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akoboldfryingtoday at 3:00 AM1 replyview on HN

I was wondering how complicated it could really be, and it turns out that some people showed in 2019 that it's Turing-complete -- meaning that any conceivable computation can be simulated by a MTG game, indeed a game in which every move by every player is forced: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828

IOW, it's as complicated as possible.


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mckn1ghttoday at 5:25 AM

Someone made a video based on the paper, if you want to see the cards being used and a little more explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdmODVYPDLA