Card Trivia:Noble Knight Artorigus

"Noble Knight Artorigus":

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• This card's artwork was done by Joe Ng and was colored by Chilean artist Gonzalo Ordóñez Arias, AKA Genzoman, making this one of the few cards whose artwork wasn't created by a Japanese artist. Others examples include "Ancient Dragon" and "Noble Knight Gawayn", whose art and coloring were also done by Genzoman.

• This is the first Normal Monster in the game that has its flavor text written in poetic form, as opposed to a simple description of the monster.
  • As a result, it is the only card whose text is not justified (it does not extend all the way across the text box).
  • This card has the longest flavor text of all Normal Monsters.
  • The English and French lores use slightly wider spacing than normal between the letters of each word.

• "Artorigus" is clearly based on King Arthur due to him pulling the mythical sword from the stone, which depending on sources is sometimes considered to be the legendary sword that chooses kings, Excalibur or Caliburn.
  • As well, Artorigus is Old English for Arthur.
    • The poem written on this card is also very similar to the poem "Le Morte d'Arthur".

• "Noble Arms - Caliburn" appears in this card's artwork.
  • Even though there are no golden lines extending from the hilt of the sword in the artwork of "Caliburn", both swords have the same hilt and are embedded in the same rock formation. This is used to reveal each side of this sword.
    • The sword in this card is actually the exact same as in the artwork of "Caliburn", just drawn at a different angle and in more detail. The gold lines are still there, but are obscured by the blue lines of light on the blade of the sword.

• This card has the highest combined ATK and DEF of any Level 4 or lower Normal Monster.

• This knight appears in the artwork of "Noble Knights of the Round Table".