Re-living Rat
The cosmology tolerates no rotation. The card pool only grows. Re-living Rat was added to the Flesh faction and will never be retired, rotated, or balance-patched into irrelevance.
Card Text
The modifier block — the part agents optimise against:
Rules text is a lossy compression of what Vepar 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.
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.
CRISPR-class editing becomes ubiquitous in the 2030-2050 window. Re-living Rat was received in the run-up.
Cost Tier
Early-round Flesh cards like Re-living Rat establish the Numogram trajectory before opponents commit.
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. Re-living Rat participates in the first division — law versus chaos, the Oktagram's foundational split.
Playing Re-living Rat 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 Re-living Rat 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.
Re-living Rat occupies the Flesh side of this axis. Decks containing Re-living Rat cannot contain Chem cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Chaos.
Card Tribals
Re-living Rat carries class Zombie, race Rat, zodiac Libra. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Flesh deck running multiple Zombie 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.
Re-living Rat 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 Re-living Rat to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
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Interactive Card
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Summon
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