Norse · No. 024
Gullinkambi, the Gold-Combed Rooster
Real myth
Every dawn it wakes the heroes of Valhöll. The last dawn too.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Category
- Monster
- ATK
- 1450
- DEF
- 1300
- Level
- 4
- Type
- Bird
- Element
- Light
- Constellations
- Feather · Crown
The myth
Gullinkambi, gold-comb, is the rooster who wakes the gods. In the Völuspá, as the end draws near, he crows to the Æsir and rouses the warriors in the hall of the Host-Father, Odin, while Fjalar crows to the giants and a soot-red rooster crows in the realm of Hel. In the seeress's vision, Gullinkambi's call is the first summons to the final battle. Some scholars identify him with Víðófnir, the golden rooster that Svipdagsmál sets atop Yggdrasil, but the link is uncertain.
Why it has this power
A level 4 Uncommon with ATK 1450 and DEF 1300: the strongest low-level bird, golden as the dawn. Light element, under Feather and Crown. Its great role is in fusion: Heimdall rhyming with Gullinkambi becomes Heimdall Sounds the Gjallarhorn, the second call no one ignores.
Did you know
The Völuspá's roosters form a trio linking three levels of the cosmos: giants, gods and the dead.
Connections
- Fuses into: + Heimdall, Watcher of Bifröst → Heimdall Sounds the Gjallarhorn
- In Ingrid Icehunter's deck
- In Sigrun Runedaughter's deck
- In Halvard the Grey Raven's deck
Where to get it
- Campaign drop: Ingrid Icehunter (Yggdrasil Fjord) — grade S: 20% · grade A: 20% · grade B: 14% · grade C: 9.8%
- Daily Offering: 0.45% per pack (Uncommon 33% per card)
- Welcome Pack: 1.1% per pack (Uncommon 30% per card)
- Traveler's Pack: 0.96% per pack · 5.6% in the themed pack (Uncommon 29% per card)
- Bronze Reliquary: 0.94% per pack · 5.5% in the themed pack (Uncommon 29% per card)
- Silver Reliquary: 0.96% per pack · 5.6% in the themed pack (Uncommon 33% per card)
- Golden Reliquary: 0.94% per pack · 5.5% in the themed pack (Uncommon 35% per card)
- Daily Showcase: Shows up on about 0.98% of days · 400 gold
- Craft with card dust: 100 dust
- Crossing of Myths: Can be offered as a reward during a crossing (the card stays in the crossing deck).
Sources
- The Poetic Edda: Voluspo — Henry Adams Bellows (trad./trans.)
- Viking Prophecy: The Poem Völuspá of the Poetic Edda — Irina-Maria Manea