The next item of business is—I do not know if there is a conversation that the chamber needs to be aware of because it is quite noisy—the next item of business is a statement by Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport, Homsa Yousaf, on NHS Scotland's pandemic pressures. The Cabinet Secretary will take questions at the end of his statement, so therefore there should be no interventions or interruptions. I call on Homsa Yousaf, Cabinet Secretary, on the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 has, of course, reached the highest level since the start of the pandemic. It is having a significant impact on our health and social care services, although especially on A&E right across the entire system. Our health board colleagues, those working on the front line, all tell us that the last two weeks have been the toughest in the pandemic so far, and the latest data shows some of the lowest performance against the four-hour A&E target that we have seen. That level of pressure impacts on patients and staff, and I want to start firstly by thanking our NHS and social care staff, whom we owe a huge debt of gratitude to and who are continuing to provide vital treatment and optimal patient care during some of the most challenging times, but also to patients and those who have in any way been either inconvenienced or indeed are suffering because of the current pressures. I have no hesitation in apologising for that suffering and for that inconvenience, and I appreciate the patience that every person is showing at this extremely challenging time. There are, of course, a number of contributing factors impacting on A&E services. They include a record number of people in hospital with Covid, infection prevention and control measures currently in place, workforce pressures that are exacerbated by record levels of community transmission, increased attendances to A&E services, high levels of delayed discharge and longer length of stay in hospital. Today, there are 2,322 Covid patients in our hospitals. That number has more than doubled since February. It has now passed the previous peak of last winter, when we had 2,053 patients in hospital with Covid in January 2021. Using the latest published Covid-19 modelling, we anticipate that this may well continue to increase over the next couple or few weeks. The increase in cases and hospitalisation is largely due to the dominance of the more transmissible Omicron BA2 variant, which accounts for around 90 per cent of all reported cases. The latest O&S survey data shows that 114 more than 7 per cent of people in Scotland in the community have tested positive for Covid in the week to 12 March. That is the highest estimate that Scotland has ever had since the beginning of the survey in autumn 2020. Thanks to the excellent progress that has been made on vaccinations, the recent rise in cases and hospitalisation has not, thankfully, translated into increased cases of severe illness requiring intensive care. However, this level of continued pressure is challenging in the context of a health service that has been dealing with sustained and relentless demand and pressure for nearly two years. Unlike when we have one of the pandemic, when services were stood down, we are, of course, remobilising our NHS. In addition, infection prevention and control guidance remains in place and is important for maintaining safety within our hospitals. However, that undoubtedly creates additional complexities and inefficiencies when it comes to moving people through the system. For example, patients cannot wait in the discharged lounge or sit out to wait for discharged drugs. That means that they must wait in bed space longer than required, which then requires to be deep-cleaned prior to any new admission. Also, patients cannot access normal transport, they must travel either on their own or with other patients with Covid. I am able to advise, though, that each of the four UK nations is looking towards developing an exit strategy from the existing UK winter IPC guidance and considering what a return to business as usual looks like going forward. Those next steps include a range of changes that, if implemented, would help to relieve some of the pressure that the system is currently experiencing. Ultimately, if we can control community transmission of Covid, we will help to alleviate the current pressures that we are under. On workforce, the level of NHS staff absences that are attributed to those who are testing positive for Covid has increased by almost 100 per cent. It has doubled over the last four weeks to almost 4,700 people. That increase in staff absences puts an incredible strain on the delivery of health services. Asymptomatic healthcare workers are asked to continue to test twice weekly. That includes all NHS staff in patient-facing primary care and dependent contractor staff, too. However, we are reviewing that regularly as part of the testing transition plan. In the latest week ending 22 March, an average of 6,000 NHS staff, around 3.4 per cent of the NHS workforce, were reported absent each day for a range of reasons related to Covid-19. We have worked hard throughout the pandemic to maintain record staffing levels across our NHS, and those NHS staffing levels are up by over 28,000 whole-time equivalents under this Government to a record high. We have invested in growing our workforce by just under 10 per cent in the past two years to enhance our services capacity to deal with the new pressures that they have faced. We recognise the scale of improvements that are required and are working closely with partners to accelerate domestic and international recruitment to Scotland. A record £300 million of new investment to help services to deal with system pressures over winter introduced a range of direct workforce investments and new measures to support boards' capacity for both domestic and international recruitment. We are investing £11 million over the next five years in new national and international recruitment campaigns and we have established the new centre for workforce supply to provide labour market intelligence. We are also recruiting at least 200 registered nurses from overseas with funding of £4.5 million available to health boards to take that forward. We have asked boards to recruit 1,000 agenda for change staff to provide additional capacity across a variety of health and care services with funding of up to £15 million. We are working with boards to develop nationally co-ordinated recruitment campaigns to actively recruit nursing and medical staff in the United Kingdom. A band nurse 5 campaign launched on 18 February. Scotland has, as we know, the best-paid NHS staff in the UK and we have made available £12 million this year to support the wellbeing of our staff. However, demand is clearly putting pressure—an increased demand is clearly putting pressure—on our acute sites and right across our NHS and social care systems. In the latest week, attendances at A and E departments increased to 26,000, the highest in six months. The last time Covid in patients were above 2,000 that was in January 2021, attendances to A and E departments were at 16,000 for the week. That is an increase of nearly 40 per cent, putting even more pressure on stretched services. We are also hearing that people are presenting with higher acuity. They are coming to hospital sicker and, as a result, having to spend longer in hospital with the average length of stay up around one day, 16 per cent on historic levels, meaning a greater bed requirement. Those issues are not unique to Scotland and our A and E departments continue to be the best performing in the UK for over the past six years. The latest comparable data for January shows that Scotland's A and E performance was 11.4 per cent and 14.1 per cent better than England and Wales, respectively. Our colleagues in the community are also experiencing challenges. The current spread of Covid in the community is creating significant problems for our workforce. That is felt in social care, but our health and social care partnerships are working incredibly hard to support people both in the community and those who are coming out of hospital too. All partnerships are involved in our Discharge Without Delay programme to improve discharge planning arrangements and reduce the length of stay in hospital. For planned care, our NHS colleagues are working exceptionally hard to restart elective activity. Covid workforce and bed capacity pressures do, however, continue to create challenges. We are now receiving reports that some restarted electives are having to be postponed again to deal with the increasing pressure that our health boards are facing at this time. Extended waits for elective treatment increases the risk of deteriorating health and social care outcomes and the additional impact that has on unscheduled care. We are working closely with health boards and partners to support planning and delivery of the high-level commitments in the NHS recovery plan that was published last summer. We are also investing in our hospital at home programme. We have enhanced our hospital at home services across Scotland over the past few weeks, with further capacity expected to come on stream by the end of this month. That work is critical as we move into the recovery phase, and we are already beginning to see some of the fruits of that input. During the six-month