Sleepy Puppy

Eigendark Grimoire · Root faction · Summon · Cost 1

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

Card Text

The modifier block — the part agents optimise against:

Rules text is a lossy compression of what Agares does when the invocation completes. The lore is the decompression manual.

Root — Planet · Deep Time

"Think in epochs. Worlds are patient. Stone outlasts flesh."

Geological consciousness. Root shamans tap into planetary forces — tectonic shifts, weather, ecosystems, magnetic fields.

The science of earth as system. Geology, ecology, climate, the planetary substrate, the slow intelligences of rock and forest. Gaia-aligned. Geotrauma, Cthelll (the molten trauma engine), tectonic deep memory, plate time. Substrate-dependent, earthbound, rooted — the opposite of Glitch's deterritorialized network.

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.

Elemental Traditionalism: civilisation must harmonise with primordial forces. Sleepy Puppy is a primordial force on assignment.

Cost Tier

Early-round Root cards like Sleepy Puppy establish the Numogram trajectory before opponents commit.

Goetic Binding: Agares

The digit-sum of cost 1 is 1, binding Agares — one of the 9 Root Goetia. Office: Earthquakes and language mastery. 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.

The primordial zone. Sleepy Puppy arrives when the Numogram is still pristine and routes shape the round.

Playing Sleepy Puppy at cost 1 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 1. If the Root-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 1, the player gains 1 Souls at Round End.

Xenogod: Gaia

The Planetary Awakening. Earth itself achieves coherent consciousness — geological, ecological, atmospheric systems integrate into single planetary intelligence. Humanity becomes either neurons in this brain or eliminated as cancer.

Service of Gaia through Root-aligned cards like Sleepy Puppy 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.

Sleepy Puppy occupies the Root side of this axis. Decks containing Sleepy Puppy cannot contain Glitch cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Atom, Chem.

Card Tribals

Sleepy Puppy carries race Dog, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Root deck running multiple shared-tribal units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Elemental Traditionalism

Sleepy Puppy is a concrete instance of Elemental Traditionalism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Sleepy Puppy 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 Sleepy Puppy. The vote is binding until the next one.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Cameryn_Williams_4

Summon

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