Archtype Submission - Shadow Dweller

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Ladies and gents, say hello to Shadow Dweller!


The story of the archetype goes as follows:

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- Long ago, before this universe was created, a powerful spirit whose name was Jonas Colt defeated the great evil which has almost succeeded in consuming the world. After that was a long period of peace, the evil was not destroyed. It was being reincarnated slowly. Just in case, Jonas formed an alliance with the Genies which lived parallel to the human world and he called this organization "Shadow Dwellers". They searched for any sign of the arising evil so that they can stop it before it gets out of hand. This evil force is a mystery that no one knew about.

Genies were evil demonic shadow beings for the most part, but there were noble ones among them. Genies had the power to transform into anything and they had extreme strength, speed and ability.

Jonas fell in love with a female genie and they got married, that was the first cross with human and genie world, which resulted in a cross breed human genie baby. The baby grew fast and it was able to transform into any form. Years passed again, and the great evil was getting stronger and stronger, it was very close to being reincarnated. The baby grew to be 4 years old and that's when it suddenly showed a vision to everyone, it showed a vision of this evil and the coming doom. The baby received a name "Vision" because of this feat. They immediately started preparing, training to get stronger. 3 years later, it started.

The world was enveloped in darkness. This great evil monstrosity, of an unknown origin, and a complete mystery arisen and started consuming all matter. Everything it reaches is transported into the spirit world, and what remains is an afterimage in a hollow, shadow form of it self. The great beast consumed all humans and genies including jonas, his wife and his alliance. Vision seen this happen before his eyes, and being 7 at the time, with a human heart, this was a great shock, and an even greater trauma to live with. But being a cross breed of the 2 great creations, he was much older in spirit, 7 years for a genie is like 33 human, but genies lived for hundreds of thousands of years.

In his great despair he unleashed all his power, which no one ever know he had and became a great fiend of revenge. His primal genie instincts awoken and with intense fury and anger he attacked the evil beast which threatened the universe. No genie or human individually or combined stood a chance against the mysterious force, but Vision was able to. And its all thanks to "Chaos Energy". His heart is from humans and genies, light and darkness combined into form of chaos. The fight lasted for thousands of years and they were both evenly matched, but one day, something changed in vision. Vision decided that its not right to fight for revenge, making him no better than the beast. His human instincts finally awoken. He remembered his family and his father, shed tears and went to the remains of the world.

He found his father's, Jonas's Armor, which was the dark blue metal with golden edges armor he always wore. Vision put the armor onto him self and entered it, possessing it like a spirit, flowing through it like fire.

He went to fight the beast again and with the power of light and darkness (genie and human heart) he finally destroyed this beast, which he found to be a dragon afterwards. This dragon's name was Chaos Emperor Dragon. And after his reincarnation, his name was Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End.

Vision came to be known as the The Black Luster Soldier, the soldier of legends, and after the victory he lost a lot of power, so he devolved into Envoy of Chaos. Envoy of Chaos used his power to create a new universe.

In a great explosion, with the power of chaos he created it, but after that he disappeared. He became Legendary Black Luster Soldier - Super Soldier. with his own army of chaos monsters. He has gone through multiple transformations throughout this period of time. His army refers to him as the Supreme King.

In this universe, an earth came to be, and humans existed with genies, which have came to be known as duel monsters spirits. When humans discovered them, they made the shadow games, and that's how the game of duel monsters came to be. Atem was born into the world resembling the appearance of Vision's human form, the same goes for yugi. It's as though he was reincarnated in Atem, and later in yugi, Seeking to end connection with genies and humans, so that they live separately, and prevent evil from arising again.

Genies from the original universe were colossal in size compared to the duel monster spirits in the new universe.

