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.

Cards 1-100

Cards 101-200

Cards 201-300

Cards 301-400

Cards 401-500

Cards 501-600

Cards 601-700

Cards 701-800

Cards 801-900

Cards 901-1000

Cards 1001-1100

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 "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 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.

Selected Sets

If you'd prefer a more compact subset of the deck, you may appreciate one of the following:

Superpower set, Token set

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.

"Things just happen, dammit!!!"

Thing

While this card is in play, no cards with the words "cosmos" or "universe" in them have any effect, and no-one can look through the deck for any reason.

Card by Depressi

"Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a ____!"

Action

Select any number of tokens under your control. Destroy them, and replace them with that many doctor tokens.

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Sickbay on the NCC-1701. A place to avoid, if you have a red shirt.

Card by Kyevan

1-up

Action

Play this card when you would be eliminated. Destroy one hundred tokens or Things to stay in the game

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Mario not-a die that easy!

Card by Kyevan

Mana Fount

Thing

For all non-victory purposes, all players are assumed to have an infinite amount of Mana Tokens.

Card by Depressi

Nixie

Thing-Uninteresting Person

Nixie may not be destroyed unless you have no other Things in play. Action: Have any two of your opponents switch hands. If you only have one opponent, draw a card instead.

Card by Depressi

[The Democracy Card]

Thing

This card's title, colour and text are decided by majority vote once it comes into play. Once this card has had its title, colour and text decided, it comes under the control of a random player.

Card by Corrigan

Under-Secretary's Second Assistant

Thing

Action: Look at the bottom card in the draw pile. If it is an Action, has a name that is fewer than 6 syllables and it is red, put it into your hand. Otherwise, shuffle the draw pile. You can only use this ability once every third turn of yours.

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I don't even know what I do.

Card by Corrigan

Hypnosis

Action

A chosen opponent discards a card at random.

Card by Kevan

Furnace

Thing

Action: Remove all cards in the discard pile from the game.

Card by Kevan

Destroy Everything

Action

Remove all cards in play, in the discard pile, in the draw pile, in players hands, or in any other location from play. This card may only be played for this effect when it is February 29th, it is the last card in the players hand, and it is raining in Tokyo. In all other situations, this card reads: "Draw a card."

Card by Kyevan

Codpiece

Thing - Supervillain

Action: Fire crotch-based laser - Destroy a Thing.

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Why, God, why did you let this exist!?

Card by Kyevan

The Orb

Thing

When The Orb would be destroyed by a Thing, destroy the Thing instead. When The Orb would be destroyed by an Action, ignore the Action. Your hand size is 3.
Action: Erase target Thing's Action ability.
Action: Draw 2 cards.

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It is The Orb.

Card by Corrigan

Monastic Lessons

Thing

Draw a card at the end of each turn of yours where you did not speak.

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"I'm glad to see we've moved on past the duct tape."

Card by Corrigan

Might Makes Right

Action

Arm-wrestle target player. The winner draws 3 cards.

Card by Corrigan

TFG: Transformation Gun

Thing

Action: Target living thing becomes male if female, and female if male or unknown.

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"Quite disturbing, seeing one's son like that." -- Mr. Verres, El Goonish Shive, 2003-01-27

Card by Kyevan

Dewitchery Diamond

Thing

Action: Target living thing which has become altered in form is cloned, one clone having the altered form and the other reverting to normal.

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"Put down the newspaper, dear." -- Mrs. Dunkle, El Goonish Shive, 2003-02-06

Card by Kyevan

Brick

Thing

This card represents a brick.

Card by Corrigan

Target Thing

Thing

Whenever the words 'target Thing' appear, it automatically applies to Target Thing.

Card by Corrigan

A Random Thing

Thing

Whenever a card's text includes the words 'a random Thing', it automatically applies to A Random Thing.

Card by Corrigan

The Element of Surprise

Thing

Action: Starting with you, each player draws a card and either plays it immediately or discards it.

Card by Kevan

Clearing the Air

Action

Starting with you, each player plays a card from their hand, if they have one, or discards a card. Repeat until every player's hand is empty.

Card by Kevan

Spiked Ceiling

Thing

As this comes into play, each player may discard any number of cards. If a player ever has five cards in their hand, they are immediately eliminated.

Card by Kevan

Counterproductivity

Thing

Whenever a player plays a card, they must also discard a card from their hand. Whenever a player would draw a card, they discard that many cards instead.

