This video is really funny because within the Yugioh community this is our Magic guy

"It's also a 7/7 flying deathtouch vigilance lifelink" "sure why not" My thoughts exactly

"so they do this thing where they print a _Garbage_ set with 1 good card" Yugioh players: hey ive seen this one!

We need a "MBT reacts to power creep in MtG"

I love yugioh's only mtg player

So glad to see MBT among his people after all the shade Farfa throws at him for bringing up Magic in Yugioh discussions.

Man a "Yu-Gi-Oh professional player judges Yu-Gi-Oh cards" would go hard as an April fool's video

Next video is gonna be “MBT plays a single game of Karlov Manor standard and loses his FUCKING MIND”

ofc he's become yugioh player, he was blue player lol

MBT's surprise with Liliana of the Veil it really shows the power creep magic has suffered in the past years... Would love to see MBT reacting to the powerful cards of right now

You forgot to mention one of the most important parts of Lorien Revealed. It's a "land" that is blue so you can pitch it to cast force of will, force of negation, and subtlety!

Nah... it totally stands for Marincess Blue Tang... He's all Yugioh... right? right?

I really enjoyed this because it’s one of the rare times both players can really discuss both Yugioh AND MTG. Generally players only understand one game or only one of the players can draw parallels.

The concept of letting players of other TCGs rate cards works so much better if the guest actually knows the basics of the game and this video is a good example of that.

MBT was great to have on, please defo do more vids with him.

I love how Joseph just lights up when he remembers about the giant eff-off demons. The face of someone who really loves to pay 7 life and draw 7 cards

I don’t know if the editing has always been this good, not something I actively noticed before maybe, but you putting up all the random cards you guys bring up, on the screen so we can all see and read them is really nice. You’ve been doing a great job with these my dude.

I sure hope you showed him a card in WHITE! (Before the video)

19:45 The flavor is basically this: Wrenn is a dryad, and dryads can bond with trees and animate them into treefolk. Wrenn has done this (originally) six different times, and she's always named her treefolk companions by number. Of course we all know Wrenn and Six, the most recent Innistrad story saw her retire Six to the Ulvenwald, where she and Teferi had found Seven, her next tree companion. Finally, as a means to defeat the Phyrexians, Wrenn and Seven travel to New Phyrexia. Unfortunately, a compleated Nissa destroys and kills Seven, leaving Wrenn without a tree and she was slowly dying. Wrenn decided to sacrifice herself and bonded with the world tree Realmbreaker, which the Phyrexians were using to invade the Multiverse. Of course, this card isn't named "Wrenn and Eight" but Wrenn does call the tree Eight as she is sacrificing herself to bring the forces of Zhalfir to New Phyrexia to fight.

Love seeing someone familiar with magic try to rate these cards, when he recognized Ormendahl from flavor text and asked if we ever got a card of him was awesome

This was like watching a bad AA sponsor talking an old friend how fun the new parties are.

"-2: Choose a permanent from the top 3 and bin the rest" reading as a better "0: Brainstorm" where fetchlands are available sure is one of the takes of all time

ah yes, monobluetron

Wait, MBT doesn't stand for Marincess Blue Tang?!?! EDIT: Pendulum Players and Amulet Titan players should meet and discuss why their deck is always the best in any format.

"If anything ruined Magic, it was the end of Type 1.5." Bruh I felt that in my soul lmao

I love MBT as a guest. It's fun to have someone get this half-context and I find those "HE IS SO CLOSE!" moments with Indominatable Creativity a lot of fun. One important thing to note with Planeswalkers in the context of current Magic however is the way removal is handled currently. Blue has 2 Mana Drains in No More Lies and Make Disappear. Should a prominent Planeswalker ever arise again then Black can easily just Bitter Downfall it and if a Planeswalker doesn't affect the board vs. the red decks it will just get run over or ignored. Its why The Wandering Emperor and Kaito Shizuki are like the two Planeswalkers that see consistent play. They are easily able to force 2 effect activations before dying.

It's funny MBT arrived at Amalia being playable by comparing it to Merfolk Branchwalker and reasoning that if the latter was playable the former was as well without ever touching on the fact that the reason Branchwalker was playable in standard was as part of a package involving Wildgrowth Walker (and ultimately a large part of Amalia's playability is owed to its synergy with WW as well)

After lotr released wrenn was completely busted in alchemy, games were much slower due to the prevalence of bowmaster and any way to draw cards that got around bowmasters became extremely valuable as well. Wrenn fits very well into exactly that scenario not to mention that the other greatest card ever to be printed, delighted halfling, forced you into wrenns color anyway. Most games wouldnt see a wrenn ulti but many matchups, especially the mirror, did get to them reasonably often.

