Greek · No. 005

Etna Drakon Hatchling

Inspired by: The drakones, the great Greek serpent-dragons, and Etna, the Sicilian volcano under which, according to Aeschylus, Typhon lay while Hephaestus hammered at his forge.

Etna Drakon Hatchling
Hatched in the volcano's heat, it already spits smoke.
Rarity
Common
Category
Monster
ATK
900
DEF
700
Level
3
Type
Dragon
Element
Fire
Constellations
Sun · Leviathan

The myth

There is no dragon hatchling of Etna in Greek myth: it is a MYTHENOR creation. But the volcano had a mythic reputation. In Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus says that Typhon, the monster defeated by Zeus, lies crushed beneath Etna and that rivers of fire will still burst from it; on the summit, Hephaestus works red-hot iron. The Greeks called drakon the giant serpents that guarded springs, treasures and sacred groves, many of them offspring of Typhon. The card imagines a young one of that lineage, hatched in the mountain's heat.

Why it has this power

A Common level-3 card with 900 ATK and 700 DEF: it is only a hatchling, strong enough to open a game and little more. A Fire Dragon for the volcano, it carries the Sun and Leviathan constellations, the heat and the giant serpent it will one day become. It works as cheap material for free Dragon rhymes.

Did you know

Greeks explained Etna's eruptions as the fire of the imprisoned Typhon or as the furnaces of Hephaestus and the Cyclopes.

Connections

  • In Elena, Huntress of Artemis's deck
  • In Kassandra, Daughter of the Oracle's deck
  • In Theron, Priest of the Underworld'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. Prometheus Bound — Aeschylus (trans. H. W. Smyth), Theoi Classical Texts Library
  2. TYPHOEUS (Typhon) - Monstrous Giant of Greek Mythology — Aaron J. Atsma, Theoi Project