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Post by Tyr42 » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 11:01 PM UTC

phaedryx wrote: post #37

phaedryx wrote: post #35

I chose the name "Javascript" and let it choose: https://imgur.com/a/mlqJmjK

When I generated it: 1. Haha, Javascript _is_ sorcery. Awesome. 2. Wait, Javascript is evil sorcery? 3. This card does a lot 4. Wait, the result of this card is that I do something pointless, then I give my opponent 7 cards from my library, then I put the rest of my library into my graveyard?

Post by saghm » Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 2:49 AM UTC

Tyr42 wrote: post #42

phaedryx wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I generated it: 1. Haha, Javascript _is_ sorcery. Awesome. 2. Wait, Javascript is evil sorcery? 3. This card does a lot 4. Wait, the result of this card is that I do something pointless, then I give my opponent 7 cards from my library, then I put the rest of my library into my graveyard?

Nah, you show them 7, and they pick 0 to go to your hand, and 7 to go to the trash.

Post by SilasX » Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 6:23 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #22

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #19

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): Tre…

I go into it more in the README but yes, GPT-2 overfits Magic cards very quickly despite my best efforts (usually it shifts the mana cost/rarity a bit more though than your example).