The way i was so confused when Malefic Rook appeared on screen lmao, like i was genuinely wondering if my brain was wrong and that it released in caverns of time instead Love u rarran lmao thanks for the clarification
@@menderbug1it's just a reference to how he kept mispronouncing rarram's name progressively worse in the video talking about his first "I played Yugioh" video
Rarran is the Nick Fury of the TGC world, i never thought i would enjoy watching Yu-Gi-Oh players (a game thst I don't play) talking about HS cards (a game that i dont play)
This "Rarran and friends" arc might unironically be one of the best things to ever happen to the CCG content community in recent years. The amount of new creators that are receiving exposure in what is a very welcoming environment while Rarran gets to geek out about card games with a bunch of different people is just magical (and yes, I don't play either YGO or HS, the content is just really fun)
Hard agree. The collab videos, now in hindsight, all feel like those individual marvel movies, and then we get these dual collabs that feel like the avengers-level movies where multiple characters crossover. Rarran's card game cinematic universe is one of the best things on yt for card games rn imo.
I think the best part is that Rarran's personality goes well with a variety of people. You wouldn't know it early on in his videos until you see his straight up rage clips, and now that he's become more accustomed to things, that is now channeled into stupid fun, hence the good vibes all his collabs give.
Its actually like that in the gallery as well in the game, its awful and I wish they would move it. But its so they can have the little lore description on the right side of the card.
"You two are playing against each other" MTG: Voxy and CGB: "Yeah we're still friends" (hahah as if) YGO: MBT and Farfa "Well it should be easy because I'm smarter than you"; "Yeah but you suck"
It is actually pretty smart of Rarran. Even if Hearthstone becomes unplayable he can switch his content pretty seamlessly. I would argue Rarran is a card game content creator.^^
@@catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca I suck at explaining things and getting my point across (doesn't help that I'm high atm) but this kinda reminds me theduellogs and his various channels on other card games. He only does top 10s, lists and stuff like that though. He has a WoW channel, ygo channel, pokemon tcg channel... Ygo is most popular thougb. It's not feasible to have all these different card games under 1 umbrella and actually make it work since while there is overlap, their interest will be split. God I hope you understand what I'm tryna say cause I don't. Sorry if this soesnt make sense
It's funny because I think they failed to absorb the fact that Jandice is a Rogue card as well and were purely thinking of her as a Mage drop. Most of their criticisms of Jandice did apply to the card in Mage, she didn't see much play in that class to my knowledge.
Rarran is doing wonders for the TCG community. I found him from a CGB collab and would have never watched Heartstone or Yugioh content if not for their collabs.
You going from getting incredibly pissed from Farfa’s reaction to your Yu Gi Oh video to becoming a guest for your channel is the best anime arc this year I’ve seen
@@nirast2561 Also, a big part of it has to do with the fact that Rarran didn't get at the time that Farfa was being sarcastic in most of that video, and therefore was making fun of chat and not him.
I did not expect to hear about G'huun's political opinions when I clicked on this video. Gotta say, probably one of the best videos you've put out in a while on banter alone!
Props to Rarran. Its really hard to compete with the banter between Farfa and MBT but I think he did well kinda taking a back seat in this one. Even with 3 people it did not feel crowded at all and I think he picked some good cards.
This video was hilarious. I'm a magic player, play a little HS and holy shit YuGiOh guys just seem built diff, everytime I've seen them on Rarran's channel they're so funny
Tbh most of the Yugioh creators rarran invited have a comedic factor in their videos or streams while f.e nyhmnim or cimooo are a little more serious. MBT and Farfa are just the "autism/gaslight" part of the ygo CC zone xD
I love how different the vibes are between vids when its 2 people who play different games vs the same game. Different: Thought provoking debates and discussion. Really shows the inner workings of evaluation of each persons game. Same: "ARE WE FRIENDS ARE YOU GASLIGHTING ME?" and "You'd love paladin ethnostate"
@@alisethera9349 YES. For hearthstone players, imagine the boss monsters are the regular cards, not themed into your class and not like pirate and those others (only played the game like 3 hours several years back, be kind plz), and EVERY class played them. Doesn't matter if you're priest (best class), Hunter or demon. It all amounts to those cards only.
22:54 I love how red Rarran got laughing at this bit lol He's always such a giggly boy interacting with guests, but he got SOOOO red here it's hysterical to watch
28:20 Damn. Farfa’s Scottish accent impression is REALLY good. Sounds just like the only other real Scottish person I know- the Hearthstone Innkeeper. He should be a voice actor for sure.
@@TheKnightOfBuquiciouskinda blows my mind tbh. Glasgow must have many talented voice actors if they’re known for their amazing Scottish accents. If only the Scottish people could have heard Farfa speak in their native tongue. 😂
Repackage is kind of an unfair card to choose for them to decide because there is basically no control priest deck in the meta. The card might actually be more powerful but the meta has to support it to really find out.
TBH all of the cards were based off of the meta that were around them. Repackage needs to make it to turn 7 to be played, and last I checked making it to turn 7 was a struggle in the current meta.
@@leadpaintchips9461 The issue is that they had no way of knowing that the two shown 7 mana Priest cards were around in different metas instead of being contemporaries.
Damn I love all these videos from each of you creators. I never thought I'd sub to Yugioh youtubers but Rarran you found a way! Also I was so happy when you collabed with CGB, fusing my love of MTG and Hearthstone!
Stranglethorn Heart saw tons of play in the last few expansions and sees play rn in Reno Hunter. Jive Insect has always been a niche card that is only really OK in the decks that it sees play in.
