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Dead Man's Draw

Dead Man's Draw is a simple and strategic card game of risk and reward for 2 to 6 players. Players take turns drawing cards and combining their special abilities to plunder the most loot without busting their entire hands.

The core of your turn in Dead Man’s Draw is all in the flip: pulling the top card off the deck and using its special ability. Your turn isn’t over until you say it is, though. You can keep pulling cards as long as you like – until you play a card of a suit already seen, at which point you lose everything. Knowing when to stop and "bank" your cards is the biggest decision you make in Dead Man’s Draw, but being too timid lets braver opponents pass you up with bigger, more profitable turns.

The cards’ special abilities are key to success in Dead Man’s Draw, and they build off of each other. Each suit in DMD has an effect that the player can target when they flip a card of that suit.

Anchor – Keep everything you drew before the Anchor even if you bust.

Cannon – Destroy one card an opponent has previously banked.

Chest – Double your haul by banking as many cards directly from the discard pile as are in the river when you bank the Chest – but only if you also bank a Key.

Hook – Play one of your previously banked cards.

Key – Enables the Chest special.

Kraken – Oh no! You’re forced to draw at least two more cards.

Map – Draw three cards from the discard pile and play one.

Mermaid – Choose one card drawn before the Mermaid and move and replay it after the Mermaid. Card Abilities activate when replayed.

Oracle – Look at the next card before deciding if you want to play it.

Sword – Steal an opponent’s previously banked card and play it.

Many of these work well together, like using a Hook to re-play a Sword from your hand to steal an opponent’s Chest to go with your Key – racking up huge points by playing abilities well and not solely through the luck of the draw.

As soon as the deck is depleted, players total up the value of the highest card they’ve banked from each suit. High score wins.


I've included the main deck with the lowest value cards seperated out at the start of the game for ease of making it into the discard pile. I've also included the 8 and 9 value cards in a seperate stack; these are intended to be used for games larger than four people. There is also included the Trait cards which can be worked into regular play, chosen at the start of the game, or ignored entirely; everyone can have up to two traits at a time. Also included are the character cards, which are best used as game changing rules for everyone. Lastly included are four playmats, for ease of use when first starting to learn the game.

Purchase it on Steam or get it on iOS: http://www.deadmansdrawgame.com/
Check it out over at BoardGameGeeks for news and discussion:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/149155/dead-mans-draw

Big ups to Stardock for making an amazing, fantastic and dastardly game. It kept me coming back for more and I couldn't stop thinking about it, hence why it's here now!

Lastly a huge shotout to the folks over at BoardGameGeeks for all of their fantastic work on the rulebooks, placemats, and great art assests. The folks over there really love these games, and it shows.

This is my first Workshop upload, please let me know of any issues you are having and I'll attempt to fix them as soon as I can. Keep in mind there are a lot of cards, and they are high quality, so give it some time to load, also of note if you have the backs of cards rendering white, try putting a card from another deck into that stack, for some reason that seems to "unstick" the missing texture most of the time. Also lastly, if it doesn't load after the first time you click it, simply click it once more and it should pop in no problem.