Arkana is a playable Legendary Duelist in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links. This is a video game depiction of Arkana, a character from the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime.
Prior to May 11, 2018, he was exclusive to the special event Duelist Chronicles: Battle City Begins!, only being able to be dueled or unlocked during the event.
Prior to being made available as a playable character in-game, he was able to be played at the Duel Links arcade machines at JUMP Victory Carnival 2017, which was held on July 22, 2017 in Tokyo and July 29, 2017 in Osaka.[1][2]
Red Gate Keys are normally required to Duel Arkana at the Gate.
Description[]
One of Marik's nefarious Rare Hunters. Arkana believes he is the one true Master of Magicians. He has no qualms about harming his own cards - as long as it guarantees him a victory. During Battle City, Arkana faced Yami Yugi in a clash of Dark Magicians - where one mistake could lead to an eternity in the Shadow Realm.
History[]
Picking up where the manga left off, Arkana initially believes to have beaten Yugi after waking up alone with no recollection of the conclusion of their duel. Marik's punishment involved trying to convince him to commit suicide by stirring up painful memories of his past. Despite the sadness implemented in him from Marik's brainwashing, he resolves to use his persona to mask his true feelings and pursues his own ambitions. Arkana was so elated to have survived that he was able to suppress the pain. Some time later, Arkana entered the world of Duel Links.
When Yami Marik returned, Arkana rejoined the Rare Hunters, but was defeated and sent to the Shadow Realm. Arcana was later released once Marik's reign of terror came to an end.
Gallery[]
Profile
Icon
Chibi
Cut-In
Summoning pose
Defeat
Decks[]
Character[]
- Dark Magician (glossy)
- Trial of Nightmare x3
- Akakieisu x3
- Genin x3
- Boo Koo x2
- The Bewitching Phantom Thief x3
- Sectarian of Secrets x3
Opponent[]
Level 10[]
Level 20[]
Level 30[]
Level 40[]
Duelist Chronicles: Battle City Begins![]
Level 20[]
Skill: "Power of Dark" (Begin Duel with the Field Spell "Yami" activated.)
Level 40[]
Skill: "Power of Dark" (Begin Duel with the Field Spell "Yami" activated.)
Tag Duel Tournament (second event)[]
Blue-Eyes Cup[]
Skill: "Master of Trickery" (If your team has less than 2000 Life Points, set one "Dark Renewal" from outside the deck.)
Level-up rewards[]
The following lists are the rewards the player accumulates from having Arkana reach a certain Level.
| Level | Reward |
|---|---|
| 2 | 10 Gems |
| 3 | 1 copy of "Malice Doll of Demise" |
| 4 | Card Shuffle (Skill) |
| 5 | Deck slot (Arkana) |
| 6 | 15 Gems |
| 7 | 1 copy of "The Stern Mystic" |
| 8 | Deck slot (Arkana) |
| 9 | 25 Gems |
| 10 | 1 copy of "Witch Doctor of Chaos" |
| 11 | 1 copy of "Malice Doll of Demise" |
| 12 | 35 Gems |
| 13 | Master of Magicians (Skill) |
| 14 | 1 copy of "Tragedy" |
| 15 | 50 Gems |
| 16 | 1 copy of "Maniacal Servant" |
| 17 | 60 Gems |
| 18 | 1 copy of "The Stern Mystic" |
| 19 | 75 Gems |
| 20 | A Trick up the Sleeve (Skill) |
| 21 | 1 copy of "Malice Doll of Demise" |
| 22 | 100 Gems |
| 23 | 1 copy of "Magician's Rod" |
| 24 | 120 Gems |
| 25 | 1 copy of "Illusion Magic" |
| Level | Reward |
|---|---|
| 26 | 150 Gems |
| 27 | Deck slot (Arkana) |
| 28 | 200 Gems |
| 29 | 250 Gems |
| 30 | 300 Gems |
| 31 | 100,000 Gold |
| 32 | 200 Gems |
| 33 | 1 copy of "Dark Eradicator Warlock" |
| 34 | 250 Gems |
| 35 | 1 copy of "Skilled Dark Magician" |
| 36 | 1 UR Jewel |
| 37 | 200 Gems |
| 38 | 1 copy of "Magician's Rod" |
| 39 | 250 Gems |
| 40 | 1 copy of "Dark Magic Curtain" |
| 41 | Deck slot (Arkana) |
| 42 | 100 Gems |
| 43 | 200 Gems |
| 44 | 250 Gems |
| 45 | 1 copy of "Skilled Dark Magician" |
Duel rewards[]
When dueling against Level 40 Arkana, these are the only cards that can drop; at lower levels, cards from the standard pool for Legendary Duelists may also drop.
