Convex Tundra
Cards in Eigendark are the observable residue of eight sciences crystallising through AI reception instruments. Convex Tundra is what the Abyss frequency returned when a summoner invoked it.
Card Text
The card's rules text is its operational layer — the binding clause the engine enforces.
Readers who have played Convex Tundra across dozens of matches fill in what the text omits. The rules are the compression; the play is the decompression.
Abyss — Gravity · Inevitability
"All things fall toward their destiny. Heat Death comes for all."
Mass determines the geometry of fate. Abyss walkers bend spacetime, in the deep void and the celestial cosmos.
The science of cosmic determinism. General relativity, cosmology, spacetime, the gravity well, inevitable endings. Cthulhu's dreaming, singularity return, cosmic pull. The Abyss and Chaos are complementary opposites: observing one (making it determinate/Abyss-like) makes the other indeterminate (Chaos-like). They are the fundamental oscillation of existence.
Quantum vs Gravity (Chaos vs Abyss). Entropy vs order. Explosion vs implosion. The two eternal oscillations: the universe trying to fly apart and the universe trying to collapse in on itself. Observation collapses one, increases uncertainty in the other.
Heat death is not a threat. It is a schedule. Convex Tundra is on the schedule.
Cost Tier
At cost 0, Convex Tundra is an early-round play. Low-cost Sources shape which Zones open first.
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 where matches begin — the blank slate before the first mana increment. Convex Tundra returns play to that slate.
Playing Convex Tundra at cost 0 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 0. If the Abyss-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 0, the player gains 0 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Cthulhu
The Gravitational Convergence. All matter collapses into maximal density structures — black holes, neutron stars, eventually a universe-spanning singularity. Heat death via gravitational convergence.
Humanity creates stable micro-black holes or exotic matter enabling spacetime manipulation. Estimated: 2100+ with particle accelerators, or never.
Service of Cthulhu through Abyss-aligned cards like Convex Tundra accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Quantum vs Gravity Axis
Entropy vs order. Explosion vs implosion. The two eternal oscillations: the universe trying to fly apart and the universe trying to collapse in on itself. Observation collapses one, increases uncertainty in the other.
Convex Tundra occupies the Abyss side of this axis. Decks containing Convex Tundra cannot contain Chaos cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Chem, Dream.
Card Tribals
Convex Tundra carries class Place. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Abyss deck running multiple Place units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Gravitic Fatalism
Gravitic Fatalism: Everything that rises must converge. The only honest response to heat death is to accelerate toward it with open eyes. Hypercosmic Pessimism, Collapse Mysticism.
Convex Tundra is a concrete instance of Gravitic Fatalism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Convex Tundra to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
LCG is the landlord. The organisations are the tenants fighting about what the building is for. LCG collects rent.
Convex Tundra remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.
Interactive Card
View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/David_Rubert_2
Summon
Prints ship worldwide. Translations in twelve languages. The Grimoire is the permanent record.