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117: MTG WWDC

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The Magic Game Is Touring Complete

Magic is the most complicated game that humans have made. With all of these cards and all of their interactions,. the possibilities can just totally explode, like what can occur in a game. And i think that can be super interesting. Many games are touring complete - you can simulate an entire computer just by the interactions of the rules of the cards. The magic tour complete stuff is totally unintentional. It was never intended to say people should be able to simulate arbitrary computing functions within our game. No, they just made so many cards with so many rules and so many weird edge cases that they accidentally built a system where someone can build a computer out of their cards... That's holar.

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