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 aside from the two described below; 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 100 cards of this deck have been archived.

+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. All pieces of this card are considered copies of the original.

Card by Zaratustra

2R

Token Gun

Thing

Action: Spend five burnable Tokens. Destroy target Thing.

Card by Zaratustra

13?

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

2F

Token Spectrum

Action

If for each letter of the alphabet you control a Token with a name that starts with that letter, plus an untyped Token, you win.

Card by Bucky

2P

Public Storage

Thing

The maximum hand size for all players is increased by 1.

Card by Bucky

3$

The Gold Standard

Thing

You may play extra Things with numbers in their corner value, if you destroy the same number of money-related Tokens you own.

Card by Zaratustra

4$

Hotel

Thing

Play on an opponent. Whenever it's their turn, they must give you one money-related Token, one Thing or one card.

Card by Zaratustra

3:1

Port Town

Thing

You may exchange three Tokens of the same type for a Token of any type.

Card by Zaratustra

Atlantic City

Thing

Action:A random player must give you X things, where X is 1 times 2 for each Building you control, with a maximum of 16.

Card by Bucky

Stun Ray

Action

Play in response to someone else playing an Action card. Prevent the Action, and they must discard the card, and may not play any further Actions this turn

Card by Bucky

3X

Triplicate

Action

Choose a card whose name does not start with 'Tr'. Rephrase the title so it begins with 'Tr' and triplicate one of its effects.

Card by Zaratustra

B-

Correction!

Action

May be played out of your turn. Destroy or counter all cards whose color is wrong for their type, or are missing creator information, or have a grammar/typographical error.

Card by Zaratustra

3R

Lava Well

Thing

Action:Gain 2 Heat, Light or Energy Tokens. (both must be of the same type)

Card by Bucky

2F

Orchard

Thing

Action:Gain 2 Apple or Pear Tokens. (both must be of the same type)

Card by Bucky

4E

Elemental Well

Thing

Action:Gain 2 Air, Earth, Fire or Water Tokens. (both must be of the same type)

Card by Bucky

Hyperspeed

Action

You may play any number of Things or Actions (or activated card actions) this turn. If you don't win the game by the end of your turn, you are eliminated.

Card by Kevan

Fiat Uno

Thing

Actions may only be played if the first letter of one of the words in their title matches the first letter of one of the words in the title of the top card of the discard pile.

Card by Kevan

Loadstone

Thing

Play into the control of any player. They may not play Thing cards. Action: Discard your hand to destroy all Things you control.

Card by Kevan

Project Genesis

Thing

At the start of your turn, put the top card of the deck face down on Genesis. If there are more cards on Genesis than the number of tokens you control, destroy Genesis and all cards on it. Action: Discard your hand, then put all cards on Genesis into your hand.

Card by jtwe

Remote Manipulator Arm

Action

Choose one - perform an Action on any Thing in play as if you controlled it; or perform one Action on each Thing you control that has an Action.

Card by jtwe

Tokens of My Affection

Action

Each other player gains a token of any type (their choice). For each token gained in this way, you gain a token of the same type.

Card by jtwe

8A

Fusion/Fission

Action

If playing single-deck Dvorak, split the deck and discard pile so each player has one and change play to multiple-deck. If playing multiple-deck Dvorak, combine all decks and discard piles so there's one of each, and change play to single-deck.

Card by Zaratustra

AT

Bank

Action / Thing

If played as an Action, gain five Money Bag tokens. If played as a Thing, gain two Money Bag tokens every turn.

Card by Zaratustra

2F

Volcano

Action / Thing

If played as an Action, gain five Lava tokens and destroy a Thing. If played as a Thing, gain two Lava or Smoke tokens every turn, and destroy this to destroy a Thing.

Card by Zaratustra

Token Mill

Thing

Gain an untyped Token at the start of each of your turns.

Card by Bucky

Buyout

Thing

Action:If you control at least 100 Money and Gold tokens, you win the game. If not, gain a Money Token.

Card by Bucky

Search and Destroy

Action

Destroy all Tokens of a type of your choice

Card by Bucky

WTF

Huh?

Action

Draw a card for each card an opponent has drawn since you last discarded a card. Then, discard a card for each card an opponent has discarded since you last drew a card, independent of this card.

Card by KillSmiley

Kick 'Em When They're Down

Action

Play in response to an effect which destroys a Thing. Destroy another Thing controlled by that player.

