You know an archetype has problems when their support card has to *rewrite their effects* to get them off the ground.

@infinimineyt9700

Жыл бұрын

Yeah wow, you’re not kidding!

@TSDamiano

Жыл бұрын

Just like the earthbound immortals Unless you have a time macchine back in 2009 well they suck They are not play even in duel links

@Yakshimara

Жыл бұрын

Ironically that same card turned Truth dragon from a force of nature into a toothlessly buff beater.

@jh9794

Жыл бұрын

@@Yakshimara yeah, it removes the nuke effect leaving it as an easier to summon F.H.D. I mean hey, 5k atk and def isn't something to ignore. But that's literally all ot is at that point.

@-emerald-1553

Жыл бұрын

Kinda like how Light Barrier allowed you to choose your result for Arcana Force

Malefic Territory is probably the biggest "We completely fudged the initial idea for this archtype" card in Yu-Gi-Oh history

@AhMrJIPresume

Жыл бұрын

Would be a great idea for a video - ‘Top 10 archetypes that flopped which received later corrective support’

@popstarchamp

Жыл бұрын

@@AhMrJIPresume Off the top of my head the Egyptian Gods would be up their considering Ra has several cards made specifically to get its anime effects back

@mikewilliams8698

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like Toons

@gManGabe

Жыл бұрын

Toon Kingdom is up there with it

@13KuriMaster

Жыл бұрын

Ehh, maybe not the "initial" idea.... as that would be how Paradox used them in the movie, so it was more like, "Okay, we messed up... here, you can play them like they were used in the movie now."

"I active Malefic World's effect! Instead of drawing, I get a random Malefic card" "I active ash blossoms & joyous spring to negate"

@williamdrum9899

Жыл бұрын

sadtrombone.wav

@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441

Жыл бұрын

more of a reason why they suck lol

@sardinee4564

Жыл бұрын

"I reach over the table and punch you in your face"

@killercronicxx375

Жыл бұрын

I scoop

@Dz73zxxx

Жыл бұрын

I played suship, then i look at that card God thats just a worse gunkan sushipyard seaside port

I think another issue that the real world Malefic cards have over their anime counterparts is that the anime versions shared an effect from their original counterpart. Malefic Cyber End Dragon could still do piercing damage.

@varianto05

Жыл бұрын

, 🤤

@GravityFaiz

Жыл бұрын

Why don’t the effect based Malefics have their Og counterpart‘s effects? Great card design there

@stevenceja4706

11 ай бұрын

Malefic Stardust dragon would be a lot more valuable if they gave it the OG negation effect

Fun fact, Malefic Rainbow is the only Malefic that can send their respective counterpart from the hand, the rest extra deck/deck

@BaeBunni

Жыл бұрын

yea but that's because of the forethought that rainbow dragon is brickier then a red eyes.

@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441

Жыл бұрын

@@BaeBunni not to mention only two of them stardust and cyber end are useable lol

It's worth noting that most Malefic monsters that require a main deck monster require their base monster to be banished specifically from the deck and not the hand (except Malefic Rainbow Dragon), which means you have to run a bunch of high-level Garnets just to use them unless you have Paradox Gear

@ianr.navahuber2195

Жыл бұрын

that's a another reason it fails the deck kinda assumes you will have either the field spell or malefic territory in starting hand, so you can actually start doing plays BUT IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE an archetypal card that lets you shuffle the garets to say, grab the corresponding malefic card

@selectivepontification8766

Жыл бұрын

@@ianr.navahuber2195 I'm mainly bringing it up because the video says "hand or deck" so I'm stating that it's even worse than the video says You're not wrong though

@filipvadas7602

Жыл бұрын

Its kinda hillarious that Malefic Red Eyes and Malefic Blue Eyes are *objectively worse* then the originals as their card text is literally just a list of restrictions -_- that make them unplayable even in a pure Malefic deck

@stinkyroadhog1347

11 ай бұрын

In reality you don't because Paradox Gear has the effect that if you would summon a Malefic monster through it's normal summoning conditions, you can instead banish Gear from your field or GY

One of the first cards I ever owned was a Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon. I knew basically nothing about the game at the time, but in Elementary school I thought it was the coolest shit and I would gloat about owning one.

@roncerjani9063

Жыл бұрын

I used to have the Red Eyes one, I thought it was a fake. I threw it away.

