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, tell them on the talk page. (There's an option to filter specified users' cards out when you export the deck to play with, so don't worry too much if someone's cards are irredeemably unplayable.)
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 any game that it got drawn in.

(A good test is to open a random archive page of the Infinite Dvorak 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 should probably word it more generically.)

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 usually have individual types (such as "Energy" or "Goblin"); if a token has a type, that's also 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, Flavor 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, 1101-1200, 1201-1300, 1301-1400, 1401-1500, 1501-1600, 1601-1700, 1701-1800, 1801-1900, 1901-2000, 2001-2100, 2101-2200, 2201-2300, 2301-2400, 2401-2500, 2501-2600, 2601-2700, 2701-2800, 2801-2900, 2901-3000, 3001-3100, 3101-3200, 3201-3300, 3301-3400, 3401-3500, 3501-3600, 3601-3700, 3701-3800, 3801-3900, 3901-4000, 4001-4100, 4101-4200, 4201-4300, 4301-4400, 4401-4500, 4501-4600, 4601-4700, 4701-4800, 4801-4900, 4901-5000, 5001-5100.

4L

The best ex in the world

Thing Person

If one of you Living things would go into the discard pile you may discard a card to return it to your hand instead.

Card by gill_smoke

8Z

Rule 4

Thing

At the start of your turn, end all effects of cards that aren't Things in play.

"No hidden rules"

Card by Bucky

Rule 5

Thing

All cards have blank cornervalues while this is in play.

"Values in the corners of cards are meaningless"

Card by Bucky

F3

Twisted Buss Work

Thing

Attach to an inanimate thing whenever it performs an action either create an energy token or destroy an energy token and create a heat token

"That machine's so hot I'm afraid my shadow's going to get toasted" -R.B

Card by gill_smoke

3F

Addited to W.O.W.

Action

Blank the rules text of a living thing in play

For the Horde!

Card by gill_smoke

f8

Higher Social Order

Action

Check the facebook profiles of all players the one with the most friend wins the game unless they have more than 100 friends, in which case the player next highest friend count wins.

"There's now this whole new level of etiquette involved." D.P.

Card by gill_smoke

E42

Recall Goods

Action

All Things in play are returned to their owner's hands.

Sorry, I thought the neurotoxins were meant to go in the baby toys...

Card by Nehh

>1

Breaking the Limit of Maths

Action

Destroy exactly 10^10^10^32 Things. If you cannot destroy exactly that number of Things, you cannot use this Action.

I need a bigger calculator, and a way of writing all them zeros.

Card by Nehh

e3

Liability

Thing

If you discard this card, it returns straight to your hand. This thing starts with exactly 1 Ravioli token on it. If it ever has any number of Tokens on it other than 1, you lose the game.

Card by Nehh

Garbage Buffet

Action

Each player, starting with you, may remove one card in the discard pile from the game.
Then each player, starting with you, may put one card from the discard pile into their hand.

Card by ChippyYYZ

One Man's Trash...

Action

Play this only any time a player discards a card. Put that card into your hand.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Scholarship

Thing

This enters play with 20 Money Tokens on it.
Destroy this when you have fewer than 3 cards in your hand.

Card by ChippyYYZ

0Z

Ask Bucky

Action

Make a copy of a Thing card with the word "Rule" in its name from the Infinite Dvorak Deck archive and put it into your hand.

There are examples of such cards on pages 36, 39, 41, 47, 48, 51 and 52. No, "Rules" and "Ruled" don't count.

Card by Bucky

1a

Sacred Ground

Thing - Holy Place

All cards with cornervalues in number-letter format are Holy.

Whenever an opponent destroys one of your living or Holy Things, they must discard a card at random.

Leave your grudges outside. Trust me.-the Mercenary

Card by Bucky

2a

Hungry Rampage

Action

Target opponent destroys one of their non-Token Things or discards two cards to distract you. If they cannot, they are eliminated; otherwise, draw a card.

Think like a promulg.

Card by Bucky

Death By Tea Cup

Reaction

Play immediately if one of your Things would be destroyed; the player who would have destroyed it discards their hand instead.

I didn't come here to play "Who's the Better Killer?"

Card by Binarius

Uplifting Melody

Thing

If you have fewer than two cards in your hand at the end of your turn, you may draw until you have two cards.

Card by Binarius

Ablative Armor

Thing

If an opponent's Action would affect you, you may choose to negate its effects on you. If you do, flip a coin; on tails, Ablative Armor is destroyed.

