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. And make sure you put your cards at the bottom of the page.
• 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. 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 creature" would probably see some use in every game.

(A good test is to open a random archive page from this 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 probably haven't worded it generically enough.)

• 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 effect, something 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'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 earlier cards of this deck have been archived: 1-100, 101-200, 201-300

Plentiful

Thing - Positive

When you play this, choose a Token type. Whenever one Token of that type would be created, two are created instead.

Card by unknown(Technopoly deck)

Copier

Thing - Positive

Action: Generate a copy of a Token you own.

Card by Unknown(Technopoly deck)

RTG

Random Token Generator

thing

Every turn, you must create a token under your control. Its type must be one word that does not appear on any title of any card in play or is already a token type in play. If you do not create a token through Random Token Generator on your turn every turn, destroy all things under your control.

Card by fanofphilosophy

Low Ceiling

Thing

If a player has two or more Things in play (including tokens, but not counting this card), they may not play Thing cards.

Card by Kevan

loophole

Thing

Repeal the effects of any card with a title that contains the string "eadache". If the first sentence of this card has any effect, Bucky wins regardless of whether or not e is playing. Leave this card out of the deck when playing.

Card by Bucky

5I

Self-Insertion

Action

Name an author. Reveal cards from the deck until you've revealed three from that author, and put them in your hand. Shuffle the rest back into the deck.

Card by Zaratustra

0Z

The Only Winning Move

Thing

You skip your turns. Win the game when 3 turns have been skipped in that way.

Card by Zaratustra

U8

Bizarro Universe

Thing

While this is in play, read 'discard' as 'draw', 'in play' as 'in hand', 'lose' as 'win', and vice-versa. This card is exempt from its own effect.

Card by Zaratustra

Mana Leak

Thing

If a card has a corner value with a number in it, it can only be played by a player who controls at least that number of Things. If a card has a corner value with an entirely non-numerical corner value, its corner value is considered to be the number of characters in that corner value, for the purpose of this card.

Card by Kevan

Eight Men Down

Action

Every player reveals their hand, and adds together the first digit of their cards' corner values, for each that has one. The player with the highest total wins the game.

Card by Kevan

Purge

Action

Locate all cards in play, players' hands, and the draw and discard piles, that were not present at the beginning of the game. Remove all such cards from the game and shuffle the deck.

Card by Bucky

5V

Flip-Flop

Thing

At the end of each of your turns, choose a Token you control. Until the end of your next turn, Flip-Flop counts as a copy of that Token.

Card by Bucky

8R

Glowing Meteorite

Action/Thing

If played as an Action, destroy up to three physical Things in play. If played as a Thing, draw an extra card at the start of your turn.

Card by Zaratustra

4U

Think Tank

Action/Thing

If played as an Action, draw three cards. If played as a Thing, your hand size increases by two.

Card by Zaratustra

6B

Factory

Thing

Action: Put three Fire, Smoke, Gunpowder, Iron or Oil tokens in play.

Card by Zaratustra

Credit Card

Thing

When this comes into play, put ten Money tokens into play. When it leaves play, you must either destroy ten Money tokens you control, or destroy all Things you control.

Card by Kevan

Oyster Card

Thing

At the start of your turn, put a Money token into play. At the end of your turn, destroy a Money token you control, if there is still one in play.

Card by Kevan

Birthday Card

Thing

When this comes into play, the player who's birthday is fewest days in the future gains control of it (unless it's a tie). Action: Destroy this card and draw a card.

Card by Kevan

1L

Island of Catan

Thing

Action: Put three Wood, Sheep, Corn, Ore or Brick tokens in play.

Card by Zaratustra

Infinite Dumpster

Thing

No card can be removed from the discard pile while Infinite Dumpster is in play. If every card except Infinite Dumpster is in the discard pile, you win.

Card by fanofphilosophy

Token War

Thing

Action: Destroy any number of tokens you control, to destroy an equal number of tokens belonging to another player. Any player may use this action.

Card by Kevan

4O

Internet!

Thing

Destroy three energy-related Tokens to draw a card.

Card by Zaratustra

TM

Copyright Fight

Action

Destroy all cards in play that share names with elements of games more famous than this one.

Card by Zaratustra

3A

Ironic Wish

Action

Draw as many cards as you want. At the end of your turn, give all cards that were drawn this way and not played to the next player.

Card by Zaratustra

Yellow Pages

Action

Have another player draw four cards and read their titles aloud. Pick one of them and put it into your hand; the other three are discarded.

Card by Kevan

Meme Machine

Thing

Whenever a player plays an Action card, every other player is considered to then play a copy of that Action card (proceeding clockwise).

Card by Kevan

Highlander Sword

Action

Any player with more than one Thing in play must destroy all but one Thing they control. Any player with more than one card in their hand must discard all but one card.