I know lol heart was a core of one of the strongest meta's for hunter that isn't face, which was big face with like reviving 4 king crush and stuff, at one point it was literally top of the meta based on data sites
It's always surprising to me how much Rarran's camera adds to these videos. Even with the mic silenced, there's this pure-visual "what the fuck are you on about m8" when he hears a guest say something flat-out wrong, or the silent cackle as someone says a tier-zero gamewrecker would never see play (or vice-versa). Like I haven't played Hearthstone since pre-Demon Hunter, I don't know how balance looks, but I love seeing those hints as to how the other pros are doing.
19:29 Rarran: "Should I swap these two so the appendage is on the correct side? Nah, let's fuck with people!" Edit: Suggestion - In the final segment, it would be nice to have a live score for each participant so we know how each one is doing.
@@hugomendoza5665 That's where I mean, when he starts going over the cards again, that's when he should show the score (to the audience, not the participants).
Hi Rarran :) just an idea: It might be cool to have 1 final card/pair of cards to show participants that would be "worth double" that you show after you've explained the previous cards & counted all the points to act as a tie breaker. Could be a fun mind game to see how they evaluate the tie breaker card(s), considering all the next context they just recieved, could trip them up too lol Either way, great video, is always fun to watch your content!
Rarran, you consistently put out good content, but this might be one of the funniest videos I've ever seen on your channel. These guys bring on great energy and I'm really loving this format. 😂😂
After playing Yu-Gi-Oh a lot recently it's really cool to notice how Nadir and Joseph think, as an example when they were considering tavish they thought that you choose the beast that you summon with his effect, and not that it's a random beast that costs 1 less from the deck.
As a Yugioh, player, that’s exactly what I thought. It’s a lot worse then. I was imagining summoning a beast with charge so that beast can immediately attack and trigger Tavish again.
I love the "oh my god" so far into the video when finally one of the players got a card completely wrong. This is one of the funniest videos of this series yet.
I think you missed one of the biggest reasons why soul mirror is better than repackage, which is that you can cast soul mirror while you have minions on the board without removing them, while also adding the strength of your opponents board to your own. You can then trade your minions more favourably into theirs, get past taunts for lethal damage, etc.
@@Rarran Your penance is to get him on for a VS video but it has to be some stupid combo to win or something! But to make it not just drawing to win you make combo decks for each other and you have to work out what the combo is as you play it? Idk
Something else that got missed off Soul Mirror is how it interacts with rez effects. When Soul Mirror causes trades, it adds those minions to the priest's rez pool as well, because they also had those minions on board (however briefly). This often could gain priests running rez effects for value instead of a combo additional potential value by adding high impact minions from the opponent into the rez pool while also removing said high impact minion. And if that high impact was a deathrattle, it also had immediate payoff. That being said, Repackage has potential for exactly the reverse reasons. It cuts deathrattles, reborns, and rez hits for your opponent, but it also doesn't pollute the priest's rez pool with something that could be a big miss. Of course, comparing this card to Soul Mirror isn't quite right, because it's basically Psychic Scream with a tweaked end state. Psychic Scream was also a well played removal spell in priest, that also polluted your opponent's deck. Repackage is basically a strict downgrade because that pollution effect is downgraded by having it all in one card (though that card can be awkward to play if a big board went into it), instead of as individual cards that might screw up several draws instead of just one. This may be why Repackage sees less play, in that most decks that want it likely run Psychic Scream instead in Wild, and Standard currently doesn't have a meta conducive to that type of removal being needed in most matchups. I could see a Wild Reno style priest including Repackage along side Psychic Scream to effectively have the same effect twice, if that is the type of removal the deck needs, but otherwise it likely falls by the wayside in Wild. It might see play in standard if the game slows down a bit, and you don't die on turn 5 to aggro or get caught in a combo that had zero board the turn before it kills you.
You can go check out their individual channels/streams, all the big YGO personalities (primarily MBT, Cimo, and Farfa but a few others less frequently) basically spend as much time on each others' channels/streams as their own doing solo stuff.
It definitely felt like MBT was operating with outdated information, as I believe the prevalence of silence as a keyword outside of Priest was changed after he left the game.
I really agree with Rarran when he said it's really interesting to see the different ways of thinking between YGO and MtG players The best I can describe it is that in YGO a card is near unplayable unless it gives immediate and consistent value, whereas in MtG the generally slower gameplay allows for more appreciation of value-based cards and along with the concept of curving out
Yeah, value in YGO primarily comes from recursiveness, which is why YGO players tend to (over)value eg. Reborn as a mechanic but not "Lose tempo now to gain value later" cards.
@@Rynjinivarbecause in ygo, there is no later. Quite a number of people dislike players that take it slow like stun and control players. They like doing combos that end on 4 negates and having hand traps to counter their opponents while not realising it's basically the same as having floodgates on the board. You make a board that denies the opponent. And as MBT has said in a different video, it's literally the same thing
@@HazeEmry This isn't an either/or thing. There's plenty of decks that end up with a bunch of points of targeted, non-negate interaction and a focus on recursivity. Recent examples include Branded (pre-Expulsion) and Sprights. Having different types of interaction (pops, banishs, monster negates, spell negates, etc.) is a lot better at skill-testing a player than either having a board full of Omnis (which basically only require you to jam them at every effect, few decks can play through 4 omnis) or flipping Floodgates (whcih are an utterly binary mechanic; the opposing player either has "the out" or loses instantly).
