College of cards

bards from the college of cards are gamblers by nature. they crave the thrill of the unknown even more when the stakes are high. bards from this college will often travel from city to city, entertaining small groups with card tricks or, more often that not, taking their money from the card table. because of this, members from this college are often untrusted by people from all walks of society. they tend to be renegades who work on their own, but its not unheard of for a member of the college of cards to seek out others to help them achieve their ends.

Arcane Deck

At 3rd level you master the art of manipulating you magic through a deck of cards. You become proficient in playing cards and can use them as a spell casting focus for your bard spells. You can also manipulate the cards with one hand in order to perform the somatic components of spells. You have advantage on sleight of hand checks you make with your cards. (In order to play a bard from the college of cards you will need of standard deck of playing cards the standard 52 plus the 2 jokers. as you use the features of this subclass you will maintain a hand of cards, a shuffled deck of cards and a discard pile.

Card Shark's Hand

As a bonus action you can expend one use of your bardic inspiration die to draw a number of cards from your deck into your hand. The number of cards you draw is equal to the number rolled on the die. You are considered to be holding these cards.

you may use an action to infuse one of the cards with arcane energy and make a ranged spell attack with it(range30/120). If you hit the target suffers an effect according to the face of the card per the arcane deck table. the damage type is determined by the suit and is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical damage.

Once you use a card it fades from the material plane and you move it to your discard pile. you may also discard any number of cards at any time, but can only draw a new card into your hand if your hand is empty. at the end of a long rest you perform a ceremony that reshuffles your deck and replenishes it with all of the cards from your discard pile.

 

 

Dealers Gambit

When you attack with a card on your turn you can throw and extra card from the top of your deck without looking at it reveal the card after the attack hit or miss discard it. Upon hitting reveal the card and determine applicable effects via the arcane deck table.

Nothing Up My Sleeve

[roll]1d6[/roll]A master of manipulating the deck you can now draw cards using a D6 instead of your bardic inspiration using your bonus action (minimum of 2 cards)