Tree of Un-Life

Eigendark Grimoire · Flesh faction · Tree · Summon · Cost 7

Tree of Un-Life 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.

Keywords

Undead

Card Text

Tree of Un-Life has no modifier text. It enters play as itself — the binding does the work without further clauses. Vanilla cards are not under-designed; they are pure Goetia expression.

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.

Shub-Niggurath's domain: life as process. Tree of Un-Life is one of the processes.

Cost Tier

High-cost cards like Tree of Un-Life arrive after the Numogram has cycled at least once. The route is already drawn.

Goetic Binding: Murmur

The digit-sum of cost 7 is 7, binding Murmur — one of the 9 Flesh Goetia. Office: Teaching philosophy and making the dead appear. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 7: Intrusive / Alien

Outside forces breaking in. The zone of reception and contact. Where non-human intelligence makes itself known. Zone 7 is the Xenodemon's natural territory — the frequency at which the Outside broadcasts.

Intrusive, alien. Tree of Un-Life at Zone 7 is where non-human intelligence makes itself known inside the match.

Playing Tree of Un-Life at cost 7 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 7. If the Flesh-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 7, the player gains 7 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 Tree of Un-Life 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.

Tree of Un-Life occupies the Flesh side of this axis. Decks containing Tree of Un-Life cannot contain Chem cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Chaos.

Card Tribals

Tree of Un-Life carries class Tree, race Plant. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Flesh deck running multiple Tree units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Bio-Esotericism

Tree of Un-Life 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 Tree of Un-Life to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

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

Matches that feature Tree of Un-Life update its metadata. The archive remembers.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Catalin_Postolache_1

Summon

Take the reCEPTION gate and summon your own card. Every summon adds one permanent entry to the Grimoire.

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