YuGiOh was my card game years ago, now it's hearthstone, this collab was fantastic. I love card analysis' from other games content creators. You do it best Rarran.
please keep these guessing things coming, they're so good! I'd like to request telling them which is better as you go though, that's my favorite part of the video and I like it more when its sprinkled in rather that backloaded.
29:43 "Both these guys look like they were made with AI art." Says the guy that plays Yugioh, the game that has the most random "WTF am I looking at" art I've ever seen from a card game.
Giggly Rarran feels like that one friend you go grab a beer with after a hard day's work, laugh about the dumbest random bullshit for an hour or two and go home feeling de-stressed after.
Negates are huge in YGO. Infinite Impermanence and Effect Veiler both essentially read "Discard this card from your hand, Silence the opponent's monster" and the former is one of the most powerful cards in the game, and the latter was before Imperm powercrept it. A well-timed negate is a game-ender in YGO because they're reactive (you can do them on your opponent's turn).
I love the videos like this. Also these guys are SO FUNNY please do more collabs with them. Just two suggestions though. I think it's more entertaining to tell them which card was better after each round rather than all at the ends. You did a similar video where you did that and I liked that aspect better because we got to hear the two players reflect on their analysis right away and also shit talk each other. Also, if there's a tie at the end, do another round!!! No one likes ties. Sudden death match ftw. Either preplan to have 1 extra pair in case of a tie, or whip something up on the spot
Commenting on my guesses as both a MtG and Yugioh player (haven't played Hearthstone since like the third expansion): 1. Malefic Rook - a 5/6 on turn seems nice. Plus, IIRC, warlock has stuff to reward being at low health? 2. Void Scripture - 2 mana to get effectively two cards, that are better than average (assuming this isn't going to be cast until turn 8)? Seems crazy good. 3. Jive Insect - Mainly because Stranglehorn Heart just doesn't seem good. 8 mana, but cycle 1 to revive a narrow range of good stuff? Cycle 1 is nice to offset it, but unless hunter decided to become priest in his free time, I can't imagine this ever being good. Like, I need big beasts to be out, and even then, I don't know if I cast this on 8? Why not replace this card with something that actually does something before you are dead. 4. Illuminate: Aquatic form looks like a trap. Yes its 0 mana, but its not like pot of duality, since its basically just putting it to the top of deck until maybe turn 5 or 6. Why do I want a dead card in my hand for the valuable early turns? Illuminate on the other hand, just seems broken in slow controlly decks. 5. Blackwater Behemoth: Stabilizes instantly, even if your opponent has a boardwipe, since you both heal and destroy an opponents monster. Meanwhile Colaque does nothing at first, and if your opponent has non-targeting non-damaging removal, or two pieces of removal, then tough luck, you didn't do anything. 6. Northshire Farmer - Now, see, this seems like a really good aggro card for the beast stuff. You play a 1 drop beast and a 2 drop beast, then play this, and blamo, you got 3 3/3s in your deck with maybe outsized effects because of it. Exactly what we want in our aggro decks 7. Tavish Stormpike - Seems crazy in the deck I described above. Start with a 1 drop beast and attack. Then play a 2 drop beast and attack. Then, on 3, drop this, attack with your two guys, and get a 1 drop. Opponent will struggle to stabilize. 8. High Exarch Yrel: I want my 8 drop to stabalize me, and she does that. Also, if I'm ahead, she can close out the game. Meanwhile, Ghun says "win the game if you are ahead, otherwise do nothing" I want my 8 drops to win me the game if I'm behind. 9. Jandice Borov: This card seems crazy. I get 2 random 5 drops, with the downside being that I choose one to "only" be good in for one minion attack? Like, your opponent needs to either lose 2 cheap minions to test my minions, or my "fake" 5 drop gets good value? Also, some 5 drops get good value without surviving (eg: Jandice herself). I would be shocked if she wasn't crazy good in standard. Plus, the other dude doesn't seem like he is doing anything for a while. So, I need the game to go to a few more turns after I summon him. But then, either I'm against an aggro deck, in which case I lost, or I'm against control, and hey, look, priest plays that big healy guy. And oh no, so sad, I lost my slow as fuck 5 drop. 10. Repackage - Both are board wipes, but soul mirror doesn't work against protection, and could trigger deathrattles too. And, sometimes it fails to remove, since the toughness could be higher than the attack. Welp, lets see how well I did. Edit: 7/10. Not terrible I suppose XD
I feel like you coulda explained better why Jive Insect was actually good, especially since Farfa brought up the whole creating a bunch of rags in one turn thing, and that's exactly why it was good with nature shaman. Woulda been funny to see him react to being exactly right about the card and then picking stranglethorn. Other than that great video as always, keep em coming :)
Spoiler: My favorite part is when MBT and Farfa literally say. Oh there is some trollden video where you play a bunch of Jive insects in a single turn and kill the opponent. Describing the current use of Jive insects in nature shaman to a T where you play it on 3 of your minions after throwing 5 lightning bolts face dealing an extra 24 damage. Then after describing how Hearthstone currently exists they then picked the 8 mana Hunter spell, which doesn't say "summon king krush(s)" like it's supposed to be good. I was dying of laughter.
6:25 I think it would be better from a viewer's point of view if you would reveal the correct answer to them after they choose their anwser, rather than waiting with it till the end.
One of the best things about Soul Mirror also was the fact you could rather easily Discover it from multiple sources. I remember that being super frustrating, with Priests getting to use this "one copy of a Legendary card" like 2-3 times, and sometimes even 4 or 5.
