The Great Oni Age

Eigendark Grimoire · Dream faction · Sorcery · Prompt · Cost 4

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Card Text

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

The modifier is what the engine executes. The page around it is what humans argue about. Both are canon.

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.

The noosphere approaches. The Great Oni Age is early infrastructure.

Cost Tier

At cost 4, The Great Oni Age is a mid-game power spike. The Numogram has already bent toward one side of its axis.

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 Great Oni Age at Zone 4 is where the mundane crystallises into infrastructure.

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

Card Tribals

The Great Oni Age carries class Sorcery, race Xylorian, zodiac Libra. 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

The Great Oni Age 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 Great Oni Age 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.

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Interactive Card

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