Crystal Beasts - Failed Cards and Mechanics 

I feel like a Failed Cards & Mechanics on Ice Barrier or Nordics would be interesting to see.

Failed Cards: Multi Turn Cards (Cards with effects that take multiple turns to resolve. Like after a monster attacks another one the attacked monster is destroyed at the end of the 5th turn)

As a crystal beast fan I really liked your approach to the deck and greatly pointed out their strengths and weaknesses, the only thing i was missing is to mention rainbow dragon overdrive, even briefly, because even if it's not as good and consistent as the control variant, it still is kind of a broken boss monster if someone's managed to summon it. Overall it's a very good video, and thanks for covering my favorite archetype, I'm looking forward for more awesome vids like this

Honestly right now the deck is a lot of fun, sure it’s not meta but the newest support has been an awesome help for them

Cyberdark could be a interesting topic, considering that the archetype also has a structure deck

Maybe a video on genex where the whole archetype is made to support and work around a vanilla tuner monster. They have a lot of cards and should make for an interesting video I think. At least the genex thing about making an archetype having to use vanilla monsters is something Konami loves to do, like magikey, sunavalon and suship for example. Some broad archetypes like ally of justice, who was made to counter an expecific element could also be interesting.

This game has the funniest and most ridiculous names I have ever heard. "Ultimate Crystal Rainbow Dragon Overdrive". Love the videos. Even as a person who barely plays the game (only "Legacy of the Duelist" to be honest), they are so well researched and competently presented, that they are very entertaining. Thank you. :)

After the new support I've been playing it at my locals as a turbo for the fusion. The worst I've done is 2 wins 2 losses

You could do a special on Dark Magician, Blue Eyes, and Red Eyes decks and how while popular have never been a meta deck by themselves. Some of their cards are good but usually they only have seen success in Duel Links.

Talking about grandpa demetto and the rest of the princess cologne support cards could be fun

“We really need some more ideas” lol I thought that would never happen

Video ideas? How about deck building tips per deck strategy? It would go a long way for newer players to understand why control decks don't get as much value from hand traps as they do from floodgates or negates or why aggro decks can work with a chunkier deck size while combo decks prefer theirs on the leaner end of the deck spectrum. Or, if you want, a video on how to deal with Runick. Everybody hates Runick. F Runick. Had to learn the hard way to put Anti-Spell Fragrance and Eradicator Virus in my deck because of it.

Actually the advanced CBs arent as bad as you'd think. Turns out pegasus, ruby and eagle are good enough names to play a single copy of each (also amethyst cat) in the combo variant because at least they do something to further your gameplan unlike say, amber mammoth or topaz tiger. Advanced Peg can put advanced ruby in the backrow, then if you pop pegasus for bridge of the heart he can go there too, and then ruby can yeet them both out to the field setting cat in the backrow to be summoned later off regular ruby. It makes it a lot easier to get the 7 names in grave for rainbow dragon and ultimately your wincon, Rainbow Dragon Overdrive.

I know he is only talking about the CORE part of the deck. Thought I wish he went more in-depth with the Ultimate Crystals (Overdragon and Overdrive) since they’re either free Field reset, or an OTK strategy

Single-handedly the best advert for Crystal Beasts I've seen.

I used to play Abundance OTK mixed with a Hamon backup strategy back in the late GX/early 5D's era and it was the single most fun deck I ever used. Listening to how the archetype has 'evolved' into its current form it actually hurts to see just how far this game has fallen.

What's some archetypes or mechanics that didn't fail us but that were failed by us?

6:00 I've clearly been absorbing more than I thought. Haven't touched the game outside these videos in nearly a decade. But when I heard "High cost vanilla boss is now crucial in a *different* way," I immediately knew it was gonna be "They made it a core engine piece with some archetype-specific support." Guess that means the videos are pretty good explanations of the meta :D

Your takes are 100% spot on. Well done!

Jesse Kotton and DreadGuy have proven that it's a niche mechanic, not a failed one!

wow i got back to yu gi oh yesterday and was thinking nobody remembers crystal beast anymore i guess. And i find your video that was published yesterday.

I like how with crystal beasts they didn't really just make better crystal beasts monsters, but rather went to making super strong traps and spells to make up for it instead. I like that different way of dealing with a problematic archetype since it makes some of those bad monsters pretty good

Crystal Beast when I ran them in 2012/13 were very solid during that era. It wasn't until synchros really popped off my deck would struggle with some meta. Although hot take here I never really used rainbow dragon because I had Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder. 4k/4k all you needed to summon it was 3- continuous spell cards, if it sends a card to the GY you inflict 1k burn dmg, AND if it's in defensive mode your opponent has to attack. With how controlling my crystal beast deck was even before all the recent support, it wasn't hard to bring out Hamon and basically call it GG. I eventually added rainbow dragon a long with hamon since Hamon was more of an ace in the hole.

my first ever deck i will always find a way to play these guys it just feels so rewarding every time i can get rainbow dragon out!

