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| occupation = [[Rare Hunter]]
| organization = [[Ghouls]]
| tournament1 = [[Battle City (manga)|Battle City]]
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'''Pandora the Conjurer''' (奇術師パンドラ ''Kijutsushi Pandora'') is a character in the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga)|''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' manga]]. This is the original depiction of Pandora, known as [[Arkana]] in the English anime. As one of the [[Rare Hunters]], he faced [[Dark Yugi (manga)|Dark Yugi]] in the [[Battle City (manga)|Battle City]] tournament, in a Duel, in which both players focused heavily on their ace card, the "[[Dark Magician (manga)|Dark Magician]]".
==Biography==
===Battle City===
Assigned in the [[Battle City (manga)|Battle City]] tournament to Duel [[Yugi Mutou (manga)|Yugi Mutou]], Pandora took inspiration from his background as an escape artist, and trapped Yugi in a duel arena where the loser gets his legs chopped off by a buzzsaw. Pandora acted insanely sadistic throughout the entire Duel, while rejecting all offers to end the unnecessary gruesomeness by claiming that this was his great show of escaping from the jaws of death, much to Yugi's disgust.
Below each player were small boxes containing the key to the shackles that strapped their legs beneath them, which opens only below the victor; Pandora compared this situation to [[Wikipedia:Pandora's box|Pandora's box]], citing that the boxes as the only hope for one of them (and a reference to his own name). Furthermore, Pandora used the [[stripper technique]], and cruelly sacrificed his monsters to win, all the while treating his monsters as dispensable slaves and claiming that ruthlessness to even one's own "slaves" is necessary to victory. He had no knowledge of the existence of "[[Dark Magician Girl (manga)|Dark Magician Girl]]" until Yugi played it against him. Eventually, because Pandora betrayed his cards, Yugi managed to defeat him (due to the fact that Dark Magician Girl gets a power-up for each Dark Magician in the Graveyard, and since Pandora sacrificed his own, it gave her a necessary power-up to defeat him).
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| [[Dark Yugi and Pandora's Duel (manga)|VS]] — [[Dark Yugi (manga)|Dark Yugi]]
| [[Battle City (manga)|Battle City]]
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| {{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|161|number}} — {{chapter|Yu-Gi-Oh!|164|number}}
