Written & storyboarded by Jason Dwyer & Tiffany Ford
Craig wants to play a popular card game, so he decides to borrow Bernard's vintage and valuable cards.
Tropes:
- Affectionate Parody: Bring Out Your Beast parodies multiple Collectible Card Games, mostly Magic: The Gathering, of which series co-creator Matt Burnett is a well-known fan.
- Big Brother Worship: Craig admits that he took Bernard's cards because he wanted to be like him when playing the card game.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Turner pretended she wanted to dispose of Beast Snare for being overpowered, but she was really just getting Craig to put it somewhere she could steal it.
- Creator Cameo: The kid Bernard plays with in Craig's flashback is a caricature of co-creator Matt Burnett.
- Game-Breaker: In-universe, Beast Snare lets you permanently take your opponent's monsters the instant they're played, with no apparent cost or limit. It's a relic from very early in the game's history, and one of the few remaining copies is treated as an Artifact of Doom. It's an exaggerated parody of how Magic: The Gathering started with some overpowered cards as well as some based around anteing
(i.e. gambling) your cards. - Graceful Loser: Turner takes it surprisingly well when Craig manages to end her winning streak.Turner: (Sighs) Felt nice while it lasted.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: When Turner uses Beast Snare in her battle against Craig, she nearly defeats him by stealing every Beast he plays, only for him to trick her into stealing a Beast that damages her at the end of her turn, costing her the last of her Life Total and the match.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When Craig manages to break Turner's winning streak by tricking her into stealing a Beast that damages the last of her Life Total at the end of her turn, she knows exactly what that means, and she actually takes it quite well.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Turner acts out an exaggerated death scene when Craig succeeds in defeating her.
- Not Completely Useless: Craig carelessly uses a monster card that is incredibly weak and damages the user for having it out. It's considered one of the worst in the game, for obvious reasons, but is basically the only thing that counters Beast Snare's ability to instantly take an opponent's monsters.
- Power Equals Rarity: Beast Snare was so overpowered the game's publishers tried to destroy every copy, leaving only a few in circulation. For some reason, no one considered just banning it.
- Read the Freaking Manual: As the focus of the episode involves a trading card game, characters are reminded to read the cards to learn what they do. Craig loses his first match when he doesn't read up on type effectiveness or when a card damages his own health, instead opting to play ones he likes.
- Shout-Out: Craig sings the Li'l Butler theme song, including the catch phrase, while doing the dishes.
- Super Weapon, Average Joe: Turner has a very weak deck and seems very inexperienced at Bring Out Your Beast, but with Beast Snare added to it she's nearly unstoppable.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Bernard calls out Craig for taking his cards without permission. Craig apologizes and says he just wanted to be like his brother.
