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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, Up Your Sleeve booster pack, Swords booster pack, Vintage 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.

F3

Aftertaste of Wisdom

Action

Draw two cards.

As long as Aftertaste of Wisdom is the top card of the discard pile, players have no maximum hand size.

"Well, everyone knows that."

Card by Corrigan

Rhinoceros

Thing - absurd

Any player with a Rhino token may not play any card or use any card ability. Such players may destroy a Thing under their own control once per turn. If all players except one (and at least 3) have Rhino tokens, the odd player out is eliminated. Then this and all Rhino tokens are destroyed.
Action (global) gain a Rhino token, unless the last player to play did so.

Concept by Ionescu.

Card by Goldenboots

0p

Blood Rage

Action

Whenever you destroy an opponent's Thing this turn, draw a card, or two if it's a living Thing. You may play any number of extra red Actions this turn and one extra non-red Action.

Card by Bucky

1q

Bloodbath

Action

Destroy all living Things and all tokens. Any surviving Things become the same color as this card.

Card by Bucky

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Smash The Machine

Action

Target Thing that automatically creates Tokens of a certain type, or automatically destroys Tokens of a certain type, has its text blanked. All Tokens of that type become Pointless Tokens.

Card by Goldenboots

2q

Swarm of Starving Rats

Action

Destroy all food and one other Thing.

They even ate my computer!

Card by Bucky

3q

Bottled Paper

Thing

When Bottled Paper is destroyed, put 3 blank cards in your hand.

Card by Bucky

Death Vortex

Thing

Whenever another nontoken Thing would be destroyed, put it on the bottom of the draw pile instead.

Card by Corrigan

Crush the Poor

Action

Eliminate target player if he or she has at least four fewer cards in hand than you.(The number of cards in your hand is checked after you play this card.)

Card by Corrigan

Debilitating Radiation

Action

Choose up to two target Things.

The Action: abilities of those Things can't be activated until your next turn.

Card by Corrigan

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Magic Cue Ball

Thing

Action: If your max hand size is greater than 5 and you have less than 5 cards in hand, draw a card.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Flip It Turn-Ways

Action

Exchange control of two target Things and reverse the turn order.

8^y

Card by ChippyYYZ

Scratch

Action

Shuffle all cards in play, in players' hands, and in the discard pile into the deck, then each player draws four cards.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Misleading Rumour

Action

Reveal the top three cards of the draw pile. An opponent of your choice chooses two of those cards and puts them on the bottom of the draw pile.

Draw two cards.

A clever man doesn't trust the story. A wise man doesn't trust the source.

Card by Corrigan

Psychic Generator

Thing

Whenever you would draw a card, before looking at it, you may predict the card's type, then reveal it. If you predicted correctly,put a charge counter on Psychic Generator. Otherwise, remove a charge counter from Psychic Generator.

When there are four or more charge counters on Psychic Generator, you win the game.

Card by Corrigan

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Lazy Susan

Action

All non-token things in play change ownership to the player immediately prior to the current owner in turn order. The previous owner can choose to send any Tokens attached to the Thing(s) along with them, or not (all or nothing).

It was JUST RIGHT HERE!

Card by Goldenboots

Weathervane

Thing

Comes into play with a North token. This card always has exactly one North, South, East, or West Token on it. Action: (global) Change the token on this card to another Token listed above.
When the token is...
North: No Actions may be played.
South: No Things may be played.
West: No Action abilities may be used.
East: No Thing abilities may be used.

The West wind is persistent

Card by Goldenboots

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Self-Denial

Thing

All Things must be played under the control of a target opponent, unless the player playing the Thing skips his/her Action this turn, and discards a card.

Looks better... over THERE

Card by Goldenboots

4q

Vertical Teleport

Action

Remove target Thing from play until the end of the turn. When it returns, it is destroyed.

Splat!

Card by Bucky

5q

Recall Device

Thing

Action:Return target Thing to your hand if you ever controlled it this game.

Card by Bucky

Empire of Skittles

Thing

At the beginning of your turn, if you control tokens of at least five different types, you win the game.

Card by Corrigan

Lit Dynamite

Thing

When Lit Dynamite enters play, you lose the game.
When you discard Lit Dynamite, you lose the game.
Action: Reveal Lit Dynamite from your hand, then discard a card at random. Put Lit Dynamite into target opponent's hand, then that player discards a card at random.

Card by Corrigan

Closed-Circuit Television

Thing

Whenever you become the target of an Action or ability an opponent controls, draw a card.

Card by Corrigan

6q

Cardboard Poisoning

Thing

Whenever a player draws a card, they gain a Toxin token.

Any player who controls 4 or more Toxin tokens is eliminated at the end of each turn.

