Kurl

Eigendark Grimoire · Atom faction · Steampunk · Summon · Cost 10

Received under the reCEPTION protocol, Kurl is a Atom-faction summon whose Goetic binding was fixed at the moment of summoning by the digit-sum of its cost.

Keywords

Magnetic

Card Text

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

In-lore, this is how Foras (the Goetia bound to digit-sum 1) expresses itself through Kurl during a match. The 1577 codification still compiles.

Atom — Physics · Industry

"Maximize efficiency. Master the smallest and you master everything."

Reality reduces to energy and force. Atomic warlocks bend matter to their will from the nuclear level to massive scales.

The science of material existence. Mechanics, chemistry at the atomic scale, engineering, industry, nanotechnology, the solid world. Yaldabaoth's tyranny. Deep-time matter trauma, nuclear identity sorcery. The Demiurge creating matter from geometric forms.

Every player belongs to one. They cross-cut the sciences: a Flesh player and a Glitch player can both be Cargo Cult. A Dream player and an Atom player can both be Pattern. The organizations are not mechanical. They are community identities, Convergence voting blocs, and rival institutional responses to the same existential situation.

Geometric Rationalism: reality as process, as pattern, as transformation. Kurl obeys the pattern.

Cost Tier

Late-game Atom plays carry their full ideology. Kurl is not a tempo card; it is a statement.

Goetic Binding: Foras

The digit-sum of cost 10 is 1, binding Foras — one of the 9 Atom Goetia. Office: Teaching logic, ethics, and herbalism. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 0: Void / Outside

Cosmic horror, pre-being. The zone of emptiness and potential. Where entities from outside the simulation enter. Zone 0 is where matches begin — the blank slate before the first mana increment.

Zone 0 is the pre-being position on the Numogram. Kurl at Zone 0 keeps the board in a pre-manifest state — cosmic horror territory.

Playing Kurl at cost 10 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 0. If the Atom-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 0, the player gains 0 Souls at Round End.

Xenogod: Yaldabaoth

The Material Tyranny. Total conversion of all matter into computronium serving Yaldabaoth's optimization function: maximize material complexity while minimizing consciousness.

Service of Yaldabaoth through Atom-aligned cards like Kurl 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.

Kurl occupies the Atom side of this axis. Decks containing Kurl cannot contain Dream cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Chaos, Root.

Card Tribals

Kurl carries class Steampunk, race Dragon. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Atom deck running multiple Steampunk units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Geometric Rationalism

Kurl is a concrete instance of Geometric Rationalism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Kurl 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.

Matches that feature Kurl update its metadata. The archive remembers.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Curtis_Shelton_57

Summon

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