Crystal Beasts in the Future

Crystal Beasts have been around for a few years now but generally have been un-played. This format, people would much rather build Plants, Six Samurais or Gravekeepers. However the metagame will slow down in September and Crystal Beasts could have a chance to shine in the spotlight.

Crystal Beasts do have everything they need to be victorious. Here are the main cards:



Rainbow Dragon is the boss monster like Dark Armed Dragon or Master Hyperion. It doesn't destroy cards but it can win the game in one attack. Furthermore it can wipe the field completely. If you follow it up with an explosion you can win easily. This card, alongside Trap Stun easily wins games. Unfortunately it cannot activate these effects the turn it is summoned. The way around it is Rainbow Gravity. First of all you can activate this during your opponent's End Phase and summon Rainbow Dragon to use its effects on your turn. Secondly it can summon a Rainow Dragon from your deck or graveyard which enables this monster to be easily accessed. Rainbow Dragon wins games.



This monster is comparable to Elemental Hero Stratos and Machina Gearframe. It's meant to search a Crystal Beast that doesn't exist on your field or in your graveyard so summoning Rainbow Dragon is one step easier.



This is the card that allows you to draw 2 cards. Its conditions are fairly easy to follow. It's not limited like Destiny Draw and Allure of Darkness. It also doesn't have muliple downsides like Cards of the Sky.



The deck has a field spell as well. This is a good card and can allow for some extra draw power and defense which is necessary.

Now I will go into the most fun strategy of this deck and why I believe this deck is powerful (aside from Rainbow Dragon):



Crystal Promise can summon this innocent creature and then explode by summoning all Crystal Beasts in your Spell/Trap zone. You can either attack with them all or perform... Xyz summons!!! This deck is now playable because you can easily spam rank 3 and 4 Xyz monsters. However Crystal Beasts used as Xyz materials are not on the field or the graveyard so summoning Rainbow Dragon is a little more difficult. It doesn't matter though because the deck can win with this ridiculous Xyz spamming without summoning Rainbow Dragon.

This is a deck I am gathering the cards for and next format I will experiment with it when the metagame slows down. I will also have all the Pot of Duality I need thanks to Konami (right now I'm not that upset with Konami because of this factor). The Crystal Beasts shall rise again!