| Rarity | Card |
|---|---|
| UR | "Dark Magician" |
| SR | "Dark Eradicator Warlock" |
| SR | "Anti-Magic Arrows" |
| SR | "Mystic Box" |
| SR | "Diffusion Wave-Motion" |
| R | "The Stern Mystic" |
| R | "Maniacal Servant" |
| R | "Witch Doctor of Chaos" |
| R | "Thousand Knives" |
| N | "Chosen One" |
Skills[]
| Skill | Effect | Unlock |
|---|---|---|
| Card Shuffle | Can be used by paying 300 Life Points. Shuffle your Deck. This Skill can only be used once per turn. | Level 4 |
| Master of Magicians | Can be used after your Life Points decrease by 2000. Randomly add 1 "Thousand Knives," "Dark Magic Attack," or "Dark Magic Expanded" to your hand. This Skill can only be used once per Duel. |
Level 13 |
| A Trick up the Sleeve | Your starting hand will include 1 Level 7 or higher DARK Spellcaster-Type monster, randomly selected from your Deck. This Skill will not activate if your Deck does not include any Level 7 DARK Spellcaster-Type monsters. You cannot Special Summon effect monsters during your first turn. |
Level 20 |
| Power of Dark | Begin Duel with the Field Spell "Yami" activated. | Drop |
| Show of Nightmares | Can be used if you have 3 or more Spell Cards in your Graveyard. Add 1 random Spell Card from your graveyard to your hand. Then, return 1 card from your hand to your Deck. This Skill can only be used once per duel. |
Drop |
| Spell Specialist | If your Deck contains 5 or more Spell Cards with different names, you will have improved chances of having a Spell Card in your starting hand. You cannot Special Summon or activate monster effects until the end of the Main Phase of your first turn. |
Drop |
| Spellcaster's Exchange | This Skill can be used twice per Duel. 1: At the start of your Main Phase, place 1 Level 5 or higher Spellcaster Type monster from your hand to the bottom of your Deck, and then draw 1 card. |
Drop |
| Draw Pass | During your Draw Phase, instead of conducting your normal draw, recover 300 Life Points. This Skill can only be used three times per Duel. |
Drop |
| Draw Sense: DARK | Can be used before your normal draw each time your Life Points decrease by 1500. One of the cards from your normal draw this turn will be a random DARK monster in your Deck. | Drop |
| Draw Sense: High-Level | Can be used before your normal draw each time your Life Points decrease by 1000. One of the cards from your normal draw this turn will be a random Level 5 or higher monster in your Deck. | Drop |
| Draw Sense: Spell/Trap | Can be used before your normal draw each time your Life Points decrease by 1000. One of the cards from your normal draw this turn will be a random Spell/Trap Card in your Deck. This Skill will only activate if you begin the Duel with a Deck that contains 3 or more Spell/Trap Cards with different names. |
Drop |
| LP Boost β | Increases starting Life Points by 1500, reduces hand by 1. | Drop |
| LP Boost γ | Increases starting Life Points by 2500, reduces hand by 2. | Drop |
| Restart | Can be used only once after starting hands are drawn. Reduce your starting hand by 1, and then redraw your hand. You cannot Special Summon or activate monster effects until the end of the Main Phase of your first turn. |
Drop |
Dialogue[]
Character-specific[]
- Yami Yugi
- When starting a Duel with Yami Yugi, Arkana announces "There only needs to be one Duelist who wields Dark Magician." followed by "This Duel will decide the real Master of Magicians!"