@CD-Gaming

Жыл бұрын

@@roncerjani9063 I got the Red-Eyes from my mate's DVD, cuz I play Red-Eyes, he plays Blue-Eyes! When I first saw the Malefics, the first card I saw was the Red-Eyes and it called "Sin Red-Eyes B. Dragon" (still sporting the abbreviation, even though everybody knew it stood for "black"! Well, at least I thought everybody did; I actually encountered someone who didn't! Can you believe it?)!

Remember when Malefics were used at the start of the XYZ era as a part of a Skill Drain beatdown strat?

@deathseraph3

Жыл бұрын

Yup. I was one of those people. Had fun with my build.

@bismarckimperia8781

Жыл бұрын

Even better was a Token Beatdown deck, lots of fun with 5K ATK Tokens in the field.

@ishfmarden

Жыл бұрын

Pepperidge farm remembers

@gwampa7066

Жыл бұрын

Skill Drain at 3 and necrovalley as a backup. I remembered a while later they released "lv10" support and a field card that helped out malefic cyber end dragon

@blaqrock9227

Жыл бұрын

I did that with a lot of the kuriboh cards as filler/stall. Good times

Most of the Malefics only require a field spell ANYWHERE on the field, even your opponent's. Learned this the hard way playing Aromages and bouncing Malefic World but that didn't destroy their monsters coz I have Garden out.

@ianr.navahuber2195

Жыл бұрын

so malefic valyantz deck when?

@omardanelli2911

Жыл бұрын

@@ianr.navahuber2195 this sound like the dumbest and greatest Idea I've ever heard

@Peheal

Жыл бұрын

So it works like Doomking Balerdroch's effect to revive itself?

@7thHourFilms

3 ай бұрын

I remember years ago I was dueling my brother with Malefics against his Crystal Beast deck. Turn 1 I had Parallel Gear and Truth Dragon in my hand, set Gear and passed knowing he'd use the CB Field Spell. He did and attacked the set Gear which triggered Truth Dragon. So I had a 0/0 Tuner become a 5000/5000 Big Dragon. It was hilarious!

I loved Bonds Beyond Time, saw it in the theater. Remembering that movie is the best part of the Malefic cards.

@DotHackerBlackWing

Жыл бұрын

have you seen Bonds Beyond Time Abridged?

@Spluaks

Жыл бұрын

Thats the movie where the 3 protagonist have a duel together? because it was horrible!!!

@Sygmus6

Жыл бұрын

@@DotHackerBlackWing I haven't, I'll check that out. Thanks!

The biggest mistake they did was not giving the Malefics their anime effects. Would have been interesting to see Malefic versions of the rest of the Signer Dragons, Borreload Dragon and Firewall Dragon, Galaxy-eyes Photon and Tachyon Dragon, the Dimensonal Dragons and other dragons from the rest of the series.

Imagine Paradox still alive and have Malefic of any Borrel Link Dragon or Topologic

@limbo2433

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like such a fun sequal

@Khoobus

Жыл бұрын

Amazing idea!

@ghiffaribara2949

Жыл бұрын

Malefic Arrival Ignister

@Combaticon

Жыл бұрын

Malefic Red Dragon Archfiend Malefic Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon Heck why not have Malefic Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon

@CD-Gaming

Жыл бұрын

@@Combaticon Galaxy-Eyes! I didn't think of that one! What about Utopia as well, "Malefic Number 39: Utopia"? Another potentially playable Malefic, though, I would have to wonder if Malefic Galaxy-Eyes would count towards Neo Galaxy-Eyes' Effect...? (I'm way ahead of you on Demon's!)

Give all the Malefics an errata that does what territory does and then change Malefics territory effect to protect those monsters form card effects while also activating their field spell

@mateusrp1994

Жыл бұрын

I always hated Territory because the same pack that had it also reprinted almost every Malefic monsters, they could have just errataed the monsters en mass. Now they're chained down even harder, needing both a field spell and a continuous spell to function.

@jozeph2932

Жыл бұрын

100% agree on this one, the malefics are my favorite archetype and it saddens me that they're this awful.

