I’ve finally, truly, seen the light!
SUDA-JP004 Arcana Force V – The Hierophant
Level 4 LIGHT Fairy Effect Monster
ATK 1500
DEF 1500
(1) You can discard this card; for the rest of this turn, your opponent cannot activate cards or effects when an “Arcana Force” monster(s) is Summoned to your field.
(2) If this card is Summoned: Toss a coin.
● Heads: Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower “Arcana Force” monster from your Deck with a different name from the monsters you control and in your GY.
● Tails: Special Summon 1 “Arcana Force” monster from your Deck to your opponent’s field.
Note: The Hierophant in the Tarot refers to Spiritual and Religious Wisdom and Knowledge, but also a sense of conformity, traditionalism, and the inherent infallibility of institutions.
SUDA-JP005 Arcana Force XIX – The Sun
Level 7 LIGHT Fairy Effect Monster
ATK 2900
DEF 2900
You can only use the (1)st effect of this card’s name once per turn.
(1) If a card that has a coin tossing effect is on the field: You can Special Summon this card from your hand.
(2) If this card is Summoned: Toss a coin.
● Heads: Set 1 Spell that has a coin tossing effect from your Deck.
● Tails: Destroy all cards in the Spell & Trap Zone.
Note: The Sun in the Tarot refers to Joy, Happiness, Birth, and New Beginnings, out with the old, in with the new, leaving the past behind.
SUDA-JP034 Arcana Force EX – The Chaos Ruler
Level 10 LIGHT Fairy Fusion Effect Monster
ATK 3300
DEF 3300
Materials: 3 “Arcana Force” monsters with different names.
Must be Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by sending the above cards from either field to the GY.
(1) If this card is Special Summoned: Toss a coin.
● Heads: Special Summon 1 Level 10 “Arcana Force” monster from your hand or Deck, ignoring its Summoning conditions.
● Tails: Add 1 card that has a coin tossing effect from your Deck to your hand.
(2) Your opponent cannot activate monster effects on the field while “Light Barrier” is in the Field Zone.
SUDA-JP053 Hikari no Hadou (The Wave of Light)
Continuous Spell Card
You can only use the (3)rd effect of this card’s name once per turn.
(1) During your Standby Phase, if you do not have “Light Barrier” in your Field Zone: Toss a coin, and if the result is tails, this card’s 2nd and 3rd effect are negated until your next Standby Phase.
(2) Fairy monsters you control gain 300 ATK/DEF.
(3) You can discard 1 card; add 2 “Arcana Force” monsters with different names from each other from your Deck to your hand, also you cannot Special Summon for the rest of this turn, except “Arcana Force” monsters.
Note: As I recall, this card is based on a scene from the anime where it’s revealed Saiou is heavily represented by The Devil, a card that represents enslavement to baser passions and destructive desires (or you know, a cosmic force bent on total universal destruction, but same diff). It’s also an alternate name for the Light of Destruction, the entity that kinda served as the comsic villain of GX.
SUDA-JP054 Arcana Spread
Normal Spell Card
You can only use either the (1)st or (2)nd effects of this card’s name once per turn, and only once that turn.
(1) Toss a coin and apply this effect. If “Light Barrier” is in your Field Zone, you choose the effect instead.
● Heads: Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower “Arcana Force” monster from your Deck.
● Tails: Special Summon 1 monster from your GY that has a coin tossing effect.
(2) You can banish this card from your GY; add 1 card from your GY to your hand that has a coin tossing effect.
Summon Chant
“Destiny has reached a brand new stage, a brand new world! The apostle of destruction and demise! I Special Summon “Arcana Force EX – The Chaos Ruler”!”
TL Note: Saiou is either saying Destiny has reached a higher level, or maybe ‘I’m sending you to the world hereafter’, but the latter should usually be worded a bit differently 9 times out of 10.
Maybe “Destiny has ascended to the next world!”
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Finally. Next pack hopefully we’ll get The Hangman and The Strength.
I was thinking the same thing, kind of weird we didn’t get them last time with the Fiend/Devil
Also we now need cards based on the Stars, Hermit, Justice and Judgement.
There’s also the High Priestess, Wheel of Fortune & Death if I remember anything from Saiou’s voice lines in Duel Links.
Yup, Duel Links confirms there’s an Arcana Force for every major arcana in a standard tarot deck.
Now, how about Knight of Pentacles along with the other suits?
There is a good chance now those cards may end up either in the next core set or Animation Chronicle. Hopefully the former.
I through Reversal of Fate and Tour of Doom were considered the Wheel and Death cards in the archtype.
Considering the entire hangman thing from early 00s that happened in latino countries and YGO!-phobia it inflicted there… Yeah, no – I don’t think Konami will touch “The Hangman” with three foot pole.
I think the Hangman will have a different name…
Strength would have been really good if it was Level 4….
Two summons from deck, and THEY don’t have the lock?
Odd choice Konami, but the double search each turn makes sense to lock.
The lock is on the Continuous and being tied to a coin toss unless the Field Spell is out.
Hierophant has no lock or once per turn.
You can Hierophant 3 times if you hit the coin tosses and just make Saryuja.
Hierophant cant summon itself tho
What’s really cool is that because they did a lot of future-proofing with Sartorius in Duel Links, when these cards come to the game in like ten years from now, he will actually have voicelines for both the Sun and the Hierophant. <3
The new fusion “Arcana Force EX – The Chaos Ruler” looks really good! Considering how bad the deck is overall, that opponent side field negation effect is pretty justified, and makes it feel like a legit boss… Now all we need are the remaining anime cards for the deck that are still missing, but if we do get them later… hopefully they get decent upgrades.
i love that the card its it’s own counter if Arcana Force ever becomes relevant for some reason.
