The Most Ideal Crane Crane Plants Build

All this time I've seen big mistake repeatedly done by duelists who try to make Crane Crane Plants (CCP). They're trying to make CCP as the new Plant Synchro. In order to do that, they are using a slow engine which was used in Plant Synchro, such as Lightsworns, Tour Guide, Pot of Dichotomy (replacing Pot of Avarice), Chaos Monsters, etc. These slow engines made Crane Crane, as the most important card in this deck couldn't achieve its maximum potential.

Principally, Crane Crane is a 1-card combo. With only this one card, we can get a +3 pretty easy when there is already Dandylion and Lonefire Blossom in the grave. You know the combo right? Crane revives Dandy, xyz into Meliae, Meliae revives Lonefire, spawning two Dandy's token, Lonefire then SS any kind of plant that you want from your deck (usually Tytannial for beater and protection). Therefore, the CCP build must be dedicated to create that kind of setup ever since the 1st turn.

I believe I have made the most ideal build for Crane Crane Plants

Now before you asking question like, WTF is Jerry Beans Man doing there, i suggest you to see this decklist first:

Yep, Evilswarm. Notice the similarity? I'll point out if you don't:

Heliotrope => Jerry Beans Man
Castor => Marauding Captain
Kerykeion => Crane Crane
Mandragora => Junk Forward

You can see that I make my CCP deck using the same engine that makes Evilswarm can consistently summon Ophion in the 1st turn. The only difference is, my CCP build is dedicated to be able to consistently summon Meliae in the 1st turn. After that, you can fill your backrows with as many staple as possible to protect Meliae from anything that will remove her from the field.

But probably you will ask question: what the hell can Meliae do when she is alone? The answer is, many many things that will make your opponent scared to death. Here are the main combos:

A. Card in hand: Junk Forward/Marauding Captain and Lonefire Blossom
1. SS Junk Forward and NS lonefire or NS Captain and SS Lonefire
2. Use Lonefire effect, SS Dandylion from deck
3. Xyz for Meliae, and use her effect to revive Lonefire by detaching Dandylion, spawning two tokens
4. Use Lonefire's effect, SS the 2nd Lonefire from deck, and use its effect again, to SS Chirubime or Tytannial, depending on condition (if it's the 1st turn, I suggest to SS Chirubime since she will protect your Meliae from attacking monster)

Result: you have Meliae, two Lonefires, and one Princess on the field. 2 cards become 4, a +2.

B. Card in hand: Rescue Rabbit/ two level 3 earth monster and Super Solar Nutrient
1. Xyz for Meliae using Rabbit or your two level 3 earth monster.
2. Dump Dandylion from the deck using Meliae's effect.
3. Use Super Solar Nutrient, SS Lonefire from the deck
4. Use Lonefire's effect, SS Chirubime or Tytannial, depending on condition.

Result: you have Meliae, one Lonefire, and one Princess on the field.

What make this combo is really scary is that it only needs 2-3 cards and it can be done in your 1st turn. So after you use this combo, you probably still have 3-4 cards in your hand which is most likely will be staples like Fiendish Chain, Bottomless Trap Hole, Compulsory, Torrential Tribute, Solemn Warning, or even Plant's Solemn Judgment, the Pollinosis. When you set all of those cards in your backrow, your opponent will never be able to touch your Meliae or even your Lonefires.

If your opponent really not able to do anything to your formation, next turn you will be able to annihilate them by using Lonefire's effect twice with Meliae's help to SS Botanical Lion from your deck. It is highly probable that you already have 4-5 plants on the field when you use this effect, therefore your Lion's ATK will be at 2800-3100. Enough to annihilate your opponent really easy.

Another good thing about this deck is that you don't even need to play those combo to win the game. Like Evilswarm, you can still play beatdown using Botanical Lion 1900 ATK or even Jerry Beans Man's 1750 ATK, by being protected by your backrow. However, unlike Evilswarm, this deck have many other plays outside the 2 combos, thanks to Debris Dragon and Spore, which is the only Plant Synchro engine that I still use in this deck. This two cards are completely optional, but they can make this deck more fun.

What makes this deck better than the usual build which including Chaos or Lightsworn Engines, is its ability to kill your opponent fastly and also to control your opponent with Tytannial's presence and your backrows. You don't have to wait slowly with Lyla to fill your grave, you can go turbo in the 1st turn and you can still control your opponent afterwards.

The biggest weakness to this deck is mass removal card, like Dark Hole, Black Rose Dragon, or Evilswarm Exciton Knight. When it happened, Pollinosis and Fiendish Chain could be the answer to that. However, even if you don't have those answers, you can still come back using Crane Crane. I have had a match with Laval deck and I use the combo B in the 1st turn, giving me Meliae, Lonefire, and Tytannial on the field, then I set two cards which is Trap Stun and Mirror Force. On my opponent's turn, he Black Rose me, wiping my field out. Then on my turn, I summoned Crane Crane and giving me a +3 and my field just come back as normal. It is as if the Dark Hole doesn't damage me at all.

Looking ahead, there are some unreleased cards that could make this deck even better. The first one is Tomato in Tomato which is essentially a Tour Guide with Earth Attribute that can only be be used to xyz summon Plant monster and Plowbot, a level 3 Earth Plant Korean Exclusive that lets you draw one card from your deck and place one card from your hand to top of your deck. It is good to put the accidentally drawed Princess from your hand to your deck again.

Anyway, I really love Plant and I really want to see Plants to shine in the Yugioh Competition again. Please give your criticism to this deck idea in the comment section :)