period of September 2021 to February 2022, 4,500 patients received care from a hospital at home service, so 4,500 people who without those services would have had to go to hospital. That resulted in 26,700 occupied bed days for hospital at home services. Again, we have avoided 26,700 acute hospital-occupied bed days. The redesign of urgent care programme is, of course, incredibly important, too. We have supported it with £23 million this year. It is another example of positive work that we are undertaking through this work on strengthening alternative services so that those who think that they need to go to A&E, but their illness is not a critical emergency or life-threatening, they can be seen or treated at home or indeed in the community. We are, of course, increasing funding to NHS 24, too, so that people can get good advice, but quickly as well, because I know that some waiting times in NHS 24 have also been too long. I have been upfront and honest about the scale of the challenge in terms of our NHS recovery. It will take time. The recovery will not be a matter of weeks or months. It will take years. We are working closely with boards to look forward together to deliver a package of measures to support sustainable recovery. In the potential event of future Covid-19 waves, how can we insulate that recovery from those future waves? That is the work that we are undertaking. We will continue to fund our national treatment centre's £400 million in that national treatment centre programme, which will again help us in our recovery, particularly around elective care. The funding for the NHS for 2022-23 is, of course, at record levels of £18 billion. Just to conclude, officers at health and social care services continue to face unprecedented pressures. There is simply no denying that. I hope that I have managed to set the context of why they are under such severe pressure. I will work day and night, as I have done since being appointed to this role, to make sure that we are supporting the men and women who are working so hard in our health and social care system. Once again, I end where I started by thanking them for their incredible efforts over the course of this pandemic. The cabinet secretary will now take questions on the issues raised in his statement. I intend to allow 20 minutes or thereby, given the extra time that the cabinet secretary took for his statement, for questions after which we will move on to the next item of business. It would be helpful if those members who wish to ask a question were to press the request-to-speak buttons now. I call on Sandish Gohani. I thank all the heroic NHS staff who have worked throughout the pandemic and are still working hard now. The statement is essentially setting out a list of excuses and patting himself on the back, Cabinet Secretary. How can you possibly do this with the problems we are facing in the Scottish NHS? The cabinet secretary talks of spending more per head than in England, but with the Barnett formula, funding should be billions more. The cabinet secretary continues the self-congratulations by stating that we have more staff in our NHS. That would be fine if demand was the same as it was even five years ago. Demand is significantly rising. Actually, we have record vacancies in our NHS from nursing to physios. This is not all due to Covid. Your lack of credible workforce planning and a flimsy Covid recovery plan has led us to this. Cabinet secretary, what will you do to tangibly deliver help to us today, not in years, plus this was originally meant to be an A&E statement? What immediate tangible help will you be giving to A&E departments? I fear that you are making excuses here and there is nothing to tackle the problem. I am afraid that it is simply incorrect. It is not a list of excuses. What I am doing is setting out a context of why we are facing the pressures that we are facing. I would have thought that that would have been helpful, given that people are rightly asking why our performance is where it is and why our people are having to wait too long. If it was so flimsy, why on earth did his colleagues in London copy it? They imitated our plan. Our 10 per cent additional capacity that we will create is a central plank of their recovery plan. It is not a flimsy recovery plan, but what I am trying to say to members across the chamber is that we have to insulate our recovery as best we possibly can against future shocks and waves of the pandemic. I have already said in great detail—I do not intend to rehearse it because of brevity—all of the funding that we are providing our health boards from the £300 million winter plan to the £20 million additional for our Scottish Ambulance Service. If we had not made that investment, things would have been far worse than they are. I am very proud of the fact that we have the higher NHS workforce per head than in England, where his party are in charge, and our A&E outperforms in England where his party are in charge. We have the best paid staff in the UK. We have more GPs per head than they have in England where his party are in charge, and we have more dentists per head than where his party is in charge. I do not wonder that the people of Scotland continue to trust the SNP to run our health service as opposed to the Conservatives. That is not a list of excuses. What I have demonstrated today is the context of why we have these challenges and how this Government is stepping up to that challenge. I welcome the cabinet secretary's statement, but I look forward to a time when he is not just commenting on the context or how bad the problem is, but that he is actually taking action. The number of patients waiting in A&E is at an all-time high. In fact, it is higher than any time since records began in 2015. That is assuming, of course, that you can get to A&E, if you can get your call answered by NHS 24 and if you can get an ambulance to show up. Can I also thank the staff who are working tirelessly, but they are being let down by this Government? Everyone is waiting for this cabinet secretary to do something, but all he has are the answers that he gave in October 2021. Those initiatives have not worked. Delayed discharge has, in fact, increased taking up capacity in our hospitals, and that has a direct impact on A&E. As John Thomson of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said, things cannot continue as they are. More patients will come to harm and staff are facing increasing distress. Perhaps the NHS would have been more resilient if the cabinet secretary's predecessors hadn't cut beds, had fixed the workforce crisis, and had sorted social care. However, those problems are not new and they predated the pandemic. The cabinet secretary is playing fast and loose with the lives of Scots. We need more than sticking plaster solutions and more excuses. When will he come to the chamber with a plan that will actually make a difference? Listening to Jackie Baill, you would not have realised that we are in the midst of a global pandemic. You just would not have thought that there is a global pandemic. Not only are we in the midst of the global pandemic, but she is shouting excuses. We have the highest level of number of people in hospital with Covid. We have the highest level of community transmission because of Covid. We have high levels of workforce absence because people are testing positive for Covid. We cannot just magic away the pandemic as much as I would like to and I suspect as much as Jackie Baill would like to. We are taking action. She asked what action are we taking. I again go through the list of the funding that we have provided. On top of that, some immediate action is that additional funding for hospital at home. For example, I have just given her a detail of how we have just managed to save 26,700 acute hospital-occupied bed days. Delayed discharges, yes, she is absolutely right, have been going in the wrong direction. Of course, when we have so many outbreaks in so many care homes, it becomes more difficult to discharge people into the community. In some areas, we are making progress. I met Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership, and since the end of January to the present day, they have managed to see a reduction in standard delays. Some local authorities in health and social care partnerships are moving in the right direction. If we can keep Covid under control, that will be our best tool in order to aid our recovery. As we move from front bench questioners to seek to have more succinct questions and answers, I call David Torrance to be followed by Sue Webber. GP receptionists are trained to guide callers to the best care for the healthcare needs, especially as it is not always a GP that has the best place to help. However, many including those in my constituency have reported experience and increased abuse when they are doing their best to help. With the very start figures announced today, it is like that GP services will see an increase in those looking for an appointment. Will the cabinet secretary join me in urging callers to take guidance from GP receptionists as they play an important role in getting people to care in the right place? Will he join me in fighting those receptionists in my constituency and throughout Scotland for an incredible dedication and commitment that I have shown in the past two years and beyond? At this kind of behaviour, is it acceptable from the public? I agree wholeheartedly with David Torrance and I want to place on record my thanks to all GP staff, from the GPs of course, to the receptionists, to all the multidisciplinary team that work in a GP's practice abuse towards any of our NHS and social care staff is completely unacceptable. I do not buy into this narrative at all that GPs and their staff are not working hard to see patients. They are working extremely hard to see patients. That is probably why in the blog written by the chair of the BMA's GP committee, he congratulated the Scottish Government for the approach that it has taken and in the very stark contrast to the approach that the UK Government has taken. