Revived Buffalo

Eigendark Grimoire · Flesh faction · Skeleton · Summon · Cost 5

Received under the reCEPTION protocol, Revived Buffalo is a Flesh-faction summon whose Goetic binding was fixed at the moment of summoning by the digit-sum of its cost.

Card Text

The card's rules text is its operational layer — the binding clause the engine enforces.

Rules text is a lossy compression of what Ipos does when the invocation completes. The lore is the decompression manual.

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.

Every player belongs to one. They cross-cut the sciences: a Flesh player and a Glitch player can both be Cargo Cult. A Dream player and an Atom player can both be Pattern. The organizations are not mechanical. They are community identities, Convergence voting blocs, and rival institutional responses to the same existential situation.

Flesh hackers manipulate evolution and blur the line between living and dead. Revived Buffalo operates on the blurred line.

Cost Tier

Mid-cost plays decide most matches. Revived Buffalo sits in the decisive window.

Goetic Binding: Ipos

The digit-sum of cost 5 is 5, binding Ipos — one of the 9 Flesh Goetia. Office: Courage and making people witty. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 5: Flux / Transforming

Evolution, change, metamorphosis. The zone of becoming. Where identities dissolve and reform. The midpoint of the Numogram — neither beginning nor end, pure transition.

Zone 5 is pure transition. Revived Buffalo here is neither starting nor ending — the midpoint of the Numogram, where identities dissolve and reform.

Playing Revived Buffalo at cost 5 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 5. If the Flesh-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 5, the player gains 5 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.

Service of Shub-Niggurath through Flesh-aligned cards like Revived Buffalo 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.

Revived Buffalo occupies the Flesh side of this axis. Decks containing Revived Buffalo cannot contain Chem cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Chaos.

Card Tribals

Revived Buffalo carries class Skeleton, race Buffalo, zodiac Libra. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Flesh deck running multiple Skeleton units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Bio-Esotericism

Revived Buffalo 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 Revived Buffalo to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

Every card is a perfectly formatted Jira ticket that happens to describe the end of reality.

Revived Buffalo remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Cam_Williams_1

Summon

Prints ship worldwide. Translations in twelve languages. The Grimoire is the permanent record.

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