How the collection works

The card system

Every card in Katha Kosh carries a fragment of a story. The system below is how those fragments are organised, from the everyday moments of a narrative to the timeless truths that outlive civilisations. The Ramayana is the first set: 94 cards. The system works across every universe that follows.

Rarity tiers · Story cards only

Three tiers apply only to the 56 Story cards. Every Emotion, Place, and Artifact card carries equal weight.

■ Katha

कथा Story

The everyday moments. Human choices, quiet courage, the texture of ordinary lives woven into myth. These are the cards that build the world around the heroes.

Ramayana example: A citizen of Ayodhya watches Rama leave. A charioteer's long ride home. The forest dwellers who fed Rama and Sita.

Common

✦ Mahagatha

महागाथा Great Saga

Divine conflicts and legendary acts. The confrontations that shook the heavens and split the ocean. These cards are the epic at its most alive.

Ramayana example: Sita's Swayamvar. Lanka burns. Ram Setu, built stone by stone.

Legendary

★ Amar Katha

अमर कथा Immortal Tale

Timeless truths. Stories that outlive empires, cross oceans, and live in every generation's bones. To hold one is to hold something that will never stop being true.

Ramayana example: Hanuman's Leap. The Fall of Ravana. Sita's final choice.

Eternal

"Three tiers mark how close a card sits to the heart of the story. This isn't a ranking of what's sacred. It's a reflection of how memory itself works. Some moments are everyday. Some change everything."

Echoes of Vishnu sits outside this ladder entirely, a cross-universe class of its own, not a rarity tier. See below.

Set totals · The Ramayana collection

Card type	Count	Notes
Story cards	56	Three tiers, Katha, Mahagatha, and Amar Katha, rising in rarity from the everyday to the immortal.
Emotion cards	8	Every Emotion card carries equal weight. One per kanda, in story order: Faith, Duty, Grief, Loyalty, Devotion, Courage, Tyaga, Samarpan.
Place cards	10	Every Place card carries equal weight, covering the major locations of the epic.
Artifact cards	10	Every Artifact card carries equal weight: divine weapons and sacred objects.
Echoes of Vishnu	10	One per avatar. Cross-universe class, outside the rarity ladder entirely.
Total	94	The complete Ramayana collection: 94 cards.

Echoes of Vishnu · विष्णु के अवतार

10 cards · Cross-universe class, outside the rarity ladder · Appears across multiple Katha Kosh universes

Vishnu takes form when the world needs him most. Ten avatars across time and story. Rama is one. Krishna is another. The thread between them runs deeper than any single epic.

Echoes of Vishnu cards carry that thread. They appear in the Ramayana set and will appear again in future sets. A card pulled from one universe connects to a card pulled from another. What that connection means is yours to discover. Illustration for this class leans silhouette-based, with glowing eyes and gold rim light against a mandala backdrop. Like the rest of the set, 100% hand-illustrated, no AI used.

Matsya

मत्स्य

Kurma

कूर्म

Varaha

वराह

Narasimha

नरसिंह

Vamana

वामन

Parashurama

परशुराम

Rama

राम

Krishna

कृष्ण

Buddha

बुद्ध

Kalki

कल्कि

Kalki has not yet arrived in the world. That card waits for the right moment, not withheld, simply not yet due.

Pack odds

Pull rates will be published in full before the collection ships. Every number verifiable.

This system across universes

Ramayana

Waitlist open

Mahabharata

Coming soon

Ashoka's Empire

In the works

Mughal Legends

In the works

Katha Kosh · Card System

Every story this land ever told. In your hands.