Infinite Dvorak deck

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, 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. 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 every game.

(A good test is to open a random archive page from this 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 probably haven't worded it generically enough.)

• 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 effect, something 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 may or may not have individual types (such as "energy" or "goblin"); if a token has a type, it's 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.

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.

Spy

Thing

Action:target opponent reveals their hand.

Card by Jindra34

Cursed Book of Doom

Action

You lose. If this card is revealed to be in your hand outside of your turn you lose.

Card by Jindra34

Gift

Action

Give target card in your hand to target opponent.

Card by Jindra34

The Past-Seer

Thing

At any time, you may take the top card from the discard pile and shuffle it into the draw pile.

Card by Corrigan

The Present-Seer

Thing

At any time, you may ask any number of players to reveal their hands to you.

Card by Corrigan

The Future-Seer

Thing

At any time, you may see what the card on top of the draw pile is.

Card by Corrigan

Rainbow Declaration

Action

If there are 7 or more colors of cards in play you win.

Card by Jindra34

Whu?

Action

destroy target thing with more than 15 words in its rules text.

Card by Jindra34

The Abyss

Thing: Location

Whenever a card would be put in the discard pile instead remove it from play. This card is destroyed if the draw pile ever has fewer than 7 cards left in it or if another location is played.

Card by Jindra34

Who's That?

Action

Negate the effects of any card that makes reference to fictional or real people in their title.

Card by Corrigan

Death Wormhole

Thing-Quantum

Whenever a Thing is destroyed by another Thing, the card is placed in the hand of the player to the right of the player who controlled the destroyed card. Death Wormhole can only be destroyed by an Action.

Card by Corrigan

Slow Motion

Thing

Actions are not discarded immediately, but stay in play and in effect like Things. If an Action's effect would normally last for only one turn, it becomes a voluntary effect. Also, whenever a Thing destroys another Thing, the target Thing is treated as a blank Thing card and then is sent to the discard pile on the destroying card's controller's next turn.

Card by Corrigan

The Latest Thing

Thing

This card counts as a copy of the most recent Thing to be added to the Infinite Dvorak deck web page, excluding those added since the start of the current game.

Card by Kevan

Quicksand

Thing

Whenever a Thing uses an Action ability, destroy it at the end of the turn.

Card by Kevan

I'll Come In Again

Action

You may play this at any time. Take a previous card you played this turn back into your hand.

Card by Kevan

Og

Thing-Living

Destroy any number of Things whose titles contain more than one syllable every turn. If any player plays five cards with multi-syllabic names while Og is in play, eliminate her or him from the game.

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Og not get!

Card by Corrigan

Segregate

Action

Put all the cards in the discard pile into the draw pile. Shuffle the draw pile. Divide the draw pile up as evenly as possible among the players. All players now have their own draw pile and their own discard pile. Whenever a card is destroyed, it is sent to its owner's discard pile.

Card by Corrigan

!Yad Sdrawkcab S'ti

Action

Destroy every card in play whose title does not make a real word when it is spelled backwards. In the case of cards with more than word their title, only one word has to spell a real word backwards. The word, when spelled backwards, can also be the surname of a person that all the players know of. One-letter words are excluded.

Card by Corrigan

Foraging Trail

Thing

Whenever an opponent draws a card (unless it's the first card they've drawn that turn), you may also draw a card.

Card by Kevan

Kitchen Cupboards

Thing

Whenever a player would draw a card, they may choose to take a random card from an opponent's hand, instead.

Card by Kevan

Losing Height

Thing

At the start of each player's turn, they must destroy a Thing they control.

Card by Kevan

Battering Ram

Action

Put all of your Thing cards in a line so that the the top of the first card touches the bottom of the next one. The first card must touch the end of the playing surface closest to you. If the line of cards reaches across the playing surface and touches one of an opponent's cards, that player is eliminated.

Card by Corrigan

Corrosion of Conformity

Thing

Destroy all blue Things. No blue Things, red Actions or green Tack-Ons/Reactions may be played while Corrosion of Conformity is in play.

Card by Corrigan

Comet

Thing-Astronomical

At the beginning of this card's controller's turn, they must give control of Comet to the player to their left. If Comet is ever destroyed, it is returned to the draw pile in 10 turns.

