#crystalbeasts

kwistal bists

help me bestie i cant fucking draw

... in the sense of shoving it in a shoebox.

They don't want players putting Grandpa Emerald Tortoise in the shoebox retirement home and replacing him with Crystal Beast Obsidian Ocelot.

I'm done with any further Crystal Beast Questions.

Konami's been giving you solutions for 15+ years:

Increasingly ridiculous and power creeping Spells and Traps and those one off Pendulums and any card that works with Continuous Spells.

That's about all they can do, so you don't discard Emerald Tortoise without severe pain.

I mean, you could potentially get another set of retrained version of the CBs WAY down the line, but they'd probably be like the ACBs: "Suicide Grenade Effect without so-and-so in play" and make it hurt like shit to run them outside their own narrow variant.

But Konami's answer to you have been their busted as heck Backrow cards and tangential weasel cards like Crystal Beast Rainbow Dragon and the ACBs and the Token generator.

Like that Fusion Card the one anon mentioned would be an answer!

Because then Konami loses the license to Yu-Gi-Oh!, lmao.

I keep telling you guys this but you won't listen:

Even if Konami wants to make Crystal Beasts, there's an above 0% chance that NAS and Shueisha have guns and swords at Konami's head sealing them to the 7 Crystal Beasts and Rainbow Dragon because it would hurt Johan and the Crystal Beasts' feelings to add fake Poochie family members to their family, and it ruins the 'concept' of Rainbow Dragon.

Something like that isn't the issue (And Crystal Beasts have plenty of busted Spells & Traps), so it'd be fine, if a bit ridiculous.

They probably don't exist, lmao.

Crystal Beasts have design restrictions for what Konami can and can't do to support the Deck, I'm sorry but unless other parties besides Konami and probably Konami themselves are willing to wave aside aesthetic design restrictions, they're going to keep being like they do.

Because franchises usually have a short period of huge hype and fizzle out. The DM era was almost definitely Cash Grab town. Take the money and run.

Would you think a series would last what is now 27 years old about some kid getting bullied who remakes a golden puzzle that almost got cancelled because it had no appeal until Kazuki wrote a parody of a rude friend of his who became the story's main rival? And that 27 years going, that it would currently on a second card game active with the first, and has a show that is X-Men meets MIB?

No, the average person would call me a crazy person.

Also, asking writers to restrict themselves because it might cause problems 15 years down the line strikes me as absolutely downright insane? No functioning human beings writes like that!

That said, I think they sort of realized the sort of trap they put themselves into at some point and basically have not done the trip wires Crystal Beasts got itself caught in, since then.

But, I'd note, GX was basically a period of extreme and intense creative experimentation for better or worse via both the show and the card game that I'd say the franchise has never really approached since, where they were trying to figure out 'What is Yu-Gi-Oh! if it doesn't rely on Yugi and Kaiba', and what did the players want, and trying to make the game have actual rules instead of the sheer fluid clownshittery of the first 6 or so years.

Crystal Beasts are also like, the test bed for a lot of modern coherent Deck strategies with a game plan, thinking on it. So this was their first like, test run.

To be honest, most of this stuff is probably just things the writers thought were cool back in like 2006, not their job to worry about the effects of their decisions 16 years down the line. I doubt anyone knew Yu-Gi-Oh! would last this long.

Johan not liking destruction makes him more interesting as a character and means the writers are going to make you wonder "How does he get out of this one".

Him caring for his cards was to make him a foil to Judai, and probably make him even more in touch with spirits than Judai was as a foil.

And the "Mural and Gemstones" thing makes them seem cool and stand out.

Like, they were an obvious push to make a well-stated, fairly advantage generating Deck (as the Deck had a fair bit of success when released) be attached to a neat quirky character with an air of mystery and intrigue to the show's on-going plot, and was probably a Deck everyone worked closely on (Hikokubo, Konami, the anime staff writers) as outside of Ruby, I recall most of the Deck being fairly analogous with the real life game.