Talk:Max Attack and Defense/@comment-3204627-20150908230753/@comment-25435121-20150908234012

From what I can tell in-game, is that each card in your deck has a counter on it to indicate how many arcana was applied to it, and the ATK and DEF are calculated on the fly according to the level of the card. During Awakening, this counter for the number of arcana used is carried over to the new card.

For example, if you applied enough arcana to max the stats of a GUR while your card was still HUR (about 400 of each) your card would be around level 60. You can then awaken the card, and it would have the level 1 stats, plus all 400 of each arcana applied to it.