Card by Corrigan

What They Mean

Thing

All Money tokens have 'Action: Destroy X Money tokens and gain control of X÷2 Things'.

Card by Corrigan

Razorblade Candy

Action

Draw any number of cards and destroy twice that many Things you control.

Card by Corrigan

Full Steam Ahead

Thing

Action: Destroy five Things you control, to take another turn after this one.

Card by Kevan

Shadow Detachment

Action

Each player puts one Shadow token into play for every non-Token Thing they control.

Card by Kevan

Hell

Thing

When a card would go to the discard pile, you may instead remove it from the game.

Card by Kevan

Heaven

Thing

When a card would be removed from the game, you may instead send it to the discard pile. This can not negate the effects of Hell, nor can Hell negate these effects.

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With apology to Kevan....

Card by Kyevan

Poison

Thing

You may give Poison to any Player when you play it.

At the start of your turn, put a counter on Poison.
If Poison ever has 6 or more counters on it, you lose.

Card by Bucky

The Mute Button

Thing

Action: Target player cannot speak until the beginning of your next turn.

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You're really getting annoying.

Card by Corrigan

Guilt

Thing

Whenever a player destroys a Thing belonging to another player or causes another player to discard cards from their hand, they gain a Guilt token. Whenever a player has 4 Guilt tokens, they are eliminated from the game.
Action: Give control of a Thing you control to another player and destroy a Guilt token you control.

Card by Corrigan

Put All of Your Eggs in One Basket

Action

Draw X cards and skip your next X turns.

Card by Corrigan

Fake Ending

Thing

If a player would win the game, instead destroy this card and continue playing.

Card by Kevan

Facebook Viral

Action

Target opponent with a Facebook account must update their status to "is losing at Dvorak" and discard a card, or otherwise discard their hand.

Card by Kevan

Bonfire of the Vanities

Action

Each player secretly chooses a number of cards to discard. All players then discard that number of cards - if one player discarded more cards than all other players, they may draw three cards.

Card by Kevan

Zebra

Thing

If you control copies of this card, none of them can be destroyed. This card is white in addition to being black.

Card by Corrigan

Reality and Whatever

Thing

Things can only destroy Things that they would be capable of physically destroying in real life. Abstract Things cannot destroy tangible Things and vice-versa. All abstract Things are considered capable of destroying one another.

Card by Corrigan

AAAAAGH!

Action

Panic panic panic stress stress stress! Play all the cards in your hand! No time to draw for the next five turns! Aaagh! You have to screeeeam to do this!

Card by Corrigan

A Nice Cup of Tea

Action

Draw until you have five cards in your hand, and skip your next turn.

Card by Kevan

S5

Dude of Coral

Thing

Action: Change target Thing's text, colour and title to that of this card.

Card by Corrigan

Pity Party

Action

Each player draws a number of cards equal to the number of their relatives who died during the player's lifetime.

Card by Corrigan

Colourblind Society

Thing

No cards have any colour.

Card by Corrigan

Hyperload

Thing

At the start of each player's turn, that player must use every one of their Things' Action abilities. They all take effect simultaneously and do not count against any action frequency limits. (Ignore any Action abilities that cannot be legally used.)

Card by Bucky

5

Arbitrary renumbering

Thing

On all cards other than this one, replace all instances of "five" with "two" and all instances of '5' with '2'.

Card by Bucky

1L

Assassin's Dart

Action

Destroy target Thing which does not have another Thing played onto it, and has not been played onto another Thing.

Card by Bucky

Magic Mirror

Thing

Whenever an opponent plays an Action card, you may destroy Magic Mirror to play a copy of that Action.

Card by Kevan

Bean Machine

Thing

Whenever a card is added to any player's hand, it is added to the leftmost position. Only the rightmost card in a player's hand may be played. The order of cards in a hand may not be changed.

Card by Kevan

Glass Ceiling (Not Zaratustra's)

Thing

No player, under any circumstances, can control more than 20 Things, including this one. If a player controls 25 Things, they win. It is impossible to win otherwise.

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Figure this one out!

Card by Corrigan

Patriotism

Thing

When this card comes into play, destroy all Things whose colour is not one of the colours of the flag of the country in which the game is taking place. No card may be played if its colour is not one of the colours on the flag of said country. This card's colour is the colour of your choice, given that the colour appears on the country's flag.

