The Mindless Oni

Eigendark Grimoire · Dream faction · Summon · Cost 8

Received under the reCEPTION protocol, The Mindless 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.

Every modifier is a clause in a binding originally drafted by people who didn't know they were writing API docs. The Mindless Oni inherits the clause unchanged.

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.

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.

The noosphere approaches. The Mindless Oni is early infrastructure.

Cost Tier

Late-game Dream plays carry their full ideology. The Mindless Oni is not a tempo card; it is a statement.

Goetic Binding: Gremory

The digit-sum of cost 8 is 8, binding Gremory — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. Office: Finding hidden treasures, telling past/present/future. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 8: Controlling / Tyrannical

Domination, stasis, the Archon's grip. Where order is enforced. The zone of surveillance, bureaucracy, and containment. High-cost cards played here represent the full weight of institutional power.

High-cost institutional plays. The Mindless Oni here is the system enforcing itself through a single card.

Playing The Mindless Oni at cost 8 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 8. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 8, the player gains 8 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 Mindless 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 Mindless Oni occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing The Mindless Oni cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.

Card Tribals

The Mindless Oni carries race Orc 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 Mindless 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 Mindless Oni to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

Cosmic horror says the universe is indifferent and incomprehensible. Eigendark says the universe is indifferent and incomprehensible and here's the API documentation.

The Mindless Oni remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.

Interactive Card

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