@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire

Жыл бұрын

I had some fine tuning in mind for the effects. Like take blue eyes for one: _This monsters name is treated as “Blue-Eyes White Dragon “ While on the field or in the GY. Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand or deck) by banishing 1 "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" from your Hand, Deck or Field (Quick Effect). You can only control 1 "Malefic" monster on the field. Other monsters you control cannot declare an attack. If this card destroys a monster by battle, you can add 1 field spell from your deck or GY to your hand. If there is no face-up Field Spell on the field, destroy this card._

@doomgirl5341

Жыл бұрын

@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire yeah but how will the malefic monster attack if there isn't territory on the field

@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire

Жыл бұрын

@@doomgirl5341 I mean you don’t necessarily _need_ Malefic territory or world per say, just a field spell card in general for most of them. That what Blue eye’s new effect is supposed to help with; get any field spell card out on the field, easily special summon it with its improved effect, and use its new one to search out Malefic world. Alternatively, since it’s name counts as the original Blue-Eyes on the field AND GY, and the summon condition _isn’t_ once per turn, you could simply banish 3 blue-eyes monsters to summon them _without_ a field spell on the field, one at a time, to summon and automatically destroy them, so they’d be in the GY for cards that can use them there, like Dragons Mirror.

My best memories of using Malefic monsters was actually in the DS 5D's games as they had turbo duels meaning Speed World was ALWAYS in play during them and it couldn't be removed by any means. It was insanely fun running a Skill Drain Malefic deck with cards that gave them piercing effects in those duels and remembering this actually has me wanting to go back and replay them.

@williamdrum9899

Жыл бұрын

I kind of want to play those DS games now but they've gotten pricy

I personally love these cards, the first deck I built in Master Duel was a Malefic one. It would be nice if they would release new support for these cards, id instantly buy those packs in game and irl but I don't ever see that happening.

I like how cyber end dragon where the one seeing most play, because it was a level 10 that Was easy to summon, so trains used it

@IndexInvestingWithCole

Жыл бұрын

It was because it had 4000 attack and no brick

@madsvigan2898

Жыл бұрын

@@IndexInvestingWithCole and that

It's all jokes until your Red Eyes Dark Dragoon is getting owned by a Malefic Boss Monster

@williamwashburn7665

Жыл бұрын

lol

@hoodinisoar

Жыл бұрын

That's assuming it doesn't already have 4k attack

@thecrimsoncreep6665

Жыл бұрын

You mean by Skill Drain

@MiyaoMeow588

Жыл бұрын

@@hoodinisoar crash into it with Cyber End then. seems worth it to me

@germanydietz1984

Жыл бұрын

I love the malefic the best way to use them is get final stigma and put power guardian on him and he will be a god if anybody ever wants to challenge me and Yu-Gi-Oh duel Masters my name is Germany 1984 and I will show you how to use them malefic

On the one hand, I get that so many anime cards have such incredibly busted effects that it's just not a good idea to release them in the IRL card game as they were in the anime. But on the other hand, it often feels that Konami goes to the opposite extreme of over-balancing them so much, they end becoming useless. It's almost like the opposite of doing tie-in merchandise that people would actually like to buy.

Back around before pendulums I loved playing a malefic montage dragon deck. So satisfying for so little protection

Another Failed mechanics could be the cards that need to be draw during the draw phase to activate their efects. Because it is related to the anime and doesn't work in real life.

It is worth mentioning that, when Malefics were released in Duel Links, they did enjoy a time in the spotlight in ranked duels. I remember thinking "you can just summon a high level beater for almost nothing? BullPOMU" at the time, but then came better archtypes and now Malefics are just something Paradox uses badly in raid duels :V

@filipvadas7602

Жыл бұрын

They still kinda do. Most of the Malefics can end the game in one swing in Duel Links, which makes them scary as hell for even top tier strategies

Something really funny with Malefic Cyber End is that trains can use it; it's a level 10 machine, so it can be used as xyz material for the train boss monsters and trains has a field spell that they really want and like. Also, Super Express Bullet Train can add it back to your hand during the end phase so you can keep using it as long as you have cyber ends in ED

@williamdrum9899

Жыл бұрын

Trains also use exodius since it's a level 10 with an easy special summoning condition, it may as well be a vanilla after that

Malefic Paradox Gear is crazy, as it is a 1 card Baronne de Fleur Through skill drain, a floodgate the deck already wants to play. It also filly the graveyard with itself, a parallel gear, and a malefic stardust dragon so you can use thier spell card (which you didn't mention..? Literally Pot Of Greed ROTA) malefic selector, to get anything you need, from terrirtory to another paradox gear, to just getting 2 4k beat sticks. Crazy potential and actually not to shabby if it just had some more support, as they don't have enough consistency boosting tools

Malefic Stardust Dragon was such a good tech card for gravekeepers back in the day when only one field spell could be played.

