Attempting to Play With AI-Generated Magic Cards (Part II)

[@CardmarketMagic]

Urza's AI is unfortunately now defunct

[@cleverestx]

Any good way to get these printed? anyone provide such a service? That would be awesome...

[@CardmarketMagic]

@@cleverestx we simply make a few A3-page-sized PDF of all the cards and bring it to our local print shop. If you ask for 300 stock paper, it come out like real cards :) you can use the tools in the print shop to cut out the cards.

[@SirJorb]

Am I doing something wrong? No matter what I do, it always uses the same generic images for each color of card instead of making unique ones like in this video.

[@N4m3lesS_1]

@@SirJorb its the same for me. My guess is either its temporary because of issues or they somewhat removed the image generating ai part? idk it makes things less fun if you give cool names and get interesting cards but the art is just meh.

[@cuddlequeen3225]

@@N4m3lesS_1 @SirJorb The information I was able to find on that is that they did away with the image generator due to server costs or something.

[@MadisonM1996]

"I bet you didn't see this coming! I play Two Factor Authentication to draw two additional cards from my deck!" Opponent: "what? For two mana?" Me: "It does what it do Yugi!!"

[@iantaakalla8180]

Then watch as they make cards Password Authentication, Face Identification, Thumb Identification, Certificate Authentication, CAPTCHA identification, and Single-Sign On Identification as weaker versions of Two-Factor Identification.

[@KantiDono]

Suggestion: AI Draft Have a bunch of people suggest random card names, put them together into packs based on AI-assigned rarities, then have a draft and try to assemble a working deck that way. Ideally with the players seeing the generated cards in the draft pool for the first time.

[@brianolsen5435]

This would be really cool.

[@dalexa]

I wrote the same thing but you already had it (although mine was with the names from a MtG set). I would add the real costs of the cards and make a bunch of episodes with the members drafting and playing.

[@KantiDono]

@@dalexa On second thought, this would actually be pretty funny. "In response, I play Necropotence." "Wait, what!?" "It deals 2 damage to your creature, and I gain 2 life." "Oh." But I feel like that comedy aspect wouldn't last, and might just end up making the game harder to follow (than it already was).

[@Raderph]

Loadingreadyrun did a draft of a roborosewater cube a long while back and again more recently I believe

[@Zetimenvec]

Building on this. How about they do a normal draft, and then AI generate all the cards they drafted?

[@catbot6037]

Glad to see this continued. "Clockwork Colossus" had some interesting results on my end. On the other hand, the engine has determined "sphere" to be a worthwhile creature type...

[@shieldgenerator7]

just like physics!

[@briankenney9528]

Sphere tribal

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

@@briankenney9528 scryfall art:ball

[@nedcurfman3486]

IT KNEW

[@wilux2469]

Would love to take a peek at AI generated cards where you use the advanced settings at the bottom of the page, letting you pick mana values and types. Making it a bit more feasable

[@shieldgenerator7]

yes! they should do this to allow a reasonable mana base

[@brettandrus1789]

Yeah that would be so cool. To see them really trying to strategize.

[@FlourescentPotato]

yeah, making obviously unplayable decks is getting old now, they should make believable decks

[@CardmarketMagic]

@@FlourescentPotato We would rather just play with real magic cards then 🙂

[@Wauly]

​@@CardmarketMagic good point, but you could actually get some multicolor spells and legendaries that way. You could use dice to generate how many pips of each color the cards cost (A D4 probably). You could basically just use dice to keep any aspect of the generations random. Alternatively, you could say that each player has a one time use of the advanced settings to try to get a very busted card. I think you guys should try it

[@Meteorlink]

The ai is a fun time, i made a "frog on a Unicycle" and not only was the art perfect the card itself was a 2/1 flying that gave all frogs swampwalk. Honestly give that card reach instead of flying and it could be a legit blue black creature type in the future.

[@loxeresczech439]

Having absolute blast with these videos. Always make me laugh super hard. They are also the reason why I recently started taking interest in MTG and following your other content. Edit: A card I would like to see made in a future video would be "Spelling Bee".

[@dnr-vs1lk]

Honestly if I was doing this I’d just make a whole deck of bees

[@burntdnd]

How did you predict that! A card called Spelling Bee was just released in Unfinity

[@EliottAdkins]

As an odd idea, I wonder how fun it might be to take a legitimate deck list, but use UrzaAI to create new cards with the same names as whatever is in the decklist...see how playable decks are based on the AIs translation of their card names.

[@inygs2807]

Oh man, that's genius

[@SirJorb]

I'd also love to see a deck entirely of Yu-Gi-Oh card names.

[@benjaminmiddaugh2729]

Urza's now has a deck building mode! (I didn't see any comments mentioning this yet.) It has options for Standard, Commander, and Jump Start. You tell it what colors you want, name the deck, and get a deck in your chosen format (including generally gorgeous full-art basic lands). It would be great to see you guys try decks made this way.

