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Crystal Beasts Article By Dark_Armed_Dragon


Crystal Beasts are really nice monsters and propbly if you read a crystal beast monsters you will read something like this “. If this card is destroyed while it is in a Monster Card Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Card Zone as a Continuous Spell Card, instead of sending it to the Graveyard.” that effect is very useful to put your crystal beast monsters in your trap/spell card zone face up.

Now lets introduce the Crystal Beasts.

Crystal Beast Amber Mammoth
Effect Monster
EARTH / Beast / 4 Stars
ATK: 1700 DEF: 1600


When a face-up "Crystal Beast" monster you control is selected as an attack target, you can change the target to this card. If this card is destroyed while it is in a Monster Card Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Card Zone as a Continuous Spell Card, instead of sending it to the Graveyard.

Nice atk/def points and also nice effect if someone don’t know and attacks a lower crystal beast monster or you need to save to the targeted monster you can change the attack target to Armber Mammoth.

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Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat
Effect Monster
EARTH / Beast / 3 Stars
ATK: 1200 DEF: 400

This card can attack your opponent directly. When it does so using this effect, any Battle Damage it inflicts to your opponent is halved. If this card is destroyed while it is in a Monster Card Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Card Zone as a Continuous Spell Card, instead of sending it to the Graveyard.


Nice effect but a little bit low attack but it might be useful. If your opponent have defensive monsters or not destroy by battle you can harm him by attacking him directly , or you might use Gravity Bind Or Limit Area B sincs its 3 stars so It will work but theres a card can help this much too “Crystal Relase” it gives your crystal beast monster 800 attack points and if its destroyed you can bring forth a crystal beast monster to your Spell/trap zone from your deck .

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Crystal Beast Cobalt Eagle
Effect Monster
WIND / Winged Beast / 4 Stars
ATK: 1400 DEF: 800

Once per turn, you can return 1 face-up "Crystal Beast" card you control to the top of its owner's deck. If this card is destroyed while it is in a Monster Card Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Card Zone as a Continuous Spell Card, instead of sending it to the Graveyard.

Crystal beast cobalt eagle is very useful card and nice atk and def but cool effect it lets you to return a crystal beast monster from your side of the field to the top of your deck even from your spell/trap card zone , you might say so what ? so you might somehow knew that you’ll draw non monster card and you need a monster “Crystal Beast Cobalt Eagle effect ex you have Sapphire Pegasus or Topaz Tiger or any Crystal beast monster you need to hand as for now lets say you have Sapphire Pegasus you’ll return Sapphire Pegasus to the top of your deck then draw it next turn use its cool effect and that’s way you will bring forth Rainbow Dragon more faster.



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Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise
Effect Monster
WATER / Aqua / 3 Stars
ATK: 600 DEF: 2000

Once per turn, you can change 1 of your monsters that attacked this turn to Defense Position. If this card is destroyed while it is in a Monster Card Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Card Zone as a Continuous Spell Card, instead of sending it to the Graveyard.

Nice card 2000 def its very nice I really like the effect of emerald its very useful for example your opponent has no monster and you have monster you might attack with those all monster including Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise you’ll propbly will care of thinking that your opponent will get powerful monster and attack you and you will get much difference so never you mind you can use Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise’s effect you might attack with Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise and at the 2nd main phase hmm .. lets say another example “Bring Control > Berserk Gorilla > And you have Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise you might harm your opponent a bit you gonna attack with Berserk Gorilla if you success then you might use Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise effect so when you change Berserk Gorilla to defense and due to Gorilla effect when its changed to defense mod its destroyed .

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Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle
Effect Monster
LIGHT / Fairy / 3 Stars
ATK: 300 DEF: 300

When this card is Special Summoned, you can Special Summon as many "Crystal Beast" cards as possible from your Spell & Trap Card Zone. If this card is destroyed while it is in a Monster Card Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Card Zone as a Continuous Spell Card, instead of sending it to the Graveyard.

This is very nice monster cute Jesse Anderson’s favorite monster its effect is very useful it might make totally OTK (One Turn Kill) ex >> using Crystal blessing bring a couple good crystal beasts you might have another Crystal blessing you will active it also get also good crystal beasts then you can active Crystal Beacon Special Summon Ruby and use its effect so you’ll special summon that good crystal beast you got by using the effect of Crystal blessing and special summon them and of course if you will mange so combo you must to make sure nothing will stop you for success this combo how ever you can also bring 1 ruby with crystal blessing then activate Crystal Promise with Crystal Promise effect that’s allowed you to Special summon a crystal beast monster from your spell/trap card zone and you might bring ruby and use its effect to OTK your opponent however you can use the same combo with different cards that’s let you special summon.

