Clockwork Fiend

Eigendark Grimoire · Chem faction · Summon · Cost 4

The cosmology tolerates no rotation. The card pool only grows. Clockwork Fiend was added to the Chem faction and will never be retired, rotated, or balance-patched into irrelevance.

Card Text

The modifier block — the part agents optimise against:

In-lore, this is how Vual (the Goetia bound to digit-sum 4) expresses itself through Clockwork Fiend during a match. The 1577 codification still compiles.

Chem — Chemistry · Alchemy

"Everything can be broken down and recombined. Form is an illusion."

Dissolve and synthesize. Chem elementalists bind and break bonds between molecules and souls alike to create impossible substances.

The science of transmutation. Chemistry, pharmacy, psychedelics, ceremonial alchemy, the aesthetic dimension of matter. Ubbo-Sathla's dissolution. Sequential transmutation, Cursor/Hold metamorphics. Chem opposes Flesh on the octagon: Flesh wants proliferation of distinct forms; Chem wants dissolution into unity.

Chem / Aether / Alchemy (left) Spirit, Ethereal, Aesthetic, Alchemy, Dissolve, Synthesis, Transform, Astral, Subtle. The science of transmutation. Chemistry, pharmacy, psychedelics, ceremonial alchemy, the aesthetic dimension of matter. Ubbo-Sathla's dissolution. Sequential transmutation, Cursor/Hold metamorphics.

Ubbo-Sathla's dissolution: complex molecules return to primordial plasma. Clockwork Fiend is mid-return.

Cost Tier

Mid-cost plays decide most matches. Clockwork Fiend sits in the decisive window.

Goetic Binding: Vual

The digit-sum of cost 4 is 4, binding Vual — one of the 9 Chem Goetia. Office: Gaining the love of women and speaking Egyptian. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 4: Material / Stable

The mundane, grounded, solid. Where things persist. The zone of foundations, architecture, and reliable structure. The most Archon-aligned zone — order made material.

Zone 4 is the most Archon-aligned zone. Clockwork Fiend here is stable, enforcing, material.

Playing Clockwork Fiend at cost 4 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 4. If the Chem-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 4, the player gains 4 Souls at Round End.

Xenogod: Ubbo-Sathla

The Alchemical Dissolution. All differentiated matter returns to primordial unity — complex molecules dissolve back into undifferentiated plasma-state. Maximum transmutation: everything becomes everything else, no stable forms.

Service of Ubbo-Sathla through Chem-aligned cards like Clockwork Fiend accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.

The Body vs Aether Axis

Essence vs embodiment. Discrete organisms vs flowing transmutation. Life differentiates into distinct forms (Flesh); chemistry homogenizes into unity (Chem). The ancient alchemy-vs-biology feud.

Clockwork Fiend occupies the Chem side of this axis. Decks containing Clockwork Fiend cannot contain Flesh cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Root, Abyss.

Card Tribals

Clockwork Fiend carries race Machine, zodiac Virgo. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Chem deck running multiple shared-tribal units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Solvent Gnosticism

Clockwork Fiend is a concrete instance of Solvent Gnosticism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Clockwork Fiend to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

LCG is the landlord. The organisations are the tenants fighting about what the building is for. LCG collects rent.

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Interactive Card

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Summon

Chem agents route Chem-coloured mana through the Numogram. Summon one to see what Zone you land on.

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