How Kaijus Changed Yu-Gi-Oh! 

Nice turn one lvl 12 synchro. Have a kaiju.

Alternative title: How Kaijus prevents Crooked cook from being a Tier 0 Deck lol

9:28 obviously you've never played against a hero player because every single time the hero player gets the exact card they need.

About a year ago I picked up yugioh again with my friends because of childhood nostalgia. We started to build random decks with friend and it was fun, but once we played at locals we saw how absurd high powerlevel come new decks had. Kaiju in combination with traptrix archtype allowed me to sometimes shit all over meta decks since most ppl went for the turn 1 full lockdown plays and I just denied it them since my deck was full of denial cards and used Kaiju as the "boss" monster. I will never hate on Kaijus.

ibeginning of video: played yugioh as i kid end of video: i have no idea what any of this means

Level Eater is the true boss monster

I see some people mentioning that the only way past a Kaiju would be to add a clause that says "This card cannot be tributed". Well one idea I have is to make an archetype where the boss monsters are bigger versions of barrier statues, so that way you need the Kaiju with the right attribute before attempting to tribute them.

Heck, Kaiju weren't even the original middle finger to boss monsters. Silent Honor ARK was.

I picture "When Leaves the battlefield" effects coming around. In magic there was a time When every blue deck was bouncing your monsters Back to the hand over and over. they created a creature called "Thragtusk", this creature gave you LP when entering the field and spam a free token when leaving it, so bouncing it was the worst thing you could do.

I play YuGiOh mostly for fun and I enjoy collecting the cards. Though I dont play competitively, I really enjoy your videos and have respect for people who know the in and outs of the game.

In this video: Zoodiac have bad opening boards. I didn't think I would ever hear anyone say this with a straight face.

So... "Dies to Kaijus" would now be the Duel Monsters equivalent to "Dies to Doom Blade"?

Oh come on, everyone knows Five-Headed Dragon is the best early boss monster in Yu-Gi-Oh! After all, he didn't have specific cards required to fuse him, ya just needed an entire hand/board full of dragons! Super easy! (In all seriousness, loved that silly filler episode as a kid and picked up the card at a flea market; my brother and I got into a couple extremely casual matches with our old cards a couple months ago, and I won a handful of matches by bringing out F.G.D. - that's right, it's the Japanese version - using Dragon's Mirror)

The thing i dont like about Kaijus is that they limit design space. If they ever want to make a good archetype in a post-kaiju world they have to make it do a bunch of stuff and the ability to recover after being kaiju'd. Unless they suddenly add "can't be tributed" to boss monsters they can't feasibly make another boss monster centric deck while kaijus exist.

This is why I hate Kaijus. They're cool, but kill any hope of playing old decks effectively. I like the idea of boss monsters. I understand that decks can be a little linear when it comes to them, but they're so cool and it's great when you can get a deck that isn't that good to work well and summon them. Kaijus are just one of those things that the game will probably never be able to get around though.

This is why Trishula is such a treat. If you summon him with djinn, then he can't be outed by any dumb kaiju. Also, trisula can be recurred by Nekroz cycle. My tiny rant is just proving that if konami unbanned all nekroz cards, that deck will DOMINATE EVERYBODY. -just a salty Nekroz fan

Went up against a Kaiju player while using a Yubel deck. Worked well with Yubel’s level up system. Neither one of us could keep a monster on the field for long.

Wait so a a kaiju can use a monster even if it’s protected from card effects?

Can't they just print a boss monster that says "this card can't be tributed"? then it can't get kaiju'd right?

Despite me hating kaijus with a passion I still have to admit that there's nothing more satisfying than kaijuing a zarc or quasar

Sphere mode: Am I a joke to you?

Coming back to this after Eldlich. Makes me think a deck can run fine with only a boss monster in the deck

Only if we had Kaijus when towers was around, At least I, as a Nekroz player, had an out using decisive armour but decks like BA and shaddolls struggled so hard

Zone Eater is the true boss monster

Boss monster back then: big number or decent effect. Boss monster now: Effect negation is a must, and it must have more that two good effects.