I used to run M Cyber End and M Stardust in my Zombie World Deck, letting them become Zombies to also allow them protection and boosts from Pyramid of Wonders

Malefic Cyber End is also level 10 which give you access to cards like Gustav Max and Juggernaut Liebe.

I only used Malefics with Token Beatdown decks with the Field spell that turns monsters NS and SS into Tokens equal to their original stats, in which Malefics were the best targets in which you can swarm your field with 5 5k ATK, paired with Skill Drain and Soul Drain along with Backrow protection it was really a good gimmick stall deck.

They could do with a new line of monsters, based on more modern iconic anime dragons.

Moral of the Story: Unless you have "Mound of the Bound Creator" field spell And "Skill Drain" up on the board This Archetype is useless.

When I was in hs, and the Malefic were released, all my YG playing friends were crazy about them, especially online in sites like Dueling Network

Ever since I started running trains, I always enjoyed running malefic cyber end dragon with them as extra fodder for rank 10 xyz plays. Also, since my favorite version of trains relies on skill drain to turn the main deck trains into easy to summon beatsticks while nullifying my opponent's effects to protect them, Malefic Cyber end just fits more.

It's definitely fun to just randomly whip out a malefic cyber end dragon from time to time since it's the least intrusive of the malefics. If I wanted to fix them personally it would be a field spell that has a protection that lets you return a card listed on a malefic monster's text from the banished or deck and add a malefic monster that list the return monster's name to the hand. Basically a protection that lets you set up for a summon.

I actually used Malefic Red Eyes with Dragon Rulers when the babies got banned. Malefic Red Eyes gave me a free inherent deck checking summon. Even drawing regular Red Eyes was never a dead card cause it could always be used for fodder. Only went to one regional with it, but went 7-2 using it.

I actually had a Malefic deck where I ran Future Fusion(pre-errata) for Five Headed Dragon, Montage Dragon for the bricks, the Viruses cards(Deck Devastation, Epidemic & Darklight) along with Armageddon Knight and Dark Grepher. Future Fusion thins out the deck, Montage helped with the bricks and had a decent fun play. I was very proud of it. Didn’t really bricked either.

Normally I consider an archetype that has cards sees competitive play, even if it isn't a deck revovled around it, as not failed. Buuuut... I feel like Malefic Cyber End Dragon sort of cheats the "spirit" of the archetype by not having the main deck brick. So I feel comfortable to say it belongs in this series. I think the Blue-Eyes White Dragon one might have seen more play if you summoned by dumping it into the graveyard instead of banishing and if the "There can only be 1 Malefic monster on the field" was replaced by "Other Malefic monsters cannot inflict battle damage. Negate the effect of other Malefic monsters, except effects which destroy themselves.' "

Currently in duel links there is Paradox event, I had field spell on field and Paradox summoned Malefic card. Wait a minute, what cards are showing it is mentioned "if there is no face-up Field Spell card on the field, destroy this card.". So oppenents field spell can be used if opponets plays one.

@lorenzocc3784

Жыл бұрын

The cool thing about duel links paradox is the skill “malefic dragons” and with that, malefic world cannot be destroyed by card effects. Too bad a lot of people plays cosmic cyclone :(

@gohanlopez5330

Жыл бұрын

I didnt know about that either until I duel him

You forgot about malefic paradigm dragon,people just uses it alongside stardust/cyber end dragon to summon the original counterparts of them and go for xyz plays.

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

One of the worse thing about how their effects got changed irl is that they lost most of their good upside that would actually justify the only one on field restriction Like how cyber end did piercing or how rainbow could increase its atk and shuffle all card on field in deck or even stardust malefic having the exact same protection has the original stardust I wonder why they would even remove malefic paradox s effect to decrease the attack of opponent's monster by the atk of the synchros you control.