Card by Binarius

3a

Confessional

Thing - Holy Place

All cards with cornervalues in number-letter format are Holy.

Once per turn you take, you may discard a card that is not holy and draw a card.

Card by Bucky

4a

Three Thrones of Destiny

Thing - Heroic Place

All cards with cornervalues in number-letter format are Heroic.

If you control three Heroic people at the start of your turn, you win the game

Card by Bucky

Corrupt Legislator

Action

Look at the top 6 cards of the deck. Put any number of them in the discard pile and the rest on top of the deck in any order. Draw a card.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Corrupt Executive

Action

Look at each player's hand and choose a card in each of their hands. You may discard a random card. If you do, those cards are discarded.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Corrupt Judge

Action

You may reveal this card from your hand when another player plays an Action. If you do, negate that action and discard a random card.

Card by ChippyYYZ

F1

Sheep Launcher

Action - Weapon

Randomly select a Thing in play and either destroy it or select again. Sheep Launcher self-destructs when a target is destroyed or after five Things have been targeted.

Card by Binarius

F2

Banana Bomb

Action - Weapon

Choose up to four Things in play and flip a coin for each to either destroy it or return it to its controller's hand.

Card by Binarius

F11

Old Woman

Action - Weapon

Choose two of an opponent's Things and destroy one at random.

Card by Binarius

5a

Discard bait

Action

If you discard this card (without playing it), draw two cards.

Draw a card.

Card by Bucky

6a

Action Bait

Reaction

Play in response to an opponent's Action.

Prevent that Action if you have not taken an Action since the start of your last turn.

Card by Bucky

7a

Bottled Bait

Thing

When Bottled Bait is destroyed, move the card that destroyed it to your hand and draw a card.

"I feel a sudden, irrational urge to smash it anyway"

Card by Bucky

Cloned Clone Of A Cloned Clone

Thing

When this card enters play, it becomes a copy of itself.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Large Hadron Collision

Action

Destroy any number of Energy Tokens and the same number of Things. Gain a particle token for each thing destroyed.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Scrambler Ray

Action

Target Opponent discards up to three random cards (you choose how many) and draws that many cards.

Card by ChippyYYZ

The Harder They Fall

Action

If one player controls more non-token Things than all other players combined, that player must discard his hand.

Card by Binarius

Axe Cop

Thing

If one of your Things destroys an opponent's Thing with an Action ability, it gains the destroyed Thing's ability. Thing and Action - Head Chop: Destroy a Thing.

Card by Binarius

Pure Clwnage

Type

When this card enters play, it becomes a copy of Cloned Clone Of A Cloned Clone.

Card by Binarius

8a

Junkyard Baron

Thing

Whenever a non-Token Thing is destroyed, draw a card.

Action:Destroy a non-Token Thing you control

Card by Bucky

9a

Schmuck Bait

Thing

Action:Win the game.
Schmuck Bait's Action Abilities cannot be used.

Card by Bucky

0a

Your Darkest Secret

Action

Name a card. Target player discards a random card. If they discard the card you named, eliminate them.

"How did you know?"
"I wasn't sure until you confirmed it."

Card by Bucky

Staredown

Thing

If only one player has not played any cards or activated any Action abilities since this card came into play, that player wins the game.

Card by Bin arius

+

Energy Zone

Thing

If you have fewer than five cards in your hand at the end of your turn, draw until you have five cards. Destroy this card at the end of your third full turn after you played it.

Card by Binarius

Slot

Thing

At any time you may destroy Slot and play a Thing from your hand in its place.

Card by Binarius

???

More than....?

Thing

If you go to church, create a pointless contest. The winner wins.

Card by Robo1995

1b

Gravitronic Repulsor

Thing

When you play a Thing card (other than this), put an Energy Token on this Thing.

During your turn, if this has at least 3 Energy Tokens on it, you may remove 3 of them to return an opponent's non-token Thing to their hand.

Card by Bucky

2b

Gravitronic Cannon

Thing

When you play a Thing card (other than this), put an Energy Token on this Thing.

During your turn, if this has at least 2 Energy Tokens on it, you may remove 2 of them to destroy a Token.

Card by Bucky

3b

Gravitronic Annihilator

Thing

When you play a Thing card (other than this), put an Energy Token on this Thing.

At the start of your turn, if this has at least 10 Energy Tokens on it, remove 10 of them and eliminate an opponent.

