Deck
Jesse plays with a Crystal Beast deck, composed of legendary Crystal Beast (宝玉獣, Hōgyokujū?) monsters based on seven precious gemstones collected from around the globe for the construction of a lithograph as evidence of Julius Caesar's reign during the time of the Roman Empire. On its return trip, the ship carrying the stones was battered by a storm, and the treasures disappeared into the depths of the ocean. Employing this concept, Pegasus specially designed and created the Crystal Beasts, which have the unique ability to retreat in a crystallized (Continuous Spell) form to their controller's Spell/Trap Zones when destroyed as means of avoiding complete annihilation. Due to the exclusivity of the cards, Chazz Princeton's family once attempted to purchase them for millions of dollars, but Pegasus instead awarded them to Jesse at the end of a regional (European in the Japanese version) tournament, due to the cards reacting to his dueling. When Jesse calls forth one of his beasts, they start out like the gem than break into that beast. Pegasus later creates a card of the powerful Rainbow Dragon, summoned when all the Crystal Beasts are on the field or graveyard. It can also be fused with Jaden's Neos to form Rainbow Neos.
Under Yubel's influence, Jesse uses Advanced Crystal Beasts. The deck uses the field spell Advanced Dark to negate battle damage while discarding Crystal Beasts to the Graveyard in order to quickly summon Rainbow Dark Dragon. Later in the duel between Jesse (Yubel possessed) and Jaden, the Crystal Beasts manage to communicate with Jaden and reveal to him that their controlled as the Advanced Crystal Beasts. He also has another deck that features the Sacred Beast cards and related support to make their summoning easier, with Yubel as his trump card.
Aside from Counter Cards, Jesse's deck does not contain any other specific resources aimed towards directly destroying the cards of his opponents. He feels that a strategy of merely destroying his opponent's cards through effects is not fun; he wants to learn new strategies by facing them.
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Yearly out of his watery cell,
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