Did you miss me playing Commander with Sheldon Menery, Brian David-MArshall, and Ced of One More Mana? You can check last week's episode out here: th-cam.com/video/IJq_QCbgB2Q/w-d-xo.html
I really enjoyed this take on Shuffle up and Play cos despite this being a Magic channel, Shuffle up and Play does not denote any specific game. I hope to see more cards games getting some time in the spotlight.
Man, the Team APS commander game is about to go crazy ! Was wild that you let a top tier zero deck go first for the clap back. Then again, whoever goes first wins in Yu-Gi-Oh!
*Thank you again for having us on! Hope everyone enjoyed this Yu-Gi-Oh twist! Right after all this, Larry has now started playing Magic the Gathering and says he wants to be on a full episode of Shuffle Up And Play with his own Commander deck. I suppose we'll have to make it happen at some point!* 😅
Please do! As someone who's played Magic for 20 years and am now getting into Yu-Gi-Oh because of you guys, it would be saturday-morning-cereal-levels of great content watching any of you bros at Team APS taking a gander on MTG
If you thought Larry was in the hole before, get ready. Magic will tunnel that dude to the earth's core. (But seriously I'd love to see you all on shuffle up and play. Make Larry play a prison deck so he experience MtG's version of Mystic Mine! )
When they were asking about draw effects in mtg i wanted to jump into my screen and go on a rant about how good ancestral recall is haha. Heck, even just in standard, for draw 2 effects there's reckoner's bargain, reckless impulse, memory deluge just to name a few in different colors. Even green right now has storm the festival which is better than drawing. Mazemind tome, bankbuster, welcoming vampire, spirited companion i better stop there 😆
@@napalmbukakke it is interesting tho because while drawing in mtg is great it’s on a whole other level in ygo Like in magic if you’re drawing you’re spending mana you could spend to cast. In yugioh you get to immediately use those new cards. And as a result we’ve got like 4 total draw cards legal in the tcg that inherently go positive Everything else usually is a rummage type effect.
@@bakerdarcy6001 thats wild, tbh power scaling and relative cost in ygh seems busted. It appears to me theres so many ways to tutor and special summon, and no way to punish someone for doing those things.
@@napalmbukakke From what I was told/remember/gathered (and my info is spotty at best so take it with a table of salt) generic draw/tutoring (Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity) is rare if not completely banned from tournament play (since literally everyone would run them). Instead, Yugioh has stupidly busted effects (compared to MTG) that are generally constricted to an archetype (notice how everyone seemed to be playing what MTG players would consider "tribal" decks). So essentially most decks will be based around Archetypes because of that. The idea is interesting, and works for the YGO game and playerbase. But getting started into YGO is difficult because of that, imo. In MTG you can run some pretty straight forward decks that can even be strong in the right setting. But in YGO I think that died a long time ago.
@@gamerwolffang2722 I'm just like the professor when i analyze card games, from a magic the gathering lens. I like how the prof says "sorcery speed" lol
Alternatively ... it could be the worst experience as he gets to understand the game better and faster, only to realize the game's faults having the perspective of a multi-game player
@@Reluxthelegend Nearly all questions regarding the rulings of cards or interactions nowadays boil down to "for fuck's sake, read the card and don't try to debate a piece of cardboard". There are some game rules you have to learn, some infamous konami said so nonsense, but in 95% of cases, cards do pretty much exactly what is written on them.
Massive respect Prof. I don't play Yu-Gi-Oh, nor have I the desire to do so, but your willingness to embrace other TCGs and the TCG community as a whole is absolutely wonderful and, indeed, wholesome.
And a TCG that could be called one of the most unfriendly to beginners. It's so much to learn and it can get extremely complicated quick. I play both YuGiOh and Magic The Gathering (played both in tournaments) and MTG is just so much more "clear" and inviting, Aside from the fact that most cards don't explain what their effects do, like goading or hexproof or whatever.
I for one LOVE yugioh but I can't stand playing it. Love the all-over the place lore of stuffed animals and anti-heros splashed into a dragon deck fighting pirate goblins or v-tubers.
I love the friendship you have created with Team APS. Even though I don’t play Yu-Gi-Oh anymore, I still have immense respect for them and enjoy their content. Please keep doing crossovers like this!
I have never played Yu-Gi-Oh, I wanted when I was younger tho, just didn’t have kids around to play with. I i watch team aps from time to time, likable people that makes good content.
Alec getting to beat Live Twin with Plunder and then being matched up against a Branded Despia player that hard opened Fusion Destiny is a certified Master Duel moment
@@rtwoxd1355 branded chimera hasn't even been on MD for 2 years at this point. Best almost every Despia deck I've ran in to with Scareclaw Kashtira or even Chimera Fusion 🤷
In the current format, the best deck is one with tons of effects that trigger when cards are sent to the grave... and cards that mill both players for 5. You can imagine how many triggers happen in the inevitable mirror.
These crossover videos with the Team APS dudes are really some of my favorites from TCC. I don't recognize one bit of what Yu-Gi-Oh has become, but the sheer amount of fun everyone is having together and the humor that can only come from these two worlds colliding always makes me smile. Please Professor, keep having Team APS back on your channel as often as you and them are able to make it work
@@darksigner8313 It means you learn by losing not by winning. When you lose you understand what you did wrong and what you could have done better, if you won you learned nothing. Losing is an opportunity to learn from something that at that moment in time was greater/stronger than you.
Paul coming in to mop the floor with Alec felt like the main character of an anime getting revenge for his sidekick friend, Larry, who was bullied and defeated by the villain. Truly the protagonist of this story! Also, I need to see that Team APS and Prof commander game! Hope that was recorded and on it's way!