Malefic stardust dragon was especially played when starlight road was a staple, because it could also protect the field spell and GraveKeeper could easily have 3 stardust in the extra deck

This is my favorite deck to play, going into barron with the gear tuner and malefic stardust is always so funny to me

I have been EATING UP the failed cards series lately

I absolutely adore the Malefic cards. I hope they become actually playable someday

@melvinking4173

Жыл бұрын

Try splashing them in a liar of Darkness deck

@filipvadas7602

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, they're playable now. Just not particularly consistent. Malefic World *desperately* needs a retrain tgat remakes it from the ground up

Man to me these are some of the coolest cards to me. I at one point had a truth dragon. I think their really fun to play casually with like seal of orichalcos or under skill drain.

@mase8705

Жыл бұрын

Damn that’s a good one

One small note: with how field spells used to work, if you activated Necrovalley on top of geartown, geartown would be destroyed, but it would actually miss timing bc of the optional when effect. In order to trigger it successfully, you would need to set necrovally first, then after resolving geartown you would activate it

@MrDeeluv1996

Жыл бұрын

He literally explained that in the video

@GorgeGrouse

Жыл бұрын

@@MrDeeluv1996 Not quite! He said that you need to "activate" Necrovalley, which would cause geartown to miss timing. In actuality, you would need to "Set" Necrovalley instead

@MrDeeluv1996

Жыл бұрын

@@GorgeGrouse 11:23 "Set other field card on top of Geartown, so it doesn't miss timing"

@GorgeGrouse

Жыл бұрын

@@MrDeeluv1996 ah I must have missed that in my initial viewing as I was doing planks at the time. my bad

Not sure if this counts as a failed mechanic, but an episode on battle phase centric decks like war rock would be interesting

@ValunarTonix

Жыл бұрын

In essence all decks made focused on the old way of playing are currently considered failed. Flip decks, battle phase... Name an old strat and it's probably failed today, unless it's a weird combo.

@garrahaz

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I understand that. That’s why I mentioned war rocks specifically as they are a more modern deck that still focuses on the battle phase.

@ChrisPTY507

Жыл бұрын

Not all of them. Subterrors are a flip deck and they are pretty average. They were even better just a few years ago

Skill Drain Malefics were a favorite deck of mine. The deck however has probably fallen from grace until we get a massive update.

I personally would make a second field spell NOT to replace the original malefic world, but one that lets you add add malefic territory WHILE ALSO giving you an archetypal Magic Mallet that lets you shuffle back into the deck the Bricks. This is because Territory serves as a Way to trigger Malefic Truth's summon condition. And Territory already helps the deck MAYBE this give this hypohethical field spell a "unless you have a malefic monster on the field or in the GY, you cannot activate monster effects on the hand" effect so you can have a way to counter hand traps by Giving it to Your opponent (that way, You can still summon malefics, ifyour opponent still has a Field Spell)

"Pwotaaaagonist!"

I remember playing malefic ciber dragon on rank ten train decks it was a really decent option for xyz plays

This is the main deck I ran back in the day, the Geartown version 😁 I think it’s a lot stronger than people gave it credit for because nobody ever ran it

Would love to see a video on Pyro monsters, a failed type. At this point Konami uses the type exclusively for either pack filler or for mixed type archetypes like Prank Kids.

This video does a good job to explain why even though I have them they arent in my decks, I have a Blue Eyes deck and Malific Blue Eyes but it doesnt sit in the deck nor does the Truth dragon for that reason.

It was pretty fun mixing with artifacts and shaddolls to just lock your opponent and beat through with mound of the bound as a field spell, had decent luck competitively back in late 2015.

I love this arctype and I want to see a malefic version of all protagonist and rivals boss/main monsters.

@ianr.navahuber2195

Жыл бұрын

@@destinycybermic6930 i am surprised they didn't make a malefic red dragon archfiend you would think at least jack would get some spotlight by virtue of being the rival

It's such a shame they were limited so hard since they were such an interesting concept.

Failed but still my favorite by far archetype lol

@JesseHas1RetardLife

Жыл бұрын

Same

there is also another problem, besides that you banish the corresponding monster from the deck/extra deck instead of send it to the gy, hindering malefics to be splashable: besides malefis stardust dragon, which have a somewhat related protection effect to the original, in anime malefic monsters had their original counterpart's effect (piercing of cyber end, full negate, destroy and revival of stardust, attack gain of rainbow etc.).

I threw malefic Cyber end dragon in my gravekeepers deck for a bit. It was fun to bust out such a strong monster so easily, but not being able to attack with any other monster was crippling enough that I took it out of my deck

Perfect timing to the deul links event

@nunyabiznes33

Жыл бұрын

It's about to end and I only finished it on my main.