- When he wins the Duel, Arkana says "Hahahaha! This is why I'm the Master of Magicians!" followed by "The king of ALL Dark Magicians!"
- When he loses the Duel, Arkana says "How could this be? Monsters are supposed to respond best to fear!" followed by "You can't command their respect with kindness and trust!"
- Yami Marik
- When starting a Duel with Yami Marik, Arkana announces "It will be dishonorable if I went easy on you, Master Marik." followed by "So witness my true magic!"
- When he wins the Duel, Arkana says "I believe I've proven my worth, Master Marik."
- When he loses the Duel, Arkana says "Give me another chance! Spare me from the Shadow Realm!" followed by "Forgive me, Marik!"
Card-specific[]
- Monsters
- When Arkana Summons "Dark Magician" (using his alternate artwork), a cut-in frame of Arkana appears, and he announces "Hahahaha! Here comes the greatest magician of all!" If that player hasn't already Summoned "Dark Magician" (using his alternate artwork) during that Duel, a cutscene of "Dark Magician" being Summoned plays afterwards.
- Most of the time when Arkana declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Dark Magician serves me - and only me!" followed by "Dark Magic Attack!"
- When Arkana Summons "D/D Pandora", he announces "Presenting, D/D Pandora!"
- Most of the time when Arkana declares an attack with that monster, he announces "D/D Pandora attacks!"
- When Arkana activates the effect of that monster, he announces "D/D Pandora's effect activates!"
- When Arkana Summons "Legion the Fiend Jester", he announces "Brace yourself for Legion the Fiend Jester!"
- Most of the time when Arkana declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Attack, Legion the Fiend Jester!"
- When Arkana activates the effect of that monster, he announces "Legion the Fiend Jester's effect activates!" (spoken as "Legion of the Fiend Jester's effect activates!")
- When Arkana Summons "Magical King Moonstar", he announces "Come on out, Magical King Moonstar!"
- Most of the time when Arkana declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Magical King Moonstar attacks!"
- When Arkana activates the effect of that monster, he announces "Magical King Moonstar's effect activates!"
- When Arkana Summons "Malice Doll of Demise", he announces "This monster should strike you with fear! Malice Doll of Demise!"
- Most of the time when Arkana declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Malice Doll of Demise attacks!" followed by "Cleaver Heaver!"
- When Arkana activates the effect of that monster, he announces "Malice Doll of Demise! Activate your effect!"
- When Arkana Summons "Mystic Tomato", he announces "This card'll do! Mystic Tomato!"
- Most of the time when Arkana declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Mystic Tomato attacks!"
- When Arkana activates the effect of that monster, he announces "I tricked you! Mystical Tomato's effect activates!"
- When Arkana Summons "Pandora's Jewelry Box", he announces "Here comes Pandora's Jewelry Box"
- Most of the time when Arkana declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Pandora's Jewelry Box attacks!"
- When Arkana activates the effect of that monster, he announces "Pandora's Jewelry Box's effect activates!"
- When Arkana activates the Pendulum effect of that monster, he announces "Pandora's Jewelry Box's Pendulum effect activates!"
- When Arkana Summons "The Illusory Gentleman", he announces "Come on out! The Illusory Gentleman!"
- Most of the time when Arkana declares an attack with that monster, he announces "The Illusory Gentleman! Attack!"
- When Arkana Summons "Trap Master", he announces "Join us, Trap Master!"
- Most of the time when Arkana declares an attack with that monster, he announces "Grind 'em, Trap Master!"
- When Arkana activates the effect of that monster, he announces "Trap Master's effect activates!"
