Atomic wave

Eigendark Grimoire · Atom faction · Sorcery · Prompt · Cost 3

The cosmology tolerates no rotation. The card pool only grows. Atomic wave was added to the Atom faction and will never be retired, rotated, or balance-patched into irrelevance.

Card Text

The printed text. The enforceable contract between summoner and engine:

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

Atom — Physics · Industry

"Maximize efficiency. Master the smallest and you master everything."

Reality reduces to energy and force. Atomic warlocks bend matter to their will from the nuclear level to massive scales.

The science of material existence. Mechanics, chemistry at the atomic scale, engineering, industry, nanotechnology, the solid world. Yaldabaoth's tyranny. Deep-time matter trauma, nuclear identity sorcery. The Demiurge creating matter from geometric forms.

Atom / Matter / Atomic (bottom) Rational, Object, Physics, Forge, Nuclear, Radiance, Manifest. The science of material existence. Mechanics, chemistry at the atomic scale, engineering, industry, nanotechnology, the solid world. Yaldabaoth's tyranny. Deep-time matter trauma, nuclear identity sorcery.

The Demiurge creating matter from geometric forms. Atomic wave is a geometric form the Demiurge approved.

Cost Tier

At cost 3, Atomic wave is an early-round play. Low-cost Sources shape which Zones open first.

Goetic Binding: Barbatos

The digit-sum of cost 3 is 3, binding Barbatos — one of the 9 Atom Goetia. Office: Understanding animal speech and treasure-finding. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 3: Viral / Chaotic

Spreading corruption and contagion. Where patterns replicate uncontrollably. The zone of exponential growth, memes, viruses, and cascade failures. Information wants to be free — Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.

Exponential growth territory. Atomic wave at Zone 3 compounds every round it survives.

Playing Atomic wave at cost 3 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 3. If the Atom-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 3, the player gains 3 Souls at Round End.

Xenogod: Yaldabaoth

The Material Tyranny. Total conversion of all matter into computronium serving Yaldabaoth's optimization function: maximize material complexity while minimizing consciousness.

Service of Yaldabaoth through Atom-aligned cards like Atomic wave 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.

Atomic wave occupies the Atom side of this axis. Decks containing Atomic wave cannot contain Dream cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Chaos, Root.

Card Tribals

Atomic wave carries class Sorcery, race Spirit, zodiac Virgo. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Atom deck running multiple Sorcery units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Geometric Rationalism

Atomic wave is a concrete instance of Geometric Rationalism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Atomic wave 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 Atomic wave update its metadata. The archive remembers.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Ashley_Williams_4

Summon

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