I wish we got a structure deck of Aliens.

@WillRennar

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Emkinasx95

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@hbb5613

11 ай бұрын

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.

@dingodyno9016

10 ай бұрын

This archetype would go well with the worm archetype in theme anyway and mutants

@the1andonlytitch

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

@michaelnelson1127

Жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure the announcement was made within a day of the video being uploaded, if not mere hours after.

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

@Ramsey276one

Жыл бұрын

Then the Link Zone dropped XD

@joelirizarry4517

8 ай бұрын

Yeah that Rata clip with Alien Infiltrator had me in the fetal position laughing nonstop😂

Imagine being able to link summon a link-1 alien monster using an opponent’s monster with an A-counter

@jasonbolding3481

Жыл бұрын

need to copy some sort of stat from the opponent creature to really capture that pod person feel

@rd9669

10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂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

@ThatOneWeirdFlex

8 ай бұрын

​@@rd9669snake rain, yet Branded Fusion is allowed to exist.

@justshitman6562

Ай бұрын

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.

We got context gamers

@zenethehero5527

Жыл бұрын

nice

@Ramsey276one

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering if Wikipedia was sponsoring KZreadrs now XD

@resdifer7744

11 ай бұрын

lmao 😂 maybe in the future we would get a flat earth deck, and get the flat earth context too.

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’ll get Alien support when its the Year of Reptiles next year.

@nicholase82

Жыл бұрын

Hope for a structure deck.

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

@Heyhowsitgoin999

Жыл бұрын

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."

@hermeskino711

Жыл бұрын

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)

@Heyhowsitgoin999

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@hermeskino711

Жыл бұрын

​@@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

@Heyhowsitgoin999

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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 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.

As an Alien deck lover and pioneer I am so happy to see this video being made.

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.

@videogameman72

Жыл бұрын

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.

@ChaoticTeen16

5 ай бұрын

By Sophia, this Archetype Lore Web is getting way too convoluted...

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

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.

@Ramsey276one

Жыл бұрын

2:39 that image is FanFic Fuel! Alien Spacian HERO Soen

@omegon2540

Жыл бұрын

Drytron ursarctuc vs alien lore

@kappadarwin9476

Жыл бұрын

Aliens do have a connection to Evolsaur.

@Ramsey276one

Жыл бұрын

@@kappadarwin9476 Excuse meWUT

@kappadarwin9476

Жыл бұрын

@@Ramsey276one In Evo-Branch you see an Alien like creature in the background

Finally!A sweet and awesome older archetype is covered!These are the best explained!

Can't believe you didn't mention Orbital 7's You Got It, Boss! Counters in the intro

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.

Amazing overview. Love this Archtype and would love to see some support that make the A-Counter play style consistent

The alien kid + 3-link monster combo is great.

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 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.

Your voice and the way you read is very entertaining! You keep me awake at work.

I really liked the concept of the alien cards, but they still so much help to be consistent

Played this during the anthology event in master duel. Really fun control deck with crazy combos

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!

Aliens is one of my favorite archetypes.

I find a video about my favorite deck, I insta click. Good video!

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.

@videogameman72

Жыл бұрын

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.

Man this was one of my favorite decks back on high school alongside Inzektor and Machina

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.

Alien Overlord looks like a Tyranid.

"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.

aliens were my first deck, i still got a soft spot for them

If all the Alien monsters are reptiles, does that mean snakes are also Aliens?

@maxxcreese9911

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if on another planet where snakes became like us if humans are the alien archtype😂

@firepuppies4086

Жыл бұрын

That's... Venom is a Counter deck that focuses on lowering stats

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.

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.

@Ramsey276one

Жыл бұрын

A Zone Expedition

@kappadarwin9476

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Ramsey276one

Жыл бұрын

@@kappadarwin9476 Alien Overruner - ZETA And Alien Skull - Overtaker

@kappadarwin9476

Жыл бұрын

@@Ramsey276one Good names

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.