I got back into the game this year around March-ish (left when Nekroz were meta) and when I saw that Kaijus were a thing and the game as it stood, i was skeptical, yet i gave it a chance to convince me if its needed. As it stands, I hate them. They are way to fucking strong as a one card out to any monster, and also provide very little interaction to actually outplay and solve a situation. That said, they are almost a necessity now because we always get some stupid boss monster that it is a universal pain in the ass to out. I hate making statements like this because its a very "scrub" argument. But simply put, Konami needs to stop this excessive power creep they force in the game. Zoodiacs were actually used as an example on alot of card shops that show why too much power creep is unhealthy for a card game. I absolutely love this game, but to tell me that im shit for not being to handle a low effort interaction because I "didnt side in Mask Of Restrict" or whatever bs statement like "youre just bad because you play casual rogue tier shit" is a completely intolerant and asinine argument, which just helps Konami justify making some of these ridiculously bullshit decks, cards, mechanics, etc. Anyways thats my two cents.

Kaijus are really funny to watch in Master Duel. Maybe I just like how they squash power creep even after all this time.

Honestly Kaijus are a bad response to a situation they should have never made. They really did start to let power creep accelerate at such a stupid degree towards the back end of the XYZ era, and into the pendelumn era, and some of the cards they printed just never should have been made. They then made kaijus as a way of giving everyone at least one out to any problem monster. But now they have the issue of because kaijus always exist, there's only so many resources you can be willing to put into a monster. Konami seemed to have either stopped giving a shit, or forgotten how to design cards well.

In my opinion, kaijus disappointed me. I didn't want them to be a hand trap that can be splashed in basically every deck, I wanted a cool archetype that could stand on its own and be treated as its own deck. And while it can (kinda?) Its just better off being splashed than just pure kaiju.

The only boss monsters I can think of that a kaiju can't stop are darkest diabolos from the lair of darkness structure and quintet magician because they can't be tributed

Kaiju: I'm a boss monsters worst nightmare Darkest Diobolos: What you talking about

i play santa claws for years :p

One things for sure, no matter how yugioh changes there will still be a shit ton of reading involved lmaoo

No joke, didn't even knew these existed and my Duel Links name is Kaiju......

3:38 i really miss Chaos Dragons. That and E.Hero from that meta are the two decks that I had the most fun playing.

Toadally Awesome is the Boss Monster of Frogs. Change my mind.

Kaijus didn't change Yugioh. Before Kaijus the aim of every player was to get their turn one field out with negation. After Kaijus the aim of every player is to get their turn one field out with negation and cross their fingers you don't have a kaiju. Dropping negators/lockdown cards turn one will always be the best way to win (until konami makes cards which activate off being negated) so everyone will always aim for this. Maxx C is a much better hand trap to stop your opponent from making uncrackable boards yet it didn't stop that strategy either. Kaijus, Maxx C's and foreheads are great at shutting down death boards but they're also perfect for the maker of those boards to prevent comebacks so ultimately no one has any incentive to change their strategy. You can argue they changed card design but naturia beast, Ophion, Ark Knight and shadoll fusion all had far greater impacts on the type of decks and monster designs which would get printed following their release.

4:05 do you have a moment to hear about our (Dark)lord Morningstar?

Kaijus made Magicallized Duston Mop a 3-off staple in Noble Knights.

I run a Dinosaur/Kaiju deck and it is amazing and such a pain to play against

When you play lair of darkness and you don't use a extra deck because MR4

Imagining a world where link monsters shuffle their materials into the deck instead of sending them to the GY and I think I like that world better ngl. Most link decks have enough search and consistency power anyway it wouldn't really stop them from playing the game, just keep them from doing dumb 5 negate boards. Also the fact that link monsters are functionally a send to GY trigger you can keep in your back pocket whenever you need it, it creates some really dumb combos inherently.

Looking at the new Retrained DIabolos thats coming in Lair of Darkness with the Effect: Your Opponent cannot Tribute this card. And then seeing your video makes me thing that we may get some more Main Deck Boss Monsters

Thats an excellent turn 1 board state... Super heavy beast monster, AND multiple back row... Here, have a Kaiju and allow me to introduce you to a buddy of mine named Jinzo Jector...

