Brainwashing Beam

[Airride]

Select 1 monster with at least 1 A-Counter on your opponent's side of the field, and take control of that monster. During each of your End Phases, remove 1 A-Counter from that controlled monster. If all A-Counters are removed from that monster, or that monster is destroyed, destroy this card.

 

I feel like it's horribly underrated. While yes, there are generally better cards, it basically lets you take control of any monster that's unlucky enough to be hit with the effect of:

Dog

Kid (Best one here, taking ANY Special Summoned monster is Seriously AMAZING)

Overlord

Warrior

Scatter Burst (Shenanigans with Code A?)

PPV After-Effect

Gol'Gar

Other Alien Stuff

(AKA half the deck)

 

It gets off really easily, and Gol'Gar makes it infinite.

Mass Hypnosis is also okay, but the fact that It HAS to be used on your turn to reuse it is...meh.

 

Discuss its potential.

[ÆƵ–]

Having played an alien deck, this card was actually really useful when I happened to be backed into a small corner. I could (usually) take control of the monster that I was having trouble with, and smack my opponent with a taste of their own medicine.

[Lonk]

I don't see any clauses of your opponent getting the card back.  I see this as good.

[Airride]

I don't see any clauses of your opponent getting the card back.  I see this as good.

When this leaves the field, they get their monster back. Being a continuous effect 'n' stuff.

[Zeppeli Gyro Supreme]

I love the artwork and the basis behind the original Alien effects. It's sad that they just aren't all that viable, though.

[Bull3tM0nk3y]

Eh, seems good tier 2 stuff.

 

And as I wrote that, I just remember this is not a new card.

 

Wow, I forgot about all of the alien cards. Did anyone even use them?

[Sleepy]

Seems good to me. I was gonna say something about how it stays uselessly on the field if the monster loses the A Counters and goes back to it's owner, but I remembered they have a Giant Trunade on legs.

 

Don't Aliens have a Trap that controls 3 monsters though?

Found it.. Mass Hypnosis.

[Zeppeli Gyro Supreme]

Eh, seems good tier 2 stuff.

 

And as I wrote that, I just remember this is not a new card.

 

Wow, I forgot about all of the alien cards. Did anyone even use them?

Nobody really used them, except a few times where it was featured as a rogue deck when they got their synchro.

[Airride]

Don't Aliens have a Trap that controls 3 monsters though?

Found it.. Mass Hypnosis.

Mass Hypnosis is also okay, but the fact that It HAS to be used on your turn to reuse it is...meh.

Brainwashing beam is cool in the fact it can also act like a Compulse-y card, getting rid of a card before they can do much with it, and you can reuse it afterwords. Mass Hypnosis doesn't quite have that luxury, plus you need an alien to use it, irrc

[Catterjune]

I played Aliens. This card doesn't get mained in my Alien deck.


The problem with Brainwashing Beam is that it only helps you if you're losing, and only losing by a little bit.

If you're winning, your opponent is setting so you have nothing to Brainwash.

If you're losing by a lot, it probably won't matter since you didn't get counters on the field, or they were put on a monster that was used in a Synchro or Xyz, or it was on an earlier monster that's weaker than your opponent's strongest monster.

If you're losing by a small amount, it might be usable but again, it's solely dependant on what you can Brainwash on.

It doesn't help that Aliens aren't really all that great at putting A-Counters on.

I just stick with Cosmic Fortress and Continuous Spell abuse in my Alien Deck.

[Bull3tM0nk3y]

So,  in other words, NO ONE USED THEM.