[@Actual_Malice]

Absolutely hilarious stuff. I asked GPT-4 to make some of these cards. First one was Everflowing Lotus Type: Legendary Artifact Cost: 2 Tap: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you cast a spell, put a flow counter on Everflowing Lotus. Remove three flow counters from Everflowing Lotus: Untap Everflowing Lotus." Not as funny but it's an actual card design at least lol

[@CardmarketMagic]

Yeah, one of the biggest reasons we stopped doing these is because the AI got too good. Like in this case, where that is actually fascinating card design :D

[@RusticHighman]

wish this was a weekly thing id watch it nonstop : D

[@teilzeitbernd]

This needs to become an (in)official format.

[@shieldgenerator7]

i would love to see a tournament format like this!

[@alexandersean4708]

@@shieldgenerator7 Player1: JUDGE! HE STOPPED SHUFFLING HIS HAND! Judge: But creatures with flying. Player2: I play Demonic to You Cyclom. Now my Your Egg gets +2/+2 and has feel. Edit: Punctuation. Edit 2: Capitalization.

[@shorgoth]

you meant to spell it (UN)official format :p

[@alexiswigginton452]

I love the ai series where you guys make the cards yourself , its fun having the personality in cards

[@SomeGuy712x]

That math lesson was hilarious. Also, Urza's AI seems to almost never generate multicolored cards on its own, although I did get a decent creature that cost 1GW one time. Perhaps you guys could make use of the Advanced Settings or the new Deck Builder option in Urza's AI next time.

[@SinisteaSado]

I have played Magic for a long time, and have started falling out of love with a lot of the content creation around it. But I love how this series and the people playing it can breathe new life into what is normally such a stale atmosphere. You guys have been putting out great content with the AI stuff, and I hope to see more of it

[@sagacious03]

1:34 I'll say this, 1 of the flaws of playing with Urza's AI cards is you know what's coming before you play, & taking away all the surprise factor takes away a lot of the fun. But I suppose some people like knowing what they're working with before they play, too. 4:42 The lack of silly cards is tragic, yeah. 8:00 Lol, that flavour text. 11:13 Interesting seeing how you decided how that card type would work. 12:47 Lol, I like the flavour text. Anyway, decent video! Personally, I'm hoping in the future for more some more weird cards & keeping the surprises fresh! Once again, thanks for uploading!

[@DarkYuan]

Yeah, there should be a slider for "creativity" to let you choose roughly how silly you want the cards to be

[@CardmarketMagic]

There is one on Urza's AI. The cards in this video were created with the creativity slider on maximum. We still don't know if we should favor these videos against the Roborosewater ones. I (Carl, from the other videos) personally prefer the Roborosewater cards much more!

[@sagacious03]

@@CardmarketMagic That's interesting to know! I personally prefer nonstandard designs. If the AI just creates cards that conform to MtG standards, how is it different from other custom cards or even regular Magic? Not that that isn't enjoyable, but there's lots of other ways to enjoy Magic! Thanks for this info, sorry for any bother!

[@CardmarketMagic]

@@sagacious03 no bother at all! We often get requests from people asking to use cards that are closer to real magic cards actually, to which we usually reply that we would much rather play actual magic cards in that case 😅

[@treeofthetrees9132]

I quite enjoy these AI decks! Either draft format like this one, or the other episodes that have premade random decks.

[@rustandsilver3495]

I am unsure if I prefer this style of AI generated cards or the other. I enjoy how, in the other one, you don't know what the cards do before you cast them, but I like this draft style more since it allows you to try(and fail) to craft broken OP cards.

[@I_Am_Kas]

Love the dynamic, really fun to watch them enjoy themselves with the silliness of AI generated cards.

[@ryanharo9552]

I love these videos and I had an idea for another one. Two people take turns making 15 cards using Urza's AI like the start of this video. Then, give the decks you generated to two other people to play with. This way we have the fun of watching the cards get generated and the fun of watching people play with cards they have never seen before. Since you won't be playing with your own deck it could lead to friendly trolling, especially if you know who's getting the deck you make. Carl made the Thoralf Potato Goblin, so theoretically if Carl knew he was making a deck for Thoralf he could just put potato in every single card. You could just use random country names, whatever you think might be funny.

[@CardmarketMagic]

This is actually a strictly better way of doing these videos!

[@somerandomgamer8504]

​@@CardmarketMagicPlease, I'd love to see a video of that!

[@liammeisgood8665]

MAKE THIS A SERIES. I love this so much, cracking up at every card.

