Crystron Tristaros – #SUDA-EN019
When your opponent activates a card or effect (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon 1 “Crystron” monster from your Deck, except “Crystron Tristaros”, then immediately after this effect resolves, Synchro Summon 1 Machine Synchro Monster using monsters you control, including that monster. You can banish this card from your GY; destroy 1 Synchro Monster you control, and if you do, Special Summon 2 “Crystron” monsters from your Deck, also you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except Machine monsters. You can only use each effect of “Crystron Tristaros” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: March 17th, 2025
Rating: 4
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is awful. 3 is average. 5 is excellent.
Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
We’re back with more Crystron support coming from Supreme Darkness. Whenever an archetype allows for Synchro Summoning on the opponent’s turn I immediately think about Yang Zing. We are beginning with Crystron Tristaros.
Level 2 Machine Tuner, Tristaros is a nice way to Special Summon any Crystron from your Deck and immediately go into a Machine Synchro Summon. It has to respond to an opponent’s card or effect, but that means you can end on Tristaros and still be okay. A few of the Crystron monsters are Level 5 and you don’t want to summons those the normal way. This one effect thins your Deck of a monster that you may only run a single copy of depending on your build and then gets you to any Level 7 Machine Synchro (if choosing a Level 5 Crystron). Assuming this is the only Crystron on your side of the field and Tristaros’s effect activates to get you another Crystron before your Synchro Summon, you have several options: F.A. Dawn Dragster, Dark Strike Fighter, and Rampaging Smashtank Rhynosaber are some out of archetype choices with Dragster being the best with its negation potential, while Rhynosaber has a discard ability to help the Crystron in hand get to the grave.
Banish Tristaros from the graveyard so you can Special Summon 2 Crystron monsters from the Deck. You do have to trade a Synchro Monster you control, however, each Crystron Synchro Monster will give you something back when destroyed (if Synchro Summoned). Trading a smaller Crystron Synchro Monster to banish Tristaros to then Synchro Summon into something larger again thins your Deck and allows you to go for something bigger. Also, in certain cases, you could steal an opponent’s Synchro and perform this effect. In all, you should be getting two Synchro Summons and three deck thins from Tristaros. Popping something like Friday’s CoTD: Crystron Eleskeletus will Special out two Crystron from the Deck off of Tristaros and then Special Summon Tristaros from the banished area because of Eleskeletus.
It’s a shame this little guy wasn’t 300ATK less so we could Machine Duplication him. Synchro Summon on your opponent’s turn while deck thinning and can banish itself to summon two other Crystron from the Deck which will inevitably lead to another Synchro Summon. Those monsters effects aren’t negated, you can pick another Tristaros, and if you trade a Synchro Summoned Crystron it will pay you back. This is a tremendous monster for the archetype and solidifies the strategy.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 4/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
Crystron support is up this week, and thankfully we don’t have a card as broken as Halqifibrax, but still decent cards and we start with a new Level 2 Tuner for the archetype: Crystron Tristaros.
Tristaros is a Level 2 WATER Machine Tuner with 800 ATK and 2000 DEF. A big DEF stat on a Level 2 monster, WATER is always solid, and Machine has good support. The first effect is a Quick Effect when the opponent activates a card or effect, letting you summon any Crystron from the Deck, besides Tristaros, and then immediately Synchro Summon a Machine Synchro using monsters you control as material, including the summoned monster. So when the opponent begins playing the game, you get to get a Synchro by using a monster that’s in your Deck, helping summon a Level 7 like F.A. Dawn Dragister on the opponent’s turn, or if you got the other material you can get into Quariongandrax. It’s also something you can use if the opponent decides to use a hand trap on you, rewarding you with a Synchro. The other effect lets you banish this card from the graveyard to destroy a Synchro Monster you control to summon 2 Crystron monsters from your Deck, but you can only summon Machines from the Extra Deck for the rest of the turn. Solid considering all the Crystron Synchros usually get you more bodies back on the field after being destroyed, so you can get 2 names from the Deck and another from the Crystron you destroy, helping get to other Synchro monsters or Level 5s to summon Cyber Dragon Nova and Cyber Dragon Infinity. The Machine lock is fine considering there are decent Machines in the Extra Deck you can access. HOPT on each effect of course. Tristaros is a modern Tuner that Crystron needed since the others don’t cut it as well besides maybe a copy of Citree. Summoning from Deck is very useful for getting the Synchros you want and you aren’t as limited to what you can use as Synchro Material like the other Tuners. The grave effect should get you 3 Crystron bodies on the board to extend plays, opening up a ton of doors to what you can do. A great support piece for Crystron.
