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The '''Arcana Force''' monsters are a series of monster that debuted in [[Light of Destruction]]. Each of these monsters have "Arcana Force" in their names and their support Spell and Trap cards. The monsters are based on the "Major Arcana" tarot cards, each possessing a different [[wikipedia:Tarot#Occult_tarot_decks|symbolic meaning]], while the spell and trap cards come in the form of the "Minor Arcana" tarot cards. Although, at the time of their release, there was not one for each card in a complete 72-card tarot card set that uses one of each card, where as a full set consists of 22 cards in the "Major Arcana" set, and 14 cards in each of the four "Minor Arcana" suits, which add up to a total of 56 "Minor Arcana" cards. The monsters often attribute with coin flips to activate their effects, one positive and one negative. "[[Arcana Force EX - The Light Ruler]]" and "[[Arcana Force EX - The Dark Ruler]]" are the only ones which are not based on tarot cards, and the only ones who have a positive effect for both coin flips. The cards' appearances are inspired by the works of [[Wikipedia:H.P. Lovecraft|H.P. Lovecraft]] and taken from their appearance in Konami's own [[Wikipedia:Silent Hill|Silent Hill series]].
These cards were introduced and exclusively used by the main antagonist of the second season of [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]], [[Sartorius]], and his psychic ability to look into the future. Gay The card text is flip a coin, but in the anime, the card keeps spinning and when the opponent says "stop" the card stops and its effect depends if it's right-side-up or up-side-down. And in [[Sartorius]]'s duel against [[Aster]] and [[Jaden]] the first time, the cards almost always land in his favor (though once, Light Barrier has got the Tails Effect).
"[[Arcana Force EX - The Light Ruler]]" was, at first, the only Arcana Force card to be released. Many of the tarot Arcana Force cards were later released in Light of Destruction, which is considered the "official" debut of Arcana Force monsters. Certain key Arcana Force monsters were put into Tag Force 2 as Game Original cards, as well as many of the support cards.
