Notes & Combos

As of this post I got top 5% with Crystron K9. Right now playing Crystron K9 with spell canceller lets you play within a pocket of the meta. Many players have shifted to boardbreakers or cards like retal C to deal with Kewl Tune, and K9 Crystron eats that kind of stuff for breakfast. I dedicated 3 cards to counter Kewl Tunes (Driver + Gamma and Contact C) and I called it a day, there's no point in continuing to bend over backwards when you just need to execute your gameplan.

Everything about winning with this deck is about understanding the Crystron bridge and the starleader chokepoint. You need to recognize that after you plat gadget -> summon scrap -> clockwork to tribute gadget to summon scrap again and you've sent Canc + Smiger or any variation if needed that you need to use 1 more 5 alongside the leftover body on your field as well as being able to bridge into Crystron. In the standard noroi combo you'll have to add sulfador via smiger and summon it without activating the effect via starleader, so you'll be losing board space by putting up canceller and leaving yourself on 2 monster zones to work with. The main difference in getting up what you'd consider a godboard (having SP and/or Eleskeletus on top of canc) is recognizing how you can get to a state where you can have 3 spaces available because your sulfador isn't caught up which forces you to quinquery early. When you recognize where you're at in this point of the combo will make you WIN MORE.

Going to provide my ID with 1 serious replay to go over because I think if you're looking to execute the combo you can see where I notice I have a way to approach canc without giving up endboard pieces. In that replay I let go of chaotic elements to keep up quinquery but I could've also made starleader -> summoned lupis -> made quinquery that way -> summoned canc -> sulfefnir to discard cluster, summon itself, and pop the starleader -> link into SP -> finish crystron combo. There's a case where that kind of move is easily just as good since I could've used chaotic elements to get back one of my K9 extenders like lantern.