As a Magic player, I have no idea what these guys are doing, but I am still watching and loving each collaboration your two channels are doing! Love switching up things for a change and seeing your different personalities come together. BTW, I would love to see Team APS (try to) play Magic!
The main differences between Yugioh and Mtg are: There is no mana, instead yugioh does focus more on card advantage. The “extra deck” acts kinda like a “command zone” with up to 15 cards in it, but due to a lack of mana, we mainly sacrifice creatures (or monsters in Yugioh-terms) to cast from there(or to summon) or cheat them into play through other means. We get 1 summon of a monster for free per turn (with a certain amount of sacrifices, depending on the stars/level of the monster). Yugioh has a lot more “cheating into play” (special summons). Cards with a red border (Trap cards) have to be set a turn, before they can be used at instant-speed. Other cards can be used instantly, as long as there isnt a restriction preventing you (once per turn etc.). We have a limited amount of space on the field. We rarely use keywords (with the exception of par example piercing->trample or Banish->exile) -> effects are usually relatively long. And finally, combat work differently (we attack monsters and depending on its position, damage will be dealt. If no monsters are on their field, we can attack player) (im just a yugioh judge, who recently dipped his toes into edh/commander)
Honestly, its hard to know what you or your opponent are doing on yugioh sometimes. No mana means VERY long effects with requirements , they arent kidding at the video. I only play it digital now because of that.
@Pink Crab Hands It's not hard, the effects seem complicated at first but like a third of the text is only conditions and stuff, and the effect is just a little bit of text, and also pretty much the language of the text is the same on every card, so is not that hard as it seems at the begginig, but the issue with yugioh os the rulings, and stuff like missing the timing, that's the hardest thing to learn.
@Pink Crab Hands Speaking of hard to track, the current format of yugioh is one where the clear best deck mills and activates effects which leads into further effect activations that it goes absolutely insane. Not to mention that its a tier zero format (happens extremely rarely when one deck is leagues above every other deck and has ludicrous representation) so most high level matches end up being mirror matches so BOTH players are milling cards and activating their effects AND responding to their opponent's effects AND have to make decisions based on that info while the clock is ticking. It got to the point where there so many effects being activated and resolved that the field legit looked like deck profiles lol. So yeah hard to track is pretty well put 🤣
@@DaXLAWS I mean branded isn’t exactly the most crazy tier one deck out there. In fact it’s the weakest we have had in a while. But opening a way to branded fusion and destiny fusion is crazy
@@bl00by_ Yeah, its fun to see a pure Plunder deck, but Paul played Despia with a DPE engine, so i dont really see why Alec couldnt have played Brave Plunder instead.
Holy heck the editing! As other people have said the sound effects, and visual flare as well as the snappy editing between cameras to cut out dead air was impeccably done!
At first I thought I wouldn’t be interested but then the longer I watch the more interested I get and then I find myself going “Oh dang what’s he gonna do with that Bluebeard?”
3 minutes in and I have to comment: that level of detail in editing and such is amazing. Sounds and life point counter of the Anime, custom intro. I really, really love all of this and this is another reason I love this series.
I'm loving this adventure of some local (to me) dudes bonding with the Prof over the love of cardboard. The APS dudes are all crazy nice guys. They really deserve to be seen. My joy is immeasurable and my appreciation is incalculable.
I live for these crossovers you are 2 of my favorite channels and personalities, being a yugi-boomer and recent MTG player this is exactly my cup of tea.
I am not a Yu-Gi-Oh Player, but my local LGS has players and I like being a constructive member of the community, so I'm commenting before I watch this video to say: You're inspiring me to try out this new other TCG and find ways to have fun with people. Thanks. That said, I want to make a request, if you so will, to consider inviting the guys from the Cardmarket Magic channel to the show, Carl and Thoralf. They're great entertainment, cool people to see and I feel their way of treating guests kindly makes them a friendly inclusion in the most respectable show (yours) that is being put out on the internet. Really love the show. Can't wait to press play.
I can’t freaking wait for the Commander game! The chemistry between these two channels is incredible! Also major props to the editors and effects team for the extra flair in the intros and the games to reflect the yugioh atmosphere!
I can’t describe how huge the smile on my face is watching this video! Love that you’re expanding out to other card games and bringing on awesome folks like Team APS
for someone who doesn’t play optimally he did really well. personally however I would have gone a little bit differently but his end board was still nasty due to DPE
@@JackbatMurphy yea its purely a casual duel which is probably the best for a video format, since it would leave viewers confused for example if Paul said "Draw phase activate branded opening discard foolish burial"
I really appreciate the slow pace of the plays while still taking the full complicated lines. I understand just enough Yugioh to get what's happening but so many archetypes use their own specific cards. The effects look roughly the same but where they come from is so different. The way this was set up was perfect to allow me to fully read the game.
As someone who skipped the bangwagon with Yugioh, I love that Prof is having full gameplay of different games on the channel. I've always wanted to see exactly how Yugioh operates, and this (and the prior vid with Team APS) has been very informational for someone like me! Thanks for stretching your legs a bit more with the TCG's, Prof & team!
i love these videos! this is what my Coworker did with me, im a magic player, and he is a Yugioh player, so he taught me how to play yugioh and i have to say, Yugioh was a lot more enjoyable than i thought it would be, but dang there are so many cards that do so many different things! maybe it just feels that way because i havent played it for as long as ive played MTG, but either way! it was really fun and i do like these videos of yours a lot! and would love to see more content like this!
As a Yu-Gi-Oh! player (mostly casual) who's been slowly getting into MTG kinda recently, I will say that while YGO is a fun game, we have a serious onboarding issue. There's so much you have to explain to even scratch the surface. Although, granted, I've certainly run into difficulties with learning magic. Mostly with how vastly different the combat is. Having said all that, I hope you have fun getting into Yu-Gi-Oh! . The meta isn't in the greatest shape right now, but I hope you're having fun with some fun decks. Although, having said that, a new ban list just dropped, so I guess I'll go familiarise myself with that.
