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INTRODUCING: The MTG Autopedian Simulator (MAPS) A full MTG engine! Today I announce a project I have been on and off working on (in its various forms) for a few years now: MAPS (The MTG Autopedian Simulator). It is a simulator that allows players to build decks, test decks, and see interactions and rules interactions. It has a fully fleshed out MTG Engine, that handles every single mechanic in Magic: The Gathering. From stickers to storm to all the layers, its got everything! This is a long one, so buckle up! Overview: The game has a "full" catalogue of every single card ever added to Magic: The Gathering. Every set, every mechanic, every card, every printing. It will even have support for all of the Unset cards (some had to be changed, like the ones that make you do something IRL). Many of these still need to be added, but I am working on them at the moment. Now technically, the game does not have every card yet. I am over 50% through the entire game's catalogue at the moment. But, every single mechanic IS added, and has rules support. Its more that I have to grind through the next 16000 cards and their various printings. More Details: The game has many ways to play, and at the moment there are 2 formats (with more to come): Commander, and AUTO-AG (Anything goes commander). I built this engine specifically for commander, to test decks before buying them, and just seeing rules interactions happen in game. But, I have plans to expand to other formats if that is what people want. There is support for LAN Multiplayer, Online Multiplayer, and single player against bots. 1v1, 1v1v1, and 1v1v1v1 are all supported. Online multiplayer on a server is functional, but is slow on free servers, and I dont have the extra money to spend on high-speed servers for this project. So we will see where it goes. I always try and optimize the game, so we will see what happens and what the support is like for this project. Singleplayer/Bots: For singleplayer, I have implented bots that will play decks to the best of their ability. They are only so good though, so the bots may not be able to recognize high-complex boardstates or interactions, or be able to properly determine threats. Although I am constantly making the bots more complex to be able to play as realistic as possible to a real player. Support: Like I mentioned before, the game has support for pretty much every mechanic, card, and playstyle. Every card and interaction follows the strict MTG rulings, including layers, the stack, and priority. It plays very similar to MTG Arena, although much uglier. (I am working on the visuals as well) Conclusion: I wanted to share this passion project with the MTG community, and I am hoping that some MTG creators could give it some attention. I have plans to release a first build to the public once every card and mechanic is fully playtested and implemented. I expect this to be fairly soon (like a month or so), since I overhauled the Scryfall Importer not too long ago, and it has exponentially quickened how fast I can add cards. The cards are fundamentally based on a MTG rules engine, so new cards that have unique abilities should work without being playtested, but I am always playtesting to make sure it is true, and if there are any bugs, I fix them right away. If people are interested in trying an early build where not everything is added, let me know and I can try and work something out. The online multiplayer also needs work, as right now since the rules engine is so complex, sending data to a server that is cheap or free is very slow. But the game works great on more expensive servers (currently playtesting with AWS high speed servers). So, early builds will not include online multiplayer, but will have full single player bot game support, or LAN multiplayer support. History of this project is in the comments! Features of the engine: - Full MTG Engine/rules support - Deck Importer and Exporter from Archidekt/Text - Drag and drop from EDHRec & Scryfall - MAPS Deck Autobuilder - EDHRec Deck Autobuilder - Bot matches - Online/LAN Multiplayer - Full MTG card Catalogue support - Pack Opening Simulator - All printings of cards - Streamed Artwork - Pricing Data - Auto Tapper - Full Control & Pass Turn options (similar to arena) - Dynamic Music that syncs to what is going on in the game - Specialized Stack resolves for cards that need it - "Randomly Resolve Stack" option - Full scryfall tag implementation -And much more! Thank you to all who took the time to read this long announcement, but I am very proud and want to share it with the world! DISCLAIMERS: AI Disclaimer: I want to be fully transparent with everyone who is interested in this project. While I am not a very big fan of AI and its impact, I will disclose that I used some AI to help debug some code and help me flush out the Scryfall Importer. I am a Mechanical Engineer by trade, and some of the bugs and the fully implemented Scryfall Importer would have been impossible without. Flushing out this Scryfall Importer to be able to add cards at an extremely fast speed is amazing and I could not have done it without it, and some of the complex layering/stack interactions would have been impossible for me to add without it. If you wish to not interact with this project due to this fact, I understand. Sorry to all of those that are disappointed in this. I do not have plans to use it again for this project. Printings/Streamed Artwork Many of the "special printings" of cards (like showcase, borderless, etc), may look weird due to the nature of the Scryfall Importer importing artwork. Since the game reconstructs the card from scratch, and uses the scryfall importer to stream artwork, the artwork and frames of unique printings of cards may look weird. I will try and fix these as time goes on, but unless I get a full artwork of the card and not just the cropped artwork and the correct frame, they may look weird. MTG Card Support All mtg cards will be supported, but cards that are impossible in Digital formats will be changed, NOT removed. (Chaos Orb, Falling Star, Ante, Unset cards that deal with doing something irl, etc will all have changes made to them to have them function similarly) Sub-Par UI Design I have been a notoriously bad UI designer, so I apologize for the UI looking as bad as it does. I am slowly trying to make it look better, but right now my focus has been on mechanics and card additions, and UI design will come later. @joelaremagic @TolarianCollege @commandcast @jfwong @JoshLeeKwai @wachelreeks @Brttnymchlle @loadingreadyrun @coL_Amazonian @VoxyTwitch @bmkibler @meatcanyon @PaymoneyWubby @MoistCr1TiKaL @PostMalone @RhysticStudies @MTGGoldfish @SaffronOlive @MTGNerdGirl @BDEgameowners @PleasantKenobi Sorry for all of the tags!! I am just trying to spread it as much as possible. I would appreciate a retweet from anyone who is interested. Thank you to all my Fortnite Autopedia friends who were pretty much the catalyst for what the project has become (don’t worry, the FNA TCG Card game is still coming!), and to those who support me over there on the FNA account. Shoutout to Square Boy, @AAKphoenix, Spaceman, @ZCBuilds on YT, and all those who worked closely to build the original engine! Also thanks to CCG Engine, and the Unreal package (that i cannot remember or find the name of! Sorry! Hopefully I find it and give the proper credit) that helped me build the engine. This project will evolve, and I plan to continue posting about it, and sharing my updates! Please let me know if there is anything you would want in a MTG Engine in the replies!