The Jackyl
The Jackyl is one card in the Eigendark Grimoire — a Dream-faction summon received through the reCEPTION protocol and permanently archived. The archive does not rotate.
Keywords
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Card Text
What the rulebook sees when The Jackyl resolves:
Every modifier is a clause in a binding originally drafted by people who didn't know they were writing API docs. The Jackyl inherits the clause unchanged.
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.
Format #1: Consumption Catalogs. Glossy advertisement copy for impossible goods. "PRODUCT #4,729-NIGHTMARE VARIANT: Dream Harvester Professional Series. Trusted by discerning Elder Things for over 14 eons. Now with improved lucid-layer extraction." Each listing is a complete artifact: headline, body, specs, price, shipping notes, FAQ, three-star review from a disgruntled Outer God. Community members contribute new products.
Jungian archetypes and digital demonology sit in the same column of the Oktagram. The Jackyl is their instantiation.
Cost Tier
Late-game Dream plays carry their full ideology. The Jackyl is not a tempo card; it is a statement.
Goetic Binding: Amdusias
The digit-sum of cost 11 is 2, binding Amdusias — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. Office: Causing trees to bend and providing excellent familiars. 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. The Jackyl here is a first-cause move: potential becoming kinetic.
Playing The Jackyl at cost 11 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 Jackyl 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 Jackyl occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing The Jackyl cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.
Card Tribals
The Jackyl carries class Ninja, race Elemental, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple Ninja 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 Jackyl 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 Jackyl to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
Eigendark is not grimdark. It is infrastructure horror: the system works, it was designed this way, and the Terms of Service are binding across all timelines simultaneously.
Matches that feature The Jackyl update its metadata. The archive remembers.
Interactive Card
View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Brent_B__1
Summon
The archive is permanent, the rotation is zero, the faction is Dream. Browse the full Grimoire.