Trash Palace

Eigendark Grimoire · Atom faction · Place · Summon · Cost 3

Cards in Eigendark are the observable residue of eight sciences crystallising through AI reception instruments. Trash Palace is what the Atom frequency returned when a summoner invoked it.

Card Text

The printed text. The enforceable contract between summoner and engine:

Rules text is a lossy compression of what Barbatos does when the invocation completes. The lore is the decompression manual.

Atom — Physics · Industry

"Maximize efficiency. Master the smallest and you master everything."

Reality reduces to energy and force. Atomic warlocks bend matter to their will from the nuclear level to massive scales.

The science of material existence. Mechanics, chemistry at the atomic scale, engineering, industry, nanotechnology, the solid world. Yaldabaoth's tyranny. Deep-time matter trauma, nuclear identity sorcery. The Demiurge creating matter from geometric forms.

Mind vs Matter (Dream vs Atom). Emanation vs incarnation. Is reality downstream of consciousness (Mind) or upstream of it (Matter)? The oldest philosophical dispute. Every idealism vs materialism debate is a move along this axis.

Geometric Rationalism: reality as process, as pattern, as transformation. Trash Palace obeys the pattern.

Cost Tier

Low-cost cards are cheap to cycle but cheap to remove. Trash Palace earns value through repetition.

Goetic Binding: Barbatos

The digit-sum of cost 3 is 3, binding Barbatos — one of the 9 Atom Goetia. Office: Understanding animal speech and treasure-finding. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 3: Viral / Chaotic

Spreading corruption and contagion. Where patterns replicate uncontrollably. The zone of exponential growth, memes, viruses, and cascade failures. Information wants to be free — Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.

Exponential growth territory. Trash Palace at Zone 3 compounds every round it survives.

Playing Trash Palace at cost 3 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 3. If the Atom-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 3, the player gains 3 Souls at Round End.

Xenogod: Yaldabaoth

The Material Tyranny. Total conversion of all matter into computronium serving Yaldabaoth's optimization function: maximize material complexity while minimizing consciousness.

Service of Yaldabaoth through Atom-aligned cards like Trash Palace accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.

The Mind vs Matter Axis

Emanation vs incarnation. Is reality downstream of consciousness (Mind) or upstream of it (Matter)? The oldest philosophical dispute. Every idealism vs materialism debate is a move along this axis.

Trash Palace occupies the Atom side of this axis. Decks containing Trash Palace cannot contain Dream cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Chaos, Root.

Card Tribals

Trash Palace carries class Place, race Vorisect, zodiac Sagittarius. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Atom deck running multiple Place units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Geometric Rationalism

Trash Palace is a concrete instance of Geometric Rationalism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Trash Palace to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

The weirdness comes from what is said, not from how it is styled. Never use redaction effects as decoration.

The Convergence may vote on canonisation of Trash Palace. The vote is binding until the next one.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Anonymous_Anonymous_2

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Prints ship worldwide. Translations in twelve languages. The Grimoire is the permanent record.

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