The World deck

World
Designers	Jeeves and Piter
Date	25th February 2003
Players	2-3
This is a playable deck - it's finished, tested and ready to play.
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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As a minor deity, you vie for total control of the World.

Special Rules

Terminology

Power refers to a player's combined total of power points, as calculated from the cards they control (have in play). A Power Card is a Thing card whose text contains a number by itself (plus any annotations). When you are instructed to destroy a card in play, this means you must move it to the discard pile. Finally, the Spivak pronouns are used in the card texts to avoid circumlocutions like he/she.

Energy Assimilation

On any of your turns, you may discard one of your power cards in play to play any additional card, avoiding the 1 Action / 1 Thing limitation.

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Card List

A Gamble

Action

Look at an opponent's hand. If that hand contains The World, you may take The World into your own hand; otherwise, reshuffle your entire hand into the draw pile, and draw five cards.

1

Always Coca-Cola

Thing -- Power Card

1

Ancient Superstitions

Thing -- Power Card

Astronaut

Thing

Your opponents must show you each card they draw as they draw it. You may not look at their cards at any other time, even if you have seen them before.

A Vision

Action

Take control of The Moon, if it is in play. You may play an additional action this turn.

Biological Weapon

Thing

Whenever an opponent controls Epidemic, you may take control of it.

Black Hole

Action -- Celestial Body

Target opponent skips their next turn.

Black Plague

Action

Deadly disease spreads easily through crowded areas. Target opponent must destroy a City they control.

Bloodless Coup

Action

Take control of a Power Card in play.

1

Care-A-Lot

Thing -- Power Card

Deconstruction

Action

Target opponent discards all Power Cards in their hand. If that player has no Power Cards in hand, they must instead destroy two Power Cards they control, of their choice.

1

Dictionopolis

Thing -- City, Power Card

Dextromethorphan

Action

Take control of Infinity, if it is in play. Shuffle this card into the draw pile.

Enlightenment

Action

You may only play this card if you have more than three cards in your hand and less than three power points in play.
Shuffle three cards from your hand into the draw pile and draw three more.

Entrenched Ruler

Thing

If an opponent takes any action which would cause you to lose control of a Power Card, you may discard this card to nullify all effects of that action.

Epidemic

Thing

At the end of each opponent's turn, that player must destroy a Power Card they control. Destroy this card when no opponent controls any Power Cards.

Ethidium Bromide

Thing

When you draw this card, you must play it immediately. While this card is in play, all players draw three cards instead of one each turn.

Firearms

Action

Destroy a Thing.

Floating-Point Exception

Action

Add or subtract 1 to any quantity on any Thing in play. This change stays in effect until that card is removed from play.

Grave Robber

Action

Take the top card from the discard pile into your hand.

1

Infinity

Thing -- Power Card

Kennedy Space Center

Action

Look at the top twelve cards of the draw pile. If any of them is The Moon, reveal it and put it into your hand; otherwise, put the next card of the draw pile into the discard pile, and look at the following two. If either of them is The Moon, reveal it and put it into your hand. Reshuffle the draw pile.

1

Large Ugly City

Thing -- City, Power Card

Lidless Eye

Action

Look at target opponent's hand. Each player then places one card from their hand on top of the draw pile. Reshuffle the draw pile. Each player then draws a card.

Life and Death

Action

Choose an opponent, and flip a coin. That opponent calls it in the air. If they calls incorrectly, you may destroy a Thing.

Lords of the West

Action

Destroy Thangorodrim.

Lunar Amplifier

Thing

The controller of The Moon draws one additional card per turn.

Lunar Energy

Thing

The controller of the Moon gains one power point.

Mandatory Meeting

Action

Exchange two cards at random with target opponent.

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Melkor

Thing -- Power Card

This card's power is 2 if you control Thangorodrim, 0 if an opponent controls it, 1 otherwise.

Methamphetamine

Thing

At the end of each turn, put the top card of the draw pile into the discard pile.

Misery

Action

Target opponent discards two cards at random. Put the top three cards of the draw pile into the discard pile.

Natural Selection

Action

Look at the top three cards of the draw pile, and put them back in any order. You may reshuffle the draw pile.

1

NR

Thing -- Power Card

1

Oil Well

Thing -- Power Card

Organic Chemistry

Action

Exchange hands with target opponent.

Parallel Universe

Thing

Action: Take any one card, other than the top card, from the discard pile and put it in your hand. You may not play any more cards this turn. At the end of this turn, give control of this card to an opponent of your choice.

Phase Two

Action

Give an opponent one card from your hand. Take another turn.

Predestination

Thing

Players play with their hands revealed. When Predestination is destroyed, you may draw one card.

Quid Pro Quo

Thing

Whenever an opponent causes you to lose control of a Power Card, that player must destroy a Power Card they control. If that player does so, destroy this card.

Relentless Force

Action

Discard any number of cards of your choice from your hand. Target opponent must discard the same number of cards, chosen at random.

Revolution

Action

Target opponent must shuffle one City they control into the draw pile.

Rewind

Action

Return any two Things target opponent controls to their hand. That opponent does not draw any cards on their next turn.

1

Sandy Beach

Thing -- Power Card

Second Chance

Action

Return any Thing you control to your hand.

Secret Weapon

Action

Set aside up to two cards from your hand. Draw that many cards. Place the cards set aside on top of the draw pile, in any order.

1

Standing Army

Thing -- Power Card

Control the masses with threats of violence.

Stasis

Thing

No new Power Cards may be played by any player.

Switcharoo

Action

Reveal one Power Card from your hand and shuffle it into the draw pile, then switch control of a Thing you control with a Thing controlled by an opponent.

Tactical Nuclear Strike

Action

You may play this card in response to any card other than a Celestial Body. If you do so, nullify any results of that play, and move that card to the discard pile.
If you play this card as your action for the turn, destroy a Thing.
Either way, you may not draw any cards on your next turn.

Take One for the Team

Action

Each player destroys a Power Card they control.

1

Thangorodrim

Thing -- Power Card

The End

Action

Search the draw pile for any card and add it to your hand, then reshuffle the draw pile.
Play this card only if you have three or more power points.

2

The Flame Imperishable

Thing -- Power Card

The Four Horsemen

Action

Destroy a thing, then shuffle this card into the draw pile.

The Moon

Thing -- Celestial Body

You may take up to two actions on each of your turns instead of just one.

1

The Tao

Thing -- Power Card

The World

Thing -- Celestial Body

Play this card only if you have five or more power points.

Thought Police

Action

"Sooner or later, they always get you."
Target opponent must discard one Action card.

Time Compression

Action

Exchange one card in your hand for any card in the discard pile. Draw one card. If you have more than five cards in your hand at the end of this turn, discard to the top of the draw pile.

2

Tiny Cities Made of Ashes

Thing -- City, Power Card

If you are required to destroy a Power Card in play, you must destroy this card.

1

Vishnu

Thing -- Power Card

Wake the Dead

Action

Reshuffle the discard pile into the draw pile.