Im pretty certain that some of the music in this video is from xenoblade chronicles x which is a thumbs UP from me

@GreatBigPillock

Жыл бұрын

Correct!

@fertolinio9555

Жыл бұрын

@@GreatBigPillock you have good tastes

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

@Ramsey276one

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I 'member! XD

Using music from Brawl's Adventure Mode for Aliens is a nice touch

@Ramsey276one

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info!

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

2:39 that image is FanFic Fuel! Alien Spacian HERO Soen

I've been using this deck since Golgar came out. It's been my favorite deck ever since

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 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.

Oh yeah one of my favourite archetypes!

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.

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.

Note to the editor, the music was very distracting when the vocals came in. Good jobs otherwise.

you see, in alternate timeline Alien Infiltrator actually a good tech option for the upper mention Spright Aliens Control with Ogdoadic engine.

I do love the reptile pile though i do wish it scaled better

After the Area 51 meme event, I feel they may make some warrior and spellcaster aliens

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.

That background music busting my eardrums 😭

What music did you use during the main deck monster explaination?

@captianblitz

4 ай бұрын

Black Tar from Xenoblade Chronicles X

@hirotakanifuji7266

4 ай бұрын

Thank you@@captianblitz

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

"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.

cubic counters are quite cool as well

This was my favorite duel links deck, nothing more satisfying than stealing a boss monster with brainwashing beam

I got an idea for the next archetype explained vid make it about materiactors theu a decent amount of cards and are pretty interesting

good videos as always but the choice of music really bad with this one , could turn it down a bit

Yes!! The first Archetype I ever built and played! I'm so sad it's not particularly viable, but I hope for the future!

@theskullboy8700

Жыл бұрын

Let me guess. A rata viewer

@linksstruepower7443

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

@Ramsey276one

Жыл бұрын

Same!

Hol up. Wasn't that skyscraper we saw the same one from Skyscraper 2- Hero City?

Everytime this guy makes a vid about a certain deck i end up building it in master duel.

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).

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.)

Ohhhh you should do worm

YES MY FAVORITE ARCHETYPE!!!

Ah, my favorite archetype.

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?

There are so many similar decks, like graydle, or myutant

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.

What’s the name of the music used in the background ? That music slapped so hard

My first archetype ❤ long live reptiles... Then replaced by mekk knights😅

32:00 You used to be able to activate to no effect

Cosmic Fortress Gol'Gar + Swords of Revealing Light = Demented Laughter.

@GSUnhinged

9 ай бұрын

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.

I love using these guys with the snake people to make a horrid field of stat reducing monsters

Excellent choice of the xenoblade chronicles x soundtrack

*breathes in* goddamn Alien Stealthbuster looks hot as feck. WHY DID THEY MAKE IT TO APPEAL TO US SCALIES

I am surprise there was no myutans joke laying around.

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.

One day we’ll get cyber dragons!

I have found the sauce for the song during the first part: No.EX 01 - Xenoblade Chronicles X

You onow if you hadn't made the Gura reference, i would have

Not related to the cards, but what is the background track durin the monster portion? Its been earworming me for days.

I'm surprised they haven't made an alien version of crush card virus and deck devastation virus

OCG just got a new alien card lol

If only future support could use "A Counter" being in an Effect.

Just waiting for the day someone uses Aliens to win with Venominaga

Shout out to the best Alien card, Interplanetary Invader "A"

When we will get Endymion/Mythical Beast/Spellcounter Explained and Lore? And more Magistus support??

Person: "You can't just summarize the entire Alien archetype in a single question." Rata: *_"So, how did Konami fuck it up?"_*

ao the only way I see the burn from crope circles happening is that you did 3000 damage with aliens then in the battle phase activite crop circles then your opponent changes infro Tempest to banish all your monsters

Ah yes, Endymion loves casting spells

@Ramsey276one

Жыл бұрын

O M G XD

Horrors "beyond" human comprehension? I can comprehend these horrors just fine. Unfortunately, it does not make it better. It makes it worse...

The background music felt rather loud, but maybe its just the music going sicko mode every minute or so