Doctor Steel Deck

Doctor Steel
Designer	Depressi
Date	4th September 2007
Players	2+
This is an untested deck. Its cards are complete, but it hasn't yet been tested.
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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Compete with your fellow Yellowjackets to see who can help Doctor Steel most in his quest to be World Emperor.

Special Rules

Points

There are three types of points in the game: Psi points, Military points, and Influence Points.

Psi points are found by totaling up the cornervalues of the Psi Research cards under your control and adding an extra point for every Toy Soldier you've managed to recruit.

Military points are found by totaling up the cornervalues of the Robot cards under your control and adding an extra point for every Toy Soldier you've managed to recruit.

Influence points are found by totaling up the cornervalues of the Media cards under your control.

Building the Robots

To play a Robot card, you must have its required parts under your control, and send them to the discard pile when you play the Robot.

Toy Soldiers

You can tell how many Toy Soldiers you have by totaling the cornervalues of the Toy Soldier cards under your control. A Toy Soldier card with a cornervalue of 7 represents a group of seven Toy Soldiers.

Music

Music cards determine which Doctor Steel track all the in-play Toy Soldiers are listening to, and affects the game in numerous ways. There can only be one Music card in play at any one time: when you play a new one, the old one is destroyed.

Psi Research and the Alien Illuminati

When you play a Psi Research card of a certain level, one of the previous level must already be in play, though it can be in play under any player (unless, of course, it's a level one card). For example, if you play a level five Psi Research card, at least one level four Psi Research card must already be in play. If you ever end up with a Psi Research card which hasn't got one of the previous level to 'support' it, it is destroyed as well.

You cannot play a Psi Research card if an identical Psi Research card is already in play.

The Alien Illuminati do not take kindly to we humans trying to crack their codes, however. Higher-level Psi Research cards have an Alien Illuminati Countdown - abbreviated to AIC - on them. A counter is placed on the card at the end of each turn they're in play, and when the number of counters on them equals the AIC, they are destroyed.

Card List

Utopian Playland Strategy

Action - Victory

You can only play this if Advanced Reality Engineering is in play. The game is ended and the Players are ranked from first to last by the number of Psi points they have.

World Domination Strategy

Action - Victory

You can only play this if all Players' combined Military points are greater than 140. The game is ended and the Players are ranked from first to last by the number of Military points they have.

Commercial Control Strategy

Action - Victory

You can only play this if all Players' combined Influence points are greater than 90. The game is ended and the Players are ranked from first to last by the number of Influence points they have.

5

Basic Psi Research

Thing - Level 1 Psi Research

When you play this, draw two cards.

5

Basic Psi Research

Thing - Level 1 Psi Research

When you play this, draw two cards.

5

Basic Psi Research

Thing - Level 1 Psi Research

When you play this, draw two cards.

5

Basic Psi Research

Thing - Level 1 Psi Research

When you play this, draw two cards.

10

Preliminary Psychic Experiments

Thing - Level 2 Psi Research

Unless you control Weird Kid, discard your hand when you play this card.

10

Preliminary Psychic Experiments

Thing - Level 2 Psi Research

Unless you control Weird Kid, discard your hand when you play this card.

5

Limited Clairvoyance

Thing - Level 3 Psi Research

Action: look at the top card of the Deck. AIC: 8

5

Telekinetic Experiments.

Thing - Level 3 Psi Research

Action: draw a card. AIC: 9

5

Psychic Theory

Thing - Level 3 Psi Research

At the end of each of their turns, the Player with most Psi points draws a card. AIC: 10

10

Psi Grid Busting

Thing - Level 4 Psi Research

The Alien Illuminati cannot put counters on any Psi Research card but this one while it's in play. AIC: 15

10

Psi Warrior Program

Thing - Level 4 Psi Research

All Toy Soldiers are worth twice as many Military points. AIC: 7

10

Psi Influence Training

Thing - Level 4 Psi Research

All Toy Soldiers are worth an Influence point each. AIC: 7

15

Basic Reality Engineering

Thing - Level 5 Psi Research

Discard a card at random when you play this card. AIC: 4

15

Basic Reality Engineering

Thing - Level 5 Psi Research

Discard a card at random when you play this card. AIC: 4

30

Advanced Reality Engineering

Thing - Level 6 Psi Research

Action: Draw until your hand is full.

30

Advanced Reality Engineering

Thing - Level 6 Psi Research

Action: Draw until your hand is full.

1

Junkyard owner

Thing - Toy Soldier

Action: discard a card at random and replace it with a chosen Part from the discard pile.

