Enchanted Reed Barque

The myth

In Egypt almost every journey was made on the Nile, and the first boats were made from bundles of reed and papyrus. That image passed into the sky: Egyptians imagined that the gods sailed too, and that Ra crossed the sky by day and the underworld by night in a barque. The Pyramid Texts, Egypt's oldest religious writings, carved inside Old Kingdom pyramids, speak of the king's crossings to the sky. The Enchanted Reed Barque, waiting for a divine passenger, is a MYTHENOR creation.

Why it has this power

A common level 3 Machine of Water with 900 ATK and 1100 DEF. Moon beats Wisp and Hammer beats Bull. Its destiny is the ancient rhyme: joined with the Radiant Face of Dawn, it becomes The Solar Barque of Millions of Years, an epic of level 8.

Did you know

Budge notes that one of the late chapters of the Book of the Dead is an extract copied from the texts of King Unas's pyramid.

Connections

• Fuses into: + Radiant Face of Dawn → The Solar Barque of Millions of Years
• In Scribe Nefru's deck

Where to get it

• Campaign drop: Scribe Nefru (The Obsidian Necropolis) — grade B: 14% · grade C: 13% · grade D: 13%
• 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. The Pyramid Texts — tr. Samuel A. B. Mercer (sacred-texts.com)
2. Ra (Egyptian God) — Joshua J. Mark (World History Encyclopedia)
3. The Book of the Dead (introduction and chapter summaries) — E. A. Wallis Budge (Project Gutenberg)