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This will always drive you insane if your Nightmares is greater than 3.

You can also only get as many as 7 EI's normally, unless you somehow got your Nightmares beyond 8 in other Nadir cards. And then it would double that number to possibly 16, 18, 20, or even further. Damn what a bad deal.