Card by Bucky

7q

Reshape

Action

Destroy target non-living Thing with no cornervalue. Gain two tokens of any one type.

Made from 100% recycled paper

Card by Bucky

Windswept Rock

Thing

No matter what any other card says, this card may not be edited, turned over, renamed, destroyed, or blanked. It can never have a cornervalue or flavour text, and its colour may never be changed. No tokens may ever be placed on this card. The right of Goldenboots to be recognised as the author of this card is inviolable.

Card by Goldenboots

Forced Upgrade

Action

Destroy a Thing with no Action abilities and replace it with a Thing card from your hand that has an Action ability.

Card by Kevan

Techno-Core Generator

Thing

Action: Put a Thing you control or a card from your hand face-down underneath Techno-Core Generator.
Action: If there is a card underneath Techno-Core Generator, draw a card.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Token Booster Pack

Action

Gain three different Tokens of any types you choose, then draw a card.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Cease-Fire Aegis

Thing

If a Thing you control would be destroyed by an Action, then instead Things controlled by the player who played that Action can't be destroyed until their next turn.
When an Action you play destroys a Thing, put Cease-Fire Aegis in the discard pile.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Back in Business

Action

Bring back a card from the discard pile into game under your control.
It's indestructible until it leaves play.

...and this time we're here to stay.

Card by NinjaWookiee

Transparent Suitcase

Thing

You can put cards from your hand on the table, frontside up so everyone can see them. They still count as in your hand, but you ignore them when determining the number of handcards.
If Transparent Suitcase gets destroyed take back those cards.

Card by NinjaWookiee

Brain-Jellyfish of Mental Crippling

Thing

Your handcardlimit is reduced by 1.
At the beginning of your enemies turn (before drawing) that player discards a card.
Thing: An enemy of your choice gets 1 Braintumor token with the ability "Your handcardlimit is reduced by 1" and you get 1 Brainjuice token with the ability "Your handcardlimit is raised by 1".
No player can have more than 3 Braintumor or Brainjuice tokens.

Card by NinjaWookiee

8q

Rocket Launcher

Thing

Enters play with an Ammo Token on it.
Action:If this has any Ammo Tokens on it, remove one of them and destroy another target Thing.

Card by Bucky

9q

Reload

Action

Return a Thing you control to your hand and draw two cards. You have no hand size limit this turn.

Card by Bucky

5pt

Fine Printer

Thing

Action Erase a Fine Print from this card and add it to the ruletext of target Thing; toss a coin: destroy this on Tails.

Fine Print destroy this after using any Action or Thing ability

Fine Print To use any Action or Thing ability of this Thing, costs an Energy token

Fine Print Destroy this and Fine Printer at the end of your turn

Card by Goldenboots

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Unperson

Thing

If a Token with the same name as a card author is on this, no Action cards by that author may be played and Thing cards by that author are considered blank.

Thing create a Token of any type on this card.

Action and Thing (any player) Discard a card to create a Token of any type except Goldenboots on this card.

Card by Goldenboots

Future Echo

Action

Put a Thing you control on top of the deck, then look at the top 3 cards of the deck and put them back in any order.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Wraithform

Action

Draw a card, then set all Things you control and all cards in your hand aside until the beginning of your next turn. Skip your next turn. You can't lose the game until your next turn.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Blow Into The Cartridge

Action

Each player discards their hand. Shuffle the discard pile and all cards that have been removed from the game into the deck. Each player draws four cards.
This action cannot be countered or negated.

Card by ChippyYYZ

11

Catastrophe Prevention

Thing

Action: If this card ever leaves play or your control, all players lose the game.

"Such a doomsday device would only be an effective deterrent if everybody knew about it."

Card by AldusValor

11

Gray Eleven

Action

Draw 11 cards, choose and play one of them. Remove the rest from the game.

"I can't change any possible futures, Mr. North, but I can pick the least unpleasant one"~Simon Slate

Card by AldusValor

11

North's Hourglass

Thing

This card comes into play with 11 time coutners on it
Action: At the beginning of your turn, remove a time counter from North's Hourglass. If no counters remain, all players discard their hands and this card is shuffled into the deck.

Card by AldusValor

Flux Capasitor

Thing

Everytime you draw a card you may choose to either draw from the discard pile or the bottom of the deck instead of drawing from the top of the deck.

Card by NinjaWookiee

Check The Sucker Box

Action

Choose: Bring back a card that was removed from game and put it in your hand; or choose a card that was created but not added to the game for some reason and put it in your hand.

Card by NinjaWookiee

It's all about the numbers

Thing

Add a time counter on this card at the end of your turn. When there are 5 or more time counters are on this card, end the game.
Numbers on cards that are not cornervalues are added to the controllers points. At the end of the game the player with the most points wins.

