Infinite Dvorak deck
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| The Infinite Dvorak Deck | |
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| 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.) | |
 Print this deck | |
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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
0F
OfficeThing
This card counts as a room. If five or more cards that count as, or players agree should count as, office supplies are played on this card the player who controls it wins.
Card by Ryan_1729
Brand Loyalty
Thing
A player may not play a Thing card if they already control a Thing card designed by a different card designer (except for this card). When this card comes into play, each player may destroy any number of Things they control.
Card by Kevan
Cheap Knock-Off
Thing
When you play this card, pick a Thing - if that Thing has an Action ability, this card has a copy of that ability. After using this card's Action ability, it is destroyed.
Card by Kevan
Googlewar
Thing
Action: Choose a Thing; its controller also chooses a Thing. Use Google to search for each of the cards' titles, within quotes - the one that gets the fewest results is destroyed.
Card by Kevan
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Coffee Cupthing
This card counts as an office supply. When this card comes into play, create five caffine tokens. Action:Draw one card for every caffine token you have. These cards do not count toward your hand size limit. Then, destroy a caffine token.
Card by fanofphilosophy
*%^@
Vengence Induced Rampageaction
Total up the amount of your things destroyed plus the amount of cards discarded from your hand. Tokens don't count. Put that many cards in the discard pile. These cards may come from things in play, player's hands, or the draw pile. Tokens don't count.
Card by fanofphilosophy
1st ed
Rouf Draftaction
Write down a card with any number of spellin and/or grammer me stakes. On your next turn, it goes under your control unless all the mistakes are fixed. If they are, it may be proposed in the normal fashion. If cards cannot be proposed and edited, this card reads:Draw a card.
Card by fanofphillosophy
Blank White Card
Thing
When you play this card, draw a picture on it. If online, change its status to include a picture.
Card by Bucky
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Bargin Shopperaction
You may give a number of cards from your hand to any other player's or players' hand(s). Then draw twice as many cards. At the end of your turn but before your discard phase, discard half of the cards remaining in your hand, rounding down.
Card by fanofphilosophy
F6
Elastic bandThing
This card counts as an office supply. Action: Target a player. Flip a coin, if heads you hit them and they get a Welt token. If tails nothing. Either way Elastic band is now in front and in control of the target player. Welt tokens cannot be affected except by cards that specifically say they affect Welt tokens. If a player gets five welt tokens they lose.
Card by Ryan_1729
Bodyguard
Thing
If an Action played by an opponent would reveal or affect cards in your hand, it instead has no effect.
Card by Kevan
Beyond Infinity
Action
All players discard their hands. If you're playing on DvorakMUSH, choose a 100-card subpage of the Infinite Dvorak Deck to load in, replacing the existing deck. (Create new Thing cards to match those that were previously in play.) All players then draw five cards.
Card by Kevan
Reverse the Polarity of the Neutral Flow
Action
Play in response to a player playing any Action - each other player automatically plays that Action themselves, and the original Action has no effect.
Card by Kevan
Paper Clip
thing
This thing counts as an office supply. Action: Destroy a thing you control. Another thing you control now has the effects of the destroyed thing in addition to its own. If the latter is destroyed, the former goes back into play.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Deja Vu
Action
Choose an opponent. If they played any cards last turn, return those cards to their hand. On their next turn, they can only play the same Things and Actions as on their previous turn.
Card by Kevan
Dumpster Diving
Thing
Any time anyone other than you discards a card, you may choose to place it in your hand instead of the discard pile.
Card by MagiMaster
Word Surgery
thing
Action: Destroy a word on any card in play. You may remove a word on one of your cards to replace the word on the affected card.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Wooden Bomb
thing
If this card is in your hand, discard a card for every turn it's been there. If this card is on the top of the discard pile, destroy a card from the draw pile for every turn Wooden Bomb has been on the top of the discard pile. Action:Destroy Wooden bomb. Move a card from the discard pile to the draw pile for every turn Wooden Bomb has been in play.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Desperado
action
Destroy fifty non-token things in play. If you have done this with this card, you win.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Scrubot Mk. III
Thing
Action:Shuffle as many cards as you want from the discard pile into the draw pile.
Card by Bucky, based on one by Kevan
Virus
Thing - Bug
When you destroy Virus, you may give control of it to an opponent.
Card by Kevan (Programming deck)
Expensive Bribe
Action
Take control of a Thing, and give all cards in your hand to its former controller.
Card by Bucky
Solve for X
Action
Play when another player plays a card that involves them choosing the value of a variable. You choose the value the variable instead.
Card by Ryan_1729
Cargo Pants
Thing
When played, draw five cards and put them face down under this card. Action: Swap the cards in your hand with the cards under this Thing.
