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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 usually have individual types (such as "Energy" or "Goblin"); if a token has a type, that's also 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, Flavor set

Expansions

These expansions add cards and/or rules to games using the Infinite Dvorak deck or its subsets:

Dvanguard set, Dvanguard booster pack, Shroud booster pack, Illusion booster pack

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, 3901-4000, 4001-4100, 4101-4200, 4201-4300, 4301-4400, 4401-4500, 4501-4600, 4601-4700, 4701-4800, 4801-4900, 4901-5000, 5001-5100, 5101-5200, 5201-5300, 5301-5400, 5401-5500, 5501-5600, 5601-5700, 5701-5800, 5801-5900, 5901-6000, 6001-6100, 6101-6200.

8o

Meditation Medicine

Action - Potion

Draw cards until you have 3 cards in your hand (minimum draw 1).
--OR--
Throw - Target opponent discards cards until they have 2 cards in their hand (minimum discard 0).

Card by Bucky

9o

Freestyle Combo

Action

You may play a card from your hand that's a different color from all cards you've played this turn. If you do, draw a card and repeat this Action.
If you've played 7 different cards this turn, win the game.

Card by Bucky

b96d

nekoT

Action

Choose a token, reverse its name.

Where did I put that niw tnatsni token?

Card by Goldenboots

p0q

gnihT

Action

Choose a thing, reverse its name.

eibmoZ? edoN? drowS?

Card by Goldenboots

MC

Hammer

Thing

Can't touch this

Card by Goldenboots

Card Shark

Action

Instead of playing a Thing this turn, you may draw two cards.

Put all the cards in your hand Up Your Sleeve and draw that many cards. At the end of your next turn, put all cards in your hand on top of the deck in any order and put that many cards from Up Your Sleeve into your hand.

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 Create 3 Things with a title of one word, type “Thing — Spam”, and nothing else. Create also a copy of Spam. Shuffle all of these cards, and this one too, in the first 60 cards of the deck.
 |longtext=|flavortext=|creator=[[User:Lynx|Lynx]] ([[User talk:Lynx|talk]]) 02:38, 6 August 2015 (UTC)}}
+{{card|title=Rule Prohibiting Exclusion|type=Thing — Rule|bgcolor=465|creator=ChippyYYZ|text=If an effect would choose or target a card, any card in the same zone may be chosen regardless of restrictions (e.g. "target Thing you don't control", "untargetable", "search for a card named...").<BR>If an effect would choose or target a player, any player may be chosen regardless of restrictions.}}
+{{card|title=Rule Excluding Prohibition|type=Thing — Rule|bgcolor=465|creator=ChippyYYZ|text=Players can always draw and play cards. Things can always be targeted, edited, destroyed, and removed from play. Players can always take turns, win the game, and lose the game.}}
+{{card|title=Battle Formation|type=Thing|creator=ChippyYYZ|text='''Action: '''Rotate this card 90°.<BR>At the beginning of your turn, rotate this card 90°.<BR>Battle Formation is indestructible while it's pointing at you. Whenever you play a Thing, you may put a damage counter on a Thing controlled by the player Battle Formation is pointing at. Destroy that Thing if it is a Token or if it already had a damage counter.|flavortext=If there's an odd number of players, there's no one directly across from you.|longtext=tapthat|cornervalue=^}}
 <!-- {{card|title=|type=Action|text=|creator=|bgcolor=999|longtext=|flavortext=}} -->

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