I didn’t understand how great Malicious was at first. But what makes it great is its versitility. It does SOOO much. First of all it is Destiny Draw fuel. It makes one of the best draw cards in the game great because you WANT to discard it. Once in the graveyard you can remove it to special summon another. Then you have a number of options. Tribute it for a bigger monster. Set off Crush Card Virus (now banned in part due to the ease of getting this and Disk Commander on the field). Block an attack. In addition it’s dark so you can use Allure with it. It’s a Warrior so you can search it with Reinforcement and retuirn it to your hand with Warrior Returning Alive (to Destiny Draw or Allure with it). It fuels Dark Armed Dragon, and removes itself from the grave to better support the need for 3 Darks.

The flat out usefulness of this card deserves it a place on this list. I don’t know that a Destiny Hero besides Disk Commander has impacted the games as much as Malicious.