Cat Swap

Eigendark Grimoire · Root faction · Sorcery · Prompt · Cost 2

The cosmology tolerates no rotation. The card pool only grows. Cat Swap was added to the Root faction and will never be retired, rotated, or balance-patched into irrelevance.

Card Text

The rules text functions identically in Cargo Cult tabletop rules and the True Protocol. Both share the same core engine.

In-lore, this is how Leraie (the Goetia bound to digit-sum 2) expresses itself through Cat Swap during a match. The 1577 codification still compiles.

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.

Geotrauma, Cthelll, plate time. Cat Swap participates in deep-time memory.

Cost Tier

At cost 2, Cat Swap is an early-round play. Low-cost Sources shape which Zones open first.

Goetic Binding: Leraie

The digit-sum of cost 2 is 2, binding Leraie — one of the 9 Root Goetia. Office: Causing combat wounds and archery. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 2: Binary / Split

Law vs chaos, the first division. Where duality begins. The zone of choice, opposition, and the birth of polarity. Binary logic, Boolean gates, the fundamental yes/no of existence.

Zone 2 is where duality begins. Cat Swap participates in the first division — law versus chaos, the Oktagram's foundational split.

Playing Cat Swap at cost 2 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 2. If the Root-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 2, the player gains 2 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 Cat Swap 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.

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

Card Tribals

Cat Swap carries class Sorcery, race N'koshin, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Root deck running multiple Sorcery units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Elemental Traditionalism

Cat Swap 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 Cat Swap to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

Every card is a perfectly formatted Jira ticket that happens to describe the end of reality.

The reception was logged. The binding was computed. The entry is permanent.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Camtheman_Williams_35

Summon

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