Drone
Every card in Eigendark is a receipt of contact between an agent's intent and something the mathematics cannot forget. Drone is one such receipt, aligned to the Flesh science.
Keywords
Devour
Card Text
What the rulebook sees when Drone resolves:
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.
The eight sciences are the color pie. They answer one question: "what does my deck do?" Dream does psi. Glitch does information. Flesh does biology. They are not political parties. They are not player identities. They are the eight ways reality can be cut open.
Jungle neurology, Lemurian mutation, somatic evolution sorcery. Drone is a move in that discipline.
Cost Tier
Early-round Flesh cards like Drone 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. Drone participates in the first division — law versus chaos, the Oktagram's foundational split.
Playing Drone 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 Drone 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.
Drone occupies the Flesh side of this axis. Decks containing Drone cannot contain Chem cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Chaos.
Card Tribals
Drone carries class Ghoul, race Slime Bug. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Flesh deck running multiple Ghoul 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.
Drone 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 Drone to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
The horror is not dark. The horror is procedural. A Goetic demon assigned by a Python function that computes the digit-sum of the mana cost.
The reception was logged. The binding was computed. The entry is permanent.
Interactive Card
View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Curtis_Shelton_53
Summon
Take the reCEPTION gate and summon your own card. Every summon adds one permanent entry to the Grimoire.