This card worth 10 extra points.

Card by NinjaWookiee

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Ever-Expanding Card Game

Action

All players have 1 added to their hand limit.

Card by Goldenboots

QQ

No Coherent Theme

Thing (Zombie)

While this is in play, all Money tokens are considered Nodes and all other Things have the additional ruletext "except during the turn this was played" at the end of each sentence. Cards with cornervalues consisting of more than one character have their cornervalues reversed (A1 -> 1A)

Card by Goldenboots

Spell Stowaway

Thing

At any time, if there isn't a card under Spell Stowaway, you may put a card from your hand under it face-down.

Whenever an opponent would play an action card whose title contains a character in the cornervalue of a card under Spell Stowaway, you may first play a copy of that action and put all cards under Spell Stowaway into the discard pile.

Card by ChippyYYZ

df3

Force Screen

Action

Gain 3 Shield Tokens. These tokens have "If a non-Shield Token Thing you control would be destroyed by a card you don't control, destroy a Shield Token instead.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Shroud of Obscuring

Thing

At the beginning of your turn, put a Fog Token on a random Thing.
Things with a Fog Token cannot be targeted by Actions.
Other things with 2 Fog Tokens are blank.
Any time a thing has 3 Fog Tokens, remove it from the game.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Forgotten City

Thing

Forgotten City can't be targeted by Actions.

Action: Each player draws a card.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Passing Darkness

Action

Players can't draw cards until your next turn.

Instead of playing a Thing this turn, you may choose that players can't play Things until your next turn.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Remembrance

Action

Shuffle the discard pile and Remembrance into the deck.

If Remembrance is in any zone where you can read it, you may play it as though it were in your hand.

Card by ChippyYYZ

0q

Victory Feast

Thing

When you play Victory Feast, gain a Food token.
Action:Thing: Destroy two of your Things to gain a Food token.
Action+Thing: Pay one Food token per remaining player to win the game (minimum 3).

Card by Bucky

1r

Ego Blast

Action

Destroy a Thing. If its controller has a Persona, they lose 2 life.

Card by Bucky

2r

Persona's Boon

Action

Target player with a Persona gains or loses 3 life,
OR destroy all green Things and draw a card,
OR search the deck for a card that has been shuffled into it from elsewhere, move it to your hand, and shuffle the deck.

Card by Bucky

Thoughtsieve

Thing

Once per turn, when the deck is shuffled, you may look at the top two cards. You may put one of them into the discard pile.
Whenever one or more cards would be shuffled into the deck, you may destroy Thoughtsieve to put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on top of the deck, then shuffle the deck.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Dualcharge

Thing

When Dualcharge enters play, your turn ends.
You can't draw cards.
When you play an Action, put Dualcharge into the discard pile and play a second copy of that Action.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Personal Familiar

Thing

Personal Familiar counts as both a Thing and a Player under its controller's control with 5 life and starting/max hand size 2. At the end of your turn, Personal Familiar takes a turn.
It has "Action or Thing: Move a Skill card from your hand to your controller's hand." and "Action and Thing: Reveal a card from your hand and move it to your controller's hand."

Card by ChippyYYZ

Please keep Religion out of this

Thing

This card is indestructible. Religion- and blasphemy-related cards except this one are banned. Banned cards in play are continuously removed from the game and have no effect. Players may reveal banned cards from their hand and remove them from the game to draw a card.

Card by Lynx (talk) 19:57, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

10

Πυθαγόρας

Thing — Philosopher

Action: create or destroy Number Tokens until you have 10 of them.

Action (Global): destroy two cards you control. If the addition of a number on the first card with a number on the second one gives a perfect square, gain control of Πυθαγόρας.

When Πυθαγόρας is destroyed, create a Gold Token.

Card by Lynx (talk) 19:57, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

465

Random Humour

Action

Collect 1d6 Humour Tokens. Discard a card. Remove the first card of the deck from the game. Every other player destroys one Thing of his own. If a player has 23 Tokens of a kind, he doubles them. Draw 3 cards.

Card by Lynx (talk) 19:57, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Infector Microtoken

Thing

Action: Destroy target non-Token Thing if its controller controls less than 3 tokens. Shuffle Infector Microtoken and a copy of itself into the deck.

Its microscopic size renders it vulnerable to organisms small enough to detect it.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Lux Cannon

Thing

Once during your turn, you may either put an Energy Token on Lux Cannon, or you may remove three Energy Tokens from Lux Cannon and remove target Thing from the game.

Card by ChippyYYZ

705

Humour Random

Action

Put a Random Token onto every Thing. Remove target Thing from play until the end of the turn. Target player plays the top card of the deck. Destroy target Thing. Repeat the effects of any Action you played on your previous turn. Each player discards his hand, then draws a card.

