The Fates: Reality's fabric unravels and spins anew, allowing you to avoid or erase one event as if it never happened. Only a god or the magic of The Fates card can end this curse. You take a -2 penalty on saving throws while cursed in this way. You draw no more cards.Įuryale: The card's medusa-like visage curses you. You can't be located by any divination magic, but a wish spell can reveal the location of your prison. You remain imprisoned until you are found and removed from the sphere. Everything you were wearing and carrying stays behind in the space you occupied when you disappeared. Otherwise, this card has no effect.ĭonjon: You disappear and become entombed in a state of suspended animation in an extradimensional sphere. If you are true neutral or unaligned, this card has no effect on you.Ĭomet: If you single-handedly defeat the next hostile monster or group of monsters you encounter, you gain experience points enough to gain one level. Lawful becomes chaotic, good becomes evil, and vice versa. * Found only in a deck with twenty-two cardsīalance: Your mind suffers a wrenching alteration, causing your alignment to change. Unless the card is the Fool or the Jester, the card reappears in the deck, making it possible to draw the same card twice. Once a card is drawn, it fades from existence. If you fail to draw the chosen number, the remaining number of cards fly from the deck on their own and take effect all at once. You must draw each card no more than 1 hour after the previous draw.

Otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. Any cards drawn in excess of this number have no effect. Most (75 percent) of these decks have only thirteen cards, but the rest have twenty-two.īefore you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly (you can use an altered deck of playing cards to simulate the deck). If your team fails to make your contract, subtract 10 points for every trick you bid from your total score.Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. For every trick you won above the total in your contract, add 1 point to your total. At the end of a round, if you and your partner managed to win at least the number of tricks in your contract, multiply the number of tricks in your contract by 10 points. Keep playing like this until everyone is out of cards. The winner of the trick collects the 4 cards, then plays the next leading suit. If the leading suit isn’t spades, and one or more spades have been played, the player with the highest spade wins the trick instead. Once all 4 players have gone, the player with the highest card in the suit that led wins the trick. If you don’t have a card in that suit, you can play any card from your hand. After the first player leads, the rest of the players take turns playing a card in the same suit if they have one. However, players can’t lead with spades until a spade has been used to trump a leading suit.

That player can play a card in any suit from their hand. Once both teams have a contract, the round starts with the player to the left of the dealer. Let each player announce how many tricks they think they’ll win, which is called their bid. Keep in mind that spades trump every suit, regardless of what suit leads. To win a trick, you need to have the highest card in the suit that leads. Then, take a look at your cards and estimate how many tricks you think you can win that round. Have the dealer deal 13 cards to each player. Whoever draws the highest card deals first. To start the game, each player draws a card. To score points, try to win the number of tricks that you and your teammate bid at the beginning of the round. The goal of the game is to be the team that reaches 500 points first. Spades is a strategic card game that’s played with two teams of two.

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