We all love shiny hats. When you have a cool set equipped, you feel more at ease on the hero, it gives your favorite characters more personality, and you may even play better. Arcana items are the rarest items in Dota 2. They come with extensive customizations such as particle effects, animations, icons, sounds, and more. In this article, we will look at the best Arcanas in Dota 2.
15. Manifold Paradox
See Manifold Paradox in action:
"With a raspy cackle, the elder smith Craler swung the sword that his family had spent eleven generations to fold and forge. So sharp it was that, with a sound like tearing fabric, a rip in reality tore open. Through this rip, Craler recognized himself from moments before, holding aloft the very same coveted blade. Then, in a fit of greed and madness, he cut this earlier self down to seize the twin sword as his own. Too late, however, Craler felt a familiar wound, and was suddenly filled with the memory of being cut down himself..."
Manifold Paradox is Arcana for the hero Phantom Assassin. It was released on 20 November 2014. This item was made as a result of Phantom Assassin winning the Arcana vote during the International 2014. This arcana was made for the Nemesis Assassin event.
What makes Manifold Paradox Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all of PA's spells. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, and ambient effects.
- It comes with three unlockable styles for PA's weapons. Her weapon evolves by earning points. Every match you win while playing Phantom Assassin you will earn 1 point. Earning 40 points will upgrade the weapon to Level 2, and earning 100 points causes the weapon to reach its maximum evolution.
- This arcana looks great with other sets and immortal items. Try to make a custom set that looks the best.
- You also get a new emoticon.
How To Get Manifold Paradox:
You can buy this arcana in the Dota 2 in-game store or on the Steam market, it costs around 35$. This Aracana can also drop after a match.
14. Great Sage's Reckoning
See Great Sage's Reckoning in action:
"Though his misdeeds have long been forgiven, the thrills of Sun Wukong's crimes live on. Relive three legendary trials from his earliest adventures with the Great Sage's Reckoning."
Great Sage's Reckoning is Arcana for the hero Monkey King. This arcana was released alongside Monkey King. Released on 12 December 2016.
What makes Great Sage's Reckoning Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for the spells Tree Dance and Primal Spring. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- Arcana comes with four dynamic styles that change during the game. Timeless Tale is the default style (white style). After you level up your ultimate to level 1, you get the second style, Rumble in the Deep (blue style). After you level up your ultimate to level 2, you get the third style, Immortal Path (green style). After you level up your ultimate to level 3, you get the final style, King's Crucible (gold style). Each style comes with different colors and effects.
- With this Arcana, you will also get a new emoticon, loading screen, and taunt.
How To Get Great Sage's Reckoning:
You can buy this arcana in the Dota 2 in-game store or on the Steam market, it costs around 35$. This Aracana can also drop after a match.
13. Frost Avalanche
See Frost Avalanche in action:
"Some say the garment began as the wedding gown of an ancient queen. Others say it was once a battle cloak of a frost ogre. In truth, the enchanted fabric is as malleable as an avalanche, and can mold itself into various forms. This form has attracted a lone wolf pup, who has now become a hardy and loyal companion."
Frost Avalanche is Arcana for the hero Crystal Maiden. It was released on 12 February 2015. This item was created for the New Bloom Festival 2015. In lore, this item was given to Crystal Maiden by Winter Wyvern.
What makes Frost Avalanche Awesome:
- This arcana has a custom icon for CM's ultimate, Freezing Field. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- It comes with Aurora, the Wolf Pup of Icewrack, an uncontrollable pet that accompanies Crystal Maiden. You can unlock extra style for your pet by destroying 50 enemy wards.
- This arcana looks great with other sets and immortal items. Try to make a custom set that looks the best.
- You also get a new emoticon.
How To Get Frost Avalanche:
You can buy this arcana in the Dota 2 in-game store or on the Steam market, it costs around 35$. This Aracana can also drop after a match.
12. Bladeform Legacy
See Bladeform Legacy in action:
"Yurnero’s mask has been cleaved in two, awakening the ancient souls that once laid dormant inside it. These spirits have become one with Yurnero, giving him both the wisdom and fury of his ancestors. This symbiotic relationship has transformed the Juggernaut into something new and terrifying... a celestial force of nature."
Bladeform Legacy is Arcana for the hero Juggernaut. It was released on 15 March 2017. This item was made as a result of Juggernaut winning the Arcana vote during the International 2016.
What makes Bladeform Legacy Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all of Juggernaut's spells. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- This arcana comes in two styles: Legacy (blue) and Origins (red). The second style, Origins, is unlocked after you manage to get 10 kills with Omnislash.
