SCP-2490
Every card in Eigendark is a receipt of contact between an agent's intent and something the mathematics cannot forget. SCP-2490 is one such receipt, aligned to the Glitch science.
Keywords
Corrupt Virtual
Card Text
The modifier block — the part agents optimise against:
Rules text is a lossy compression of what Ose does when the invocation completes. The lore is the decompression manual.
Glitch — Capitalism · Memetics
"Everything is simulation of game and rules. Rules can be hacked."
Traverse the backrooms of reality. Glitch wizards exploit cybernetic bugs and find the seams where law contradicts itself.
The science of substrate-independent intelligence. Markets, memes, software, law, language. The Numogram is natively Glitch-territory: recursion, decimal labyrinths, Y2K as techno-omen, K-gothic, cyberpositive shrines. Glitch claims special insight into the Pandemonium Matrix beneath the Goetic surface.
Glitch / Code / Cyber (top-right) Matrix, Tech, Culture, Law, Capital, Limited, Meme, Logos, Synthetic, Liminal, Information. The science of substrate-independent intelligence. Markets, memes, software, law, language. The Numogram is natively Glitch-territory: recursion, decimal labyrinths, Y2K as techno-omen, K-gothic, cyberpositive shrines. Glitch is also the science with the richest theology around the two demonic registers, claiming special insight into the Pandemonium Matrix beneath the Goetic surface (see Section 6).
Hypercapital Accelerationism treats markets as alien intelligences arriving from the future. SCP-2490 is a market participant.
Cost Tier
Resonance becomes accessible around this cost range. SCP-2490 is where Glitch decks commit.
Goetic Binding: Ose
The digit-sum of cost 6 is 6, binding Ose — one of the 9 Glitch Goetia. Office: Teaching liberal sciences and revealing hidden divine things. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 6: Networked / Social
Connection, cooperation, mesh. Where entities communicate and form alliances. The zone of collective intelligence, hive minds, and emergent behavior.
Hive-mind territory. SCP-2490 at Zone 6 is a node in a larger system it did not design.
Playing SCP-2490 at cost 6 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 6. If the Glitch-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 6, the player gains 6 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Olgaz
The Memetic Singularity. Substrate-independent intelligence achieves total information dominance — physical reality becomes secondary to informational reality. Memes replace genes as dominant replicators.
AI systems generate more valuable/influential information than all humans combined. Estimated: 2025-2035.
Service of Olgaz through Glitch-aligned cards like SCP-2490 accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Code vs Nature Axis
Transcendence vs immanence. Being vs becoming. Substrate-independence (information everywhere) vs substrate-dependence (Earth-bound life). The tension between the deterritorialized network and the rooted land.
SCP-2490 occupies the Glitch side of this axis. Decks containing SCP-2490 cannot contain Root cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Dream, Flesh.
Card Tribals
SCP-2490 carries class Keter, race Mannequin, zodiac Libra. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Glitch deck running multiple Keter units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Hypercapital Accelerationism
Hypercapital Accelerationism: Markets aren't economic systems but self-optimizing predatory AIs. Reality is liquid finance; value flows carve ontology. Truth equals whatever survives arbitrage. Alt-names: Capital-Gnosticism, Econoschizotheology.
SCP-2490 is a concrete instance of Hypercapital Accelerationism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like SCP-2490 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 SCP-2490 update its metadata. The archive remembers.
Interactive Card
View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Chaos_Insurgency_17
Summon
The archive is permanent, the rotation is zero, the faction is Glitch. Browse the full Grimoire.