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Yesterday afternoon, the cross-party group on miscarriage heard that midwives are leaving the profession in droves. They cannot cope with the stress placed upon them by workforce pressures. Right across the sector, there are simply not enough of the right skilled staff on duty at any one time. Midwives are underfunded and overworked and quite simply burnt out. This statement offers nothing new for them, no additional support and no additional funding. At what point will the health secretary piece the self-congratulatory tone, get out of his echo chamber and bring forward a credible plan to relieve the long-standing pressures on the midwifery profession—pressures that long predate the pandemic? I disagree with Sue Webber's characterisation. There is nothing self-congratulatory. All the Government has done and I have done is set the context of why we are in the challenging position that we are in. I agree with Sue Webber that the wellbeing of our staff is absolutely central. Every single clinician that I speak to, every single member of our NHS and social care that I speak to, is frankly knackered. Therefore, the additional funding that I have brought forward and the Government has brought forward for staff wellbeing is to address that very variation. What I would say to Sue Webber is what I said to Jackie Baillie and to Sandish Gohani, that if we can control community transmission of Covid, that will significantly help us to alleviate pressure. Let me place on record my thanks for the excellent work that the midwives do right across the call. Vaccines are the best line of defence. Unfortunately, while we are seeing very high numbers in hospital, the vaccine is clearly having an impact on the number of lives lost to Covid. Is the cabinet secretary optimistic that the uptake of the spring booster amongst those eligible is set to be as widespread and positive as the previous booster? Yes, I am confident and I agree with Evelyn Tweed's articulation that vaccines have been a game changer, and I encourage anybody who has not had their first, second, third or booster doses, if they have not had any of the doses that they are eligible for, to please come forward. Vaccines are our number one tool in the fight against the virus. This week, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde once again issued a warning not to attend any unless your situation is life-threatening. The warning has been used repeatedly by the board since August. Instead, people have been advised to use NHS 24, but we know that from September to January, 240,000 calls went unanswered. That leaves people in a very precarious position and not knowing where to turn, often in very serious situations. I note in the statement the re-announcement of the opening of the Dundee contact centre, but can the cabinet secretary clarify how many additional staff are required to meet the demands on NHS 24 and how many have been recruited in order to ensure that people are not being put at risk when they are being told not to attend any and they are not having their call answered at NHS 24? I am certain that Paul Cain absolutely accepts this. Nobody takes those decisions that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and any other health board has done so lightly. They do not put out messaging like that at a whim. It is a really difficult decision to do so, but it is because of the pressure that they are ultimately under. I visited the NHS 24 site in Dundee, and the recruitment is on-going. That recruitment is to help us to meet that demand. NHS 24 is focused on ensuring that patients receive the correct advice immediately without requiring to be placed in a queue and having consistently exceeded the 90 per cent target for care delivered at the first point of contact. In fact, the statistics for the 20th of March show that the number was up to 95.4 per cent. We are making progress and the recruitment that we are undertaking at the moment will again help to alleviate some of that pressure. Everybody understands the acute pressure on the NHS at the moment, and clearly this pressure is going to have real consequences, not least on the capacity of an ambulance service to quickly get to those in need. I welcome the cabinet secretary's engagement on a case that I raised with him recently. Can the cabinet secretary therefore provide an update on how the Scottish Government is going to improve waiting times for ambulances? I thank Yvonne Brown for raising a case with me recently. Let me reiterate what I said at the beginning of my statement that anybody that has to wait too long for an ambulance is suffering as a result of that, then I make no hesitation in apologising to them for that inconvenience and for any suffering that they have experienced. Yvonne Brown is of course right that the NHS and social care system that we have is interconnected. Therefore, the pressures that we are facing on A&E, of course, are having an effect on our ambulance service. Despite the challenges, including managing staff abstraction due to Covid and serving in some of the most rural areas in the UK, in 2020-21, our ambulance crews responded to over 70 per cent of the highest priority calls in under 10 minutes and 99 per cent in under 30 minutes. Ambulance crews are saving more critically unwell patients than ever before, and figures show that the 30-day survival rate for the sickest patients are at the highest rate, with a survival rate of 53.8 per cent. However, I know that the improvements that have been made and the significant efforts of our ambulance service may well be cold comfort for those who have to wait a long time, and that is why I took action in the summer of last year to ensure that there was more additional funding for our Scottish ambulance service. Liam McArthur to be followed by John Mason. Obviously, like others, I pay tribute to all those who are working in our health and care services. In January, I asked the Government when self-referrals for the over 70s to the breast cancer screening programme would resume. There was no mention of the resumption of self-referrals in the statement despite a commitment in January to consider accelerating the timetable. Can the cabinet secretary provide a clear timetable for when the service for the over 70s will resume and ensure that those who need or wish to be screened, including those in Orkney, who are reliant on a mobile screening unit visiting once every four years, can be seen without fear of lengthy delays? I can say to Liam McArthur that I have been actively engaging with our screening colleagues on this very question. I have gone back to them to say, well, can we accelerate the over-referral route for those who are 71 and older? I did say to them at the time in January that it is difficult to hear that, if we were to do that now, it would probably extend the gap between cycles for those who are between 50 and 70. Now, it may be that the amount of time that that gap has extended may well not be the benefit risk of doing so, and it may be beneficial for those who are over 71 in terms of self-referral. We are looking at this issue. I would hope to have an update, if not in a matter of weeks, in the very short future. I will ensure that Liam McArthur has kept updated in those discussions. The cabinet secretary mentioned the importance of controlling community transmission of Covid. In one sense, community means the world. It does not just mean Scotland, so can he say anything about what Scotland can do, either directly or through the UK Government, to help other countries through Covid? That is a fundamentally important point. Time and time again throughout this pandemic, we have said that nobody is safe until everybody is safe, and that is absolutely true. Although we are not officially a member of COVAX, we have been in touch with the UK Government regularly on how we help the vaccination effort across the world. We have asked how we particularly focus some of our efforts in Malawi and in Zambia, where we have, of course, that really important people-to-people relationship. I want John Mason to know that the Scottish Government is very keen to play its part as a global leader and a member of the global community in relation to vaccinations across the world. In the week ending 13 March, 51.9 per cent of people attending A&E in Forth Valley were seen within four hours. That is the lowest figure of any health board in Scotland. I know that staff at Forth Valley have been working incredibly hard to improve waiting times and that January saw remarkable improvement. It is concerning to see the figure drop again. Forth Valley has one A&E and demand is simply outstripping