Seven More Sins - The "Mark" & "Crown" Archetypes

[0PxPz0]

    Ladies and Gentlemen and you colorful array outside and in-between, it's my pleasure to present to you the most original archetype idea ever, monsters themed after the seven deadly sins! What's that? It's an overdone theme? Well mine is dragons! Oh? Amorphage already exists? Well I already made the cards so it's a bit late for that.

    Anyway, now that my dumb little preamble is over let's get to it. The "Mark" and "Crown" cards are a set of ritual spells and their corresponding monsters respectively, each monster is a level seven light wyrm with zero atk and/or def. The main gimmick is that you can banish any of the "mark" ritual spells from your GY instead of tributing a monster, and why's that? A majority of the ritual spells can only be played while you control no monsters, each also offers some sort of benefit if activated under that condition. from playing around with them I have a feeling they aren't very balanced but I've never been a good judge of that so please tell me what you think.

    For those interested in the lore, the "Crowns" are living calamities, each with the ability to destroy the world single handedly, that were sealed away behind mystical glyphs long ago by the first king of (insert fantasy country name). Only he and his successors know the symbols that call on these apocalyptical beasts and they've used that knowledge to call upon their pure destructive force in dire times, never allowing them to cross over from the spiritual realm they're trapped in (thus the wyrm typing). If I were an artist the crowns themselves would be more like apparitions or draconic auras enveloping a main character representing the current ruler using their power in a style similar to the fire fists, unfortunately I'm not so we'll all just have to pretend that's the case.

"If you control no monsters take control of one monster your opponent controls, then you can Ritual Summon one "Asmos the Desire Crown" from your hand by tributing monsters who's combined levels equal 7. When you Ritual Summon a Wyrm-Type monster you can banish this card from your GY as tribute as a Level 7 monster."

"If you control no monsters take control of one monster your opponent controls, then you can Ritual Summon one "Asmos the Desire Crown" from your hand by tributing monsters who's combined levels equal 7. When you Ritual Summon a Wyrm-Type monster you can banish this card from your GY as tribute as a Level 7 monster."

"If you control no monsters send one card from your Deck to the GY, then you can Ritual Summon one "Atan The Outrage Crown" from your hand by tributing monsters whose combined Levels equal 7. When you Ritual Summon a Wyrm-Type monster you can banish this card from your GY as tribute as a Level 7 monster."

"Can only be Ritual Summoned by the effect of "Mark of Atan" and cannot be summoned other ways. When a Wyrm-Type monster you control leaves the field (including this card, except as tribute for a Ritual Summon); you can destroy one card on the field. When this card destroys an opponents monster by battle you can discard one Ritual Spell; inflict damage to your opponent equal to half this monsters ATK, if a "Mark" card was discarded by this effect inflict damage equal to this monsters ATK instead."

"Ritual Summon one "Ammon the Feast Crown" from your hand by tributing monsters who's combined levels equal 7, If you control no monsters you can discard one Wyrm-Type monster from your hand as tribute. When you Ritual Summon a Wyrm-Type monster you can banish this card from your GY as tribute as a Level 7 monster."

"Can only be Ritual Summoned by the effect of "Mark of Ammon" and cannot be summoned other ways. When this card battles an opponents monster with greater ATK you can discard one "Mark" card; equip one Wyrm-Type monster mentioned in that cards text to this card, this card gains that monsters ATK. This card can make an additional attack for each card equipped to it but cannot attack directly, battle damage involving this card is halved."

"If you control no monsters draw two cards then discard one card, then you can Ritual Summon one "Elze the Wealth Crown" from your hand by tributing monsters whose combined levels equal 7. When you Ritual Summon a Wyrm-Type monster you can banish this card from your GY as tribute as a Level 7 monster."

i'm pretty sure i'd have to rework this to have you play with ritual spells in your hand revealed but i keep forgetting to add it

"Can only be Ritual Summoned by the effect of "Mark of Elze" and cannot be summoned other ways. Once per turn you can add one "Mark" card or Wyrm-Type monster from your GY to your Hand. Ritual Spells do not count towards your hand limit. this cards ATK is equal to the number of Ritual Spells with different names in your hand x400."