We had “Ten Thousand Dragon” printed recently, a commemorative card to celebrate the game hitting 10,000 unique cards. You bring it out by sacrificing monsters whose total Attack equals 10,000 or more and it’s own Attack is 10,000, basically consolidating all of your power into one big dragon. It’s not particularly good, and outside of showing off, you wouldn’t really want to put it in a deck. It’s hovering around $1,500.00 US on TCGPlayer, but it was printed in the annual reprint set, if you’d wanna try your luck.
loved all the collabs with Team APS, was my first time seeing any Yu-Gi-Oh and y'all did a great job making it easy to follow and tons of fun at the same time
This was awesome, thanks for producing it! I used to attend duel masters/yu-gi-oh tourneys when I was younger and always found yugi so intimidating. This made it way more approachable than I ever thought possible. Much love!
These crossovers are why I wake up! I play both games, follow both channels and to have the crossover videos happen more and more is a godsend! Keep it up!
The whole production quality of the video is awesome. I didn't watch any yugioh "stuff" for more than 10 years. But the way team APS play is just fun too watch. The professor gives the whole group an awesome vibe.
These crossover episodes have been so fun! I predominantly play magic these days but I played Yugioh a lot prior to XYZ summoning. Recently I've been getting back into it via Master Duel (which I've been liking a lot more than Magic Arena). Yugioh powercreep is kind of hilarious because it's essentially a card game where the equivalent of Vintage is the only format and Konami designs cards accordingly. That said there is something really entertaining about the complexity of modern yugioh. When my opponent is going off on turn 0 or turn 1 it's really fun to try to figure out when the right time to drop an Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence is. A lot of the time I dont have time to think through the sequence on Master Duel so I just have to trust my gut. Sometimes it makes them entire combo grind to a halt or come crashing down, and sometimes it's just a hiccup and they keep going. A friend of mine was talking about how it's a game suited to electrical engineers. There are so many complex variables that it's really difficult and rewarding to project outcomes.
I don't know shit about Yu-Gi-Oh, and will likely never learn to play, but from the few videos I've seen of Team APS, they are really entertaining. Please do more of them on Shuffle Up and Play or just on your channel in general.
Honestly props to Prof's editor and production, went full Yu-Gi-Oh show/games and did ALL the sound and visual effects. Brava! Loved seeing this and hope that we see more of Team APS around, especially Larry since his "Larry In The Hole" series is always my favorite from them.
I gotta be honest, as a lifelong Magic player who have dabbled in some Yugioh PC games and watched a lot of yugitubers this crossover is super wholesome ^^ Really nice to see, and to correct Prof, Pot of Desires exiles those cards instead of milling them, if it milled it would be broken in Yugioh too :P
Just as the Prof got me into Magic years ago (the Zu-Zu the Punisher commander tech), so did his collabs with Team APS get me into Yugioh. Little disappointed Paul didn’t get shut down by a Nibiru.
I mean it wouldn't have mattered. Alex would've still ended on Banishment and Branded in Red. And on turn 3 he would've also had Banish and Red, since he has Trad in gy to reset the Banish.
I haven't played yugioh in years, but when I found Aps, I subscribed right because of their skits, it's so cool to see two of my favorite channels working together
@@RinaShinomiyaVal yeah, I like yugi, but the problem is that if you dont draw "the card that stops that" you'll potentially find yourself seeing your opponent play solitaire with their deck for like 5 minutes
@@catring_ It is a good thing. Going 2nd is actually slightly better in some cases. Current toptiers dont focus on negates they just have a nasty resource loop
@@NovusIgnis Mine usually involves drawing the out just to have it negated bc so many Draw Phases happened after Mine went up. Your not making the point you think you are.
What does it do? Yugioh players be like: Nothing right now. Meanwhile the card has a whole 4th grader's essay written on it. I love these guys. Please keep collaborating with them!
I don't play Yu-gi-oh or even MTG (rather not even a single tcg), but I found this video super fun. I've been a fan of Team APS for a while now, and seeing the professor interact with them feels great. New to this channel and will be subscribing after posting this comment.
And Paul is just THE VILLAIN. But he's only playing against secondary characters at the beginning of the story arc. We need a shonen protagonist dammit!
I don’t really play either of these tcgs, but i love watching these two channels. The fact that these two great channels collaborated on these videos is awesome!
editing on point in this. Here because of TeamAPS because ive been playing yugioh since childhood but now im excited to go thru all these MTG vids because your collabs are so fun and wholesome.
I've loved all of these cross over videos with team APS it's an enjoyable experience to watch magic and yugioh players interact like this, really looking forward to the commander game. I hope this style of video continues. thank you as always Professor
I want to say that this is such a good way to make tutorials for yugioh decks as it's really helpful. Very understandable and clear in what the cards do, explaining every cards that's played. Their should be more of this explaining other decks for whatever card game.
Paul might be playing Despia but he's really a Dimir player at heart. Sweeping in at the last second and erasing all hope from Alec's eyes XD That was cruel but amusing since Paul doesn't get to be the antagonist much over at Team APS despite trying on Rare Hunters series.
Thank you so much for this Prof. Team APS is such a positive and genuine group to have on the show, and while Yugioh is not my go to card game I was entertained the whole time watching experienced players go off with their decks (even if they don't know what the cards say). Excited to see more collaborations with this group and more!
I love watching this kind of content, it’s refreshing to watch all these different play styles and watching everyone’s reactions. Watching other TH-camrs is exhausting because it honestly feels generic, clickbaiting, and more about the value of cards and less about the actual game
I doubt this will be a massively watched episode considering the content of it. However I wholeheartedly support this branching out of content and other creators of said content. I'm a fan of both channels so please keep up the good work Prof.