Card by KillSmiley

Loan Shark

Thing

Counts as a Fish. For every counter on Loan Shark, you must destroy a Token you control at the start of each of your turns, or else you lose the game.
Action: Gain 10 Money Tokens and put a counter on Loan Shark.
Action: Spend 10 Money Tokens plus one for every counter on Loan Shark to remove a counter from Loan Shark.

Card by Bucky

Greek Gift

Action

Give any number of Tokens to an opponent. At the end of their next turn, that opponent must destroy twice as many Tokens as you gave him, or all his Tokens if he doesn't have enough.

Card by Bucky

7C

Taste The Rainbow

Action

If you have cards of five different colors in play (including this one), you win.

Card by Zaratustra

Day of the Dead

Action

Starting with you and going clockwise, each player chooses a living Thing from the discard pile (if there's one there) and puts it into play under their control.

Card by Kevan

Auction House

Thing

Action: Reveal the top card of the draw pile. Going once round the table starting on your left, each player bids an amount of their tokens for it. The highest bidder loses the number of tokens they bid, and takes the card; if it's a Thing card, they may put it straight into play. If the bid is tied, the card is discarded.

Card by Kevan

Cold Potato

Thing

If you control Cold Potato at the end of your turn, discard a card. Action: Give this Thing to any player.

Card by Kevan

^v

Tempermental cloning machine

Thing

Action:Create one card exactly the same as this one, but add a number 2 to the title if there is no number, or increase the number by one if there is. Then create a card named "Mutant" Including these two sentences but add an extra sentence or "limb" on the end; Shuffle the newly created cards into the deck.

Card by Ryan_1729

22

Catch 22

Thing

This card cannot be destroyed and/or discarded. This card must be played immediately after it is drawn. If a card or cards is going to be destroyed/discarded and this card is in play it must be this one.

Card by Ryan_1729

POW

Irresistible force

Action

This card moves any and all card or cards of the players choice to the discard pile.

Card by Ryan_1729

Shotgun

Thing

When Shotgun comes into play, put two Shell tokens into play. Action: Destroy a Shell token you control, to destroy a Thing.

Card by Kevan

Tarot Reading

Action

Draw a card for each player; reveal it and put it into their hand. Each player must play or get rid of their card before the end of their next turn - if a player still has the card in their hand at the end of their next turn, they lose the game.

Card by Kevan

Longest Road

Thing

If you have fewer Things in play than any other player (not counting tokens, or this card), then you must give this Thing to (one of) them.

Card by Kevan

Lightning Reflexes

Thing

Anytime anyone plays an action, you may also play an action. At the beginning of your turn, before you draw, discard a card or destroy Lightning Reflexes.

Card by MagiMaster

AT

Space Time Object Replacement Device

Thing

Action: Choose a player. Give a thing you control to that player, then take a thing that player controls. Flip a coin. If it is tails, destroy this card.

Card by MagiMaster

AT

GIR

Thing

Action: Flip a coin. If it's heads, destroy target thing. If it's tails, destroy this card.

Card by MagiMaster

9000+

Power Level Scouter

Thing

If you have more than 9000 Things in play, you win the game.

Card by Zaratustra

TT

Rules Misunderstanding

Thing

Things no longer count as Tokens if they did, and vice-versa. Tokens no longer count as Things if they did, and vice-versa.

Card by Zaratustra

10

There are 10 kinds of people in the world...

action

Until another card says otherwise all numbers shall be written and pronounced in Binary. I.E. 3 becomes 11 and is pronounced One-one.

Card by Ryan_1729

tung

Dexterity

action

Play this card immediately. You may not use your hands for the rest of your turn. Failure to do so results in the player receiving two poisoned tokens to be placed on the next Thing they play. Poisoned Tokens may not be exchanged and kill living Things after five turns; this time is halved for each additional token. Round down.

Card by Ryan_1729

1/2

Halved

Action

Each time this card is played fold it in half. The seventh person to play this card wins.

Card by Ryan_1729

MVDC

Gimmicky Crossover

Action

Add all cards of another Dvorak game to the deck (adding each of that deck's special rules is optional - you may add all, none or any number of them). Shuffle the deck afterwards.

Card by BiggerJ

QQQ

BZAAAAARG

Action

Choose one player. That's player's actions in his next turn will be completely randomized.

Card by BiggerJ

E

E E E E E

Thing

As long as this card is in play, whenever any player says a word with the letter E in it (no matter how many times the letter E appears in that word), all other players may each draw one card (but may choose not to or simply not notice the opportunity).

Card by BiggerJ

Argg

Annoyance

Action

As soon as this card is drawn place it face down under the top card of the deck. The person who drew the card may decide whether or not to draw another.

