Infinite Dvorak deck

The Infinite Dvorak Deck
Designer	Everyone
Date	March 2007 and onwards
Players	2+
Although this is an unfinished deck, it is still playable.
To play Dvorak: Draw five cards each and leave the rest as a draw pile. On your turn, draw a card from the draw pile and play one Thing and/or one Action. (See the full rules.)
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This deck is under construction. Anyone is welcome to contribute - check the talk page to find out more.

The Infinite Dvorak Deck is an ever-expanding card game, which anyone can add cards to. There's no coherent theme, and cards can be original, inspired by anything, copied from other Dvorak decks, or even dragged in verbatim from other card games.

The only rules to adding cards are:-

Don't add more than three cards at a time; give someone else a chance to add some, before you add any more. And make sure you put your cards at the bottom of the page.
Don't change other people's cards. If something seems ambiguous or broken, tell them on the talk page. (There's an option to filter specified users' cards out when you export the deck to play with, so don't worry too much if someone's cards are irredeemably unplayable.)
Cards shouldn't refer to other cards. Remember that the deck is infinite! Cards should avoid making any specific references to other cards or mechanics, because they might never see those specific cards during play, particularly if you think of the deck as infinite. You should word your mechanics as generically as possible - a fishing rod card that said "gain control of a fish" would be useless in a game where no fish cards came up, whereas one that said "gain control of a living Thing" would probably see some use in any game that it got drawn in.

(A good test is to open a random archive page of the Infinite Dvorak Deck, and see how many of its cards your new card could apply to. If there are only one or two cards that you could play it on, then you should probably word it more generically.)

No special rules. This deck has no Special Rules aside from the two described below; it's all on the cards. Cards should not create Special Rules (or any equivalent "invisible" effect that significantly outlives the lifetime of the card); players should only have to read the cards on the table to know what's going on.
Values in the corners of cards are meaningless, unless there's another card in play that somehow gives them meaning.

Whenever anyone's feeling insane enough to play a game of it, they can export it to the Dvorak Engine, or possibly Apprentice (if it's possible to make decks that contain every card of a set).

Special Rules

The only rules that this deck uses in addition to the basic Dvorak rules are:-

Tokens exist. Some cards can create or destroy or manipulate "tokens", which you should represent with whatever coins or counters you have to hand. Tokens count as Things, but if a token is destroyed or otherwise removed from play, it's removed from the game entirely. Tokens usually have individual types (such as "Energy" or "Goblin"); if a token has a type, that's also considered to be its name, otherwise its name is just "Token".
If there's an ambiguity, vote on it. For example: if a card says to destroy a "living" Thing, and a player is wondering if it'll work against a "zombie" card, the players should take a vote to determine whether or not the zombie counts as living. If a majority decision can't be reached, resolve it randomly.

Selected Sets

If you'd prefer a more compact subset of the deck, you may appreciate one of the following:

Superpower set, Token set, Flavor set, Pokédex, Adiart Inhabitants.

Expansions

These expansions add cards and/or rules to games using the Infinite Dvorak deck or its subsets:

Dvanguard set, Dvanguard booster pack, Shroud booster pack, Illusion booster pack, Up Your Sleeve booster pack, Swords booster pack, Vintage booster pack, ChippyYYZ booster pack, Ponies booster pack, Heavy Actions booster pack, Gems booster pack, Flame booster pack, Cosmic booster pack, Homestuck booster pack, Rotation booster pack, Moons booster pack, Novels booster pack, Variables booster pack, Constructed booster pack

