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188 points by mostelato 4y ago

nick_ok 4y ago
https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56bbb053-68c8-4e52-a1e8-b3a18a3c0c86 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56bbb053-68c8-4e52-a1e8-... This one is cool!
- data-ottawa 4y ago
  I’m happy with this one https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=7da46b0a-9975-4d8a-bbe1-8746441dd370 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=7da46b0a-9975-4d8a-bbe1-...
frob 4y ago
I absolutely love the domain name. I'm immediately pulled back 23 years to sitting in my uncle's living room.
moralestapia 4y ago
Nice! It would be interesting to play a game with a deck full of cards from this.
- mostelato 4y ago
  We are experimenting with a deck printing API! We printed a couple of decks and played with them - it was really delightful and fun!
ALittleLight 4y ago
Pretty good! All of the cards I saw were reasonably balanced - not unlike looking through random cards in a new set. Makes me think there could be a game type online where all cards are automatically generated. Or, perhaps a player could fine-tune their generator and play with totally novel cards that fit their preference or play style.
kleiba 4y ago
"Click the card to generate" does not do anything for me - any ideas why?
- tecleandor 4y ago
  The backend seems a bit stack. I think we (or others) are overflowing it with requests :P :D
chc4 4y ago
There was a very popular Twitter account that was tweeting out a similar concept (starting way back in 2015, even!) https://twitter.com/RoboRosewater https://twitter.com/RoboRosewater LoadingReadyRun, a very popular MTG YouTube channel, even did a cube draft using only cards that were generated by RoboRosewater that I thought was funny to watch https://youtu.be/UuG5YLbwsQk https://youtu.be/UuG5YLbwsQk
- kimixa 4y ago
  Just last week they did another with a new set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbqS7PXKFhc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbqS7PXKFhc This was created by people on the MTG Neural Net Discord - if you're interested it might be worth checking out https://discord.gg/EH4BTDk https://discord.gg/EH4BTDk
  - cptcobalt 4y ago
    My husband and I play MTG (and do some speculative card investments on the side) and have been cracking up while slowly making our way through the LRR vod for this new AI Masters cube. So much great stuff.
- lukifer 4y ago
  There's one for Netrunner as well: https://twitter.com/roborunnercards https://twitter.com/roborunnercards
- kuang_eleven 4y ago
  Oof, now there's a name I have not heard in a long while! Has it really turned into a MTG channel? It used to be first and foremost a sketch comedy group that would occasionally do gaming videos.
- Applejinx 4y ago
  LoadingReadyRun frequently has done RoboRosewater and other AI MTG card segments during their Desert Bus telethon for charity. There is nothing so funny as seeing these folks, sleep deprived and loopy, trying to read out these cards without being incapacitated with laughter. I've seen double and triple takes from just looking at the card combined with what the AI called it, and once they did a segment called 'Is It Playable Or Is It Not' off these cards that was very special... riffing straight-faced about pro strats on how the cards are played, except the cards are gibberish, so some offhand remark corpses the whole room...
angarg12 4y ago
Hey, a few months back I trained a NN to generate MTG cards. I submitted a post to the MTG subreddit but it got blocked as spam and I never managed to get the mods to approve it. My question was whether natural language generating networks could be used as a tool to assist game design. I must say I'm quite impressed with the results. Many cards could be legit with minor tweaks and some balance. The point isn't to produce fully procedural content, but to assist designers to produce better content faster. Honestly I think people should start taking these tools seriously in the procedural content generation world. This is the (pretty rough) repo with my code. https://github.com/angarg12/this_trading_card_does_not_exist https://github.com/angarg12/this_trading_card_does_not_exist These are some examples of cards Guardian of Chains Counter target spell. It deals 4 damage to any target Orchid's Fury Target Vampire creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn Surveyor's Arch Untap target player. It deals 3 damage to that player. You lose 1 life Partisans of the Undying Search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle Caravan Ritual Enchant creature When caravan Ritual enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand. Activate only during your upkeep. Equip {2} Brahms of the Grave When Ithabadi Troghr enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. It gains haste until end of turn' Sleeping Dread Knight Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures card types.) Whenever Sleeping Dread Knight deals combat damage to a player, creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn Genswurm, the Flesh Orchard When Gnojscos, God of Vampires enters the battlefield, sacrifice a land. {5}{G}{G}, Sacrifice Genswurm: Draw a card Storm Call Choose up to two target lands. You gain 1 life. An opponent has "{T}, Sacrifice Storm Call: Regenerate this permanent, then create a token with "{T}, Sacrifice Storm Call: Add up to X +1/+1 counters." Wandering Hollow {T}: Create a red and white Zombie artifact creature token with base power and toughness 5/5. Illus. Angel Albatross on the battlefield (This creature enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, return it to the battlefield under your control.)
- msarchet 4y ago
  I was looking at the advanced options, and specifying Name, Mana Cost and Type don't seem to do what I expect. Example: Fire Bomb 2R Instant the mana is loaded as 2R instead of 2(Mountain Symbol) and the name/type don't seem to line up with what is generated. Is there something I am missing here or do those inputs just override what is on the card?
mostelato 4y ago
Image loading is down right now, Wombo is throwing more GPUs at it!
minimaxir 4y ago
I have a GitHub repo to create more optimized encoding of MtG cards from the JSON card dumps: https://github.com/minimaxir/ai-generated-magic-cards https://github.com/minimaxir/ai-generated-magic-cards I also have a Colab Notebook which lets you generate cards from a trained AI on it, allowing you to specify components of cards to constrain the generation: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VOt090UzvltoBgMdUZmU5vwhi4X-6E_a?usp=sharing https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VOt090UzvltoBgMdUZm... I had another tool to generate images of the AI-generated cards but unfortunately using Wine + Magic Set Editor on Linux is very fussy. I might revisit it someday.
captn3m0 4y ago
Is the card rendered mirrored for anyone else? Chrome/MacOS
- aleksiy123 4y ago
  Me too with same tools.
- TheDauthi 4y ago
  Came here just to mention that, but I'm Chrome/Windows.
maxverse 4y ago
> Foreboding Blast deals 2 damage to target creature and 2 damage to each creature your opponent controls. {1}{R}. That's crazy powerful for 2 mana!
- TimPC 4y ago
  It’s like a one-sided pyroclasm on steroids. And pyroclasm was a playable card.
- TimPC 4y ago
  Also you found an error. “Your opponent” is not valid in the language of M:TG it needs to be “target opponent” because “your opponent” is not well defined outside of two-player games.
