AlexTFish

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by AlexTFish 3y ago
To me it looks like the emergency vehicles are counted as violating the rules by about 60% of players? Which I assume is meant in the sense of "yes, this technically breaks the rules, but we assume they had good reason to (because they
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by AlexTFish 7y ago
FWIW that's my old site, showing the 2012 version of the result, which required cooperation between 4 players. The version in the paper on arXiv is the result of my latest research (with Stella and Austin) where we get it down to 2 pla
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by AlexTFish 7y ago
As the other repliers have explained, MtG provides various ways to circumvent that. Thus we found ways to encode millions of pieces of state in tokens, and we ensured that the game loops round computing the Turing machine execution one step
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by AlexTFish 11y ago
The Shahrazad deck also presumably needs either Plains or Black Lotus.
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by AlexTFish 11y ago
This isn't an error. The machine doesn't use phasing to trigger enter-the-battlefield triggers, merely to switch between the two states (sets of Rotlung Reanimators watching for the current token dying).
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by AlexTFish 11y ago
The machine as demonstrated on that page requires 4 players. There are probably ways to do it with fewer, but you might have to accept situations where two abilities trigger and the players need to choose an order to put them on the stack (
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by AlexTFish 11y ago
On the "Cards" page, http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/Cards.html : > The first sixteen Reanimators were cast in the normal fashion, four by each of the players, and donated by a Bazaar Trader.