Arcanas

**Arcana** is a modifier system in Vampire Survivors. Collecting the Randomazzo unlocks the Arcana system and the first Arcana, Sarabande of Healing.

Additional Arcanas are unlocked by reaching level 50 with certain characters, or by reaching minute 31 in certain stages.

## Mechanics

Each Arcana modifies gameplay in a particular way. The player can choose to enable or disable Arcanas in the stage selection screen.

With Arcanas enabled, a total of 3 Arcanas may be selected during a run:

1. At the beginning of the round all Arcanas are offered as options. Clicking the blue button with a question mark will randomly choose one.
2. When the chest dropped at the 11:00 timestamp is collected. 4 Arcanas are randomly offered as options.
3. When the chest dropped at the 21:00 timestamp is collected. 4 Arcanas are randomly offered as options.

The second and third Arcanas are rewarded in Treasure Chests dropped by specific bosses. If three Arcanas are already selected before the chest is collected, it will act like a normal evolution chest. If Arcanas are not enabled, the bosses holding an Arcana chest do not appear in the stage. If fewer than 3 Arcanas are unlocked, the second or third Arcana will not appear in their respective chests. The Reroll PowerUp can be used to reroll the second and third Arcanas.

### Exceptions

* Game Killer (0), always granting three rewards, bypasses the limitation of Arcana chests not awarding anything else but a single Arcana.
* In Boss Rash, Bat Country, and Tiny Bridge, the bosses are exceptionally spawned alongside the 5:00 and 10:00 waves.
	+ Unlike normal bosses, the Arcana holders will not be spawned again in Boss Rash if the player uses the red pizza to resummon the wave in Boss Rash.
* Avatar Infernas starts off with Heart of Fire (XIX) and can select three more with the normal methods.
* Queen Sigma can select 5 Arcanas at levels 1, 2, 3, 77, and 108 with all of the options available similar to the first pick for other characters.
* Using inverse mode, the Merchant offers Arcanas as an options costing  20,000. With endless mode, the Merchant will appear again every cycle of a normal game length, allowing the character to potentially select the full deck of Tarot cards.

## Arcanas

There are 22 Arcanas total. Each Arcana is represented by a Roman numeral.

## Trivia

* Arcana can be unlocked by typing "randomazzami" while in main menu, giving the Randomazzo and Sarabande of Healing (VI).
* All the "Reach minute 31 in the [stage]" and Game Killer (0) Arcanas can be unlocked by typing "aintnobodygottimeforthat" while in the main menu, giving all five Arcanas.
* This deck of Arcana are loosely based on the real Major Arcana used in Tarot card readings. For example, Boogaloo of Illusions (XVIII) real counterpart is The Moon (XVIII) Arcana which represents intuition, loneliness, and *illusion*.
* In normal stages the Arcanas are dropped by a Glowing Bat boss.
* Placeholders for all Arcanas existed in the game files before all Arcana were officially released, with the unreleased ones having placeholder names being musical tracks from the Castlevania series. Most of them were slightly modified before being officially released. For example, what was once place held as "Tragic Prince" has since been released as Tragic Princess (III).

## Notes

1. ↑ The correct singular form of the word is "arcanum", whereas "arcana" is already in plural. However, in-game "arcana" is used to refer to a single card and "arcanas" is used for multiple.