Great video, quality is top notch! APS guys will always make me happy so when it's done in such a well done video that's not even on their channel it's even more of a joy.
yugioh has gotten so complicated, as a beginner, I appreciate this video "honest plays" vs "non-honest plays" really gave me what I need to know to expect. Thanks for the side commentary
YuGiOh player here, very cool vid! So good to see there is no toxicity between the 2 communities, but actually a certain appreciation and willingness to learn. Have my sub good sir!
God, I love these guys. A really fun episode, with great yugioh sound edits. Also excited to see Paul begin his villain arc after that endcard promo. Brutal
I absolutely love these guys, and it was through them that I found this channel not even a 3 weeks ago. Wonderful content, I actually picked up MtG as a YGO player in part due to this. And I am happy to see some really quality, IRL card game content. Love it and great job!
Did you miss me playing Commander with Sheldon Menery, Brian David-MArshall, and Ced of One More Mana? You can check last week's episode out here: th-cam.com/video/IJq_QCbgB2Q/w-d-xo.html
I really enjoyed this take on Shuffle up and Play cos despite this being a Magic channel, Shuffle up and Play does not denote any specific game. I hope to see more cards games getting some time in the spotlight.
Excited to see team APS play edh!
Man, the Team APS commander game is about to go crazy !
Was wild that you let a top tier zero deck go first for the clap back.
Then again, whoever goes first wins in Yu-Gi-Oh!
th-cam.com/video/2Kr1mzJLrbc/w-d-xo.html
GOT SCAMED BY WIZARDS worth to watch trust me
Doomed to fail happens alot in magic more so arena when alot play thier tournament decks for the fun of it in non tournaments.
*Thank you again for having us on! Hope everyone enjoyed this Yu-Gi-Oh twist! Right after all this, Larry has now started playing Magic the Gathering and says he wants to be on a full episode of Shuffle Up And Play with his own Commander deck. I suppose we'll have to make it happen at some point!* 😅
Please do! As someone who's played Magic for 20 years and am now getting into Yu-Gi-Oh because of you guys, it would be saturday-morning-cereal-levels of great content watching any of you bros at Team APS taking a gander on MTG
Love Larrys vibe and am excited to see him dabble in the MTG shenanigans!
If you thought Larry was in the hole before, get ready. Magic will tunnel that dude to the earth's core. (But seriously I'd love to see you all on shuffle up and play. Make Larry play a prison deck so he experience MtG's version of Mystic Mine! )
Yes, please. Will be great!
I follow both your channels and god damn I need to see this commander game
I really like how Larry keeps explaining very clearly how fundamentals of the game. He clearly has a great love for it
When they were asking about draw effects in mtg i wanted to jump into my screen and go on a rant about how good ancestral recall is haha.
Heck, even just in standard, for draw 2 effects there's reckoner's bargain, reckless impulse, memory deluge just to name a few in different colors. Even green right now has storm the festival which is better than drawing. Mazemind tome, bankbuster, welcoming vampire, spirited companion i better stop there 😆
@@napalmbukakke it is interesting tho because while drawing in mtg is great it’s on a whole other level in ygo Like in magic if you’re drawing you’re spending mana you could spend to cast. In yugioh you get to immediately use those new cards. And as a result we’ve got like 4 total draw cards legal in the tcg that inherently go positive Everything else usually is a rummage type effect.
@@bakerdarcy6001 thats wild, tbh power scaling and relative cost in ygh seems busted. It appears to me theres so many ways to tutor and special summon, and no way to punish someone for doing those things.
And we love larry! 😘
@@napalmbukakke From what I was told/remember/gathered (and my info is spotty at best so take it with a table of salt) generic draw/tutoring (Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity) is rare if not completely banned from tournament play (since literally everyone would run them). Instead, Yugioh has stupidly busted effects (compared to MTG) that are generally constricted to an archetype (notice how everyone seemed to be playing what MTG players would consider "tribal" decks). So essentially most decks will be based around Archetypes because of that.
The idea is interesting, and works for the YGO game and playerbase. But getting started into YGO is difficult because of that, imo. In MTG you can run some pretty straight forward decks that can even be strong in the right setting. But in YGO I think that died a long time ago.
*Me, this entire episode:*
"I like your funny words non-magic man"
"nothiing bad ever happen to alec from team aps hahaha"
Me watching the professor play Yu-Gi-Oh:
"WHAT IS ALL THESE MAGIC TERMINOLOGY?!!!"
Ye
@@gamerwolffang2722 I'm just like the professor when i analyze card games, from a magic the gathering lens. I like how the prof says "sorcery speed" lol
@@gamerwolffang2722 easier if you familiar with both magic and Yu-Gi-Oh. Tutor, hexproof, trample, etc etc.
As a MTG player who knows nothing of Yu-Gi-Oh, I've gotta say I love the TeamAPS crossover episodes. Can't wait to see them play Commander!
I was thinking the same thing lol
I really really want them to play commander!!
soooo good news watch the one in a couple of weeks :)
Glad to see Prof getting his PHD in Yugioh. He will be the greatest player in existence since he tries to read cards.
Or the worst. Several cards in Yugioh don't even do what they say, he'll be trying to play those improperly, sadly.
@@NecroNathancon tbh I would say since PSCT(Problem-Solving Card Text) was introduced that yugioh cards do pretty much what they say
@@NecroNathanconYou mean some cards if you read the card, it doesn't explain the card? Maybe Magic and YuGiOh arent so different
Alternatively ... it could be the worst experience as he gets to understand the game better and faster, only to realize the game's faults having the perspective of a multi-game player
@@Reluxthelegend Nearly all questions regarding the rulings of cards or interactions nowadays boil down to "for fuck's sake, read the card and don't try to debate a piece of cardboard".
