Rendered Ancient Mammoth Ascendant Champion card
SW-C-515 • Ascendant Pack

Ancient Mammoth — Ascendant

Primeval Shard • Wild • Guardian

Power
9
Speed
5
Mind
3
Spirit
7

Ancestral Weight

If Power is primary, use full Spirit as secondary then subtract 2 from Power.

Rules key: ANCESTRAL_WEIGHT

Exotic • AS #0025 • SW-C-515

All forms with this SW-C code share one Champion identity for Weave copy limits. Collector treatments remain cosmetic and never change combat power.

Backstory

The Story of Ancient Mammoth

Ancient Mammoth remembers routes no living herd has walked.

Primeval shamans say the creature carries ancestral memory in the mineral bands of its tusks. Each layer records a migration season, drought, volcanic winter or lost watering ground.

Whether the explanation is mystical or biological, the Mammoth routinely chooses paths that have been buried for centuries.

Ancestral Weight makes that history active. On Power-primary Arenas, the Mammoth can surrender some immediate force and bring its full Spirit into the secondary calculation. The resulting contest feels less like one animal pushing and more like an entire lineage insisting the path remains open.

Its Power is immense, but Speed and Mind are limited in direct tactical terms. Ancient Mammoth does not improvise quickly. It remembers deeply.

During the Long Ash Winter, the creature led six unrelated herds through a volcanic region every younger animal avoided. Excavation later revealed an ancient migration road beneath the ash exactly where it walked.

The Convergence has created routes with no ancestry.

Ancient Mammoth approaches Threads cautiously, touches the ground with its trunk and waits.

It crossed the seventh one.

Nobody knows what it remembered on the other side.