Goblin of the Soil

Eigendark Grimoire · Flesh faction · Summon · Cost 2

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

Keywords

Replicator

Card Text

What the rulebook sees when Goblin of the Soil resolves:

Readers who have played Goblin of the Soil 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.

Flesh / Bio / Body (right) Soma, Carnal, Erotic, Biology, Gene, Blood, Mutation, Breed, Survival, Gross, Cthonic. The science of life as process. Genetics, evolution, disease, fertility, hunger, somatic experience. Shub-Niggurath's domain. Jungle neurology, Lemurian mutation, somatic evolution sorcery.

Flesh hackers manipulate evolution and blur the line between living and dead. Goblin of the Soil operates on the blurred line.

Cost Tier

Low-cost cards are cheap to cycle but cheap to remove. Goblin of the Soil earns value through repetition.

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. Goblin of the Soil participates in the first division — law versus chaos, the Oktagram's foundational split.

Playing Goblin of the Soil 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 Goblin of the Soil 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.

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

Card Tribals

Goblin of the Soil carries race Goblin. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Flesh deck running multiple shared-tribal units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Bio-Esotericism

Goblin of the Soil 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 Goblin of the Soil to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

Genre label: occult SaaS. The occult, run at production scale, with uptime guarantees.

Goblin of the Soil remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.

Interactive Card

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Summon

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