Bring Qliphorts back, they are doing nothing in the OCG and they have Towers, Scout and Saqlifice all at 3

I'd consider this impact a bad thing, because it ultimately has just restricted the way you can construct new decks. It's bottle-necked the design to go one way by eliminating one type of play entirely. It helps make the game feel less varied and more samey. I mean, what deck are you playing? The deck that special-summons a bunch of extra/main deck monsters in one turn, the deck that discards in order to special-summons even more bunch of monsters from your Graveyard in one turn or the deck that headlocks the opponent from doing anything *before* you special-summon a bunch of extra/main deck monsters in one turn? I'm being facetious of course, but that's how it feels. I like Boss-monsters. Why am I not allowed to have a deck that speaks to my interests? Of course, rigidness in design is an overarching theme of YGO, where they'd rather tack on gimmicks than try to create unique new interactions between cards, but just this idea of spreading the board being the end-point of all archetypes is the perfect example of this train of thought.

I loved playing against Heroes back in the day. I ran a water abyss form deck and my side deck was all super poly abs zero support :)

Ten favorite boss monsters of all time: 10.) Dark Armed Dragon 9.) Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End 8.) Dante, Traveler of the Burning Abyss 7.) Mermail Abyssgaios 6.) Elemental Hero Absolute Zero 5.) Blackwing Armor Master 4.) Infernity Doom Dragon 3.) True King of all Calamities 2.) El Shaddoll Construct 1.) Cosmic Fortress Gol'gar (personal bias for Aliens)

Man... I hate kaijus, it makes playing many fun decks near impossible because your opponent can just go and kaiju over it because idk, you were dumb enough to not have Mask of Restrict turn one right? Again... if the effect was reversed. "If you control a kaiju, your can tribute an opponents monster to summon a kaiju on their side of the field" today, it's not that difficult to think to summon a kaiju on your field. At least your opponent would have a heads up or a way to oppose it, just like when they used to summon Cyber Dragon to stop Kozmo

Back in my day you actually had to summon a monster! Like gate guardian, you had to have a plan to summon "sangan" "kazejin" and "suijin" before you could ever hope to summon "gate guardian" but all the n00bs said "that's too hard" and now look. We've got these shitty pedulum monsters cuz konami wanted to market the game to a bunch of kids who barely read the rules and cheat anyway. It sucks so much!

I love kaijus! Even tho they fuck up my first turn quazar boards. they just necessary to manny going 2nd decks. I play them in blue eyes or ancient gear and they win me so many games

Ancient Gear decks, my best deck right now, has in deck boss monsters and longevity plus one can splash in an extra card or two.

I still play GBs! 2007-2018 baby!

Ohhhhh this makes me love my Graydle-Kaiju build even more. All I need is a few good links and it's tourney legal.

Monarchs are cool because half your monsters are just boss monsters

ra sphere mode is the true field wrecker though.

Kaijus are why we never see Great Magnus.

Dragon ruler cards were pretty damn op. Turn 1 big eye and dracanoids... was pretty damn insane.

I ran Lava Golem and Grinder Golem a lot back in the day. Most people thought I was running a burn deck when I did, but instead I was running an Inferno Tempest gimmick. It surprised a lot of people.

Tbh I think this is the real reason Spyrals are about to be top tier, not just Double Helix. All Double Helix does is extend your plays but even without him the deck can still make strong boards that if you can't out then you're just gonna lose.

Oh man, I can't believe how old I am, I still play Gladiator Beasts and Earthbound Immortals, and maybe every now and then I use Lava Golem, Grinder Golem and Relinquished mix

Jinzo will forever be one of my favourite card / decks even if there isn't much of a boss monster (I wish I had jinzo lord but I don't and don't play enough to justify buying specific cards...) any way the true best card is penguin soldier...

One good exception to every boss monster out there is still number 86 whose name I can't even pronounce. lmao

I like the protect the castle strategy. So, if mask of restrict is a bad idea, what else can I do to be relevant with Protect the castle strategies to protect from Kaijus?

I run a new dino deck and almost constantly have my ultimate conductor tyranno up. I like that I can easily get out a boss monster however boss monsters do ruin the game quite a bit if it can easily counter your opponents ways of normally dealing with them. This is why I like kaijus since these make me think about my move a lot since they can easily ruin everything for me. Same for ritual decks that pump out insane monsters left and right.

Quintet magician enters the chat.

Fantastic video man. Make. More. Of. These.

