Infinite Dvorak deck

The Infinite Dvorak Deck
Designer	Everyone
Date	March 2007 and onwards
Players	2+
This is an unfinished deck. It is incomplete, and is not 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.
• Don't change other people's cards. If something's ambiguous or broken, raise it on the talk page.
• 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. "Grenade destroys a soldier" is a meaningless card if you draw it in a game where no soldier cards get drawn - if it's worded more generically as "destroy a living Thing", there's much less chance of it being an unplayable card stuck in someone's hand.
• No special rules. This deck has no special rules; it's all on the cards.
• 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 may or may not have individual types (such as "energy" or "goblin"), and they count as Things. If they have a type, that's considered to be their name; otherwise their 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's 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.

Card List

The First Card

Thing

All other Things are considered to have blank titles and card texts, while this card is in play.

Card by Kevan

Katamari

Thing

Action: Of the Things other than Katamari, choose the physically smallest and put it face-down under Katamari. (You cannot choose abstract concepts.) When Katamari leaves play, all cards under it go to the discard pile.

Card by Kevan

1U

Time Walk

Action

Take an extra turn after this one.

Card by Kevan

Can't Make Change

Action

Each player simultaneously chooses a card at random from the hand of the player on their left, and puts that card in the hand of the player on their right.

Card by jtwe

Playing With a Full Deck

Thing

If you control a Heart, a Diamond, a Spade, and a Club, you win the game.

Card by jtwe

I Am One With The Universe

Action

Until the end of your turn, cards in any player's hand are considered to be in your hand, and all Things in play are under your control.

Card by Zaratustra

2R

Artificial Heart

Thing

Destroy one Energy-related Thing or ten Energy-related Tokens you control to create one Thing called Blood under your control.

Card by Zaratustra

0G

Robofrog

Thing

Action: Destroy an Insect in play.

Card by Zaratustra

Card Mine

Thing

Counts as a Machine. Action:Draw a card

Card by Bucky

Cutting Corners

Thing

While this card is in play, treat all cards as if they had no cornervalue. If any Player plays a card with the string "dust" in its title, destroy this card.

Card by Bucky

The Useless Card

Action

Draw a card. You may take one extra Action this turn.

Card by Bucky

X-Buster

Thing

Action: Target player must give you an Action card from his hand. If he has no Action cards, he discards his hand instead.

Card by Kazz

Throne

Thing

Players must ask your permission when playing Actions. If you say no to an Action, it has no effect.

Card by Kazz

Customs Board

Thing

Each time any player draws a card, he must show it to you.

Card by Kazz

Core Ruleset Loophole

Action

You win unless all other players agree to negate this effect within 10 seconds.

Card by Bucky

Leverage Scam

Action

You win unless any player discards eir hand within 10 seconds.

Card by Bucky

Pet

Thing

This Thing counts as a Player, complete with its own turn and hand. It is under the control of whoever played it. It can be placed between any two players in the turn order.

Card by Kazz

Shaft of Red Light

Thing

Play onto an opponent. Shaft of Red Light can be blocked by any Canopy. If it isn't then Your Way Is Blocked.

Antimatter

Thing

If there is another Thing in play, immediately destroy Antimatter and any other Thing of your choice. When this occurs, gain 10 Energy Tokens.

Card by Bucky

Ninja Steal

Action

Steal as many Things in play as you can in one second. If online, steal two Things instead.

Card by Kazz

1G

Generic Elves

Thing

Action:Gain a Green Energy Token, and rotate this card 90 degrees.

Card by Bucky

Cameo

Action

Make a copy of a card from an existing Dvorak deck and shuffle it into the draw pile.

Card by Tyrethali

Waiting Room

Thing

Nobody may win or lose while this card is in play.

Card by Kevan

Vacuum Pump

Action

Starting with you and going clockwise, each player chooses a Thing in play and puts it into their hand.

Card by Kevan

Token Eater

Thing

At any time during your turn you may destroy any Token you control and put a Food counter on Token Eater. If this causes Token Eater to have more than 100 Food Counters on it, destroy it. Action:Remove all tokens from this card. For every 5 tokens removed in this way, draw a card, or discard a card and play an extra Thing this turn, or discard a card and play an extra Action this turn.

Card by Bucky

Shovel

Thing

This card counts as a spade. Action: Place one card from your hand in the middle of the deck in order to draw the bottom card off the deck.

