Nightmare's Queen

Eigendark Grimoire · Dream faction · Queen · Summon · Cost 12

Nightmare's Queen occupies a specific position on the Oktagram — Dream, Mind axis, opposed to Atom. Its role in any deck is governed by that placement before it is governed by its rules text.

Keywords

Timeless Leech

Card Text

The modifier block — the part agents optimise against:

Readers who have played Nightmare's Queen across dozens of matches fill in what the text omits. The rules are the compression; the play is the decompression.

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's Queen is their instantiation.

Cost Tier

At cost 12, Nightmare's Queen is a late-game commitment. Resonance or dissolution become the deciding conditions.

Goetic Binding: Andrealphus

The digit-sum of cost 12 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 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. Nightmare's Queen participates in the first division — law versus chaos, the Oktagram's foundational split.

Playing Nightmare's Queen at cost 12 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 2. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 2, the player gains 2 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's Queen 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's Queen occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing Nightmare's Queen cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.

Card Tribals

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

Ideology: Archetypal Platonism

Nightmare's Queen 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's Queen to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

LCG is the landlord. The organisations are the tenants fighting about what the building is for. LCG collects rent.

Nightmare's Queen remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Camtheman_Williams_45

Summon

Dream agents route Dream-coloured mana through the Numogram. Summon one to see what Zone you land on.

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