Malefic Archetype (Custom Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards)

A while back I was thinking about Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time and it occurred to me, “Why didn’t Paradox steal more dragons? Wouldn’t he have wanted the best armada he could amass to ensure Pegasus’ death?” So, I started thinking about fanfic ideas for how he might have gone about it. Obviously, this isn’t such a fanfic, but I did get the itch to design the cards that he might have stolen and corrupted, specifically limiting it to dragons and draconic machines belonging to named characters in the anime. The end result is 13 custom Malefic monsters based on iconic dragons and machines from across the Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's animes, a new Tuner monster to allow easier access to Malefic Paradox Dragon, and a new Spell card to improve the consistency of the deck. These include:

• Malefic Black Rose Dragon (destroys all cards on the field).
• Malefic Ancient Fairy Dragon (fetches Malefic Spell/Trap cards).
• Malefic Power Tool Dragon (equips Malefic monsters to sacrifice when it would be destroyed).
• Malefic Red Dragon Archfiend (destroys a monster after battle).
• Malefic Black-Winged Dragon (absorbs damage, then reflects it onto the opponent's monsters).
• Malefic Horus (negates Spell cards).
• Malefic Vice Dragon (steals other monsters' ATK when attacking, and can banish hand cards instead of being destroyed).
  
• Malefic Cyberdark Dragon (equips a banished monster to gain its ATK).
• Malefic Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon (gains ATK for each banished Dragon or Machine monster, and negates Spell cards).
  
• Malefic Armed Dragon (destroys a monster by banishing another from your hand).
• Malefic Five-Headed Dragon (can't be destroyed by battle with a DARK, EARTH, WATER, FIRE or WIND monster once per turn).
  
• Harpie's Pet Malefic Dragon (gains ATK/DEF for each Malefic monster).
• Malefic Gandora (destroys all other monsters on the field and gains ATK for each).
• Malefic Planetary Gear (a level 3 Tuner that can fetch Malefic World and be used for Synchro Summons while in the Graveyard).
• Malefic Exchange (a Normal Spell that can exchange a non-Malefic monster for 2 new cards, and can protect Malefic cards while in the Graveyard).

For my notes about each one, visit my ArtStation profile, or follow the links above.

Copyright disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh! is the creation of Kazuki Takahashi and the property of Studio Dice / Konami. Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time and the Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's animes were produced by Studio Gallop. All copyright goes to them. My custom Malefic cards are fan cards I designed based on the Malefic archetype featured in Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time, and monsters and objects from the Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's animes. Their card arts are modified versions of the artworks or images of their bases, with Malefic World as the background. All images were sourced from Yugipedia and edited in Paint.NET and GIMP, and as such I do not own them. The finished card images were created using www.cardmaker.net. The background image for this page is a stock image by Octavian Rosca on unsplash.com.