Egyptian · No. 048

Spirit of the Turquoise Flame

A MYTHENOR creation — Theme: Original theme: the flames lighting the corridors of tombs, in the turquoise color of the MYTHENOR Necropolis.

Spirit of the Turquoise Flame
It burns in tomb corridors so no one gets lost. Or so everyone does.
Rarity
Common
Category
Monster
ATK
1000
DEF
700
Level
3
Type
Spirit
Element
Fire
Constellations
Wisp · Fox

The myth

The Spirit of the Turquoise Flame is a MYTHENOR creation. Its color, however, has Egyptian meaning: blue-green faience, a shining material used for amulets, scarabs and funerary figurines, represented fertility, life and the Nile itself, and was believed to reflect an immortal light. The fire that guides or misleads in tomb corridors also speaks to the Egyptian afterlife, full of dangers: Budge summarizes a spell so the dead would not drink boiling water in the Duat, whose pools were cool for the just and scalding for the wicked.

Why it has this power

A common level 3 Spirit of Fire with 1000 ATK and 700 DEF. Wisp, the light that misleads travelers, beats Feather; Fox beats Hammer. It is a material of the Rite of the Myrrh Nest, with the Temple Fire-Swallow and the Glass-Sand Wyrm, which calls Bennu.

Did you know

According to Budge, the pools of the Duat changed with the drinker: cool for speakers of truth, boiling for the wicked.

Connections

  • In Captain Amunet's deck
  • In Oracle Bakenra's deck

Where to get it

  • Daily Offering: 0% per pack (Common 64% per card)
  • Welcome Pack: 0.97% per pack (Common 70% per card)
  • Traveler's Pack: 0.88% per pack · 5.2% in the themed pack (Common 64% per card)
  • Bronze Reliquary: 0.86% per pack · 5.1% in the themed pack (Common 62% per card)
  • Silver Reliquary: 0.67% per pack · 4% in the themed pack (Common 49% per card)
  • Golden Reliquary: 0.46% per pack · 2.7% in the themed pack (Common 33% per card)
  • Daily Showcase: Shows up on about 0.69% of days · 150 gold
  • Craft with card dust: 40 dust
  • Crossing of Myths: Can be offered as a reward during a crossing (the card stays in the crossing deck).

Sources

  1. Egyptian Faience — World History Encyclopedia
  2. The Book of the Dead (introduction and chapter summaries) — E. A. Wallis Budge (Project Gutenberg)