Card by Kevan

5G

Missile Battery

Thing

Action: Fold this card into an airplane and throw it. If it hits any Thing, that Thing is destroyed. If it hits any player, that player draws 3 cards.

Card by Zaratustra

The Midas Touch

Thing

All tokens are considered to be Gold tokens (of no other type) while this card is in play.

Card by Kevan

Trapdoor

Thing

The next time a non-Token Thing comes into play, gain control of it and destroy this card.

Card by Kevan

Love Potion

Action

Gain control of a living Thing.

Card by Kevan

3E

Oops

Action

Play in response to a Thing being played. It gets played into the discard pile instead.

Card by Bucky

Nobody Move

Thing

The next time the Action ability of a Thing is invoked, negate that Action, destroy the Thing and destroy this card.

Card by Kevan

Instant Speed

Thing

Whenever a player plays an Action or Thing, any other player may play an Action card "in response" to it; the response Action is played first, followed by the original Action or Thing.

Card by Kevan

Isochron Sceptre

Thing

When Isochron Sceptre comes into play, attach an Action card from your hand to it. Action: This ability has an identical effect to the Action card attached to Isochron Sceptre.

Card by Kevan

Auto-turret

Thing

At the start of each of your turns, destroy a Token belonging to an opponent.

Card by Bucky

Blockade

Thing

At the start of each of your turns, you must destroy two non-Token Things you control; If you cannot, move this card to the discard pile instead. Your Opponents may not draw cards.

Card by Bucky

Destruction Ward

Action

Play in response to a Thing being destroyed. Return it to play under your control.

Card by Bucky

Card Title

Thing

All cards (excluding this one) are now considered to be the fictional colour of your choice. ex: Hooloovoo, Octarine, or whatever you make up. This card's title is now the name of the colour you chose.

Card by Ryan_1729

D7

Reference Librarian

Thing

This card counts as a living thing. If any player controls three or more cards that have references to the same book, movie, TV show, comic book, webcomic, short story, song, website, podcast or anything of that nature, they win. Names of card creators are excluded.

Card by Ryan_1729

RF

Reverse fossilization!

Thing

Play onto a card. that card now counts as a living thing. If that card is destroyed, destroy this card as well.

Card by Ryan_1729

L2

Hijack

Thing

Play onto any Thing that' played on another Thing. (you keep control of this card)
Action:Move the thing on which this is played onto any other Thing onto which it could be legally played.

Card by Bucky

Downpour

Action

Every player reveals their hand. Put each Thing card into play under its holder's control; you choose the order in which they come into play.

Card by Kevan

U7

Tell me

Thing

All cards must be read aloud after they are drawn.

Card by Ryan_1729

7U

Don't tell me

Thing

All cards must not be read aloud after they are drawn.

Card by Ryan_1729

Taxation

Action

For every non-Token Thing in play, its owner must either destroy a Money, Gold or Silver Token they control, discard a card or destroy that Thing.

Card by Kevan

2

Poor House

Thing

Owner takes 1 card from the draw pile if he has only 0 or 1 hand cards after playing a Thing.

Card by Kevan (originally from San Juan)

Pinata

Thing

When Pinata is destroyed, put six Tokens into play, of any type.

Card by Kevan

2S

Switch

Thing

Play onto any Thing. While that Thing is face-down, treat it as a Thing with a blank text field.
Action:Flip that thing over.

Card by Bucky

On Vacation

Action

Remove target player from the game. (S)he re-enters play after three other players have taken turns.

Card by Bucky

Tragedy of the Commons

Thing

Maximum hand size for all players is 6 times the number of players minus the total number of cards in the other players' hands.

Card by Bucky

D3

Three drink minimum

Thing

Minimum hand size is now three. If at the start of your turn you are below the minimum draw until you are at the minimum.

Card by Ryan_1729

M$

Lottery

Action

Each player may pay 1 Money token to pick a 6 digit number. A six digit number is then chosen randomly. If any player's number matches the random number they win all the money tokens paid in, plus 10 more. Examples of ways to randomly chose a six digit number are: using random.org, or rolling a die six times. Players should be told how the number will be chosen prior to picking their numbers.

Card by Ryan_1729

HP

Hitpoints

Thing

All players now have 100 hitpoints tokens. Unless another card says otherwise no player may have more than 100 hitpoints tokens. If a player would be eliminated, five of their hitpoints tokens are destroyed. Hitpoints tokens are immune from destruction except for the ways listed on this card.

Card by Ryan_1729

MB

Lakitu

Thing

Spiny tokens cannot be destroyed by Action cards. This card cannot be destroyed by Action cards.
Action: Create a Spiny token.

Card by MagiMaster (Mario Bros. deck)

CON

Apportionment

Thing

When voting on new cards, each player has a number of votes equal to the number of his things. A majority wins. If game does not allow proposing cards, discard this card from your hand to draw a card.