- This arcana looks great together with other sets and immortal items. Try to make a custom set that looks the best.
- You also get a new emoticon and voice pack for Juggernaut.
How To Get Bladeform Legacy:
You can buy this arcana in the Dota 2 in-game store or on the Steam market, it costs around 35$. This Aracana can also drop after a match.
11. Flockheart's Gamble
See Flockheart's Gamble in action:
"Lost, separated from her family, and saddled with the impossibly-stupid ogre responsible for it all, Flockheart the Firelark has no choice but to trust that the Goddess of Luck will help her survive the trials standing between her and a reunion with her flock. After all, it was the Goddess herself who tasked the Ogre Magi with standing watch over said flock in the first place. What the cluck was she thinking?"
Flockheart's Gamble is Arcana for the hero Ogre Magi. It was released on 18 December 2019. This item was made as a result of Ogre Magi winning the Arcana vote during the International 2019. This item was released together with Frostivus 2019 event.
What makes Flockheart's Gamble Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all Ogre Magi's spells and the item Hand of Midas. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- This arcana comes in two styles: Molten Firelark (gold/red) and Resplendent Firelark (blue). The second style, Resplendent Firelark, can be unlocked by accumulating 500 gem points, which are earned in-game by hitting over ten Multicasts in a row.
- You will also get a voice pack for Ogre Magi.
How To Get Flockheart's Gamble:
You can buy this arcana in the Dota 2 in-game store or on the Steam market, it costs around 35$. This Aracana can also drop after a match.
10. Benevolent Companion
See Benevolent Companion in action:
"The wispy tendrils of Io the Fundamental can be found in all planes of the universe, having existed across the boundaries of realms known and unknown since before time itself. After an eternity of exploring the span of its mystic province, Io knows that no matter where the tide of battle leads, the bonds of friendship will always carry the day."
Benevolent Companion is Arcana for the hero Io. It was released on 18 May 2017. This item was made as a result of Io coming in second place in The International 2016's Arcana vote. This Arcana design is based on the Weighted Companion Cube from the video game franchise Portal.
What makes Benevolent Companion Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all of Io's spells. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- The particle effects for the spell Relocate match the entrance and exit portals from the video game Portal.
- The TP sounds are identical to the fire sounds of the Portal Gun from the game Portal, and the sound during the Relocate delay is based on the sounds made by the Turrets in the video game Portal.
- The first blood and kill responses come from the first two bars of Still Alive, the ending credits song from the game Portal.
How To Get Benevolent Companion:
This Arcana was rewarded to players who owned The International 2017 Battle Pass and leveled it to level 245. Unfortunately, you can't obtain this Arcana anymore.
9. Feast of Abscession
See Feast of Abscession in action:
"Centuries ago, the Rumusque priestess Crella forged unbreakable links of hook and chain to bind the most powerful servants of the Dead God. But the Dead God's corruption grew too strong even for Crella's revered enchantments. Taken up with the rhythm of the Dirge, her chains abandoned their charge, turning instead to carry out the destruction of Crella's homeland at the Dead God's command. Now, their vile purpose long since served, the Chains of Abscession have sworn service to a new master... and the delights of butchery."
Feast of Abscession is Arcana for the hero Pudge. It was released on 3 April 2018. This item was made as a result of Pudge winning the Arcana vote during the International 2017.
What makes Feast of Abscession Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all of Pudge's spells. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- This arcana comes in two styles: Feast of Abscession (red) and Grand Abscession (green). The Second style can be unlocked by winning 12 times against hero Rubick.
- This arcana looks great together with other immortal items.
- You will also get two emoticons and a taunt.
- This arcana matches with the immortal item The Abscesserator.
How To Get Feast of Abscession:
You can buy this arcana in the Dota 2 in-game store or on the Steam market, it costs around 35$. This Aracana can also drop after a match.
8. Phantom Advent
See Phantom Advent in action:
"The many aspects of Mercurial are fragments of a single form no longer—for one has stolen away from the many, and the realities of a new Spectre rise. Enticed and trapped by a cursed set of armor, a solitary shade of Mercurial finds that with each soul she harvests for the blighted plate, a stronger sense of self arrives along with it. While at first such forced separation enraged her, she now seeks this tantalizing freedom... Killing whomever she needs to earn more."
Phantom Advent is Arcana for the hero Spectre. It was released on 24 Jun 2021. This item was made as a result of Spectre winning the Arcana vote during the International 2020. This is an Arcana Bundle, meaning that you have to equip the whole set and not just one item.
