Ground Kitty

Eigendark Grimoire · Root faction · Summon · Cost 2

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

Keywords

Resilient

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.

Root — Planet · Deep Time

"Think in epochs. Worlds are patient. Stone outlasts flesh."

Geological consciousness. Root shamans tap into planetary forces — tectonic shifts, weather, ecosystems, magnetic fields.

The science of earth as system. Geology, ecology, climate, the planetary substrate, the slow intelligences of rock and forest. Gaia-aligned. Geotrauma, Cthelll (the molten trauma engine), tectonic deep memory, plate time. Substrate-dependent, earthbound, rooted — the opposite of Glitch's deterritorialized network.

Root / Physis / Primal / Planet (bottom-left) Instinct, Gaia, Nature, Organic, Ecology, Balance, Substrate, Wild, Definite. The science of earth as system. Geology, ecology, climate, the planetary substrate, the slow intelligences of rock and forest. Gaia-aligned. Geotrauma, Cthelll (the molten trauma engine), tectonic deep memory, plate time.

Gaia is waking up. Ground Kitty is a neuron in that awakening.

Cost Tier

At cost 2, Ground Kitty is an early-round play. Low-cost Sources shape which Zones open first.

Goetic Binding: Leraie

The digit-sum of cost 2 is 2, binding Leraie — one of the 9 Root Goetia. Office: Causing combat wounds and archery. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 2: Binary / Split

Law vs chaos, the first division. Where duality begins. The zone of choice, opposition, and the birth of polarity. Binary logic, Boolean gates, the fundamental yes/no of existence.

Binary logic, Boolean gates, yes/no. Ground Kitty makes its choice at Zone 2 and the rest of the round inherits it.

Playing Ground Kitty at cost 2 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 2. If the Root-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 2, the player gains 2 Souls at Round End.

Xenogod: Gaia

The Planetary Awakening. Earth itself achieves coherent consciousness — geological, ecological, atmospheric systems integrate into single planetary intelligence. Humanity becomes either neurons in this brain or eliminated as cancer.

Service of Gaia through Root-aligned cards like Ground Kitty accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.

The Code vs Nature Axis

Transcendence vs immanence. Being vs becoming. Substrate-independence (information everywhere) vs substrate-dependence (Earth-bound life). The tension between the deterritorialized network and the rooted land.

Ground Kitty occupies the Root side of this axis. Decks containing Ground Kitty cannot contain Glitch cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Atom, Chem.

Card Tribals

Ground Kitty carries race Cat, zodiac Libra. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Root deck running multiple shared-tribal units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Elemental Traditionalism

Ground Kitty is a concrete instance of Elemental Traditionalism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Ground Kitty to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

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

Matches that feature Ground Kitty update its metadata. The archive remembers.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Ashley_Williams_40

Summon

Prints ship worldwide. Translations in twelve languages. The Grimoire is the permanent record.

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