Chaos Culture: The Card Game

Chaos Culture TCG — The Card Game of Philosophy, Chaos & Backstabbing Chaos Culture is a trading card game for 2–6 players. 90 cards across a 60-card Deck and 30-card Booster. First player to 20 points wins — or highest score when the deck runs out. How to Play Shuffle the deck. Deal 5 cards to each player. On your turn: draw a card, play one card from your hand, resolve its effect. Score points with Point cards, disrupt opponents with Action and Chaos cards, and react with Instant Actions. Card Types

Point Cards — Score points for you or remove them from opponents. The primary path to victory.

Action Cards — Manipulate the game state: draw cards, steal from opponents, skip turns.

Chaos Cards — Unpredictable, high-impact effects that shake up the entire table.

Instant Action Cards — Play at any time, even on an opponent's turn. React and defend.

Challenge Cards — Create conditions all players must meet or face consequences.

The Base Set — Deck (60 Cards)

The Veil of Ignorance (Point) — Each player scores 1 point per player with fewer points than them.

Dialectical Reversal (Action) — Swap your hand with any opponent's hand.

Bread and Circuses (Chaos) — All players discard their highest-scoring Point card.

Eternal Recurrence (Chaos) — Shuffle all discarded cards back into the deck.

The Overman (Point) — Score 5 points. The player to your left loses 2 points.

Socratic Irony (Action) — Look at any opponent's hand. You may take one card.

Categorical Imperative (Action) — All players must follow the rule you declare this turn.

The Noble Lie (Action) — Announce a false card effect. If unchallenged, it resolves.

Meno's Paradox (Challenge) — Name a card type. All players reveal their hand — anyone without that type loses 2 points.

Ship of Theseus (Action) — Exchange one of your cards with the top card of the deck.

Tabula Rasa (Action) — Discard your entire hand and draw 5 new cards.

The Last Man (Action) — Force all other players to discard a card.

Absurdism (Chaos) — Reverse the turn order for the rest of the round.

Memento Mori (Point) — Score 3 points. You cannot be targeted by Actions next turn.

The Will to Power (Point) — Score 2 points per Action card in your hand.

Existential Dread (Chaos) — All players skip their next draw step.

The Social Contract (Challenge) — All players vote. Majority loses 1 point each.

Invisible Hand (Action) — Secretly take 2 points from the central pile without announcement.

Cogito Ergo Sum (Point) — Score 4 points. Cannot be blocked.

False Consciousness (Action) — Name a player. They play their next card face-down — you choose if it resolves.

Hegelian Synthesis (Point) — Score 1 point for every card type in your hand.

Pyrrhic Victory (Point) — Score 6 points but discard 3 cards.

The Panopticon (Action) — All players must play with their hands face-up for one full round.

Simulacrum (Action) — Copy the last Action card played by any opponent.

Kafka Trap (Challenge) — Name a player. Any defence they offer counts as guilt — they lose 3 points.

The Allegory of the Cave (Action) — Force an opponent to reveal all Point cards in their hand.

Prisoner's Dilemma (Challenge) — Choose an opponent. You both secretly choose cooperate or defect. Mutual cooperate: +2 each. Mutual defect: -1 each. Split: defector +3, cooperator -2.

Epistemic Closure (Action) — Target player cannot play Action cards next turn.

Occam's Razor (Action) — Remove the most complex ongoing effect in play.

Paradigm Shift (Chaos) — All point totals are rounded down to the nearest 5.

The Base Set — Booster (30 Cards)

Nietzsche's Hammer (Chaos) — Destroy all Challenge cards currently in play.

The Frankfurt School (Action) — Draw 3 cards. Discard 2. Keep 1.

Postmodern Collapse (Chaos) — All players discard half their hand, rounded up.

Dunning-Kruger Effect (Point) — Score 1 point per card in your hand above 3.

Übermensch Rising (Point) — Score 7 points. Lose all other effects currently benefiting you.

Tragedy of the Commons (Challenge) — Each player takes 1 point from the pool. If the pool hits 0, all players lose 5 points.

Double Bind (Action) — Give an opponent two options. They must choose one — both are bad.

The Banality of Evil (Chaos) — All players pass their hand to the player on their left.

Episteme (Point) — Score 2 points per unique card type you have played this game.

Ad Hominem (Instant Action) — Cancel an Action card targeting you. The player loses 1 point.

Reductio ad Absurdum (Instant Action) — Force any player to justify their last card play. If they cannot, it is undone.

Straw Man (Action) — Misrepresent an opponent's last card effect. If unchallenged, apply a weakened version.

The Pale Blue Dot (Point) — Score 0 points. All players reflect: the player with the least points gains 3.

Cultural Hegemony (Chaos) — The leading player dictates one rule for the next 2 rounds.

Null Hypothesis (Action) — Remove all point tokens earned this round from any one player.

About Chaos Culture Chaos Culture is a trading card game born from philosophy textbooks, late nights, and the desire to ruin friendships in a structured way. Every card is named after a cultural moment, philosophical concept, or pop reference — then twisted into a game mechanic. The result is something that feels familiar and completely unhinged at the same time. The game rewards social intelligence as much as strategy. You cannot win on cards alone — you need to read the table, make alliances, break them, and time your chaos just right. Tools

Card Database — Search and filter all cards across every release by type, rarity, set, and author.

Deck Builder — Plan your 60 or 90 card deck before the game. Track type ratios and autofill gaps.

Set List / Collection Tracker — Browse every card in each release and mark which ones you own.

Wishlist — Save cards you want to track across releases.

Releases

Base Set — The original Chaos Culture release. 60-card deck + 30-card booster. The foundation of the game.