Wildcard (5A)
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Origin Abilities
Wildcard Deck
Starting at 1st level, you develop a deck of wildcard spells. You can build this deck from a deck of regular playing cards and use that as a prop during play. Each card is linked to a spell of the same level as the value of the card, aces are linked to first level spells, deuces to second level spells, 3s to third level spells, and so on up to 9s that are linked to 9th level spells. At first level you begin with a deck of four aces, linked to 1st level spells. At third level, you add 4 deuces, linked to second level spells. You continue to gain new card to your deck at this rate up fives at level 9. At level 11, you add a single 6 to your deck, and continue to add one new card of each value up to a single nine (linked to a 9th level spell) at level 17. All this information is summarized in the Wildcard Deck table.
Each card is linked to a single specific spell of the same spell level as the value of the card. When you add new card to your deck, you must link each card to a specific spell on the wizard spell list. This creates a growing list of card/spell combinations you can use to cast spells. Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell linked to a certain card with another spell of the same level from the wizard spell list.
| Sorcerer Level | Cards Added | Spell Level | Hand Size | Deck Size |
| 1 | 4 aces | 1st | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 4 duces | 2nd | 3 | 8 |
| 5 | 4 threes | 3rd | 4 | 12 |
| 7 | 4 fours | 4th | 5 | 16 |
| 9 | 4 fives | 5th | 6 | 20 |
| 11 | 1 six | 6th | 7 | 21 |
| 13 | 1 seven | 7th | 8 | 22 |
| 15 | 1 eight | 8th | 9 | 23 |
| 17 | 1 nine | 9th | 10 | 24 |
As a bonus action you can discard your current hand of cards (if any) and draw cards from your wildcard deck up to your hand size, see the Wildcard Deck table. All the spells in this hand are known spells to you as long as they are in your hand. You cast these spells as if they were sorcerer spells, including the ability to modify them using metamagic. Once you cast a spell linked to a card, you discard that card and draw a new card from your deck. If you are to draw more cards than are currently in your deck, shuffle discards and place them back in the deck.
Using your hand of cards requires one of your hands. This includes drawing, discarding, and shuffling. This hand of cards works as an arcane implement to you.