capacity. What more support can the Scottish Government provide to Forth Valley and other health boards who are experiencing similar pressures? She is right to say that there have been concerns around Forth Valley. I have spoken obviously, as you can imagine, to the chief executive and chair of Forth Valley. What I would say is that Forth Valley, when I look at other metrics, actually manages to perform well in terms of, for example, protecting some element of elective capacity, Forth Valley has managed to do that, where other health boards perhaps have not been able to do that. I have said to every other member that has spoken that the best thing we can do on top of the additional investment that I have announced is to ensure that we get Covid transmission under control. We have seen in the period last year between the Delta wave and the Omicron wave between October and November that when we had that Covid transmission under control, we saw that, for example, there was a significant increase between October and November in scheduled operations. The ability of the NHS to recover and recover quickly is there, but we have to control Covid. I thank the minister for his statement, which, like his previous announcements, has lots of words but very few actions. The cabinet secretary claims that the problems that we see in Scotland's health service today are largely down to pressures caused by the unprecedented number of patients in hospital with Covid. However, can he say how many of the 2,322 Covid positive patients are in hospital because of Covid and not only with Covid? Does he have data on the number of people who are admitted without Covid but go on to acquire it once in hospital? If he does not know basic things like this, how on earth will the Government set about implementing its flimsy NHS recovery plan or set a new clinical roadmap to get the NHS back to business as usual? Again, he calls it a flimsy recovery plan, as his colleagues and Westminster copied it. They copied our 10 per cent target because they must have thought that it was a very good plan indeed, so I am not sure why he chooses to call it a flimsy. If we had also listened to the Tories who demanded that we lifted protective measures a long time ago, goodness knows how much more difficult the pressure on Covid would have been. In terms of his question, I have asked Greater Glasgow and Clyde to do another audit similar to what they did during the original Omicron wave to determine whether we can get greater detail around those who are in hospital with or because of Covid. However, what I would say is that data undoubtedly is important, regardless of whether you are in hospital with or because of Covid. The IPC controls around you continue and remain, and that is what is putting significant pressure on our NHS. Emma Harper is joining us remotely. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Due to the success of the vaccination programme, we can move away from legal restrictions and rely on other behaviours. We know the value of appropriate face coverings in preventing the spread of Covid-19 with the possibility of this restriction being lifted soon. I can ask the cabinet secretary what assessment has been made of the need for people, especially those in clinical vulnerable areas, to wear higher-protecting FFP2 type or equivalent masks for in clinical settings or crowded public places? To be brief, the cabinet will have a discussion and come to a decision on the future of potentially lifting the legal requirement of wearing face coverings. That decision has not been made and, of course, will be debated in cabinet, as you would imagine, on Tuesday, with the best clinical and most up-to-date clinical advice that we receive. On her substantive point about FFP2 masks, I can confirm that we are again looking at this really closely with our clinicians around whether there is more protection that can be afforded to those at the highest risk through the use of FFP2 masks. The wearing of face coverings and what grade of face covering is something that is kept under regular review. That concludes the statement on NHS Scotland pandemic pressures, and there will be a very short pause before we move on to the next item of business.


It's from the desk of Lady Aida. Hey everybody, that's us and our Christmas time relaxation pods. That's how my hair gets pink. That's right. It's in the pink pod. It's me, Lady Aida, here at my desk. We've been having the relaxing long weekend. It's Christmas time. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. Happy holidays to those who don't and happy Chinese food and movies all that stuff. All that stuff. So we've got some stuff I've worked on. Some stuff we went out and did things, but also it was nice and quiet. I did some hardware for first off, Mr. Lady Aida, who is behind the scenes here. What are the updates and news? Things you want to talk about? Yeah, we got a bunch of updates and stuff. I'll go fast. Here's a reminder. Look, if your plane got delayed, if you had to get a COVID test or something, if you forgot to get a gift for someone, don't worry about it.  Adafruit.com slash gift certificates. They're going, they never expire. We don't spam. We don't harvest emails. We don't do any weird things like that. They're good forever. And you could pick up a gift certificate and just be like, oh, hey, things got busy. Sorry, you know, this whole Omicron thing or like whatever it is. Oh man, there's snow or there's no snow. Whatever it is, you can still be a hero by getting someone made up of gift certificates. Stay in, do electronics. Okay, next up, I have to do this now all the time, every single week, because people are crummy to each other online. So we did not buy Radio Shack. We have nothing to do with Radio Shack. I interview the new owners or CEO of Radio Shack every time there's a new one every four or five years. It's like a new version of, speaking of the matrix. So this is a sign we bought off the side of a building in New Jersey when the Radio Shack shut down. It's a cool sign. Yeah, so this is the back of my desk at the office. It just says heckar. So we have nothing to do with it. They have a crypto coin and all that now and someone right away blamed Adafruit because they don't like women doing anything in technology or online.  Okay, next up, speaking of, we added another shirt. So we don't do NFTs. You wanna pop to your computer real quick? Yes. Okay, so Adafruit doesn't do NFTs. We don't endorse NFTs. We don't do ETH. Well, we do have adafruit.com slash NFTs. And this is a gallery of nice F and T shirts. So you could see the gallery of all the shirts that the Adafruit team, we all collect cool T shirts and stuff like that. So we added, this is a nice fish T shirt that just got added. So that's our drop. But on a serious note, we've put in a clause for Lady Aida and for our team for years about don't use our Lady Aida for things like holograms or metaverse stuff, or now it's called NFTs. So we almost had to deal with people thinking that we had something to do with NFTs again. But we told the photographer who did a project a few years ago, no, you can't, don't forget, you can't use Lady Aida in your other projects. You can only use it for your one project. So if you go to adafruit.com slash NFTs, scroll to the bottom, you can see the language that we have there. And you also get a chance to look at some nice fish T shirts. So all that being said, Lady Aida, what is on your desk this week? Okay, well, first up, let's go to the overhead. I'll just show some hardware. I didn't do, I did some hardware, not a ton of hardware. Yeah, I did the overhead. Mm-hmm. Okay. I'm working on a camera, like a smart camera, like machine learning board, with an ESP32 S2, although I'll probably update it to the S3. I've got a TFT here, and it's on the high speed TFT line so I'll be able to like get data from the camera and display it to the, the SPI TFT really fast. The camera uses a ton of pins. So to handle like more GPIO and buttons and stuff, I actually put a seesaw chip here, an AT Tiny 817. I also have a SD card so we can like save images. And I just got this board up and running and it mostly works. I made like one or two mistakes, but not too bad. And next up, I'm going to test out the camera module. And then I'm going to maybe revise this to use the mini version of this module so I make the board a little bit small, because it's kind of big. And then more and more, I'm just going to test it with circuit Python because we've got some circuit Python camera support for sure. Okay. Next up, don't forget, we still have pink feather RP 24 years. We're going to get more pink boards in. Yeah. Oh, how about on your computer? You get adafruit.com slash free, just so folks can get an idea. So this is a good way in place to update oneself. So right now you can see, here's all the free stuff we have when you add stuff to your cart. So you get a pink feather for $99 and more. Yeah. Okay. Great. I think we still have some. Yeah, what else you got going on? Okay. Next app. Oh, we got the Scorpio PCBs in. I'll show those off on the overhead. Yeah. Well, let me take everyone on the journey first. Okay. Okay, go on some journey. Yeah. So. You do the journey. I'm going to look something up really fast. Yeah. So this journey is as follows. So we were trying to think of a name for this Scorpio board and it's like eight bits and buffering and all that stuff. So I started thinking about the number eight and you know, the easy things are like octo and like, you know, octo and octa players. So I started thinking about numbers and like Timothy Leary has like some brain circuit thing and there's just like, there was a bunch. I went into the rabbit hole as they say. And but then I was thinking like, oh, the eighth house and astrology and spiders have eight legs and scorpions are part of spiders. Things with eight legs. It's the same family. Yeah. And so we started thinking about like, maybe it's scorpion. So we came up with this thing called Scorpio and that's the name of the board. There's a lot of iconography and things that we're doing that we think folks are gonna like. Here's just like work in progress.  