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Shahrazad, aka MTG virtualization. Too bad there aren't other ways to encode bits. Also, if you lose half your life and you're at 1, what happens?
by javajosh 11y ago
Shahrazad, aka MTG virtualization. Too bad there aren't other ways to encode bits. Also, if you lose half your life and you're at 1, what happens?
- steveklabnik 11y ago> Too bad there aren't other ways to encode bits. Well, I mean, if you look at the article, it encodes a turing machine, so... oh man what about playing Shahrazad inside of the turing game... > Also, if you lose half your life and you're at 1, what happens? So there's an entire section of the rules that had to be added, just for Shahrazad. http://media.wizards.com/images/magic/tcg/resources/rules/MagicCompRules_20140601.pdf http://media.wizards.com/images/magic/tcg/resources/rules/Ma... is the link, Section 715, subgames. Now that I'm re-reading, I _think_ that you actually win by decking, not by life: you just play with a larger than usual deck, and 715.3. Because each player draws seven cards when a game begins, any player with fewer than seven cards in his or her deck will lose the subgame when state-based actions are checked during the upkeep step of the first turn, regardless of any mulligans that player takes. (See rule 704, “State-Based Actions.”) Here's the citation for it being Richard's favorite card, and a commentor leaves an explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/20f1dn/we_are_richard_garfield_creator_of_magic_the/cg2lu8w?context=1 https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/20f1dn/we_are_richard... Mox Pearl is simpler and faster than Plains!
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