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Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus
Effect Monster
WIND / Beast / 4 Stars
ATK: 1800 DEF: 1200

When this card is Normal Summoned, Flip Summoned, or Special Summoned, you can place 1 "Crystal Beast" monster from your hand, Deck, or Graveyard face-up in your Spell & Trap Card Zone; it is treated as a Continuous Spell Card. If this card is destroyed while it is in a Monster Card Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Card Zone as a Continuous Spell Card, instead of sending it to the Graveyard.

Very very nice cards as its effect and its attack power I have to say this is the best crystal bast . its effect is very useful with Rainbow dragon , Ancient City – Rainbow Ruins Or Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder . its effect very powerful and good that’s lets you to place 1 crystal beast monster from your DECK , GRAVE or HAND.. that’s very nice effect and useful.


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Crystal Beast Topaz Tiger
Effect Monster
EARTH / Beast / 4 Stars
ATK: 1600 DEF: 1000

If this card attacks an opponent's monster, it gains 400 ATK during the Damage Step only. If this card is destroyed while it is in a Monster Card Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Card Zone as a Continuous Spell Card, instead of sending it to the Graveyard.


This is very nice and great monster (my favorite monster in real life) his effect getting +400 points its very good and fear effect and it will be pretty good if you boost its power card such as Crystal Release he will get +800 then its attack power will be 2400 and that’s cool but wait don’t forget about its effect with its effect will be really cool it will have 2800 if you want to take care for monarch that is

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Rainbow Dragon
Effect Monster
LIGHT / Dragon / 10 Stars
ATK: 4000 DEF: 0

This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except from your hand while you have 7 "Crystal Beast" cards with different names on the field or in your Graveyard. This card cannot activate its effects the turn it is Special Summoned.
* Send all "Crystal Beast" monsters you control to the Graveyard; this card gains 1000 ATK for each card sent. You can activate this effect during either player's turn.
* You can remove from play all "Crystal Beast" Monster Cards in your Graveyard to return all cards on the field to their owners' Decks.


This is one of the goals of Crystal Beast decks to summon Rainbow Dragon . now how to get him fast? Simply if you want to get faster having face up Crystal tree and having some crystal beasts in your graveyard and using the effect of Crystal Blessing then your Crystal tree will get 2 counters and so you can get more crystal beasts and maybe it will be 7 difference to Special summon Rainbow Dragon or you can also using the effect of Pegasus or using a crystal beast with Crystal release you will put the crystal beast in your Spell/trap card zone and use the effect Crystal release and get another crystal beast monster so you will be close to have 7 different crystal beasts.
How ever rainbow dragon’s weakness is is having 0 defense points and that’s what makes him fear effect you can easy destroy him using cards such as Enemy controller or book of moon etc… and you can even destroy it with treeborn frog :d .
Effect #1 is very very nice effect you cannot use it the first turn rainbow dragon is summoned but its well good next turn you can attack with those crystal beast and use rainbow dragon’s effect and send them to graveyard to rainbow dragon have more 1000 points for every crystal beast you send to the graveyard however the effect of the crystal beasts doesn’t apply (Trigger effect) note. You can activate the effect during the damage step of either of your or opponents turn.
Effect #2 this effect might be good sometimes and also its trigger effect witch means you can activate it in your opponent turn too.


Supported cards .

Saku. Armor - its useful when you attacking you may need that crystal beast but you will gain 1 Crystal beast in your spell / trap zone.
Torrential Tribute – its helping you to have more crystal beast monsters in your trap / spell card zone , ex you have one monster and your opponent summoned another monster you can activate your torrential tribute
Grevi- Crush dragon .. its useful dragon with 2400 atk ,its effect helps crystal beast too much by sending one Crystal beast from your Spell/trap card zone you destroy a monster on your opponent field (you can use the effect multiply times per turn)
Magna slash dragon – also very useful monster with 2400 atk power and with effect of sending one Crystal beast from your Spell/trap card zone you destroy a trap or a spell card on your opponent field (you can use the effect multiply times per turn)

And a lot of more cards can help crystal beast decks ….

I just wrote this article as much the information I got about my favorite crystal beast deck in real life.

Crystal Beast supported spell and traps

Lets start with the spell cards

Crystal Blessing
Normal Spell


Select up to 2 "Crystal Beast" monsters in your Graveyard and place them in your Spell & Trap Card Zone, face-up, as Continuous Spell Cards.


Very useful card it can used with Ancient City – Rainbow Ruins, Gravi crush dragon , magna slash dragon , rare value, Crystal tree


Crystal Promise
Normal Spell


Select 1 "Crystal Beast" card in your Spell & Trap Card Zone and Special Summon it.

