the conected dots in the art as the pegasus constelation and it's anoying me LOL it's not 1 to 1, but my pattern recognition is kicking in. Edit: Stargazer LOL

loved the video many laughs had for sure love mbt and all card games this series is one of my favorite on youtube for sure

As a mostly limited player for MTG, and not paying attention to constructed at all, I was right about everything other than Biting-Palm Ninja. I would have figured it would see some play in standard in a dimir or esper control deck as a side board option against midrange.

Gurmag Angler still sees play in Pauper in decks like Dimir Terror and Dimir Fairies that quickly fill their graveyards with small stuff (cantrips make the Terror cheaper and then you can exile them for Angler after that)

18:10 I soooooo tried to get a Mortivore deck to work back in the day. 😂

The brief confusion around "Hammertime" in this video got me thinking that the current Modern Hammertime deck would be a good option if you wanted to do another video of YGO players rating recent MTG Modern deck archetypes. It would be interesting to see how one of them might evaluate an actual combo deck in the other game, but it's also a relatively simple and straightforward combo deck without many pieces that should be fairly easy to understand. Maybe something like, Ornithopter as the "bonus card" at the start, then Urza's Saga, Esper Sentinel, Colossus Hammer, Stoneforge Mystic, Sigarda's Aid, Puresteel Paladin? I think that should be a pretty easy one. Another idea that this video got me thinking about: The bringing up of the tendency of games to make powered-down versions of famously overpowered cards makes me think a fun concept for a video would be showing a player an infamously broken card from the other game, and then showing them a bunch of nerfed retrains of it, and making them guess how good all the different new versions are - which ones are still broken, which ones are good, which ones are actually bad. I know Yu-Gi-Oh has umpteen different "Pot Of" cards based off of Pot Of Greed, but I'm not sure if it's ever done that for any other cards, but I know Magic has a bunch of cards that have had many subsequent cards that are take-offs on their design trying to "fix" them, mostly the Power Nine and other famous cards from the first set.

Gurmag Angler still sees regular play in budget Death's Shadow.

I don't know if you also know anything about flesh and blood, but I think having someone like MBT who has all these well thought out thought processes for card evaluation would be a good watch.

Carnage Tyrant was the hexproof dino that was played in Standard which has uncountable. The reason why hexproof isn't on creatures as much anymore which Ward is more common is because of the play pattern of hexproof was bad especially in limited. Players don't like the inability to remove creatures because of one sided protection. Hexproof is mostly a combat trick now and reserve for mythics. Ward is basically a fairer hexproof.

The all blue episode with MonoBlueTron would be fantastic

MBT is so bad at evaluating Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. This negative comment will make MBT come. (I've got LoR cards for you to rate if you want.)

7:25 imagine misremembering when colored artifacts were introduced

"If you have infinite mana" shout out to that one time I had 72 floating mana in elfball commander

I absolutely need more MBT MTG content

18:15 The card MBT is thinking of is Desperate Ravings

Every time I hear about new mtg sets my brain glazed over and I turn into an old man, shaking my cane and going "Back in my day..." Every set after War of the Spark just hit me with wave after wave of "I don't belong here anymore. Everything I love is old and dusty now."

The talk of Green cards with a lot of text has me wanting to see him get exposed to Questing Beast

Huh, I would have given Serra Paragon as playable in the context of Standard. Sure, it’s fallen out of the meta now, but it’s had at least a year before that IIRC

I remember Mortivore. I played it in a Pestilence deck in Kitchen Table. Still have my playset somewhere.

Gurmag Angler is always playable, how can you not play him? Look at that cute face. He's so happy to be here.

I played MTG 20 years ago. All these cards seemed good apart from the green one which is just a moderately big creature that might be cheap in terms of mana compared to what I'm used to, but it can be dealt with. The red one seemed borderline broken, I mean card advantage in red is serious trouble for everyone else. The black one I got wrong as it seemed very scary, I mean black can often sneak some attack in and losing your best card does hurt. Figured it might be a tad slow, but I mean it's still your best card getting wiped. White clearly too slow to push the needle, good but not competitive enough, easy to assess. The blue one I felt very conflicted about. It's obviously good, but it seems very slow and only playable in control. I was glad to hear it's viable.

