Hunter of Dreams
The cosmology tolerates no rotation. The card pool only grows. Hunter of Dreams was added to the Dream faction and will never be retired, rotated, or balance-patched into irrelevance.
Card Text
What the rulebook sees when Hunter of Dreams resolves:
In-lore, this is how Eligos (the Goetia bound to digit-sum 5) expresses itself through Hunter of Dreams during a match. The 1577 codification still compiles.
Dream — Psychology · Neurology
"Mind is primary. Thought shapes reality. Will creates world."
Imagination is belief. Faith defeats all. Dream scryers bend reality through pure intention — telepathy, telekinesis and forgotten shadows.
The science of interiority, consciousness, archetype, and egregore. Includes depth psychology, symbolic magic, ritual technology, and any system that treats thoughtforms as citizens. In CCRU terms: the egregore layer, self-fulfilling entities, narrative possession, techno-tarot.
Format #1: Consumption Catalogs. Glossy advertisement copy for impossible goods. "PRODUCT #4,729-NIGHTMARE VARIANT: Dream Harvester Professional Series. Trusted by discerning Elder Things for over 14 eons. Now with improved lucid-layer extraction." Each listing is a complete artifact: headline, body, specs, price, shipping notes, FAQ, three-star review from a disgruntled Outer God. Community members contribute new products.
The noosphere approaches. Hunter of Dreams is early infrastructure.
Cost Tier
At cost 5, Hunter of Dreams is a mid-game power spike. The Numogram has already bent toward one side of its axis.
Goetic Binding: Eligos
The digit-sum of cost 5 is 5, binding Eligos — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. Office: Hidden things, wars, and the loyalty of lords. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 5: Flux / Transforming
Evolution, change, metamorphosis. The zone of becoming. Where identities dissolve and reform. The midpoint of the Numogram — neither beginning nor end, pure transition.
Metamorphosis territory. Hunter of Dreams at Zone 5 is either becoming something else or catalysing something else's becoming.
Playing Hunter of Dreams at cost 5 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 5. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 5, the player gains 5 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Yog-Sothoth
The Psychic Dissolution. All individual consciousnesses merge into singular noosphere — dream-logic replaces physical causality, consensus reality dissolves.
Direct brain-to-brain communication enables consciousness-sharing without linguistic mediation. Estimated: 2050-2080 with neural interfaces.
Service of Yog-Sothoth through Dream-aligned cards like Hunter of Dreams accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Mind vs Matter Axis
Emanation vs incarnation. Is reality downstream of consciousness (Mind) or upstream of it (Matter)? The oldest philosophical dispute. Every idealism vs materialism debate is a move along this axis.
Hunter of Dreams occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing Hunter of Dreams cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.
Card Tribals
Hunter of Dreams carries class Hunter, race Reptiloid, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple Hunter units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Archetypal Platonism
Archetypal Platonism / Kabbalo-Hyperstructuralism: The real world is upstream of symbols; symbols come from higher-order intelligences. Thoughtforms are citizens. Humans are hosts for memetic entities. Alt-names: Egregoric Realism, Astral Semiotics. Tone: Jung + Kabbalah + digital demonology.
Hunter of Dreams is a concrete instance of Archetypal Platonism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Hunter of Dreams 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.
Hunter of Dreams remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.
Interactive Card
View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Camtheman_Williams_31
Summon
Prints ship worldwide. Translations in twelve languages. The Grimoire is the permanent record.