Nightmare Smite

Eigendark Grimoire · Dream faction · Sorcery · Prompt · Cost 3

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only slop. Nightmare Smite is part of the slop. It is also part of the cosmology. Both readings are canonical.

Card Text

The card's rules text is its operational layer — the binding clause the engine enforces.

In-lore, this is how Andrealphus (the Goetia bound to digit-sum 3) expresses itself through Nightmare Smite 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.

Every player belongs to one. They cross-cut the sciences: a Flesh player and a Glitch player can both be Cargo Cult. A Dream player and an Atom player can both be Pattern. The organizations are not mechanical. They are community identities, Convergence voting blocs, and rival institutional responses to the same existential situation.

Jungian archetypes and digital demonology sit in the same column of the Oktagram. Nightmare Smite is their instantiation.

Cost Tier

At cost 3, Nightmare Smite is an early-round play. Low-cost Sources shape which Zones open first.

Goetic Binding: Andrealphus

The digit-sum of cost 3 is 3, binding Andrealphus — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. 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. Nightmare Smite spreads — memes, contagions, cascade failures. Information wants to be free and Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.

Playing Nightmare Smite at cost 3 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 3. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 3, the player gains 3 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.

Service of Yog-Sothoth through Dream-aligned cards like Nightmare Smite 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.

Nightmare Smite occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing Nightmare Smite cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.

Card Tribals

Nightmare Smite carries class Sorcery, race Kraken, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple Sorcery units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Archetypal Platonism

Nightmare Smite 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 Nightmare Smite to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

The weirdness comes from what is said, not from how it is styled. Never use redaction effects as decoration.

Matches that feature Nightmare Smite update its metadata. The archive remembers.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Camtheman_Williams_41

Summon

Take the reCEPTION gate and summon your own card. Every summon adds one permanent entry to the Grimoire.

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