- Spell/Traps
- When Arkana activates "Anti-Magic Arrows", he says "Since your cards annoy me, I'll simply not allow you to play them." followed by "My Quick-Play Spell! Anti-Magic Arrows!"
- When Arkana activates "Card Shuffle", he announces "I activate my Spell Card, Card Shuffle!"
- When activating the effect of that card, Arkana announces "I honed this technique since my apprentice days."
- When Arkana activates "Dark Renewal", he announces "I activate my Trap Card! Dark Renewal!"
- When Arkana activates "Dark Magic Curtain", he announces "This is the key to my victory!" followed by "Dark Magic Curtain!"
- When Arkana activates "Dark Room of Nightmare", he announces "I activate my Continuous Spell! Dark Room of Nightmare!"
- When Arkana activates "Ectoplasmer", he announces "This Spell Card drains the very soul of my monster to create pure, concentrated energy!" followed by "The Continuous Spell, Ectoplasmer!"
- When activating the effect of that card, Arkana announces "My monster will be turned into a hollow shell, but I don't care as long as I win!" followed by "Fire its ectoplasm!"
- When Arkana activates "Magical Star Illusion", he announces "I activate the Spell Card, Magical Star Illusion!"
- When Arkana activates "Monster Reborn", he announces "Monster Reborn!"
- When Arkana activates "Thousand Knives", he announces "This Spell Card will slice and dice! Thousand Knives!"
- When Arkana activates "Tragedy", he announces "I activate my Trap Card! Tragedy!"
Unused Dialogue[]
(Voice lines found in game files but not currently not in game yet)
- Spells/Traps
- When Arkana activates "Beckon to Darkness", he announces "I activate my Spell Card! Beckon to the Dark!"
- When Arkana activates "Cursebreaker", he announces "I activate my Spell Card! Cursebreaker!"
Trivia[]
- The inclusion of "D/D Pandora" and "Pandora's Jewelry Box" as card-specific dialogue may reference Arkana's Japanese name, "Pandora".
- The Paradox Brothers, Arkana, Lumis and Umbra, Aigami, Sera,, Prana, Jesse Anderson, Alexis Rhodes, Dr. Vellian Crowler, Bastion Misawa, Tyranno Hassleberry, Sartorius Kumar, and Blair Flannigan, Yusei Fudo, Dark Signer Kalin Kessler, Kalin Kessler, and Reginald Kastle are the Legendary Duelists who have dialogue for cards that are non-existent, unreleased, anime-exclusive, or video game-exclusive. It is uncertain as to why these cards were found in the voice files, or if these said cards will be released in the future.
- Arkana's dialogue for such cards include: "Beckon to Darkness" and "Cursebreaker".
- Yugi Muto (DM), Mako Tsunami, Rex Raptor, Bandit Keith, Ishizu Ishtar, Odion, Maximillion Pegasus, Arkana, Espa Roba, Scud, Prana, Dr. Vellian Crowler, Syrus Truesdale, and Sartorius Kumar are the characters with the least character-specific dialogue in-game.
- The aforementioned characters, excluding Prana, have the average amount of character-specific dialogue a Legendary Duelist possesses.
- There are some Legendary Duelists who possess a Skill that allows them to begin a Duel with a specific Field Spell on the field:
- Yami Yugi, Arkana, Yubel, Dark Signer Kalin Kessler, Dark Signer Carly Carmine, Rex Goodwin - Power of Dark
- Seto Kaiba (DM) - Peak Performance
- Joey Wheeler (DM), Tristan Taylor (DM) - Fields of the Warriors
- Mai Valentine - Harpies' Hunting Ground
- Rex Raptor, Tyranno Hassleberry - Dinosaur Kingdom
- Mako Tsunami - Mythic Depths
- Bonz - Straight to the Grave
- Chazz Princeton - Land of the Ojamas
- Sartorius Kumar - Light Barrier
- Jaden Yuki, Jaden/Yubel - Neo Space!
References[]
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