[@rescuerex7031]

Mox Lotus Ring would be interesting to see since it's like a combination of all the best Mana Artifacts

[@veryblocky]

It’s a shame Jamin didn’t make a Kraken of the Deep Fallen deep-sea bullutean, I really think it’d would’ve been funny if he did

[@shieldgenerator7]

KaeroMTG would have done that if he got that card

[@xn85d2]

I just tried and got a 6/7 Kraken with "Whenever Kraken of the Deep Fallen deep-sea bullutean deals combat damage to a player, draw a card." Also it had no mana cost because the name was too long. 🤣

[@poketech7192]

LESGOOOO!!!! been waiting all week for this!!!

[@BlueDavrial]

Love to see more of these, great fun. If you guys do this again, you should try messing with the generation options. You can set the mana cost for whatever's going to be generated, or the type, or whatever. Would be fun seeing if you could build decks using those settings, would make it at least a tad more predictable, add just a smidge more strategy

[@Eragonnogare]

I absolutely love this series, would love to see it happen more regularly even, something like a weekly series would be a lot of fun, especially if you try to make specific themed synergy decks or something. I remember from the previous one the attempt to make a goblin deck had decent success, so similar efforts could be very interesting

[@sagacious03]

Commenting before watching this: Super excited to watch this video! Love seeing people play with these crazy, atypical, AI-Generated card decks! Thanks so much for uploading this! Will probably comment more later!

[@natenathan2654]

Kraken of the deep sea fallen sea bullitron: Casting cost not visable due to the long cardname. 4/4 Kraken Whenever Kraken of the deep sea falls into the ocean, you may draw a card. (???) Kraken of the deep sea: Xu Land rover alliance (?) Creatures you control: fishhook giant (???)

[@shieldgenerator7]

what the???? also it generates a link when you generate the card so you can share the entire card

[@emanuelegalluccio1309]

Card Recommendation: "Toffel's Inevitable Loss" and "Cardmarket CEO"

[@jonkurp6463]

This format is so much better, that the one where you just bring the generated Decks! Pls make more of this.

[@ferdf58]

These are my favorite MTG videos right now. Hope you make more!

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

yesss. more ai-generated cards. as the ai grows smarter, the cards will become even more interesting.

[@hedlankunsond4556]

This is the best series. I think maybe you should give each player one "reroll" where they can run the program again with the same card name. Might be nice for when they spin blank/uncastable cards

[@kylelee8968]

BEST. FORMAT. EVER.

[@sk8rdman]

Two Factor Authentication = Pot of Greed Seems legit.

[@teamcyeborg]

I love that they actually started making rules for these

[@MajSpork]

I dunno why but the fact that y'all don't capitalize the card names really grinds my gears.

[@CardmarketMagic]

Carl, the person who edited this video, here. I agree! It drove me mad whilst making this 😅

[@RancorSnp]

I'm glad this had been continued!

[@genzo454]

Torrent Giant (hopefully a big blue creature) Sleepless Land (like a land that can untap creatures) Ponderous Decision (some random blue spell) Hungering Ogre (medium-sized red or green card)

[@Valdrius]

I'd like to see an episode with names that could be actual card names, rather than just keywords to try and force a certain effect. Curious what you'll end up with when working with themes and flavor and if you can get any sort of coherent strategy going. Maybe five cards where you're allowed to use the same word ie "Twilight Champion", "Twilight Binding", "Twilight Spirit" etc. hoping for similar effects and then trying to support them with other cards. Ai generated artwork for your basic lands would also be pretty cool.

[@deathhimself1427]

watching every card thoralf made somehow become a counterspell was so funny

[@theNoriLi]

:O you're starting to smooth out the rough edges! I love it.

[@double2helix]

Next time I'd like you to feed the AI "pot of greed", maybe this way we'll find out what it does

[@byrontheusurper6505]

Eternalize sounds like a pretty fun keyword, you exile something from the graveyard to copy it exept it's something else like a ghost with a different statline, that honestly sounds like some believable orzhov guild bullshit! Edit: it does actually exist. The other ai always makes up keywords but aparantly these are legit. Cool stuff!

[@Nuggetmonk]

these and the sort of "fun facts about mtg"-shorts are my favorites. magic is pretty intese most of the time and this feels like just having fun watching insanity :D

[@elijahdeshaw]

Card Recommendation: “Eldrazi Slayer”. I want to know what it does. Does it make an eldrazi, or does it make a super powerful warrior. What will it do?

[@abhikan7654]

Neither

[@xekon14]

(2)(G), Tap: Sacrifice Eldrazi Slayer and reveal the top card of your graveyard. Lose 2 Life.

[@mekhihernandez4478]

Would love to see this with more magic-like names. Like vampire of darkening night or eldrazi oceanbreaker

[@karlbergman5678]

This series is what made me interested in MTG, plase keep doing these!

[@obscure8176]

Great video! I'm sorely tempted to name a Digimon for the memes, but I want to see some equipment. Effulgent Saber sounds like it could be a cool card.

