Summary of GOOGLE ENGINEER SOLVES BEST DECK - SIMULATES 5 MILLION GAMES | MTG | Magic the Gathering

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This video shows how Google engineer Solves Best Deck - Simulates 5 Million Games of Magic the Gathering. He discusses some card choices and strategies, and finishes with a victory against an opponent with a much better deck.

• 00:00:00 Google software engineer Dr. Ruckus explains how he wrote MTG Arena from scratch in order to simulate millions of games and calculate the best deck for each player. The program is able to play reasonably well, but still has a 20 to 30 percent error rate due to not thinking far enough into the future. In order to create a meta for the program, Dr. Ruckus started with extremely simple rules and gradually added more and more complex cards.
• 00:05:00 In this YouTube video, Google engineer Solvee shows how to optimize a mono white aggro deck against a meta consisting entirely of mono white aggro. By extrapolating results from a simulated 5 million games, it is estimated that the best possible mono white aggro deck against the real meta (including control decks) would be incredibly close to the actual best mono white aggro deck. This approach of calculating every possible combination of cards and their associated win rates as a surface (a 3D surface) is simplified to a drawing, and it takes four days to try out one set of gradients.
• 00:10:00 The video demonstrates how Google engineers solved the best deck problem--simulating 5 million games of Magic the Gathering. The video walks through how a computer determines the win rate for adding one card to a deck each time, then subtracting one card each time to create different decks. The results show that the best deck is one with only one copy of Legion Angel.
• 00:15:00 In this YouTube video, Google engineer Solves Best Deck - Simulates 5 Million Games of Magic: The Gathering, showing how certain cards increase your chance of winning in any given game. The video also discusses how to tweak your decks to improve your chances of winning.
• 00:20:00 In this YouTube video, Google engineer solves best deck - simulates 5 million games of Magic the Gathering. He discusses some card choices and strategies, and finishes with a victory against an opponent with a much better deck.
• 00:25:00 In this YouTube video, Google engineer solves best deck - simulates 5 million games. The deck focuses on creatures and disruption, using brutal cathar to kill off opponents' creatures while pushing damage through with other creatures and spells.