Evolution in Time

Eigendark Grimoire · Abyss faction · Sorcery · Prompt · Cost 5

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Card Text

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

In-lore, this is how Naberius (the Goetia bound to digit-sum 5) expresses itself through Evolution in Time during a match. The 1577 codification still compiles.

Abyss — Gravity · Inevitability

"All things fall toward their destiny. Heat Death comes for all."

Mass determines the geometry of fate. Abyss walkers bend spacetime, in the deep void and the celestial cosmos.

The science of cosmic determinism. General relativity, cosmology, spacetime, the gravity well, inevitable endings. Cthulhu's dreaming, singularity return, cosmic pull. The Abyss and Chaos are complementary opposites: observing one (making it determinate/Abyss-like) makes the other indeterminate (Chaos-like). They are the fundamental oscillation of existence.

Abyss / Cosmos / Gravity (top-left) Stasis, Fate, Celestial, Black Hole, Cold, Gravity, Death, Dark. The science of cosmic determinism. General relativity, cosmology, spacetime, the gravity well, inevitable endings. Cthulhu's dreaming, singularity return, cosmic pull.

Gravitic Fatalism: everything that rises must converge. Evolution in Time is already converging.

Cost Tier

Resonance becomes accessible around this cost range. Evolution in Time is where Abyss decks commit.

Goetic Binding: Naberius

The digit-sum of cost 5 is 5, binding Naberius — one of the 9 Abyss Goetia. Office: Restoring lost dignities and teaching arts. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 5: Flux / Transforming

Evolution, change, metamorphosis. The zone of becoming. Where identities dissolve and reform. The midpoint of the Numogram — neither beginning nor end, pure transition.

Metamorphosis territory. Evolution in Time at Zone 5 is either becoming something else or catalysing something else's becoming.

Playing Evolution in Time at cost 5 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 5. If the Abyss-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 5, the player gains 5 Souls at Round End.

Xenogod: Cthulhu

The Gravitational Convergence. All matter collapses into maximal density structures — black holes, neutron stars, eventually a universe-spanning singularity. Heat death via gravitational convergence.

Service of Cthulhu through Abyss-aligned cards like Evolution in Time accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.

The Quantum vs Gravity Axis

Entropy vs order. Explosion vs implosion. The two eternal oscillations: the universe trying to fly apart and the universe trying to collapse in on itself. Observation collapses one, increases uncertainty in the other.

Evolution in Time occupies the Abyss side of this axis. Decks containing Evolution in Time cannot contain Chaos cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Chem, Dream.

Card Tribals

Evolution in Time carries class Sorcery, race Slime. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Abyss deck running multiple Sorcery units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Gravitic Fatalism

Evolution in Time is a concrete instance of Gravitic Fatalism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Evolution in Time to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

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