Card List

The earlier cards of this deck have been archived: 1-100, 101-200, 201-300, 301-400, 401-500, 501-600, 601-700, 701-800, 801-900, 901-1000, 1001-1100, 1101-1200, 1201-1300, 1301-1400, 1401-1500, 1501-1600, 1601-1700, 1701-1800, 1801-1900, 1901-2000, 2001-2100, 2101-2200, 2201-2300, 2301-2400, 2401-2500, 2501-2600, 2601-2700, 2701-2800, 2801-2900, 2901-3000, 3001-3100, 3101-3200, 3201-3300, 3301-3400, 3401-3500, 3501-3600, 3601-3700, 3701-3800, 3801-3900, 3901-4000, 4001-4100, 4101-4200, 4201-4300, 4301-4400, 4401-4500, 4501-4600, 4601-4700, 4701-4800, 4801-4900, 4901-5000, 5001-5100, 5101-5200, 5201-5300, 5301-5400, 5401-5500, 5501-5600, 5601-5700, 5701-5800, 5801-5900, 5901-6000, 6001-6100, 6101-6200, 6201-6300, 6301-6400, 6401-6500, 6501-6600, 6601-6700, 6701-6800, 6801-6900, 6901-7000, 7001-7100, 7101-7200, 7201-7300, 7301-7400, 7401-7500, 7501-7600, 7601-7700, 7701-7800, 7801-7900, 7901-8000, 8001-8100, 8101-8200, 8201-8300, 8301-8400, 8401-8500, 8501-8600, 8601-8700, 8701-8800, 8801-8900, 8901-9000.

8M

Movement

Thing

Whenever you play an Action, you may return target Thing you control to your hand.

Card by ChippyYYZ

7

Countess

Action - Royal

You must play this card immediately if you also hold the King or a Prince.

Adapted from Love Letter

Card by Binarius

8

Princess

Action - Royal

You win if you control the Love Letter. Otherwise, you are eliminated.

Adapted from Love Letter

Card by Binarius

Love Letter

Thing

When this enters play for the first time, shuffle 5 copies of Guard; 2 copies of Priest, Baron, Handmaid, and Prince; and 1 copy of King, Countess, and Princess (#8990-9003) together with this and put them on top of the draw pile. Each opponent draws a card. Draw two cards and play one of them.

Card by Binarius

7M

Take Notes

Action

Draw a card, discard a card, and gain up to three tokens that have the same names as different Things in the discard pile.

Card by Bucky

8M

Ancient Codex

Thing - Book

This Thing's text has the text of the bottom three Things of the discard pile appended to it, with self-references changed to refer to the Ancient Codex and references to specific types of Things changed to refer to Books instead.

Card by Bucky

0M

Chamber Maid

Action - Attendant

Borrow target non-person Thing from another player or the discard pile for the rest of the turn. You may take an extra Action this turn.

Don't mind me, I'm just tidying up.

Card by Bucky

8P

Populate

Action

Reveal cards from the top of the deck until one Thing has been revealed for each player. Each player, starting with you, puts one of those Things into play under their control.

Card by ChippyYYZ

1R

ReGenerator

Thing

Once during your turn, you may spend an Energy token to put the top card of the discard pile on top of the deck.
At the end of your turn, gain an Energy token if a card entered the discard pile this turn.

Card by ChippyYYZ

8N

Nova Seed

Thing

At the beginning of your turn, rotate this card 90˚ clockwise.
When this card completes a clockwise rotation, put it in the discard pile, gain 4 Energy tokens, and draw two cards.

Card by ChippyYYZ

It's Over 9000!

Action

Draw 9 cards, then discard 9 cards. If you drew any cards indexed after 9000 in the Infinite Dvorak Deck archive, you may play one of them and discard one fewer.

Card by Binarius

Server

Thing

Action: Gain control of target food or electronic Thing.

Card by Binarius

Reanimated Abomination

Thing

When this enters play, replace this sentence with the ruletexts of the top two animate Things in the discard pile, with self-references changed to refer to Reanimated Abomination. This destroys itself at the end of your first full turn in control of it.

Card by Binarius

0N

No Poaching

Thing

Whenever an opponent destroys one or more other Things you control, draw a card.

Card by ChippyYYZ

2C

Combat Lesson

Action

Target opponent chooses target Thing of their choice that you don't control. That opponent gains control of this Action. Destroy that Thing and draw a card.

Card by ChippyYYZ

6A

Alchemical Treaty

Action

Draw three cards and gain a Token of any type. Each opponent draws a card and gains three Tokens of the type of their choice.