So Saio’s VA is not there to announce arcana supports ??
Not there directly. But they showed a recorded duel between the Supreme King and Sartorius (Light-Possessed), where they both used their support.
No, instead he had a “live duel” with Judai’s VA in a “Evil HERO Neos vs. Arcana Force” match.
Now I want to become a fortune teller and plunge the world into the LIGHT!
Huh…Arcana was honestly one of the most cheeks archetypes of all time. Like it is thematic to leave your future up to chance…but that’s a terrible way to play and the effects usually aren’t good even if you kept the positive effect. As a result, only like 2-3 cards were ever played and definitely not in its own deck. However, these cards are good. They still keep the gimmick while more incorporating the field spell, giving it a fate-controlling vibe (not abandoning what its fans like about it unlike Glad Beast), so I’m sure they’ll like this.
When Saiou returned in season 4 he changed his strategy to more control his fate and his cards. But a lot of Season 4 cards in general were never released.
AFTER TEN THOUSAND YEARS!
Where are the anime cards?
The raigeki coin toss an coin, the premature burial toss an coin, the Strength?
The cards are good but they look outdated. Unfortunately they’ll be sorely (ab)used by “The World” turn skip strategy.
They very very rarely put one anime card in a pack, if those would be included it’ll be in 2025’s Animation Chronicle.
Wrong! PHNI had Dark Guardian, AGOV had Earthbound Servant Geo Gremlina and DUNE had Dark Corridor.
Emphasis on rarely. It almost never happens unless they want to tie into a product release.
Our most recent was Ball Balancer in ROTA.
With that said there is now a trend of supporting the anime theme of one set in the next, and it expanded to the secondary theme in SUDA. We may get an Arcana Force revisit in ALIN.
nah these cards allergic to world turn skip, you are locked into arcana force and the fusion summons level 10s (world is 8)
They can only do so much to fix these and still being reliant on a Field Spell with zero protection and chance is meh.
Also deliberate that the summons are Level 4 or below just to avoid The World lock.
Future support needs to turbo out the Field Spell and grant it protection
The Fusion monster can summon The World straight from deck.
You could still do World turbo with this. Either by tribute summoning it, or reviving from GY with the tails effect of Arcana Spread. They just didn’t make it free to do.
Arcana Force is one of my favorites, and they FINALLY are giving them good effects to both coin results.
They clearly are avoiding cheating out The World however, but some engine will do so probably.
You can kinda cheat it out. Summon hierophant, bring monster to either field, summon sun, use all three for chaos ruler which can cheat out world.
If you call right sun, you can get either light barrier or the new normal spell, either use light barrier with chaos ruler or use the new spell to bring out another monster to tribute with chaos ruler for world’s effect.
If I’m not making a mistake.
You are mistaken. The World is Level 8. Chaos Ruler only summons Light Ruler and Dark Ruler.
use Arcane Spread Light barrier the lovers to psuedo cheat him out and the other 3 cards to get the 2 tribs needed for the turn skip
While I’m not a fan of the reliance on the field spell, I can appreciate arcana force not betraying its coin tossing gimmick as well as them printing new arcana’s that we never seen before. What I’d like in future support waves is either: a retrain of light barrier that does something interesting or more ways to “cheat fate” without the reliance on light barrier. I think this support does what it should do in my opinion.
So they’re a fusion archetype now?
You can build it that way if you want but i think theres still ways to build it if you wanna cheese out the world
well GX is primarily a fusion heavy Ygo anime.
even if the original intent was to not go so fusion heavy.
You have to be very good at coin tossing to play this. Starting with the going first coin toss
If you have Light Barrier, you don’t have to toss a coin, also, these new cards have somewhat not so bad tail effects.
Finally! Though it’s different from what I expected.
YES!!!!
We got a summon chant!
Surely you want a Continuous Spell that lets you bounce Light Barrier to hand, as it comes out with its effect intact. Something that lets you pay LP to reverse the effect of an AF monster.
Eh if your playing light barrier your doing all the important stuff that turn anyway
Y’know what this makes me want? A dedicated Dice roll deck….that has nothing to do with Duke Devlin. Idk make it a pun on loaded dice or something.
I’m not a fan of how the shading on the fusion is bad on purpose.
God… do you see the radiant light?
All jokes aside… they could give so much more to Arcana Force, but Konami just can’t stop printing Mystic Mine.
I hope we get the death card one day
So, we’re getting at least two more AF cards in ALIN right?
SUDA doesn’t have any Battlewasp cards, so I’m doubtful.
SUDA has two new Metalmorph cards. Metalmorph was the secondary anime theme from ROTA. Arcana Force is the secondary anime theme from SUDA.
I feel that Sartorius should have been the cover character of Duelists of Brilliance to fit the theme of a duelist of each generation fitting. Example Marik for Gloom, Nash for Abyss, Yugo for whirlwind, Soulburner for Explosion etc.
Oh hey, Light Barrier gets its anime effect restored. Well, almost, we not longer get “negate all face-up” continuous stuff anymore. If they want to prevent infinite loops they could’ve given cards like Cyber Blader a clause that prevents them from shifting control instead of taking the avenue they did.
Ironic that Arcana Force mastered contact fusion. Still missing a way to shuffle the FOOL face-up into your opponent’s deck, the deepest lore.
the fool we got would need a retrain anyway since theres no reason to have it on opponents side the only one so far is Empress and thats for the tails effect anyway