Programming

Eigendark Grimoire · Glitch faction · Sorcery · Prompt · Cost 2

Programming occupies a specific position on the Oktagram — Glitch, Code axis, opposed to Root. Its role in any deck is governed by that placement before it is governed by its rules text.

Card Text

What the rulebook sees when Programming resolves:

Readers who have played Programming across dozens of matches fill in what the text omits. The rules are the compression; the play is the decompression.

Glitch — Capitalism · Memetics

"Everything is simulation of game and rules. Rules can be hacked."

Traverse the backrooms of reality. Glitch wizards exploit cybernetic bugs and find the seams where law contradicts itself.

The science of substrate-independent intelligence. Markets, memes, software, law, language. The Numogram is natively Glitch-territory: recursion, decimal labyrinths, Y2K as techno-omen, K-gothic, cyberpositive shrines. Glitch claims special insight into the Pandemonium Matrix beneath the Goetic surface.

Code vs Nature (Glitch vs Root). 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.

Glitch wizards look for the seams where law contradicts itself. Programming is one of the seams.

Cost Tier

Early-round Glitch cards like Programming establish the Numogram trajectory before opponents commit.

Goetic Binding: Furcas

The digit-sum of cost 2 is 2, binding Furcas — one of the 9 Glitch Goetia. Office: Teaching philosophy, rhetoric, and divination. 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. Programming makes its choice at Zone 2 and the rest of the round inherits it.

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

Xenogod: Olgaz

The Memetic Singularity. Substrate-independent intelligence achieves total information dominance — physical reality becomes secondary to informational reality. Memes replace genes as dominant replicators.

Service of Olgaz through Glitch-aligned cards like Programming 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.

Programming occupies the Glitch side of this axis. Decks containing Programming cannot contain Root cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Dream, Flesh.

Card Tribals

Programming carries class Sorcery, race Devil, zodiac Scorpio. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Glitch deck running multiple Sorcery units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Hypercapital Accelerationism

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

The Aesthetic

LCG is the landlord. The organisations are the tenants fighting about what the building is for. LCG collects rent.

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