Card by ChippyYYZ

1N

Sneaky Impersonator

Reaction Thing

Play in resposne to an opponent playing a Thing. The contents of that Thing's text fields are prepended to this Thing's corresponding text fields until this leaves play.

Name, cornervalue and flavor text included!

Card by Bucky

2N

Generous Impersonator

Reaction Thing

Play into an opponent's control in resposne to them playing a Thing, and draw cards until your hand is full. This acts as an extra copy of that Thing until this leaves play.

Card by Bucky

3N

Echo Boost

Reaction

Play in response to another player's Action card. They take that Action again. You draw cards until your hand is full.

Card by Bucky

Gift Card

Thing

When you would be required to spend a number of Money tokens up to 5, you may destroy Gift Card instead. Action: Replace Gift Card with a copy of target Thing.

Don't spend it all in one place!

Card by Binarius

Fleeting Afterglow

Thing

At the end of any turn in which you play two or more cards, reveal and discard the top card of the draw pile. If it is a Thing, you may put it into your control: if you do, it goes to the discard pile at the beginning of your next turn.

Card by Binarius

Unsavory

Thing

All flavortext is considered blank.

Card by Binarius

2N

Newton's Third Law of Dudes

Thing

Whenever a non-copy living Thing enters play, create a copy of that Thing under the control of a different player of your choice. If either leaves play, destroy the other.

For each Dude, there is an Equal and Opposite Dude." - Sir Isaac Newton

Card by ChippyYYZ

0I

It's A New Day

Action

Each player draws until they have 5 cards in hand.

Card by ChippyYYZ

1E

Extrapolate

Action

Draw a card for each non-token Thing you control. Gain a token of each type you already have.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Interpolate

Action

Play any number of Things whose titles are between distinct alphabetically adjacent pairs of your Things.

Card by Binarius

Alphabetize the Spice Rack

Action

Arrange your Things in alphabetical order. Rotate any that are not upright through the smallest angle that will cause them to be upright. Return this card to your hand.

Card by Binarius

Strange Tidings

Action

Reveal the top three cards of the draw pile, then shuffle the top ten cards of the draw pile. View the top three cards of the draw pile. If any of them is a Thing you previously revealed, you may put it into play.

Card by Binarius

5C

Clickbait Attack

Action

Each opponent must play the first card they draw on their next turn if able.

Card by ChippyYYZ

0Q

Quarantine

Thing

Once during your turn, you may put any number of other Things you control under Quarantine face-up, and put any number of cards from your hand under Quarantine face-down. When Quarantine leaves play, put all face-up cards under it into play and all face-down cards under it into your hand.
Thing: Destroy Quarantine.

Card by ChippyYYZ

9M

Mismantle

Action

Remove all but one sentence from target Thing.

It's been taken apart! ...well, mostly.

Card by ChippyYYZ

4N

Impersonate

Reaction

Play in response to another player's Action card. That player draws a card. You take the Action instead, and may choose new targets for it.

Card by Bucky

5N

Afterburner

Thing

When you take an Action, you may discard a card to take another Action immediately afterwards. You cannot do so recursively.

That's how you set fire on fire.

Card by Bucky

6N

Take Notes

Action

Each opponent discards a card at random. Put them on top of the deck in a random order, then draw a card.

Card by Bucky

Gaslight

Action

It's target opponent's turn, and they just played an Action to let each of their opponents draw a card.

Card by Binarius

The Deep Moans Round With Many Voices

Action

Shuffle any number of living Things from the discard pile and place them on top of the draw pile.

Card by Binarius

Slightly Magical Gloves

Thing

When you play an Action card, attach it to this instead of discarding it. If this has at least 4 attached Actions at the end of your turn, choose one at random: you may play it immediately and move all attached Actions to the discard pile.

Card by Binarius

Fountain of Infinite Misfortune

Thing - Fountain

At the beginning of each of your turns, create 1 Anti-Gold token with "If you control at least 1 Gold token, destroy this token and that token."

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