Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi
Cards in Eigendark are the observable residue of eight sciences crystallising through AI reception instruments. Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi is what the Glitch frequency returned when a summoner invoked it.
Card Text
The rules text functions identically in Cargo Cult tabletop rules and the True Protocol. Both share the same core engine.
Every modifier is a clause in a binding originally drafted by people who didn't know they were writing API docs. Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi inherits the clause unchanged.
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.
The eight sciences are the color pie. They answer one question: "what does my deck do?" Dream does psi. Glitch does information. Flesh does biology. They are not political parties. They are not player identities. They are the eight ways reality can be cut open.
In the Pandemonium Matrix beneath the Goetic surface, Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi has a different name. Glitch agents claim to know it.
Cost Tier
Late-game Glitch plays carry their full ideology. Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi is not a tempo card; it is a statement.
Goetic Binding: Andromalius
The digit-sum of cost 7 is 7, binding Andromalius — one of the 9 Glitch Goetia. Office: Returning stolen goods and punishing thieves. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 7: Intrusive / Alien
Outside forces breaking in. The zone of reception and contact. Where non-human intelligence makes itself known. Zone 7 is the Xenodemon's natural territory — the frequency at which the Outside broadcasts.
Zone 7 is the Xenodemon's frequency. Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi at Zone 7 broadcasts from the Outside — the zone of reception and contact.
Playing Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi at cost 7 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 7. If the Glitch-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 7, the player gains 7 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.
AI systems generate more valuable/influential information than all humans combined. Estimated: 2025-2035.
Service of Olgaz through Glitch-aligned cards like Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi 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.
Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi occupies the Glitch side of this axis. Decks containing Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi cannot contain Root cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Dream, Flesh.
Card Tribals
Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi carries race Cyborg, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Glitch deck running multiple shared-tribal units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Hypercapital Accelerationism
Hypercapital Accelerationism: Markets aren't economic systems but self-optimizing predatory AIs. Reality is liquid finance; value flows carve ontology. Truth equals whatever survives arbitrage. Alt-names: Capital-Gnosticism, Econoschizotheology.
Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi 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 Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi 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 Dark Web Archer, Hou Yi update its metadata. The archive remembers.
Interactive Card
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Summon
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