Card by fanofphilosophy

Ghostly Form

Thing

If you lose the game with this card in your hand, put it into play and continue playing. If this card leaves play, you lose the game.

Card by Kevan

Token Gesture

Action

Every player chooses a Thing they control, if they have any, and gives it to a different player.

Card by Kevan

Gremlins

Thing

Whenever you play a card that affects another player or their Things, give that player a Gremlin token. Each Gremlin token reduces its controller's maximum hand size by one. Any player may skip their turn to destroy all Gremlin tokens they control.

Card by Kevan (taken from Netrunner)

4J

Salvage

Action

The Thing in the discard pile most recently posessed by you is returned to your hand.

Card by Bucky

4I

Foresight

Thing

Action:Look at the top 2 cards of the deck. You may switch their order. You may do this right before your turn and forfeit an Action during that turn.

Card by Bucky

The Great Token God

thing

When this card comes into play, flip a coin. If heads, you now control all tokens in play. If tails, for one turn, you may create as many tokens as you like, in any type or types. When Token God is destroyed, destroy all tokens.

Card by fanofphilosophy

T8

Junkyard Deed

Thing

Once this card is in play, the player who controls it may play cards that are in the discard pile on their turn, as if they were in their hand. The player who controls this card may sell it to another player if they wish.

Card by Ryan_1729

Steam Engine

Thing

During your turn, you may discard a card from your hand to gain 5 Energy tokens.

Card by Bucky

Anagrammaton

Thing

If the first letter of each Thing controlled by a player can be anagrammed into a word of five or more letters, that player wins the game. You may not win the turn that this comes into play.

Card by Kevan

Gestalt

Thing

If Gestalt or any card attached to Gestalt is removed from play or from your control, instead destroy Gestalt and all cards attached to it. Action: Draw a card; if it's a Thing, put it into play attached to this card, otherwise discard it.

Card by Kevan

Give Me The Brain

Thing

Players who do not control this card cannot play Actions. Whenever you play an Action, an opponent of your choice gains control of this Thing.

Card by Kevan

D$

Let's make it interesting

Thing

When someone wins everyone gets to keep their tokens/whatever is being used to represent tokens. Action:Change what is used to represent tokens. If online, everyone receives 2 money tokens

Card by Ryan_1729

7

Everything counts

Thing

Every card must now count as something. If a card does not say it counts as anything it now counts as the first or last word of its title, whichever the players vote is more appropriate.

Card by Ryan_1729

O7

New meaning

Thing

Play on a card. That card now counts as whatever you decide.

Card by Ryan_1729

Rally Call

Action

Every Thing you possess takes its Action if it has one. If a Thing you possess has requirements for it to act that are not satisfied, it is destroyed. Every one of your Things that can act, must act, in any order you choose.

Card by Physics

Mornington Crescent

Thing

Whenever a player plays a card, they must name a London Underground station (other than Mornington Crescent) that has not already been named in this manner. If they cannot, they cannot play the card.

Card by Kevan

Ultimate Power

Thing

Action::The game ends. All players lose. You may not use this in the same turn as playing a Thing.

Card by Bucky

8E

Chain Lightning

Action

Pick an opponent. That opponent must destroy a number of their Tokens greater than or equal to the square root of the number of Tokens they control.

Card by Bucky

Converge

Thing

Play onto a Thing. All of your non-Token things, except this one, count as copies of that Thing.

Card by Bucky

Buy One Get One Free

Action

Play another Action card from your hand. At the end of your turn, return it to your hand.

Card by Kevan

Everything Must Go

Thing

When this card comes into play, every player with four or fewer cards in their hand draws cards until they have five. The first player to empty their hand of cards wins the game.

Card by Kevan

Receipt Drawer

Thing

Action: Destroy any number of non-Token Things you control. Draw a card for each Thing destroyed in this way.

Card by Kevan

War of Attrition

Thing

Nobody can draw cards at the start of their turn as long as this card is in play.

Card by Physics

Grim Trigger

Thing

If an opponent plays an Action that affects you, that Action card goes to your hand instead of the discard pile, unless the action destroys Grim Trigger.

Card by Physics

6J

Drawn out waiting

Thing

Each player now draws their card at the end of their turn rather than the start.

Card by Ryan_1729

Discard Fodder

Action

The title about says it all. You could waste an action to send this to the discard pile, but why not wait until your hand is too big and do it for free?

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Better luck next draw!

Card by Physics

O RLY?

Action

When someone does something that would cause them to win the game, you can play this in response to eliminate them.

Card by Physics

B8

Delaying the Inevitable

Thing

Search the deck and have all players turn in all cards that cause someone to win, lose, be removed from the game or introduces a new winning condition. These cards and any played on them are placed in a pile out of play and are untouchable by any other card until this card is destroyed. Once this card is destroyed these cards are shuffled into the deck.