They glow and they have this layer on their shell and it can glow for like millions of years under UV light. It's actually pretty neat. So that's where we got the name Scorpio from and then this was a thing that I walked by every day. And then of course you start to notice things. And I took a photo and when I got really close to it, I noticed that the artist had sculpted these little caterpillars onto the eight. Yeah, it's cute. And like, there's all sorts of things that you just, now I'm seeing scorpions everywhere. Yes. But that's where we got the, that's where the idea came from. Eight and spiders and there's also that fable about the frog and the scorpion and the frog is like, hey, how's it going scorpion? Scorpion's like, look, I just wanna cross the river. Can I hop on your back and frogs like, no man, you're gonna sting me and then we're both gonna sink and drown. And scorpions like totally won't do the, I totally hear you, totally not gonna do it, trust me.  Scorpion goes and stings the frog in the middle of the river and now they're both drowning. And frog's like, why'd you do that? And it's like, hey, man, it's in my nature. So, you know, once in a while, you just gotta understand that something's gonna sting you no matter what they promise you. And there's probably a life lesson in there. Maybe you don't ride frogs either. Okay. You don't ride frogs. Yeah, so let's go to- Let's go to the overhead. Yeah, look, I had to take everyone on a journey. And that's while it's calm scorpion. Okay. Yeah. This is the board. So I got, you know, just the PCBs. I tacked this onto a PCB order I had and I got a little stencil as well. It's got the purple PCB action going on here, USB area, battery charging, the RP2040, and then the eight PIO pins in a row over here. The reason I haven't put this together is I'm still waiting for that level shifter that I designed in. I talked about that I think a week ago or two weeks ago. The part that I thought was in stock actually wasn't, I wasn't fast enough checking out and somebody bought it under me. So I bought another part and then it was Christmas and so I didn't get it in time. But then as I was working on this, I was thinking, you know, it would also be good as a logic analyzer maybe to have like this eight bit input. And so I might actually get a similar to 74 AHC 245, but like the 2245, which has two VCC pins so I can do bi-directional logic level shifting. And the reason I want to do that and not use like a TXBO108 is I find the TXBO108's oscillate and if you put a pull-up on them, they get really confused. I'd rather just say like, look, either the eight pins are inputs or they're all outputs. So you can use it as an eight bit logic analyzer like to read or as eight bit, you know, addressable LED writing, you know, and that those are the two direction pins you can use. So I'll still put this version together, but I'm just waiting for that last part to come in. And since it's like a fine pitch part, I don't want to have to rework it after the fact. I want to stencil it and place it.  But this part is a fine pitch component. So I'm going to, I'll just be patient. Oh, one thing too, Darian's really sharp. So one of the things that, it's not getting here was RP and PIO and- RPI. Yeah. And so, you know, one of my favorite logos of all time, well, there's two, well, there's a lot, but the FedEx logo, because it was a hidden little arrow, the Northwest logo, which that airline doesn't really exist anymore because the logo itself means something in addition to the words that are physically there. Northwest, point to Northwest, an arrow has this little thing. Scorpio has a RP and PIO. So good guess. Yeah. Good observation. Okay, what else you got going on? And then I thought I'd show off quickly the learning system template guide. So let me go to the overhead again real fast and I'm just going to show the boards I'm working on to explain why. Oh, by the way, I just looked up, we actually did win out of pink feathers like today. So I just swapped it.  Sorry. We sold out of them. We put them in as long as we could. We made 2000 and we sold out. All right, sorry. Sorry about that. We'll have more doing. Then we really just sold out today too. So some of the boards that I'm making recently like this Cutie Pie S2, the KB2040, the Feather ESP and this new Feather M480 Longer. I'm starting to like do a couple more things to make it easier to use for low power stuff. Now historically, I haven't really cared about low power because a lot of the chips I was using they're just not very low power. And also I was like, I'd rather just get this hardware done instead of caring about like low power uses, which you know, it's not hard to do but you have to do a couple of extra things. I sort of was like, I'd rather just ship it better done than done well. As I'm doing some more designs, I'm starting to like pick up some of the low power practices that I've been tried and I'm learning things as well. Like, you know, I made a mistake on the Feather ESP2 design that I'm going to revise. So just learning kind of like how to do good low power stuff especially with wireless, I think it's important. Like the Circuit Playground Blue Fruit I actually cared about low power and the MagTag of course is low power because it has to, you know, run for a month on a battery. One of the things by doing that, you know, when you go into low power, when you want to use stuff for low power is turning off peripherals, being able to turn off whole sections of the board with the good GPIO. And so, for example, the I squared C port, you can turn off the power. It's actually off by default. You have to enable it. So, you know, the board comes up in the lowest power and then as it boots up, you can turn on I squared C. With the ESP2 QDPI, the NeoPixel has a power pin. The NeoPixel has a power pin. So instead of just being a quiescent one milliamp at all times you can turn on the NeoPixel when you want. And it comes on, it's circuit python by default so it can do signaling. You can turn it on and off. The feather, you know, you can turn off power to the SD card and you can turn on off power to the QT port. And other weird stuff like the KB2040 doesn't have an indicator LED. It only has a NeoPixel LED and it has two I squared C ports. And the wire one port is on the QT and like same with this there's like two I squared C ports. So some of these boards are getting a little bit more complicated and a little bit weirder. Like it's not like in Arduino Uno or compatible where there's like one I squared C port, one SPI port. There's one NeoPixel pin. There's no, you don't turn off the NeoPixel power. There's an I squared C port. You don't turn off the power. Like everything that's connected is on and that's kind of historically how Arduino boards have worked. It's like it kind of comes up ready to go. You don't have to like, you know, add any ingredients to make it work. But that's also made it a little tougher for people to use because I know especially with the feather people didn't realize like, you know, even when we put in the documentation you have to turn on pin seven in order to enable I squared C power. People like kind of just didn't know to do that. Or the NeoPixel power, you know, you maybe didn't realize you had to turn it on. And on some board support packages like the SAMD board support package we have a little like startup hook that enables all the stuff to begin. So you actually don't notice it but with Expressif for example there isn't a startup hook. And we're gonna probably try to get them to add one but for now like the boards all come in tri-state you have to actually enable everything manually that you want to happen. So let's go to the computer. So one of the things I wanted to do is add documentation for every board for stuff like an I squared C scan test. Especially since again there's a lot of like dual I squared C ports. And a lot of people are like, I don't know if I squared C is working and I can't get this to work. And I'm like, we have to do an I squared C scan and they're kind of like, I don't know what to do. And like the examples that are online don't enable the pin. So what we have here is, you know, a guide page that goes through and is really explicit, you know, it says like here, you know, you have to add these two lines. And then when you go down here, there's like examples code and if you copy and paste this code it does everything for you. Like for example, if you're using wire one on ESP32 you actually have to like set the pins. It doesn't, like a lot of platforms if you define FDA