I wish we got a structure deck of Aliens.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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'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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

Aliens is one of my favorite archetypes.

"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.

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.

Alien Overlord looks like a Tyranid.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

"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.

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

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

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 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).

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

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.

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

That background music busting my eardrums 😭

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.

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

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.

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!

I actually have an idea for a new archetype that focuses on counters: Burnaga. I have some general ideas for how the archetype would work, but I would need some help solidifying the cards. It’s a series of FIRE dragon-type monsters that focus on Xyz summoning. Their main gimmick is placing “burn counters” on opposing monsters, and during each end phase, the opponent takes 200 damage for each burn counter on the field. I’m starting with 200 per since I don’t want it to come off as too degenerate (i.e. making it similar to Tempest Magician), but I have had a suggestion for it being 300 per during each opponent’s end phase. Anyway, the end-phase-burn effect would be present on all the monsters (similar to the A-Cell Corruption effect), but it can only be applied once per turn (for obvious reasons). Moving on to the monsters, their main levels are 4, 5 and 7, and they have several effects relating to burn counters, either placing them or gaining ATK from them. And while the boss monsters are Xyz monsters, the main deck monsters would still be able to hold their own. Speaking of the boss monsters, they each have a lingering effect that applies to opposing monsters with burn counters, such as effect negation, doubling the burn damage, halving ATK and DEF, etc, but I haven’t determined what the detach effects will be like. As for the spells and traps, I have a few solid ideas for them. The field spell searches a monster on activation, and if an opponent’s monster with burn counters on it is used as material for an extra deck summon, the counters carry over to that monster. There’d also be an archetype rota, a continuous spell similar to “Code A Ancient Ruins”, a trap that prevents monsters with burn counters from being used as material (probably a once per duel effect), etc. I apologize for this comment being so long, but that’s my pitch. If you have any suggestions to help flesh out the cards and effects, please let me know.

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

cubic counters are quite cool as well

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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am surprise there was no myutans joke laying around.

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

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.

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

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

Excellent choice of the xenoblade chronicles x soundtrack

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

If Aliens get new Support anounced before December after this Video now, i wonder if Konami will also give them the Waifu Treatment?

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

Ah yes, Endymion loves casting spells

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

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

Ya love to see it no3=NO:Ex01 goes hard as shit.

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

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

The background music was pretty distracting ngl

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

KZfaq added Area 51 context onto this video. Well it does kind of fit, so ok

Also does the corruption effect stack if there’s multiple monsters with the corruption effect

"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.

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

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

The alien archetype is so messy they have no idea what to do with them 😅

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?