Alien Infiltrator will always be the funniest card to me solely because Rata talked about the column stupidity and the Aliens video was released like a day or two before link monsters were announced
Same, they deserved it more than Fire Kings IMHO. Even if they revomve around counters they just need a few cards to be viable, predaplants have proven that it is possible.
@@Emkinasx95 It was the deck that got me into Duel Links, was so happy when they received the syncro support and Alien Dog. It was the best free to play deck, you only needed one Ammonite which was the only UR card
The best thing about Alien Infiltrator was that time Rata roasted it for trying to make columns a thing… less than a month before Konami announced link monsters.
Abyss actors can be a pain in the ass for the opponent. In Hungary I topped some locals with them :D The field spell is one of the best card in the archetype.
35:14 So here's a fun rabbit hole to dive down. Aliens and the Goblins are in the same universe right? Well Goblins are also in the same universe as Marauding Captain, which is obviously connected to Gagagigo, who of course is connected to the Charmers. One of those Charmers? Wynn, the younger sister of Winda, Priestess of Gusto. Which means that Aliens are in fact part of the Duel Terminal universe. Makes you wonder if the Aliens ever dealt with the Worms.
Another commenter mentioned the fact that they're amorphous and composed of a wide variety of physical forms despite seemingly being related, which could lead to them being related to Worms themselves; possibly the creators or even a split evolutionary line.
I feel like an overturned field spell could do most of the work for making this a fun group of cards to use casually. Possibly one that adds a counters each turn and turns on the atk changing effect while it's active. Could probably even give it another benefit to aliens with a counters on them to explore that side of the mechanic.
This deck needs a few more cards to be consistent and able to be a good contender for the meta. We just need another tuner, synchro, and another trap that acts as a floodgate and the deck can be played really well
Yep thats Konami Logic alright. "hmmm how do we get this old archetype up to scratch? Oh I know, give them an in archetype Skill Drain. We've saved Yugioh once again."
Doesn't need another floodgate nor be competing against meta. The deck does pretty well against non link decks and can moderately bring out link 3 + kid/virus on turn 1. I personally want it to go more in tune with it's theme of controlling/hypnotize your opponents monsters. Maybe a link that mentions a "monster your opponent controls" that can possibly quick effect steal a monster until the end of the turn with some sort of protection for all alien (including cosmics) monsters along with a spell (preferably quick play) that let's you place a counter and steal to go into that mentioned link (like a widow anchor for sky strikers)
@@hermeskino711 what about an actual functioning Field Spell that spreads counters and has the A Corruption effect. Like a hopt every monster on Field gets a counter.
@@Heyhowsitgoin999I completely forgot these guys had a field spell😂. Feel like it might need to do more than that since it's competing against other cards with similar effects. Maybe a search on activation would make it usable or have the protection effect
Here’s a silly tech pick: Catalyst Field and Dimer Synthesis. The Alien field spell is basically not worth using, so the space for a field spell is very much open. Catalyst Field allows you to summon Alien Hypno as an extra Normal summon for extra deck plays, or to actually facilitate its mind control effect. Dimer Synthesis is basically just a Terraforming for Catalyst Field specifically, but with Terraforming itself limited, that still gives you 3 extra copies of it. Is this a consistent way to play control aliens? Probably not, but that’s what makes it a silly tech pick. And it’s just funny that getting an extra normal summon of one specific Alien monster is better than anything their own field spell does.
This archetype makes me so curious about the lore and how it interacts with other archetypes. For one thing, the fact that these are alien creatures composed of some kind of slimy material that have a hive mind and a diverse array of physical forms makes me wonder if these things might be either a progenitor to or an evolved form of the Worms. And for another… is it just me, or does the background of “Otherworld - The A Zone” look _suspiciously_ similar to Neo Space? Maybe there’s a reason our pal Neos never takes off his mask.