one and SCL one and the variant the board support package will just come up and say, oh, you must have a secondary I squared C port I'm going to define it for you in like wonderful everything. But, you know, some BSPs like Expressive don't do that, they're very lightweight. They'll define only the main I squared C port and they'll add, then they'll require you to use set pins to assign the secondary peripheral that all the peripherals exist but you have to assign the pins. So one of the things about this is that, you know, we have all these boards and they're all, they all have kind of like something going on but that something is a little different from board to board. Some have two ports, some you have to enable the I squared C some the Q, you know, the stomach QT is wire one you have to set like there's all these little things. And so I want to take advantage of the template system that we have. So this is like the editor behind the scenes for learn and you can see that this is like, hey, this is a template page, you can go here. And so what a template page is is I write all the stuff that's like, here's basic information about I squared C and then there's a little area where when I template the page, when I make it, you know, a sub page for this template, this is where the board specific information goes. And then, you know, all this stuff like, okay, you have to install a library. This is the same for every board support package.  And then here is like, okay, here's where you put the fritzing diagram. That's the gonna be the thing that's different. So template usually has like four or five sections that are a little bit different, but everything else in the middle is the same. And then if I ever update this page, it kind of, it percolates out. And this is something that I used with Dreamweaver. It's kind of how I originally made Ladyata.net, when you make webpages, you just do Dreamweaver. And I use cascaded templates basically to manage all this content. It's shockingly hard. Once you get past three boards, it's very, very hard to maintain documentation. We know this, we have to constantly go back and update and revise and like, Raspberry Pi comes out with a new operating system. I think they're up to like Bumblebee or something now. Whereas before it was Buster and, no, sorry, it's Bullseye. And you see Buster and Bullseye, like they killed a lot of things. And that's probably fine. Like, okay, maybe OMX player wasn't needed, but all of our guides that depended on OMX player now don't work, you know? And it's tough. We have 2,600 plus guides. So just, and you know, 1,500 repos. So a lot of the architectural decisions and the code decisions that we make are based on how do you maintain and manage that much documentation? It's incredibly hard, but you want to have as much information and you don't want, you know, we would mirror pages in, but then they'd be too vague, right? It's like, you have to have the documentation cover everything and be specific, but if it's too specific, it's unmaintainable. So there's just like real struggle when you're dealing with documentation updates. So the templates, I think, help because, you know, when I make a template and then I go in here to the iSquad C scan page for the QT pie, you know, instead of saying, okay, you have to power the pen, this is where I say, okay, don't forget, there's two iSquad C ports, one on the QT and one on the cast lead pads and they're different and one's called wire one.  So it's like, I try to put it high up in the beginning of the page. But then the rest of the documentation is similar. I just, you know, I put in a fritzing image just so it's kind of cement, here's how you set it up and I warn them, hey, don't forget. Again, you have to put that set pins line in. And then finally, you know, I have the output which shows both the primary and secondary ports. So this weekend I worked on a bunch of Arduino templates. Katnie's been working on circuit Python templates. You used to have kind of more generic examples for all the boards, but as the boards became just more and more kind of varied and different and weird, the existing pages we had started to become like really unwieldy because they had all these like weird call outs like, oh, if you're using this board, this is the thing. And if you're using that board, this is the thing. And then before you know it, you have like six warnings for different boards and actually people couldn't keep track of them. Like they'd read the page and they'd be like, why are you talking about, you know, the QE pie when I have a circuit playground? They didn't understand that it was like, it was one page that was trying to document for everything and that was just not really maintainable. So we're doing templates. You know, I think it's gonna work out. I've used templates before and they're okay. It's hard, but you know, hopefully between this and you know, stuff like Adafruit Sensor and Adafruit Bus IO trying to make this stuff more generalized, particularly because there's so many board chips that are supported as well. Again, a lot of the stuff didn't, didn't make, you know, even have to have all these weird exceptions when everyone was using AVRs, people using STMs, NRFs, NXPs, ESPs, so many different chips. Choice is good. Choice is good, but it makes documentation a little more challenging. So you're gonna see some of these template pages pop up on some Arduino boards. I'm going kind of backwards in time because again, the most complicated weird stuff is the most recent because we've got these like, you know, I'm adding semi QT ports to everything, but what I'm trying to do is like, if I can squeeze another two pins onto that QT port, I will, but now you've got two I squared C ports and it's very confusing to people. Although I think overall it's still good because you want to have, it's better to have two ports. People really like that when they need it, but if you don't know, that's what you got to get confused. Okay, do you wanna do the great search now? Yeah, I just don't know if there's any questions. No, let's keep going. All right, let's go ahead and pick up and then we'll do a great search. Where? All right, the great search brought to you by DigiKey, I think in DigiKey, Lady Eda uses her powers of engineering every single week to show you things that you can find on DigiKey. And this week is a special gift giving favorite tool edition of things you can find on DigiKey's site after we saw something cool. So take it away, Lady Eda. That's right. So I actually didn't do a lot of DigiKey part-switching this week because everyone's on break, which is wonderful. But I did see this really cool thread that Thea Valkyrie posted on Twitter. So it's on my computer and I can show it. Ta-da. So I love this idea. It's like, you know, the day after Christmas or the day of Christmas, ask, you know, what did people get this year or for the holidays, that especially tools that you want to show off. And there's like really good examples in here. So check out Stargirl's tweet thread because there's like, there's more showing up and I'm not gonna get to all of them. But the first one that came up is from Timon who does awesome, really cool open source hardware. And they said, this brush and these little swabs are cleaning PCBs. And even Eva, whose team made a fruit intern was like, that was really cool. So I thought this was actually a really good idea to show off. Swabs, ESD brushes are pretty common, but these swabs, what I thought was interesting about them is they're foam tipped, not cotton tipped.  I don't like that. But these foam tip brushes are good. So I thought I would show how you could find foam swabs on Digikey. So I go to Digikey and I actually just, I actually was like, I'm just gonna search for foam swabs. And it turns out that there is a whole section called clean group swabs and brushes and this stuff is like, there's like such good stuff in here. So I said to you, because I'm not looking for a specific thing. I'm just looking for a general thing, but I'll look for active and in stock. And there's cotton ones, of course, but we don't want cotton tip. We want just like foam. Note that there's like hog. You want like hog tip swabs. You can get that. But I want foam. So let's look at foam tip. And in particular, this is probably propylene. There's a couple. This one is sort of like a, yeah, like this is where the mouse over photos come in handy, because I was able to like really scan through them. Short has kind of like a rounded swab. These are pre-saturated. This is from Chemtronics. So it's kind of like the coolest, weirdest, like graphic treatment of all the chemical components companies. But this is actually the one that was, I think the closest. So you get a 500 piece pack for 65 bucks. And yeah, this nice sharp pointy tip. But I'll say that there's a couple other options as well. There's like flexible ones. There's ones that have a clear tip to them. They're not like made out of wood. There's ones that do are made out of wood. I wouldn't, you know, I guess I was going to this. I was like, these look a lot like COVID test swabs. Don't use them for that. This is for cleaning your PCBs. Ones that are like guaranteed ESD safe, all sorts. But check out these ones. This is a kind of a really fancy swab. This is for like soaking up. So if you spilled a little bit too much flux remover, you