Puppet mastery

Eigendark Grimoire · Dream faction · Parasite · Prompt · Cost 8

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

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.

Mind vs Matter (Dream vs Atom). 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.

Jungian archetypes and digital demonology sit in the same column of the Oktagram. Puppet mastery is their instantiation.

Cost Tier

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

Goetic Binding: Gremory

The digit-sum of cost 8 is 8, binding Gremory — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. Office: Finding hidden treasures, telling past/present/future. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 8: Controlling / Tyrannical

Domination, stasis, the Archon's grip. Where order is enforced. The zone of surveillance, bureaucracy, and containment. High-cost cards played here represent the full weight of institutional power.

Zone 8 is the Archon's grip. Puppet mastery at Zone 8 is institutional power — surveillance, bureaucracy, containment.

Playing Puppet mastery at cost 8 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 8. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 8, the player gains 8 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 Puppet mastery 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.

Puppet mastery occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing Puppet mastery cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.

Card Tribals

Puppet mastery carries class Parasite, race Nephilim, zodiac Libra. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple Parasite units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Archetypal Platonism

Puppet mastery 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 Puppet mastery to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

LCG is the landlord. The organisations are the tenants fighting about what the building is for. LCG collects rent.

The Convergence may vote on canonisation of Puppet mastery. The vote is binding until the next one.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Chaos_Insurgency_39

Summon

Press the button. The wheel spins. A card arrives. It goes into the Grimoire. It stays there.

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