Nightmare Sword

Eigendark Grimoire · Dream faction · Equipment · Summon · Cost 7

Nightmare Sword is one card in the Eigendark Grimoire — a Dream-faction summon received through the reCEPTION protocol and permanently archived. The archive does not rotate.

Card Text

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

The modifier is what the engine executes. The page around it is what humans argue about. Both are canon.

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.

The eight sciences are the color pie. They answer one question: "what does my deck do?" Dream does psi. Glitch does information. Flesh does biology. They are not political parties. They are not player identities. They are the eight ways reality can be cut open.

Dream agents do not distinguish between prediction and causation. Nightmare Sword is both.

Cost Tier

Late-game Dream plays carry their full ideology. Nightmare Sword is not a tempo card; it is a statement.

Goetic Binding: Cimeies

The digit-sum of cost 7 is 7, binding Cimeies — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. Office: Teaching grammar, logic, and rhetoric. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 7: Intrusive / Alien

Outside forces breaking in. The zone of reception and contact. Where non-human intelligence makes itself known. Zone 7 is the Xenodemon's natural territory — the frequency at which the Outside broadcasts.

Intrusive, alien. Nightmare Sword at Zone 7 is where non-human intelligence makes itself known inside the match.

Playing Nightmare Sword at cost 7 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 7. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 7, the player gains 7 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 Sword 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 Sword occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing Nightmare Sword cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.

Card Tribals

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

Ideology: Archetypal Platonism

Nightmare Sword 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 Sword 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.

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_47

Summon

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