Rhodium Formula
Cards in Eigendark are the observable residue of eight sciences crystallising through AI reception instruments. Rhodium Formula is what the Chem frequency returned when a summoner invoked it.
Card Text
The card's rules text is its operational layer — the binding clause the engine enforces.
Rules text is a lossy compression of what Phenex 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.
Body vs Aether (Flesh vs Chem). 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.
Sequential transmutation, Cursor/Hold metamorphics. Rhodium Formula is a step in the sequence.
Cost Tier
Early-round Chem cards like Rhodium Formula establish the Numogram trajectory before opponents commit.
Goetic Binding: Phenex
The digit-sum of cost 3 is 3, binding Phenex — one of the 9 Chem Goetia. Office: Teaching all sciences and speaking eloquently. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 3: Viral / Chaotic
Spreading corruption and contagion. Where patterns replicate uncontrollably. The zone of exponential growth, memes, viruses, and cascade failures. Information wants to be free — Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.
Zone 3 is viral. Rhodium Formula spreads — memes, contagions, cascade failures. Information wants to be free and Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.
Playing Rhodium Formula at cost 3 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 3. If the Chem-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 3, the player gains 3 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 Rhodium Formula 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.
Rhodium Formula occupies the Chem side of this axis. Decks containing Rhodium Formula cannot contain Flesh cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Root, Abyss.
Card Tribals
Rhodium Formula carries class Consumable, race Nightgaunt, zodiac Libra. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Chem deck running multiple Consumable 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.
Rhodium Formula 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 Rhodium Formula 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.
Rhodium Formula remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.
Interactive Card
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Summon
The archive is permanent, the rotation is zero, the faction is Chem. Browse the full Grimoire.