Japanese · No. 080

Walking Furnace Karakuri

A MYTHENOR creation — Theme: Original theme: the mechanical ingenuity of Edo-period Japan, karakuri automata and the braziers and stoves that warmed homes in winter.

Walking Furnace Karakuri
It warms the whole village in winter, as long as it doesn't step on anyone.
Rarity
Common
Category
Monster
ATK
1200
DEF
1200
Level
3
Type
Machine
Element
Fire
Constellations
Sun · Hammer

The myth

The walking furnace is an original MYTHENOR creation with no matching legend. It plays with two real things from old Japan. One is the Edo taste for karakuri, machines that imitated life and made audiences laugh and gasp. The other is household warmth: wood-and-paper houses were heated by hibachi braziers, irori hearths in the middle of the room and kotatsu, and fire was both comfort and danger, since blazes destroyed whole neighborhoods. The card imagines an automaton carrying warmth to the village, if it watches its step.

Why it has this power

A Common level-3 Fire Machine with 1200 ATK and 1200 DEF: equal numbers, solid and reliable as an iron stove. Fire is the ember in its chest; Sun and Hammer, warmth and forge. One of the archipelago's most balanced commons and a good partner for the Tanuki in the kettle fusion.

Did you know

Fires were so common in old Edo that they were nicknamed "the flowers of Edo", and the city had fire brigades organized by neighborhood.

Connections

  • In Kenji, Kamo River Fisherman's deck

Where to get it

  • Campaign drop: Aiko, Dojo Apprentice (Archipelago of the Kami) — 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. Edo kagaku koten sōsho 3, incl. Karakuri zui (機巧図彙, 1796) — NDL Search record — Hosokawa Hanzō Yorinao; National Diet Library