While not the best, Aliens also have enough reasonably strong/synergistic Lights in Kid, Grey, Ammonite, and Gangiel that you can pair them fairly well with Worms as a devoted control strategy. In a 2011-12 era of a progression, they can be a massive X-factor depending what cards you have banned
I've noticed that I seems to be the ones that can place A counters that have the corruption effect. So maybe it was originally meant to be an effect on the counter rather than monsterl
The reason crop circle has that wording is because the only requirement for activation is that you have 1 legal target. So if you have a level 4 alien on board and one in your deck you CAN activate the card, however if you then send 13 levels worth of aliens to the grave, as stupid as that would be, you obviously cannot find a level 13 alien monster. The level 4 was there on board, and you had one inside the deck, so it was legal to activate it, however during resolution you sent too many, so you couldn't find anything. Thus, the penalty, so you couldn't just use that as an excuse to shuffle your deck. This is why it has a fail to find penalty, because it's the only card in the game, that can actually legally "Fail to find". And also because keeping track of what aliens you have left in your deck during a late game turn would be very difficult unless you have a photographic memory so if you think you have a 4 left, but it turns out you don't you don't just get DQ'd for a mistake you made.
One of my favorite archetypes when I was in highschool. I remembered I made a deck with what aliens I had with six samurai's and other cards. It was not one of my best decks. (That was my dark deck.) But I still enjoyed playing with it.
The best duelist in my high school used Aliens with Genex Ally Birdman to bring out Triarm and Triforce thanks to their varied Attributes. He ended up giving me his deck when he graduated, and that's how they became my favourite archetype.
I absolutely love Aliens, been hoping for this video since I found your channel back in 2020! Counter strategies are my all time favourite in card games, and Aliens really lean into them the best, imo. It's such a shame most of the cards are shot in the foot, like the lack of corruption effects or Zone A not having "For each A-Counter" on it. Here's hoping we can get another wave of support in line with Zer'oll and Stealthbuster to help bring them up to par! Another xenomorph-type summon effect, a card that makes Cosmics count as Aliens, maybe another way to bank counters, and another beater with a good effect would really help round out the archetype. Zer'oll finally gives us a wincon beyond just beating over the opponent, and with Overlord, Dog, Kid, Stealthbuster, Gol'gar, and the various spells and traps, we've got counter generation for that wincon down to a science. We just need more effective ways to use them. I also think taking some cues from Endymion would help, where doing the thing (playing Spells vs summoning Aliens) lets you do the thing more. Right now Aliens just don't have a way to close out games, and that's what all the support archetypes mentioned do.
One of my favorite decks, hopefully Konami creates new support, like a Field that combines the effects (Once per turn) of the Flying Sauce, Overlord and the A Zone.
What I would find scary if there was an Alien card that causes Alien monsters to gain attack from each monster with an A counter. This would really heighten the danger of A-counters. And or an Alien that summons itself by tributing monsters your opponent controls with A counters even if you do not own them.
Aliens are my favorite deck. One other card I like to use is Therion Empress Alasia with two ways to use it: A- just a decent beater B- summon Reptillane Echidna, set opponent monster to 0, add Empress to hand, summon it via one of the link materials just used, use those two to climb into Zer'oll. Best case in either is using Stealthbuster to proc his counter effect
As someone who mains Aliens, Hypno is one of my favourite monsters and for me is one of the best designed cards in the game BECAUSE of it's inherent difficulty. The value of the card scales to the effort you put into it. With the right combo, you can effectively snatch steal your opponent's entire board with no downside, but you have to actually work to get that effect off. To me, that's a perfect balance. It's not like a lot of modern boss monsters with overpowered effects for no effort. But unlike say: Gate Guardian, if you CAN make the most out of it and play your cards right, you're rewarded with a cool and powerful effect.
Alien Ogdoadics is probably the only way to play it remotely successfully now as an engine and thus Snake Rain is basically required. Stealthbuster honestly is not what was needed, you can easily run Aliens without it. With PPV/Link2, Alien Overlord and Alien Kid, and the Quickplay, those are more than enough. Instead, to double down on A-Counter usage. One of the weaknesses is nothing has protection in the deck so destruction prevention to play a long game could've helped, or having A-counters be transferred to Extra Deck monster using it as materials to stack say from a PPV. Lastly, the Atk/def reduction could be upped given how crazy atk/def mods are these days. 600/counter wouldn't be too crazy these days, so sending an Overlord to GY with Quickplay would be -3600, which is reasonable for a Battle Step 2 card combo.
I fell in love with Aliens as an archetype through Duel Links. Nothing was funnier than watching someone ram the Blue Eyes White Dragon they spent their whole hand to summon into my Alien Kid, utterly confident it would win, only to die because I activated a Recombination Device and dumped Overlord. Or using Brainwashing Beam to snatch a monster and disrupt their plays. Plus, I love the designs; the strange, shiny, sleek looks on most of the main deck monsters, and the cosmic abomination theming on the boss monsters were sick.