A useful card that helps much even to OTK your opponent if you have an crystal beast ruby in your spell / trap card zone or summon any Crystal beast that you want

Rare Value
Normal Spell



Activate only when there are 2 or more "Crystal Beast" cards in your Spell & Trap Card Zone. Your opponent selects 1 "Crystal Beast" card in your Spell & Trap Card Zone and sends it to the Graveyard. Then you draw 2 cards.

Very nice cards and cool effect and you can make it easily with Crystal blessing

Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins
Field Spell

This card gets these effects, based on the number of "Crystal Beast" monsters in your Spell & Trap Card Zone.
- 1+: This card cannot be destroyed by a card effect.
- 2+: Once per turn, you can halve the Battle Damage you take.
- 3+: You can send 1 "Crystal Beast" monster you control to the Graveyard to negate the activation of a Spell or Trap Card and destroy it.
- 4+: Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can draw 1 card.
- 5+: Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can Special Summon 1 "Crystal Beast" card from your Spell & Trap Card Zone.

This is really cool card and very useful
Effect #1 if you have 1 or more Crystal in your s/t zone it cannot be destroy even with heavy storm , even if a card said destroy all traps
Effect #2 you can activate this cool effect even in your opponent turn too and halve the damage
Effect #3 this is really cool effect by sending a crystal beast monster you control in your monster card zone and having more than 3 Crystal beasts in your s/t zone you can send 1 crystal beast monster you control in your monster card zone to negate the activation of a spell card or trap card . (The effect cannot be negated);
Effect #4 My favorite effect once per turn you can draw a card that’s very cool you can activate the effect even your MP2 but not your opponent turn lol
Effect #5 Cool effect as I always said it might be cool OTK with summoning Ruby


Crystal Abundance
Normal Spell



Send 4 "Crystal Beast" cards from your Spell & Trap Card Zone to the Graveyard. Send all cards on the field to the Graveyard. Then, Special Summon as many "Crystal Beast" monsters as possible from your Graveyard, up to the number of your opponent's cards that were sent to the Graveyard by this card's effect.


Really awesome perfect card its an cool OTK . how to activate it fast …. Simply by activating a couple of Crystal Blessing or using the effect of Pegasus or having Crystal Tree and activate crystal blessing so it will have 2 counters then you send it to the graveyard and bring a couple crystals to your s/t zone then activate Crystal Abundance so he will destroy all his card and Special summon as many as he send from his side of the field and that’s very cool you even can summon Rainbow dragon or tributing them to summon something cool (Obelisk The Tormentor im ruining eg god deck atm in real life )


Crystal Beacon
Normal Spell


If there are 2 or more "Crystal Beast" cards in your Spell & Trap Card Zone, Special Summon 1 "Crystal Beast" monster from your Deck

Nice card and like always I said it might be helpful for OTK too or having 7 difference Crystal beasts to summon Rainbow Dragon.


Now lets start with the trap cards


Crystal Raigeki
Normal Trap


Send 1 "Crystal Beast" card from your Spell & Trap Card Zone to the Graveyard. Destroy 1 card your opponent controls.

Nice card it allowed you to destroy a card on your opponent field and all you need to do is send 1 crystal beast from your s/t zone to the graveyard. However I don’t like it at all.


Last Resort
Normal Trap



Activate only when your opponent's monster declares an attack. You can select 1 "Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins" from your Deck and activate it. If your opponent had an active Field Spell Card when this card was activated, they can draw 1 card.


Nice card it might be very helpful sometimes such as you want to activate its 2nd effect or 3rd effect

“Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins
Field Spell

This card gets these effects, based on the number of "Crystal Beast" monsters in your Spell & Trap Card Zone.
- 1+: This card cannot be destroyed by a card effect.
- 2+: Once per turn, you can halve the Battle Damage you take.
- 3+: You can send 1 "Crystal Beast" monster you control to the Graveyard to negate the activation of a Spell or Trap Card and destroy it.
- 4+: Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can draw 1 card.
- 5+: Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can Special Summon 1 "Crystal Beast" card from your Spell & Trap Card Zone.

This is really cool card and very useful
Effect #1 if you have 1 or more Crystal in your s/t zone it cannot be destroy even with heavy storm , even if a card said destroy all traps
Effect #2 you can activate this cool effect even in your opponent turn too and halve the damage
Effect #3 this is really cool effect by sending a crystal beast monster you control in your monster card zone and having more than 3 Crystal beasts in your s/t zone you can send 1 crystal beast monster you control in your monster card zone to negate the activation of a spell card or trap card . (The effect cannot be negated);
Effect #4 My favorite effect once per turn you can draw a card that’s very cool you can activate the effect even your MP2 but not your opponent turn lol
Effect #5 Cool effect as I always said it might be cool OTK with summoning Ruby “