"You can Ritual Summon one "Levia the Spite Crown" from your hand by tributing monsters whose combined levels equal 7, If you control no monsters you can tribute monsters your opponent controls instead. When you Ritual Summon a Wyrm-Type monster you can banish this card from your GY as tribute as a Level 7 monster."

"Can only be Ritual Summoned by the effect of "Mark of Levia" and cannot be summoned other ways. When your opponent Special Summons a monster you can Special Summon one "Levia's Resent Token" (Wyrm-Type/LIGHT/Level 7/ATK ?/DEF ?) whose ATK and DEF are equal to that of the summoned monster. Once per turn you can tribute one Wyrm-Type monster you control; draw one card."

"If you control no monsters neither player can attack until your opponents next Endphase, then you can Ritual Summon one "Belphe the Apathy Crown" from your hand by tributing monsters who's combined levels equal 7. When you Ritual Summon a Wyrm-Type monster you can banish this card from your GY as tribute as a Level 7 monster."

"Can only be Ritual Summoned by the effect of "Mark of Belphe" and cannot be summoned other ways. When this card is summoned change all monsters to face-up defense position, while you control this card monster's battle positions cannot be changed except by this effect. Once per turn you can discard one "Mark" card; add one Wyrm-Type Ritual Monster from your Deck to your Hand."

"You can Ritual Summon one "Cife the Ego Crown" from your hand by tributing monsters whose combined levels equal 7, If you control no monsters you can tribute monsters whose combined Levels equals 0 instead. When you Ritual Summon a Wyrm-Type monster you can banish this card from your GY as tribute as a Level 7 monster."

"Can only be Ritual Summoned by the effect of "Mark of Cife" and cannot be summoned other ways. While you control no other monsters this card cannot be removed from the field. Once per turn you can target one of your banished "Mark" cards; place it on the bottom of your Deck and return one monster you control to the Hand."

"If you control no monsters; send any number of banished cards to your GY that do not share a name with a card in your GY, then you can tribute monsters whose combined Levels equals 7; Ritual Summon one "Omen The Cataclysm Crown" from your Hand. When you Ritual Summon a Wyrm-Type monster you can Banish this card from your GY as tribute as if it were a Level 7 monster."

"Can only be Ritual Summoned using "Mark of Omen" and cannot be summoned other ways. When this card is Ritual Summoned you can banish seven "Mark" cards from your Hand or GY with different names; destroy all cards your opponent controls. Once per turn, while you control no other monsters, you can banish one "Mark" card from your hand; Special Summon one Wyrm-Type monster from your Deck or GY, if that monster is a "Crown" Ritual Monster ignore summoning conditions."

"Banish three "Mark" cards from your Deck; draw three cards then, if any of the drawn cards is a "Crown" Monster mentioned in the text of a banished "Mark" card, Special Summon one of those monsters (this is treated as a Ritual Summon using the required Ritual Spell)."

"Once per turn you can reveal one Wyrm-Type Ritual Monster from your hand, add a banished Ritual Spell to your hand that mentions that monster. While you control only Ritual Monsters you are treated as controlling no monsters for card effects."

[LazerSwordKirbo]

I love the art, but why go with wyrms instead of dragons?

[0PxPz0]

like i said in the lore section, the idea is that they're imprisoned in a spiritual realm (field spell) and the ritual spells are mystical symbols that are used to channel their power without fully releasing them into the physical world

[-GalexyVoids-]

14 minutes ago, 0PxPz0 said:

like i said in the lore section, the idea is that they're imprisoned in a spiritual realm (field spell) and the ritual spells are mystical symbols that are used to channel their power without fully releasing them into the physical world

So i'm guessing they would be insanely overpowered if let out?

[0PxPz0]

i guess, i never really thought about making "unleashed" versions of them. storywise each one is a living disaster capable of destroying the world