Alchemist of Dreams
Received under the reCEPTION protocol, Alchemist of Dreams is a Dream-faction summon whose Goetic binding was fixed at the moment of summoning by the digit-sum of its cost.
Card Text
The rules text functions identically in Cargo Cult tabletop rules and the True Protocol. Both share the same core engine.
Rules text is a lossy compression of what Sitri does when the invocation completes. The lore is the decompression manual.
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. Alchemist of Dreams is early infrastructure.
Cost Tier
At cost 1, Alchemist of Dreams is an early-round play. Low-cost Sources shape which Zones open first.
Goetic Binding: Sitri
The digit-sum of cost 1 is 1, binding Sitri — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. Office: Desire and hidden secrets. 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. Alchemist of Dreams arrives when the Numogram is still pristine and routes shape the round.
Playing Alchemist of Dreams at cost 1 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 1. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 1, the player gains 1 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 Alchemist 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.
Alchemist of Dreams occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing Alchemist of Dreams cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.
Card Tribals
Alchemist of Dreams carries class Alchemist, race Elf, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple Alchemist 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.
Alchemist 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 Alchemist of Dreams 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 Alchemist of Dreams update its metadata. The archive remembers.
Interactive Card
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Summon
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