I'm not sure if I should be surprised or not Joseph caught how good Lorien Revealed's islandcycling was. Most MTG players didn't catch that during spoiler season and it wasn't until they played with it that most people caught it

You're on a roll recently, holy moly! It was funny seeing a Yugituber, of all people, complain about powercreep

MarincessBlueTang?? he's so charming!

Jeez What an actor 🎉

Never thought great white would be a guest!

This was absolutely incredible. I am always kind of sad, that MBT doesn't do at least a small amount of MtG content, because his thoughts on card games are always incredibly interesting. If you can get MBT on this channel again, that would be very cool.

M Bussy T finally makes a crossover into MTG

Demonic Bargain just reads "remember that broken effect?" but you bought it off Temu. EDIT: I can't believe that Wrenn and Realmbreaker isn't good, but at the same time if the effects were better...

Loved it! Go on his channel. Yugioh has continued to get more and more cracked and I would love for him to show you cards.

one of my fave ones of these youve done. would love to see more people on that know magic but have stopped playing for some time

Somebody tell MBT that Jund is still a thing, but it plays almost none of the og cards to the point that the version he's familiar with is commonly known as "boomer jund". Like, Tarmogoyf and Dark Confidant are considered very slow and inefficient in today's meta.

Figured we'd be having the Mono Blue Tron player guessing Yugioh. 🤔

Another awesome vid as always! Especially love seeing the Yugioh players guessing Magic! Got excited seeing the Universe Beyond stuff like Optimus and Lord of The Rings-More of that please! Also, as you mention, any card can be good in Commander, so I get why it's tough to rate them from that standpoint. However, maybe in future installments, could there be a way to examine more Commander cards or Commander-only format cards? Perhaps the difference would be what's good/used in EDH vs CEDH? Thanks again for what you do!

The discussion in this video makes me think MBT would be well suited to a Magic version of the "Banned Or Not?" video format.

This was the best one of these videos. The reactions are so much better when the guesser has some amount of context. I want to see one where a standard or commander player reacts to lesser known legacy cards - like cephalid illusionist or edge of autumn

Really awesome to see MBT talking some magic, I was taught about Magic as a child but ADD brought me into Yugioh (but I never bought in cause I was still in like highschool). Now I've come back to magic because I'm obsessed with mechanics and the melvin stuff, so it tickles my brain seeing MBT talking magic too. Great stuff!

Lowkey I would Love to watch MBT play magic

Now this was amusing. Considering both people understand both games it's just interesting to see thoughts on some cards

Love mbt. Binge the History of Yu-Gi-Oh (and Jank)! Hes great fun!

I don't like YGO but MBT is really funny, his response to Rarran was hilarious and fantastic, I'd watch if he did content I was interested in, glad you had him on, only halfway through but glad he's doing so well. Wish he covered magic still

I was waiting for this one

To be fair to MBT, wrenn and realmbreaker isn't bad. It's just that green has been the weakest color in standard since it's been printed, and it's not strong enough to be playing G for by itself. Then conbine that with it being *kinda* a GB card (typically its GBx decks that want a card like WnR), and B has arguably the best 3s in standard? It would not be hard (and still could happen) for WnR to be an all-star in a deck. It's not bad on rate, just... doesn't line up with the format.

Without even watching the video, I can already trust MBT will handle this well(ish). Dunno how up-to-date he is on MTG since he has since switched to YGO, but hey, he's Joseph Rothchild of the Rothchildean fortune. He can handle it. 💪💪💪💪

When talking about xenagos interactions with indomitable creativity, idk why it made me really nostalgic for theros block

I have been waiting so long for this! MTG is my jam but MBT is my grounded YGO bae that helps me remember my youth.

So Wrenn's thing is that when they planeswalked the tree they were attached to got disintegrated, that's why it was Six and Seven, those were their 6th and 7th trees. This is Wrenn paired with Realmbreaker.

The King of The Whites himself! Love MBT and love you too, awesome to see y'all together! ✌️💜

I always thought MBT stands for Marincess Blue Tang

MBT was great there, really fun and it was obvious the only thing that threw him off properly was the powercreep, the actual evaluation seemed pretty solid lol

At the risk of being That Guy, Ormendahl filled in the power vacuum left by Griselbrand, who was one of Liliana's contracted archdemons. With that nitpick out of the way, it's a lot of fun to see one of these card evaluation videos where the judge does have some grounding in MtG. Thanks to both of you!

MBT plays a game where turns take 15 minutes. He'd be right at home in Commander if he played Hakbal.

