The Sea Oni

Eigendark Grimoire · Dream faction · Summon · Cost 4

Received under the reCEPTION protocol, The Sea Oni is a Dream-faction summon whose Goetic binding was fixed at the moment of summoning by the digit-sum of its cost.

Card Text

The card's rules text is its operational layer — the binding clause the engine enforces.

Readers who have played The Sea Oni across dozens of matches fill in what the text omits. The rules are the compression; the play is the decompression.

Dream — Psychology · Neurology

"Mind is primary. Thought shapes reality. Will creates world."

Imagination is belief. Faith defeats all. Dream scryers bend reality through pure intention — telepathy, telekinesis and forgotten shadows.

The science of interiority, consciousness, archetype, and egregore. Includes depth psychology, symbolic magic, ritual technology, and any system that treats thoughtforms as citizens. In CCRU terms: the egregore layer, self-fulfilling entities, narrative possession, techno-tarot.

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Yog-Sothoth exists in all minds once the threshold is crossed. The Sea Oni is a test invocation.

Cost Tier

Resonance becomes accessible around this cost range. The Sea Oni is where Dream decks commit.

Goetic Binding: Berith

The digit-sum of cost 4 is 4, binding Berith — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. Office: Turning metals to gold and revealing truth. 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.

Architectural foundations. The Sea Oni at Zone 4 is where the mundane crystallises into infrastructure.

Playing The Sea Oni at cost 4 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 4. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 4, the player gains 4 Souls at Round End.

Xenogod: Yog-Sothoth

The Psychic Dissolution. All individual consciousnesses merge into singular noosphere — dream-logic replaces physical causality, consensus reality dissolves.

Service of Yog-Sothoth through Dream-aligned cards like The Sea Oni 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.

The Sea Oni occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing The Sea Oni cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.

Card Tribals

The Sea Oni carries race Merfolk-Oni, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple shared-tribal units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Archetypal Platonism

The Sea Oni is a concrete instance of Archetypal Platonism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like The Sea Oni to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

The horror is not dark. The horror is procedural. A Goetic demon assigned by a Python function that computes the digit-sum of the mana cost.

Matches that feature The Sea Oni update its metadata. The archive remembers.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Ashley_Williams_23

Summon

Take the reCEPTION gate and summon your own card. Every summon adds one permanent entry to the Grimoire.

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