There are some game rules you have to learn, some infamous konami said so nonsense, but in 95% of cases, cards do pretty much exactly what is written on them.
Massive respect Prof. I don't play Yu-Gi-Oh, nor have I the desire to do so, but your willingness to embrace other TCGs and the TCG community as a whole is absolutely wonderful and, indeed, wholesome.
I am a Yugioh Player but enjoy watching magic the gathering games and I don’t even really know what’s going lol just happy to be watching
Well, everyone needs protectors, playmats and other accesories :), so I think Prof is supporting all TCGs from the beginning
And a TCG that could be called one of the most unfriendly to beginners. It's so much to learn and it can get extremely complicated quick.
I play both YuGiOh and Magic The Gathering (played both in tournaments) and MTG is just so much more "clear" and inviting,
Aside from the fact that most cards don't explain what their effects do, like goading or hexproof or whatever.
We deem this… WHOLESOME!
I for one LOVE yugioh but I can't stand playing it. Love the all-over the place lore of stuffed animals and anti-heros splashed into a dragon deck fighting pirate goblins or v-tubers.
bro.
the editing team knocked it out of the park with this one. The SFX, the visual effects, damn. Too good.
Nah, I've seen the show. Yu-Gi-Oh cards just do that.
Its the visuals and sfx from the show
The editors are clearly ygo fans. This was good stuff
I _love_ that they're using the sounds from the OG anime. So good.
anyone else wanna see them try to play yugioh in a 4-player commander format? That would turn into an absolute fustercluck XD
Larry's like Joey in yugioh standing on the sidelines explaining everything going on and it's killing me lol
And Paul is just the boss villain playing against a secondary character at the beginning of the story arc.
I love the friendship you have created with Team APS. Even though I don’t play Yu-Gi-Oh anymore, I still have immense respect for them and enjoy their content. Please keep doing crossovers like this!
Same here i every now and then play it again but i love watching team aps and prof with them just ads more fun to it
I have never played Yu-Gi-Oh, I wanted when I was younger tho, just didn’t have kids around to play with. I i watch team aps from time to time, likable people that makes good content.
And to think this friendship began just from paul being invited once to the profs podcast
@@s33ur3lv3lvly Could of always gotten a Yugioh video game. Best way to play with yourself
@@s33ur3lv3lvly Yugioh Master Duel is fun :)
Alec getting to beat Live Twin with Plunder and then being matched up against a Branded Despia player that hard opened Fusion Destiny is a certified Master Duel moment
The only thing which was missing is Maxx C.
Branded Despia is honestly one of the worse versions of branded. Branded/Chimera and Branded/Venom Fusions are the better alternative
@@lordsativa001 two years ago
@@rtwoxd1355 branded chimera hasn't even been on MD for 2 years at this point. Best almost every Despia deck I've ran in to with Scareclaw Kashtira or even Chimera Fusion 🤷
@@lordsativa001 what are you talking about?
I sincearly cannot WAIT to be demonstrated how Yu-Gi-Oh! actually works
Then keep asking pot of greed
AAAAAH THE LIFE TOTALS AND THE SOUND EFFECTS! I'M BACK IN PRIMARY SCHOOL!
Watch Team APS themselves!
In the current format, the best deck is one with tons of effects that trigger when cards are sent to the grave... and cards that mill both players for 5. You can imagine how many triggers happen in the inevitable mirror.
@@Tuturial464 "BUT WHAT DOES POT OF GREED DO?!?"
These crossover videos with the Team APS dudes are really some of my favorites from TCC. I don't recognize one bit of what Yu-Gi-Oh has become, but the sheer amount of fun everyone is having together and the humor that can only come from these two worlds colliding always makes me smile. Please Professor, keep having Team APS back on your channel as often as you and them are able to make it work
Someone should explain to Paul that winning is not the route to become the professor.
Let Paul enjoy his win. He takes a lot of hits over on Team APS. Kinda like the Prof shaking off his loser's curse.
@@SerifSansSerif he should've won he's playing a meta deck.
Wtf does this even mean.
@@darksigner8313 It means you learn by losing not by winning. When you lose you understand what you did wrong and what you could have done better, if you won you learned nothing. Losing is an opportunity to learn from something that at that moment in time was greater/stronger than you.
But the term professor is a teaching one ..if you never lose,it means you have innate understanding and talent ..which you can then pass onto someone
Paul coming in to mop the floor with Alec felt like the main character of an anime getting revenge for his sidekick friend, Larry, who was bullied and defeated by the villain. Truly the protagonist of this story!
Also, I need to see that Team APS and Prof commander game! Hope that was recorded and on it's way!
It's more like Alec is the sidekick and Paul is the main villain. And there just is no hero character.
As a Magic player, I have no idea what these guys are doing, but I am still watching and loving each collaboration your two channels are doing! Love switching up things for a change and seeing your different personalities come together. BTW, I would love to see Team APS (try to) play Magic!
The main differences between Yugioh and Mtg are:
There is no mana, instead yugioh does focus more on card advantage.
The “extra deck” acts kinda like a “command zone” with up to 15 cards in it, but due to a lack of mana, we mainly sacrifice creatures (or monsters in Yugioh-terms) to cast from there(or to summon) or cheat them into play through other means.
We get 1 summon of a monster for free per turn (with a certain amount of sacrifices, depending on the stars/level of the monster). Yugioh has a lot more “cheating into play” (special summons).
Cards with a red border (Trap cards) have to be set a turn, before they can be used at instant-speed. Other cards can be used instantly, as long as there isnt a restriction preventing you (once per turn etc.).
We have a limited amount of space on the field.