I was watching Yugioh 5ds, and the Dark Signer "Misty" used an equip spell card (can't recall the name of the card), which only works with reptile-type monsters. The effect says something along the line of "equipped reptile monster once per battle phase, during a battle the equipped monster isn't destroyed in its first battle and gains +200 ATK as long creature stays on field." This means u need to battle the same creature twice in order to send him from the field to GY. Cosmic Horror equipped with this is a REAL horror to fight.
"Alien BroodMother" Same stats as mother Effect: .You can special summon this card from your hand or GY by tributing 1 face-up "Alien" monster or 1 face-up monster with A-Counter(s) on the field, but if you Special Summon it from the GY banish it when it leaves the field. You can only Special Summon 1 "Alien BroodMother" this way once per turn. . If an opponent monster with A-Counter(s) leaves the field by battle or by a card effect, you can: Special Summon from your deck 1 "Alien" monster with less ATK than the opponent monster's Original ATK. You cannot Special Summon with this effect a monster with the same name as a monster that has already been Special Summoned with this effect during this turn.
Honestly they should upgrade hypno, remove the Gemini and drop the stats, then build more synergy around "abducting" enemy monsters. Have a link monster that puts counters on any monsters it points to. Have a field spell "mothership" that allows you to create a clone token once per turn with the same stats and effects of a monster with an a-counter. Just lean into aliens being a bunch of weak science bois who abduct enemies to experiment (plant a-counters) and get some crazy themed effects.
I love Aliens, cool aesthetic, cool mecanic, whenever I play those old Tag Force games, I always play Aliens (Gol'gar is such a beast there). But man, Zer'oll is such a lovehate card, for obvious reasons. I don't know if the archetype if a beloved one, but man, it would not hurt some proper support. Like dude, the deck doesn't have ANY starter, it's all utility or cards that need set-up and said cards ARE good (Triangle and Brainwash are decent disruptions; Kid and Virus are superb counter generators while Stealth and Recombination are a good one, Overlord and Dog are good extenders) I doubt they would a top tier if they get modern support (as, at the end of the day, they are a protect the castle type of deck) but they could be a decent rogue that could steal wins here and there.
Back when i still played on the regular, I was "That guy who played Aliens". Ran it off and on for years. Had no idea they were still getting support with the new Link monsters 😅 Also, amother niche card i used was Evil Dragon Ananta. Slap it down early for some early removal, or late game as a beatstick. Also also, my fave is also Shocktrooper.
I legit feel like the Alien Archetype should have made an intro in Gx's Society of Light arc, cuz I mean... C'mon! Saiou (Sartorius) was controlled by the Surge of Light (Light of Destruction), which is an alien parasite from space, we had the Neo-Spacians, who themselves are literally aliens, too! So what's one more alien invasion, eh? Eh?
My idea to make Aliens Viable? Overhauled field spell that does 3 things. Number 1, search on activation. No hopt. Really lean into the Gol'gar loop. Number 2. Give all aliens and cosmic horrors the corruption effect. All of them should have it but this way A counters become a legit threat. And 3. Give Monsters with a counters on them the spell bound effect minus tributing. Then maybe a continuous floodgate that makes all monsters on the field with A counters on them Reptile type alien monsters to mess with extra deck requirements and mess up archetypes
Love the content. Have you done the Harpy deck profile or the Madolche deck? Would love to see that. And would also love to hear more Yugioh lore from you bro! Keep up the great work!
The alien card design makes me also wonder if zeta reticulant is technically an alien but apparently is a fairy for some reason lol but it REALLY looks like one
I’ve had an OG yugioh character that uses an Alien deck. I called him Mars. He is the psychic practitioner of The Gear Gang. He’s inspired by Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid
If these had been introduced later, they definitely would've been Psychic. They need to be retrained. (I'm working on my own version until they get their own official retrain.)
On Alien Brain: Some people used to play Oshaleon, a Reptile that forces itself as the only viable attack target while it is on the field. It also searches for another Reptile 500ATK or less when it is destroyed in battle.