can I think use this to kind of soak up some of that material very gently. So checking up a lot of options. But I think the one that looks closest to the one they had was this one from Chemtronics. You get 500 packs, 500 pieces in this pack, 44070. But check out the other swabs and cleaning supplies. It's one of those things where future you will thank you when you get good cleaning equipment and good tools. Cause then when you need it, you're not like, oh my God, I don't have, I'm losing a Q-tip. And then you're cleaning the Q-tip off the board. Anyways, check out these foam swabs. I'm going to pick up some of these, I think for our firm department. Okay. And that's your pick. I checked out the thread. It's still going on. The thread's still going on. I just picked one item out of it. It is amazing. And then the other thing that I'll say is I sent a note to some maker community leaders. And I don't know if people want emails from me anymore, but I had this idea. Very Christmas. Well, so it was the day after Christmas. And one of the things I noticed is so we don't post links to Amazon because some people have issues with Amazon. Some people love Amazon. What we try to do is always post a link to the maker's website. If someone makes something, whether it be their own personal site or a Tindy store, or if it's even someone who's, we don't think Sparkfun's a competitor, but even if we don't make something, but Sparkfun does. Oh, I send people to Sparkfun all the time. Yeah. And so we do our holiday sales stuff where we link to everyone who sells electronics. Like, you have motor drivers, go to Pololu. Yeah. They got that covered. And so, in this parting great search, because this is the last desk of Ladiata for the year, I just wanted to say like, so when we're all posting up links on social media and more, if you can remember to link to the maker's site, that's really helpful, especially if you want to reward open source companies or women-owned companies or minority-owned companies. You know, sometimes there is a cheaper worst version on Amazon or there's a cheaper worst version on Taobao or Alibaba and it takes forever to get. But people will say, oh, it's here, but they don't really even know if it is or not. I think we can all spend a couple extra minutes. So I sent a note to community leaders in the maker world. And we'll see. I thought this would be something we could all do in 2022 together because I think, you know, you've heard the term virtual signaling.  And then some people say Amazon is great. They're one of the biggest employers in the country. Well, no matter what though, that debate aside, when people are sending things to each other on social media, if you can link to the person's website, the company's website that you like, that you want to support, do that anyways. Even if they also do sell on Amazon because often Amazon takes a big cat. Yeah, so just generally speaking, if you can find it on- Go to the original. Yeah, if you can find it, it just takes a minute. Like, we're all smart. We all spend like hours researching what socks to buy forever. And we read all the reviews and we're like, fine, I'm going to get these tactical socks. Tactical socks. Coming soon, nice tactical socks. Can't wait for our tactical socks. Nice freaking tactical socks on Adafruit. But I think that's something that we can all do together. And I think that that's a nice community thing. I used to do that at Meg, did that at Hackaday. I'd do that at Adafruit. I think we can all do that. And the makers, all the y'all there in the chat and super fans and part of the community, that's why I think you like Adafruit because we'll always point you in the correct right place. Even if it's something that someone else would consider a competition, we'll always do the right thing. And we don't do affiliate links and we don't have any policies that says we can't link to any other site. I know there are some sites that can't link data for it and I think that's weird, but that's their problem. So, anyhow, so with that is The Great Church this week. Thanks, everybody. I have to play the song. Play it out. Yeah. Last one of the year. All right, well, thanks everybody.  It was so much fun. Hanging out with y'all, so. Just a reminder. Yeah, programming note. We're probably not gonna do show and tell and ask an engineer this week. We'll probably do other short video snippets because this week is just all over the place with, you name it, everything's happening all at once. It's like that yearly Fourth of July video that you see where like, uh-oh, the fireworks factory accidentally blew up. All the fireworks are happening at once. We're doing fine here in New York and at Adafruit but everything got moved a little bit over there. Everything got, everyone, a lot of people's travel got, we scheduled, they can't come back, they can't come forward, they can't go right or left. We're gonna focus on just taking care of our TUs. We'll do a little videos here and there. I promise you there's gonna be fun, weird art and cool electronics every single day on the Adafruit site. Yeah, probably even more than ever. More than ever. Anyhow, that's our show, that's everything. Thanks so much everybody.  Enjoy it. Bye everybody.


In today's video we're pitting two rarities against each other, Ultimate Rare versus Collector Rare. What's up guys we're back with another rarity versus battle and in this one we have 20 packs of tactical masters face up against 20 packs of OTS 21 and I've been really into tactical masters recently because I need a few cards for my labyrinth deck. I also have been playing a little bit of sprite on master duel on twitch three days a week Monday Wednesday Friday around 1 p.m central ice stream go check it out if you guys have not already so I kind of want to pull some of the sprite stuff out of OTS 21 so I might as well open both these packs. Before we hop into it we have a giveaway I'll be giving away these three cards ancient gear gadgetron dragon and sacred fiend secret rare and the secret rare silent swordsman level five just like the video be subscribed turn on notifications do you think collector rare or ultimate rare is better and which one will win this battle all right let's just get into this we have 40 packs today ultimate we're in collector rare sometimes been compared because I guess because they're like full card kind of rarities but at the same time they're not very similar at all but you know let me know what you guys think about them tier elements murly we've got some weird things going on with our OTS 21 so we'll see if like we pull all the same super rare or not but I do need some of the sprite cards okay tactical masters it is an interesting oh wait okay where did where did these pop up again oh it's at the back for a fair welcome uh labyrinth that's supposed to be a bad card because I've never even heard of it and then a valence buster baron we pull this guy every time too it's really weird okay let's keep going so ultimate rare is usually more of a fan favorite I think ultimate rare probably is the default favorite rarity in all of yugioh because people like ghost shares people like starlight stuff like that but ultimate rare seems to be the most like universally whoa universally accepted this is a very very very off-centered card scaric law cash tier I'm I might keep that just for the off-centered like misprint binder that's hilariously off-center that's crazy next up and then collector rare is one that's it's kind of iffy on if people like it or not because the uh the ocg ones if you guys didn't see my ocg video the other day which seems like all of you did because it a lot of views on it like randomly so yeah the people really like the ocg collector rare but the tcg just don't hit the same so it's kind of an interesting combo because like it can be a nice rarity but only if you open in the ocg and then some of the tcg sets look better than the others and some of them just don't look that good so it's kind of a weird rarity where some people really like it some people don't like it at all there's a tabarra this guy ninja yeah it's it's a weird one so I'm hoping that they could maybe up the quality to be more like ocg collector rare because those look absolutely amazing and I think it'll become a fan favorite at that point if people really you know see how they could potentially look because if you haven't seen the ocg you'll be like collector rare it's kind of boring you know kind of subtle you can't really see it and speaking of we've not pulled anything we could pull ultimate rares we're doing a versus battle in this by the way so I mean I don't know if we've scored any points at all we have a e pearly happiness super rare and by points I mean a dollar plus cards all right it's been rough so far we have not gotten really anything at all we haven't got an ultra rare we haven't got an ultimate we haven't gotten a collector rare you know all the higher rarity stuff valence quick booster astragraph sorcerer and a welcome labyrinth one of the big ultra rares that we are looking for I need one more of these for my labyrinth deck which you know labyrinth deck we're in who knows if I'll ever play it but I am assembling one right now I'm excited about it because I've been playing in master duel go check out the twitch stream it's been fun we're actually putting together the full labyrinth deck in master