Yami Bakura's Decks

Yami Bakura plays an Occult Deck, which focuses on Fiend and Zombie type monsters. Bakura's strategies throughout the series vary, but in all his duels he relies on manipulating an opponent's moves while building up to a final strategy to defeat them. His most recognizable cards are "Change of Heart" and "Dark Necrofear".

Anime

Duelist Kingdom

Record
Opponent(s)	Episode(s)	Outcome
Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi	13	Lose

Bakura's initial Deck is disruption-themed, using cards like "Morphing Jar" and "Man-Eater Bug" to control the field and hand. This strategy was effective due to the specific nature of this Shadow Game against Yami Yugi, where the souls of Yugi and his friends had been sealed in their favorite cards which were added to Yami Yugi's deck. Thus Yami Yugi focused on gathering them on the field to avoid having to discard them to the Graveyard, which Bakura exploited with "Just Desserts" to deal heavy damage since Yami Yugi controlled multiple monsters. Ultimately he was defeated when he played "Change of Heart", the favorite card of the true Bakura. Bakura's soul within the card defied Yami Bakura and allowed Yugi and Yami Yugi to restore Bakura to his body, trapping Yami Bakura in the card of "Lady of Faith" where Yugi destroyed him as the "Dark Magician". During Bakura's tarot session with Pegasus he was shown to have Happy Lover, Doma the Angel of Silence, and Mask of Darkness in the session, it is unknown if these cards were a part of his deck but is likely that they were since Lady of Faith was in his deck and she represents the High Priestess, the second of the Major Arcana.

Battle City

Record
Opponent(s)	Episode(s)	Outcome
Bonz	79	Win
Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi	82-84	Lose
Yami Marik	96-97	Lose

During Battle City Yami Bakura uses his Occult Deck for the first time, with a new signature card "Dark Necrofear". This deck was highly risky, often relying on paying Life Points or Yami Bakura allowing himself to take damage to use his key cards. Against Yugi, Yami Bakura allowed "Dark Necrofear" to be destroyed to activate "Dark Sanctuary". Using the card's powers Yami Bakura was protected from Yugi's attacks and was able to recover his Life Points while draining Yugi's. He also used "Destiny Board" with the intent to eventually declare an automatic victory once he was able to complete its five-letter message. Against Yami Marik Bakura forces him to draw "The Winged Dragon of Ra" into his hand with "Dark Designator" and claims it for himself with "Exchange", but when Yami Marik saps Ra's ATK to 0 with "Joyful Doom", Bakura tributes Ra to swarm the field with powerful Fiend-type monsters.

Memory World

Diabound

Record
Opponent(s)	Episode(s)	Outcome
Seto Kaiba	200	No result

Yami Bakura plays another Fiend Deck when he confronts Seto Kaiba in order to gain the power of his "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" for his own purposes. He protects himself from attack with "Spirit Shield" and uses "Diabound Kernel" and "Spirit Illusion" to weaken Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes" so "Diabound" can destroy it and absorb its power. He also uses various tablet cards that symbolize the original Duel Monster spirits that were captured in stone.

Diabound Deck
Main Deck Monster Cards Normal Monsters Headless Knight The Earl of Demise Effect Monsters Diabound Kernel Magic Cards Grief Tablet Polymerization Pot of Greed Spirit Illusion Trap Cards Mirror Tablet Rebirth Tablet Spirit Shield Fusion Deck Fusion Monsters Duke of Demise

Undead Lockdown

Record
Opponent(s)	Episode(s)	Outcome
Yugi Muto	215-218	Lose

In his final Duel of the series, Yami Bakura plays an Undead Lock Deck with the "Necro" monsters against Yugi Muto, which focuses upon winning the Duel by having one's opponent run out of cards. To achieve this he uses "Cursed Twin Dolls" and "Counterbalance", allowing his destroyed monsters to return to the field as "Ghosts" rather than going to the Graveyard and forcing Yugi to discard cards from his Deck each turn equal to the number of monsters in play. By this combo Yugi lost almost a dozen cards each turn, quickly depleting his Deck, while Bakura did not have to discard since his Graveyard had been "destroyed". As protection until Yugi's Deck was wiped out, Bakura utilized "Spirit Sword of Sealing" and "Narrow Corridor" to limit his attacks.

Manga

Battle City

(One of Bakura's cards is unnamed. It is unknown if it is a Monster, Magic or Trap.)

Video games

World Championship Tournament 2004

In World Championship 2004, Yami Bakura plays a Fiend/Destiny Board deck

7 Trials to Glory: World Championship 2005

World Championship 2005 Deck
Monster Cards Effect Monsters Airknight Parshath x3 Blast Sphere x3 Dark Driceratops x3 Maha Vailo x3 Spear Dragon x3 Spell Cards Big Bang Shot x3 Graceful Charity x3 Mage Power x3 Monster Reborn x3 Pot of Greed x3 Raigeki x3 Shinato's Ark x2 United We Stand x3 Trap Cards Magic Cylinder x3 Mirror Force x3 Ring of Destruction x3