We rarely use keywords (with the exception of par example piercing->trample or Banish->exile) -> effects are usually relatively long.
And finally, combat work differently (we attack monsters and depending on its position, damage will be dealt. If no monsters are on their field, we can attack player)
(im just a yugioh judge, who recently dipped his toes into edh/commander)
Honestly, its hard to know what you or your opponent are doing on yugioh sometimes. No mana means VERY long effects with requirements , they arent kidding at the video. I only play it digital now because of that.
I play yugioh and MTG and i still dont know whats going on to
@Pink Crab Hands It's not hard, the effects seem complicated at first but like a third of the text is only conditions and stuff, and the effect is just a little bit of text, and also pretty much the language of the text is the same on every card, so is not that hard as it seems at the begginig, but the issue with yugioh os the rulings, and stuff like missing the timing, that's the hardest thing to learn.
@Pink Crab Hands Speaking of hard to track, the current format of yugioh is one where the clear best deck mills and activates effects which leads into further effect activations that it goes absolutely insane. Not to mention that its a tier zero format (happens extremely rarely when one deck is leagues above every other deck and has ludicrous representation) so most high level matches end up being mirror matches so BOTH players are milling cards and activating their effects AND responding to their opponent's effects AND have to make decisions based on that info while the clock is ticking. It got to the point where there so many effects being activated and resolved that the field legit looked like deck profiles lol.
So yeah hard to track is pretty well put 🤣
Paul busting out the most meta deck besides a tear twist he could was amazing lmao
nothing amazing about using a super meta deck and going first, more like boring to me
@@DaXLAWS I mean branded isn’t exactly the most crazy tier one deck out there. In fact it’s the weakest we have had in a while. But opening a way to branded fusion and destiny fusion is crazy
@@DaXLAWS I made this point since the other two were playing rogue because it was a wash. That's the point.
Tbf Alec didn't even play the good version of Plunder, he played a version from 2020/21. Brave Plunder could've put up a fight.
@@bl00by_ Yeah, its fun to see a pure Plunder deck, but Paul played Despia with a DPE engine, so i dont really see why Alec couldnt have played Brave Plunder instead.
Now anticipating the inevitable Flesh and Blood episode...
That said, loved this video. The post-game monologue was a nice touch.
Holy heck the editing! As other people have said the sound effects, and visual flare as well as the snappy editing between cameras to cut out dead air was impeccably done!
I really want to see Team APS play a game of commander with Prof. That could be fun to see
I'd like to see them play Modern but either would be great to watch.
@@grimztherapist just any format of Magic really. They taught Prof YuGiOh so Prof should teach Magic to them
Of all the destiny guns to see it's one of first mythical guns of memedom. I agree with what you said. I want to see that as well.
@@derpdadouch3654 yep
@@Blu_Moon_Owl 0
How lary drew so few handtraps in live twins will forever remain a mystery
Team APS is such a wholesome group of players.
I'd love to see a Digimon TCG Shuffle Up & Play some day
At first I thought I wouldn’t be interested but then the longer I watch the more interested I get and then I find myself going “Oh dang what’s he gonna do with that Bluebeard?”
Larry's straight faced reactions to prof was just, gold, absolute gold, these kids together are platinum gold 💕
3 minutes in and I have to comment: that level of detail in editing and such is amazing. Sounds and life point counter of the Anime, custom intro. I really, really love all of this and this is another reason I love this series.
I'm loving this adventure of some local (to me) dudes bonding with the Prof over the love of cardboard.
The APS dudes are all crazy nice guys. They really deserve to be seen. My joy is immeasurable and my appreciation is incalculable.
The crossover.. literally everyone expected AND wanted!
Keep them coming, boys!
I live for these crossovers you are 2 of my favorite channels and personalities, being a yugi-boomer and recent MTG player this is exactly my cup of tea.
I am not a Yu-Gi-Oh Player, but my local LGS has players and I like being a constructive member of the community, so I'm commenting before I watch this video to say: You're inspiring me to try out this new other TCG and find ways to have fun with people. Thanks.
That said, I want to make a request, if you so will, to consider inviting the guys from the Cardmarket Magic channel to the show, Carl and Thoralf. They're great entertainment, cool people to see and I feel their way of treating guests kindly makes them a friendly inclusion in the most respectable show (yours) that is being put out on the internet. Really love the show. Can't wait to press play.
I really hope that game of commander with Team APS is real
Same seems really fun
soooo good news watch the one in a couple of weeks :)
I can’t freaking wait for the Commander game! The chemistry between these two channels is incredible! Also major props to the editors and effects team for the extra flair in the intros and the games to reflect the yugioh atmosphere!
The editing team had too much fun with the visual/sound effects and I love it.
The play-by-play in the second duel is a lot of fun, I would love to see the prof and Larry do play-by-plays of more yugioh cards
If they do this again, they definitely need Trell. Him and Paul would have one heck of a duel.
Trell would really be like
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He has no response
The didnt put trell in this video for a reason
I can’t describe how huge the smile on my face is watching this video! Love that you’re expanding out to other card games and bringing on awesome folks like Team APS
Prof really hamming it up on the Yugioh content has just been fantastic, and it looks like he's having a genuinely great time. You love to see it.
These collabs are incredible. It makes me so happy seeing the Professor hang out with Paul and team APS.
For all the non-Yugioh players watching, Paul opened absolutely out of his mind. His first turn was pretty optimal. 😛
As someone who plays with this one friend who runs this exact deck all the time, I was getting war flashbacks.
for someone who doesn’t play optimally he did really well. personally however I would have gone a little bit differently but his end board was still nasty due to DPE
Alec also messed up by making blackbeard and not xyz summoning moerk to protect against DPE and then equipping it with emblem to give it quick effect.
