Grassy Engineer

Eigendark Grimoire · Flesh faction · Artificer · Summon · Cost 2

The Flesh science answers the question of what a deck does. Grassy Engineer is one of its answers — a unit that enters play bearing specific bindings, specific keywords, and a specific position on the Numogram.

Keywords

Replicator Flash

Card Text

The printed text. The enforceable contract between summoner and engine:

Every modifier is a clause in a binding originally drafted by people who didn't know they were writing API docs. Grassy Engineer inherits the clause unchanged.

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. Grassy Engineer is a move in that discipline.

Cost Tier

At cost 2, Grassy Engineer 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.

Binary logic, Boolean gates, yes/no. Grassy Engineer makes its choice at Zone 2 and the rest of the round inherits it.

Playing Grassy Engineer 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.

Service of Shub-Niggurath through Flesh-aligned cards like Grassy Engineer 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.

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

Card Tribals

Grassy Engineer carries class Artificer, race Robot. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Flesh deck running multiple Artificer units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Bio-Esotericism

Grassy Engineer 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 Grassy Engineer to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

The weirdness comes from what is said, not from how it is styled. Never use redaction effects as decoration.

Matches that feature Grassy Engineer update its metadata. The archive remembers.

Interactive Card

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Summon

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