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# decks of transport -> escape
Swap card

This card swaps your position with that of a nearby creature.
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Velocity card

This card makes the slow fast and the fast slow. Whether or not you
benefit from this exchange depends on power.
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# decks of emergency -> escape
the Tomb card

This card entombs the player in protective walls of solid rock. At lower power
levels, the tomb may be imperfect. Use with caution!
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the Banshee card

The wail of the Banshee instils fear in nearby creatures.
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Damnation card

This card banishes one or more nearby creatures to the Abyss, possibly
including you.
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Solitude card

This card randomly teleports creatures that are adjacent to you.
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Warpwright card

This card creates a teleportation trap in an adjacent square, with a chance of
its position being revealed at high power.
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the Shaft card

This card creates a shaft beneath you.
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the Elixir card

This card rapidly restores your health or magic, or both at high power levels.
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Metamorphosis card

This card temporarily transforms you.
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the Helm card

This card increases your defences. It may provide boosts to armour, evasion,
shielding and resistances.
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the Blade card

This card temporarily enchants or even animates your weapon.
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the Shadow card

This card lets you blend into the shadows, granting invisibility. It may
additionally provide substantial bonuses to stealth with high power.
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the Mercenary card

This card summons a mercenary to fight by your side... for a price.
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the Potion card

This card has the same effect, positive or negative, as drinking a random
magical potion. It is more likely to have positive effects at high power.
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Focus card

This card further boosts your strongest attribute at the cost of your worst.
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Wild Magic card

This card causes wild magic, as if from miscasting a spell, to act upon you.
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the Helix card

This card changes your mutations. Higher power levels make the change more
likely to be beneficial.
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the Alchemist card

This card transmutes some of your gold into health and magical energy.
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Dowsing card

This card lets you detect traps and items, reveals your surroundings, makes you
telepathic for a short time, or some combination thereof.
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# deck of summonings
the Crusade card

This card tries to convert nearby creatures to your cause, and abjures hostile
summons.
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the Herd card

This card summons animals.
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the Pentagram card

This card summons a demon to your aid.
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the Dance card

This card summons a dancing weapon.
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Foxfire card

This card summons flying creatures.
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the Bones card

This card summons a skeletal creature.
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Repulsiveness card

This card summons an ugly or very ugly thing.
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the Illusion card

This card summons an illusion of you. Its power will depend upon
your own.
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Vitriol card

This card unleashes a corrosive attack spell.
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Cloud card

This card creates flames or freezing vapours around you.
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the Hammer card

This card unleashes an physical attack spell.
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Venom card

This card unleashes a poisonous attack spell.
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the Storm card

This card unleashes a storm -- rain, wind and the occasional tornado.
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Fortitude card

This card grants immense strength and the ability to ignore injury.
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Pain card

This card unleashes a necromantic attack spell, which may affect you as well.
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Torment card

This card calls on the powers of darkness to cause agonising injury to any
nearby living creature.
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the Orb card

This card unleashes a destructive orb of pure magic, sometimes even multiple
ones.
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Degeneration card

This card attempts to polymorph nearby enemies into weaker forms.
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Wrath card

This card draws a god's wrath against you.
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the Wraith card

This card will drain you.
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the Curse card

This card places curses on your possessions.
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Xom card

This card draws Xom's attention to you.
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Famine card

This card starves you.
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the Swine card

This card will make you turn pink and root for truffles.
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the Feast card

This card feeds you.
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# cards for wizmode testing (&c)
the Stairs card

This card makes staircases slide towards or away from you. (It is a bug if you
ever encounter this card.)
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# buggy cards
a buggy card

Buggy (It's a bug if you ever see this.)
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a very buggy card

Buggy (It's a bug if you ever see this.)
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