Card by Lynx (talk) 19:57, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

228

Random SPAAARTAAAA

Action

Draw a card for each Random Token, Homour Token and SPAAARTAAAA!1!! Token in play. If the sum of the digits of the cornervalues of the cards in your hand is 24, you win.

Card by Lynx (talk) 19:57, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

2E

Closed Economy

Thing

When a card would have someone create Tokens, but doesn't explicitly say to create them, what it really means is that that someone has to take that number of Tokens from another player (e.g., this applies when it says to ‘collect’, ‘put’, ‘gain’ or ‘double’ Tokens).

Card by Lynx (talk) 19:57, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Immune System

Thing

When Immune System enters play, look at target opponent's hand.
Action and Thing: Create a Token of any type. It has "You may ignore any effects that cards with the same name as this Token would have on you or your cards/tokens."

Card by ChippyYYZ

Encrypto-Ware

Action

Set aside two random cards from target player's hand face-down (they are not in play) and put two Encryption Tokens under your control on each of them.
When either card has no Encryption Tokens on it, return that card to that player's hand.

Card by ChippyYYZ

PCR

Player Conservation Rule

Thing — Rule

If a player would lose, instead he gains an Asymmetric Rule Token with “Your maximum hand size is reduced by 1. On your turn you have only one Action or Thing”.

Card by Lynx (talk) 19:57, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

RPR

Rule Protection Rule

Thing — Rule

Rules and Laws, including this one, are indestructible, unremovable, undeletable, unblankable and untargetable.

Card by Lynx (talk) 19:57, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

1B

Burn the originals

Action

Burn any paper-based item (like a book or a card) or a Rule or Law. Burned things are effectively removed from the game, but in order to resist this effect they must be specifically unburnable.

Card by Lynx (talk) 04:45, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Actors' Guild

Thing

You may play an additional Action each turn.
When a player has more Money Tokens than each other player, that player gains control of Actors' Guild.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Liquidate

Action

Destroy target Thing. Its controller may gain 3 Money Tokens or 3 Water Tokens.

How literally do you want to take it?

Card by ChippyYYZ

L100

Final Boss

Thing — Asymmetric Rule

This card is untargetable.

This substitutes the rules for your turn: “N is the number of other players when this card is played. At the start of your turn, you draw 5+N cards. Then you may play N+1 cards and 1 Thing's Action or Thing or Action+Thing, in any order. Your hand size is unlimited.”

You are immune to status effects (e.g., poison). If you lose everyone else in the world wins (even if they had lost).

Card by Lynx (talk) 19:57, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

3

Rock Paper Scissors Freeform Tournament

Thing

When this card is played, each player creates a Rock Token with ‘Action: destroy a Paper’, a Paper Token with ‘Action: destroy a Scissors’, and a Scissors Token with ‘Action: destroy a Rock’.
If a player hasn't any Rock, Paper or Scissors in play, he is eliminated.

Card by Lynx (talk) 19:57, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Spam

Action

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.

Card by Lynx (talk) 02:38, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Rule Prohibiting Exclusion

Thing — Rule

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...").
If an effect would choose or target a player, any player may be chosen regardless of restrictions.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Rule Excluding Prohibition

Thing — Rule

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 by ChippyYYZ

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Battle Formation

Thing

Action: Rotate this card 90°.
At the beginning of your turn, rotate this card 90°.
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.

If there's an odd number of players, there's no one directly across from you.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Lawyers’ Guild

Thing

You play Rules, Laws and paper items for free.
When a player has more Rules, Laws and paper items combined than all the other players combined, that player gains control of Lawyers’ Guild.

Card by --Lynx (talk) 14:11, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Blast from the Past

Action

Put the Thing closest to the bottom of the discard pile into play under your control.

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+{{card|title=Super Action|type=Action|text=Discard some cards.  If you discarded at least<br>
+'''1:''' Destroy a Thing<br>
+'''2:''' Draw a card<br>
+'''3:''' Gain control of all tokens<br>
+'''5:''' Everyone else discards their hand<br>
+'''8:''' Eliminate target player
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+{{card|title=Fair Trade|type=Action|text=Choose an opponent and a Thing you control.  They trade one of their non-token Things of their choice for your chosen Thing.|cornervalue=6t|creator=Bucky|bgcolor=700}}
+{{card|title=Emergency Dispatcher|type=Thing - Robot|text=When an opponent plays an Action card, you may use an Action ability in response. <br>'''Action:'''Return one of your Things to your hand, then discard a random card.|cornervalue=7s|creator=Bucky|bgcolor=007}}
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