Want to just throw out how funny it is that "Geartown into Ancient Gear Gadjitron Dragon" got teched into Malefics, an archetype composed of gears and dragons

You can’t banish from hand to summon, which adds an additional layer or brickiness due to the fact that you can’t unbrick by drawing the Malefic version if you had the base version in hand

I remember back in 2017 I used to splash triple malefic cyber end dragon as a free beatstick in every deck that played field spells

I’m glad Malefics are much easier to play in Duel Links, but man is it a painful reminder that even a consistent Territory search isn’t enough to save these guys *That said that’ll never stop me from playing them*

@ianr.navahuber2195

Жыл бұрын

it happened to me once when i bricked I wasn' even using them for ranked duels. just to play against the NPCs to farm EXP the worst part is that pardox's initial skill that gies you stardust and truth in the deck actuall goes against what his cards are suppposed to do (like malefic paradigm) his skills to start the duel with malefic world AND his other skill that at least lets you summon dragons are way better although I like that malefic territory is also an inarchetype way to summon malefic truth have malefic world and a malefic dragon activate territory and set a malefic world from deck, which causes your current dragon to desroy itself, activating malefic truth's summon condition

6:20 this isn't likely to ever happen again since Madolche and Crystal Beasts can access it (or any other field spell they want for that matter) even easier and both have WAY better tools to defend it.

I wish some of the Malefic monsters had their anime effects, and for Blue eyes and Red eyes to have new effects that supported the archetype or disrupt the opponent, like what Toons did with Red-Eyes Toon Dragon. Imagine how busted Malefic Rainbow Dragon would be in the main game if it had a shuffle effect for the cost of controlling a single field spell?

I haven’t finished the video yet but I loved using malefic cyber end dragon as xyz material in rank 10 train decks.

Coincidentally I opened duel links this week and the Paradox event with the malefics is currently live lol

Here’s a idea to fix malefic if they got support that gained broken effects off thier high attack for example a skill drain for any more with less attack the opponent controls or immunity to effects of monsters with lower atk with such powerful disruption effects protection and the fact stardust already protects your field they may then see play again being able to search such cards especially if in tandem with gravekeeper or just a better field spell so it works by itself keeps thier gimmick turns it into a advantage

What a coincidence. I just rewatched the Bonds Beyond Time movie this morning.

Another thing that Malefic Cyber End is good for, rank 10 xyz spamming, used it on my earth machines deck, could get out Super Dora and Gustav Max first turn, with at least one negate on board. And with the advent of the link era, I could get out that big link excavator, or rank up from Gustav Max into Liebe with two materials on. It's a really straight forward caveman beat up style of playing, but hey, sometimes the best strategies come down into brute forcing your way out.

Malefic Cyber End Dragon has a special place in my heart. Years ago, I ran it in my online Rank10Trains deck since it was an easy to summon Level 10 Machine in a deck that benefits greatly from it's Field Spell. I had Super Dora out, my opponent had Cyber Dragon Infinity out. I activated Dora's effect since I was nervous but Infinity chained to Dora's effect. Fortunately Infinity's negate is once per turn and I had Malefic Cyber in my hand to SS and beat over the Infinity.

More gears to access other ED summoning methods Malefic Overlay Gear for XYZ monsters (can use material from the hand, can change its own level accordingly) Malefic Metamorphic Gear (Fusion from hand/deck) Malefic Network Gear (link from hand, lock you into malefic ED for rest of duel) Any new malefic monster doesn’t come with insanely terrible downside

I'd be really interested in seeing a reverse companion to this series: decks/mechanics that were so pivotal that they changed the way the game is played.