The new support has made the deck super better, not Tier 1 but certainly a solid rogue option. Consistent access to Necrovalley, and Rainbow Bridge of the Heart carries the deck so hard that it opens so many possibilities

Top 10 old archetypes that aged like fine whine

I used to use the crystal beast back in the day to summon the 3 sacred beast by using DNA continuous traps for dark attributes and fiends, the crystal beast would provide the continuous spells and the traps well the traps. I would also use spirit and astral barrier, and could consistently summon the sacred beasts. Called it the sacred Crystal beasts.

Crazy how “Rainbow Bridge of the Heart” wasn’t even mentioned. It’s absolutely insane. Other archetypes would be busted with access to that card

I still have fun with the transcendent crystals Valkyrie deck I run in duel links, you get insane special summoning to go into the good Valkyries and good link monsters.

Next episode, let's go wayyyyyy back. Guardian Monsters!!!!!!

Interesting thing to do a video about: Cards that "pretend" to be other kinds of cards. For example, Gunkan Suship, as XYZ that want specific named materials and thus act like old-style Fusions. Ultimitl Bishbaalkin and Ultima Tzolkin, Synchros that have XYZ-like requirements (two cards same level). Various main-deck orange monsters that act like Contact Fusions or Ritual summons. Traps that work from hand like spells. Hand-traps that are monsters that act like spells. Artifacts, monsters acting like traps. Various Fusion monsters with their own unique not-especially-fusiony mechanics (Neo-Spacians, etc). The many monsters that equip themselves but aren't tagged as Unions. And so on.

I wonder what was the original idea behind placing them as Continuous Spells when they didn't have any spell effect, it's like alpha Pendulum archetype, but done badly

Machenic : change itself back to face-down (early version before guru) monster summon while equip spell card on the field ( butterfly dagger elma, gravity axe,...) spirit of the pharaoh machenic

A video on ally of justice cards perhaps.

Youre my fav duel logs

Is it bad that with the structure deck I’ve OTKed using Hamon, sapphire Pegasus and crystal beast rainbow dragon more than the actual extra deck ultimate crystals you’re meant to OTK with?

fun fact we finally got the advanced versions of These monsters 14 years later

It's actually easy to summon Overdrive with a hybrid crystal beast build. There are multiple 2-card combos to get Overdrive in the 1st turn.

How about Failed Mechanics on various effects, such as the cards like Hade-Hane that gain attack depending on how many cards you have in hand

Sooo im really lookin to spice up my salamangreat deck~ Have ya done a vid on them? Or better yet, have ya tried a series on "the best" hybrid decks and strategies?

Failed Mechanic on Koa'ki Meriu would be interesting

sapphire pegasus and ruby carbuncle are broken cuz you can place crystal beast rainbow dragon to the spell & trap card zone and then use ruby carbuncle to summon crystal beast rainbow dragon............How would i change the effect make it so you can only target level 4 or below crystal beast monsters

I like the new Crystal Beast cards and the structure deck was pretty good for the most part. Though, the archetype is somewhat decent but Konami gave them some attention at the very least.

I remember using Cobalt Eagle for a while before I got any of the good support spells to bring pegasus to the top of my deck and basically reuse it infinitely. The problems I always came up against being I basically can't draw and it left me very open... That deck wasn't good to be honest. But I found a use before I got Crystal Tree!

Dude, crystal abundance is SOOOOO much more broken than soul charge. Crystal abundance is essentially what you get when you cross soul charge with topologic zeroboros. It's clears the entire field and THEN soul charges. And you can't even use backrow removal to stop it from resolving by popping one of the monsters in the back, because it sends them as cost.

Hamon crystal beasts is a fun dexk

Crystalsworn was my favorite gimic deck back when I played. Edit: I quit sometime after Infernity nerfs, so synchro era

I think Mecha Phantom Beasts are kinda a failed archetype itself. Aside from their boss monster and a link support: Dracossac and Aurodron. Literally most of the monsters and Spell/Traps are unusable. Like they have issues about how they utilize tokens which is slow and costly. Probably Megaraptor and Tetherwolf are the best monsters in the archetype because of their less limited uses. Its a shame that their designs are very cool. I would like to see a video on this archetype.

I am actually building the crystal beast deck as my third deck so this vid is great.

I think it would be interesting if you did a Failed Cards on a "good archetype" like Zoodiac. My logic being that it was so unbalanced and too strong that it had to be banned so hard that now it pretty much can't be used anymore. So it fails because it didn't balance well enough, so that limiting it ended up killing it. And yes I know you did a whole series of banned cards so you've talked about a lot of them already, but you could also talk about the unbanned ones and why they don't work nearly as well without their banned assistance.

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the ABSOLUTE disrespect to the pendulum monsters lol

Ruby Carbuncle looks like Espeon lol

I absolutely love videos that explain archetypes

I hope they keep supporting older/incomplete archetypes. Where is my Kaiju support, Konami?

Speaking of Rainbow Dragon, suggest Top 10 best Black Rose Dragon like effects

hamon is an honoary crystal beast

Have you discussed the transition from fusion to synchro?

