Arkana

Arkana

Arkana

Arkana

Arkana

Arkana

Arkana

Arkana

Arkana

Arkana

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Arkana

Arkana

Arkana

Arkana

Deck	Magician
Arkana

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Arkana, known as Pandora in the Japanese version, is a Rare Hunter and member of the Rare Hunters organization, who uses the "Dark Magician" card in duels. Unlike Yugi's Dark Magician, Arkana's is red instead of purple. He was once a famous stage magician, with his lovely assistant fiancee, Catherine, but fell into despair after a dangerous illusion he was performing went awry, scarring his once-beautiful visage to the point where he drove his fiancee away in his anguish. Ruined and depressed for causing his love to leave him, he stumbled from day to day until he met Marik Ishtar, who promised to help him regain the love of his fiancee if he became a Rare Hunter. However, after he was defeated and saved by Yugi Muto in a duel in which the loser gets his legs chopped off by a buzzsaw (in cut versions of the anime, the buzzsaws were changed to Dark Energy Disks that sent the loser's mind to the Shadow Realm upon contact), he realized that the promise was a lie and that, if Yugi had not saved him, Marik would have left him to die. In the manga, upon his loss and escape from the buzzsaw, Marik saw through Arkana's memories network and saw that he considered suicide twice in his life: once after his mother died, the second was when he lost his fiancee. Marik then brought out these memories and stirred them up, so Arkana would commit suicide upon waking up.

Arkana has also appeared in the Waking the Dragons arc as a lost soul wandering the sacred circle Yugi ventures through to find his other half.

Dark Duel Stories

Arkana has also appeared in the Yu-Gi-Oh! video game, Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories for the Game Boy Color. He is the fifth duelist available after beating the first wave of duelists five times. His deck contains most of his key cards from the anime and manga, although some of his more powerful cards have been taken out to make him an easier duelist. Another thing worth noting in this deck is that all of his cards are repeats, with the exeption of "Dark Hole", which is Limited in this game.

Decks

Arkana plays a Magician Deck Many of his cards are themed on magician's acts, with his signature cards being his "Dark Magician". As a professional stage magician, Arkana also knows more than 1000 ways to cheat at cards, and he uses those tricks to draw the certain cards he desires. This includes marking them or cutting them into slightly smaller sizes, as well as shotgun-shuffling them, even though it damages the cards (which he doesn't care).

Arkana was also willing to sacrifice his monsters through the use of Ectoplasmer, in a ruthless, uncaring, and even sadistically happy way, in order to gain victory. Yugi claimed that Arkana's method was sick and cruel, and that it is a disrespect to his own cards.

In dubbed anime using the "language neutral" cards, many of his cards were incorrectly changed causing to contents of his hand to change between shots.

See Also: Arkana's Deck: Mistakes in Dubbed Episodes.

Dark Duel Stories Deck
Monster Cards Tribute Monsters Dark Magician x3 Leo Wizard x3 Mysterious Puppeteer x3 Doll of Demise x3 Non-Tribute Monsters Kamionwizard x3 Disk Magician x3 Witch of the Black Forest x3 Masked Sorcerer x3 Mystic Clown x3 Terra the Terrible x3 Ancient Sorcerer x3 Spell Cards Dark Energy x3 Yami x3 Dark Hole

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