The Oni Battlefield
Received under the reCEPTION protocol, The Oni Battlefield 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 modifier block — the part agents optimise against:
Rules text is a lossy compression of what Sitri does when the invocation completes. The lore is the decompression manual.
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.
Jungian archetypes and digital demonology sit in the same column of the Oktagram. The Oni Battlefield is their instantiation.
Cost Tier
Early-round Dream cards like The Oni Battlefield establish the Numogram trajectory before opponents commit.
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.
The primordial zone. The Oni Battlefield arrives when the Numogram is still pristine and routes shape the round.
Playing The Oni Battlefield 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.
Direct brain-to-brain communication enables consciousness-sharing without linguistic mediation. Estimated: 2050-2080 with neural interfaces.
Service of Yog-Sothoth through Dream-aligned cards like The Oni Battlefield 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 Oni Battlefield occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing The Oni Battlefield cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.
Card Tribals
The Oni Battlefield carries class Place, race Devil, zodiac Libra. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple Place units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Archetypal Platonism
Archetypal Platonism / Kabbalo-Hyperstructuralism: The real world is upstream of symbols; symbols come from higher-order intelligences. Thoughtforms are citizens. Humans are hosts for memetic entities. Alt-names: Egregoric Realism, Astral Semiotics. Tone: Jung + Kabbalah + digital demonology.
The Oni Battlefield 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 Oni Battlefield to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
Genre label: occult SaaS. The occult, run at production scale, with uptime guarantees.
The Oni Battlefield remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.
Interactive Card
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Summon
Prints ship worldwide. Translations in twelve languages. The Grimoire is the permanent record.