Advanced Rating: 4/5
Art: 4/5 It’s a little guy.
Mighty
Vee
While we’re not covering a deck that has anything to do with clovers or leprechauns, we are covering the surprise hit Crystron support from Supreme Darkness this week. Crystron Tristaros kicks off our coverage, a level 2 WATER Machine Tuner monster, keeping in theme with the other Crystron Tuners. It would take too long to mention all the ways you can search it, but in general, the main ways you’ll access it in your standard combos are through Crystron Inclusion, Crystron Thystvern, and Crystron Sulfefnir. As expected, its attack stat is poor, with only 800 attack, though it does pack a hefty 2000 defense– not a game changer, but it can save you in a pickle if your opponent goes straight to the Battle Phase in an attempt to delete Tristaros.
Tristaros comes with 2 hard once per turn effects, the first a Quick Effect that triggers in response to your opponent’s card or effect activation, letting you Special Summon any Crystron monster from your deck except another Tristaros then immediately Synchro Summon a Machine Synchro monster using that Crystron. In true Crystron Tuner fashion, this effect is meant to help you bring out Crystron Quariongandrax during your opponent’s turn, which shouldn’t be too difficult with their new combo tools. However, you can easily summon F.A. Dawn Dragster instead depending on the matchup or combo line, and even then you can still go into Quariongandrax if you play your cards right. I’m not a huge fan of it being purely reactive compared to the other Crystron Tuners, but I guess it had to compensate for pulling from the deck, and the Machine lock is probably there to stop you from getting to Herald of the Arclight or Baronne de Fleur in the OCG. Tristaros’s other effect can be activated while it’s in the Graveyard, letting you banish it to target and destroy one of your own Synchro monsters to Special Summon any 2 Crystron monsters from your deck. Par for course, this will lock you into Machine monsters from the Extra Deck for the rest of the turn. Oddly enough, this does let you summon another Tristaros, which is actually quite important in some combo lines! Classically, you’ll use this to bring out Crystron Sulfefnir and tomorrow’s card, Crystron Sulfador, which will enable a Rank 5 Xyz summon to go into Cyber Dragon Nova then go into Cyber Dragon Infinity. The prime target for this effect will be the deck’s new Synchro monster, which will coincidentally be able to revive the Tristaros you just banished. Incidentally, it’s not a bad idea to end your turn with 2 Tristaros, (very possible with some bread and butter combos) since you’ll only need one more level 5 fodder to summon Quariongandrax. It’s no Crystron Halqifibrax, but almost every single effect of this wave weaves together beautifully to bring Crystron from meme status to a highly competent rogue deck, and Tristaros is just the first one! Most lists run 2 since Tristaros doesn’t actually do anything special by itself and you’ll want 2 copies for some combos– in an emergency, I guess you could Normal Summon it and pass and hope to do something with Dawn Dragster, but an optimal list would rather max out on staples.
+Outstanding combo potential
+Enables powerful endboard pieces like Cyber Dragon Infinity and Crystron Quariongandrax
-Synchro Summon effect is purely reactive to effects and activations
-Limited combo potential on its own
Advanced: 4/5
Art: 4.25/5 I know this is Quan, but it’s funnier to think of it as Halqifibrax’s vengeful ghost.
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