@@theskullboy8700 I did actually just start watching him. But I genuinely spent my schoolyard days playing Aliens. Until I got stomped into the dirt by Blackwings.
i wish they had a few retrained cards and a new field spell maybe a new extra deck monsters of each type (xyz, fusion, Synchro, and link) that were aliens not cosmic horrors. though i love me some cosmic horrors.
Alien Telepath does target. It’s just stupid old era tcg wording. It’s exactly the same for Cloudian Acid Cloud and Cloudian Cirrostratus, neither says they target but they do (The original Japanese text uses the wording that implies they target).
Is there a way to filter out the music, I'm distracted and can't concentrate on what he's saying when the background music is also singing at around the same volume.
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Alien Infiltrator will always be the funniest card to me solely because Rata talked about the column stupidity and the Aliens video was released like a day or two before link monsters were announced
Then the Link Zone dropped
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Yeah that Rata clip with Alien Infiltrator had me in the fetal position laughing nonstop😂
I wish we got a structure deck of Aliens.
Same. I don't want to say I immediately loved this archetype, but I lost track of how many boxes of POTD I bought back in the day.
@@WillRennar I would sell my wife to buy that. This deck is my first archetype I played in the playground back when STON and FOTB were released
Same, they deserved it more than Fire Kings IMHO. Even if they revomve around counters they just need a few cards to be viable, predaplants have proven that it is possible.
This archetype would go well with the worm archetype in theme anyway and mutants
@@Emkinasx95 It was the deck that got me into Duel Links, was so happy when they received the syncro support and Alien Dog. It was the best free to play deck, you only needed one Ammonite which was the only UR card
The best thing about Alien Infiltrator was that time Rata roasted it for trying to make columns a thing… less than a month before Konami announced link monsters.
I’m pretty sure the announcement was made within a day of the video being uploaded, if not mere hours after.
Imagine being able to link summon a link-1 alien monster using an opponent’s monster with an A-counter
need to copy some sort of stat from the opponent creature to really capture that pod person feel
😂😂😂they are so bad like abyss actors they can most definitely get a card like that. I don’t know why they hate reptile archetypes
@@rd9669snake rain, yet Branded Fusion is allowed to exist.
Abyss actors can be a pain in the ass for the opponent. In Hungary I topped some locals with them :D
The field spell is one of the best card in the archetype.
this archetype is so cool and could've been so good if it weren't created in the era before Konami knew how to make coherent archetypes
We got context gamers
nice
I was wondering if Wikipedia was sponsoring TH-camrs now
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lmao 😂
maybe in the future we would get a flat earth deck, and get the flat earth context too.
35:14
So here's a fun rabbit hole to dive down.
Aliens and the Goblins are in the same universe right? Well Goblins are also in the same universe as Marauding Captain, which is obviously connected to Gagagigo, who of course is connected to the Charmers.
One of those Charmers? Wynn, the younger sister of Winda, Priestess of Gusto. Which means that Aliens are in fact part of the Duel Terminal universe.
Makes you wonder if the Aliens ever dealt with the Worms.
Another commenter mentioned the fact that they're amorphous and composed of a wide variety of physical forms despite seemingly being related, which could lead to them being related to Worms themselves; possibly the creators or even a split evolutionary line.
By Sophia, this Archetype Lore Web is getting way too convoluted...
I feel like an overturned field spell could do most of the work for making this a fun group of cards to use casually. Possibly one that adds a counters each turn and turns on the atk changing effect while it's active. Could probably even give it another benefit to aliens with a counters on them to explore that side of the mechanic.
We’ll get Alien support when its the Year of Reptiles next year.
Hope for a structure deck.
As an Alien deck lover and pioneer I am so happy to see this video being made.
Retrain Alien Grey as a level 4, overpowered searcher/handtrap, and errata Zer'oll to say that it's always treated as an "Alien" monster.
I want an archetype based on video game arcade with counters acting as prize ticket and a field spell that lets you trade in for crazy effects
This deck needs a few more cards to be consistent and able to be a good contender for the meta. We just need another tuner, synchro, and another trap that acts as a floodgate and the deck can be played really well
Yep thats Konami Logic alright.
"hmmm how do we get this old archetype up to scratch? Oh I know, give them an in archetype Skill Drain. We've saved Yugioh once again."
