Bazoo Return

The Bazoo Return Deck utilizes the effect of Bazoo the Soul-Eater (魂を喰らう者 バズー) to remove up to three monster cards from play (raising his ATK points by 300 for each card removed until your next standby phase), increasing his ATK to a maximum of 2500, a substantial amount for a four-starred monster (overpowering such popular monsters as Cyber Dragon). Then, using the effect of either Return from the Different Dimension or Dimension Fusion, returns the removed monsters to your side of the field in an effort to defeat your opponent in one turn. Attack boosting cards like Megamorph or Rush Recklessly are often used in conjunction with this strategy to increase potential damage to the opponent's life points, thus ending the game faster.





Most Bazoo Return Decks use cards that discard from the hand in order to keep monsters in the graveyard ("food") for Bazoo to remove. Modern Bazoo Return Decks use Card Trooper to mill (discard from your deck) cards into the graveyard to create a great abundance of "food" for Bazoo. These are often referred to as Bazooper Decks. As Card Trooper is considered a very valuable and rare card, many use varients such as Lady Assailant of Flames to substitute for Card Trooper.

Here's an example of a basic Bazoo Return Deck (in the Advanced Format):

Monsters: 20

3- Bazoo the Soul-Eater

3- Cyber Dragon

2- Card Trooper

2- Mask of Darkness

2- Magical Merchant

2- Pitch-Black Warwolf

1- Neo-Spacian Grand Mole

1- Sangan

1- Jinzo

1- Snipe Hunter

1- Spirit Reaper

1- D.D. Warrior Lady

Spells: 13

2- Lightning Vortex

2- Smashing Ground

1- Dimension Fusion

1- Rush Recklessly

1- Book of Moon

1- Snatch Steal

1- Giant Trunade

1- Heavy Storm

1- Nobleman of Crossout

1- Mystical Space Typhoon

1- Premature Burial

Traps: 7

3- Return from the Different Dimension

1- Sakuretsu Armor

1- Mirror Force

1- Magic Cylinder

1- Torrential Tribute