What makes Phantom Advent Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all of Spectre's spells and items: Blade Mail and Radiance. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- This arcana comes in two styles: Phantom Advent (purple) and Phantom Ascension (red). The Second style can be unlocked by achieving 100 mega-kill streaks.
- This arcana comes with more than 500 new voice lines.
How To Get Phantom Advent:
This Arcana was rewarded to players who leveled the Nemestice 2021 Battle Pass to level 330. Unfortunately, you can't obtain this Arcana anymore.
7. Planetfall
See Planetfall in action:
"He who was one with the spirit of this earth has now merged with a fragment from another world. Flooded with distant memories of a shattered land, Earthshaker has already encountered one interstellar traveler—defeated at great cost—that had sought to eradicate the reborn power of the world awakening inside him, and he senses more dark forces will soon arrive intent on completing the task. For the first time in his life, he feels a longing to look towards the heavens, to somehow understand the apocalyptic end that found his sister earth...and do whatever it takes to avenge her passing."
Planetfall is Arcana for the hero Earthshaker. It was released on 23 May 2019.
What makes Planetfall Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all of Earthshaker's spells and the item Blink Dagger. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- This arcana comes in two styles: Celestial Summons (blue) and Burning Descent (orange). The Second style can be unlocked after achieving 500 kills or assists with the spell Echo Slam.
- This arcana has more than 500 new voice lines.
- This arcana matches greatly with immortal items, Judgement of the Fallen and Bracers of the Cavern Luminar.
How To Get Planetfall:
This Arcana was rewarded to players who owned The International 2019 Battle Pass and leveled it to level 365. Unfortunately, you can't obtain this Arcana anymore.
6. The One True King
See The One True King in action:
"In an age lost even to his own memory, Ostarion fed his lust for eternal life not with spectral essence, but a nigh-unending harvest of bone. The walls of his palace were formed of fired bone; the streets paved with bones of every sort of creature and every enemy. And those of the flesh who entered this domain took great care, for the King was first and foremost a collector, and nothing moved in the Empire of Bone without summoning the gaze of his unblinking eyes."
The One True King is Arcana for the hero Wraith King. It was released on 25 May 2020. This Arcana is based on Wraith King's old model, Skeleton King. This is Arcana Bundle, meaning that you have to equip the whole set and not only one item.
What makes The One True King Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all of Wraith King's spells. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- This arcana comes in two styles: The One True King and Malignant Rule (upgraded red version). Malignant Rule can be unlocked by killing 100 unique heroes.
- This arcana comes with more than 400 new voice lines.
How To Get The One True King:
This Arcana was rewarded to players who owned The International 10 Battle Pass and leveled it to level 375. Unfortunately, you can't obtain this Arcana anymore.
5. Claszian Apostasy
See Claszian Apostasy in action:
"This once-devoted Acolyte of Clasz has turned oathbreaker, betraying his faith and stealing a measure of power from his god's unknowable expanse. But that connection to Clasz has opened a terrible gateway, and now the faceless usurper must find victims to meet his former master's endless need -- or be consumed by that world-rending power himself."
Claszian Apostasy is Arcana for the hero Faceless Void. It was released on 1 September 2022. This item was made as a result of Faceless Void coming in second place in The International 2018 and 2020 Arcana votes. This Arcana is inspired by Faceless Void's original appearance in the DotA Warcraft 3 map. This is an Arcana Bundle, meaning that you have to equip the whole set and not just one item.
What makes Claszian Apostasy Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all of Faceless Void's spells and items: Mask of Madness, Maelstrom, and Mjollnir. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- This arcana comes in two styles: Claszian Apostasy (purple) and Claszian Supremacy (pink). To unlock the second style, you need to have 250 kills or assists under your ultimate Chronosphere.
- This arcana comes with more than 800 new voice lines.
How To Get Claszian Apostasy:
This Arcana is rewarded to players who own The International 2022 Battle Pass and leveled it to level 495. You can obtain this Arcana until 12 January 2023. This Arcana will cost you around 120$.
4. Compass of the Rising Gale
See Compass of the Rising Gale in action:
"The mysteries of her birth had always enchanted Lyralei and her adopted family. But as she grew, and her strange connection with the guardian wind became ever stronger, an unease about her origins began to take hold. And though she thought to run from it, her headlong path led only to the discovery of a difficult truth — that her village and blood kin had been destroyed by wind elementals on a night of righteous reckoning, and that such destruction was necessary to reclaim her as one of their own."