Card by CashCrazed
Person
thing
When you play this card, choose a thing that would require a person to run it. As long as Person is in play, any "Action:" on that card does not count toward the limit. It may still only be used once per turn, however.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Must See TV
Action
Each opponent chooses a token they control. Gain control of the chosen tokens.
Card by jtwe
Sir Papacharino Nanadan
Thing
At the start of your turn, gain a Pochi token. Action: Destroy a token you control to draw a card. Flip a coin. Heads: You may play another action this turn.
Card by jtwe
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History Eraser ButtonThing
At the start of your turn, put a Temptation counter on this card. Action: Remove this card, the discard pile, and each player's hand from the game. Flip a coin. Heads: Draw a card for each Temptation counter that was on this card. Any player may play this action.
Card by jtwe
OOOOO
Standardized TestThing
No player may lose the game (people can still win, though). No thing may go to the discard pile from play except for Standardized Test. In exactly one hour and fifteen minutes, destroy Standardized Test.
Card by fanofphilosophy
R
Winds of ChangeAction
Each player shuffles his or her hand into the deck. Then, each player draws as many cards as they had in their hand. Any player may cancel this Action by paying you coins worth at least one American dollar, or by giving you control of 4 Money-related tokens they control.
Card by jtwe
Eat the Rich!
Action
Target player who has at least 9 cards in his or her hand loses the game.
Card by jtwe
3P
Hand EnrichmentAction
All players draw cards equal to the greatest maximum hand size of any player, then discard down to their maximum hand size. You may take an extra Action this turn.
Card by Bucky
5T
The Power of TAction
If you control at least 5 cards representing Things, and all of their names begin with T, you win. Otherwise, put 5 Tokens into play.
Card by Bucky
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Reduce!thing
All hand sizes are reduced by one. If a card has a near-same effect to one a player already controls, that player is not allowed to play it. If someone needs to discard (at any time), (s)he gives the card or cards to another player.
Card by fanofphilosophy
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Reuse!thing
Draw three cards from the discard pile. All hand sizes are increased by two. When any player is to draw from the draw pile, (s)he draws from the discard pile.
Card by fanofphilosophy
1V
Minority Rules!Thing
The minority wins all non-unanimous votes as long as this card is in play.
Card by Ryan_1729
If you're going to shout, i'm not going to listen.
Thing
All sentences, cornervalues and titles containing exclamation points are ignored.
Card by Ryan_1729
Jihad
Action
Destroy one Thing belonging to every opponent with a religion different from yours.
Card by CashCrazed
Tough On The Causes
Thing
Whenever the Action ability of a Thing is used, destroy that Thing at the end of the turn.
Card by Kevan
Note from the Future
Action
The first time you play this card, you may search through the draw and discard pile, and every player's hand, then take any card from anywhere in the game and put it into your hand. If you play this card, you may not win the game until after you have played it again.
Card by Kevan
Insurance Policy
Thing
Whenever a non-Token Thing you control is destroyed, you may either draw a card or generate two Money Tokens.
Card by Kevan
Big Money
Action
Choose one - Exchange a Money-related Thing you control for any Thing in play; or, gain 5 Money tokens and 1 Spin token.
Card by jtwe
No Whammies
Thing
At the end of each player's turn, if that player controls no non-Token things, he or she gains a Whammy token. A player with 4 Whammy Tokens loses the game.
Card by jtwe
Stop
Thing
Whenever any player plays an Action which affects this card, they skip their next turn.
Card by jtwe
Commune
Thing
All Things are considered to be controlled by all players. If a card references a Thing's "controller", it refers to whoever's turn it currently is.
Card by Kevan
Chameleon
Thing
If you control another non-token Thing, Chameleon cannot be targetted by Actions. Action: Destroy a token.
Card by Kevan
No Tea
Thing
Give this card to any player when it is played. You may draw cards only on your turn, and you may draw at most one card per turn. If you play or control "Tea", destroy this card.
You are carrying: an atomic vector plotter, the thing your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is, and no tea.
You are carrying: an atomic vector plotter, the thing your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is, and no tea.
Card by jtwe
No dumping
Action
As long as this card is on top of the discard pile all discarded cards move to a separate pile, out of play.
Card by Ryan_1729
Everybody do the shuffle!
Action
Shuffle the deck, shuffle the discard pile, shuffle every player's hands into one pile and deal them back out. If online and some of this isn't possible, do as much as you can.
