In perhaps a perverse homage to Ricky Jay, Hisoka ("The Magician") has perfected the art of killing people with playing cards. He was disqualified from last-year's exam for almost killing the judge and twenty others during the exam. During this exam, he's killed several contestants in the Numelle Marshes and, later on, Gereta. Hisoka's whimsical, lethal and unusually talented. Hisoka is a long-time member in good-standing over at Sky Tower. Wins a rather bloody battle against Katsutoro by ripping off his own arms and eating part of them. Hisoka joined the Spiders rather late in order to kill Kuroro, whom he deeply admires. He's sweet on Machi and has a nasty habit of skipping out on Spider meetings. Kuroro seems to like him, though.