1

Junkyard owner

Thing - Toy Soldier

Action: discard a card at random and replace it with a chosen Part from the discard pile.

1

Minor Celebrity

Thing - Toy Soldier

Minor Celebrity is worth five Infulence points.

7

Fangirls

Thing - Toy Soldiers

7

Fangirls

Thing - Toy Soldiers

1

Professor

Thing - Toy Soldier

1

Junkyard Owner

Thing - Toy Soldiers

Action: Discard two cards in order to search the discard pile for any Part (except Glue). If it's there, move it to your hand.

1

Animator

Thing - Toy Soldier

Animators count as Techies and Artists.

1

Animator

Thing - Toy Soldier

Animators count as Techies and Artists.

1

Animator

Thing - Toy Soldier

Animators count as Techies and Artists.

3

Artist Fangroup

Thing - Toy Soldier

Unsurprisingly, Artist Fangroup count as Artists.

1

Painter

Thing - Toy Soldier

Painters count as Artists.

1

Painter

Thing - Toy Soldier

Painters count as Artists.

1

Mac Programmer

Thing - Toy Soldier

Mac Programmer counts as a Techie. You cannot play Mac Programmer if you control PC Programmer.

1

PC Programmer

Thing - Toy Soldier

PC Programmer counts as a Techie. You cannot play PC Programmer if you control Mac Programmer.

1

Professor

Thing - Toy Soldier

1

Army Veteran

Thing - Toy Soldier

Army Veteran is worth five Military points.

1

Army Veteran

Thing - Toy Soldier

Army Veteran is worth five Military points.

1

Weird Kid

Thing - Toy Soldier

Weird Kid is worth five Psi points.

1

AI Specialist

Thing - Toy Soldier

Increase the cornervalues of all your Robots by 5 so long as this card is in play. AI specialist counts as a Techie.

4

College Students

Thing - Toy Soldier

4

College Students

Thing - Toy Soldier

1

Devoted Follower

Thing - Toy Soldier

Devoted Follower can never leave your service for any reason. He's kind of worrying like that. (This, of course, excludes the Wrath of Doctor Steel, which trumps everything.

3

Dr Steel Tribute Band

Thing - Toy Soldier

Action: place a token on this card. All tokens on this card are worth one Influence point. You cannot have more than ten tokens.

4

College Students

Thing - Toy Soldier

3

Toy Scout Group

Thing - Toy Soldier

Action: Draw a card. If that card is a Toy Soldier then play it automatically (If you are allowed to); if not, discard it.

3

Nurse Group

Thing - Toy Soldier

Action: Draw a card. If that card is a Toy Soldier then play it automatically (If you are allowed to); if not, discard it.

1

Cartoonist

Thing - Toy Soldier

Cartoonists count as Artists.

1

Cartoonist

Thing - Toy Soldier

Cartoonists count as Artists.

1

Rich Guy

Thing - Toy Soldier

Action: Draw two cards.

2

Elitist Artists

Thing - Toy Soldier

You can only play Elitist Artists if you are the player with the most Military Points. Elitist Artists count as Artists.

4

Geeks

Thing - Toy Soldier

The Geeks count as Techies.

3

Geeks

Thing - Toy Soldier

The Geeks count as Techies.

2

Geeks

Thing - Toy Soldier

The Geeks count as Techies.

1

TV Producer

Thing - Toy Soldier

5

Doctor Steel Website

Thing - Media

You must control at least one Techie to play this card.

5

Doctor Steel Website

Thing - Media

You must control at least one Techie to play this card.

5

Doctor Steel Website

Thing - Media

You must control at least one Techie to play this card.

5

Doctor Steel Song Remixes

Thing - Media

5

Doctor Steel Fanart

Thing - Media

You must control at least one Artist to play this card.

5

Doctor Steel Fanart

Thing - Media

You must control at least one Artist to play this card.

5

Doctor Steel Fanart

Thing - Media

You must control at least one Artist to play this card.

10

Doctor Steel RPG

Thing - Media

You must control at least one group of Geeks to play this card. Action: move a group of Geeks from another Player's control to yours.

10

Doctor Steel Online Game

Thing - Media

You must control a Programmer or at least two Techies to play this card.

10

Doctor Steel Comic

Thing - Media

You must control a Cartoonist or at least two Artists to play this card.

10

Doctor Steel Music Videos

Thing - Media

You must control at least one Animator to play this card.

25

Doctor Steel PS2 game

Thing - Media

You must control Financial Backing to play this card.