Doesn't need another floodgate nor be competing against meta. The deck does pretty well against non link decks and can moderately bring out link 3 + kid/virus on turn 1. I personally want it to go more in tune with it's theme of controlling/hypnotize your opponents monsters. Maybe a link that mentions a "monster your opponent controls" that can possibly quick effect steal a monster until the end of the turn with some sort of protection for all alien (including cosmics) monsters along with a spell (preferably quick play) that let's you place a counter and steal to go into that mentioned link (like a widow anchor for sky strikers)
@@hermeskino711 what about an actual functioning Field Spell that spreads counters and has the A Corruption effect.
Like a hopt every monster on Field gets a counter.
@@Heyhowsitgoin999I completely forgot these guys had a field spell😂. Feel like it might need to do more than that since it's competing against other cards with similar effects. Maybe a search on activation would make it usable or have the protection effect
@@hermeskino711 meh Komoney makes Field Spells too strong anyway, they need to errata a bunch of them to have like half the effects they currently do.
Here’s a silly tech pick: Catalyst Field and Dimer Synthesis.
The Alien field spell is basically not worth using, so the space for a field spell is very much open. Catalyst Field allows you to summon Alien Hypno as an extra Normal summon for extra deck plays, or to actually facilitate its mind control effect. Dimer Synthesis is basically just a Terraforming for Catalyst Field specifically, but with Terraforming itself limited, that still gives you 3 extra copies of it.
Is this a consistent way to play control aliens? Probably not, but that’s what makes it a silly tech pick. And it’s just funny that getting an extra normal summon of one specific Alien monster is better than anything their own field spell does.
This archetype makes me so curious about the lore and how it interacts with other archetypes. For one thing, the fact that these are alien creatures composed of some kind of slimy material that have a hive mind and a diverse array of physical forms makes me wonder if these things might be either a progenitor to or an evolved form of the Worms. And for another… is it just me, or does the background of “Otherworld - The A Zone” look _suspiciously_ similar to Neo Space? Maybe there’s a reason our pal Neos never takes off his mask.
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Alien Spacian HERO Soen
Drytron ursarctuc vs alien lore
Aliens do have a connection to Evolsaur.
@@kappadarwin9476 Excuse meWUT
@@Ramsey276one In Evo-Branch you see an Alien like creature in the background
Amazing overview. Love this Archtype and would love to see some support that make the A-Counter play style consistent
Finally!A sweet and awesome older archetype is covered!These are the best explained!
While not the best, Aliens also have enough reasonably strong/synergistic Lights in Kid, Grey, Ammonite, and Gangiel that you can pair them fairly well with Worms as a devoted control strategy. In a 2011-12 era of a progression, they can be a massive X-factor depending what cards you have banned
I've noticed that I seems to be the ones that can place A counters that have the corruption effect. So maybe it was originally meant to be an effect on the counter rather than monsterl
Note to the editor, the music was very distracting when the vocals came in. Good jobs otherwise.
Can't believe you didn't mention Orbital 7's You Got It, Boss! Counters in the intro
Fun fact if you use cards like: Interdimensional Matter Transport, it makes the aliens card a lot better and makes for some very interesting combos.
The alien kid + 3-link monster combo is great.
I really liked the concept of the alien cards, but they still so much help to be consistent
The reason crop circle has that wording is because the only requirement for activation is that you have 1 legal target. So if you have a level 4 alien on board and one in your deck you CAN activate the card, however if you then send 13 levels worth of aliens to the grave, as stupid as that would be, you obviously cannot find a level 13 alien monster.
The level 4 was there on board, and you had one inside the deck, so it was legal to activate it, however during resolution you sent too many, so you couldn't find anything. Thus, the penalty, so you couldn't just use that as an excuse to shuffle your deck. This is why it has a fail to find penalty, because it's the only card in the game, that can actually legally "Fail to find". And also because keeping track of what aliens you have left in your deck during a late game turn would be very difficult unless you have a photographic memory so if you think you have a 4 left, but it turns out you don't you don't just get DQ'd for a mistake you made.
With Crop Circles I know that in the old Yugioh DS games you could actually fail to find with cards, so we kinda did used to have that rule
Yeah I 'member!
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One of my favorite archetypes when I was in highschool. I remembered I made a deck with what aliens I had with six samurai's and other cards. It was not one of my best decks. (That was my dark deck.) But I still enjoyed playing with it.