This is sickkkk one suggestion i might have is to keep a scoreboard going on the screen? (That the players can't see) It's hard to put together whos actually doing better and how to react to their confidence without that knowledge, so emotions are confused until we see your grand reveal 45 minutes in Great stuff though, love the energy
I love the idea of not telling the players their score, but a running total of scores for the audience only would really help. I’m not a hearthstone player but love trying to test my own knowledge of the game
Stranglethorn heart actually saw tons of play in Reno hunter and pre-nerf Renathal Hunter vs jive insect which was a fringe Reno shaman card that got cut
It was recorded in 2024, not 2023. Enjoy the video
I was about to say that, 2023 is a loooong ass time ago 😂
Wouldn't be a rarran video without an error and we wouldn't have it any other way. This is a great video as usual.
The way i was so confused when Malefic Rook appeared on screen lmao, like i was genuinely wondering if my brain was wrong and that it released in caverns of time instead
Love u rarran lmao thanks for the clarification
@Rarran This was a great video man! This is my favorite setup for a card rating video I've seen from any creator. Thanks bro
Hey rarran can you post the original that didnt get posted as clips
“What does Brann say”
“GOLDEN COMMON”
fucking sent me
Isnt it Harth that announces pack opening? Not Brann?
@@Run2Seeun Yes but their joke was that all WoW dwarves look/sound the same
huh, i heard something like "god im comming" instead
Thanks for having me on, Rank10YGO!
@@BaneHydra i assume this is an injoke of some sort but it looks really bad when you have no context
@@menderbug1 was in reference to this video only but probably a bit too unhinged, not an in-joke, i do not represent the MBT community
@@menderbug1it's just a reference to how he kept mispronouncing rarram's name progressively worse in the video talking about his first "I played Yugioh" video
@@matiaspereyra9392 no i was responding to a now deleted comment that was...tasteless
@@menderbug1ah
Rarran is the Nick Fury of the TGC world, i never thought i would enjoy watching Yu-Gi-Oh players (a game thst I don't play) talking about HS cards (a game that i dont play)
He is literally the goat
Personally I'm still waiying for HS-YGO-MTG-LOR jeopardy
I'm kinda curious. What made you click on the video if you don't play either of the two games featured in the video?
@@Star_King_28 read my comment again, but harder this time
This is such an underrated comment lmao
This "Rarran and friends" arc might unironically be one of the best things to ever happen to the CCG content community in recent years. The amount of new creators that are receiving exposure in what is a very welcoming environment while Rarran gets to geek out about card games with a bunch of different people is just magical (and yes, I don't play either YGO or HS, the content is just really fun)
Hard agree. The collab videos, now in hindsight, all feel like those individual marvel movies, and then we get these dual collabs that feel like the avengers-level movies where multiple characters crossover. Rarran's card game cinematic universe is one of the best things on yt for card games rn imo.
I think the best part is that Rarran's personality goes well with a variety of people. You wouldn't know it early on in his videos until you see his straight up rage clips, and now that he's become more accustomed to things, that is now channeled into stupid fun, hence the good vibes all his collabs give.
My guy, barfa and midtruetron isn't small creators.
@@r3zaful True, they aren't, I watch content from both (mostly MBT though). I was talking about other creators he has worked with, my guy
I feel like the logical conclusion to this is to have these two compete as a duo vs CGB and voxy, right?
Ok, Im being 1000% serious when I day I HAVE to see this
That video would be an all timer
That would be the greatest crossover ever
*YES PLEASE*
~Although this would probably be very hard to do, now you need 5 people to have open schedules...
This
Love that when you showed the 2 colossals, both of them had the summon on the wrong side to complete their art
I was thinking the exact same thing lmao
OMG that was killing me!!!
Its actually like that in the gallery as well in the game, its awful and I wish they would move it. But its so they can have the little lore description on the right side of the card.
@@nathanielbowling2315 then the Behemoth’s Lure should be in the correct place. But here, there both wrong
It has been less than 3 minutes and someone already said "Opening Sicilian Cum Gambit".. that's how you know this will be a great one hour video.
"How the hell are we supposed to do these? You idiots haven't figured out if those are good or not yet"
- MBT 2024
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He ain't wrong
🤓👆 actually video was recorded in 2023
@@ГеоргийПлющёвum actually that was a typo he meant 2024 🤓
Joseph is such a treasure in our community man
MBT and Farfa always struck me as creators who would’ve been huge if there were not restricted to ygo. Their personalities are hilarious
"You two are playing against each other"
MTG: Voxy and CGB: "Yeah we're still friends" (hahah as if)
YGO: MBT and Farfa "Well it should be easy because I'm smarter than you"; "Yeah but you suck"
Yugioh is a competitive game, especially with how archetype works.
You might end up bantering their favorite archetypal instead
Yeah these 2 are more upfront. Gotta love em.
One day, Rarran will not be known as "A Hearthstone CC" but, "That CC that every other card game player knows"
Nope. he only plays HS in any real capacity. Rarran is and always will be a hearthstone counterclaim.
@xbon1 what they're saying here is that even if you play say yugioh you'll know rarran
if you play magic you'll know rarran etc
It is actually pretty smart of Rarran. Even if Hearthstone becomes unplayable he can switch his content pretty seamlessly. I would argue Rarran is a card game content creator.^^
@@catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca I suck at explaining things and getting my point across (doesn't help that I'm high atm) but this kinda reminds me theduellogs and his various channels on other card games. He only does top 10s, lists and stuff like that though. He has a WoW channel, ygo channel, pokemon tcg channel... Ygo is most popular thougb. It's not feasible to have all these different card games under 1 umbrella and actually make it work since while there is overlap, their interest will be split. God I hope you understand what I'm tryna say cause I don't. Sorry if this soesnt make sense
Rarran dying as they both trash talk Jandice Barov is why this content is my favorite.