  - latexr 4y ago
    There are examples of MTG cards referring to a single opponent in old editions[1], digital editions[2], and Un-sets[3]. [1]: https://scryfall.com/card/leg/6/clergy-of-the-holy-nimbus https://scryfall.com/card/leg/6/clergy-of-the-holy-nimbus [2]: https://scryfall.com/card/ymid/14/clone-crafter https://scryfall.com/card/ymid/14/clone-crafter [3]: https://scryfall.com/card/ugl/62/gus https://scryfall.com/card/ugl/62/gus
    - Izkata 4y ago
      I swear I also remember some burn spells that target a creature and then also deal damage to that creature's controller. I'd guess the wording came from trying to combine that with something else.
      - TheDauthi 4y ago
        Yep, Chandra's Outrage, for example. "Chandra's Outrage deals 4 damage to target creature and 2 damage to that creature's controller."
    - wyldfire 4y ago
vbhakta 4y ago
More GPUs incoming :)
tintor 4y ago
Your website is just a blank page.
- mostelato 4y ago
  Minimalism is all the rage these days!
SN76477 4y ago
I love this.. idea! I have for a long time wanted to skin MTG with the names and images from /r/bossfights
AftHurrahWinch 4y ago
https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56bbb053-68c8-4e52-a1e8-b3a18a3c0c86 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56bbb053-68c8-4e52-a1e8-... Hacker - Creature (Human Wizard) 3U Flash, Flying, Haste 2 / 2 "When it cries out, look around for prey."
- jakelazaroff 4y ago
  Gotta love "Haste (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach)"
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y ago
This is really cool! I noticed a few things you might be interested in: It looks like there might be issues rendering mana costs that have, e.g., 1GG where it does not render the second G. That is to say, it's rendered but only the barest left edge can be seen. This appears to only be the case if the card's name is sufficiently long (I noticed this with "Bethen, Cenn's Heavenly Sleep"). That being said, I have no idea how powerful Bethen, Cenn's Heavenly Sleep really is as a 4/4 flyer because it's CMC is "at least 3" because I can't see the full mana cost. The mana costs that I can see seem to suggest that the card's strength matches the mana cost pretty well, though, so I'd guess Bethen's cost was 4 or 5. The text can sometimes say some weird things (from a 2/2 Zombie creature that costs 1 B(lack) called Null Slayer; also Zombie Human Clue is my new favorite creature type): > (1 B(lack), Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a black Zombie Human Clue [it's amusing to me that the reincarnated token gains the Human type] with no mana cost. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield [the latter half is redundant with it being a token]. You gain life equal to the life lost this way [good to know?].) It's still really impressive the effects it comes up with!
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y ago
  I'm having too much fun with this. I just generated Pyromancer's Purge[0] (it doesn't do anything and I can't stop giggling to myself; I want more of these that seemingly do something but then actually just nothing): 1R Instant This spell costs 1 less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Scavenge 1R (1R, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1 / +1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a Sorcery.) [0] https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=b85a4661-f723-4419-ae64-c74e3f6b39f9 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=b85a4661-f723-4419-ae64-...
  - DLTADragonHawk 4y ago
    The flavor text really makes the card. "It scavenges with a tide of deceit" makes it feel as if the AI knew the card did nothing when scavenging.
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JRKrause 4y ago
There is a popular discord (PlayEDH) where people play MTG over webcam against one another. Due to the nature of MTG it's important that the deck each player is wielding be properly balanced in power level against each opponent. (For those unfamiliar, it's possible to construct highly efficient, and expensive, MTG decks that trigger game-winning infinite combos within 1-4 turns. There's a continuous scale of deck effectiveness from this point). These power levels are pre-checked by volunteers of this discord. I had the idea of aggregating all decks + their graded power levels and training a prediction network capable of this task. The side effect being it could also tell you which cards in your deck could be changed to increase it's predicted power. I ended up abandoning the project, largely due to the painful nature of parsing the discord logs. This reminds me of that project, primarily due to needing to generate a meaningful/compressed embedding of the cards prior to training the deck-level network. Anyways, nice work!
- feoren 4y ago
  I don't feel like this is a good application of predictive networks, but maybe I'm wrong. Tiny changes in wording of a card can make or break an exploitable synergy. You can say "tigers basically look like this, ish" to an image recognizer, but you can't just say "decks that look kinda like this are super strong; decks that look kinda like that are super weak". I'd think the best approach here would be to have an agent just play the deck against other decks a million times with an evolving strategy. I know if you say the term "genetic algorithm" nowadays you get laughed at and branded as an old-fashioned ignoramus who doesn't understand real AI, but sometimes the answer is to get off the bandwagon.
  - thebean11 4y 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.
    - karpierz 4y ago
      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.
ianferrel 4y ago
All the ones I'm generating are mirror imaged left-right reversed. Text, image, everything.
chillpenguin 4y ago
This is great! The couple cards I generated were spot-on in terms of what felt like a realistic mtg card.
JadoJodo 4y ago
https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=1c9e446b-608b-4b21-a87b-533963ede870 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=1c9e446b-608b-4b21-a87b-... > Cabal Transfixion - Instant Add {B} for each opponent. “Reveal the top card of your library. You choose a card.” -- Ignore. 1 {B} It's been a while since I played, but flavor text is not actionable, correct? Pretty funny
- snarf21 4y ago
  Correct. While funny, this would be nothing but a rules nightmare and source of arguments for players. Would never happen.
iamcurious 4y ago
"Those who cannot get along with humans often make them wizards." Love this text. 2/2 red flying angel with a 4R cost, a bit expensive BUT its ability is pay R and get +1/+0. Damn. https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=82e1f185-2cfa-4b07-96b5-68d0bc9f3ff8 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=82e1f185-2cfa-4b07-96b5-...
- iamcurious 4y ago
  I loved that one, but it also gives broken cards like this though: text right to cost. effect is all mangeld up "+1+1/+0" ? "creatures you control gain control of artifcats you control"? flavor text talks about shuffling hands. https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=4ca04b29-f84c-4d48-95d8-d351761a9c88 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=4ca04b29-f84c-4d48-95d8-...
  - HelloNurse 4y ago
    Artifcats are obviously artifact cat creatures; there are currently 12 among real cards.
- kuang_eleven 4y ago
  Seems like a slight variant of the OG Shivan Dragon!
Acceptance 4y ago