The best duelist in my high school used Aliens with Genex Ally Birdman to bring out Triarm and Triforce thanks to their varied Attributes. He ended up giving me his deck when he graduated, and that's how they became my favourite archetype.
I absolutely love Aliens, been hoping for this video since I found your channel back in 2020! Counter strategies are my all time favourite in card games, and Aliens really lean into them the best, imo. It's such a shame most of the cards are shot in the foot, like the lack of corruption effects or Zone A not having "For each A-Counter" on it. Here's hoping we can get another wave of support in line with Zer'oll and Stealthbuster to help bring them up to par! Another xenomorph-type summon effect, a card that makes Cosmics count as Aliens, maybe another way to bank counters, and another beater with a good effect would really help round out the archetype. Zer'oll finally gives us a wincon beyond just beating over the opponent, and with Overlord, Dog, Kid, Stealthbuster, Gol'gar, and the various spells and traps, we've got counter generation for that wincon down to a science. We just need more effective ways to use them. I also think taking some cues from Endymion would help, where doing the thing (playing Spells vs summoning Aliens) lets you do the thing more. Right now Aliens just don't have a way to close out games, and that's what all the support archetypes mentioned do.
One of my favorite decks, hopefully Konami creates new support, like a Field that combines the effects (Once per turn) of the Flying Sauce, Overlord and the A Zone.
A Zone Expedition
What I would find scary if there was an Alien card that causes Alien monsters to gain attack from each monster with an A counter. This would really heighten the danger of A-counters. And or an Alien that summons itself by tributing monsters your opponent controls with A counters even if you do not own them.
@@kappadarwin9476 Alien Overruner - ZETA
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Alien Skull - Overtaker
@@Ramsey276one Good names
Aliens are my favorite deck. One other card I like to use is Therion Empress Alasia with two ways to use it:
A- just a decent beater
B- summon Reptillane Echidna, set opponent monster to 0, add Empress to hand, summon it via one of the link materials just used, use those two to climb into Zer'oll.
Best case in either is using Stealthbuster to proc his counter effect
Man this was one of my favorite decks back on high school alongside Inzektor and Machina
aliens were my first deck, i still got a soft spot for them
As someone who mains Aliens, Hypno is one of my favourite monsters and for me is one of the best designed cards in the game BECAUSE of it's inherent difficulty. The value of the card scales to the effort you put into it. With the right combo, you can effectively snatch steal your opponent's entire board with no downside, but you have to actually work to get that effect off. To me, that's a perfect balance. It's not like a lot of modern boss monsters with overpowered effects for no effort. But unlike say: Gate Guardian, if you CAN make the most out of it and play your cards right, you're rewarded with a cool and powerful effect.
Alien Ogdoadics is probably the only way to play it remotely successfully now as an engine and thus Snake Rain is basically required.
Stealthbuster honestly is not what was needed, you can easily run Aliens without it. With PPV/Link2, Alien Overlord and Alien Kid, and the Quickplay, those are more than enough. Instead, to double down on A-Counter usage. One of the weaknesses is nothing has protection in the deck so destruction prevention to play a long game could've helped, or having A-counters be transferred to Extra Deck monster using it as materials to stack say from a PPV. Lastly, the Atk/def reduction could be upped given how crazy atk/def mods are these days. 600/counter wouldn't be too crazy these days, so sending an Overlord to GY with Quickplay would be -3600, which is reasonable for a Battle Step 2 card combo.
Aliens is one of my favorite archetypes.
Played this during the anthology event in master duel. Really fun control deck with crazy combos
"V" ALIENS "V" was definitely a deck I enjoyed in Ye Olde days of Yugioh. I'd love it if they got new support to make them relevant.
If all the Alien monsters are reptiles, does that mean snakes are also Aliens?
I wonder if on another planet where snakes became like us if humans are the alien archtype😂
That's... Venom is a Counter deck that focuses on lowering stats
Your voice and the way you read is very entertaining! You keep me awake at work.
I fell in love with Aliens as an archetype through Duel Links. Nothing was funnier than watching someone ram the Blue Eyes White Dragon they spent their whole hand to summon into my Alien Kid, utterly confident it would win, only to die because I activated a Recombination Device and dumped Overlord. Or using Brainwashing Beam to snatch a monster and disrupt their plays. Plus, I love the designs; the strange, shiny, sleek looks on most of the main deck monsters, and the cosmic abomination theming on the boss monsters were sick.
