Friday, August 31, 2012

Gem Angel

3 Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus
2 Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle
2 Crystal Beast Topaz Tiger
2 Crystal Beast Amber Mammoth
2 Effect Veiler
2 Shining Angel
1 D.D. Warrior Lady
1 Neo-Spacian Grand Mole

3 Crystal Promise
2 Crystal Beacon
2 Crystal Release
3 Smashing Ground
2 Pot of Duality
1 Heavy Storm
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Dark Hole
1 Book of Moon
1 Monster Reborn
1 Rare Value

2 Torrential Tribute
2 Dimensional Prison
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Solemn Warning / Compulsory

First off, what does Shining Angel brings to the table? 

1) An alternative decent opening to Pegasus. 2) Special Summon Ruby ! 

Yes, Shining Angel is (and has always been) lacking in good target but I am not using it for its toolbox ability. Crystal Beast doesn't need a huge monster lineup so not that it matter anyway if it has only 1/2 target here. It can search for the lone copy of D.D. Warrior Lady which present a very good answer to lots of threat which are otherwise would be a headache for typical Crystal Beast deck.

The deck want to achieve a simpified game state with removals followed by any of the 5 Crystal spells that allow for Ruby play. In my opinion, the existence of XYZ will favor a Crystal Beck deck which focus on higher trap count than the Rainbow Ruin + Abundance variant. 

Heavy Storm : While 'theorectically' this is counter productive, actually this is one of my best weapon. It's quite usual for people to set all their traps when going up against Crystal Beast.

Crystal Release : Some will argue that Horn of the Phantom Beast is superior but I will at least put 1 in any Crystal Beast variant. It's a pseudo Pegasus, and Pegasus is the bread and butter of Crystal Beast.

1 copy of Solemn Warning is a personal preference. I don't feel safe with Solemns brigade here. The deck doesn't hold field presence well enough that it is almost guaranteed to take a lot of damage in battle. Instead of 2 Warning, Im going with 2 Bottomless.

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Also, here's another deck making full use of Shining Angel as a toolbox - as promised, my Archfiend deck.

2 Shining Angel
2 D.D. Warrior Lady
2 Photon Thrasher
1 Photon Lizard
2 Krebons
2 Tour Guide From the Underworld
2 Mist Archfiend
1 Desrook Archfiend
1 Sangan
1 T.G. Striker
1 Spirit Reaper
1 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
1 BLS - Envoy of the Beginning

2 Falling Down
2 Emergency Teleport
2 Creature Swap
2 Pot of Duality
2 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 Scapegoat
1 Book of Moon
1 Reinforcement of the Army
1 Dark Hole
1 Monster Reborn
1 Heavy Storm

2 Torrential Tribute
2 Solemn Warning
1 Solemn Judgment

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