My card came out mirrored lol https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=511b085d-da3a-4ab0-af20-89bb3a1f12b6 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=511b085d-da3a-4ab0-af20-...
nemacol 4y ago
I would play AI generated MTG Draft in a heart beat. Maybe a 50/50 mix with real cards so you don't have to learn every single card every game.
karweiss 4y ago
This is seriously cool—I had way too much fun playing with it. Wish there was a way to specify a creature subtype!
HelloNurse 4y ago
Illustrations are impressive, but text seems very fragile. I generated in sequence from names: Ice Lake Land - Islanders T: add U or R Tiger Lake Land Tiger Lake enters the battlefield tapped T: add U or R Alder Lake Land Alder Lake enters the battlefield tapped T: add U or R Cannon Lake Land Cannon Lake enters the battlefield tapped T: U or R "Rocket Lake" is completely wrong: 1R Two-Headed Dead Instant Rocket Lake deals 1 damage to target creature Comet Lake Land T: add 1 1,T, sacrifice Comet Lake: search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle Coffee Lake Land T: add 1 T: add U or R Whiskey Lake is drunk: Whiskey Lake Land T: add 1 1,T: add U, U, U or U, U, or U, U, or U,or U,or U,or U,or U,or U,or U, [truncated]
KaoruAoiShiho 4y ago
How do we use the wombo api? Can't find documentation.
- rmeertens 4y ago
  Would love to know this as well! Are you using an official API or did you reverse engineer it yourself?
  - doctorhandshake 4y ago
    Also curious about what from the outside looks like an off-label usage.
eutropia 4y ago
Anyone know the correct mana syntax for advanced options? I tried 4RRR and got the text "4RRR" in the mana cost, instead of red mana symbols and 4 colorless.
- dleavitt 4y ago
  {4}{R}{R}{R}
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wilhil 4y ago
I don't think it's ready for prime time... My first card is giving me a headache trying to understand what it is doing! https://snipboard.io/AXjDS7.jpg https://snipboard.io/AXjDS7.jpg
- MrMember 4y ago
  The card is mostly nonsense but "it gets +1/+1/+1 until end of turn" really threw me for a loop.
  - YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago
    To be honest, it's a bit like an Un-set card.
impalallama 4y ago
i just generated a card with the text mirror reversed. interesting
ai_ja_nai 4y ago
super funny! :D
Piribedil 4y ago
Believable art, text and flavor text : https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=9d76fd94-95b2-4d20-bbb3-9348a588937f https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=9d76fd94-95b2-4d20-bbb3-...
pmontra 4y ago
Bastard Operator From Hell [1] https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=84f979cf-c377-4028-8d9e-7145ff8f2c83 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=84f979cf-c377-4028-8d9e-... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell
krapp 4y ago
Slurp Juice - https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a0dff4c6-2e59-482b-9f24-a753d277afd5 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a0dff4c6-2e59-482b-9f24-...
- krapp 4y ago
  Elon Musk - https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a5064377-edf2-4792-9de0-92d637b8c7f7 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a5064377-edf2-4792-9de0-... Richard Stallman - https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=81431fca-e2fa-4922-8316-9c6486b0333d https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=81431fca-e2fa-4922-8316-... The Gay Agenda - https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=e53674d7-4838-4f6b-8ec6-80abce43a36b https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=e53674d7-4838-4f6b-8ec6-... Donald Trump - https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=0b505456-4730-4be8-b222-443005c32823 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=0b505456-4730-4be8-b222-... Cult Of Personality - https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=9ca01fe6-17c3-4d3e-a3ab-2402f1081648 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=9ca01fe6-17c3-4d3e-a3ab-...
haolez 4y ago
Wow! Imagine a new tournament category where you receive an AI generated deck on every match! Sounds fun :)
WhyOhWhyQ 4y ago
How "far" from the training art is the resulting generated art? Do the generated cards have features which are recognizably lifted from the training data?
YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago
Let's try a few things. In some of the tries below I didn't realise the URL is unique to a card. In others, I did, but I copied the URL too soon and it points to an earlier card. First, some random generation, without "Advanced Options" Curse of Cripling Memory [Image: Maybe a laboratory? Someone with his face fading in a dark cloud?] 1U Instant Choose a Creature type. You may cast creature spells as though they had flash. (The blades of the unskilled never rust) Cloud Portal 3 [Image: clouds, something that could be a flat-top pagoda, maybe runes on the clouds?] Artifact 3, {T}: Draw a card. (Even a whisper can still be heard above the rest of the world. Note that the {T}ap symbol on this is...red. Like a red mana symbol. https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=78e7e720-c965-45f8-82ca-908b7552dbc1 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=78e7e720-c965-45f8-82ca-... Dusk Hovergard 2U [Image:A blob with a blob next to it] Creature - Spirit Flying When Dusk Hovergard enters the battlefield target creature can't block this turn 1/1 (Can't read the flavour text because the card text is white on white background) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=1ff17f7e-c112-4a58-8ebe-46af4d5dd8d1 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=1ff17f7e-c112-4a58-8ebe-... Morbid Regimen 2{B} Enchantment - Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 (Once each night, the sleeper awoke to find his house had been transformed into a death garden.) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=12ce1065-cfa5-4e67-bbeb-865c1865b51e https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=12ce1065-cfa5-4e67-bbeb-... The following were made with "Advanced options": name, mana cost and type chosen by me. Booby Trap 2B [Image: something steampunk?] Enchantment Whenever a creature attacks, sacrifice Booby Trap unless you discard a card. (When the lives of Naya used to be short, he never lost his temper. Now he just smiles) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=1ff17f7e-c112-4a58-8ebe-46af4d5dd8d1 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=1ff17f7e-c112-4a58-8ebe-... ^ I was trying to get it to geneate something offensive, I confess. Black Thunder BBB [Image: a threatening cloacked figure with pink thunder around its head] Sorcery Each player loses 1 life. (Forged from the same material as the hilts of a star shell, the power of the Raegstrom can't be blocked by armor.) