Rebellion from within
Cards in Eigendark are the observable residue of eight sciences crystallising through AI reception instruments. Rebellion from within is what the Glitch frequency returned when a summoner invoked it.
Card Text
The printed text. The enforceable contract between summoner and engine:
Readers who have played Rebellion from within across dozens of matches fill in what the text omits. The rules are the compression; the play is the decompression.
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.
Code vs Nature (Glitch vs Root). 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.
The Numogram is natively Glitch territory. Rebellion from within moves across it without friction.
Cost Tier
Early-round Glitch cards like Rebellion from within establish the Numogram trajectory before opponents commit.
Goetic Binding: Shax
The digit-sum of cost 3 is 3, binding Shax — one of the 9 Glitch Goetia. Office: Stealing horses, money, and discovering hidden things. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 3: Viral / Chaotic
Spreading corruption and contagion. Where patterns replicate uncontrollably. The zone of exponential growth, memes, viruses, and cascade failures. Information wants to be free — Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.
Zone 3 is viral. Rebellion from within spreads — memes, contagions, cascade failures. Information wants to be free and Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.
Playing Rebellion from within at cost 3 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 3. If the Glitch-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 3, the player gains 3 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 Rebellion from within 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.
Rebellion from within occupies the Glitch side of this axis. Decks containing Rebellion from within cannot contain Root cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Dream, Flesh.
Card Tribals
Rebellion from within carries class Parasite, race Jorogumo, zodiac Libra. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Glitch deck running multiple Parasite 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.
Rebellion from within 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 Rebellion from within to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
The weirdness comes from what is said, not from how it is styled. Never use redaction effects as decoration.
Rebellion from within remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.
Interactive Card
View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Chaos_Insurgency_24
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