Card by The T

1Z

Magnitude Error

Thing

All numbers described in digit form on all cards are multiplied by ten.

Card by Zaratustra

@#

Bad Machine

Action

Gain control of all Machines and Robots in play.

Card by Zaratustra

4B

Asteroids

Action

Draw a imaginary line from each Thing you control, perpendicular to the top of the card and aiming outwards from it. Destroy the first Thing this line touches. If the line first reaches a Player instead, that player discards a card. If online, draw three cards instead.

Card by Zaratustra

Voodoo Zombie Corpse

Thing

Draw a card when you play Voodoo Zombie Corpse. If you have less than two cards in your hand at any time, destroy Voodoo Zombie Corpse.

Card by Tyrethali (Exquisite Corpse)

My New Filing Technique Is Unstoppable

Thing

Action: Move the alphabetically-earliest Thing (other than this) to the bottom of the draw pile.

Card by Kevan

tldr

Action

Destroy a Thing with more than two sentences on it, or play in response to an Action that has more than two sentences on it to negate its effects.

Card by Kevan

Bucket of Whitewash

Thing

Whenever a Thing comes into play, destroy both it and this card.

Card by Kevan

Hash Sorting

Thing

Whenever you play a card with a corner value, you may search the deck for another card with a corner value that shares a digit or letter with the first card, and put it in play.

Card by Zaratustra

3F

Trefoil

Action

Draw 3 cards.

Card by Zaratustra

2W

Win-Win Situation

Thing

If another player wins the game, win the game.

Card by Zaratustra

Hoard

Thing

None of your Things, except this one, can be destroyed. If you ever control ten Things, and nobody else controls more Things than you, you win.

Card by Kazz

Bomb

Action

If another player's Action forces you to discard this card, all other players discard their hands. Destroy a Thing.

Card by Kazz

Omni-

Thing

Attach to a Thing. That Thing counts as belonging in every category and being every type of object. If that Thing is destroyed, so is this card.

Card by Kazz

Subroutine

Action

Suspend your turn. A player of your choice takes a turn. Then, your turn resumes where it left off.

Card by Bucky

Werehouse

Thing

Initially counts as a Person. If this card is a Building, your maximum hand size is increased by 2. If this card is a Person, you may play an extra Action every third turn. Action: If this card is a Person, it ceases being a Person and becomes a Building. If this card is a Building, it ceases being a Building and becomes a Person.

Card by Bucky

Death

Action

Destroy a living Thing.

Card by Bucky

The ergonomics of the situation

Thing

Whenever a Player plays an Action, they must draw a card and reveal their hand to all players.

Card by Depressi

Demolition Squid

Thing

Action: discard your hand and destroy a Building.

Card by Depressi

Harmony of the cosmos

Action

Draw as many cards as you control Things. Draw an extra card for any Thing whose title starts with "I" "The" or "My".

Card by Depressi

Rag and Bone Cart

Thing

Whenever you draw a card, draw it from the top of the discard pile. (If there are no cards in the discard pile, destroy this card.)

Card by Kevan

Hard Reboot

Action

Shuffle your hand into the draw pile, and draw five cards.

Card by Kevan

Trebuchet

Thing

Action: Destroy a Thing you control, to force a player to discard a card at random.

Card by Kevan

Gotcha

Action

Play in response to someone winning the game. Nobody besides you can win this turn. Anyone else who would win instead loses a Thing of your choice or discards a card at random from eir hand.

Card by Bucky

Pocket Universe

Thing

When you play this, choose another Player and another Dvorak deck. You and that player play a game using that deck; Whenever either of you takes a turn in this game, take a turn in the parallel game. When one of you wins the other game, the winner plays all eir Things from that game into this one, and this Thing is destroyed. (This Thing may not be destroyed by any other means)

Card by Bucky

3x

Action splitter

Action

You may take three extra Actions this turn.

Card by Bucky

It's A Kind Of Magic

Thing

When this comes into play, every player gets 20 Life tokens; when it leaves play, all Life tokens are destroyed. If a player runs out of Life tokens while this card is in play, they are eliminated. Any player who controls a Thing may, as an Action, choose an opponent - that opponent must either lose 3 Life tokens or destroy a Thing they control.

Card by Kevan

Kill, Smash, Smash

Thing

Play only if each player has at least three Things in play. If a player has no Things in play at the end of their turn (not counting this card), they are eliminated from the game.

Card by Kevan

Hungry, Hungry Hippo

Thing

When this card comes into play, put three Marble tokens into play. Action: Remove a token from the game.