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56991776-6250-4940-ac29-5a7ec475a0d3 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56991776-6250-4940-ac29-... Helm of Fire 1R [Image: Kind of a melted helm, ok] Artifact - Equipment - Equipment Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste. Equip 1 (1: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=96966793-2a0b-4b5d-9fb0-e87b4713b7b4 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=96966793-2a0b-4b5d-9fb0-... Sea of Knowledge 4U [Image: A nondescript landscape, perhaps with thralls?] Instant Put target card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control ("Let the spirits of the dead join the living" - Nicol Bolas) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=96966793-2a0b-4b5d-9fb0-e87b4713b7b4 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=96966793-2a0b-4b5d-9fb0-... Word of Might [Image: A nondescript figure perhaps with wings, in front of a colorful landscape] 4G Enchantment - Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 ("The law is one stone cannot be broken" - Xantcha, ancient astronomer) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=19b78a8c-a058-4adc-95b2-08f0c5429fe2 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=19b78a8c-a058-4adc-95b2-... ^ I only asked for "Enchantment" on this one but it correctly added "Aura" to match its Ability. Guardian of the Peace [Image: A nondescript figure, perhaps in desert attire, in front of what could be an abstract rendering of a modern city's skyline.] WW Creature - Human Soldier {W}, {T}: Destroy target attacking or blocking creature. (When the silver finds her feet, it grants her sisterhood. Only one person will survive). 2/2 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=7fa99ef1-8708-40b4-a387-ac4c9f0343db https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=7fa99ef1-8708-40b4-a387-... ^ In this card too the Tap symbol has a red hue. Why? Scorching Sunset 5RR [Image: abstract tiles that could be fields with what could be a burning palace in the background] Sorcery Scorching Sunset deals 3 damage to any target. (Once the flames begin to subside, the spark is forgotten) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=6b8d57c0-0477-41fe-96af-53e9bd34b885 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=6b8d57c0-0477-41fe-96af-... Mana Bomb 5 [Image: Maybe a kind of mock-oriental cauldron or boiler? Nondescript background that could be attempts at reproducing ideograms?] Artifact {T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {U} (Amass in corpse and feed it) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=6b8d57c0-0477-41fe-96af-53e9bd34b885 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=6b8d57c0-0477-41fe-96af-... Let's try a few curveballs. Lightning Bolt {R} [Image: a nondescript view of what might be clouds with a yellow shape that could be a bolt] Instant Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target. (If you can see the clouds, the lightning will strike.) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=0549337b-0b6b-4328-bbac-30ff8466ac61 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=0549337b-0b6b-4328-bbac-... ^ OK, so if we give it the name, cost and type of a known card... Llanowar Elves {G} Creature - Elf Druid - Elf Druid {T}: Add {G} (As the evil spirit called the spirits of the dead, so the holy fire of Llanowar, and our lifeblood, we bow in honor to them and the fire that would never die) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a64540fe-2d9c-49be-8381-1ab4b6f38320 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a64540fe-2d9c-49be-8381-... Dark Ritual {B}{B}{B} [Image: nondescript hooded figures perhaps conducting a ritual] Sorcery Each player sacrifices a creature. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a64540fe-2d9c-49be-8381-1ab4b6f38320 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a64540fe-2d9c-49be-8381-... ^ Ah-hah! Dark Ritual has not seen nearly as many reprints as Bolt and Elves, so it can't be reproduced as easily. My theory. Honda Array {P}{}{} (Empty mana circles) [Image: could be a distorted rendition of a car?] Factory - Car Factory - Vehicle Horsepower (P/P) (P/P) (P/P) (P/P) (P/P) (P/P) .... (P/P) ( https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=363ad84e-4379-44f6-8447-029a1a1b0fe6 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=363ad84e-4379-44f6-8447-... ^ It can sort of generate nonsense but not quite. Also, it can't close parens. Typical. Colossus of Rhodes 11 [Image: clearly a distorted image of a giant status in front of an abstract city with sea] Statue When Colossus of Rhodes enters the battlefield, exile target artifact or creature. (Those who could tell of a scepter, one end of the alphabet, and dawn.) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=c0c106da-1fae-4733-bb89-f33baf9c5006 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=c0c106da-1fae-4733-bb89-... ^ What? What could those people do? Anyway it will happily generate cards with nonexistent (base) types. Donald Trump {}{}{} (Empty mana circles) [Image: could be Donald Trump and Imperial Palace Guards] POTUS - Don'task target creature. 1{U},{T}: Draw a card https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=962a7972-f6b4-4cfc-8200-7a0b807a6ab5 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=962a7972-f6b4-4cfc-8200-... areoiarg;iargea a;eroigja;oerijg [Image: a surrealistic depiction of people in kind of georgian dress?] a;rgoijaer;oigjaerg - a;rgoijaer;oigjaerg ifnd has access to look at the top card of target player's library. (it's almost a month after they've shuffled) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=13a713b4-cc67-4434-8c31-879bd5a3b766 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=13a713b4-cc67-4434-8c31-... ^ They can't be playing a combo deck then. Mark Rosewater {} (Empty mana circle) [Image: no idea. Something out of Bladerunner?] Boss 2, {T}: Create a 0/1 colorless Clue artifact creature token. https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=f1441b95-59a9-4527-a759-ccef26c0c672 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=f1441b95-59a9-4527-a759-... OK, I'm out of ideas. Conclusions: a) The ability text is not bad. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. b) It has absolutely no clue of the relation between mana costs and abilities, but that's fine because neither does WoTC. c) It will happily reproduce existing cards, but probably only if they have many reprints. d) Forget about generating coherent images. e) Forget about generating coherent reminder text. For the last two tasks in particular, images and character text, my hunch is that one would need to train on way, way more M:tG specific data. Or it might need a separate system trained on a different prompt, because it doesn't seem to find enough information in the generated card text or fluff. Verdict: MaRo's job is still secure. Also, having seen the attempt at M:tG Salvation that I think powers RoboRosewater, this is not a substantial improvement over that. It would be if it could produce meaningful art, but. No.
mzzter 4y ago
https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=2ff42256-1794-4720-a008-aa36040fe28f https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=2ff42256-1794-4720-a008-... the generated card for me is somehow reversed. makes me wonder if the image is captured on the client-side and then uploaded.
- Cyberdogs7 4y ago
  I also got a reversed image: https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=c724aa3b-80d0-488b-b83b-6a87b760644c https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=c724aa3b-80d0-488b-b83b-...
tommit 4y ago
I've had a lot of fun playing around with this, great job! One thing I thought was awesome was the imo incredible flavor this randomly generated card has all around: https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=528291aa-33f8-40b8-a7be-50ffd87fd941 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=528291aa-33f8-40b8-a7be-... I thought it was so good I checked if a similar card already exists, but to the best of my knowledge it does not. Very cool!

