Crystron: deck recipe [July 2020]

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The Lightsworn Engine is a good way to setup your graveyard in a 30-card deck. You want to put Thystvern, Smiger, and Rosenix in your graveyard where they can be banished to give you extra resources. Monsters milled by your Lightsworn Engine can be revived and used as Synchro Material with Citree. Sulfefnir can revive itself which combos into Special Summoning a Crystron from your deck. And Crystron Impact in your graveyard can later protect your Crystrons from targeting effects.

Charge of the Light Brigade is essentially a free search. The milling isn't really a problem for a 30-card deck, and it even helps setup your graveyard. Search Raiden for more on-demand deck milling, or search Lyla for backrow removal.

Raiden is unique among Lightsworn monsters because he lets you mill during the Main Phase. Because you load the graveyard effects during your Main Phase, you can immediately use them to start your combo especially when you mill Thystvern or Sulfefnir. Raiden also has the standard Lightsworn mill effect during the End Phase, letting you prepare graveyard effects for your next turn or mill Crystron Impact for protection.

Being a level-4 Tuner, he can easily make higher level Synchros. Make level-7 Synchros by pairing him with Thystvern, Smiger, or Scrap Recycler.

Crystron Impact allows you to Special Summon 1 of your banished “Crystron” monsters and then it changes the DEF of all face-up monsters your opponent currently controls to 0, making Crystron Ametrix’s effect a lot more valuable. With this we finally have a good search target for Crystron Smiger.

Except for the turn Crystron Impact was sent to the Graveyard, you can banish it from your Graveyard to negate a card or effect that targets a “Crystron” monster you control. This provides good one-time protection giving Crystron Impact some extra utility.

Similar to Smiger, Crystron Thystvern will mostly be used for its search effect in order to Special Summon a “Crystron” Tuner from your Deck. Normal Summon Thystvern, destroy it with its own effect to Special Summon Citree. Synchro Summon Ametrix during your opponent’s Main Phase or Battle Phase.

Alternatively, you can banish Thystvern from your Graveyard during your Main Phase and search a “Crystron” monster you need. Search Sulfefnir and Special Summon him, then destroy him with his own effect. Use Sulfefnir's effect to Special Summon Rion to make Powered Inzektron, or Smiger who will then Special Summon Citree to make Ametryx

When it’s Normal Summoned, Scrap Recycler allows you to send a Machine-Type monster from your Deck to the Graveyard. Normal Summon Scrap Recycler and pitch Crystron Sulfefnir. You can then Special Summon Crystron Sulfefnir from your Graveyard (or your hand, if you open directly with it) in Defense Position by discarding another “Crystron” card. Target Crystron Sulfefnir with its own effect and Special Summon a Crystron Tuner or Crystron Smiger from your Deck.

With only Scrap Recycler on hand and any Crystron card on hand, a full combo would go something like this: Normal Summon Scrap Recycler and pitch Thystvern to the graveyard. Banish Thystvern to search Sulfefnir. Special Summon Sulfefnir by discarding a Crystron card and then destroy Sulfefnir with his own effect. Special Summon Smiger with Sulfefnir's effect and destroy him to Special Summon Citree. On your opponent's turn Citree will then be ready to make Ametryx or Samurai Destroyer.

Crystron Smiger allows you target a face-up card you control, destroy it and then Special Summon a “Crystron” Tuner monster directly from your Deck. You can target Crystron Sminger with its own effect and then Special Summon Crystron Citree. During your opponent’s Main Phase or Battle Phase, Crystron Citree will allow you to Special Summon a non-Tuner monster from your Graveyard and then Synchro Summon a Machine-Type monster using only the monster you have Special Summoned and Crystron Citree as Synchro Materials. If you Synchro Summon using Crystron Citree’s effect, the Synchro Materials are banished instead of being sent to the Graveyard.

You can use Crystron Citree’s effect to Special Summon Crystron Smiger, Synchro Summon Crystron Ametrix (Level 5) and change all face-up Special Summoned monsters your opponent controls to Defense Position, preventing them from attacking you.

Alternatively, you can use Smiger’s effect to Special Summon Crystron Rion. During your opponent’s Main Phase or Battle Phase, Crystron Rion will allow you to target one of your banished non-Tuner monsters, Special Summon it and then Synchro Summon a Machine-Type monster using only the monster you have Special Summoned and Crystron Rion as Synchro Materials.

Quariongandrax is definitely not as easy to bring out as Ametrix, but it’s also the type of card that can completely turn a Duel around. If Quariongandrax is Synchro Summoned, you can target monsters your opponent controls and/or in their Graveyard up to the number of Synchro Materials used for its Synchro Summon and straight out banish them.

Yes, you can get rid of all monsters on your opponent’s side of the field with a single card and then attack them directly for 3000 damage. If that wasn’t fair and balanced enough already if this Synchro Monster is destroyed, you can target a banished monster and Special Summon it to your side of the field. Enjoy taking down your opponent with their own monsters.

Use Citree plus any level-3 monster to make Ametrix. She is most effective when summoned at the start of your opponent's Battle Phase with Citree's effect. Do this when you see your opponent getting ready for an OTK, effectively ending their turn.

Additionally she floats into a Crystron monster in your graveyard, which is helpful for comeback plays.

Make Black Rose Dragon with Citree plus Sulfefnir, or Raiden plus a level-3. Summon it for a field wipe when your field presence is much less than your opponent.

Unfortunately Black Rose Dragon is incompatible with the Crystron Tuners' effects, so you will need to put both synchro materials on the field to make it.

Use Citree's effect to revive and Synchro Summon with Sulfefnir, or Rion with a banished Rosenix to make Samurai Destroyer.

Samurai is a good offensive option to prevent your opponent from using battle traps. He also negates inherent buffs letting him attack over monsters like Elemental HERO Brave Neos, and negates floating effects to prevent your opponent from gaining resources.

Unlike Ametrix, this floating effect lets you revive any Machine monster in your graveyard even Quariongandrax.

Kendama's pierce and burn effect make him good for pushing damage even though his ATK is kinda low. With the amount of graveyard setup available in this deck, you can use this to burn your opponent to death over time.

The free revival generally makes Kendama quite hard to permanently get rid of, and it can also give you field presence in losing situations. You can make use of this revival after you board wipe with Black Rose Dragon.

The burn and revival effects actually makes Kendama a good turn 1 option to poke your opponent. You can then revive Kendama on your next turn in case it was removed by your opponent.

If Ametrix is how you stop an OTK with Citree, Inzektron is how you stop an OTK with Rion. Make Powered Inzektron during your opponent's Battle Phase by using Rion's effect and pairing him with a banished Thystvern. He can be quite hard to get rid of after your opponent has already entered their Battle Phase. You also take no damage so you'll most likely be safe that turn.

This has the added benefit of recovering a banished Thystvern back to your deck. And you can later mill that Thystvern for another search effect.

The Tie that Binds is sort of the most obvious alternative to Beatdown since it’s the only other generic ATK boost Skill we have.

This Skill can be used to thin your Deck, set up the Graveyard and give your Smiger, Thystvern, and Rosenix a face-up card to destroy.

Note by NAthan88_GR:

I was lucky to hit KOG early before it got swarmed with Witchcrafters. This deck fails so much against it. Also Blackwings with Necrovalley. Rest decks are somewhat manageable.

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