Card by Ryan_1729

Zap

Timelaser

Action

The person who draws this card immediately picks the top five cards off the deck and destroys one of them. They then put them back in any order they wish.

Card by Ryan_1729

1,2,3...

Crowded room

Thing/Things

This card counts as an infinite number of things once played. This card cannot be removed from play unless the card used to destroy specifies that it is able to remove ALL or an infinite amount of Things. The player is said to control an infinite amount of things.

Card by Ryan_1729

Production Overload

Action

Pick a positive, finite integer N. Look at the top N cards of the deck. If they are all Things, play them all; otherwise, discard them all and end your turn.

Card by Bucky

Let's do it again!

Action

Destroy all Things. All players discard their hands. Shuffle the discard pile into the deck. Everyone draws 5 cards.

Card by Bucky

1S

Shield

Thing

Play onto a Thing. That Thing cannot be destroyed while this is in play.

Card by Bucky

Alphabet Coup

Thing

If, while this card is in play, a player has card in his/her control and in his/her hand that, between them, have all the letters of the alphabet represented in their corner values (at least once for each letter of the alphabet), that player wins the game.

Card by BiggerJ

X-ray Vision

Action

Shuffle the discard pile into the deck and place the deck face-up.

Card by Ryan_1729

GB

G-Bomb

Action

All Things in play now have 3 Poisoned Tokens placed on them. Poisoned Tokens may not be exchanged and kill living Things after five turns; this time is halved for each additional token. Round down.

Card by Ryan_1729

IF

Zork dork

Action-Quiz

Hand this card to the oldest/most computer literate player; only they may read the rest of this card. Ask The other players to fill in the blank:"this space intentionally left blank." If anyone guesses correctly they get 10 tokens of their choice. If no one does you get 7. A: Look it up!

Card by Ryan_1729

CONFORM. CONFORM. CONFORM. CONFORM.

Action

Destroy all cards in play and in all players' hands that are either actions with colors other than standard Action red or things with colors other than standard Thing blue.

Card by BiggerJ

Th

What ith wrong with my thpeech?

Action

Until a winner ith declared all playerth mutht thpeak like thith.

Card by Ryan_1729

Quz

Perfectly useless.

Action

Gain 10 times your age in Useless tokens. If your age is even gain a Quintessential token, if your age is odd gain a Zipper token.

Card by Ryan_1729

Jolly

Fun Time!

Action

All players get to search the deck for one Thing card and one Action card which will go into a second hand which ignores all hand size rules. This card is the only way to add cards to this hand. The player of this card gets their cards first, order then continues in the current order of play until it gets back to the player. They then continue their turn

Card by Ryan_1729

Mao

Thing

You may play any card from your hand face-down, as if it were a Thing. Face-down Things are legally binding; face-down Actions are considered to be blank. You may flip a face-down Thing card face up at any time. When Mao leaves play, all face-down cards you control go to the discard pile.

Card by Kevan

Adapt, Adopt and Improve

Thing

Whenever another player's Action card affects you, your hand or your Things, you may take it from the discard pile after it has resolved, and put it into your hand.

Card by Kevan

Y?

Redundant

Action

Playing this card doesn't not do not not nothing.

Card by Ryan_1729

LJ

Headache

Thing

The first player to create a card that repeals the effects of this card gets 10 Brains Tokens. The first player to spot a loophole that would allow him to win as a result of both cards having been played does so.

Card by Ryan_1729

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Amoeba II

Thing

Create 2 cards. For each Card created that are worded Exactly the same as this one the player may create 2 more cards. The limit to cards that may be created this way in one turn is 1000. One hundreth (round down) of newly created cards may be kept in the players hand but may not be played this turn. All Amoeba II cards in the players control must be shuffled back into the deck after this card is played.

Card by Ryan_1729

Brain Training

Action

Look at another player's hand for ten seconds. Afterwards, for each card that you can remember the title of, you may draw one card.

Card by Kevan

Fly

Fly on the Wall

Thing

This card counts as an insect. Pick a target player. You may now look at their cards anytime you want.

Card by Ryan_1729

Psm

Action Prism

Action

This card counts as a glass object. Perform 7 extra actions this turn.

Card by Ryan_1729

JKL

Meta

Thing

Action:discard any cards with card written anywhere on them.

Card by Ryan_1729

!!!

Clusterfudge

Thing

When this card is played, all players' hands go into the discard pile. All players then take turns taking single cards from the draw pile and adding them to their respective hands. The discard pile is then shuffled and added to the draw pile to start it anew. As long as this card is in play, players may play as many Things and/or Actions as they wish during their turns.

Card by BiggerJ