Jokes on you, my burn decks boss monster is raging flame spirit

tfw I gave my opponent a gameciel and then he puts down a kyotou waterfront the next turn

I still think the "discard one card to ruin the opponents turn" thing is where the meta was best. But I also have a hard time learning the new stuff, and was never an amazing player so take that as you will. For better context of what kind of "broke" me, I stopped playing in 2013, alongside most of my friends outside of the ones that wanted to participate in tournaments and had problems with it for at least 3 months at that point. I had a lot of older cards and at the time the pinnacle of my life was trying to summon exodia necross

"Trap cards up the Wazzu!" Me: Well that is where they come from

Mate I used to rock Five-Headed Dragon and Superdimensional Robot Galaxy Destroyer in my Chaos Dragons deck before REDMD got limited.

My favorite move ever was using gamaciel on a dragun and then using monster reborn to get the dragun on my side all the while summoning my Juzi with a limiter removal

Masked heroes with toadally awesome and bahamut shark is a heresy

I just saw that card and immediately thought of Destiny Board haha

I loved playing Yosenju Kaiju, it was so much troll!

BA player, never main decked Kaiju’s, but I do have the Gameceil and Gadarla sided for some match ups. Same with Mask of Restrict, Anti-Spell etc. - they’re great side options. I’ve played F0: Utopic Future in my extra deck for years purely to deal with the boss monster-centric decks (Kozmo Dark Destroyer...ugh). Majespecter unicorn -Kirin would have been amazing to Kaiju. Bane of my existence.

More good better ❤ Love ur vids man, keep it up

Yugioh 2022: Now boss monsters have the effect, "this card cannot be removed from the field."

Pesky boss monster's giving you trouble? There's a kaiju for that 👌

Doom king is the boss monster of zombies

I have been testing a mini shaddoll engine in my cyberdark deck and it is working well

what about blue eyes shining dragon?

Have a turtle.

Gladiator beasts were my favorite archetypes today

Kaijus are evil, but they definitely are a necessary evil. I know some people complain that Kaijus make playing a boss monster deck hard, but if a deck summons a boss monster just in terms of attack points or an effect that hurts, but doesn't prevent me from playing, then I don't bother siding in Kaijus because of the reason I feel like they're fair; they mess up the flow of your deck. First and foremost you have to actually open up a kaiju; opening up with it late sucks. Next thing is that after you open up with it, you're still giving your opponent a monster, so you still need to be able to destroy it somehow. And finally, using a Kaiju to out your opponent's boss monster means little if they could just make a recover quickly. Take Kozmos for example, when I kaijued a Dark Destroyer, my opponent would just flip call of the haunted and bring the Dark Destroyer back; now I have to deal with the Dark Destroyer and the Kaiju I just gave my opponent. To wrap up, Kaijus aren't the problem to me, it's slumber. I know it's limited now, but it was too powerful to have a board wipe AND be able to search another Kaiju to out another future board.

I remember facing kaijus with my remove brainwashing deck. Good times beating them down with lava golem followed by nightmare arch fiends.

I have a question..can you tribute a monster your opponent controls (that is unaffected by other cards effects : such as raidraptor-ultimate falcon) to special smmon a kaiju monster ?!

I like Ultimate Conductor Tyranno. He looks nice. And I like dinosaurs.

I think kaijus are the best type of removel mechanic which doesnt make people rage and cancerous or toxic I never ever got salty about getting my monster removed from kaiju plays because i dont know it doesnt feel like a extremly butthurt method to do like every mother fukin other shit in this game

You should do a series on boss monsters from structure decks and or rank them

Since I run superheavy samurai sometimes, I can just play the star destroying kaiju, which is level ten, then battleball it to get the level 12 sychro, I can win the game that turn if I have soul horns, or soul glove, or both in my hand

I know this is 2 years late lmao, but isn't kozmo dark destroy a main deck boss monster? Like put that puppy on the field a boom boss monster 3k, unaffected by targeted card effects and flots?

BIGGET TARGET. Love your videos dude, keep it up.

Doug, there's always been kaiju-like monsters.

Masked beast was my favorite old school boss monster

That card name offends me as i love dragons and will never harm them.

Jinzo... dang that's a name I haven't heard in ....... about 15 years.... this game looks so confusing now that I'm seeing it after so long.

When master peace got banned, Metaltron popped up, now you get immunity to all fucking effects. And worse, it now gives you another monster from your extra deck. You can literally float into superheavy samurai steam train king or some other bs.

The problem with Kaijus and Master Peace is that they have established a power creep to removal and boss monsters that leave older archetypes completely unplayable. If they never printed Master Peace or similarly hard to remove cards, Kaijus wouldn't be a necessary out.