Card by Bucky

Ego Blast

Action

If you have more cards in your hand than any opponent, destroy target thing.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Lightning Energy

Thing

When this enters play, put an Energy Token on it and attatch it to a thing. At the end of your turn, if there isn't an Energy Token on Lightning Energy, place one on it. Energy Tokens on Lightning Energy count as being on the thing it is attatched to.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Energy Removal

Action

Destroy an Energy.

Card by ChippyYYZ

4b

Gravitronic Computer

Thing

When you play a Thing card (other than this), put an Energy Token on this Thing.

During your turn, if this has at least 3 Energy Tokens on it, you may remove 3 of them to draw a card.

Card by Bucky

5b

Gravity Manipulation

Action

Return one of each opponent's non-Token things to their hand. Return any number of your own non-token Things to your hand.

Card by Bucky

Life!

Action

Create an Organism Token.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Anti-Energy

Thing

Play onto another thing. This counts as -5 Energy Tokens. The Thing this card is attatched to may not use abilities that require energy unless it has a positive number of Energy Tokens.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Verbic Acid

Action

Remove all verbs from target Thing.

Card by ChippyYYZ

≣

Hand Stack

Thing

The person who controls this card must place their hand in a stack formation. They may only play, look at or discard cards from the top of the stack. Cards drawn are placed on top of the stack.

Fun, but not at all useful!

Card by Nehh

⊹

Weaponized Hand

Thing

Whenever your opponent discards a card, you may discard a card. If you do, they must discard another card.

Useful, but not at all fun!

Card by Nehh

⦗⧻⦘

Swap Hands

Thing

If you are right-handed, you must play with your left hand. If you are left-handed, play with your right hand. If you are ambidextrous, play with neither of them.

Neither fun nor useful.

Card by Nehh

6b

Gravitronic Burst

Action

The next time you play a Thing this turn, destroy a Thing.

Card by Bucky

7b

Gravitronic Press

Thing

When you play a Thing card (other than this), put an Energy Token on this Thing.

During your turn, if this has at least 2 Energy Tokens on it, you may remove 2 of them to gain a Token of any type except Energy.

Card by Bucky

Obviously Loaded Dice

Thing

When a thing or action calls for something to be choosen at random, you may destroy Loaded Dice and choose the target. You may use this on anyone's turn

Card by Aetherknight

Hello, I'm Captain Obvious

Thing

This card magically enters play when someone asks what is the effect of a card, from your hand under the asking player's control.

You (controller of this card) Must announce what cards you play and why.

Action: Skip your next turn, destroy this card.

Card by Aetherknight

Prophets Of War

Thing

Once between each of your turns, at any time, you may look at the top 5 cards of the deck. If any of them could destroy a Thing, you may put that card on top of the deck.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Profits Of War

Thing

Whenever you destroy a Thing, gain a Money Token.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Synchronize

Action

If an opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards until you have as many.

Card by ChippyYYZ

&&

Combinator

Thing

Thing+Action: Discard a Thing and an Action from your hand. Create a new card with the rules text of the Thing with the Action as an Action ability. Place this card in your hand.

Pogo Hammer Time!

Card by Nehh

++

Addon Addon

Action

Add the rulestext of this card onto the end of the rulestext of another Action.

Card by Nehh

//

Decompiler

Thing

Action: Erase an Action or a Thing+Action ability from a card. Make the erased text into a separate Action card.

Card by Nehh

8b

Gravitronic Stasis Unit

Thing

When you play a Thing card (other than this), put an Energy Token on this Thing.

Reaction:Use in response to an opponent's Action. Remove 3 Energy Tokens from this, and that Action doesn't take effect until the start of that opponent's next turn.

Card by Bucky

9b

Gravitronic Engine

Thing

When you play a Thing card (other than this), put an Energy Token on this Thing.

At the start of your turn, if this has at least 3 Energy Tokens on it, remove 3 of them and take an extra Action.

Card by Bucky

0b

Gravitronic Boon

Action

Gain 6 Energy tokens, which you may place on any of your Things
OR gain 2 tokens of any type except Energy
OR destroy up to 2 non-Energy Tokens
OR remove 10 Energy tokens from your Things and eliminate an opponent.

Card by Bucky

Intervene

Action

Play at any time in response to an action that doesn't target a thing you control. Negate that action and draw a card.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Unholy Power Book

Thing

Action: Eliminate yourself, gain 5 Insanity Tokens, and put any number of things from the discard pile into play under your control.

