Chronomaly

Chronomaly
"Chronomaly Golden Jet", "Chronomaly Crystal Chrononaut" and "Chronomaly Colossal Head". "Chronomaly Golden Jet", "Chronomaly Crystal Chrononaut" and "Chronomaly Colossal Head".
Japanese	先史遺産（オーパーツ） 先史遺産 (base) オーパーツ (ruby) Ōpātsu (romanized) OOPArts (translated)
German	Chronomal
Italian	Cronomalia
Portuguese	Cronomalia
Spanish	Cronómalo
Sets Return of the Duelist V Jump promotional cards Premium Pack 15 Number Hunters Collector's Pack: Zexal Version
Anime appearances
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL
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"Chronomaly", known as "OOPArts" (先史遺産（オーパーツ） Ōpātsu) in Japan, is an archetype of cards used by Trey in the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime. Most are either EARTH or LIGHT-Attribute, and Rock or Machine-Type. The OCG name, "OOPArts", is an acronym for "Out-Of-Place ARTifact", a term used to describe artifacts that make no logical sense given the technology available at the time they were created. Such objects were also featured as part of the "Ancient Treasure" series in the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's anime. The TCG name, "Chronomaly", is a portmanteau of the word "chronology" which is the sequential order in which past events occur and "anomaly" as in an irregularity or something odd. Put together these monsters are "chronological anomalies" or "chronomalies" since these objects deviate from what would have been possible to create given the resources and technology available at that time.

Their effects support each other well, enabling quick swarming and Xyz Summons of Rank 5 Xyz Monsters, particularly through the LIGHT-Attribute monsters.

Chronomaly card	Origin	Chronomaly card	Origin
Number 33: Chronomaly Machu Mech	Machu Picchu	Chronomaly Cabrera Trebuchet	Ica Stones
Number 6: Chronomaly Atlandis	Atlantis + Atlas	Chronomaly Mud Golem	Dogū
Chronomaly Colossal Head	Olmec	Chronomaly Sol Monolith	Aztec calendar stone
Chronomaly Crystal Chrononaut	Ancient astronauts	Chronomaly Tula Guardian	Tula
Chronomaly Crystal Bones	Actun Tunichil Muknal	Chronomaly City Babylon	Babylon
Chronomaly Crystal Skull	Crystal skull	Chronomaly Ley Line Power	Ley line
Chronomaly Golden Jet	Quimbaya Airplane Artifact	Chronomaly Mayan Machine	K'inich Janaab' Pakal
Chronomaly Moai and Chronomaly Moai Carrier	Moai	Chronomaly Aztec Mask Golem	Teotihuacan
Chronomaly Wings Sphinx	Great Sphinx of Giza
Stonehenge Methods and Stonehenge Shield	Stonehenge	Palenque Sarcophagus	Palenque
Sunken Kingdom	Atlantis	Thunder Pot	Baghdad Battery
Antikythera Gear	Antikythera mechanism	Stone Bola	Costa Rica Stone Spheres

Playing style

"Chronomaly" monsters are focused on Xyz Summoning a wide range of Xyz Monsters. Many of their effects allow Special Summoning of more "Chronomaly" monsters. Support cards for their Types and Attributes can aid them in this. There are many support card that you can use; when playing with this archetype, the use of "Foolish Burial" can come in handy when utilizing the effect of "Crystal Bones". Also, adding cards such as "Mind Control" can also make this archetype very offensive. The "Tour Guide From the Underworld" and "Sangan" engine can really speed the Deck up and also make "Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning" usable in it.

Ancient Gear Chronomaly Gadget Mix

This Deck has a combination of "Ancient Gears" and "Gadgets", but only the former is necessary. The trick of this Deck is having "Geartown" on the field as a threat and getting "Chronomaly" monsters out with a "Gadget" engine.

Chronomaly OTK

This Deck focuses on using the effects of "Number 33: Chronomaly Machu Mech" and "Mini-Guts" to perform a One Turn Kill.

What you need:

• Three monsters in your field (two of them needs to be Level 5)
• "Mini-Guts"
• "Number 33: Chronomaly Machu Mech" in the Extra Deck
• Your opponent has a monster with 1900 or more ATK

How it works:

• The three monsters you need are: two Level 5 to summon "Number 33" and another to Tribute:
  • You can Special Summon "Chronomaly Crystal Bones" with its own effect, use its effect to summon "Chronomaly Golden Jet" (and use its effect to increase its Level), "Chronomaly Moai" OR "Chronomaly Tula Guardian" and then Special Summon a "Chronomaly Moai" with its own effect.
  • You can Normal Summon any "Chronomaly" monster and then Special Summon two "Chronomaly Moai" (or one "Chronomaly Moai" and one "Chronomaly Tula Guardian") with their own effects.
  • You can Special Summon "Cyber Dragon", "Solar Wind Jammer", "Ghost Ship" or a Level 5 Fusion Monster with "Instant Fusion", Normal Summon a "Chronomaly" then Special Summon "Chronomaly Moai" (or "Chronomaly Tula Guardian").
    • Remember that you cannot use "Chronomaly Technology" and Special Summon non-"Chronomaly" monsters in the same turn.
• Xyz Summon "Number 33" using the two Level 5 monsters.
• Tribute the other monster to activate "Mini-Guts", target 1 of your opponent's monsters with at least 1900 ATK. The targeted monster's ATK becomes 0.
  • All following calculations will be done with the assumption that that monster had exactly 1900 ATK.
• Use the effect of "Number 33" on the monster that was targeted by the effect of "Mini-Guts" to inflict 1900 damage to your opponent. Then "Number 33" gains ATK equal to the amount of damage inflicted. This makes its total ATK 4300.
• Enter the Battle Phase and attack your opponent's monster that was targeted by "Mini-Guts", dealing 4300 damage.
• After your opponent's monster was destroyed by battle, the second effect of "Mini-Guts" will activate and will inflict the destroyed monster's original ATK in the Graveyard as damage..

1900 (Number 33's first effect) + 4300 (Number 33's ATK) + 1900 (Mini-Guts' 2nd effect) = 8100 damage

Note:

• If your opponent only has a 1600-1800 ATK monster, you may use "Chronomaly Pyramid Eye Tablet" before entering Battle Phase.

Weaknesses

Since most "Chronomaly" cards involve swarming, mass-removal cards like "Dark Hole" "Torrential Tribute" and "Deck Devastation Virus" can interdict "Chronomaly" monsters before they have a chance to infest the field with the latter-most aforementioned card perhaps being the deadliest to this Deck due to the card’s lingering effect and all the non-Xyz "Chronomaly" monsters in the OCG/TCG (except "Moai") sporting less than 1500 ATK.

In addition, cards like "Summon Limit", "Narrow Pass" and any cards that render Monster Card Zones useless (i.e. "Ground Collapse") can bar them from the Field completely ("Summon Breaker" can flat-out pause a spamming "Chronomaly" player's turn completely). In fact, these countermeasures, combined with anti-Special Summoning support, can almost completely shut down "Chronomaly" Decks. Finally, all the "Chronomaly" TCG/OCG cards with the exceptions of "Moai" and "Atlandis" have scanty DEF—if "Chronomaly" Duelists go on the defensive, Defense Position-destroying card effects and piercing cards can be added boon against "Chronomaly" Decks. Anti-Special Summoning support can also heftily scathe "Chronomaly" Decks. Light-Imprisoning Mirror also poses a threat to this deck as most "Chronomaly" monsters have LIGHT attribute. If you want to go on the defensive use "Giant Soldier of Steel" in your Extra Deck against burns and monsters withh 1900 or more ATK.