Why are Crystal Beasts so weak ?

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Seriously I can beat someone with a Crystal Beast deck in my sleep. I feel like a Crystal Beast deck needs more support cards or something.

[Little Nemo]

Maybe because 3 Trap/Spell slots for them is far too low.

[arandompersons]

its not that they are weak in general or the spell/trap slots. its that the power creep is going ballistic at an average of duelists now summon monsters with 1900+ attack and the average attack now hanging around 2900+

also to top it off. multiple new monster destruction methods are going ballistic ( as clearly seen with syvalians or however they are spelt )

dont blame the crystal beasts, blame konami for once again. releasing monsters ahead of their time AND making the power creep hang around an average of 2900 ATK for monsters in duels these days. IN duel links. alot of us came here to escape all of the meta stuff in current yu-gi-oh yet its steadily coming here, and konami wont do crap all abot it case so many people just whale it (spend large amounts of money etc on the new meta decks and smash everyone) even if you dont whale it, the cheap decks are now smashing everything and alot of effort that people put into making new decks/stratergies has gone completely out the window.

[A88mph]

Originally posted by arandompersons:

dont blame the crystal beasts, blame konami for once again. releasing monsters ahead of their time AND making the power creep hang around an average of 2900 ATK for monsters in duels these days. IN duel links. alot of us came here to escape all of the meta stuff in current yu-gi-oh yet its steadily coming here, and konami wont do crap all abot it case so many people just whale it (spend large amounts of money etc on the new meta decks and smash everyone) even if you dont whale it, the cheap decks are now smashing everything and alot of effort that people put into making new decks/stratergies has gone completely out the window.

That's the reason I started Duel Links, and Konami is making me consider leaving once more. However, I am holding on and waiting for the Synchro Era, simply because that was my Golden Age for Yugioh.

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Well regardless of whatever is the current meta I am sticking to my wetlands deck and nobody can maybe me play otherwise.

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As far as I can tell the only good you can get out of Crystal Beasts is if you have 3 Crystal Raigeki cards which lets you send one of your crystal beast monsters in your spell/trap zone to the graveyard to destory 1 card your enemy controls.

[Sparse Dunes]

Takes too much dedication to go into a really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ boss monster. They'll get better once xyz are introduced.
In a non dedicated rainbow dragon deck you basically focus on peagsus.

Even when these guys were released in the tcg, they were bad.

The power creep does play a factor, but a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ archetype is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ archetype.

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xyz are already in the game

[Firewalk]

Originally posted by Кhaotic:

xyz are already in the game

Not THOSE Xyz monsters, you are thinking of the LIGHT union monsters, not the monster card type he meant.

[chelinox6]

dont feel so bad in this meta even really strong cards from the GX era like evil heroes would be weak, thats konami's fault for releasing cards from zexxal or ARC-V so early.

[Plaguelight]

Originally posted by Firewalk:

Originally posted by Кhaotic:

xyz are already in the game

Not THOSE Xyz monsters, you are thinking of the LIGHT union monsters, not the monster card type he meant.

I think most get that mixed up because in the show, subbed, it's pronounced EXCEED/EX-SEED and thus, we think of it as that. or at least, I do. Xyz sounds completely stupid to me.

[76561198834699550]

Originally posted by arandompersons:

its not that they are weak in general or the spell/trap slots. its that the power creep is going ballistic at an average of duelists now summon monsters with 1900+ attack and the average attack now hanging around 2900+

also to top it off. multiple new monster destruction methods are going ballistic ( as clearly seen with syvalians or however they are spelt )

dont blame the crystal beasts, blame konami for once again. releasing monsters ahead of their time AND making the power creep hang around an average of 2900 ATK for monsters in duels these days. IN duel links. alot of us came here to escape all of the meta stuff in current yu-gi-oh yet its steadily coming here, and konami wont do crap all abot it case so many people just whale it (spend large amounts of money etc on the new meta decks and smash everyone) even if you dont whale it, the cheap decks are now smashing everything and alot of effort that people put into making new decks/stratergies has gone completely out the window.

If Crystal Beasts had come to Duel Links a year ago, they would be amazing.

[Sparse Dunes]

Originally posted by Plaguelight:

Originally posted by Firewalk:

Not THOSE Xyz monsters, you are thinking of the LIGHT union monsters, not the monster card type he meant.

I think most get that mixed up because in the show, subbed, it's pronounced EXCEED/EX-SEED and thus, we think of it as that. or at least, I do. Xyz sounds completely stupid to me.

How would one even mix it up when we're disucssing crystal beasts? Dragon Cannon doesn't even fit in a Crystal Beast deck in any shape or form, it's common sense.

[arandompersons]

Originally posted by dlink_acc09:

Originally posted by arandompersons:

its not that they are weak in general or the spell/trap slots. its that the power creep is going ballistic at an average of duelists now summon monsters with 1900+ attack and the average attack now hanging around 2900+

also to top it off. multiple new monster destruction methods are going ballistic ( as clearly seen with syvalians or however they are spelt )

dont blame the crystal beasts, blame konami for once again. releasing monsters ahead of their time AND making the power creep hang around an average of 2900 ATK for monsters in duels these days. IN duel links. alot of us came here to escape all of the meta stuff in current yu-gi-oh yet its steadily coming here, and konami wont do crap all abot it case so many people just whale it (spend large amounts of money etc on the new meta decks and smash everyone) even if you dont whale it, the cheap decks are now smashing everything and alot of effort that people put into making new decks/stratergies has gone completely out the window.

If Crystal Beasts had come to Duel Links a year ago, they would be amazing.

i totes agree with what ya said :O

[Firewalk]

Crystal Beasts need some boss monsters. Rainbow Dragon is a joke. A 4K ATK monster with 0 DEF and no protection that asks you move entire mountains to play it in a game where everyone runs E-Con and other position changers?

Right now we got Gravi Crush Dragon and Magna Slash Dragon and that's kinda it, although they are decent given the deck.

Once Hamon is added, they finally have something more beastly.

[Plaguelight]

Originally posted by Firewalk:

Crystal Beasts need some boss monsters. Rainbow Dragon is a joke. A 4K ATK monster with 0 DEF and no protection that asks you move entire mountains to play it in a game where everyone runs E-Con and other position changers?

Right now we got Gravi Crush Dragon and Magna Slash Dragon and that's kinda it, although they are decent given the deck.

Once Hamon is added, they finally have something more beastly.

Hell, once Master Duel is finally added, they will be SO MUCH more enjoyable to use, win or lose. You could actually make use of half of their abilities more readily, and spells/traps could ACTUALLY find a use in a deck that makes those three slots void and null 99% of the time.