Ep. 236 - an analysis on our tier listing [AUDIO]

Im going back and listening. Slime saying what are you gonna do, chase him. Maybe that's what put the idea in his head

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that does the ramen chip thing. I got a lot of strange looks at school whenever I did it

I’ve been taking zinc to rope max for about 4 years now

I think the breath taste was flawed; Nick and Ludwig should have frenched

We used to do the dry ramen thing in elementary school too

It is I, vibrating ptcg player, game is big rn, and has become quite meta focused since card prices have been going down, not only does it have a thriving Regional scene, but even on the local level most of the players are playing the best decks available, bc they are so cheap to build. Also hearing Aiden talked about the one guys deck in the most little detail possible and I knew exactly what he was playing unfortunately

Eskay for the yard pls and thank you

In mtg a rules lawyer is someone that heavily enforces rules in a casual mtg setting. A simple example of this is someone draws a card before untapping their cards and the rules lawyer calls them out and doesn’t let them untap their cards. This is fine in a serious tournament setting because things have to be done correctly but for casual magic it really doesn’t matter and it’s like being a grammar nazi.

gamestop sells the mystery graded card lootboxes and hell yes ive spent $1000

I wanna fight whoever was teaching Nick MTG. You can literally play however you want if you have a play group

Hello, vibrating ptcg player here, tcg is actually way way bigger than vgc. Regional entrant cap for tcg fills in like 2 minutes for most regionals, you have to snipe it when reg opens months in advance. Pretty sure some regionals last year didn’t even hit cap for vgc, to give you some idea.

Aiden talking about going to pokemon tournaments as a kid reminded me so much of learning to play magic at my locals when I was in middle school

obeast

Slime drawing aggro by insulting the guy and then making fun of him for saying how crazy guys like slime are in fighting games is such an insane and funny interaction

Did they say they are coming to Canada to ski in late February? I hope they did some research because a lot of slops have shit snow right now

What do you guys think the secret was? I’m dyin to know I can’t even work rn

ive been eating dry crunchy ramen for 2 decades now you just gotta open one side of the ramen bag you dont gotta do all that

aimens yugioh tournament tale is similar to my experiences with yugioh. had a 40 year old say my card was fake and the judge had to come over to be like "yeah man, cards legal." imagine beating a 12 year old by dq

“that’s john zerkaa”

Pokemon TCG is the biggest competitive card game rn, regionals are averaging 2000+ plus adult players in NA

If you want to get into a card game Riftbound is super fun and it’s based off of LoL/ with arcane art

Whoever showed Nick magic is an idiot lol. I can’t trust anyone who plays modern or standard. The only way to play is commander. Anything else is garbage.

Scarcity 100% ruins card games. From a financial perspective of the company, they don't make money from cards being super expensive, unless they do what MTG does and sell really stupid one off printings of cards with spongebob on them. Cards have to have enough value to be worth buying sealed product, but I think Pokemon going so far as to make their own bespoke kiosks to combat scalping shows that even they recognize that shit isn't good for the longevity of the game. If your game becomes unplayable because of that, your playerbase will collapse, and scalpers will also stop buying because they can't sell their "investments" anymore

I heard Ludwig touch on Slime thats why he quiet…

Raw top ramen isn't good, its like 5/10 but i've eaten it many times. Sometimes you want a crunchy not a soupy and its all you've got on hand

Poor slime

I pray for the audio listeners

They need to look into Lock n Load. It’s a load boosting supplement developed by PKA Podcast. It’s 7 large pills a day. It’s serious

You can easily crush the ramen in the package it comes in without popping it. Used to do it all the time.

i laughed so stupidly hard at the monster trucks convo

Rules lawyers are angle shooters in magic.

Ludwig if they mass produce all cards then there’s no rarity or value, no market, no gamble, no chase, every card sets need 1 of 1’s are lesser printed cards to make the set rare which gives it its value

Everyone I've tried to explain magic to has basically hated it. There's just so many damn rules that trying to explain to anyone is impossible and you just end up telling them all the things they can't do. It sucks because once you're familiar with it all it's actually so fun but until then it's a problem. Maybe I suck at teaching lol

The yard monster trucks episode would be dope

Ludwig's shit be sounding like an Undertale character

Magic the gathering is refusing to appeal to their audience with collabs. It’s all for scalper hype sadly. The Spider-Man set flopped so hard due to it being rushed.

One branch of competitive magic, CEDH is completely community run, and as a result every tournament I've entered has allowed full proxy decks. It only costs as much as 12 sheets of A4 paper and ink to play.

Hey Yard boys, Spotify is getting too expensive so I’m switching over to YouTube Music. For some reason YouTube Music has episodes (with video) released on Thursdays, is there anything on your end that could get audio only eps released on Wednesdays like Spotify? Been a Yard fan since day 1 (actually found Ludwig through the pod), thanks for the great content!

wahoo!

i’m 15 minutes in and this shit is the best premium in a minute.

Second poop episode in a row