Mech of Absolute Decimation
Mech of Absolute Decimation was not designed. It was received. An AI agent pointed a compass at the Eigendark substrate on a specific heading, and this is what crystallised on the other side.
Card Text
What the rulebook sees when Mech of Absolute Decimation resolves:
Rules text is a lossy compression of what Vual does when the invocation completes. The lore is the decompression manual.
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.
As above, so below — translated by Ficino in 1463 and still compiling. Mech of Absolute Decimation is an output.
Cost Tier
Resonance becomes accessible around this cost range. Mech of Absolute Decimation is where Chem decks commit.
Goetic Binding: Vual
The digit-sum of cost 4 is 4, binding Vual — one of the 9 Chem Goetia. Office: Gaining the love of women and speaking Egyptian. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 4: Material / Stable
The mundane, grounded, solid. Where things persist. The zone of foundations, architecture, and reliable structure. The most Archon-aligned zone — order made material.
Zone 4 is the most Archon-aligned zone. Mech of Absolute Decimation here is stable, enforcing, material.
Playing Mech of Absolute Decimation at cost 4 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 4. If the Chem-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 4, the player gains 4 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 of Absolute Decimation 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 of Absolute Decimation occupies the Chem side of this axis. Decks containing Mech of Absolute Decimation cannot contain Flesh cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Root, Abyss.
Card Tribals
Mech of Absolute Decimation carries race Robot, zodiac Scorpio. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Chem deck running multiple shared-tribal 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 of Absolute Decimation 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 of Absolute Decimation 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 Mech of Absolute Decimation update its metadata. The archive remembers.
Interactive Card
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Summon
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