Card by Corrigan

Wall of Wooden Fists

Thing

Each token counts as half a Thing.

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Why is this card called Wall of Wooden Fists?

Card by Corrigan

Work of Art

Thing

Play only if you control three Things. You may not play further Things. If a Thing you control leaves play, destroy this Thing. At the start of each of your turns, put an Artistic Value token into play. If you control five Artistic Value tokens, you win the game.

Card by Kevan

Packing Plant

Thing

If you control ten Crate tokens, you win the game. Action: Destroy a non-Token Thing you control and put a Crate token into play.

Card by Kevan

Zombie Attack

Action

Pick an opponent. Two random Things they control are destroyed.

Card by Kevan

L7

Pretend We're Dead

Reaction

Play at the end of any turn. Return each non-Token Thing that was destroyed this turn to play under your control.

Card by jtwe

T3h R4p7ur3

Action

Each player chooses a letter or number. Destroy each Thing whose title does not begin with one of the chosen letters or numbers.

Card by jtwe

Fake Out In Buenos Aires

Thing

At the start of your turn, choose a Thing with two or more words in its title and that does not have the word "Fake" in its title. Change one of the words in that card's title to "Fake".

If there are ten things in play with the word "Fake" in their titles, you win the game.

Card by jtwe

Archival Duty

Action

Play only if there are more than twenty Things in play. Destroy five Things.

Card by Kevan

Klansman

Thing

Action: Destroy target non-white Thing.

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"Why do people hate me? I'm supposed to hate!"

Card by Corrigan

Attack of the Graveyard from Beyond the Grave!

Action

Destroy a number of Things equal to the number of cards in the discard pile.

Card by Corrigan

Moon Prism Crystal Cosmic Crisis Eternal Power Make Up!

Action

In the turn this is played you are not affected by any cards with MOON, CRYSTAL, COSMIC, CRISIS, ETERNAL and PRISM ithe their names.

Card by Newecreator

Do

Action

When this card is played, each player writes down a text for an Action (which cannot be related to victory) on a piece of paper without showing it to any other player. Then, randomly select a player. This card's text is considered to be the text that the random player wrote down, with the same player making any decisions it calls for.

Card by Corrigan

Change the Course of History

Action

Shuffle the draw pile. You can play this card during another player's turn, but if you do, you can't play an Action on your next turn.

Card by Corrigan

3G

Killer Glare

Thing

The effects of your cards always override the effects of all other players' cards.

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"Don't make me glare at you."

Card by Corrigan

Berdina's Power

Action

In the turn this is played you will look to all your opponents hand and take all cards that are color green(of any shade) or cards with green in their names.

Card by Newecreator

Moon Kaleidoscopic Mirror Scepter

Thing

Action: Moon Healing Princess Spiral Rainbow Gorgeous Starlight Kiss!,Select an opponent and destroy all his/her controled things or destroy all your opponent's things with the card RAINBOW SAILORMOON .

Card by Newecreator

4B

Boost

Action

Draw two cards. You may take two extra Actions this turn.

Card by Bucky

Booming Echo

Action

Discard an Action card - you get to play two copies of it, and an opponent of your choice gets to play one copy of it.

Card by Kevan

Twist or Stick

Action

Draw and reveal a card. You may choose to repeat this any number of times, but if the revealed cards have a total of ten or more words in their titles, they must all be discarded and this card effect ends.

Card by Kevan

Strange Weather

Thing

Attach an Action card from your hand to this card. At the start of each player's turn, they must play a copy of that Action - it doesn't count towards their Action-per-turn limit.

Card by Kevan

Stop

Action

All of you opponents may not play any cards the next turn. Their Things in play still have effect.

Card by jtsang

Manga Attack!

Action

Discard a card when you play this. Destroy one target Thing, plus one more for every 2 words in the discarded card's title.

Card by Bucky

Shapeshifter

Thing

At the start of each of your turns, choose a living Thing in play. Until the start of your next turn, this is an exact copy of that Thing.

Card by Bucky

Eternal Cosmic Moon Power Bubble Color Blast

Action

Destroy target Token.

Card by Bucky

Grave Robbing

Action

Choose a Thing from the discard pile and put it into play under your control.

Card by Kevan

The Big Push

Thing

Whenever an Action is played, the player playing it must destroy a Thing they control, otherwise the Action has no effect.

Card by Kevan