So interesting to see outside perspectives
It's funny because I think they failed to absorb the fact that Jandice is a Rogue card as well and were purely thinking of her as a Mage drop. Most of their criticisms of Jandice did apply to the card in Mage, she didn't see much play in that class to my knowledge.
It feels so weird to have a video start with MBT and Farfa on screen and not immediately dive into trashtalk.
POGCHAMP, Fenrir bad, farfussy, pop dababy
well they lasted 2:30 anyway
To be fair it didn't take long
@@Curelax more like 0:22
@@nozoill Surprised it took that long.
Rarran is doing wonders for the TCG community. I found him from a CGB collab and would have never watched Heartstone or Yugioh content if not for their collabs.
You mean MFG, right? (Mesa Falcon Guy)
This was such a good one, incredible dynamic, please invite them back!
You going from getting incredibly pissed from Farfa’s reaction to your Yu Gi Oh video to becoming a guest for your channel is the best anime arc this year I’ve seen
I am convinced rarran Is a Mastermind that has plotted the whole thing
He wasn't pissed at Farfa, he was pissed at chat. Or, at least, chat was annoying him to the point where it bled into his reaction.
@@nirast2561 Also, a big part of it has to do with the fact that Rarran didn't get at the time that Farfa was being sarcastic in most of that video, and therefore was making fun of chat and not him.
I did not expect to hear about G'huun's political opinions when I clicked on this video.
Gotta say, probably one of the best videos you've put out in a while on banter alone!
Props to Rarran. Its really hard to compete with the banter between Farfa and MBT but I think he did well kinda taking a back seat in this one. Even with 3 people it did not feel crowded at all and I think he picked some good cards.
This video was hilarious. I'm a magic player, play a little HS and holy shit YuGiOh guys just seem built diff, everytime I've seen them on Rarran's channel they're so funny
They just reflect the game they play, YGO has no mana system so it's all gas no breaks, that's why they can yap non stop
Tbh most of the Yugioh creators rarran invited have a comedic factor in their videos or streams while f.e nyhmnim or cimooo are a little more serious. MBT and Farfa are just the "autism/gaslight" part of the ygo CC zone xD
I love how different the vibes are between vids when its 2 people who play different games vs the same game.
Different: Thought provoking debates and discussion. Really shows the inner workings of evaluation of each persons game.
Same: "ARE WE FRIENDS ARE YOU GASLIGHTING ME?" and "You'd love paladin ethnostate"
One of the most prominent complaints in Yugioh right now is that modern decks aren’t xenophobic enough. And I’m not even kidding.
@@alisethera9349Oh fuck it took me a second lmaooooo
@@alisethera9349 YES. For hearthstone players, imagine the boss monsters are the regular cards, not themed into your class and not like pirate and those others (only played the game like 3 hours several years back, be kind plz), and EVERY class played them. Doesn't matter if you're priest (best class), Hunter or demon. It all amounts to those cards only.
G'Huun the Blood God, Respectable Bipartisan
This was how I knew he was the worse of the two cards.
"I just wanna kill for god's sake!"
Joey Brandrisk hitting the "What can I say, I believe in racial purity" line after that had me cackling
22:54 I love how red Rarran got laughing at this bit lol
He's always such a giggly boy interacting with guests, but he got SOOOO red here it's hysterical to watch
"What's your favorite golden common?"
KEEP ON PANNING OOOOOWEEEE I'M RICH!
I SMELL GOLD IN THEM WATERS
GET'CHER OWN PAN!!
He might be a common, but it's a noble in our hearts.
Haha exactly!
Rarran is like Thanos of TGCs, collecting content creators from different games and making content with them. Loving it
MtG creators in this format: "Teehee voxy you're a weasel :)"
Yugioh creators in this format: "I believe in racial purity."
28:20
Damn. Farfa’s Scottish accent impression is REALLY good. Sounds just like the only other real Scottish person I know- the Hearthstone Innkeeper. He should be a voice actor for sure.
Yeah it's crazy how well people from Glasgow can nail a Scottish accent!
@@TheKnightOfBuquiciouskinda blows my mind tbh.
Glasgow must have many talented voice actors if they’re known for their amazing Scottish accents.
If only the Scottish people could have heard Farfa speak in their native tongue.
😂
What being a theater kid does to a man
@@hctaz If only Scotland was real, man
You mean the Scottish guy is really good at doing a Scottish accent?
13:59 The sheer disrespect towards MarkMcKz
Yeah its mark and no-one else
Came into the comments to see if I could find someone saying this because if not, I would've had to lol
Was gonna say that too 😂
Now he needs mark to rank ygo combos
@@BenP-te2uz Mark and Dane
farfa calling out jive insect conductivity combo on shaman and still picking the other card is hilarious.
Repackage is kind of an unfair card to choose for them to decide because there is basically no control priest deck in the meta. The card might actually be more powerful but the meta has to support it to really find out.
Exactly
TBH all of the cards were based off of the meta that were around them. Repackage needs to make it to turn 7 to be played, and last I checked making it to turn 7 was a struggle in the current meta.
@@leadpaintchips9461 The issue is that they had no way of knowing that the two shown 7 mana Priest cards were around in different metas instead of being contemporaries.