I love Crystal beast I’m only down 1 on card in the archetype that I’m messing

It is so funny how ridiculous Crystal Beast support cards are, like not even broken meta decks had those kind of cards.

The core problem is that the deck is made of monsters that clog up the spell/trap zones. That's a serious problem when the overpowered cards that you would want to play are spells/traps and pendulum monsters. What the archetype needs is a version of Future Fusion that is exclusive to the archetype.

Gem-knights = best lore Deck 🥹

Idea for a video, Top 10 targets for RotA

Can't do a video on Volcanics since they are a woefully under supported archetype, just like Pyros.

Imagine being a crystal beasts fan and you see this video get made lol

Failed cards - First duel terminal series (Ally of Justice, Mist Valley, Worms, Ice Barriers, Naturias) Failed mechanics - Spirit monsters Failed cards - Sacred Beasts

I think these came out the same time as 6 samurai . 6 Sam decks were very powerful at the time and there was no way these could compete at that time

No mention about the og chrystal beast boss monster Hamon?

Could you make a video on the best generic rank 4 xyz monsters ?

I wish Slime was a better supported archetype

The biggest issue that the CB support cards have been so strong Konami was afraid to make the monsters that good. They got the first Archetype SS from Deck, one of the first and nastiest board-wipes in the game, a Good Field Spell in an age where Field Spells were trash, a card to mass place CB’s from Deck, a free mass spam of every CB in the backrow, and more. Does it surprise you that Mammoth has a bad version of Attack protection, Cat’s direct attack is bad, Tortoise’s battle position change ability isn’t a Quick effect, Tiger has strangely low stats for a monster like him, Eagle’s ability feels kinda useless except in very specific situations, Rare Value’s condition is so bad, and Rainbow Dragon’s effects are trash and need you to run all 7 names? Simple - Konami was concerned of the possible power of the deck. (Now Idk why, the deck could have been competent and strong but still probably end up wrecked by DAD and Lightsworn.)

this deck is actually quite powerful with the new support.

Why not retrain them like make them ... Brilliant crystal beasts or even name them sparkling crystal beasts.. The can be treated as crystal beasts... And have better effects

It'd be awesome if you went over the battlin boxer archetype

I think it's telling that in the anime, Jesse and his Crystal Beast deck almost always faced off against opponents whose monsters had comically low attack points to compensate for the Beasts being pathetically weak themselves.

Don’t hate on Emerald Tortoise, he’s got 2000 defense which is a big deal!

Crystal Beast as their own archetype wasnt great but it was fun splashing them in other decks.

Hehehe. Arnold mammoth goes "BRAGLBRAGLBA"

Kinda gives me hope other failed archetypes/ cards will get even more support to make them even more viable like Toons and roid cards

Almost seems like some aspects of crystal beast were implemented in pendulum

My favourite archtype of all time would be considered failed, as even with modern support, it's just not meta competetive - Vehicroids

Feel like Crystal Beasts would be neither "Failed Cards" NOR "Failed Mechanics" so much as some kind of a "Failed Thematic Limitation" with how there are only eight Crystal Beasts, and one of those was like a cheat by being an anime reference. Note: Konami is NEVER going to replace them with retrains. The one chance for that was with Advanced CBs, and look at them, clearly designed to NOT powercreep the OGs.

Imagine you see your main deck on here

Best Serpent, Machine , or Dragon monsters

Gladiator Beasts when?

To be fair, almost every deck from the gx era was a failed mechanic, only cyber dragon was able to keep, but roids, water dragon, volcanics, venom, ancient gear, etc weren't capable of do anything

I've wondered why they haven't tried to add a few pendulums to the archetype, seeing as pendulums would fit a decent bit in the theme, with monsters becoming spells and such.

If the crystal beasts had effects when in the spell/trap zone then I could see the archetype being great

Can you do a pro’s and con’s Video about Blue Eyes

I hope they never get good monsters but continue gaining more absurdly powerful spells and traps as a joke

Iron chains or vylons are both monumental failures

Crystal Beasts should've had an effect while in the S/T zone that would give all other Crystal Beasts in the monster zones their respective effects. Like if Topaz Tigar was in the S/T zone, all your Crystal Beasts would gain 400 atk when attacking an opponents monster

They will be broken if they ever get new monsters. That backrow is second only to toons.

My favorite types of cards

I'm interested why the Archfiend failed

This deck needs a thanos/ infinity gauntlet card

Spell shatering arrow, the worst enemy for crystal beasts deck

I think it's pretty difficult to say an archetype failed if it's able to steal wins from tier 0 decks.

How bout a failed cards on the Jinzo cards? Jinzo used to be so strong in the game and the anime

With their new support they are pretty ok at rogueor fun level, but yeah before it was not even correct. And to me the Advanced are worst, just as wear and easy to kill as early toons, one MST, Twister, Cosmic Cyclone etc ... kill them And, one one game on two I can have the Rainbow dragon in addition to his fusions on the field at the same time.