50

Doctor Steel TV Show

Thing - Media

You must control TV Producer and Financial Backing to play this card.

5

Frankly Awesome Doctor Steel Card Game

Thing - Media

Needless vanity FTW!

Plastic parts

Thing - Part

Plastic parts

Thing - Part

Plastic parts

Thing - Part

Glue

Thing - Part

Glue

Thing - Part

Glue

Thing - Part

Laser

Thing - Part

Alien Device

Thing - Part

While this is in play, all AICs are raised by 1.

Titanium Casing

Thing - Part

Toilet Plunger

Thing - Part

25

Basic Robot

Thing - Robot

Required parts: Plastic Parts, Glue.

25

Basic Robot

Thing - Robot

Required parts: Plastic Parts, Glue.

25

Basic Robot

Thing - Robot

Required parts: Plastic Parts, Glue.

25

Basic Robot

Thing - Robot

Required parts: Plastic Parts, Glue.

50

Maimbot 5000

Thing - Robot

Required parts: Titanium Casing, Laser.

55

Reconstructed UFO

Thing - Robot

Required parts: Alien Device, Titanium Casing. This only counts if you have at least three Toy Soldiers to pilot it.

45

Automated Laser Pointer

Thing - Robot

Required parts: Alien Device, Laser. An automated laser pointer probably doesn't seem very scary unless you know that the laser it points can, thanks to alien technology, obliterate more or less anything.

150

Replica Dalek

Thing - Robot

Required parts: Alien Device, Laser, Titanium Casing, Toilet Plunger.

Build The Robots

Thing - Song

Players may play up to three Things per turn, provided they only play Parts and Robots.

Back and Forth

Thing - Song

Instead of playing an Action on their turn, Players may choose to play another Thing.

The Dr Steel Show

Thing - Song

Players may play two Things per turn, provided they only play Toy Soldiers.

Space Boy

Thing - Song

At the end of each of their turns, the Player with most Influence points draws a card.

Drop Da Bomb

Thing - Song

At the end of each of their turns, the Player with most Military points draws a card.

Donkey Town

Thing - Song

When this card is first played, everyone draws until their hand is full. At the end of each of their turns, if they have any cards in their hand, everyone must discard one.

Financial Backing

Thing - Miscellaneous

You can only play this card if you have at least 30 Influence Points. Action: Draw three cards.

Financial Backing

Thing - Miscellaneous

You can only play this card if you have at least 30 Influence Points. Action: Draw three cards.

Double-blind test.

Thing - Miscellaneous

Play onto a Psi Research card. Flip a coin. If it lands heads, both this and it are destroyed. If it lands tails, this card is attatched to the Psi Research card and adds 10 to its AIC.

Double-blind test.

Thing - Miscellaneous

Play onto a Psi Research card. Flip a coin. If it lands heads, both this and it are destroyed. If it lands tails, this card is attatched to the Psi Research card and adds 10 to its AIC.

Poor Reception

Thing - Miscellaneous

Play onto another Player's Media card. Deduct 5 from its cornervalue as long as this is in play.

Poor Reception

Thing - Miscellaneous

Play onto another Player's Media card. Deduct 5 from its cornervalue as long as this is in play.

Artist's Day

Action

Everyone draws as many cards as they have Artists.

Got Bored

Action

Send any Toy Soldier card to the discard pile.

Got Bored

Action

Send any Toy Soldier card to the discard pile.

Got Bored

Action

Send any Toy Soldier card to the discard pile.

Re-recruitment

Action

Move a Toy Soldier from the discard pile to your hand.

Re-recruitment

Action

Move a Toy Soldier from the discard pile to your hand.

Re-recruitment

Action

Move a Toy Soldier from the discard pile to your hand.

Malfunction

Action

Toss a coin. If it lands heads, you may destroy any non-Dalek Robot.

TARDIS alert!

Action

Discard your hand, and destroy a Dalek. You can only play this if you control an Alien Device.

Rotational Assignments

Action

Exchange an in-play Toy Soldier card with another Player's Toy Soldier card.

Doctor Steel Concert

Action

Everyone draws until their hand is full.

Flaw in the Master Plan

Action

Everyone discards their hand.

Entropy

Action

Destroy a Part or Miscellaneous Thing.

Entropy

Action

Destroy a Part or Miscellaneous Thing.

Entropy

Action

Destroy a Part or Miscellaneous Thing.

The Wrath of Doctor Steel

Action

Destroy any Thing, and discard your hand. After this card is played, it is removed from the game instead of sent to the discard pile.