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Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
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Originally, the 4 copy maximum didn't exist. However, there were two early decks that broke the game: 20x Black Lotus 20x Channel 20x Fireball Gatherer links: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver... http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver... http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver... As long as you get 2x Lotus, 1x other two in your opening 7 cards, fi…
Even better is: 31 Ancestral Recall 25 Black Lotus 3 Timetwister 1 Braingeyser You don't need 2x of any one thing to get started, you only need 1 Lotus and 1 Timetwister or Ancestral Recall. If anything gets countered, you are very, very likely to be able to keep going and win the same turn. Timetwister lets you recycle, so you can generate infinite mana. Braingeyser kills the opponent, and doubles as card draw itsel…
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Re: Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fun fact. The deck size isn't limited by the rules in tournaments as long as you don't delay the game by shuffling/handling it. A deck with around a thousand cards would be quite a nightmare to deck-check by a judge, and still be fairly quick to shuffle.
Well. You can have as many cards as you like, but still just 4 copies of any card, apart from basic lands. So there's very little benefit to having 200 cards in your deck.
> but still just 4 copies of any card
If you are playing Limited (i.e. Draft or Sealed decks) then you can have as many copies as you have in your card pool.
Although you may have some trouble finding 200 cards to use in a Limited event :)