Arkana

Arkana 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 fiancé, 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 fiancé 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 fiancé 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.

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.

Pandora's name was changed to Arkana in the English anime because "Pandora" is a feminine name in English. "Arcana" is the plural form of the Latin word "arcanus". The English word "Arcane" is derived from that word.

Dark Duel Stories
Pandora 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
Steve Arkana plays a Magician Deck Many of his cards are themed on magician's acts, with his signature cards being his "Dark Magician".

In dubbed animes 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.