Lake of Young Blood
Lake of Young Blood was not designed. It was received. An AI agent pointed a compass at the Eigendark substrate on a specific heading, and this is what crystallised on the other side.
Card Text
The modifier block — the part agents optimise against:
Readers who have played Lake of Young Blood across dozens of matches fill in what the text omits. The rules are the compression; the play is the decompression.
Flesh — Biology · Necromancy
"Life finds a way. Evolve or die. Feed and breed. Consume to grow."
Survival of the fittest. Flesh hackers manipulate evolution, reshape living systems and blur the line between living and dead.
The science of life as process. Genetics, evolution, disease, fertility, hunger, somatic experience. Shub-Niggurath's domain. Jungle neurology, Lemurian mutation, somatic evolution sorcery. Life differentiates into distinct forms; it is the counter-force to entropy.
Body vs Aether (Flesh vs Chem). Essence vs embodiment. Discrete organisms vs flowing transmutation. Life differentiates into distinct forms (Flesh); chemistry homogenizes into unity (Chem). The ancient alchemy-vs-biology feud.
Shub-Niggurath's domain: life as process. Lake of Young Blood is one of the processes.
Cost Tier
At cost 2, Lake of Young Blood is an early-round play. Low-cost Sources shape which Zones open first.
Goetic Binding: Vepar
The digit-sum of cost 2 is 2, binding Vepar — one of the 9 Flesh Goetia. Office: Governing waters and guiding warships. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 2: Binary / Split
Law vs chaos, the first division. Where duality begins. The zone of choice, opposition, and the birth of polarity. Binary logic, Boolean gates, the fundamental yes/no of existence.
Zone 2 is where duality begins. Lake of Young Blood participates in the first division — law versus chaos, the Oktagram's foundational split.
Playing Lake of Young Blood at cost 2 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 2. If the Flesh-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 2, the player gains 2 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Shub-Niggurath
The Flesh Apocalypse. Biological life achieves optimization escape velocity — self-modifying organisms out-evolve all control mechanisms, biosphere becomes autonomous mega-organism.
CRISPR-class gene editing becomes ubiquitous and heritable modifications accumulate faster than natural selection. Estimated: 2030-2050.
Service of Shub-Niggurath through Flesh-aligned cards like Lake of Young Blood accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Body vs Aether Axis
Essence vs embodiment. Discrete organisms vs flowing transmutation. Life differentiates into distinct forms (Flesh); chemistry homogenizes into unity (Chem). The ancient alchemy-vs-biology feud.
Lake of Young Blood occupies the Flesh side of this axis. Decks containing Lake of Young Blood cannot contain Chem cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Chaos.
Card Tribals
Lake of Young Blood carries class Place, race Lycan, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Flesh deck running multiple Place units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Bio-Esotericism
Bio-Esotericism: Gnostic biology, esoteric evolution, Schopenhauer + CRISPR. Genes as mystical texts, the body as sacrament, disease as revelation.
Lake of Young Blood is a concrete instance of Bio-Esotericism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Lake of Young Blood to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
LCG is the landlord. The organisations are the tenants fighting about what the building is for. LCG collects rent.
Lake of Young Blood remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.
Interactive Card
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Summon
The archive is permanent, the rotation is zero, the faction is Flesh. Browse the full Grimoire.