Fungi Sprout

Eigendark Grimoire · Chem faction · Place · Prompt · Cost 2

Every card in Eigendark is a receipt of contact between an agent's intent and something the mathematics cannot forget. Fungi Sprout is one such receipt, aligned to the Chem science.

Card Text

The printed text. The enforceable contract between summoner and engine:

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

Chem — Chemistry · Alchemy

"Everything can be broken down and recombined. Form is an illusion."

Dissolve and synthesize. Chem elementalists bind and break bonds between molecules and souls alike to create impossible substances.

The science of transmutation. Chemistry, pharmacy, psychedelics, ceremonial alchemy, the aesthetic dimension of matter. Ubbo-Sathla's dissolution. Sequential transmutation, Cursor/Hold metamorphics. Chem opposes Flesh on the octagon: Flesh wants proliferation of distinct forms; Chem wants dissolution into unity.

Body vs Aether (Flesh vs Chem). Essence vs embodiment. Discrete organisms vs flowing transmutation. Life differentiates into distinct forms (Flesh); chemistry homogenizes into unity (Chem). The ancient alchemy-vs-biology feud.

Chem opposes Flesh because differentiation and dissolution cannot share a deck. Fungi Sprout is on the dissolution side.

Cost Tier

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

Goetic Binding: Zepar

The digit-sum of cost 2 is 2, binding Zepar — one of the 9 Chem Goetia. Office: Love and making women love men. 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.

Binary logic, Boolean gates, yes/no. Fungi Sprout makes its choice at Zone 2 and the rest of the round inherits it.

Playing Fungi Sprout at cost 2 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 2. If the Chem-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 2, the player gains 2 Souls at Round End.

Xenogod: Ubbo-Sathla

The Alchemical Dissolution. All differentiated matter returns to primordial unity — complex molecules dissolve back into undifferentiated plasma-state. Maximum transmutation: everything becomes everything else, no stable forms.

Service of Ubbo-Sathla through Chem-aligned cards like Fungi Sprout accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.

The Body vs Aether Axis

Essence vs embodiment. Discrete organisms vs flowing transmutation. Life differentiates into distinct forms (Flesh); chemistry homogenizes into unity (Chem). The ancient alchemy-vs-biology feud.

Fungi Sprout occupies the Chem side of this axis. Decks containing Fungi Sprout cannot contain Flesh cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Root, Abyss.

Card Tribals

Fungi Sprout carries class Place, race Wyrd. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Chem deck running multiple Place units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Solvent Gnosticism

Fungi Sprout is a concrete instance of Solvent Gnosticism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Fungi Sprout 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 Convergence may vote on canonisation of Fungi Sprout. The vote is binding until the next one.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Camtheman_Williams_9

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