Dragon Bane Haunter (10 Nights of Fright 2019 Card #5)

[Black D'Sceptyr]

5th Night of Fright, and we're gonna spend this half-way point looking into the conclusion of one of the most tragic Normal Monster story yet.

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DARK/Wyrm-Type Link Effect Monster/Link-4/2300 ATK  

Link Arrows: Left/Bottom Left/Bottom/Right

Lore: 2+ monsters with the same Attribute, but different Types
Once per turn: You can halve your opponent's LP, then this card becomes a Normal Monster. This card gains effects, depending on the Link Materials used for its Link Summon.
● Normal: Negate the effects of all Effect Monsters on the field with more ATK than this card.
● Tuner: Halve the ATK/DEF of all other Effect Monsters on the field.
● Pendulum: During your Main Phase, you can conduct 1 Pendulum Summon of a monster(s) in addition to your Pendulum Summon. (You can only gain this effect once per turn.)

We'll need to turn to a journal to catalog this one though, since it's apparently gone through all the public archives like wild fire. No seriously, this Link's been King's Landing half the landscape around here, we may need some help, is Bayonetta.

Ah, yes, found an unburned copy of the texts.

• At an eventual point, all that was left to the individual former known ads the Dragon Horn Hunter was the dragon taint. Her home was in ruins, her kind turned her away from all havens, her slaughter of dragons had born no fruit but further loneliness and blood. Eventually, her blade found the final dragon-reeking target-her own heart. But instead of death, a new life began, as each drop her her poisoned life-force brought forth the very beasts she'd driven into near extinction like fish from a shoal, her every ragged breath was choked more and more by flames, and her every living second saw her skin blacken and thick, her form twist and extend, her mind narrow and simmer in its hatred of her own that had made her vigil such a lonely nightmare. Eventually, her wound closed - upon a shell of armor and wings, iron claws and serpentine irises, and she took to the air, and the first of the villages that had rejected her - for now the abyss had not only looked into the Hexer, but forged her into the vengeful Haunter.

My goodness. A card like this, that allows for so many monsters to gain themselves a role in putting down threats, that has the best Attribute to align with those most common monsters, that is effectively Knightmare Gryphon and Wicked Dreadroot all in one, that has an effect you normally have to use Soul Pendulum or forget Master Rule 4 exists with Zefras….is founded in such barbarity? Such disregard for so simple a goal? Such ostracization and karmic horrors? It...well, it seems so.

In short, this is Dragon Horn Hunter's final send-off to the world that spurned her:

Until the next card, folks.

BD'S, signing off.

(Spoiler: It will only get more tragic in the 10 Nights of Fright's stories from here.)