I was watching Yugioh 5ds, and the Dark Signer "Misty" used an equip spell card (can't recall the name of the card), which only works with reptile-type monsters. The effect says something along the line of "equipped reptile monster once per battle phase, during a battle the equipped monster isn't destroyed in its first battle and gains +200 ATK as long creature stays on field." This means u need to battle the same creature twice in order to send him from the field to GY. Cosmic Horror equipped with this is a REAL horror to fight.
"Alien BroodMother"
Same stats as mother
Effect:
.You can special summon this card from your hand or GY by tributing 1 face-up "Alien" monster or 1 face-up monster with A-Counter(s) on the field, but if you Special Summon it from the GY banish it when it leaves the field. You can only Special Summon 1 "Alien BroodMother" this way once per turn.
. If an opponent monster with A-Counter(s) leaves the field by battle or by a card effect, you can: Special Summon from your deck 1 "Alien" monster with less ATK than the opponent monster's Original ATK. You cannot Special Summon with this effect a monster with the same name as a monster that has already been Special Summoned with this effect during this turn.
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Alien Spacian HERO Soen
I find a video about my favorite deck, I insta click. Good video!
Person: "You can't just summarize the entire Alien archetype in a single question."
Rata: *_"So, how did Konami fuck it up?"_*
Using music from Brawl's Adventure Mode for Aliens is a nice touch
Thanks for the info!
Honestly they should upgrade hypno, remove the Gemini and drop the stats, then build more synergy around "abducting" enemy monsters. Have a link monster that puts counters on any monsters it points to. Have a field spell "mothership" that allows you to create a clone token once per turn with the same stats and effects of a monster with an a-counter. Just lean into aliens being a bunch of weak science bois who abduct enemies to experiment (plant a-counters) and get some crazy themed effects.
What music did you use during the main deck monster explaination?
Black Tar from Xenoblade Chronicles X
Thank you@@captianblitz
I love Aliens, cool aesthetic, cool mecanic, whenever I play those old Tag Force games, I always play Aliens (Gol'gar is such a beast there). But man, Zer'oll is such a lovehate card, for obvious reasons.
I don't know if the archetype if a beloved one, but man, it would not hurt some proper support. Like dude, the deck doesn't have ANY starter, it's all utility or cards that need set-up and said cards ARE good (Triangle and Brainwash are decent disruptions; Kid and Virus are superb counter generators while Stealth and Recombination are a good one, Overlord and Dog are good extenders) I doubt they would a top tier if they get modern support (as, at the end of the day, they are a protect the castle type of deck) but they could be a decent rogue that could steal wins here and there.
Back when i still played on the regular, I was "That guy who played Aliens". Ran it off and on for years. Had no idea they were still getting support with the new Link monsters 😅
Also, amother niche card i used was Evil Dragon Ananta. Slap it down early for some early removal, or late game as a beatstick.
Also also, my fave is also Shocktrooper.
I legit feel like the Alien Archetype should have made an intro in Gx's Society of Light arc, cuz I mean... C'mon! Saiou (Sartorius) was controlled by the Surge of Light (Light of Destruction), which is an alien parasite from space, we had the Neo-Spacians, who themselves are literally aliens, too! So what's one more alien invasion, eh? Eh?
I've been using this deck since Golgar came out. It's been my favorite deck ever since
My idea to make Aliens Viable?
Overhauled field spell that does 3 things.
Number 1, search on activation. No hopt. Really lean into the Gol'gar loop.
Number 2. Give all aliens and cosmic horrors the corruption effect. All of them should have it but this way A counters become a legit threat.
And 3. Give Monsters with a counters on them the spell bound effect minus tributing.
Then maybe a continuous floodgate that makes all monsters on the field with A counters on them Reptile type alien monsters to mess with extra deck requirements and mess up archetypes
you see, in alternate timeline Alien Infiltrator actually a good tech option for the upper mention Spright Aliens Control with Ogdoadic engine.
Alien Overlord looks like a Tyranid.
Love the content. Have you done the Harpy deck profile or the Madolche deck? Would love to see that. And would also love to hear more Yugioh lore from you bro! Keep up the great work!
This was my favorite duel links deck, nothing more satisfying than stealing a boss monster with brainwashing beam
Everytime this guy makes a vid about a certain deck i end up building it in master duel.
