Comment by thebean11
3 years ago
Magic the Gathering cards have pretty standard and predictable wording and keywords. Not sure it could understand everything, but there would be easy patterns that apply to hundreds or thousands of cards.
3 years ago
Magic the Gathering cards have pretty standard and predictable wording and keywords. Not sure it could understand everything, but there would be easy patterns that apply to hundreds or thousands of cards.
Fun fact, the cards are standard enough that for MTG Arena, they actually parse them with feature grammars instead of neural networks.
Oh wow really? I figured they had a domain specific language to program the card interactions. Pretty cool they can parse the text directly.
Can you elaborate or point to a source? This is highly relevant to my interests.
I don't think GP is saying we'd have difficulty encoding the cards. I think they're saying that deck performance is very sensitive to minor changes, and dependent on a lot of interactions between sets of cards.
To add to that point, decks can be good or bad based on the ecosystem (meta) they're playing in. A deck that aims to rush you down might be great in a meta where players expect slow decks, but terrible in a meta where many decks have means of healing themselves.
Exactly - the landscape of decks is extremely chaotic and I can't imagine gradient descent having any real power to discover the few towering singularities of super-exploit power-decks when changing a 3 to a 2 in the middle of the effect description of one card would render the same deck just meh. You don't really find exploits by approaching them slowly from a distance.
EDH less so though due to the bigger deck size and 1 copy per card limitation. This means you end up with bigger groups of cards with common synergies vs specific sets of cards you need to draw in regular 60-card.