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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 may or may not have individual types (such as "energy" or "goblin"); if a token has a type, it's 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

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.

8W

Landfill Contract

Thing

When this comes into play, shuffle the discard pile into the deck.
Action:Discard a card, then draw a card.
When the discard pile contains at least 20 cards, you win the game.

Card by Bucky

9S

Time Bomb

Thing

Play into another player's control
At the start of each of your turns, decrease all numbers in this card's cornervalue by 1. If its cornervalue is ever '0S', you are eliminated.

Card by Bucky

Wanted Poster

Thing

Whenever a Thing is destroyed, the player whose turn it is may destroy this Thing and draw three cards.

Card by Kevan

Generosity

Thing

At any time, you may give a card in your hand to another player.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Litterbug

Thing

At any time, you may discard a card.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Mana Potion

Action

Gain 5 Energy Tokens.

Card by ChippyYYZ

0W

Corneraiser

Thing

When this comes into play, increase all numbers in its cornervalue by 1 permanently.
If this has a cornervalue of '10W', you win the game.
Action:Return a non-token Thing you control to your hand.

Card by Bucky

NIMBY

Not In My Back Yard

Action

Pass any number of your things to another player.

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 {{card
 |title=Of No Official Title
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+|type=Thing person
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-|text=When you play this pair it with a living thing in play and a gender.<BR>When played as a Male '''Action:''' Destroy target thing. <BR>When played as a female '''Action:''' Take control of thing until the beginning of your next turn. <BR>All other genders '''Action:''' Trigger the action ability of a thing in play.
+|text=When you play this pair it with a living thing in play and a gender. When played as a Male '''Action:''' Destroy target thing (except paired card). When played as a female '''Action:''' Take control of thing until the beginning of your next turn. All other genders '''Action:''' Trigger the action ability of a thing in play.
 |creator=gill_smoke}}

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