The alien card design makes me also wonder if zeta reticulant is technically an alien but apparently is a fairy for some reason lol but it REALLY looks like one
Same!
I’ve had an OG yugioh character that uses an Alien deck. I called him Mars. He is the psychic practitioner of The Gear Gang. He’s inspired by Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid
After the Area 51 meme event, I feel they may make some warrior and spellcaster aliens
Im pretty certain that some of the music in this video is from xenoblade chronicles x which is a thumbs UP from me
Correct!
@@GreatBigPillock you have good tastes
No, you don't want to go straight to Alien Mother 3, if you do it'll remain an OCG exclusive for all of eternity.
4:35 what if the next expansion is Extra Deck monster Summoned by Tributing mondters with A-Counters?
Like a Mix between Predaolanys and Metalfoes?
Ah yes, Endymion loves casting spells
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I do love the reptile pile though i do wish it scaled better
Not related to the cards, but what is the background track durin the monster portion? Its been earworming me for days.
Can we PLEASE get some kind of HERO lore? My own stories have swirled in my brain since 2006, growing with each wave of support.
If these had been introduced later, they definitely would've been Psychic. They need to be retrained. (I'm working on my own version until they get their own official retrain.)
That background music busting my eardrums 😭
What’s the song that starts at 2:05?
Cosmic Fortress Gol'Gar + Swords of Revealing Light = Demented Laughter.
On Alien Brain:
Some people used to play Oshaleon, a Reptile that forces itself as the only viable attack target while it is on the field. It also searches for another Reptile 500ATK or less when it is destroyed in battle.
"You've probably not seen this card (Muusik'i) before..." as someone who actually played back in those days i saw a LOT of it as pack filler.
cubic counters are quite cool as well
Whats thr background song at 8:08?
*breathes in* goddamn Alien Stealthbuster looks hot as feck. WHY DID THEY MAKE IT TO APPEAL TO US SCALIES
The background music was pretty distracting ngl
I have found the sauce for the song during the first part:
No.EX 01 - Xenoblade Chronicles X
Yes!!
The first Archetype I ever built and played!
I'm so sad it's not particularly viable, but I hope for the future!
Let me guess. A rata viewer
@@theskullboy8700 I did actually just start watching him.
But I genuinely spent my schoolyard days playing Aliens.
Until I got stomped into the dirt by Blackwings.
Also does the corruption effect stack if there’s multiple monsters with the corruption effect
i wish they had a few retrained cards and a new field spell maybe a new extra deck monsters of each type (xyz, fusion, Synchro, and link) that were aliens not cosmic horrors. though i love me some cosmic horrors.
What’s the name of the music used in the background ? That music slapped so hard
Alien Telepath does target. It’s just stupid old era tcg wording.
It’s exactly the same for Cloudian Acid Cloud and Cloudian Cirrostratus, neither says they target but they do
(The original Japanese text uses the wording that implies they target).
Hol up. Wasn't that skyscraper we saw the same one from Skyscraper 2- Hero City?
32:00
You used to be able to activate to no effect
Oh yeah one of my favourite archetypes!
I love using these guys with the snake people to make a horrid field of stat reducing monsters
question....if you put a pot of greed into this deck,would it make it an "illegal" alien deck?
I got an idea for the next archetype explained vid make it about materiactors theu a decent amount of cards and are pretty interesting
My first archetype ❤ long live reptiles... Then replaced by mekk knights😅
Does mass hypnosis target? If so, does it target the A counter or the monster itself?
32:54 is that skyscraper 2?
Just waiting for the day someone uses Aliens to win with Venominaga
Horrors "beyond" human comprehension?
I can comprehend these horrors just fine.
Unfortunately, it does not make it better.
It makes it worse...
Is there a way to filter out the music, I'm distracted and can't concentrate on what he's saying when the background music is also singing at around the same volume.
good videos as always but the choice of music really bad with this one , could turn it down a bit
The alien archetype is so messy they have no idea what to do with them 😅
Mix with ogdoadics, or just have an ogdoadic deck with aliens in the extra deck
Didn't see that Hololive reference coming, but in hindsight and knowing Nova's joke style, should've been obvious.
Ya love to see it no3=NO:Ex01 goes hard as shit.
I am surprise there was no myutans joke laying around.