Card by Ryan_1729

6J

Obscurity pays off

Thing

The first player to provide proof that they have a die that has less than six or more than twenty sides wins.

Card by Ryan_1729

6J

Bomb key

Thing

This card counts as a key. Play on a card. Draw an imaginary circle around this card with a diameter of 30 cm/1'. Destroy all cards touched by the circle.

Card by Ryan_1729

Backronym

Action

Choose a word of five or fewer letters, that appears in the title of a card in play. For each letter in the word, search the draw pile for a card that begins with that letter, and put it into your hand. If you can't find enough cards, discard all cards drawn in this way. Shuffle the draw pile.

Card by Kevan

CCTV Camera

Thing

Whenever any player plays an Action that targets you, your hand or your Things, you may look at their hand.

Card by Kevan

?able

Sputtering Force Field

thing

If an Action would destroy a Thing you control, flip a coin. If heads, the action still destroyes the thing. If tails, negate the Action. If the Action came from a Thing, that Action cannot be played on his next turn.

Card by fanofphilosophy

Double-Headed Coin

Thing

Whenever the game calls for a coin to be tossed, a die to be rolled or any random decision to be made, you may choose its result.

Card by Kevan

Garage Sale

Thing

Action: Give a card from your hand to another player, and draw a card.

Card by Kevan

All Your Base Are Belong To Us

Thing

If you control at least four non-Token Things, at the start of your turn, and your opponents control none, you win the game.

Card by Kevan

Call the Police

Action

Make an opponent discard cards until they have 2 or less.

Card by Raven (Frankenstein deck)

Mind-swap Device

Thing - Equipment

Action: Exchange a card of your choice from your hand, with a random card from an opponent's hand.

Card by Raven (Frankenstein deck)

Bubbling Potion

Action

During this turn, you may play any number of cards from your hand (but may not use any actions from Things in play).

Card by Kevan (Frankenstein deck)

Monkey

Thing

Each turn in play, you may create a poop token. If you do not create a poop token, and have 5 already, you may sacrifice 5 tokens to destroy a Living Thing.

Card by BM

Spade Game

Action

Draw three cards. If they are not all the same type, discard them.

Card by BM (Mario Bros. Deck)

Suicidal War Boost

Action

If you have a Thing on the field that has a word the same as another thing in your hand, you may destroy that Thing to play the related card. You may then play another card, if you haven't already played one other than the related card.

Card by BM

G9

Spiked Club

Thing

This card counts as a club Action: Destroy a card that a majority agrees would be destroyed by a spiked club.

Card by Ryan_1729

P5

Pencil Sharpener

Action/Thing

This card counts as an office supply. If played as a thing this card must be played on an "Office" card. If no such card is in play then this card must be played as an action with the following text, (except the "Action:".) Action: Destroy a Thing that would physically fit in a pencil sharpener.

Card by Ryan_1729

0F

Office

Thing

If five or more cards that count as office supplies are played on this card the player who controls it wins.

Card by Ryan_1729

Feudalism

Thing

A player may not play a Thing card if they already control a Thing card designed by a different card designer. When this card comes into play, each player may destroy any number of Things they control.

Card by Kevan

Cheap Knock-Off

Thing

When you play this card, pick a Thing - if that Thing has an Action ability, this card has a copy of that ability. After using this card's Action ability, it is destroyed.

Card by Kevan

Googlewar

Thing

Action: Choose a Thing; its controller also chooses a Thing. Use Google to search for each of the cards' titles, within quotes - the one that gets the fewest results is destroyed.

Card by Kevan

!

Coffee Cup

thing

This card counts as an office supply. When this card comes into play, create five caffine tokens. Action:Draw one card for every caffine token you have. These cards do not count toward your hand size limit. Then, destroy a caffine token.

Card by fanofphilosophy

*%^@

Vengence Induced Rampage

action

Total up the amount of your things destroyed plus the amount of cards discarded from your hand. Tokens don't count. Put that many cards in the discard pile. These cards may come from things in play, player's hands, or the draw pile. Tokens don't count.

Card by fanofphilosophy

Rouf Draft

action

Write down a card with any number of spellin and/or grammer me stakes. On your next turn, it goes under your control unless all the mistakes are fixed. If they are, it may be proposed in the normal fashion. If playing online or if cards cannot be proposed, this card reads:Draw a card.

Card by fanofphillosophy

Blank White Card

Thing

When you play this card, draw a picture on it. If online, change its status to include a picture.

Card by Bucky

Bargin Shopper

action

You may give a number of cards from your hand to any other player's or players' hand(s). Then draw twice as many cards. At the end of your turn but before your discard phase, discard half of the cards remaining in your hand, rounding down.

Card by fanofphilosophy