This was the funniest and the most entertaining installment in the whole collab series
Very entertaining guests, love this duo
Damn I love all these videos from each of you creators. I never thought I'd sub to Yugioh youtubers but Rarran you found a way! Also I was so happy when you collabed with CGB, fusing my love of MTG and Hearthstone!
So far the chaotic energy is off the charts and I'm loving it
Now that Farfa mentioned it someone out there is gonna make a Custom Card called Rarran's Ram Ranch.
Stranglethorn Heart saw tons of play in the last few expansions and sees play rn in Reno Hunter. Jive Insect has always been a niche card that is only really OK in the decks that it sees play in.
I know lol heart was a core of one of the strongest meta's for hunter that isn't face, which was big face with like reviving 4 king crush and stuff, at one point it was literally top of the meta based on data sites
In both colabs, no one mentioned that with Jandice, if you get a really strong battlecry minion, you can choose it to die, but then shadowstep it.
It's always surprising to me how much Rarran's camera adds to these videos. Even with the mic silenced, there's this pure-visual "what the fuck are you on about m8" when he hears a guest say something flat-out wrong, or the silent cackle as someone says a tier-zero gamewrecker would never see play (or vice-versa). Like I haven't played Hearthstone since pre-Demon Hunter, I don't know how balance looks, but I love seeing those hints as to how the other pros are doing.
19:29 Rarran: "Should I swap these two so the appendage is on the correct side? Nah, let's fuck with people!"
Edit: Suggestion - In the final segment, it would be nice to have a live score for each participant so we know how each one is doing.
idk I kinda like everything being revealed in the second section and being completely in the dark with them thru the first part.
Yeh I appreciated that it was more lax and less produced.
The colossals being in the wrong order was surprisingly upsetting
@@hugomendoza5665 That's where I mean, when he starts going over the cards again, that's when he should show the score (to the audience, not the participants).
Hi Rarran :) just an idea:
It might be cool to have 1 final card/pair of cards to show participants that would be "worth double" that you show after you've explained the previous cards & counted all the points to act as a tie breaker.
Could be a fun mind game to see how they evaluate the tie breaker card(s), considering all the next context they just recieved, could trip them up too lol
Either way, great video, is always fun to watch your content!
Rarran, you consistently put out good content, but this might be one of the funniest videos I've ever seen on your channel. These guys bring on great energy and I'm really loving this format. 😂😂
After playing Yu-Gi-Oh a lot recently it's really cool to notice how Nadir and Joseph think, as an example when they were considering tavish they thought that you choose the beast that you summon with his effect, and not that it's a random beast that costs 1 less from the deck.
As a Yugioh, player, that’s exactly what I thought. It’s a lot worse then. I was imagining summoning a beast with charge so that beast can immediately attack and trigger Tavish again.
I literally started watching these two pretty regularly after the whole yugioh fiasco so this feels like a pretty pog full circle moment.
What was the Yu Gi Oh fiasco?
Just throwin' my 2 cents in, but I think it's most satisfying to reveal the answer after each comparison than it is to hold out until the end!
I love the "oh my god" so far into the video when finally one of the players got a card completely wrong. This is one of the funniest videos of this series yet.
I think you missed one of the biggest reasons why soul mirror is better than repackage, which is that you can cast soul mirror while you have minions on the board without removing them, while also adding the strength of your opponents board to your own. You can then trade your minions more favourably into theirs, get past taunts for lethal damage, etc.
But this is a really relevant thing for priest, i dont know i dont played at the time, this often happened in the time?
13:55 Wow, MarkMcKz obliterated, absolute shambles
yeah absolutely forgot about him xd
Yeah wth he's the go-to guy for stupid hearthstone combos
I think the way he was describing wasn’t exactly the same way as mark does it, or at least in my head. Wasn’t throwing shade or anything.
I too thought about Mark. XD
@@Rarran Your penance is to get him on for a VS video but it has to be some stupid combo to win or something! But to make it not just drawing to win you make combo decks for each other and you have to work out what the combo is as you play it? Idk
36:35 when your uncle starts talking politics during Thanksgiving.
I never thought Id see these 3 on screen w/ each other but it makes so much sense
Something else that got missed off Soul Mirror is how it interacts with rez effects.
When Soul Mirror causes trades, it adds those minions to the priest's rez pool as well, because they also had those minions on board (however briefly). This often could gain priests running rez effects for value instead of a combo additional potential value by adding high impact minions from the opponent into the rez pool while also removing said high impact minion. And if that high impact was a deathrattle, it also had immediate payoff.
That being said, Repackage has potential for exactly the reverse reasons. It cuts deathrattles, reborns, and rez hits for your opponent, but it also doesn't pollute the priest's rez pool with something that could be a big miss. Of course, comparing this card to Soul Mirror isn't quite right, because it's basically Psychic Scream with a tweaked end state. Psychic Scream was also a well played removal spell in priest, that also polluted your opponent's deck. Repackage is basically a strict downgrade because that pollution effect is downgraded by having it all in one card (though that card can be awkward to play if a big board went into it), instead of as individual cards that might screw up several draws instead of just one. This may be why Repackage sees less play, in that most decks that want it likely run Psychic Scream instead in Wild, and Standard currently doesn't have a meta conducive to that type of removal being needed in most matchups. I could see a Wild Reno style priest including Repackage along side Psychic Scream to effectively have the same effect twice, if that is the type of removal the deck needs, but otherwise it likely falls by the wayside in Wild. It might see play in standard if the game slows down a bit, and you don't die on turn 5 to aggro or get caught in a combo that had zero board the turn before it kills you.
