Welcome to Night Vale deck

Welcome to Night Vale
Designer	Kevan
Date	June 2013
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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A deck based on the Welcome to Night Vale podcast. Within the first few episodes it started crying out to be a territory-control card game.

May contain spoilers for events up to and including episode 24, and inaccuracies regarding the events beyond that episode.

Special Rules

Thing cards are either Locations, Factions or Entities (many Entities are Human, a few are Immobile). Actions are Events.

Factions

If you have a Faction card in play you cannot play another one.

Locations

At the start of the game, find the Sand Wastes card and put it into play. When an Entity comes into play, whoever played it chooses a Location to place it at. As an Action, a player may move an Entity they control from one Location to another (unless the Entity is Immobile) - this is known as a Move Action.

Each Location may be controlled by a particular player or players; only the player who controls a Location may use that Location's Action ability. To determine Location's controller:

• If a card specifically assigns control of a Location to a player (or players), then that player (or players) control it.
• Otherwise, it defaults to majority control: if a player has more Entities at a Location than any other player, then they are that Location's controller.

If an occupied Location leaves play, then move all Entities which were located there to the Sand Wastes (if the Sand Wastes have somehow been removed from play, then destroy the Entities instead).

Victory

If a player controls at least five Locations, and more locations than each other player, then they win the game.

Card List

Locations

Night Vale Community Radio

Thing - Location

The Sand Wastes

Thing - Location

The Sand Wastes cannot be destroyed or removed from play. No player can gain control of the Sand Wastes by majority control.

The Dog Park

Thing - Location

At the end of every turn, destroy all Humans located at The Dog Park.

Imaginary Cornfield

Thing - Location

Wheat and Wheat By-Products Shelter

Thing - Location

Humans at this Location cannot be destroyed, and cannot use Action abilities.

Radon Canyon

Thing - Location

At the end of each of the controller of Radon Canyon's turns, that player discards a card at random.

Desert Flower Bowling Alley and Arcade Fun Complex

Thing - Location

If the Desert Flower Bowling Alley and Arcade Fun Complex is uncontrolled at the end of a turn, the player whose turn it is may choose an uncontrolled Location and destroy it.

Big Rico's Pizza

Thing - Location

Action: Destroy an Entity you control which is located at Big Rico's.

Abandoned Mineshaft

Thing - Location

All Entities at the Abandoned Mineshaft are Immobile.

Old Town Drawbridge

Thing - Location

Action: Destroy the Old Town Drawbridge. Any player with an Entity at this Location may take this action.

Grove Park

Thing - Location

Night Vale Public Library

Thing - Location

Entities may not enter play at this Location.

The Car Lot

Thing - Location

The Scrublands

Thing - Location

The Scrublands do not count as a Location when determining victory.

City Hall

Thing - Location

Action: Discard your current Faction and draw a card.

Night Vale Daily Journal

Thing - Location

If the Night Vale Daily Journal would be destroyed, it is not destroyed and each player instead discards one card from their hand (if they have any).

Museum of Forbidden Technologies

Thing - Location

Action: If the City Council is not in play, draw a card and play it immediately. (If you cannot play it, discard it.)

Night Vale Harbor and Waterfront Recreation Area

Thing - Location

Entities may not be moved to Night Vale Harbor and Waterfront Recreation Area using a Move Action.

Non-Existent House

Thing - Location

Non-Existent House may not be played as a Thing card.

Night Vale Post Office

Thing - Location

Non-Human Entities at the Night Vale Post Office are treated as if their card text were blank.

Night Vale Stadium

Thing - Location

Abandoned Missile Silo

Thing - Location

Entities at the Abandoned Missile Silo cannot use Action abilities.

Night Vale Zoo

Thing - Location

If a Human moves from the Zoo to another Location using a Move Action, leaving no Humans at the Zoo, then destroy that Human.

The Whispering Forest

Thing - Location

Entities at the Whispering Forest are Immobile. All players with any Entities at the Whispering Forest control it.

The Brown Stone Spire

Thing - Location

Location. When a player gains control of the Brown Stone Spire, they must discard a card (if they have any).

Factions

The Angels

Thing - Faction

You may only draw cards if your hand is empty. You may prevent the effects of any Action card or Action ability.

The Hooded Figures

Thing - Faction

At the end of each of your turns, destroy all Humans you control. Action: Choose a Location. Move all Entities located there to another single Location, in an order of your choosing.

The City Council

Thing - Faction

If a Location contains no Entities, you control it. If you have the most Entities at a Location, no majority control check is made for it.

The Sheriff's Secret Police

Thing - Faction

You may not play non-Human Entities. Action: Discard a card to destroy any Entity.

The Scientists

Thing - Faction

At the start of your turn, you may choose one card in your hand or in play; its card text is blank until the end of your turn.

