[AC02] Advanced Crystal Beasts & EN Shuffle

[~British Soul~]

https://ygorganization.com/ac02-advanced-crystal-beasts-with-some-en-shuffle/

AC02-JP008 EN Shuffle
Spell
You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) Shuffle 1 “Elemental HERO” or “Neo-Spacian” monster you control into the Deck, and if you do, Special Summon 1 “Elemental HERO” or “Neo-Spacian” monster with a different name from your Deck.
(2) You can banish this card from your GY; shuffle 1 “Elemental HERO” monster and 1 “Neo-Spacian” monster, OR 1 “Elemental HERO Neos”, from your GY into the Deck, then draw 1 card.

AC02-JP010 Advanced Hougyokujuu Ruby Carbuncle (Advanced Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle)
Level 3/LIGHT/Fairy/Effect
You can only use the 3rd effect of this card’s name once per turn.
(1) If “Advanced Dark” is not face-up in the Field Zone, send this card to the GY.
(2) If this face-up card is destroyed in a Monster Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell, instead of sending it to the GY.
(3) If this card is treated as a Continuous Spell: You can Special Summon it, then you can Special Summon as many “Advanced Crystal Beast” Monster Cards from your Spell & Trap Zone as possible.
300/300

AC02-JP011 Advanced Hougyokujuu Amethyst Cat (Advanced Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat)
Level 3/EARTH/Beast/Effect
(1) If “Advanced Dark” is not in the Field Zone, send this card to the GY.
(2) Your “Advanced Crystal Beast” monsters can attack directly, but when they do so using this effect, the battle damage inflicted to your opponent is halved.
(3) If this face-up card is destroyed in a Monster Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell, instead of sending it to the GY.
1200/400

AC02-JP012 Advanced Hougyokujuu Emerald Turtle (Advanced Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise)
Level 3/WATER/Aqua/Effect
(1) If “Advanced Dark” is not in the Field Zone, send this card to the GY.
(2) Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 face-up monster on the field; change its battle position.
(3) If this face-up card is destroyed in a Monster Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell, instead of sending it to the GY.
600/2000

AC02-JP013 Advanced Hougyokujuu Topaz Tiger (Advanced Crystal Beast Topaz Tiger)
Level 4/EARTH/Beast/Effect
(1) If “Advanced Dark” is not in the Field Zone, send this card to the GY.
(2) All “Advanced Crystal Beast” monsters you control gain 400 ATK/DEF, also all face-up monsters your opponent controls lose 400 ATK/DEF.
(3) If this face-up card is destroyed in a Monster Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell, instead of sending it to the GY.
1600/1000

AC02-JP014 Advanced Hougyokujuu Amber Mammoth (Advanced Crystal Beast Amber Mammoth)
Level 4/EARTH/Beast/Effect
(1) If “Advanced Dark” is not in the Field Zone, send this card to the GY.
(2) Once per turn, when your opponent activates a card or effect that targets an “Advanced Crystal Beast” card(s) and/or “Advanced Dark” you control (Quick Effect): You can negate the activation.
(3) Once per turn, when your “Advanced Crystal Beast” monster is targeted for an attack: You can negate the attack.
(4) If this face-up card is destroyed in a Monster Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell, instead of sending it to the GY.
1700/1600

AC02-JP015 Advanced Hougyokujuu Cobalt Eagle (Advanced Crystal Beast Cobalt Eagle)
Level 4/WIND/Winged Beast/Effect
(1) If “Advanced Dark” is not in the Field Zone, send this card to the GY.
(2) You can send this card from your hand or field to the GY; add 1 “Advanced Dark” from your Deck to your hand.
(3) Once per turn: You can target 1 “Advanced Crystal Beast” card you control; either return it to the hand or place it on the top of the Deck.
(4) If this face-up card is destroyed in a Monster Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell, instead of sending it to the GY.
1400/800

AC02-JP012 Advanced Hougyokujuu Sapphire Pegasus (Advanced Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus)
Level 4/WIND/Beast/Effect
(1) If “Advanced Dark” is not in the Field Zone, send this card to the GY.
(2) If this card is Summoned: You can place 1 of your “Advanced Crystal Beast” monsters that is banished, in your hand, Deck, or GY face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell.
(3) If this face-up card is destroyed in a Monster Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone as a Continuous Spell, instead of sending it to the GY.
1800/1200

[Tinkerer]

Okay, I don't know how Crystal Beast plays, so I dunno if my initial thought is correct here, but I'ma post it anyway.

"Man, they really don't want Crystal Beast to be good, do they?"

(...so I had a couple hundred word long rant here, but I'm removing it and reserving further judgment until I read/hear some opinions from CB players.) 

 

 

[The Highlander]

Oh boy, I wanted Advanced Crystal Beasts to be a thing for a while now ... which stopped a couple of years ago, since it was clear konami would not properly try to make up for the insane downside of having to run Advanced Dark (which is CBs version of Toon World).

Ruby is definitely not bad, being able to summon itself.

The others are funny, especially CB Cobalt Eagle to search the forced Field Spell.

ACB Sapphire Pegasus is funnily almost strictly inferior to the original, with its only upside being that it is a target for ACB Ruby Carbuncle and being able to grab banished monsters ... as a downside it is a Garnet without the Field Spell and cannot set up CB Rainbow Dragon (and thus cannot enable a Rainbow Dragon search + play extension) ... or the original CB Sapphire Pegasus, which could do that ...

ACB Amethyst Cat still does nothing.

ACB Emerald Tortoise would have been fine 10 years ago.

ACB Amber Mammoth contradicts itself because CB decks (or now the second option being ACB decks) do not want to end on the beasts themselves and want to end on a form of Rainbow Dragon + monsters using the beasts as summon materials.

ACB Topaz Tiger is battle reliant and thus only something one should occasionally fall back on ...

 

I really do not see how minor improvements on the Crystal Beasts (with the exception of Pegasus, which is worse than the original) would be worth having them be Garnet-like bricks, unless one activates their equivalent of Toon World (being a blank card without meaningful text that has to be up to do anything) ...

That being said Toons did eventually get Toon Kingdom, so we might get an Advanced Dark retrain (maybe in a couple of years as legacy support) and that one would be up to modern standards, rather than Mountain/Forest levels of pointless.

I must say I am massively disappointed they wasted valuable Crystal Beasts slots on this garbage, rather than cards such as Golden Rule, which at the very least have potential.

 

EN Shuffle on the other hand is really good, being able to tutor Stratos, Dark Mist and Spirit of Neos.

Basically it is a (-1) on activation to tutor a monster that immediately enables a search.