Marik Ishtar's Decks

Marik plays a variety of Decks while possessing the bodies of others through the Millennium Rod. His body is used to Duel by Yami Marik. For those Decks, see Yami Marik's Decks.

Through Keith
While controlling Bandit Keith, he utilizes Keith's Machine Deck, albeit modified to include powerful cards obtained by his Rare Hunters, such as "Zera the Mant", "Seiyaryu" and "Graceful Charity".

Through Strings
While controlling the body of Strings, Marik uses a Deck tooled to Summoning and powering up the Egyptian God Card "Slifer the Sky Dragon" using a five-card combo (known as the "God Five" in the manga and Japanese versions) of the following:


 * "Slifer the Sky Dragon": The main attack force with near infinite attack power.
 * "Revival Jam": The ultimate defense, to defend "Slifer" in case necessary.
 * "Jam Defender": To allow "Revival Jam" to automatically defend "Slifer".
 * "Card of Safe Return": Every time "Revival Jam" is Special Summoned from the Graveyard, Strings must draw three cards, and "Slifer" gains 3000 ATK points.
 * "Infinite Cards": Removes hand limit, allowing "Slifer's" attack to climb virtually infinite.

However, despite Marik's claim that this combo will allow "Slifer" to have infinite attack, Yami Yugi proved otherwise, as he brainwashed "Revival Jam" and have "Slifer" to constantly attack the reviving monster, forcing Strings to keep drawing until a Deck Out occurred, thus losing. Therefore, this combo's greatest weakness is that God's power is limited by the number of cards within the player's deck.

Through Joey
While controlling Joey Wheeler, Marik plays a modified version of Joey's own Deck, which includes cards that are banned by Battle City Rules, such as "Hinotama", "Raigeki" and "Meteor of Destruction".

7 Trials to Glory: World Championship 2005
In Yu-Gi-Oh! 7 Trials to Glory: World Championship 2005, Marik plays a One Turn Kill Deck centered around the abuse of Forbidden cards.