Entities

The Glow Cloud

Thing - Entity

The Glow Cloud is considered to be located at all Locations.

Black Metal Trees

Thing - Entity

Whenever an Entity moves to or from the Location of Metal Trees using a Move Action, it is destroyed.

The Pyramid

Thing - Entity

Immobile. The Pyramid cannot be destroyed.

Wheat By-Products

Thing - Entity

Action: Destroy all Humans at the same Location as Wheat By-Products.

Station Management

Thing - Entity

Action: Destroy an Entity located at Night Vale Community Radio.

Black Helicopters

Thing - Entity

When a card is played, you may discard Black Helicopters to force that card to be discarded with no effect.

The Shape in Grove Park

Thing - Entity

If the Shape is moved from one Location to another, or is removed from play, the player whose turn it is must discard their hand.

Feral Dogs

Thing - Entity

At the start of your turn, if Feral Dogs share a Location with a Human, you must choose and destroy one of those Humans.

Lone Pteranodon

Thing - Entity

Action: Destroy the Lone Pteranodon and destroy a Human at the same Location as it.

Hiram McDaniels

Thing - Entity

If McDaniels is at a Location, you control that Location.

Crates

Thing - Entity

Immobile. If you control Crates at the end of your turn, discard a card at random. Action: Give Crates to any other player; they may attach it to any Location.

The Man in the Tan Jacket

Thing - Entity

The Man in the Tan Jacket only counts towards majority control of a Location if he is the only Entity at that Location.

Oak Door

Thing - Entity

Immobile.

Bloodstone Circle

Thing - Entity

Immobile. Whenever a Human is destroyed, you may draw a card.

Cecil

Thing - Entity

Human. If Cecil would be destroyed, move him to the hand of the player whose turn it is, instead.

The Apache Tracker

Thing - Entity

Human. You may move the Apache Tracker to a new Location without using a Move Action, at any time during your turn.

Old Woman Josie

Thing - Entity

Human. Action: If the Angels are in play, shuffle them into the draw pile. If they are not in play, search the draw pile for them and (if they are there) add them to your hand.

Vague Yet Menacing Goverment Agent

Thing - Entity

Human. Action: Destroy a Location which has no Entities at it.

Carlos

Thing - Entity

Human. If the same player controls Cecil and Carlos, neither card can be destroyed.

Telli the Barber

Thing - Entity

Human. The card text of other Humans at Telli's Location is considered to be blank. (They still count as Humans.)

Michael Sandero

Thing - Entity

Whenever a card checks whether Michael Sandero is Human or not, you may decide.

Steve Carlsberg

Thing - Entity

Human.

Intern

Thing - Entity

Human. If a Human you control would be destroyed by an effect which would not also destroy Intern, you may destroy Intern instead.

Tourists

Thing - Entity

Human. If the Tourists share a Location with a non-Human Entity, return Tourists to their controller's hand.

John Peters

Thing - Entity

Human. Action: Draw a card, and either play it immediately or discard it.

The Traveller

Thing - Entity

Human. Action: Shuffle the Traveller and any Entity, Faction or Location into the draw pile.

Cactus June

Thing - Entity

Human. If Cactus June is at the Sand Wastes, you control the Sand Wastes.

Blood Pact Scout

Thing - Entity

Human.

Eternal Scout

Thing - Entity

Human. Immobile. Can only be played if Blood Pact Scout is in play. When Eternal Scout comes into play, destroy all other Humans.

Mayor Pamela Winchell

Thing - Entity

Human. While Mayor Pamela Winchell is at a Location other than the Sand Wastes, that Location's card text is considered to be blank.

Actions

Thanksgiving Day Dead Citizens Impersonation Contest

Action

Return a Human from the discard pile to play under your control.

Parade of the Mysterious Hooded Figures

Action

Return all Entities to their controllers' hands.

Sorrow Songs Singalong

Action

The player (if any) who controls the fewest Locations draws two cards. Then, the player (if any) who controls the fewest Entities draws two cards.

Dog Park Plastic Bags

Action

Destroy any non-Human Entity.

Annual Crime Day

Action

You may take any number of Actions this turn, but may not activate the same Action ability twice.

Emergency Dream Broadcast System

Action

Starting with you, each player reveals their hand, and puts into play any Human cards revealed in this way, in an order of their choosing.

Street Cleaning Day

Action

Starting with you, each player may choose one Location and destroy all Entities located there.

Road Closures

Action

Shuffle a Location into the draw pile.

Valentine's Day

Action

Starting with you, each player may choose and destroy a Human, and then destroy its Location.

Poetry Week

Action

Each player draws one card for each Human they control.

Sandstorm

Action

Until the end of the turn, each Human counts as two Entities for the purpose of determining Location ownership.