So creepy ninja guy is a Breaker that instead of popping a spell gets to activate Confiscation? To banishment instead of GY? Sounds like "fun" to me.

Gurmag angler still sees quite bit pauper play. It is quite nice threat, when murktide regent does not exist.

One niche interaction that can make Biting Palm ninja much better, but is too niche to save it is that it remains an unblocked attacker even after it's damage trigger resolves, so you can ninjutsu something else in to return it to your hand, letting you do it all again next turn, with a new menace counter when it enters again.

Hey, Gurmag Angler is still played in Dimir decks in Pauper with Tolarian Terror as well.

I love how magic will use keywords everywhere with the hope that it’ll be easier to read than explaining the entire effect, but then they just explain the entire effect anyway in parentheses

I so insanely badly need to see mbt get back into magic.

You should do a "color focused" series. Like next time do 1 mono blue, and 1 of each of the blue/x 2 color pair's. Thatd be interesting to watch. Maybe expand out to all pioneer legal cards?

I'd love an episode with all the blue cards

From my MTGA experience: Serra Paragon: I played a bit of White Aggro and is just mid. If it could be tutored into the field it would be better, but eh. Solid in draft though. Cryptid Coat: After playing the other MBT deck (T for Tempo), a pseudo Tolarian Terror generator that is also unblockable with the equipment can't be that bad. I've tried to use Surge engine and Bankbuster in Blue before. This is way better. Palm-Bite Ninja: First deck I tried to make in Arena. But yeah, it needs to be 1 mana less to be viable in Ninjas. Same cost does not cut it, even with the Dimir ninja that lowers Ninjitsu costs. Case of the Crimson Pulse: A better Ambergris? Yes, please (I've played enough alchemy for gems with RDW, don't judge me). Axebane Ferox: I thought there could be an use case as a side vsf some Black (Mostly if they play Tenacious Underdog) or Red Decks, since it just stays on field being annoying. Maybe even vs Blue Tempo if they are still on Tolarian and Djinn since losing GY can suck. But I guess I was wrong.

who knew monobluetron loves blue :P

Loving these videos with MBT! Out of curiosity (and given his comments on green cards), has he seen Questing Beast yet?

Boy you ain't throwing no hands!! 😂😂

Probably the best interaction with serra paragon is fetch lands, and the good fetch lands aren't in standard, so it falls a bit flat.

I think that it would be neat if you found a way to include brown or gold cards here too. Whether you want to make an additional category of “non-monocolored” or replace one of the WUBRG with a not monocolored card, it would be neat to see.

I think that case of the crimson pulse was misjudged a bit because it was treated as 1 extra card (howling mine). The ability is on upkeep which means you still get your normal draw. So it is 2 extra cards per turn, not just 1. That's a pretty big difference.

As someone with no MtG experience the only one I got was Case of the Crimson Pulse, because of Jinx from Legends of Runeterra having basically the same effect and being a staple of aggro for years.

You should show him Deadly Coverup and 3 steps ahead

Please keep bringing mbt back this was wonderfully funny

MBT plays floodgates?! **Stares at what happened in Chaos Draft** Okay yeah, that tracks,

Something to note for Cryptic Coat: Turning a cloaked card face up is a special action and bypasses the stack.

MBT all Blue episode sounds great. Throw off his judgement, and while your at it throw a bunch of nonsense keywords at him to get him extra riled.

Forget an all blue show, have him back for all Green!

For future episodes with having people guess yugioh cards, i was thinking maybe you could do one with ritual archetypes ? For example, Nekroz, Vendread, and Voiceless Voice for guessing the tiers of archetypes ?

I’d like to see MBT evaluate cards specifically from standard-rotated Pioneer sets, see if we can get this man into the format.

Serra paragon recurring bauble’s to draw cards seems fairly good. Hand/deck info and extra card drawn seems decent.

11:04 The cloak effect says turn creature face up at any time for its mana cost. Am I correct in noticing that it doesn't say anything about being at Sorcery speed, and thus you can get creatures at Flash speed?