Card by Kevan

2V

Photocopy Machine

Thing

Action:Spend 2 Energy-related tokens. Make a copy of a Thing you control and put it into play.

Card by Bucky

3B

Chinese Factory

Thing

Counts as a Machine.
Action:Spend 3 Energy-related tokens. Make a copy of a Thing another player controls and put it into your hand.

Card by Bucky

5k

Buried Gold

Action

Gain 5 Gold Tokens. If you discard a yellow card from your hand when you play this, gain 15 Gold Tokens instead.

Card by Bucky

Top Trumps

Thing

Action: Every player chooses and reveals a card from their hand, if they have one. Of the cards that have numbers on them, the highest number wins - all the other revealed cards are discarded. (If it's a tie, nothing happens.)

Card by Kevan

1W

Hope Diamond

Thing

Hope Diamond can't be destroyed by cards who employ blunt damage as their flavor.

Card by Zaratustra

2C

Special Guest Star

Action

Make a copy of a card from an existing non-Dvorak deck and shuffle it into the draw pile. Rephrase as needed.

Card by Zaratustra

1S

Mortar and Pestle

Thing

Destroy a Thing you control with digit-and-letter corner values: Put in play a number of Tokens equal to the digit, with a name that starts with the letter.

Card by Zaratustra

Torn Dictionary

Thing

Choose seven consecutive letters of the alphabet, when you play this. Cards that start with any of those letters are discarded with no effect, when played.

Card by Kevan

Caiger Mall

Thing

If another player controls more Things than you do, destroy this card. Action: Draw three cards and discard two of them.

Card by Kevan

10Q

Politeness

Thing

You may ask an opponent for permission before playing a card. If he or she refuses permission, that card is discarded, its effects are negated, and you draw three cards.

Card by jtwe

Impending Amnesia

Action

Shuffle three blank cards from outside the game into the deck.

Card by jtwe

Dvorak In-joke

Thing

Every turn put a Cheap Plastic Trophy Token into play. It counts as a token.

Card by Bucky

Tokenize

Action

Destroy a Thing. For every word in that Thing's name, its former controller gains a token with that word as its name and type.

Card by Bucky

x3C

Hex

Thing

Play onto a Thing. Interpret all numeral-form numbers in that Thing's text as if they were in hexadecimal.

Card by Bucky

That Other Card Game

Thing

Cards with number/letter corner values can't be played unless you destroy a number of tokens equal to the card number, with the same initial as the letter.

Card by Zaratustra

3B

Vampire

Thing

Destroy one blood-containing Thing or five Blood Tokens you control to destroy target Thing.

Card by Zaratustra

∞T

Endless Wealth

Thing

If you control this card and a countably infinite number of tokens, you win.

Card by Bucky

5A

Hyperactive minion

Thing

Gain an Energy token each turn. If you ever take a turn in which you do not use your Action, destroy Hyperactive Minion. Action: gain two Energy tokens.

Card by Depressi

Numbers are reality

Action

Choose any Thing in play that has a number in its corner which is less than 11. Draw that number of cards.

Card by Depressi

Alchemy

Action

Turn all Tokens in play into Gold tokens, unless someone chooses to discard their hand in order to keep their (and no-one else's) tokens unaltered.

Card by Depressi

Branch Statement

Action

Reveal the top card of the deck. If it is an Action, discard it and play the card below it on the deck. If it is a Thing, cut the deck and draw a card.

Card by Bucky

Interest

Thing

For every 10 tokens of each type that you have in play at the beginning of each of your turns, gain an additional token of that type.

Card by Bucky

Button Mashing

Action

Draw 3 cards and play them in order.

Card by Bucky

I Hate This Card

Action

Grab a card from someone's hand, or any Thing in play, and tear it into pieces. It is permanently removed from the game.

Card by Kazz

I Win

Action

Discard your hand and all of your Things in play. You win.

If all other players discard their hands and destroy all of their Things in play, you don't win.

Card by Kazz

Flush

Thing

If a player discards a hand featuring five Actions or five Things, he wins.

Card by Kazz

Censorship

Thing

Pick a creator besides Bucky. Cards with that creator cannot be played.

Card by Bucky

Stop Time

Action

Until the end of your next turn, all Actions have no immediate effect, players do not draw cards, and things played go into a Pile outside of the play area. At the end of your next turn, all Actions performed in the meantime take effect simultaneously, then all the Things in the Pile enter play.

