Blood for the God of Blood
Blood for the God of Blood occupies a specific position on the Oktagram — Flesh, Body axis, opposed to Chem. Its role in any deck is governed by that placement before it is governed by its rules text.
Card Text
What the rulebook sees when Blood for the God of Blood resolves:
The modifier is what the engine executes. The page around it is what humans argue about. Both are canon.
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.
Jungle neurology, Lemurian mutation, somatic evolution sorcery. Blood for the God of Blood is a move in that discipline.
Cost Tier
Early-round Flesh cards like Blood for the God of Blood establish the Numogram trajectory before opponents commit.
Goetic Binding: Botis
The digit-sum of cost 3 is 3, binding Botis — one of the 9 Flesh Goetia. Office: Reconciliation and knowledge of past/future. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 3: Viral / Chaotic
Spreading corruption and contagion. Where patterns replicate uncontrollably. The zone of exponential growth, memes, viruses, and cascade failures. Information wants to be free — Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.
Zone 3 is viral. Blood for the God of Blood spreads — memes, contagions, cascade failures. Information wants to be free and Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.
Playing Blood for the God of Blood at cost 3 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 3. If the Flesh-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 3, the player gains 3 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 Blood for the God of 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.
Blood for the God of Blood occupies the Flesh side of this axis. Decks containing Blood for the God of Blood cannot contain Chem cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Chaos.
Card Tribals
Blood for the God of Blood carries class Sorcery, race Dryad, zodiac Aquarius. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Flesh deck running multiple Sorcery 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.
Blood for the God of 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 Blood for the God of Blood to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
The satire and the sincerity are the same object. A BVT product listing and a Reception Report can describe the same event. They should not sound alike, but they describe the same event.
Blood for the God of Blood remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.
Interactive Card
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Summon
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