Card by Corrigan

Monkey

Thing

At the beginning of each of your turns while the monkey is in play, pick a yellow thing currently in play and remove it from the game. If there is no yellow thing in play you must provide one from your hand. If you do not have a yellow thing in your hand, discard your whole hand and the monkey.

Card by Clucky

Light Filter

Thing

Draw a card from the deck and place it under this card so that the color of the card can been seen to all. While this card is in play, every card has the color of the card drawn.

Card by Clucky

Color Monopoly

Action

Show everyone one card from your hand. Each player must then give you every hand in their hand which matches in color with the card you showed them.

Card by Clucky

Trebuchet

Thing

Whenever a Thing comes into play under your control, you may destroy one other Thing you control to destroy any other Thing in play.

Card by Kevan

Fight Scene

Thing

Thing cards cannot be played. Any player may reveal a hand that contains no Action cards, to destroy Fight Scene.

Card by Kevan

Decimate

Action

Remove from the game a tenth of the Things in play, a tenth of each player's hand, a tenth of the deck and a tenth of the discard pile, rounding up in all occasions.

Card by Zaratustra

The UnThing

You may play this during your turn, if you put a Thing in play as well. Counts as a negative Thing. If you have less than zero Things at the start of your turn, win the game.

Card by Zaratustra

8

8-Ball

Thing

Whenever an opponent would any number of your Things, those Things are chosen randomly. If 8-Ball is destroyed in this manner, the player who destroyed it is eliminated from the game.

Card by Corrigan

Smart Aleck

Thing-Person

The card on top of the discard pile is still in effect unless its text contains the phrase 'as long as this card is in play'.

Card by Corrigan

Thickhead

Thing

No cards whose Type includes words such as 'Pun' or 'Ironic' have effect while this card is in play.

Card by Corrigan

Incredible Density

Thing

As long as this thing is in play it takes two card effects played during the same turn to destroy a thing.

Card by Jindra34

Double Time

Thing

As long as this card is in play players may play twice as many cards as normally allowed.

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Soldiers! MOVE OUT!

Card by Jindra34

Grammar good is not

Type

As long as this card is in play if any one speaks in proper english grammar they immediately are eliminated from the game.

Card by Jindra34

1

Uniquity

Thing

No cards may be copied for any reason. This includes self-copying. Also, no card may be played if it shares a name with a card currently in play.

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Everyone is special!

Card by Corrigan

Fe

Iron Fist

Thing

Any decisions that would be made by the majority are instead made by you. No other player may offer suggestions to you.

Card by Corrigan

Materialistic Book

Thing

No Things that do not represent actual physical things may be played.

Card by Corrigan

Let Me Try

Action

Choose a card from the discard pile which you haven't played yet this game, and put it into your hand.

Card by Kevan

U2

Bono

Thing-Person

At any time, you may change this card's colour to green or blue. Give the player with the fewest money tokens 10 money tokens. Also, negate the lingering effects of any Action cards. Whenever a location card is in play, you may choose to remove its effects at any time.

Card by Corrigan

Leader of the Good Spies Turns out to be the Leader of the Bad Spies' Sibling

Reaction

Play this card whenever a player looks at any card in another player's hand. The player whose hand is being looked at discards their hand. They then draw a new hand and can look at the hand of the player who looked at their hand initially.

Card by Corrigan

Uncle Joe Gives a Science Lesson

Action

For the next 4 turns, all numerical values on all cards in play are changed to infinity.

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"Y'see, there's an infinite amount of space between here and the edge o' the universe, and there's these particles that are infinitely tiny and there's an infinite amount of 'em in, like, everything."

Card by Corrigan

Quick Brown Foxes

Action

If the title's of a player's things contain every letter of the alphabet, that player wins. If this is true for more than one player, the player with the least number of total letters in the title of their things wins. "

Card by Clucky

Reverse Gravity

Thing

All players things are kept face down and can only be looked at by the player who owns the thing. All players hands must remain face up at all times. When this card is removed from play, the effect is reversed back to its original form."

Card by Clucky

Sky Islands

Thing-Location

When this card is played, shuffle all of the cards in the discard pile into the draw pile. For as long as this card is in play, if a card is in the discard pile for 5 turns, it is completely removed from the game.

Card by Corrigan

The Universe Flickers

Type

If you have had this card in your hand for 4 of your turns, you must play it. If you do not, you are eliminated from the game. When this card is played, all cards, including those in all players' hands, are considered to be completely blank.

Card by Corrigan