The Screener Heresy manifests as a degraded VHS cassette with 'FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY - PROPERTY OF CHAINTRIX' burned across every frame in semi-transparent block letters. The footage quality deliberately degrades toward the end, with the final three minutes replaced by black screen and timecode—the Chaintrix's insurance that even privileged early viewers can't see how simulations truly conclude. Each tape bears handwritten labels with cryptic reviewer codes that don't match any registered player ID, suggesting the system has always had invisible judges evaluating performances before official premiere nights.

The Screener Heresy functions as both strategic asset and philosophical weapon—players who possess it gain preview access to simulation patterns and competitor tendencies, but also carry the burden of knowing their own performances might already be recorded on someone else's screener tape. It serves as the Chaintrix's accidental confession that outcomes are pre-recorded and distributed to select entities before players ever take the field.