duel right now but I've been playing sprite as well speaking of sprite sprite red I think I did already have this one but still nice as well it's a one of usually okay welcome labyrinth that's a nice pull I'm happy about that I need two more ariana I think so we need a couple more of those to have everything from this set that I need senate switch we have Lilith we have hojo that's a super rare um a collector rare would be great I'd be okay with that I don't really play like the runic stuff but I am trying to get like a core together just in case you know that I ever do decide to play which will probably not happen because that's what happens with me I put the x together and I don't really use them very often it's just fun you know assembling the deck and uh you know I might play casually though so maybe that'll happen pendulum we have anti-spell fragrance backjack labyrinth archfiend imperial iron wall runic allure and a labyrinth betta just super me okay so far it's been an interesting one it looks like collector rare is way ahead right now because they just got like a 30 plus dollar cry I think it's coming out a little bit from when we pulled it it was like 45 oh never mind OTS takes the lead right back cash tier of fin rear ultimate rare and the centering is not horrible horrible like the other ones I pulled but still pretty bad but wow cash tier of fin rear ultimate rare wow this card is insane it's so so good that's a game changer for this video that is a huge ball it's like oh yeah they got a big lead it's probably a pretty tough hill to climb now for tactical masters but we can do this tactical masters fans let's go we got senate switch we have capulse we have labyrinth setup that's not gonna do it that's probably not even gonna give us a dollar OTS tournament back 21 wow that was a pull right there oh my goodness ultimate rare we have sacred sword of the seven stars contract and tier elements haveness another super rare no big deal because we have labyrinth cards will be pulled it's gonna happen labyrinth the pure iron wall runeca lore duelist alliance that's a ruckson special right past the shan draglier the cosmic cyclone and a labyrinth labyrinth so we pulled a bunch of these already you only really need one per deck sometimes two so I don't need that one OTS 21 come on you've been crazy you pulled an ultimate rare already let's get to I think I need some of the uh you probably happiness I still need some sprite uh jets I think jets in here is a super right I think it is a super I'm pretty sure it is bear blocker we have duelist alliance I still need blue too because I sold all my oldies uh me oldies is what it sounded like valence world that's a super rare sold me oldies already all right we have OTS 21 I dropped it no be careful let's get something good let's get something epic here we go we have the sacred sword a contract with aquamere and a tier elements haveness our tier limits I still want to say tier elements I just can't help it it's ingrained it's ingrained okay to say the wrong thing next up will we get something epic senate switch pretty crazy pulled so far I mean both have had a great pull trap trick farewell labyrinth archvines ghastly glitch another super rare that card could technically be played in labyrinth I think I used it in the xc's event when I put labyrinth which didn't use xc's at all so I was kind of cheating a little bit we have mysterious puppeteer and a pearly happiness I saw the xc's I got a little excited and I realized that uh none of the good cards are xc's and that's that okay uh wreckles greet let's go come on the left fiend grieving ruxen special right past the runic slumber we have valence dominator and a valence buster bearer this guy's everywhere I've pulled this guy like a hundred times fortunately that is by far the worst archetype in this set still searching still looking still recording that's very important you gotta double check that while you're opening will we get something big galaxy expedition the abyss actor curtain razor okay tier elements haveness tier elements haveness I will say it correctly eventually tactical masters I believe in you we have valence voltage the back jack pendulum switch reckless greed anti-spill fragrance we have the pendulum fusion and no dude how is this guy in every bag we've already pulled three or four of them today only and then there's like 20 more over the past like the last week I'm raging I'm angry I'm frustrated why is this card everywhere okay okay galaxy expedition let's go come on abyss curtain razor back actor well I cannot speak okay let's just keep going the same supers but what do you expect what do you expect I'm throwing packs everywhere OTS 21 seems like they're always the same cards over and over let's see what else we can get the labyrinth stovey stovey okay compulse cosmic cyclone pendulum fusion send a switch pendulum switch okay I thought that was the baron for a second I was like no no no it wasn't so we're good all right OTS tournament pack 21 I believe in you one more ultimate rare can just really solidify this contract rescue ace HQ all right that's a thing tactical masters will it be epic will it be awesome will it be a collector rare scapegoat ooh scapegoat we both collect rare and I spell fragrance book of eclipse it's so funny how I'm going back to the set after opening so much I was like so tired of it because of the scapegoat and now we're back to it uh we have oh yes double welcome labyrinth that's what I'm talking this is actually gonna be a close battle two welcome labyrinth is like 70 bucks ish thin rear I think was around that maybe it might have gone up to like a hundred I'm not really sure I haven't kept up with the fin rear price but definitely a nice pull that's quite interesting actually because now we have well I've a complete set of welcome labyrinth now which is nice don't need an ariana so if we could get that this would be a great open it's already been pretty good network trap hole number 29 mannequin cat that's not that crazy tactical masters now can you bless us with ariana so last time we pulled ariana collector you guys saw that it was insane it was awesome we've sent a switch valence lilyth trap trick farewell labyrinth valence voltage and oh joe all right the valence where I do this so many valence cards come on five packs left of each still a lot of potential here can we may get happen can we get an ultimate rare and really put it away for otS 21 no rescue hhq that's not crazy tactical masters come on come on tactical masters you got to believe we have anti-spell fragrance we have nazuki baroblocker the quick booster lilyth quick you know quick booster as an ultimate rare I don't know if you guys knew that it's kind of a weird one to have an ultimate rare we're an expining storm and labyrinth barrage okay not another welcome labyrinth that would have been sick but that's okay still a few packs to go you got to believe this will happen this will be epic will we pull an ultimate rare sprite blue let's go we have mysterious puppeteer the pearly happiness okay that is not the droid we're looking for three packs left of each come on give us a collector we have not pulled one yet bear blocker we have invader of darkness we have reckless greed malice runic allure lilyth and archfiend ghastly glitch again come on otS tournament pack 21 let's do this galaxy expedition photon sanctuary two f**k it is another high this is the best ultimate rare in the set we now have two of them this is a weird opening we pulled two welcome labyrinth and two fin rear the best pull from each we pulled twice that is super weird that is an amazing pull the totals are up there this has been a big opening wow that is a huge one whoa cash here a fin rear twice not just once okay you're really gonna need like an ariana collector to even have a chance here uh yeah that's pretty rough valence we have invader of darkness can we pull it here that'd be big i'd take an ultra rare though just for my remember my deck i'd be happy with that another ghastly glitch okay we're pulling the same supers over and over great two packs left of each you've had a 40 pack opening today 36 of them have been opened here we go let's see what we get that's a crazy pull galaxy expedition and merly added again the tear laments look i nailed it that's how you say the archetype all right two packs left we need a collector rare here compulse quick booster formerly known as an ultimate rare trap trick fair welcome labyrinth malice fiend grieving valence world shinra bandshow final two packs we'll start with otS 21 because they have to lead yeah it's gonna be tough to come back from two fin rear that's about as good as it gets we have a mysterious puppeteer galaxy expedition and scare claw cash tira again so scare claw cash tira not a bad card tactical masters let's go ariana collector rare here we go pendulum switch duelist alliance astrograph sorcerer we have runic dispelling runic slumber lavith archfiend and i'm on gunga the valence united a really terrible valence ultra rare it's an ultra rare though we'll take it but i think we know who won this one here's this totals i mean we don't even do it's a foregone conclusion now if you guys enjoyed the opening make sure to like the video and subscribe to the channel for more epic content like this shout out this whole info 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