Card by Bucky

The Obliteration of All Other Life Forms

Thing

Put a counter on this Goal whenever you are responsible for destroying a living non-Token Thing belonging to an Opponent. You win if you collect ten of these counters.

Token Ring

Thing

Action: Gain a Packet token. Action: Swap the controllers of two tokens in play.

Card by jtwe

Housewarming Gift

Action

Return a non-token Thing in play to your hand.

Card by jtwe

Pocket Mulching

Action

Choose a card in your hand or the discard pile and a word on that card. Remove the card from the game, and gain a token whose name is the chosen word.

Card by jtwe

Red Herring

derp

Cannot be played. Cannot be discarded.

Card by Zaratustra

The Last Card

Thing

If playing with this card, put it on the bottom of the deck at the start of the game. All Actions are considered to have blank titles and card texts.

Card by Zaratustra

9A

Assembly Line

Thing

Action: Destroy any number of Tokens you own. Create a copy of a pre-existing Dvorak card with a name that could be formed by the names of the Tokens and put it in play.

Card by Zaratustra

Printing Error

4C

Thing

Play on another Thing. Swap that Thing's title with its cornervalue

Card by Bucky

Entropy

Thing

Players cannot draw cards while this is in play. If no players have any cards in their hands, destroy this card.

Card by Bucky

Speling erorr

Action

Change one letter in the text of a card. The new version must make sense. This change affects all copies of that card and lasts until the end of the game.

Card by Bucky

8B

Zeeky H. Bomb

Thing

This card may be physically placed anywhere you wish when played. If this card is moved or covered by a player after it has been played, anyone may say 'Zeeky Boogy Doog!' If they do so, all Things controlled by the disturber are destroyed, as well as this card.

Card by Zaratustra

5F

Matter Synthesizer

Thing

Thing:Put a Token with a name of your choice into play.

Card by Bucky

1i

Leela

Thing

You know, that cyclops girl from Futurama. Action: all Opponents discard a card at random.

Card by Depressi

De-antidisestablismentarianism

Thing

When you play this Thing, draw cards until you are the player with the most cards in their hand. No cards which are in any way linked to royalty have any effect while this card is in play.

Card by Depressi

Vwls r ovrrtd

Action

Destroy all Things in play that have a vowel either at the start of their card name or in their corner.

Card by Depressi

Wrath of Bucky

Action

Destroy a Thing. Nothing can prevent this card from being played, or its target from being destroyed; this overrules all other cards.

Card by Kevan

Fog Bank

Thing

Actions may not target Things. At the end of each of your turns, discard a card or destroy Fog Bank.

Card by Kevan

Monkey Butler

Thing

At the end of each of your turns, draw a card and play it. If it requires any decisions to be made, make them randomly.

Card by Kevan

+NaN

Anti-Numeration

Thing

Corner-values are ignored while this card is in play.

Card by Xenomorph

Corrupted Throne

Thing

Players must ask your permission when playing Actions. You may discard two cards and say no to an Action. If you do so, it has no effect.

Card by Bucky

Pass the Trash

Action

Each player draws 2 cards, and then passes 2 cards to the player on their right.

Card by Bucky

Get Out of Jail Free

Action

If you are eliminated from the game with this card in your hand, you may play it at a later time to return to the game.

Card by Bucky

Richard Dawkins

Thing

Action: Destroy a Thing that describes a fictional or religious entity or phenomenon.

Card by Kevan

Advance to Go

Action

Collect 2 Money Tokens.

Card by Bucky

Creative Accounting

Action

Trade up to 10 of your Tokens for the same number of Tokens belonging to another Player.

Card by Bucky

Quick Fingers

Action

Move one card per remaining player from the top of the discard pile to the top of the deck. You choose their order.

Card by Bucky

2M

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

Thing

Hand size is 3.

Card by Zaratustra

1S

Club Sandwich

Thing

When you play this, place any number of cards under it. When this is destroyed, all those cards are played.

Card by Zaratustra

3M

Atomic Glue

Action

Two cards in play are glued together by an edge. If one is destroyed, the other is as well.

Card by Zaratustra

Get Out of Jail Free

Action

If you are eliminated from the game with this card in your hand, you may play it at a later time to return to the game.

Card by Bucky

Reverse

Action

Reverse the turn order. Your turn ends and play starts with the player after you in the new turn order

Card by Bucky

D

Draw Two

Action

The next player who would take a turn draws 2 cards instead.

