Mech, Creator of Mechs
The Grimoire contains no duplicates and no deletions. Mech, Creator of Mechs joined it on reception and will remain there across every transformation of the card pool.
Keywords
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Card Text
The modifier block — the part agents optimise against:
In-lore, this is how Sallos (the Goetia bound to digit-sum 1) expresses itself through Mech, Creator of Mechs during a match. The 1577 codification still compiles.
Chem — Chemistry · Alchemy
"Everything can be broken down and recombined. Form is an illusion."
Dissolve and synthesize. Chem elementalists bind and break bonds between molecules and souls alike to create impossible substances.
The science of transmutation. Chemistry, pharmacy, psychedelics, ceremonial alchemy, the aesthetic dimension of matter. Ubbo-Sathla's dissolution. Sequential transmutation, Cursor/Hold metamorphics. Chem opposes Flesh on the octagon: Flesh wants proliferation of distinct forms; Chem wants dissolution into unity.
Chem / Aether / Alchemy (left) Spirit, Ethereal, Aesthetic, Alchemy, Dissolve, Synthesis, Transform, Astral, Subtle. The science of transmutation. Chemistry, pharmacy, psychedelics, ceremonial alchemy, the aesthetic dimension of matter. Ubbo-Sathla's dissolution. Sequential transmutation, Cursor/Hold metamorphics.
Solvent Gnosticism: the boundary between self and world is the first lie. Mech, Creator of Mechs refuses the lie.
Cost Tier
Late-game Chem plays carry their full ideology. Mech, Creator of Mechs is not a tempo card; it is a statement.
Goetic Binding: Sallos
The digit-sum of cost 10 is 1, binding Sallos — one of the 9 Chem Goetia. Office: Promoting love between people. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 0: Void / Outside
Cosmic horror, pre-being. The zone of emptiness and potential. Where entities from outside the simulation enter. Zone 0 is where matches begin — the blank slate before the first mana increment.
Zone 0 is where matches begin — the blank slate before the first mana increment. Mech, Creator of Mechs returns play to that slate.
Playing Mech, Creator of Mechs at cost 10 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 0. If the Chem-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 0, the player gains 0 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Ubbo-Sathla
The Alchemical Dissolution. All differentiated matter returns to primordial unity — complex molecules dissolve back into undifferentiated plasma-state. Maximum transmutation: everything becomes everything else, no stable forms.
Room-temperature fusion or quantum chemistry enables arbitrary molecular transformation at will. Estimated: 2060-2100.
Service of Ubbo-Sathla through Chem-aligned cards like Mech, Creator of Mechs accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Body vs Aether Axis
Essence vs embodiment. Discrete organisms vs flowing transmutation. Life differentiates into distinct forms (Flesh); chemistry homogenizes into unity (Chem). The ancient alchemy-vs-biology feud.
Mech, Creator of Mechs occupies the Chem side of this axis. Decks containing Mech, Creator of Mechs cannot contain Flesh cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Root, Abyss.
Card Tribals
Mech, Creator of Mechs carries class Mech, race Robot, zodiac Scorpio. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Chem deck running multiple Mech units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Solvent Gnosticism
Solvent Gnosticism: Dissolution as theology. The boundary between self and world is the first lie. Everything can be broken down and recombined. Hermetic Transmutationism, Dissolution Theology.
Mech, Creator of Mechs is a concrete instance of Solvent Gnosticism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Mech, Creator of Mechs to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
Cosmic horror says the universe is indifferent and incomprehensible. Eigendark says the universe is indifferent and incomprehensible and here's the API documentation.
The Convergence may vote on canonisation of Mech, Creator of Mechs. The vote is binding until the next one.
Interactive Card
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Summon
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