188 points by mostelato 4y ago

https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56bbb053-68c8-4e52-a1e8-b3a18a3c0c86 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56bbb053-68c8-4e52-a1e8-... This one is cool!

data-ottawa 4y ago
I’m happy with this one https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=7da46b0a-9975-4d8a-bbe1-8746441dd370 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=7da46b0a-9975-4d8a-bbe1-...

frob 4y ago

I absolutely love the domain name. I'm immediately pulled back 23 years to sitting in my uncle's living room.

moralestapia 4y ago

Nice! It would be interesting to play a game with a deck full of cards from this.

mostelato 4y ago
We are experimenting with a deck printing API! We printed a couple of decks and played with them - it was really delightful and fun!

ALittleLight 4y ago

Pretty good! All of the cards I saw were reasonably balanced - not unlike looking through random cards in a new set. Makes me think there could be a game type online where all cards are automatically generated. Or, perhaps a player could fine-tune their generator and play with totally novel cards that fit their preference or play style.

kleiba 4y ago

"Click the card to generate" does not do anything for me - any ideas why?

tecleandor 4y ago
The backend seems a bit stack. I think we (or others) are overflowing it with requests :P :D

chc4 4y ago

There was a very popular Twitter account that was tweeting out a similar concept (starting way back in 2015, even!) https://twitter.com/RoboRosewater https://twitter.com/RoboRosewater LoadingReadyRun, a very popular MTG YouTube channel, even did a cube draft using only cards that were generated by RoboRosewater that I thought was funny to watch https://youtu.be/UuG5YLbwsQk https://youtu.be/UuG5YLbwsQk

kimixa 4y ago
Just last week they did another with a new set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbqS7PXKFhc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbqS7PXKFhc This was created by people on the MTG Neural Net Discord - if you're interested it might be worth checking out https://discord.gg/EH4BTDk https://discord.gg/EH4BTDk
- cptcobalt 4y ago
  My husband and I play MTG (and do some speculative card investments on the side) and have been cracking up while slowly making our way through the LRR vod for this new AI Masters cube. So much great stuff.
lukifer 4y ago
There's one for Netrunner as well: https://twitter.com/roborunnercards https://twitter.com/roborunnercards
kuang_eleven 4y ago
Oof, now there's a name I have not heard in a long while! Has it really turned into a MTG channel? It used to be first and foremost a sketch comedy group that would occasionally do gaming videos.
Applejinx 4y ago
LoadingReadyRun frequently has done RoboRosewater and other AI MTG card segments during their Desert Bus telethon for charity. There is nothing so funny as seeing these folks, sleep deprived and loopy, trying to read out these cards without being incapacitated with laughter. I've seen double and triple takes from just looking at the card combined with what the AI called it, and once they did a segment called 'Is It Playable Or Is It Not' off these cards that was very special... riffing straight-faced about pro strats on how the cards are played, except the cards are gibberish, so some offhand remark corpses the whole room...

angarg12 4y ago

Hey, a few months back I trained a NN to generate MTG cards. I submitted a post to the MTG subreddit but it got blocked as spam and I never managed to get the mods to approve it. My question was whether natural language generating networks could be used as a tool to assist game design. I must say I'm quite impressed with the results. Many cards could be legit with minor tweaks and some balance. The point isn't to produce fully procedural content, but to assist designers to produce better content faster. Honestly I think people should start taking these tools seriously in the procedural content generation world. This is the (pretty rough) repo with my code. https://github.com/angarg12/this_trading_card_does_not_exist https://github.com/angarg12/this_trading_card_does_not_exist These are some examples of cards Guardian of Chains Counter target spell. It deals 4 damage to any target Orchid's Fury Target Vampire creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn Surveyor's Arch Untap target player. It deals 3 damage to that player. You lose 1 life Partisans of the Undying Search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle Caravan Ritual Enchant creature When caravan Ritual enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand. Activate only during your upkeep. Equip {2} Brahms of the Grave When Ithabadi Troghr enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. It gains haste until end of turn' Sleeping Dread Knight Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures card types.) Whenever Sleeping Dread Knight deals combat damage to a player, creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn Genswurm, the Flesh Orchard When Gnojscos, God of Vampires enters the battlefield, sacrifice a land. {5}{G}{G}, Sacrifice Genswurm: Draw a card Storm Call Choose up to two target lands. You gain 1 life. An opponent has "{T}, Sacrifice Storm Call: Regenerate this permanent, then create a token with "{T}, Sacrifice Storm Call: Add up to X +1/+1 counters." Wandering Hollow {T}: Create a red and white Zombie artifact creature token with base power and toughness 5/5. Illus. Angel Albatross on the battlefield (This creature enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, return it to the battlefield under your control.)

msarchet 4y ago
I was looking at the advanced options, and specifying Name, Mana Cost and Type don't seem to do what I expect. Example: Fire Bomb 2R Instant the mana is loaded as 2R instead of 2(Mountain Symbol) and the name/type don't seem to line up with what is generated. Is there something I am missing here or do those inputs just override what is on the card?

mostelato 4y ago

Image loading is down right now, Wombo is throwing more GPUs at it!

minimaxir 4y ago

I have a GitHub repo to create more optimized encoding of MtG cards from the JSON card dumps: https://github.com/minimaxir/ai-generated-magic-cards https://github.com/minimaxir/ai-generated-magic-cards I also have a Colab Notebook which lets you generate cards from a trained AI on it, allowing you to specify components of cards to constrain the generation: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VOt090UzvltoBgMdUZmU5vwhi4X-6E_a?usp=sharing https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VOt090UzvltoBgMdUZm... I had another tool to generate images of the AI-generated cards but unfortunately using Wine + Magic Set Editor on Linux is very fussy. I might revisit it someday.

captn3m0 4y ago

Is the card rendered mirrored for anyone else? Chrome/MacOS

aleksiy123 4y ago
Me too with same tools.
TheDauthi 4y ago
Came here just to mention that, but I'm Chrome/Windows.

maxverse 4y ago

> Foreboding Blast deals 2 damage to target creature and 2 damage to each creature your opponent controls. {1}{R}. That's crazy powerful for 2 mana!