I’m so happy you got MBT on here. He’s my favorite Yugioh content creator and I’ve been hoping you guys would collab sometime
Awesome video man! You should make this a tournament arc! Love all the collabs you do, and mbt is my favorite yugituber.
these two are extremely funny riffing off each other, i hope we get to see more of them featuringg in guest videos
You can go check out their individual channels/streams, all the big YGO personalities (primarily MBT, Cimo, and Farfa but a few others less frequently) basically spend as much time on each others' channels/streams as their own doing solo stuff.
Vid idea: A magic player and a hearthstone player rate Yugioh cards.
Where you and CGB or Voxy collab with a yugioh player to try to rate cards
the sexual tension here is palpable
It definitely felt like MBT was operating with outdated information, as I believe the prevalence of silence as a keyword outside of Priest was changed after he left the game.
If theres one thing i know about MBT, hes an expert at gaslighting. My boy has got this
This trio is absolutely fantastic to watch
I really agree with Rarran when he said it's really interesting to see the different ways of thinking between YGO and MtG players
The best I can describe it is that in YGO a card is near unplayable unless it gives immediate and consistent value, whereas in MtG the generally slower gameplay allows for more appreciation of value-based cards and along with the concept of curving out
Yeah, value in YGO primarily comes from recursiveness, which is why YGO players tend to (over)value eg. Reborn as a mechanic but not "Lose tempo now to gain value later" cards.
@@Rynjinivarbecause in ygo, there is no later. Quite a number of people dislike players that take it slow like stun and control players. They like doing combos that end on 4 negates and having hand traps to counter their opponents while not realising it's basically the same as having floodgates on the board. You make a board that denies the opponent. And as MBT has said in a different video, it's literally the same thing
@@HazeEmry This isn't an either/or thing. There's plenty of decks that end up with a bunch of points of targeted, non-negate interaction and a focus on recursivity. Recent examples include Branded (pre-Expulsion) and Sprights.
Having different types of interaction (pops, banishs, monster negates, spell negates, etc.) is a lot better at skill-testing a player than either having a board full of Omnis (which basically only require you to jam them at every effect, few decks can play through 4 omnis) or flipping Floodgates (whcih are an utterly binary mechanic; the opposing player either has "the out" or loses instantly).
Today I learned about runic adornment
About time you collabed with MBT.
YuGiOh was my card game years ago, now it's hearthstone, this collab was fantastic. I love card analysis' from other games content creators. You do it best Rarran.
please keep these guessing things coming, they're so good!
I'd like to request telling them which is better as you go though, that's my favorite part of the video and I like it more when its sprinkled in rather that backloaded.
29:43 "Both these guys look like they were made with AI art."
Says the guy that plays Yugioh, the game that has the most random "WTF am I looking at" art I've ever seen from a card game.
Giggly Rarran feels like that one friend you go grab a beer with after a hard day's work, laugh about the dumbest random bullshit for an hour or two and go home feeling de-stressed after.
I feel like you've cracked the code on this style of video, rarran. The banter with this format is so good.
Dude these videos are so entertaining to watch. Keep em coming, they're awesome
I look forward to Rarran slowly becoming the defacto TCG/CCG game show host
Fucking hilarious video. Love all your collabs but this felt next level.
The chemistry between these 3 is good. It was hillarious. Good content.
This collab gives me Fuelled By Sandwiches vibes and I'm loving it lmao. Banter and chaos go hand in hand
Probably your funniest video, Joseph and Farfa were both hilarious
At this point the only collaboration missing iss rarran having the proffessor as a guest
Rarran creating his own cardgame content creator cinematic universe
this is kinda like listening to a podcast at this point lol, enjoyed it
I’m so mad about how the Colossal minions are displayed on screen, my beans are so steamed dude, you did that on purpose!!! 😂
This was one of your most entertaining videos ever, love the dynamic between these two. Hope they will be back!
Thing I found most interesting was how insanely paranoid of Silence MBT was.
Edit - Racist Paladin was ALSO called Pure Paladin
Almost the same thing:p
Negates are huge in YGO. Infinite Impermanence and Effect Veiler both essentially read "Discard this card from your hand, Silence the opponent's monster" and the former is one of the most powerful cards in the game, and the latter was before Imperm powercrept it.
A well-timed negate is a game-ender in YGO because they're reactive (you can do them on your opponent's turn).
I love the videos like this. Also these guys are SO FUNNY please do more collabs with them. Just two suggestions though. I think it's more entertaining to tell them which card was better after each round rather than all at the ends. You did a similar video where you did that and I liked that aspect better because we got to hear the two players reflect on their analysis right away and also shit talk each other.
Also, if there's a tie at the end, do another round!!! No one likes ties. Sudden death match ftw. Either preplan to have 1 extra pair in case of a tie, or whip something up on the spot
Commenting on my guesses as both a MtG and Yugioh player (haven't played Hearthstone since like the third expansion):
1. Malefic Rook - a 5/6 on turn seems nice. Plus, IIRC, warlock has stuff to reward being at low health?
2. Void Scripture - 2 mana to get effectively two cards, that are better than average (assuming this isn't going to be cast until turn 8)? Seems crazy good.
3. Jive Insect - Mainly because Stranglehorn Heart just doesn't seem good. 8 mana, but cycle 1 to revive a narrow range of good stuff? Cycle 1 is nice to offset it, but unless hunter decided to become priest in his free time, I can't imagine this ever being good. Like, I need big beasts to be out, and even then, I don't know if I cast this on 8? Why not replace this card with something that actually does something before you are dead.