Card by Ryan_1729
Writing Utensil
thing
This card counts as an office supply. Action:Change the type of any number of your tokens.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Paper Weigh
action
Using only the cards from your hand and things you control, build a house of cards. Pile tokens, represented by coins, on top. You may draw cards equal to however many coins stay on before it collapses. If playing online, this card reads Draw a card.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Death, then Resurrection
Action
Destroy a card under an opponent's control then immediately play the card that is on top of the discard pile as if it was in your hand. That card doesn't count toward any hand size or cards played per turn limits.
Card by Ryan_1729
I0
Objectable ActionsThing
All Action cards with titles that imply that the card could be considered an object no longer have any effect (they are still playable though.)
Card by Ryan_1729
R0
RO, RO, RO, your boatThing
Whenever a card with "ro" (excluding this one) on it comes into play you have the choice to destROy it, contROl it, or let it dROp (do nothing.)
Card by Ryan_1729
Convenient Disposal
Thing
You may negate the effect of any Action(including those originated by Things) by eating the card responsible. If playing online, discard this card and draw another.
Card by CashCrazed
D13
Fight to the deathThing
On their turn anyone who controls one or more living Things may challenge anyone else who controls one or more living Things to either a best two of three match of rock-paper-scissors or to Risk-style combat with one living thing representing a soldier. The Thing(s) that lose are then discarded. Any variants of the above games may also be used.
Card by Ryan_1729
31D
Death to the fightThing
When this card comes into play the other players are no longer your enemies, no one is trying to win(no one can), the object of the game is to help, not hinder your fellow players. AKA: Peacetime. Anyone may, on their turn perform the following actions. Action: Change to Peacetime. Action: Change to Wartime. AKA: Business as usual.
Card by Ryan_1729
Chocolate Coating
Thing
Play onto another Thing. That Thing's card text is considered to be blank.
Card by Kevan
Garbage Disposal
Thing
Whenever a card would be moved to the discard pile, remove it from the game instead.
Card by Kevan
Fight Club!: the Musical
Action
Choose a Thing in play. Then, choose a different Thing in play at random. If both Things are controlled by the same player, destroy them both.
Card by jtwe
Crystal Ball
Thing
Action: Target player may show you any number of Action cards from their hand. During that player's next turn, he or she may not play any Action cards which he or she did not show you.
Card by jtwe
Go Fish
Action
Target a player and name a card. Look at that player's hand. If he or she has a card with that name in his or her hand, steal it and put it in your hand.
Card by jtwe
Blue magic whitener
Thing
All white card backgrounds are considered blue, and vice versa, while this card is in play. Action: give control of this card to an Opponent, and move a random card from their hand to yours.
Card by Depressi
Whippin' Cupcakes
Reaction
Play when a Thing would be destroyed to prevent its destruction.
If this card is in the discard pile, the current player may destroy a Food-related Thing he or she controls to put this card in his or her hand.
If this card is in the discard pile, the current player may destroy a Food-related Thing he or she controls to put this card in his or her hand.
Card by jtwe
Hammer Darts
Thing
Action: Destroy a randomly chosen non-token Thing. Any player may play this action.
Card by jtwe
^_^
im in ur baseAction
Destroy up to three Things and skip your next turn.
When you destroy a Thing controlled by an opponent, if this card is in your hand, you may reveal it to draw a card. You may do this only once per turn.
When you destroy a Thing controlled by an opponent, if this card is in your hand, you may reveal it to draw a card. You may do this only once per turn.
Card by jtwe
Gostak Attack
Action
If 'to distim' hasn't been defined yet, ask a opponent to define it before you play this. Target opponent distims one card in play.
Card by Zaratustra
Gostak Attack
Action
If 'to distim' hasn't been defined yet, ask a opponent to define it before you play this. You distim one card in play.
Card by Zaratustra
Gostak Attack
Action
If 'to distim' hasn't been defined yet, ask a opponent to define it before you play this. All players distim one card in their hands.
Card by Zaratustra
Keeping up with the Joneses
Action
Destroy all of your tokens to receive copies of all the tokens an opponent has.
Card by Ryan_1729
0
Destroy Everything!Thing
If the entire deck is in the discard pile and/or removed from the game, (except this card, obviously,) you win.
Card by Ryan_1729
The Pot
Thing
Any player may choose to skip their turn and put a counter on this card. When this card is destroyed, the player(s) with most counters on it win(s).
Card by Zaratustra
Elephant Stampede
Action
Destroy any living Thing, Robot, or any other thing that would be destroyed by being trampled by an elephant.
Card by Ryan_1729
Fb
Cyborg-Thing
Play on any Thing, that thing now counts as a living Thing and a Robot.