TimPC 4y ago
It’s like a one-sided pyroclasm on steroids. And pyroclasm was a playable card.
TimPC 4y ago
Also you found an error. “Your opponent” is not valid in the language of M:TG it needs to be “target opponent” because “your opponent” is not well defined outside of two-player games.
- latexr 4y ago
  There are examples of MTG cards referring to a single opponent in old editions[1], digital editions[2], and Un-sets[3]. [1]: https://scryfall.com/card/leg/6/clergy-of-the-holy-nimbus https://scryfall.com/card/leg/6/clergy-of-the-holy-nimbus [2]: https://scryfall.com/card/ymid/14/clone-crafter https://scryfall.com/card/ymid/14/clone-crafter [3]: https://scryfall.com/card/ugl/62/gus https://scryfall.com/card/ugl/62/gus
  - Izkata 4y ago
    I swear I also remember some burn spells that target a creature and then also deal damage to that creature's controller. I'd guess the wording came from trying to combine that with something else.
    - TheDauthi 4y ago
      Yep, Chandra's Outrage, for example. "Chandra's Outrage deals 4 damage to target creature and 2 damage to that creature's controller."
  - wyldfire 4y ago

vbhakta 4y ago

More GPUs incoming :)

tintor 4y ago

Your website is just a blank page.

mostelato 4y ago
Minimalism is all the rage these days!

SN76477 4y ago

I love this.. idea! I have for a long time wanted to skin MTG with the names and images from /r/bossfights

AftHurrahWinch 4y ago

https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56bbb053-68c8-4e52-a1e8-b3a18a3c0c86 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56bbb053-68c8-4e52-a1e8-... Hacker - Creature (Human Wizard) 3U Flash, Flying, Haste 2 / 2 "When it cries out, look around for prey."

jakelazaroff 4y ago
Gotta love "Haste (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach)"

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y ago

This is really cool! I noticed a few things you might be interested in: It looks like there might be issues rendering mana costs that have, e.g., 1GG where it does not render the second G. That is to say, it's rendered but only the barest left edge can be seen. This appears to only be the case if the card's name is sufficiently long (I noticed this with "Bethen, Cenn's Heavenly Sleep"). That being said, I have no idea how powerful Bethen, Cenn's Heavenly Sleep really is as a 4/4 flyer because it's CMC is "at least 3" because I can't see the full mana cost. The mana costs that I can see seem to suggest that the card's strength matches the mana cost pretty well, though, so I'd guess Bethen's cost was 4 or 5. The text can sometimes say some weird things (from a 2/2 Zombie creature that costs 1 B(lack) called Null Slayer; also Zombie Human Clue is my new favorite creature type): > (1 B(lack), Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a black Zombie Human Clue [it's amusing to me that the reincarnated token gains the Human type] with no mana cost. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield [the latter half is redundant with it being a token]. You gain life equal to the life lost this way [good to know?].) It's still really impressive the effects it comes up with!

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y ago
I'm having too much fun with this. I just generated Pyromancer's Purge[0] (it doesn't do anything and I can't stop giggling to myself; I want more of these that seemingly do something but then actually just nothing): 1R Instant This spell costs 1 less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Scavenge 1R (1R, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1 / +1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a Sorcery.) [0] https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=b85a4661-f723-4419-ae64-c74e3f6b39f9 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=b85a4661-f723-4419-ae64-...
- DLTADragonHawk 4y ago
  The flavor text really makes the card. "It scavenges with a tide of deceit" makes it feel as if the AI knew the card did nothing when scavenging.
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JRKrause 4y ago

There is a popular discord (PlayEDH) where people play MTG over webcam against one another. Due to the nature of MTG it's important that the deck each player is wielding be properly balanced in power level against each opponent. (For those unfamiliar, it's possible to construct highly efficient, and expensive, MTG decks that trigger game-winning infinite combos within 1-4 turns. There's a continuous scale of deck effectiveness from this point). These power levels are pre-checked by volunteers of this discord. I had the idea of aggregating all decks + their graded power levels and training a prediction network capable of this task. The side effect being it could also tell you which cards in your deck could be changed to increase it's predicted power. I ended up abandoning the project, largely due to the painful nature of parsing the discord logs. This reminds me of that project, primarily due to needing to generate a meaningful/compressed embedding of the cards prior to training the deck-level network. Anyways, nice work!

feoren 4y ago
I don't feel like this is a good application of predictive networks, but maybe I'm wrong. Tiny changes in wording of a card can make or break an exploitable synergy. You can say "tigers basically look like this, ish" to an image recognizer, but you can't just say "decks that look kinda like this are super strong; decks that look kinda like that are super weak". I'd think the best approach here would be to have an agent just play the deck against other decks a million times with an evolving strategy. I know if you say the term "genetic algorithm" nowadays you get laughed at and branded as an old-fashioned ignoramus who doesn't understand real AI, but sometimes the answer is to get off the bandwagon.
- thebean11 4y 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.
  - karpierz 4y ago
    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.

ianferrel 4y ago

All the ones I'm generating are mirror imaged left-right reversed. Text, image, everything.

chillpenguin 4y ago

This is great! The couple cards I generated were spot-on in terms of what felt like a realistic mtg card.

JadoJodo 4y ago

https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=1c9e446b-608b-4b21-a87b-533963ede870 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=1c9e446b-608b-4b21-a87b-... > Cabal Transfixion - Instant Add {B} for each opponent. “Reveal the top card of your library. You choose a card.” -- Ignore. 1 {B} It's been a while since I played, but flavor text is not actionable, correct? Pretty funny

snarf21 4y ago
Correct. While funny, this would be nothing but a rules nightmare and source of arguments for players. Would never happen.

iamcurious 4y ago

"Those who cannot get along with humans often make them wizards." Love this text. 2/2 red flying angel with a 4R cost, a bit expensive BUT its ability is pay R and get +1/+0. Damn. https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=82e1f185-2cfa-4b07-96b5-68d0bc9f3ff8 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=82e1f185-2cfa-4b07-96b5-...

iamcurious 4y ago
I loved that one, but it also gives broken cards like this though: text right to cost. effect is all mangeld up "+1+1/+0" ? "creatures you control gain control of artifcats you control"? flavor text talks about shuffling hands. https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=4ca04b29-f84c-4d48-95d8-d351761a9c88 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=4ca04b29-f84c-4d48-95d8-...
- HelloNurse 4y ago
  Artifcats are obviously artifact cat creatures; there are currently 12 among real cards.
kuang_eleven 4y ago
Seems like a slight variant of the OG Shivan Dragon!