@@JackbatMurphy yea its purely a casual duel which is probably the best for a video format, since it would leave viewers confused for example if Paul said "Draw phase activate branded opening discard foolish burial"
Yes but he misplayed rly hard he could hhave had a way better end board
this was truly a blast from the past from my childhood, the game and all the sound effects, what a great job from the editting team lol
I appreciate the team aps crossovers. Very fun and well edited. It almost makes it possible to keep track of what's happening in Yu-Gi-Oh.
Loving this cross up between games… I thought it would be over with this video but now I’m excited to see them all play commander together
Yu-Gi-Oh! is the most over-the-top, sensationalist, exaggerated, nonsensical TCG there is. Love this crossover.
Yugioh has changed so much since I played and it’s absolutely crazy fun to watch. Glad to see people having fun!
I really appreciate the slow pace of the plays while still taking the full complicated lines. I understand just enough Yugioh to get what's happening but so many archetypes use their own specific cards. The effects look roughly the same but where they come from is so different. The way this was set up was perfect to allow me to fully read the game.
This colaboration is the best thing in like forever in both mtg und yugioh! Love it
As someone who skipped the bangwagon with Yugioh, I love that Prof is having full gameplay of different games on the channel. I've always wanted to see exactly how Yugioh operates, and this (and the prior vid with Team APS) has been very informational for someone like me!
Thanks for stretching your legs a bit more with the TCG's, Prof & team!
i love these videos! this is what my Coworker did with me, im a magic player, and he is a Yugioh player, so he taught me how to play yugioh and i have to say, Yugioh was a lot more enjoyable than i thought it would be, but dang there are so many cards that do so many different things! maybe it just feels that way because i havent played it for as long as ive played MTG, but either way! it was really fun and i do like these videos of yours a lot! and would love to see more content like this!
As a Yu-Gi-Oh! player (mostly casual) who's been slowly getting into MTG kinda recently, I will say that while YGO is a fun game, we have a serious onboarding issue. There's so much you have to explain to even scratch the surface. Although, granted, I've certainly run into difficulties with learning magic. Mostly with how vastly different the combat is. Having said all that, I hope you have fun getting into Yu-Gi-Oh! . The meta isn't in the greatest shape right now, but I hope you're having fun with some fun decks. Although, having said that, a new ban list just dropped, so I guess I'll go familiarise myself with that.
We had “Ten Thousand Dragon” printed recently, a commemorative card to celebrate the game hitting 10,000 unique cards. You bring it out by sacrificing monsters whose total Attack equals 10,000 or more and it’s own Attack is 10,000, basically consolidating all of your power into one big dragon. It’s not particularly good, and outside of showing off, you wouldn’t really want to put it in a deck.
It’s hovering around $1,500.00 US on TCGPlayer, but it was printed in the annual reprint set, if you’d wanna try your luck.
1. Loved the episode, so fun to watch despite not playing Yugioh for years.
2. Can't wait to see these guys playing Commander with Prof!
the sound effects and editing made this incredibly entertaining.
Well done.
loved all the collabs with Team APS, was my first time seeing any Yu-Gi-Oh and y'all did a great job making it easy to follow and tons of fun at the same time
The editing with the UI and sounds from the anime, I don't even play Yu-Gi-Oh, but that alone makes the episode worth it.
This was awesome, thanks for producing it! I used to attend duel masters/yu-gi-oh tourneys when I was younger and always found yugi so intimidating. This made it way more approachable than I ever thought possible. Much love!
Your chemistry together is beautiful. I really don't care what you do, just please don't stop collaborating!
These crossovers are why I wake up! I play both games, follow both channels and to have the crossover videos happen more and more is a godsend! Keep it up!
Seeing the professor interacting with different TCG communities is great. Would love to see a digimon video like this.
The whole production quality of the video is awesome. I didn't watch any yugioh "stuff" for more than 10 years. But the way team APS play is just fun too watch. The professor gives the whole group an awesome vibe.
To be honest, i love these crossover videos.
Its a nice change of pace from all of the... Stuff MTG has been doing.
These crossover episodes have been so fun! I predominantly play magic these days but I played Yugioh a lot prior to XYZ summoning. Recently I've been getting back into it via Master Duel (which I've been liking a lot more than Magic Arena).
Yugioh powercreep is kind of hilarious because it's essentially a card game where the equivalent of Vintage is the only format and Konami designs cards accordingly.
That said there is something really entertaining about the complexity of modern yugioh. When my opponent is going off on turn 0 or turn 1 it's really fun to try to figure out when the right time to drop an Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence is. A lot of the time I dont have time to think through the sequence on Master Duel so I just have to trust my gut. Sometimes it makes them entire combo grind to a halt or come crashing down, and sometimes it's just a hiccup and they keep going. A friend of mine was talking about how it's a game suited to electrical engineers. There are so many complex variables that it's really difficult and rewarding to project outcomes.
The Professor summoned his stand, Paul! His power is being good at Yu-gi-oh
I don't know shit about Yu-Gi-Oh, and will likely never learn to play, but from the few videos I've seen of Team APS, they are really entertaining. Please do more of them on Shuffle Up and Play or just on your channel in general.
This was unbelievably fun to watch! So happy to see the four of you together!
Honestly props to Prof's editor and production, went full Yu-Gi-Oh show/games and did ALL the sound and visual effects. Brava! Loved seeing this and hope that we see more of Team APS around, especially Larry since his "Larry In The Hole" series is always my favorite from them.
Mad props to Kevyn and Kyle for the awesome Intro and play-by-play effects. The SFX from the original anime really brought back memeories.