Card by ChippyYYZ

The End

Thing

If, at any time, the deck is empty, you win.

Card by ChippyYYZ

1c

Gravitronic Node

Thing

When you play a Thing card (other than this), put an Energy Token on each Node in play

Card by Bucky

2c

Homage

Action

Choose any word that is not on this card but is on target other Action or Thing in your hand. Make a copy of the first card in the Dvorak deck archive that contains that word and put it into your hand.

Card by Bucky

0Y

Inappropriate Anecdote

Action

Each opponent discards a card. Draw a card for each Action discarded, then you may play a card for each Thing discarded.

"That's a funny story, Pastor. It reminds me of the time I strangled that hooker."

Card by jtwe

Secretive Playing

Thing

Players may play Things face-down. Face-down Things have no effects and cannot be targeted by destructive Actions. A player may take an Action to irreversibly flip one of his face-down Things face-up. When another player takes control of a face-down Thing, it is immediately flipped face-up.

Card by Corrigan

Barrel of Dangerous Chemicals

Thing

When this Thing is destroyed, two of your other Things are destroyed as well. Action: Discard a card from your hand and give control of this Thing to another player.

Card by Corrigan

Mummy Wizard

Thing

Action: Look through the draw pile and play the first Action card that you find. Then shuffle the pile.
Action: Destroy two Things, one of which must belong to you.

Card by Corrigan

3c

Bottled Theft Node

Thing

When this is destroyed, move another card from the discard pile to Up Your Sleeve for each Node you control (including this), then move a card from Up Your Sleeve to your hand.

Brought to you by the Best of Bucky collection.

Card by Bucky

Excessive Liberty

Thing

The phrases "may not", "cannot", "must", "must not", "every", "all", "each" and "does not" are ignored in the texts of all cards besides this one.

When you give people too much freedom, it messes up the whole system.

Card by Corrigan

W9

Motivational Speaker

Thing

If a Thing has more than one Action ability, any number of its abilities may be used in one turn and still count as only one Action. Each ability can be used only once, though.

Realize your full potential! You have the power!

Card by Corrigan

9y

Breakaway Republic

Thing

The continuous effects of Things not under your control do not affect you, the cards you control or the cards that you play.

My backyard has a seat on the UN.

Card by Corrigan

4c

Insightful Augury

Action

Look at a number of cards on top of the draw pile equal to the number of players. Rearrange those cards in any order.

Card by Bucky

5c

Augury of Pain

Thing

At the start of your turn, destroy this Thing and each opponent discards a card at random.

This isn't a prophecy of doom. It's more like a prophecy of severe inconvenience.

Card by Bucky

6c

Boring Auger

Thing

Action:Destroy a wooden Thing.
Action:Destroy a Token.

Now it's a holey relic.

Card by Bucky

3s

Joel Plaskett

Thing

When a player controls three Things with the same title, that player wins the game.
When a Thing is removed from play, remove Joel Plaskett from play.

Maybe you would get it if you were Canadian, but probably not.

Card by Corrigan

Utilitarianism

Thing

Cards with no rules text or with rules text that cannot actually be followed may not be played. At any time, a player may reveal such a card in his hand, discard it, and draw a new card. If any such cards are in play when this card is played, they are destroyed immediately.

Card by Corrigan

5v

Distractobot Generator

Thing

When this card enters play, discard cards from your hand and create an equal number of Distractobot tokens. Of all your Things, only your Distractobot tokens may be the targets of opponents' card effects that require targets.

Card by Corrigan

Baton Pass

Action

Put a Thing you control into your hand and replace it with a Thing from your hand. Any tokens or cards on the first Thing are now attatched to the second.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Wandering Armor

Thing

When you play this card, attatch it to a Thing you control.
The equipped Thing cannot be destroyed. Whenever you play a Thing, attatch this card to that Thing.

Card by ChippyYYZ

Fire Golem

Thing

This Thing cannot be destroyed by Fire-based effects.
Action: If there is a Flame Token on Fire Golem, destroy target Thing.

A scientist wanted to know if it was possible to "Set fire on fire." He died horribly.

Card by ChippyYYZ

7c

Plan D

Action

Remove three cards containing the word "win", "eliminate" or "eliminated" from the discard pile and win the game OR discard your hand and draw three cards.

Card by Bucky

8c

Impatient Outburst

Action

Destroy one of your Things containing the word "win", "eliminate" or "eliminated" and win the game OR play up to two Things from your hand.

Card by Bucky

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