Tribute summon

Nah we all know tribute summon is an outdated form of summoning a monster as now we have Synchro, Exceed, Fusion summon as our main ways to special summon, whereas normal summon'ed monsters are almost always level 4 or lower

By tributing a monster for another one, you minus yourself by at least 1. And you don't always have something to tribute for. Moreover, when you do, that monster is important. Therefore, aside from decks like Frogs and Macrocosmos.dek, no tribute summon is performed in our current metagame

That makes people think those tribute summon monsters are bad

No, the monsters are not bad, but the way to summon them is stupid

Assume that you have free tribute fodders, you can really control the game with the high-level monsters. Let's take a quick look. Popular choices, weird choices, I'll list them all here

1. Caius the Shadow Monarch: This card, to me, is a weakened version of the legendary Trishula. No destroy by battle, no destroy by card effect, can take care of spells and traps, with the cost of your normal summon and a monster on the field. Not too good, but good enough. Trishula is stupid enough not to target anything (like Spellbook of Fate), thus can't do shit against Slacker Magician (LOL)
2. Raiza the Storm Monarch: The same reasoning as above, but it's sweet when you target something your opponent don't want to draw. Top deck Genex Controller or Wind-Up Magician? Which also means this card is stupid against easy-special summoning boss like BLS, Master Hyperion,... It's also good against Moulinglacia and Megaloabyss if your opponent exceed the number of 5 WATERs in graveyard
3. Jinzo: People play a lot of traps again. And they have 3 traps to stop Jinzo (2 Solemn Warnings and 1 Solemn Judgment). In decks that play a lot of traps, most of the monsters are often not strong enough to get past Jinzo on their own, so Jinzo can put a lot of pressure on your opponent
4. Vanity's Fiend: Because it's big enough with a good enough effect. It shuts down Wind-Up, stop Mermails if you can't avoid a Heavy Infantry play. Vanity's Fiend + Jinzo is a good lockdown
5. Prime Material Dragon: Good against destruction-based deck (Fire Fist LOL), also too good against burn
6. Kaiser Glider: Fucks Laggia
7. Light and Darkness Dragon: Draining opponent's cards. He has to play at least 2 cards to get rid of the dragon. At least it slows the game down, and you have time to gather your resources
8. Dark Simorgh: Obviously good against trap-based deck, even better against Chain Burn, Final Countdown,... If you somehow get a first-turn Simorgh, or simply Simorgh after Heavy Storm, you're in a good position
9. Obelisk the Tormentor: Too big, and too hard to be run over (Dark Hole, Mirror Force, Smashing Ground,... Not many)
10. Slifer the Sky Dragon: Look at number 11
11. The Wicked Dreadroot: Not worth 3 tribute on its own, but if you somehow get Slifer and Dreadroot on the field, nothing can survive
12. Beast King Barbaros: Fuck them all!
13. More and more and more...

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What do I mean?

I mean Frog Monarch is a good choice because there're are too many choices against the meta nowadays. The problem is the deck cannot set up as fast as current stupid decks, so the stalling power of Gachi Gachi Gantetsu is really important

It's probably a good decision to try Lancer Frog now: The deck can stall long enough against Mermails, Fire Fist, doesn't fear Shock Master calling spell (the whole deck relies on monster effects), and if Shock Master prevents your monsters you can always Enemy Controller it then tribute summon something

Just try it. It's the end of the format, when all people have their chances to play stupid decks LOL