I gotta be honest, as a lifelong Magic player who have dabbled in some Yugioh PC games and watched a lot of yugitubers this crossover is super wholesome ^^ Really nice to see, and to correct Prof, Pot of Desires exiles those cards instead of milling them, if it milled it would be broken in Yugioh too :P
Just as the Prof got me into Magic years ago (the Zu-Zu the Punisher commander tech), so did his collabs with Team APS get me into Yugioh.
Little disappointed Paul didn’t get shut down by a Nibiru.
I mean it wouldn't have mattered. Alex would've still ended on Banishment and Branded in Red.
And on turn 3 he would've also had Banish and Red, since he has Trad in gy to reset the Banish.
This partnership is the best tbh like I love both your channels and content. I don’t know this genuinely makes me happy is all
Okay I loved the little flare with the card hitting the table in the beginning. Really hitting on the nonstalgia
I haven't played yugioh in years, but when I found Aps, I subscribed right because of their skits, it's so cool to see two of my favorite channels working together
The amount of resources available to individual monsters to access is insane. These creatures can summon things out of thin air with all that text
@@NovusIgnis Thats also why theres cards to stop that. Nibiru exists and Dark Ruler No More and Forbidden Droplets can blank entire boards.
@@RinaShinomiyaVal yeah, I like yugi, but the problem is that if you dont draw "the card that stops that" you'll potentially find yourself seeing your opponent play solitaire with their deck for like 5 minutes
@@RinaShinomiyaVal the fact that such cards need to exist in the first place is not a good thing
@@catring_ It is a good thing. Going 2nd is actually slightly better in some cases.
Current toptiers dont focus on negates they just have a nasty resource loop
@@NovusIgnis Mine usually involves drawing the out just to have it negated bc so many Draw Phases happened after Mine went up.
Your not making the point you think you are.
The Yu-Gi-Oh sound effects accompanying the moves takes me back to the good ol’ days. 🤩
What does it do?
Yugioh players be like: Nothing right now.
Meanwhile the card has a whole 4th grader's essay written on it. I love these guys. Please keep collaborating with them!
I don't play Yu-gi-oh or even MTG (rather not even a single tcg), but I found this video super fun. I've been a fan of Team APS for a while now, and seeing the professor interact with them feels great. New to this channel and will be subscribing after posting this comment.
Larry is like one the main cast in the anime explaining every important move that Paul makes😂
And Paul is just THE VILLAIN. But he's only playing against secondary characters at the beginning of the story arc.
We need a shonen protagonist dammit!
I love these guys, thanks for having them on and exposing many people to yu-gi-oh
Why do I feel like Paul actually stood behind that pole the entire time? Lol
He's skinny enough
I don’t really play either of these tcgs, but i love watching these two channels. The fact that these two great channels collaborated on these videos is awesome!
Larry is really good at explaining cards and mechanics
editing on point in this.
Here because of TeamAPS because ive been playing yugioh since childhood but now im excited to go thru all these MTG vids because your collabs are so fun and wholesome.
Insanely excited for an EDH episode with these guys, will be a blast.
I've loved all of these cross over videos with team APS it's an enjoyable experience to watch magic and yugioh players interact like this, really looking forward to the commander game. I hope this style of video continues. thank you as always Professor
Props to the Prof for trying to stay engaged when he knows so little about the game. It can be really difficult to follow. Great episode!
I want to say that this is such a good way to make tutorials for yugioh decks as it's really helpful. Very understandable and clear in what the cards do, explaining every cards that's played. Their should be more of this explaining other decks for whatever card game.
Paul might be playing Despia but he's really a Dimir player at heart. Sweeping in at the last second and erasing all hope from Alec's eyes XD That was cruel but amusing since Paul doesn't get to be the antagonist much over at Team APS despite trying on Rare Hunters series.
Thank you so much for this Prof. Team APS is such a positive and genuine group to have on the show, and while Yugioh is not my go to card game I was entertained the whole time watching experienced players go off with their decks (even if they don't know what the cards say). Excited to see more collaborations with this group and more!
I love watching this kind of content, it’s refreshing to watch all these different play styles and watching everyone’s reactions. Watching other TH-camrs is exhausting because it honestly feels generic, clickbaiting, and more about the value of cards and less about the actual game
as someone who plays both YGO and MTG this is a dream come true
I doubt this will be a massively watched episode considering the content of it. However I wholeheartedly support this branching out of content and other creators of said content. I'm a fan of both channels so please keep up the good work Prof.
So a commander game is going to happen? Would be awesome.
Great video, quality is top notch! APS guys will always make me happy so when it's done in such a well done video that's not even on their channel it's even more of a joy.
If Prof plays them in Commander he might win for the 2nd time on camera
yugioh has gotten so complicated, as a beginner, I appreciate this video "honest plays" vs "non-honest plays" really gave me what I need to know to expect.
Thanks for the side commentary
Love all this content with Team APS. Definitely wanna see them play commander!!
YuGiOh player here, very cool vid! So good to see there is no toxicity between the 2 communities, but actually a certain appreciation and willingness to learn. Have my sub good sir!
I would really enjoy seeing team aps learn magic :P all of you playing a commander game some day would be really fun to watch
Prof just called Pokemon as "that other one" loool. @TeamAPS is one of my favourite channels ever, thanks for bringing them in!
God, I love these guys. A really fun episode, with great yugioh sound edits. Also excited to see Paul begin his villain arc after that endcard promo. Brutal
I absolutely love these guys, and it was through them that I found this channel not even a 3 weeks ago. Wonderful content, I actually picked up MtG as a YGO player in part due to this. And I am happy to see some really quality, IRL card game content.
Love it and great job!
Having different card games as a bonus episode is a great idea! I hope to see more
AMAZING Yu-Gi-Oh style editing and FX in this episode. Kudos for the post-production team, as well as prof and Team APS!!
Great chemistry between The Professor and Team APS! I can't wait for the EDH session.