Card by Ryan_1729
Glue
thing
This card counts as an office supply. When this card comes into play, choose two cards. If either card leaves play, the other card leaves play in the same manner.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Laptop
thing
If this card is to be destroyed, you may instead create a drain token and put Laptop in your hand. When Laptop comes into play, it may not use its action for X amount of turns, where X is the number of drain tokens you control. Action:Draw a card or look at a card in an opponent's hand.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Electrician
thing
For every thing in play which runs on electricity, all Action:, though only useable once per turn, do not count toward the action limit. This effect ends when Electrician leaves play.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Lessons of History
Action
A chosen opponent must correctly name three cards in the discard pile, without looking, or discard three cards at random. (If there are fewer than three cards in the discard pile, this card has no effect.)
Card by Kevan
Hand to Mouth
Thing
At the end of each player's turn, that player must discard their hand.
Card by Kevan
Bored Now
Action
Destroy a single Thing which was in play during your previous turn, and your turn before that.
Card by Kevan
Enjoy the Silence
Reaction
Play in response to an Action which requires any player to speak, sing, or otherwise make noise to cancel that action. Or, play at the end of an opponent's turn during which they did not play a card to draw cards equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.
Card by jtwe
Careless Movers
Thing
Whenever a Thing changes controllers, flip a coin. Tails: Destroy that Thing.
At the start of your turn, give control of a random non-token Thing to a random player.
At the start of your turn, give control of a random non-token Thing to a random player.
Card by jtwe
333
Power of ThreeAction
Put three cards from the discard pile into your hand. If this card was played third, skip your discard phase this turn. This card does not count toward the card per turn limit if it was the third card played this turn.
Card by fanofphilosophy
I&O
MonopolyThing
If you are the only player who controls any things in play, all the effects of your cards are doubled. This includes tokens. Monopoly is exempt from its own effect.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Three-Fold Law of Return
Thing
Whenever a player plays an Action that targets an opponent, or a Thing belonging to an opponent, that opponent may immediately discard up to three cards, to play them as duplicates of that Action. (These duplicate Actions do not trigger this card.)
Card by Kevan
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Name GameThing
All players reveal their first name, or at least how many letters it contains. Players are not allowed to directly say, write or type the number of the letters in their name. ex. Name:Ryan. 4:No 3+1,:OK If a player says this number they must discard a card. If they have no cards and say it they are eliminated.
Card by Ryan_1729
55555
Power of FiveAction
Discard your hand, then draw five new cards. You may play more than one action this turn if you play five actions total this turn.
Card by fanofphilosophy
2357
Prime power!Action
Play a prime number of cards from your hand that have cornervalues with prime numbers in them or have prime numbers in the title. Then, destroy a prime number of non-token things that you control (Remeber, 1 is not a prime). You must do all parts of this card in order to use any part of this card.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Shoot to Kill
Thing
Play only if every player has at least three cards in their hand. If a player's hand becomes empty, they are eliminated.
Card by Kevan
Zerg Rush
Thing
Action: Destroy a Thing or token you control, to force an opponent to discard a card.
Card by Kevan
cutting-edge
action
For every futuristic device or concept you control, you may create a card titled Scientist, a thing, with the text "Action: Discard a card to draw two cards. Scientist counts as a living thing" under your control.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Too Much Food
action
You and target player(s) skip the next two turns. All players whom you chose to skip turns, and you, may draw five cards.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Can't Make Change II: Electric Boogaloo
Action
Each player simultaneously chooses a Thing controlled by the player on his or her left and gives control of it to the player on his or her right.
Card by jtwe
Medal Ceremony
Action
Gain a Gold token. Target opponent gains a Silver token. A different target opponent (if any) gains a Bronze token. You may take an additional action this turn.
Card by jtwe
St. Petersburg Lottery
Action
Gain 1 Money token. Flip a coin. Heads: gain a number of Money tokens equal to the number of Money tokens you have gained from this action already, and flip again.
Card by jtwe
4L
FoundryThing
Once per turn anyone may destroy one of their tokens that is considered to be made of metal in order to shuffle the following card into the deck. [<metal> claw/T/You draw an extra card each turn.] Replace <metal> with the type of metal of the token.
Card by Ryan_1729
4L
FoundryThing
Once per turn anyone may destroy one of their tokens that is considered to be made of metal in order to shuffle the following card into the deck. [<metal> throwing knife/T/Action:Target opponent. Flip a coin, if heads destroy one of their cards. They now control this card.] Replace <metal> with the type of metal of the token.
Card by Ryan_1729
zZz
SleepyAction
Flip a coin. If heads, target opponent skips his turn after next. If tails, he can play one less card than normal for the next two turns.
Card by fanofphilosophy
Icebreaker
Thing
Action: Choose a Thing. That Thing's card text is considered blank until the start of your next turn.
Card by Kevan
