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Re: Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2

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Post by airstrike »

cbsks wrote: post #10
minimaxir wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my testing it generated more underpowered than overpowered cards, which was interesting.

The first one I generated was a 1/1 creature costing 1 black mana, that had the ability "if you control 8 or more lands during your upkeep you win the game". It's been a while since I've played Magic, but that seems a little overpowered to me :)

https://magic.wizards.com/sites/mtg/files/image_legacy_migra...

Re: Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2

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Post by piker »

cbsks wrote: post #10
minimaxir wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my testing it generated more underpowered than overpowered cards, which was interesting.

The first one I generated was a 1/1 creature costing 1 black mana, that had the ability "if you control 8 or more lands during your upkeep you win the game". It's been a while since I've played Magic, but that seems a little overpowered to me :)

Not far off these days. Might not see play in most formats. Would be cool in standard or limited though.

Re: Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2

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Post by grenoire »

mychael wrote: post #7

The punctuation in your title is jarring. "Make your own AI-generated Magic cards with GPT-2" would be a lot better.

You don't want to deal with litigation by people who thought the generated cards are magical in nature.

Re: Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2

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Post by minimaxir »

bartcobain wrote: post #14

This is really great. Is there any other AI similar to this one? Maybe one that generates AI illustrations for the cards...?

I've also released an interface for a Reddit-based GPT-2 API: https://minimaxir.com/apps/gpt2-reddit/

Re: Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

bartcobain wrote: post #14

This is really great. Is there any other AI similar to this one? Maybe one that generates AI illustrations for the cards...?

There is this project that used an RNN to generate cards' text:

https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/custo...

I think towards the end of the thread the initiator of the thread and some of the people in the impromptu community that formed around him started discussing how to generate illustrations and even did it to some extent.

Re: Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2

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Post by minimaxir »

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #17
bartcobain wrote: post #14

This is really great. Is there any other AI similar to this one? Maybe one that generates AI illustrations for the cards...?

There is this project that used an RNN to generate cards' text: https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/custo... I think towards the end of the thread the initiator of the thread and some of the people in the impromptu community that formed around him started discussing how to generate illustrations and even did it to some extent.

That project turned into RoboRosewater (https://twitter.com/RoboRosewater), which has unfortunately been defunct for several years.

Re: Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

This is remarkably more coherent than previous attempts at M:tG card generation with a deep RNN [1] but on the other hand, the ability text on the few cards I've generated so far seems oddly famliar.

In fact, I got one that is identical to an actual card.

Generated by GPT-2 [2]:

  Tephraderm {1}{R} (common)
  Sorcery
  Each player sacrifices a land.
Actual M:tG card (copied by hand by me and keeping the same notation):

  Tremble {1}{R} (Odyssey common)
  Sorcery
  Each player sacrifices a land.
Also, the names of cards don't seem to be generated by the RNN. "Tephraderm", above, is an actual Magic card (a red rare creature from Onslaught). I certainly did see a "Bontu, Primal Calamity" (which I didn't save) whose name was basically a mashup of the names of "Bontu the Glorified" and "Zacama, Primal Calamity".

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[1] https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/custo...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/PdHkBXr.png

Cards discussed above:

Tremble: https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/odyssey/tremble

Tephraderm: https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/onslaught/tephraderm

Zacama, Primal Calamity: https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/rivals-of-ixalan/zacama-pri...

Bontu the Glorified: https://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/amonkhet/bontu-the-glorifie...

Sorry, can't link to the Gatherer for any of the cards above- it's down for me.

Re: Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

minimaxir wrote: post #18
YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is this project that used an RNN to generate cards' text: https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/custo... I think towards the end of the thread the initiator of the thread and some of the people in the impromptu community that formed around him started discussing how to generate illustrations and even did it to some extent.

That project turned into RoboRosewater ( https://twitter.com/RoboRosewater ), which has unfortunately been defunct for several years.

Ah, thanks. I didn't remember whether RoboRosewater was this, or one of the HMM-based projects.
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