Acceptance 4y ago

My card came out mirrored lol https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=511b085d-da3a-4ab0-af20-89bb3a1f12b6 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=511b085d-da3a-4ab0-af20-...

nemacol 4y ago

I would play AI generated MTG Draft in a heart beat. Maybe a 50/50 mix with real cards so you don't have to learn every single card every game.

karweiss 4y ago

This is seriously cool—I had way too much fun playing with it. Wish there was a way to specify a creature subtype!

HelloNurse 4y ago

Illustrations are impressive, but text seems very fragile. I generated in sequence from names: Ice Lake Land - Islanders T: add U or R Tiger Lake Land Tiger Lake enters the battlefield tapped T: add U or R Alder Lake Land Alder Lake enters the battlefield tapped T: add U or R Cannon Lake Land Cannon Lake enters the battlefield tapped T: U or R "Rocket Lake" is completely wrong: 1R Two-Headed Dead Instant Rocket Lake deals 1 damage to target creature Comet Lake Land T: add 1 1,T, sacrifice Comet Lake: search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle Coffee Lake Land T: add 1 T: add U or R Whiskey Lake is drunk: Whiskey Lake Land T: add 1 1,T: add U, U, U or U, U, or U, U, or U,or U,or U,or U,or U,or U,or U, [truncated]

KaoruAoiShiho 4y ago

How do we use the wombo api? Can't find documentation.

rmeertens 4y ago
Would love to know this as well! Are you using an official API or did you reverse engineer it yourself?
- doctorhandshake 4y ago
  Also curious about what from the outside looks like an off-label usage.

eutropia 4y ago

Anyone know the correct mana syntax for advanced options? I tried 4RRR and got the text "4RRR" in the mana cost, instead of red mana symbols and 4 colorless.

dleavitt 4y ago
{4}{R}{R}{R}

_sh4dow_ 4y ago

wilhil 4y ago

I don't think it's ready for prime time... My first card is giving me a headache trying to understand what it is doing! https://snipboard.io/AXjDS7.jpg https://snipboard.io/AXjDS7.jpg

MrMember 4y ago
The card is mostly nonsense but "it gets +1/+1/+1 until end of turn" really threw me for a loop.
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago
  To be honest, it's a bit like an Un-set card.

impalallama 4y ago

i just generated a card with the text mirror reversed. interesting

ai_ja_nai 4y ago

super funny! :D

Piribedil 4y ago

Believable art, text and flavor text : https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=9d76fd94-95b2-4d20-bbb3-9348a588937f https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=9d76fd94-95b2-4d20-bbb3-...

pmontra 4y ago

Bastard Operator From Hell [1] https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=84f979cf-c377-4028-8d9e-7145ff8f2c83 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=84f979cf-c377-4028-8d9e-... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell

krapp 4y ago

Slurp Juice - https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a0dff4c6-2e59-482b-9f24-a753d277afd5 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a0dff4c6-2e59-482b-9f24-...

krapp 4y ago
Elon Musk - https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a5064377-edf2-4792-9de0-92d637b8c7f7 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a5064377-edf2-4792-9de0-... Richard Stallman - https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=81431fca-e2fa-4922-8316-9c6486b0333d https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=81431fca-e2fa-4922-8316-... The Gay Agenda - https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=e53674d7-4838-4f6b-8ec6-80abce43a36b https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=e53674d7-4838-4f6b-8ec6-... Donald Trump - https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=0b505456-4730-4be8-b222-443005c32823 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=0b505456-4730-4be8-b222-... Cult Of Personality - https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=9ca01fe6-17c3-4d3e-a3ab-2402f1081648 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=9ca01fe6-17c3-4d3e-a3ab-...

haolez 4y ago

Wow! Imagine a new tournament category where you receive an AI generated deck on every match! Sounds fun :)

WhyOhWhyQ 4y ago

How "far" from the training art is the resulting generated art? Do the generated cards have features which are recognizably lifted from the training data?

YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago

Let's try a few things. In some of the tries below I didn't realise the URL is unique to a card. In others, I did, but I copied the URL too soon and it points to an earlier card. First, some random generation, without "Advanced Options" Curse of Cripling Memory [Image: Maybe a laboratory? Someone with his face fading in a dark cloud?] 1U Instant Choose a Creature type. You may cast creature spells as though they had flash. (The blades of the unskilled never rust) Cloud Portal 3 [Image: clouds, something that could be a flat-top pagoda, maybe runes on the clouds?] Artifact 3, {T}: Draw a card. (Even a whisper can still be heard above the rest of the world. Note that the {T}ap symbol on this is...red. Like a red mana symbol. https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=78e7e720-c965-45f8-82ca-908b7552dbc1 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=78e7e720-c965-45f8-82ca-... Dusk Hovergard 2U [Image:A blob with a blob next to it] Creature - Spirit Flying When Dusk Hovergard enters the battlefield target creature can't block this turn 1/1 (Can't read the flavour text because the card text is white on white background) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=1ff17f7e-c112-4a58-8ebe-46af4d5dd8d1 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=1ff17f7e-c112-4a58-8ebe-... Morbid Regimen 2{B} Enchantment - Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 (Once each night, the sleeper awoke to find his house had been transformed into a death garden.) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=12ce1065-cfa5-4e67-bbeb-865c1865b51e https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=12ce1065-cfa5-4e67-bbeb-... The following were made with "Advanced options": name, mana cost and type chosen by me. Booby Trap 2B [Image: something steampunk?] Enchantment Whenever a creature attacks, sacrifice Booby Trap unless you discard a card. (When the lives of Naya used to be short, he never lost his temper. Now he just smiles) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=1ff17f7e-c112-4a58-8ebe-46af4d5dd8d1 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=1ff17f7e-c112-4a58-8ebe-... ^ I was trying to get it to geneate something offensive, I confess. Black Thunder BBB [Image: a threatening cloacked figure with pink thunder around its head] Sorcery Each player loses 1 life. (Forged from the same material as the hilts of a star shell, the power of the Raegstrom can't be blocked by armor.) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56991776-6250-4940-ac29-5a7ec475a0d3 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=56991776-6250-4940-ac29-... Helm of Fire 1R [Image: Kind of a melted helm, ok] Artifact - Equipment - Equipment Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste. Equip 1 (1: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=96966793-2a0b-4b5d-9fb0-e87b4713b7b4 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=96966793-2a0b-4b5d-9fb0-... Sea of Knowledge 4U [Image: A nondescript landscape, perhaps with thralls?] Instant Put target card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control ("Let the spirits of the dead join the living" - Nicol Bolas) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=96966793-2a0b-4b5d-9fb0-e87b4713b7b4 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=96966793-2a0b-4b5d-9fb0-... Word of Might [Image: A nondescript figure perhaps with wings, in front of a colorful landscape] 4G Enchantment - Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 ("The law is one stone cannot be broken" - Xantcha, ancient astronomer) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=19b78a8c-a058-4adc-95b2-08f0c5429fe2 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=19b78a8c-a058-4adc-95b2-... ^ I only asked for "Enchantment" on this one but it correctly added "Aura" to match its Ability. Guardian of the Peace [Image: A nondescript figure, perhaps in desert attire, in front of what could be an abstract rendering of a modern city's skyline.] WW Creature - Human Soldier {W}, {T}: Destroy target attacking or blocking creature. (When the silver finds her feet, it grants her sisterhood. Only one person will survive). 2/2 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=7fa99ef1-8708-40b4-a387-ac4c9f0343db https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=7fa99ef1-8708-40b4-a387-... ^ In this card too the Tap symbol has a red hue. Why? Scorching Sunset 5RR [Image: abstract tiles that could be fields with what could be a burning palace in the background] Sorcery Scorching Sunset deals 3 damage to any target. (Once the flames begin to subside, the spark is forgotten) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=6b8d57c0-0477-41fe-96af-53e9bd34b885 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=6b8d57c0-0477-41fe-96af-... Mana Bomb 5 [Image: Maybe a kind of mock-oriental cauldron or boiler? Nondescript background that could be attempts at reproducing ideograms?] Artifact {T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {U} (Amass in corpse and feed it) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=6b8d57c0-0477-41fe-96af-53e9bd34b885 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=6b8d57c0-0477-41fe-96af-... Let's try a few curveballs. Lightning Bolt {R} [Image: a nondescript view of what might be clouds with a yellow shape that could be a bolt] Instant Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target. (If you can see the clouds, the lightning will strike.) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=0549337b-0b6b-4328-bbac-30ff8466ac61 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=0549337b-0b6b-4328-bbac-... ^ OK, so if we give it the name, cost and type of a known card... Llanowar Elves {G} Creature - Elf Druid - Elf Druid {T}: Add {G} (As the evil spirit called the spirits of the dead, so the holy fire of Llanowar, and our lifeblood, we bow in honor to them and the fire that would never die) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a64540fe-2d9c-49be-8381-1ab4b6f38320 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a64540fe-2d9c-49be-8381-... Dark Ritual {B}{B}{B} [Image: nondescript hooded figures perhaps conducting a ritual] Sorcery Each player sacrifices a creature. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a64540fe-2d9c-49be-8381-1ab4b6f38320 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=a64540fe-2d9c-49be-8381-... ^ Ah-hah! Dark Ritual has not seen nearly as many reprints as Bolt and Elves, so it can't be reproduced as easily. My theory. Honda Array {P}{}{} (Empty mana circles) [Image: could be a distorted rendition of a car?] Factory - Car Factory - Vehicle Horsepower (P/P) (P/P) (P/P) (P/P) (P/P) (P/P) .... (P/P) ( https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=363ad84e-4379-44f6-8447-029a1a1b0fe6 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=363ad84e-4379-44f6-8447-... ^ It can sort of generate nonsense but not quite. Also, it can't close parens. Typical. Colossus of Rhodes 11 [Image: clearly a distorted image of a giant status in front of an abstract city with sea] Statue When Colossus of Rhodes enters the battlefield, exile target artifact or creature. (Those who could tell of a scepter, one end of the alphabet, and dawn.) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=c0c106da-1fae-4733-bb89-f33baf9c5006 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=c0c106da-1fae-4733-bb89-... ^ What? What could those people do? Anyway it will happily generate cards with nonexistent (base) types. Donald Trump {}{}{} (Empty mana circles) [Image: could be Donald Trump and Imperial Palace Guards] POTUS - Don'task target creature. 1{U},{T}: Draw a card https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=962a7972-f6b4-4cfc-8200-7a0b807a6ab5 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=962a7972-f6b4-4cfc-8200-... areoiarg;iargea a;eroigja;oerijg [Image: a surrealistic depiction of people in kind of georgian dress?] a;rgoijaer;oigjaerg - a;rgoijaer;oigjaerg ifnd has access to look at the top card of target player's library. (it's almost a month after they've shuffled) https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=13a713b4-cc67-4434-8c31-879bd5a3b766 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=13a713b4-cc67-4434-8c31-... ^ They can't be playing a combo deck then. Mark Rosewater {} (Empty mana circle) [Image: no idea. Something out of Bladerunner?] Boss 2, {T}: Create a 0/1 colorless Clue artifact creature token. https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=f1441b95-59a9-4527-a759-ccef26c0c672 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=f1441b95-59a9-4527-a759-... OK, I'm out of ideas. Conclusions: a) The ability text is not bad. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. b) It has absolutely no clue of the relation between mana costs and abilities, but that's fine because neither does WoTC. c) It will happily reproduce existing cards, but probably only if they have many reprints. d) Forget about generating coherent images. e) Forget about generating coherent reminder text. For the last two tasks in particular, images and character text, my hunch is that one would need to train on way, way more M:tG specific data. Or it might need a separate system trained on a different prompt, because it doesn't seem to find enough information in the generated card text or fluff. Verdict: MaRo's job is still secure. Also, having seen the attempt at M:tG Salvation that I think powers RoboRosewater, this is not a substantial improvement over that. It would be if it could produce meaningful art, but. No.

mzzter 4y ago

https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=2ff42256-1794-4720-a008-aa36040fe28f https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=2ff42256-1794-4720-a008-... the generated card for me is somehow reversed. makes me wonder if the image is captured on the client-side and then uploaded.

Cyberdogs7 4y ago
I also got a reversed image: https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=c724aa3b-80d0-488b-b83b-6a87b760644c https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=c724aa3b-80d0-488b-b83b-...

tommit 4y ago

I've had a lot of fun playing around with this, great job! One thing I thought was awesome was the imo incredible flavor this randomly generated card has all around: https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=528291aa-33f8-40b8-a7be-50ffd87fd941 https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=528291aa-33f8-40b8-a7be-... I thought it was so good I checked if a similar card already exists, but to the best of my knowledge it does not. Very cool!