Egyptian · No. 080
Awakened Ushabti Legion
Inspired by: The full shabti sets of wealthy tombs: one worker for each day of the year, with their overseers.
Three hundred sixty-five servants. One for every day of the year.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Category
- Monster
- ATK
- 2200
- DEF
- 2400
- Level
- 7
- Type
- Machine
- Element
- Earth
- Constellations
- Sun · Hammer
The myth
This card's line, three hundred and sixty-five servants, one for each day of the year, is based on a real fact. Shabtis were figurines that would work in the afterlife in place of the dead, and their number showed the owner's wealth. In the Third Intermediate Period, the most elaborate tombs held 365 workers and 36 overseers, figures with whips who supervised ten workers each. After scarabs, shabtis are the most numerous artifact to survive from Egypt. The legion waking all at once is MYTHENOR imagination.
Why it has this power
A rare level 7 Machine of Earth with 2200 ATK and 2400 DEF: a wall of servants. Obtained only by fusion: Blue Faience Ushabti plus Servant of the Broken Sarcophagus. Sun beats Moon, and Hammer, tireless labor, beats Bull. The Embalmer's Bandages give it +700.
Did you know
The number of shabtis in a tomb helps archaeologists estimate the social standing and wealth of the person buried there.
Connections
- Born from the fusion of: Blue Faience Ushabti + Servant of the Broken Sarcophagus
Where to get it
- Born from the fusion of: Blue Faience Ushabti + Servant of the Broken Sarcophagus
- It never joins the collection: you summon it mid-duel, by fusion or ritual.
Sources
- Shabti Dolls: The Workforce in the Afterlife — Joshua J. Mark (World History Encyclopedia)
- The Book of the Dead (introduction and chapter summaries) — E. A. Wallis Budge (Project Gutenberg)