Crystal Beasts: deck recipe [Oct 22]

Crystal Beast decks might not be all that viable in Duel Links due to limited cards and only 3 spell/trap zones, but it can still be a fun and gimmicky. Using the Crystal Beast monster's effects to put themselves on the spell/trap zone, you can use cards like Crystal Conclave to return cards from field back to hand, or the other Crystal spells for some swarming potential.

Mainly to be used as a handtrap when your Crystal Beast monster battles a monster. Its pendulum effect is decent at best, but since the deck already struggles with spells/trap zones, using this as a pendulum effect is rarely ever worth it. Unless you go against decks that will be destroying with card effects like Fire King High Avatar Garunix.

Keep in mind that this card is not a "Crystal Beast" monster, so you can't use Rare Value or Crystal Conclave with it. However, you can use it when you need it, and return it back to hand with Zephyros' effect, which you can easily send to grave with the skill.

The main monster that's used for battling in this deck is Pegasus, and it has 1800 ATK, which will become 3600 ATK after using Keeper. It's high enough to beat over most monsters, but you'll have to use this conservatively since using Keeper will also destroy your monster right after the battle, not until the end of the turn.

If you have Rare Value or Crystal Conclave, you can choose to place your destroyed monster to the spell/trap zone for a later follow up.

A much better pendulum effect compared to Keeper, but you'll still have to carefully consider when to use this to prevent clogging your back row.

The monster effect is used to search for the spells/traps.

• Crystal Conclave is main priority, but only if you already have some monsters to make a play.
• Crystal Beacon if you have no monsters. Activate the skill to put 2 Pegasus from deck to your backrow, then special summon Carbuncle from deck.
• Crystal Bond if you have Rare Value.
• Crystal Promise if you just want to bring back a Carbuncle or Pegasus.

This is also a helpful way to search for Rainbow Dragon if you ever want to play a different version.

Essentially the main monster of the deck, simply because it's a low level "Crystal Beast" monster with the highest base attack. Its effect helps filter out your deck and is good as a fuel/cost for the other Crystal Beast spells/traps.

You can summon multiple Pegasus pretty quickly/easily:

• Use the skill to put 2 Pegasus from the deck then Crystal Beacon a Carbuncle from deck.
• Normal summon a Pegasus and take another Pegasus from the deck and use Crystal Promise.

With 2 on the field, you can make an XYZ play. Just keep in mind that the XYZ monsters aren't "Crystal Beast" monsters, so it won't work well with Crystal Conclave or Crystal Keeper/Master.

If you have a Crystal Conclave, use Pegasus to take another Pegasus from deck to the backrow. This lets you use the Pegasus in the backrow as the cost to return an enemy's card, so that you can normal summon the new Pegasus next turn for further card filtering.

Attack is higher than Pegasus, but only when it attacks, which can be situationally better than Pegasus. Mainly in the deck to have more "Crystal Beast" monsters.

Situationally useful to protect your monsters from battle. Special summoning this in defense can help protect your LP from potential OTK.

Crystal Keeper will boosts its DEF to 3200, high enough to block most monster, but only for 1 attack.

Special summon with Promise, Beacon, or Conclave. Best used when you already have 2 Crystal Beasts in the backrow, which can be consistently done through the skill.

Use Crystal Conclave to special summon Carbuncle from deck after your Crystal Beast is destroyed by battle and sent to backrow. This will bring them back to the field, and you can then activate Conclave's return effect using any card that you have.

Send this to the grave through the skill so you can return a card from your field back to hand. Effectively making it a searcher if you have it in your hand since the skill lets you choose which card to put in the backrow from your deck.

Having this in the grave can give you better security knowing that you can just use the pendulum monsters for their pendulum effects. Return it back to your hand if you need the zone again to set something like Conclave.

The only other target that you might want to return is Pegasus so you can re-use its effect.

One of the very few ways to deal with an opponent's spells/traps. It's also Pendulum summonable in this deck since Keeper and Master are a scale of 2 and 5, allowing you to bring back Eccentrick every turn to destroy a monster.

Eccentrick's scale of 7 also helps with pendulum summoning, but the deck doesn't really benefit from Pendulum summoning that much. You'll also need Keeper as the low scale, which is better used in hand.

Crystal Bond is a great search card, it allows you to search 2 Crystal Beast monsters from your deck placing one in your hand and one in your spell/trap zone. You can search Sapphire Pegasus to your hand and then Normal summon it to add another Crystal Beast into your Spell/trap zone, giving you a total of 3 searches.

The follow-up after using the skill, or after Crystal Bond. Helps with clearing your field, as well as helping to get better draws.

Core searcher card, and not limited to once per turn. Priority is almost always Crystal Conclave. Crystal Bond is the second, and Beacon if you want to make a play.

The follow-up after normal summoning Pegasus. Best used to either special summon a Pegasus for further filtering or Mammoth for a defensive formation.

With only 3 spell/trap zones, using this on Carbuncle can only bring back 1 monster to the field, so it's not the best use of it, but still useful to keep in mind if you need another level 4 to XYZ.

Special summon Carbuncle from deck after using the skill to end up with 3 monsters in a turn. Best used in turn 1 since your opponent can't respond with a card to destroy/banish one of your Crystal Beast that's in the backrow.

Core card in the deck since its effect is pretty strong. The first effect helps with floating, while the second one is extremely useful to interrupt your opponent's plays.

Keep in mind that you can't simply flip it up and return a card right away in the same chain. So if you want to return the first monster your opponent controls, you'll need to flip it up earlier than that. If it's not for a chain, you can flip it up and wait for it to resolve, and then activate the return effect.

Mandatory in most decks that uses a lot of level 4 monsters. Effective against opponents that focuses on only 1 monster, making it easier to secure some wins.

Decent monster to bring out when you know that it will work on your opponent's monster. Works as a form of control.

One of the very few ways to deal with opponent's spell/trap cards. Might rarely be used since 2 Carbuncles are rarely on the field.

If you ever have 2 Carbuncles on the field, you can consider summoning Giga-Brilliant so you can rank up into Corebage and/or Gaia Dragon. This lets you return a defense position monster your opponent controls and have a piercing attack monster on the field.

Follow-up after Corebage, which is summonable through Giga-Brilliant, which is an XYZ that needs 2 Carbuncles. This ladder lets you return a defense position monster your opponent controls back to hand, and then have a pierce effect monster on the field.

Very helpful against decks that uses same name monsters like Harpies or Cyber Dragons. Its value is high when those decks are very strong in the meta.

While the deck does have ways to get cards from grave back to hand, they aren't exactly crucial to make its plays. However, its benefits may outweigh the negatives since it works quite well when going against decks that rely on their grave.

You'll need to bring the other Crystal Beast monsters, and the deck will play quite differently than the current example. But it's slightly more usable now since Crystal Master can search for this.

Crystal Raigeki exchange a Crystal Beast in your backrow to destroy a card your opponent controls. The advantage of Crystal Raigeki is that you can use it during your opponent's turn to disrupt his plays, but as a trap it is also at a disadvantage because it needs to be set a turn before activation.

The deck doesn't really have good ways to control LP for this to be really good. But it's an option that you can bring in if you don't have other options. After all, if it properly resolves, it can end up winning you the duel.

To be used with Utopia Ray, so you'll need 2 extra deck slots if you want to bring them along.

You can make a Crystal Beast deck made to summon Rainbow Dragon. While it's really not all that viable in the game due to the limitations in Duel Links, you can still get a somewhat reliable deck that can also work as a regular deck, but can be inconsistent because of the need for Last Gamble.

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