Good video, also maybe next you can talk about Earthbound Inmortals. I see ocasionally that could enter some strategies but that is another failed mechanic

Would love a set focused around the 3 movie villains archetypes giving nice reprints and support

I remember running Malefic Cyber End Dragon in Trains/Earth Machine back in the day, only deck that I ever saw anyone run them lol

It was a really cool idea that had potential

Some of the coolest arctypes or mechanics that fail are some of the coolest looking or coolest in concept

Now that Paradox is finally back in Duel Links I've been running a Malefic deck on the ladder. It's basically impossible to run them in regular / Master Duel but at least in Duel Links you have the skill to return 1 Malefic card in your hand to add & draw Malefic Territory as well as add a copy of Malefic World to your deck. In the speed duel format they're not really that bad as more often than not you can full combo and end on a board with 2 destruction negates from Ruddy Rose Dragon and Stardust Dragon, then you've got Malefic Stardust & Malefic Paradigm Dragon with your Malefic Truth Dragon sitting in the graveyard to be summoned if they destroy one of the other Malefic's on board. Outside of Duel Links the only other use I've been able to find for them is splashing a copy of Malefic Red Eyes / Blue Eyes into their respective deck types as an additional target for things like Trade In or Red-Eyes Insight. Always loved the concept but hate the treatment they have had

an additional note with the gravekeepers segment, malefic stardust dragon isn't really needed much now since, gravekeeper's Supernaturalist does what it does, but better. it protects both itself and necrovalley, gives you a search at the end of every turn, and is able to be buffed from necrovalley. so it was kinda phased out from the deck entirely.

All video I could only hear "Mawefic" or "Pawadox" like in the abridged 😂

I knew a guy who played Malefic Cyber End in early versions of Rank 10 trains from before that archetype got fully supported.

Id love a malefic cyber dragon lol. Maybe as a hand trap negate by banishing a CD to special summon, then if you have no Field spell it blows up, and counts as a CD in grave or banish. Also if banished you may special summon one monster from grave/banish that mentions “cyber dragon” besides malefic cyber dragon. OP card

Just built a malefic deck in md as i had never come across one, they can be really fun and catch people off

Malefic territory fieldspell protection is a lingering effect so even if it leaves the field the opponent still can't out the fieldspell in many cases

You know what would've been great? If the Malefic Dragons actually kept their original monster's effects or for Blue-Eyes and Red-Eyes, you give Blue-Eyes the effect of Burst Stream of Destruction and Red-Eyes with Inferno Fire Blast...at least Toon Red-Eyes gave it something..

In some old Tag Force games, or online yugioh games that have anime cards, people were abusing Malefics with Ecole de Zone some time ago. That's because in the anime, it has the effect to destroy all monsters that are summoned, and replacing them with tokens with their same stats but no effects. So that way you'd basically have a Skill Drain on a field spell, as well as being able to swarm the field with Malefics. Sadly the card irl got some heavy restrictions, such as only working once per turn, and only if it's exactly one monster that's being summoned

I used to play a not Maju but Great Maju variant (The one were you sacrificed 1 monster and got double of it's original atk.) Otk strategy along other cards that would allow you to hit your opponent. Funniest deck I remember playing after Seven Sins Kaiser colosseum.

I really wish for a Spell Counter deck video or an Endymion video ^.^

I ran malefics for a while competitively, back in 2012, somehow making my way to the semifinals of said tournament, I don't remember how exactly my engine went, but i know i used Skill drain to allow me to use large attack monsters that can attack, a lot of synchros that led up to me destroying skill drain and a few other cards to get Red Nova with about 12000 atk, and the last opponent I went against just forfeited, as he bricked super hard

Malefics like BEWD or REBD are decent extenders, but only in those decks. There are better extenders, but it depends on the deck build. Edit: Most of those deck builds are best built in Duel Links as skills can place a free field spell for free.

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Literally 0 builds in duel links use malefics as extenders, The concept of extenders doesnt even exist in duel links. What the hell are you talking about lmao.

id like to add from personal experience that kaiju decks can use malific end dragon, either to rank 10 with the star destroyer kaiju or as lnk materials.

Malefic Skill Drain beatdown was super fun as a kid ngl

Konami always relies way too hard to nerf non generic cards. It makes no god damn sense

I personally love using at least one copy of malefic cyber end dragon in trains cause they too (at least my build of them) love to floodgate the opponent while having high attack

You know the mechanic and archetype is bad when Rata/RANK10YGO insults it to kingdom come in his Malefic video as an improvised skit.

Be cool if they got more support based on the new aces and if push comes to shove, make malefic out of the dual terminal, world legacy and albaz lore cards.

I have a video idea for you- top 10 list of meta defining/most powerful structure decks- example Dinosmasher's Fury put dinos in the meta with soul eating oviraptor & ultimate conductor tyranno , and the Monarch structure deck did well for a time too

I literally received an order of Malefic Cyber Dragon that i bought yesterday for collection purposes and then this video pops up XD