4. Illuminate: Aquatic form looks like a trap. Yes its 0 mana, but its not like pot of duality, since its basically just putting it to the top of deck until maybe turn 5 or 6. Why do I want a dead card in my hand for the valuable early turns? Illuminate on the other hand, just seems broken in slow controlly decks.
5. Blackwater Behemoth: Stabilizes instantly, even if your opponent has a boardwipe, since you both heal and destroy an opponents monster. Meanwhile Colaque does nothing at first, and if your opponent has non-targeting non-damaging removal, or two pieces of removal, then tough luck, you didn't do anything.
6. Northshire Farmer - Now, see, this seems like a really good aggro card for the beast stuff. You play a 1 drop beast and a 2 drop beast, then play this, and blamo, you got 3 3/3s in your deck with maybe outsized effects because of it. Exactly what we want in our aggro decks
7. Tavish Stormpike - Seems crazy in the deck I described above. Start with a 1 drop beast and attack. Then play a 2 drop beast and attack. Then, on 3, drop this, attack with your two guys, and get a 1 drop. Opponent will struggle to stabilize.
8. High Exarch Yrel: I want my 8 drop to stabalize me, and she does that. Also, if I'm ahead, she can close out the game. Meanwhile, Ghun says "win the game if you are ahead, otherwise do nothing" I want my 8 drops to win me the game if I'm behind.
9. Jandice Borov: This card seems crazy. I get 2 random 5 drops, with the downside being that I choose one to "only" be good in for one minion attack? Like, your opponent needs to either lose 2 cheap minions to test my minions, or my "fake" 5 drop gets good value? Also, some 5 drops get good value without surviving (eg: Jandice herself). I would be shocked if she wasn't crazy good in standard. Plus, the other dude doesn't seem like he is doing anything for a while. So, I need the game to go to a few more turns after I summon him. But then, either I'm against an aggro deck, in which case I lost, or I'm against control, and hey, look, priest plays that big healy guy. And oh no, so sad, I lost my slow as fuck 5 drop.
10. Repackage - Both are board wipes, but soul mirror doesn't work against protection, and could trigger deathrattles too. And, sometimes it fails to remove, since the toughness could be higher than the attack.
Welp, lets see how well I did.
Edit: 7/10. Not terrible I suppose XD
I feel like you coulda explained better why Jive Insect was actually good, especially since Farfa brought up the whole creating a bunch of rags in one turn thing, and that's exactly why it was good with nature shaman. Woulda been funny to see him react to being exactly right about the card and then picking stranglethorn. Other than that great video as always, keep em coming :)
39:22 Rarran's "Oh my god" was sooooooo iconic
I really liked when you said the results as the game was going and explaining why they're better. I think that makes it more enjoyable
Spoiler:
My favorite part is when MBT and Farfa literally say. Oh there is some trollden video where you play a bunch of Jive insects in a single turn and kill the opponent. Describing the current use of Jive insects in nature shaman to a T where you play it on 3 of your minions after throwing 5 lightning bolts face dealing an extra 24 damage.
Then after describing how Hearthstone currently exists they then picked the 8 mana Hunter spell, which doesn't say "summon king krush(s)" like it's supposed to be good. I was dying of laughter.
As a Yu-Gi-Oh player myself. I guess they were just hopeful that the built in searching made it good enough 🤷♀️
This is one of the funniest thing I have seen lately these two guys are hilarious when they're together
6:25 I think it would be better from a viewer's point of view if you would reveal the correct answer to them after they choose their anwser, rather than waiting with it till the end.
Omg I was laughing out loud so hard at the whole Rokara and Tavish bit.I didnt expect the video to be as funny as it was
One of the best things about Soul Mirror also was the fact you could rather easily Discover it from multiple sources. I remember that being super frustrating, with Priests getting to use this "one copy of a Legendary card" like 2-3 times, and sometimes even 4 or 5.
Having neither of the two guests in the thumbnail when they are both this huge in the ygo sphere feels like an unusual miss for rarran
having more than 2 people in a thumbnail is actually bad for clickrates, statistically.
This is sickkkk one suggestion i might have is to keep a scoreboard going on the screen? (That the players can't see)
It's hard to put together whos actually doing better and how to react to their confidence without that knowledge, so emotions are confused until we see your grand reveal 45 minutes in
Great stuff though, love the energy
I love the idea of not telling the players their score, but a running total of scores for the audience only would really help. I’m not a hearthstone player but love trying to test my own knowledge of the game
Might be the funniest video yet of you pitting two players against one another. This is a riot.
Stranglethorn heart actually saw tons of play in Reno hunter and pre-nerf Renathal Hunter vs jive insect which was a fringe Reno shaman card that got cut
Jive insect used only in combo nature shaman until it was nerfed in recent patch.
Yeah Jive Insect is way worse. Stranglethorn heart saw more play
This was one of the best hearthstone videos I've ever seen. Please more content with the dudes
35:26 There's like this alternate timeline where Yrel who goes on a "cleansing" but with a religious focus.
The vibes of these vids are perfect keep improving brother
You guys have awesome chemistry during this video more please
13:51
MarkMcKz: Alright, deck intro time! And this time, the disrespect is OUTRAGOUS.
Yo this was great Rarran good work with your content recently good stuff. Bring back the weasle!
Farfa looking fresh in the traditional clothing
This was absolutely hilarious on at least 4 levels xD Loved it !