Chaos Emperor dragon was reincarnated again in the new universe as "Chaos Emperor Dragon - The Dragon of Armageddon" after a strange incident on earth that caused a dimensional split of the single dimension. But he wasn't a threat as he used to be. Vision, in his ultimate form: Black Luster Soldier - Super Soldier found him immediately and brought the dragon to his end. But just before he finished him off something strange happened, the dimensions were combined again into 1 creating a rift and bringing an even greater force of destruction to the universe: Dystophia, the Dispondent. Vision and his entire army weren't able to do anything against the might of dystophia, so Vision did the unthinkable, he fused his being with that of chaos emperor dragon - the dragon of Armageddon and he became: Chaos End Ruler - Ruler of the Beginning and the End. Chaos End Ruler defeated dystophia in 1 blow, and for the rest of eternity, vision and emperor dragon stayed fused together. They are neither of the 2, they are a new being. Just before the fusion happened, Vision split the universe in 12 dimensions and split his darkness into 12 parts, sending 1 part to each dimension, hoping that his light would balance chaos emperor dragon's darkness. Being parts of his soul, they long searched for him so that they can be 1 again, but they were never able to find him. So far, Chaos End Ruler has been a neutral force, and the only thing he was doing was balancing light and darkness in the universe without directly getting involved.

After his battle with dystophia, the balance between light and darkness was destroyed. They started to leak out more one over the other. The Light was starting to overpower darkness bit by bit, so Chaos End Ruler changed Jaden Yuki's Destiny so that he would become a part spirit part human like vision used to be so that he may live for thousands of hundreds of years to fight of light and darkness to keep them in check. One part of Vision's evil soul inhabited Jaden, and came to be known as the Supreme King, and Chaos End Ruler is responsible for guiding the Supreme King part to Jaden. Just 1 single piece of the Supreme King (The vision's Dark Side) was so powerful, it made Jaden Unbeatable. Chaos End Ruler doesn't get involved directly, but indirectly through Jaden Yuki. Yubel attempted to fuse the 12 dimensions into 1 to bring out 1 ultimate "God" of all dimensions, which was Visions dark side: The Supreme King, vision's dark side's complete form.



After a long while, Jaden fought a powerful foe and their fight caused the dimensions to combine into 1 and all parts of the Supreme King's soul became 1 with jaden, took over his mind and body but yubel sacrificed her self to prevent jaden's death, and jaden became a baby. But he looked nothing like jaden. His hair was spiky, white. The Supreme king absorbed Yubel's soul and they became 1. Jaden was now known as zarc in this dimension. Zarc eventually grew up and you know the story, he slowly gotten more brutal as the supreme king influenced his soul more and more, and eventually he summoned the Supreme King Dragon Z-ARC. The Supreme King was never a dragon, you can see him in his original form on the card images below, but due to yubel, he became a dragon. And story goes on from here, there is no need to retell it.

Here are the cards:

Shadow Dweller Aftervengeance
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Shadow Dweller Despair". If this card is Ritual Summoned during your opponent's turn: Negate effects of all other cards in this column, then destroy them. Your opponent cannot activate cards or effects in response the activation of this effect. If this card attacks an opponent's monster: This card gains ATK equal to the difference between that monster's ATK and DEF, also your opponent cannot activate cards or effects until the end of the Damage Step. If this card that was destroyed by battle or by an opponent's card effect is in your GY (except the turn it was sent there), you can banish it: Draw 1 card. You can only control 1 "Shadow Dweller Aftervengeance".
^^ - The Supreme King's Original Form - Supreme King origin, This became one with yubel and became the dragon zarc.



Shadow Dweller Aftershot
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Shadow Dweller Despair". This card gains 150 ATK for every "Shadow Dweller" card in your GY. When this card destroys a monster by battle: Inflict damage to your opponent equal to the half of the original ATK of the destroyed monster. If this card is destroyed by battle or by an opponent's card effect: You can Ritual Summon 1 "Shadow Dweller" monster from your hand by shuffling into the Deck, your banished "Shadow Dweller" monster(s), whose whose total Levels exactly equal that monster's Level. You can only use this effect of "Shadow Dweller Aftershot" once per turn.
^^ - Vision with his father's Jonas's armor.


Shadow Dweller Afterimage
You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 face-up Effect Monster your opponent controls; that target has its effects negated until the end of this turn. You must have 1 or more other "Shadow Dweller" card(s) in your GY to activate and resolve this effect. You can only use each effect of "Shadow Dweller Afterimage" once per turn.
^^ - This was one of the genies who was in Shadow Dweller alliance. Also his soul was reincarnated in the new universe, and he is now known as "Evolzar Dolkka", which appeares on Breakthrough Skill, which has similar effect to this card.