Compass of the Rising Gale is Arcana for the hero Windranger. It was released on 4 September 2020. This item was made as a result of Windranger coming in second place in The International 2019's Arcana vote. This is an Arcana Bundle, meaning that you have to equip the whole set and not just one item.
What makes Compass of the Rising Gale Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all of Windranger's spells and items: Eul's Scepter of Divinity and Force Staff. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- This arcana comes in two styles: Compass of the Rising Gale and Reflections of the Gale (upgraded style). You can unlock the second style by dealing 2 500 000 damage with your ultimate, Focus Fire.
- This arcana comes with more than 500 new voice lines.
- You will also get a loading screen.
How To Get Compass of the Rising Gale:
This Arcana was rewarded to players who owned The International 10 Battle Pass and leveled it to level 575. Unfortunately, you can't obtain this Arcana anymore.
3. Dread Retribution
See Dread Retribution in action:
"Through the eyes of the mad mask, Traxex glimpsed forgotten memories of her youth. But in addition to her own repressed terrors, the mask revealed much more--horrors glimpsed by different eyes in other times. Memories of brutality stretching into ages uncountable, mystically imprinting a murderous landscape across every corner of her mind. Now, even as she casts the mask aside, she must fight to overcome the most self-destructive impulses unleashed by the evils burned behind her eyes. In this maelstrom of loathing, her only recourse is vengeance... against any worthy victims that cross her path."
Dread Retribution is Arcana for the hero Drow Ranger. It was released on 15 December 2021. This is an Arcana Bundle, meaning that you have to equip the whole set and not just one item.
What makes Dread Retribution Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all of Drow Ranger's spells and items: Hurricane Pike, Satanic, and Daedalus. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- This arcana comes in two styles: Cold of Heart and Master of Madness (upgraded style). To unlock the second style, you need to kill 100 revenge targets.
- This arcana comes with more than 500 new voice lines.
How To Get Dread Retribution:
This Arcana was rewarded to players who leveled the Aghanim's Labyrinth Battle Pass to level 333. Unfortunately, you can't obtain this Arcana anymore.
2. The Magus Cypher
See The Magus Cypher in action:
"Most Magi believed the Puzzle of Perplex to be a mere curiosity. Yet generations of wizards had broken themselves trying to solve it. And even after the Grand Magus thought he finally grasped the crux of its secret, the epiphany of true meaning came only much later—that the knowledge at the heart of Perplex might allow him to alter the very foundations of magic itself. Now, no longer limited to masterful mimicry, Rubick toys with the boundaries of arcane artistry, reshaping the world of magic as he sees fit; always hungry for new preternatural mysteries to unravel and respool, and the undiscovered kingdoms of magic they too might reveal."
The Magus Cypher is Arcana for the hero Rubick. It was released on 19 December 2018. This item was made as a result of Rubick winning the Arcana vote during the International 2018.
What makes The Magus Cypher Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all of Rubick's spells. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- It comes with a win tracker that modifies the particle effects of the 115 abilities stolen with the ultimate, Spell Steal.
- You will also get an emoticon and voice pack for Rubick.
- This arcana matches greatly with immortal items Crux of Perplex and Crux of Perplex.
How To Get The Magus Cypher:
You can buy this arcana in the Dota 2 in-game store or on the Steam market, it costs around 35$. This Aracana can also drop after a match.
1. The Eminence of Ristul
See The Eminence of Ristul in action:
"Content for so long exploring the playground of the mortal realm, Akasha returns now to the dangerous Court of Ristul, where her star has fallen in her time away. But the Queen above intends to claim as well the throne below. Striking a bargain with an exiled demon prince, Akasha has seized a new measure of power, and her fiendish plans are at last set to begin."
The Eminence of Ristul is Arcana for the hero Queen of Pain. It was released on 11 Jun 2020. This is an Arcana Bundle, meaning that you have to equip the whole set and not just one item.
What makes The Eminence of Ristul Awesome:
- This arcana has custom icons for all of QOP's spells. It also has custom animations, sounds, voice, voice lines, effects, portrait, and ambient effects.
- This arcana comes in two styles: Eminence of Ristul (red) and Royal Decree (blue). To unlock the second style, you need to hit 1000 heroes with your ultimate, Sonic Wave.
- This arcana comes with more than 500 new voice lines.
- You will also get two loading screens.
How To Get The Eminence of Ristul:
This Arcana was rewarded to players who owned The International 10 Battle Pass and leveled it to level 445. Unfortunately, you can't obtain this Arcana anymore.
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