Want to see a real, competitive deck with Tibalt? https://bit.ly/488D5uf
(plus a couple of decks with Thalia/Lurrus)

it's so funny that without the context of previous Planeswalkers, Tibalt just so obviously seems terrible 🤣

A nice piece of trivia on Lurrus is that it was one of the few cards to get BANNED in vintage. As it turns out, having an extra card in your hand that you can cast with Black Lotus, and then immediately use to recast Black Lotus, was too strong. Lurrus was so broken that it made Black Lotus, the best card ever, even stronger.

Now we 100% need a MTG showmatch between 2 winners of Staple or Stinker!

Josh's card assessment skills is honestly impressive

As someone who's rather new to Magic, the idea of Planeswalker is a very flavorful concept. Loyalty is so aptly named, losing some when they take damage because you (the player) choose not to block for them and if they reach 0 Loyalty from taking damage they basically go "peace out, jackass. I'm done with this". Effects that accumulates loyalty for them are like their signature cantrips so you're letting them do their thing, and ultimates are exactly that, an exertion of their mana that will more than likely render them unable to continue fighting but provides a boon for an ally Planeswalker.

I think the only slight flavor fail is they are represented as counters in game, so effects that interact with counters like proliferate or doubling season will also affect loyalty counters and the only reason it does is "game mechanics" with not much flavor behind it. But that's just a minor nitpick to what would have been a 10/10 design

not convinced Josh couldn't win an RCQ with only a few weeks of training. he's crazy good at Yugioh and had great analysis of all the cards in the video

Want to see Staple or Stinker 2:Combo edition, where its 2 or more cards and see if the combo is staple or stinker. Examples include Faithless Looting + Sneaky Snacker or Karn Lock

Nice reasonings, it's very tricky to evaluate companion without knowing that it was erratated

I feel like Tibalt is way easier to evaluate without the influence of knowing Magic planeswalker history

Tibalt did not only destroy hands, but entire decks, when people tried to build around making random discard good.

I know it bogs down needing to explain formats and all that but I really feel like it does a disservice to describing the power of Lurrus to not mention that it's the only card to ever get a power level ban in Vintage.

"So in MTG there's a format called Vintage where the only banned cards are joke cards, ante cards, racist cards, and cards which literally do not work. Black Lotus isn't banned. Lurrus is the only card in history to get banned in that format for being too powerful."

Staple or Stinker is my favorite series between the Cardmarket Yugioh and MTG

As a ygo player, A1 content. You got our best guy of course he did great

There's no way a Yu-Gi-Oh player misses on Tibalt unless they just psych themselves out. It's slow, it discards randomly, and the cost difference and value of a planeswalker aren't things they would typically feel.

I remember when Tibalt was originally printed. We tried so hard… and got nowhere. And in the end, Tibalt never really mattered.

Carl: I will start to only make a video a week
Also Carl:

I love this series!

Another good idea would be cards that have seemingly BIG build-your-deck-around-this effects, like Scapeshift, Genesis Wave, Warp World, Dragon Storm, Ignite Memories, Eye of Ugin, and then ask the guest if this seems competitively viable.

The missing context for why Lurrus was broken was that the floor was often that you looked at the top of someone's library and drew an extra card for free every single turn because of Mishra's Bauble, and if you were doing anything other than that it was absolutely obscene

But I love that Joshua has zero context for how planeswalkers actually play out and Tibalt on  its face still seems awful even then

Oh pog! Big fan of staple or stinker