14:20 Mmmmm… Hymn to Tourach, one of my favorite cards of all time. Probably something like: Life from the Loam Knight of the Reliquary Hymn to Tourach Sensei’s Divining Top Force of Will

You need to show MBT Poq

another niche upside to cryptic coat is that it lets stoneforge mystic get you something to pitch to force of will in stoneblade decks

With Modern Horizons 3 having callbacks to old cards, it would be awesome to have MBT come back to rate MH3 cards (especially ones that allude to old cards) after the first few big tournaments. :)

Try more commander cards with MBT maybe even some universes beyond cards just to mess with him like 40k or Doctor Who.

Cryptic is also pretty decent in legacy, having a blue equipment to search in stoneblade decks for pitching to force is a cool line

I dont often agree with MBT but his exasperation at ward? I felt that in my heart.

i got 4/1, for some reason i thought of that 1 mana monkey when i saw the case card and was like "other cards give you all the value you need anyways!" but turns out that's modern only

It's be cool to see MBT back for a blue only episode, maybe Nickachu can co-host since he's a blue player

Cryptic Coat is one of the best equipment ever printed. While the legacy Stoneblade archetype is only tier 3, it is usually better than Batterskull and True-Name Nemesis. The true power is getting a blue card with Stoneforge Mystic to pitch to Force of Will. When you have the Stoneforge + Cryptic Coat engine active, you get a 2/2 ward 2 every turn, in addition to having a True-Name Nemesis. You can bounce it to hand to pitch it to Force. The only other equipment that is still clearly legacy playable is Kaldra Compleat, which is obviously cracked.

Mbt so smart. He can speak without speaking. I felt that mbt. I know. I saw. They do not know.

Come ooon, Angler is plyed in Pauper!

Would be excited to see MBT again, he is very entertaining.

When it first came out I climbed the Arena ladder with a Serra Paragon deck

So fun joke with the green card. You play it with “rest in peace” and it’s basically hexproof lol

I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT GURMAG ANGLER IS STILL ALIVE IN PAUPER

Biting Palm is Actually pretty good in standard cuz can be combined with Ninjutsu ability,recycle effects and silverfang also it have menace that is good as well as the effect to see the hand and disrupt a card,arguably only surpassed by the damned bat!

As a Yugioh player looking at Serra Paragon, I was like "This card is good... wait... you have to pay mana for the permanent? Ah it's still good it gets a land.... wait it doesn't just put the land onto the battlefield? This card is awful." Wizards really going to great lengths to make incredibly awful mythic cards as pack filler to make you spend more money to get whatever new staple is in the mythic slot.

Putting in a negative comment just to piss MBT off Im not afraid of you 👊👊 ...also to help with the algorithm

damn its been so long i failed to recognize a literal 5 mana aetherling that stays on the field even after u bounce. i feel bad.

I'll be here for any video where you have the boy on here. . . Especially an all blue video

Remember Mortivore? I have a copy within arm's reach!

An entire blue episode sounds awesome

You should do one that instead of varying by color you vary by card type or rarity.

Serra Paragon was in a tier 1 standard mono white control deck prior to the banning of Reckoner Bankbuster. You would sacrifice Roadside Reliquary to draw 2 cards, and then get it back the next turn to draw another 2 cards and gain 2 life. It was a key piece of a deck that no longer exists. A good card, but not the card that made the deck tier 1.

Gurmag Angler still sees play... in pauper

"You have to play mediocre cards to make this card better" The black blue card that makes all of your ninjuitsu cheaper and all of your ninja stronger.I can't remember what the card is.But I always call ,it master Splinter Immediately makes this car better.And that's one a mediocre card.I refuse to believe that card is mediocre

8:22 Turning a creature face up is a special action, does not use the stack, and you aren't able to respond to it. If you're referring to the ETB of Cryptic Coat, then if that is countered the card won't be put face down anyways.

I honestly think cases didn’t go far enough. They’re basically just sagas with a condition to advance them. And none of the conditions for cases even have anything to do with gathering information.

18:03 MY BOY!

I'm a little surprised about Axebane Feros. A 4/4 haste+deathtouch creature for 4 mana seems really close to on curve to me. Not insane good, not "must pick" good but if I saw it in a draft and you were already going in on green, I feel I'd pick it without hesitation. Maybe the 4 picks these days are just too OP to settle for a merely good.