{"id":59145,"date":"2020-09-05T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T15:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/?p=59145"},"modified":"2020-09-05T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T15:42:55","slug":"cdp_crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/?p=59145","title":{"rendered":"Creative Deck Profile: Ultimate Crystal Beast, Rainbow Zenith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Shine with all colors of the rainbow with the Crystal Beasts with <strong>Rainbow Dragon<\/strong>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>Replays:<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LOtQXMiHftM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Strategic Summary:<\/h4>\n<p>The Crystal Beast archetype is definitely a personal favorite archetype of mine, being one of the first decks that I brought to local\/regional tournaments way back in the day. While I was much younger and my builds were absolutely terrible, creating a new profile with modern cards has been an absolute blast, so I hope you enjoy this bit of a nostalgia trip as we modernize a strategy I hold dear.<\/p>\n<p>The Crystal Beast archetype is unique in that its monsters, when destroyed, get to be placed in your Spell\/Trap card zone as Continuous Spells. This enables some amazing combos, especially when you factor in <strong>Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle,<\/strong> which re-summons all of your &#8216;crystalized&#8217; beasts back into the Monster Zone when Special Summoned. The goal of the archetype was to collect 7 different Crystal Beasts across your field and GY to unlock the ability to Special Summon <strong>Rainbow Dragon <\/strong>from the hand. But the OG Rainbow is far from the main boss of today&#8217;s strategy, no instead we are using <strong>Rainbow Overdragon, <\/strong>a Fusion monster that is summoned via the effect of <strong>Ultimate Crystal Magic. <\/strong>Ensuring the consistency of plays available to this strategy is a litany of &#8216;Crystal&#8217; Spell\/Trap cards, with varying effects, and all of them are searched through <strong>Rainbow Bridge. <\/strong>The two key support cards are <strong>Crystal Bond,<\/strong> which searches any Crystal Beast monster while crystallizing another from your deck, and <strong>Crystal Conclave, <\/strong>a Continuous trap giving you an additional summon when a Beast is destroyed and disruption by bouncing a CB card and an opponent&#8217;s card to the hand!<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I want to note that this build features the 8th Crystal Beast, <strong>Rainbow Dragon, the Zenith Crystal Beast <\/strong><em>(YGOrg Translation)<\/em> currently only released to the OCG. Combined with <strong>Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus, <\/strong>this monster gives you hyper-consistent access to the Extra Deck, such as <strong>Rainbow Neos <\/strong>through <strong>Predaplant Verte Anaconda. <\/strong>Check out these plays and more with the build, but Crystal Beasts still have plenty of potential even without Zenith, so I urge you to explore the theme further with a TCG-build if it interests you. With that, prepare to bedazzle your opponent with the power of Gems!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Provided Decklist:<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Monsters: 15<br \/>\n| Elemental HERO Neos<br \/>\n|| Rainbow Dragon<br \/>\n||| <a href=\"https:\/\/yugipedia.com\/wiki\/Rainbow_Dragon,_the_Zenith_Crystal_Beast\">Rainbow Dragon, the Zenith Crystal Beast<\/a><br \/>\n||| Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus<br \/>\n| Crystal Beast Amber Mammoth<br \/>\n| Crystal Beast Topaz Tiger<br \/>\n| Crystal Beast Cobalt Eagle<br \/>\n| Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat<br \/>\n|| Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle<\/p>\n<p>Spells: 14<br \/>\n||| Crystal Promise<br \/>\n||| Crystal Bond<br \/>\n||| Neos Fusion<br \/>\n| Crystal Blessing<br \/>\n||| Rainbow Bridge<br \/>\n| Double or Nothing!<\/p>\n<p>Traps: 12<br \/>\n||| Infinite Impermanence<br \/>\n||| Ultimate Crystal Magic<br \/>\n||| Trap Trick<br \/>\n||| Crystal Conclave<\/p>\n<p>Extra:<br \/>\n|| Rainbow Overdragon<br \/>\n| Rainbow Neos<br \/>\n| PSY-Framelord Omega<br \/>\n| Number 39: Utopia<br \/>\n| Daigusto Emeral<br \/>\n| Abyss Dweller<br \/>\n| Number 39: Utopia Double<br \/>\n| Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax<br \/>\n| Accesscode Talker<br \/>\n| Knightmare Unicorn<br \/>\n| Knightmare Phoenix<br \/>\n| Knightmare Cerberus<br \/>\n| I:P Masquerena<br \/>\n| Predaplant Verte Anaconda<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Note: This is continuing the style of Creative Deck Profile articles, designed to showcase a build through replays rather than through a long article. <\/strong>If you wish to see a CDP for an archetype, theme, or strategy you love, feel free to private message me on the <a href=\"https:\/\/discordapp.com\/channels\/87463676595949568\/\">YGOrg Discord server<\/a>, the comments section of any of my YouTube videos, or just post a comment in response to this article on our Facebook page with your ideas to keep under consideration! On most YGO-related communities my username is <span class=\"username-wrapper\"><strong class=\"user-name\">Quincymccoy,\u00a0<\/strong>so feel free to reach out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"username-wrapper\">As of now, I have 3 outstanding requests that I am looking into:<\/span> Nordic, Witchcrafter, &amp; The Agent.<em><strong> Please let me know what theme(s) you want to see next!!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shine with all colors of the rainbow with the Crystal Beasts with Rainbow Dragon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":59157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,5,1328,24,25,2,26,2273],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archetype-discussion","8":"category-articles","9":"category-cards-to-love","10":"category-casual-decklist","11":"category-deckbuild","12":"category-decklists","13":"category-strategy","14":"category-video"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2020\/09\/CB_CDBanner_Site.png?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59296,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59145\/revisions\/59296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}