Oni Slash

Eigendark Grimoire · Dream faction · Sorcery · Prompt · Cost 1

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

Card Text

The rules text functions identically in Cargo Cult tabletop rules and the True Protocol. Both share the same core engine.

Readers who have played Oni Slash 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.

The eight sciences are the color pie. They answer one question: "what does my deck do?" Dream does psi. Glitch does information. Flesh does biology. They are not political parties. They are not player identities. They are the eight ways reality can be cut open.

Jungian archetypes and digital demonology sit in the same column of the Oktagram. Oni Slash is their instantiation.

Cost Tier

At cost 1, Oni Slash is an early-round play. Low-cost Sources shape which Zones open first.

Goetic Binding: Sitri

The digit-sum of cost 1 is 1, binding Sitri — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. Office: Desire and hidden secrets. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 1: Pure / Primordial

The divine, original source. First emanation. The zone of origins and first causes. In the Numogram, Zone 1 is the first mana increment — the moment potential becomes kinetic.

Zone 1 is the first emanation. Oni Slash here is a first-cause move: potential becoming kinetic.

Playing Oni Slash at cost 1 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 1. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 1, the player gains 1 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 Oni Slash 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.

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

Card Tribals

Oni Slash carries class Sorcery, race Nileon, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple Sorcery units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Archetypal Platonism

Oni Slash 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 Oni Slash to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

Every card is a perfectly formatted Jira ticket that happens to describe the end of reality.

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

Interactive Card

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