Came for MBT, stayed for the curiosity. Definitely seems like Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic aren't totally different. I will for sure check out more of your channel 🔥

No way My friend just got me into magic and I’ve been playing yugioh for a while now, great to see this from one of my favorite yugioh creators

I’d love if individual yugioh card reviews came back. I don’t hate the archetype review format, but they just feel way too long to get through

I am glad that Wrenn wasn't as strong as MBT hoped because that makes it less expensive for me to use in my commander deck, 5c color fixing moment But it does speak a lot of volume on power creep.

Wow Indomitable creativity has such a beautiful artwork holy shit😮😮😮

Joseph's joy at figuring out the amalia combo gives me life lol

YO MBT THIS IS THE HYPEST EPISODE!!!!!

Man when MBT said that the nuke effect of Amalia would probably never happen, idk how you kept your poker face up. I was smiling ear to ear lmao

Wrenn and Realmbreaker isn't "really bad", it's very medium. I just looked it up and it's done a few things, but doesn't see a ton of play. I think calling it really bad is underselling it a lot

26:16 - This little exchange here perfectly describes when I first got into Magic: Mirrodin (overpowered block) followed by Kamigawa (slamming the brakes but still slipping in one or two ungodly busted cards) Truly, the more things change, the more they stay the same!

This makes me So happy

Both of your mics are so good that without background music the silent moments are like listening to the void

What's crackin

I know I'm super late here (just came across on the feed) but with Demonic Bargain I immediately thought of comparisons to Grim Tutor. It's most assuredly the better card for 3cmc and would make for an easy conclusion, but that card just so happens to fall outside the time period MBT is familiar with (Starter 1999/Core Set 2021). Loved the dynamic between you two. Good video!

loved the video, its great.

i think its unfair to say lili isnt being played in standard, because the deck she was played in got banned out of existence, and even then some control decks still mb lili

wren in a dryad that makes a symbiotic relationship with a tree host and they name the trees with a number based on the order they fuse with them so wren and six is the sixth tree seven is the seventh and realmbreaker being a big important tree in the lore is technically Eight If anyone was curious about that stuff.

love the videos!

The funny part about amulet titan is that as long as it has amulet and titan it’ll still work.

Petition to have mbt quiz Jame on yugioh! Loved the video and keep em coming!

In standard, I think Amalia is good enough to see play in a white-black lifegain deck even without wildgrowth walker. From that, I'd argue that MBT is right that Amalia is a good card even if you never trigger the destruction ability. Of course, wildgrowth walker takes this from a good-decent card to a game winning combo piece.

This was a fun episode

I can't wait to see the reverse video where MBT shows you the level 1 Fire deck.

Lorien Revealed is a part of a common landcycling cycle in LoTR but it's the only one that isn't a creature. The other 4 are creatures. Pretty sure it was intentional to make Living End not get a powerful blue creature that can find an Island and pitch to Force of Negation and Subtlety.

lesgoooo the white cut has been released

First vid of yours I watched, I'm the weird demographic that only plays MtG but also watches MBT... so this was a good time 😊

Indomitable creativity is really similar to lor's sugary snare and played exactly the same with a deck with only 1 actual target and cards that created creatures

Mbt showing him yugioh from the past year would be great!

I love Demonic Bargain as a pick here, because in Yu-Gi-Oh it would be crazy, but in Magic it's just okay. Really highlights the gap between design principle between the games, and I love that.

I was about to say, "How could MBT not know about landcycling" before I remembered he was in magic between 2006-2016. For note, [land]cycling first appeared in Onslaught Block which I then remembered was in 2002.

13:10 I think the other important thing of note here as well is that in Yu-Gi-Oh, searching ANY card give you a way to crack open the entire turn because YGO's resource system is fucked. In the case of THIS card, you're spending three mana to pick up a card you'll probably still have to pay the costs of the card you search so you're really not seeing use out of this card as early as you need in the faster-paced formats like vintage or legacy where there are better alternatives already. The only possible way this card could see play is if you exile some insane card that benefits you from being exiled, but being mill that's still a crapshoot too.

Mbt is sooo much fun on these. Moooore

Indomitable Creativity is really good with Encroaching Mycosynth simply because Encroaching Mycosynth turns all the things you own in your library and all other zones into artifacts so if you pump a lot of mana and have enough to sac you can just put all your permanents into play

I CAN FETCH FOR MYSTIC SANCTUARY? 🤯🤯 I never even noticed! Now i feel stupid! 😅

Loving that audio delay

got the commercial break a second after you said wrenn and realmbreaker was bad. At least the commercial break didn't keep me waiting.

I really liked the time capsule takes.

This is my first time watching one of these videos. Wrenn and Realmbreaker is definitely not "really bad", it definitely sees some constructed play.

0: brainstorm will always be crazy.

You gotta invite the champ him self, Mr Josh Schmidty

Joseph being surprised at MTG powercreep as if yugioh hasn't had 2 tier-0 decks in the last 2 years is so funny