Shadow Dweller Afteremerger
You can discard this card and 1 other "Shadow Dweller" card from your hand: Add 1 "Shadow Dweller" Ritual Monster and 1 "Shadow Dweller" Ritual Spell card from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Shadow Dweller Afteremerger" twice per turn. (Quick Effect): You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 card on the field; this turn, when any card effect resolves that targeted that card at activation, negate that effect and destroy that card. You must have 1 or more other "Shadow Dweller" card(s) in your GY to activate and resolve this effect.
^^ - Just like the above, this was also one of the genies who was in Shadow Dweller alliance. He was reincarnated as well as "Dark King of the Abyss" who is depicted battling with the spirits in Skill Prisoner trap card, which has similar effect as this card!


Shadow Dweller Aftervision
When this card is Summoned: Add 1 "Shadow Dweller" card from your Deck to your hand, then you can send 1 "Shadow Dweller" card from your Deck to your GY, except for "Shadow Dweller Aftervision". If you take damage by battle or by an opponent's card effect while this card is in the GY: You can banish this card from your GY, gain LP equal to the half of the damage you took, then you can target 1 card on the field; destroy it. You must have 1 or more other "Shadow Dweller" card(s) in your GY to activate and resolve this effect. You can only use each effect of "Shadow Dweller Aftervision" once per turn.
^^ - Baby Vision, but it appeares that part of his soul reincarnated as "Pero Pero Cerberus" in the new universe.


Shadow Dweller Despair
This card can be used to Ritual Summon "Shadow Dweller Aftershot" or "Shadow Dweller Aftervengeance". You must also send monsters from your hand, field and/or send "Shadow Dweller" monsters from your Deck to the GY, whose total Levels exactly equal to the monster you're trying to Ritual Summon. If your opponent controls a monster that was Special Summoned from the Extra Deck: You can also use monsters from your Deck for the Ritual Summon. You can only acivate 1 "Shadow Dweller Despair" per turn.
^^ - Depiction of Vision when he went berserk in anger after the death of everyone. A miniscule part of his anger was reincarnated as "Necro Gardna".


Shadow Dweller Concurrence
If you control a "Shadow Dweller" Ritual Monster: You can target 1 card your opponent controls; destroy it, and if you do, draw 1 card. You can only use this effect of "Shadow Dweller Concurrence" once per turn.
^^ - Depiction of the battle between vision and the great beast.


Shadow Dweller Vehemence
If a "Shadow Dweller" Ritual Monster you control leaves the field by battle or by an opponent's card effect: Destroy all cards in this, and the adjacent columns, and if you do, inflict 500 damage to your opponent for each card that was destroyed. (Quick Effect): If your opponent declares a direct attack, you can banish this card from your GY: Excavate the top card of your Deck; if its a "Shadow Dweller" monster Special Summon it ignoring its Summoning conditions, otherwise add the card to your hand. You must have 1 or more other "Shadow Dweller" card(s) in your GY to activate and resolve this effect. You can only acivate 1 "Shadow Dweller Vehemence" per turn.
^^ - Depiction of the first attack vision unleashed in vengeance against the great beast. This attack was so powerful that it left rifts in the dimension, sending a spirit known as "Wretched Ghost of the Attic" to be sent into the future and transport it to the new universe. From this the entire kuriboh family was born. The final evolution of the kuriboh: Clear Kuriboh appeares to have inharited these abilities.

Strengths:
 - The play style of this archetype is unique and the interactions of the card in your graveyard make it insanely fun to play. You feel like you are in anime when Yusei battled against the 3 unicorn guys, and was always hanging by a
       thread with the monsters from his graveyard saving him.
 - Lots of interaction, can save your self many times, and there are unique ways you can use the monsters grave effects to stop certain cards.
 - Being a ritual archetype its well supported.
Weaknesses:
 - Not consistent enough (which is exactly what i wanted)
 - Lacks ways to out problems
 - You cant mix it with other archetypes to make hybrids because the monsters wouldn't work well because you need to have other Shadow Dwellers in gy to use them.

All in all, well balanced, tested on DB archetype, cool and fun.
All images of cards in HD:

https://imgur.com/a/6Q3Nhwt