Cards

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Cards

Cards are game elements that are not items, but only as the possible effects of evoking of a deck item, which are gifted by Nemelex Xobeh. There are two aspects to the potency of a card's effect, called "power" and "power_level" in the source code.

Power

Power is used as a basis for determining the power of any spells cast by the card, and is computed as follows:

• Base power is nine times your Invocations skill
• Ornate decks add 150 to the base power; legendary decks add 300.
• Characters under Nemelex penance subtract their penance score from the power.
• Nemelex worshipers in good standing add (Piety × (Invocations + 25) / 27) to the power.

Power level

Many cards use the power level to determine what they do. By default, the power level of a card is zero; ornate and legendary decks can boost the power level:

• Ornate decks get one (power in 700) chance to boost the power level.
• Legendary decks get one (power in 500) chance and one (power in 700) chance.

Lists of cards

Currently available cards

• the Cloud - deck of destruction
• the Dance - deck of summoning
• Degeneration - deck of destruction
• the Elements - deck of summoning
• the Elixir - deck of escape
• Exile - deck of escape
• Famine - deck of punishment
• Foxfire - deck of summoning
• the Illusion - deck of summoning
• the Orb - deck of destruction
• Pain - deck of destruction
• the Pentagram - deck of summoning
• the Rangers - deck of summoning
• the Shaft - deck of escape
• the Storm - deck of destruction
• the Swine - deck of punishment
• the Tomb - deck of escape
• Torment - deck of punishment
• Velocity - deck of escape
• Vitriol - deck of destruction
• Wild Magic - deck of destruction
• the Wraith - deck of punishment
• Wrath - deck of punishment

Removed cards

• the Alchemist
• the Banshee
• the Blade
• the Bones
• the Crusade
• the Curse
• Damnation
• Dowsing
• the Feast
• Focus
• Fortitude
• the Hammer
• the Helix
• the Helm
• the Herd
• the Mercenary
• Metamorphosis
• the Potion
• Repulsiveness
• the Shadow
• Placid Magic
• Solitude
• Swap
• Venom
• Warpwright
• Xom
• the Bargain
• Battlelust
• Experience
• Flame
• Flight
• Frost
• the Genie
• the Map
• the Minefield
• the Portal
• the Sage
• Shuffle
• the Spade
• the Spark
• Summoning
• the Trowel
• Vitrification
• the Warp
• Water

History

Prior to 0.19, there were many more decks, decks cound be found on the floor and card power scaled off Evocations with and without Nemelex.

See also

Decks