Infinite Dvorak deck
From Dvorak - A Blank-Card Game
| The Infinite Dvorak Deck | |
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| Designer | Everyone |
| Date | March 2007 and onwards |
| Players | 2+ |
| This is an unfinished deck. It is incomplete, and is not 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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(This was something I wanted to do years ago, but I didn't have an existing framework to support it. Now that we've got a wiki, it's easy.)
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.
- No changing other people's cards. If something's 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. "Grenade destroys a soldier" is a meaningless card if you draw it in a game where no soldier cards get drawn - if it's worded more generically as "destroy a living Thing", there's much less chance of it being a dead card in someone's hand.
- No special rules. This deck has no special rules; it's all on the cards.
- Values in the corners of cards are meaningless, at least until someone makes a card that refers to them.
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 may or may not have individual types.
- If there's a subjective problem, vote on it. For example: if a card says to destroy a "living" Thing, and a player's 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 First Card
Thing
All other Things are considered to have blank titles and card texts, while this card is in play.
Card by Kevan
Katamari
Thing
Action: Of the Things other than Katamari, choose the physically smallest and put it face-down under Katamari. When Katamari leaves play, all cards under it go to the discard pile.
Card by Kevan
Can't Make Change
Action
Each player simultaneously chooses a card at random from the hand of the player on their left, and puts that card in the hand of the player on their right.
Card by jtwe
Playing With a Full Deck
Thing
If you control a Heart, a Diamond, a Spade, and a Club, you win the game.
Card by jtwe
I Am One With The Universe
Action
Until the end of your turn, cards in any player's hand are considered to be in your hand, and all Things in play are under your control.
Card by Zaratustra
2R
Artificial HeartThing
Destroy one Energy-related Thing to create one Thing called Blood under your control.
Card by Zaratustra
Cutting Corners
Thing
While this card is in play, treat all cards as if they had no cornervalue. If any Player plays a card with the string "dust" in its title, destroy this card.
Card by Bucky
X-Buster
Thing
Action: Target player must give you an Action card from his hand. If he has no Action cards, he discards his hand instead.
Card by Kazz
Throne
Thing
Players must ask your permission when playing Actions. If you say no to an Action, it has no effect.
Card by Kazz
Customs Board
Thing
Each time any player draws a card, he must show it to you.
Card by Kazz
Core Ruleset Loophole
Action
You win unless all other players agree to negate this effect within 10 seconds.
Card by Bucky
Pet
Thing
This Thing counts as a Player, complete with its own turn and hand. It is under the control of whoever played it. It can be placed between any two players in the turn order.
Card by Kazz
Shaft of Red Light
Thing
Play onto an opponent. Shaft of Red Light can be blocked by any Canopy. If it isn't then Your Way Is Blocked.
Antimatter
Thing
If there is another Thing in play, immediately destroy Antimatter and any other Thing of your choice. When this occurs, gain 10 Energy.
Card by Bucky
Ninja Steal
Action
Steal as many Things in play as you can in one second. If online, steal two Things instead.
Card by Kazz
1G
Generic ElvesThing
Action:Gain a Green Token, and rotate this card 90 degrees in any direction.
Card by Bucky
Cameo
Action
Make a copy of a card from an existing Dvorak deck and shuffle it into the draw pile.
Card by Tyrethali
Vacuum Pump
Action
Starting with you and going clockwise, each player chooses a Thing in play and puts it into their hand.
Card by Kevan
Token Eater
Thing
At any time during your turn you may destroy any non-card Thing that you control and put a Food counter on Token Eater. If this causes Token Eater to have more than 100 Food Counters on it, destroy it.
Action:Remove all tokens from this card. For every 5 tokens removed in this way, draw a card, or discard a card and play an extra Thing this turn, or discard a card and play an extra Action this turn.
Card by Bucky
Shovel
Thing
This card counts as a spade. Action: Place one card from your hand in the middle of the deck in order to draw the bottom card off the deck.
Card by The T
1Z
Magnitude ErrorThing
All numbers described in digit form on all cards are multiplied by ten.
Card by Zaratustra
4B
AsteroidsAction
Draw a imaginary line from each Thing you control, perpendicular to the top of the card and aiming outwards from it. Destroy the first Thing this line touches. If the line first reaches a Player instead, that player discards a card. If online, draw three cards instead.
Card by Zaratustra
Voodoo Zombie Corpse
Thing
Draw a card when you play Voodoo Zombie Corpse. If you have less than two cards in your hand at any time, destroy Voodoo Zombie Corpse.
Card by Tyrethali in Exquisite Corpse deck. Imported by The T
My New Filing Technique Is Unstoppable
Thing
Action: Move the alphabetically-earliest Thing (other than this) to the bottom of the draw pile.
Card by Kevan
tldr
Action
Destroy a Thing with more than two sentences on it, or play in response to an Action that has more than two sentences on it to negate its effects.
Card by Kevan
Sword of Damocles
Thing
Whenever a Thing comes into play, destroy both it and this card.
Card by Kevan
Hash Sorting
Thing
Whenever you play a card with a corner value, you may search the deck for another card with a corner value that shares a digit or letter with the first card, and put it in play.
Card by Zaratustra
Hoard
Thing
None of your Things, except this one, can be destroyed. If you ever control ten Things, and nobody else controls more Things than you, you win.
Card by Kazz
Bomb
Action
If another player's Action forces you to discard this card, all other players discard their hands. Destroy a Thing.
Card by Kazz
Omni-
Thing
Attach to a Thing. That Thing counts as belonging in every category and being every type of object. If that Thing is destroyed, so is this card.
Card by Kazz