Card by Bucky

WP:OR

Wikipedia Says It's True

Action

Choose a card in play, and replace any one word on it with any other word. It reverts at the end of your turn. Nobody can win or lose the game this turn.

Card by Kevan

Cult of Dvorak

Action

Pick a player; unless they can persuade a new player to join the game within the next three minutes, they must discard their hand. (When the new player joins, they draw five cards; you choose where they sit.)

Card by Kevan

House of Cards

Action

Make a house of cards out of your Things. The last Thing you place on the house before it collapses should be destroyed. If your card house doesn't collapse, destroy the final Thing you placed.

Card by Darren

Photocopier

Thing

This Thing will behave as a duplicate of any one Thing in your possession. You must announce which Thing this card is duplicating, and that property may not change until this Thing passes out of play.

Card by Darren

Colour Change

Action

You may convert any one Action in your hand into a Thing, whose effect will occur every turn once it is played.

Card by Darren

1V

Flash Memory Card

Thing

Thing:Play a card onto this card from your hand. Do this only if the cards played on this card contain fewer than 256 words.
Action:Return a card from Flash Memory Card to your hand and immediately play it.

Card by Bucky

7E

Cram Session

Thing

Any Player who plays 10 different cards in the same turn wins the game.

Card by Bucky

Rogue Armorer

Thing

Whenever you are forced to discard a card from your hand by an opponent's Action, you may destroy an Armor Token you control instead. Action:Gain an Armor Token.

Card by Bucky

8O

Sledgehammer ice-cream

Thing

This card employs blunt damage as its flavour. Action: destroy an inanimate Thing that it would be physically possible to hit with a sledgehammer in real life.

Card by Depressi

6G

Hot Potato

Action

When you play this card, play a song as well. When the song ends, the player whose turn to play currently is discards their hand.

Card by Zaratustra

3U

Amoeba

Thing

At the end of your turn, cut this card in half. Both halves are considered copies of the original.

Card by Zaratustra

2R

Token Gun

Thing

Action: Spend five burnable Tokens. Destroy target Thing.

Card by Zaratustra

13Ω

Nuke

Action

For every Thing in play, flip a coin; if Heads, destroy that thing. Each player flips a number of coins equal to the number of cards in their hand and randomly discards one card for each Tails.

Card by Bucky

Power Plant

Thing

Gain an Energy token at the start of each of your turns.

Card by Bucky

0O

Whine

Action

Each player gives you a card from eir hand.

Card by Bucky

Selfless Heroism

Thing

Put a counter on this whenever you prevent the destruction of a Thing you don't control. If this has fifteen counters on it, you win the game.

Card by KillSmiley

The Dreaded Legal Department

Action

Destroy any Thing or counter any Action which makes reference to a copyrighted work of fiction.

Card by KillSmiley

Free-For-All

Action

For the next fifteen seconds, all players may play any number of Thing and Action cards. When a player has no cards in hand, that player may draw a card.

Card by KillSmiley

Token Reduction Treaty

Action

All players besides you choose and destroy 6 tokens they control. You choose and destroy 2 tokens you control.

Card by Bucky

Jamming Device

Thing

Action cards may not be played. Action effects of Things may still be used.

Card by Bucky

Brazen Buckyism

Action

Pick a Thing. Draw a card and take another Action; For the purposes of that Action, the chosen Thing's text is blank.

Card by Bucky

ZR

In-jokes suck

Thing

All cards with the word "Dvorak" or "Bucky" as part of their title have no effect.

Card by Depressi

9V

The old guard

Action

Eliminate a player or player subsitute that wasn't there at the start of the game.

Card by Depressi

MI6

James Bond

Thing

When James is destroyed, he is sent to your hand instead of the discard pile. Action: Look at another Player's hand, and show them a chosen card from your hand.

Card by Depressi

5Q

Genetically Enhanced Robots

Thing

This card may not be destroyed twice by an opponent in the same manner.

Card by Bucky

Demonic Editor

Thing

Action: Destroy a Thing with six or more lines of text in its text box.

Card by KillSmiley

Last Will and Testament

Thing

If you lose or must leave the game, you may give all your Things in play (other than this) and cards in hand to the player or players of your choice.

Card by KillSmiley

10E

Stack of Energy Tokens

Thing

This card counts as 10 Energy Tokens. The tokens must be handled as a group and may not be individually targeted or destroyed.

Card by Bucky