[@Jeskai]

Missplay! Good Wise Sphinx requires to sacrifice a Good WISDOM Sphinx to draw a card!

[@TheSpectralFX]

"In the future, entertainment will be randomly generated"

[@markp7262]

I created Volrath, Puny Metal Man on a lark. 4UU for a 4/4 Human Wizard with Flash. Whenever you cast a creature spell, exile the top card of your library face down. You may look at it for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. Ummm... BROKEN! Also, great flavor text. "Once a thing is cast, it has no more utility."

[@Purin1023]

I saw that the website had an option to generate a full 60 card deck based on the deck name. Maybe it would be fun to try out for one of these episodes

[@ianrussell4650]

Honestly love this series, keep it up!

[@Spaceballsthehandle]

I'm curious to see if you can choose one card name and randomize it a bunch of times and make a playable deck of just that one cards variations... also "cozy inn" is my favorite name to randomize its results are so chaotic...

[@chrisk3824]

This was the strongest argument for 2 factor authentication I've ever seen

[@truthhurts6607]

Best series on the channel! Corner the market with your original playlist.

[@akeustis]

"Really thinking very, very hard" has even stronger nothingcore energy than Tark's Flowstork.

[@Habizbah]

I love the concept. Playing a game with it is much more interesting than just seeing what it spits out. My favorite was the game with Spice8rack because not reading them and being forced to make a play was endlessly entertaining.

[@Spika94]

2 Card suggestions: "1 step forward, 2 steps back" "Convenient inconvenience"

[@Delenter]

Having absolute blast with these videos.

[@robbieellos7558]

I would love to see more of this

[@olvynchuru1663]

This really goes to show the difference between Limited and Constructed in which kinds of cards are good. In the games they played, the 5/5 for 4 Titans of Colossal Might were amazing. But in Modern, that creature would be unplayable while a 2 mana hard counter that draws you a card would see play everywhere.

[@MrMartinSchou]

I've mentioned it before, but it'd be interesting to see the outcome if you took ProTour decks and fed names, types and casting cost into Urza's AI to generate new cards with those properties, and then had to play the resultant decks. Having to constantly reread your Liliana to find out what she does is a lot of fun.

[@yoshimitsu5537]

Love both different types of AI generated videos! Some of the hardest I have laughed in years😂

[@Unhappypanda]

Huge improvement in playability haha absolutely love this series!!!

[@Dardove]

I would love to see you guys try the deck builder on Urza's AI.

[@dragonic22]

Hilarious and hype. Another awesome video!

[@aandylane]

I'd love to see a variation of this where you guys generate ten cards and then get five real Magic cards to try and make your deck as OP as possible

[@lugarial]

That's so hilarious ! I'd love to see either Rootwallas (Rooting Rootwalla) or Phoenixes (Snowstorm Phoenix)

[@colgatelampinen2501]

Quite surprised Sports maship and fairness and empathy even made it to deck.

[@shieldgenerator7]

the guy's a professional, so of course he has to have sportsmanship

[@SizeMcWave]

I could watch one of these everyday, such a unique idea.

[@The_Foreman]

A "Creativity" is a type of card that replaces the description of a permanent you control. Notably any permanent. Land, Artifact, Creature, Enchantment.

[@Testperson001]

It's so amazing to me that the multicoloured spell that was only generated because of the 4/4 angel had a card drawing effect for controlling a 4 power creature

[@gordonrotter310]

I subscribed because I want to see more games of randomly generated MTG. I am also commenting and liking because I want more of randomly generated MTG showdowns.

[@Smith.S.E.]

Need some well known memes as cards. I want to see "Crab Rave" face off against "Teabagging Master Cheif"

[@TheLargeBard]

Esika’s tow truck.

[@neilraymond9093]

Please do more of these!!

[@gyrasolune5436]

I feel like a 'creativity' ought to be something like 'a permanent, with a one-time activation, that goes back into your library (or maybe even hand?) when activated'. Actually given that it's a 4-mana for drawing 2 cards and has to actually go out onto the board, where it's a bit more vulnerable than just an instant, maybe going right back to the hand would be balanced??? I figure the idea is functionally something like Foretell in practice where you basically cast instants for slightly more overall mana cost, but you pay it in installments instead of all up front.

[@Vearru]

I like this but, I also thought of an alternative possibility, a creativity is a non permanent card type that has abilities that you can activate while it’s on the stack.

[@omologo95]

@@Vearru yeah, I thought about the same thing

[@Tzizenorec]

My idea was to make a Creativity something like an emblem, where it goes to its own special zone instead of being a permanent. Perhaps limit it with "you can only have one Creativity of each color" to limit the power of effectively being able to cast emblems from hand.

[@Tzizenorec]

@@Vearru I've been thinking that should be a feature of some instants, but giving it its own card type also works.

[@Skyrimlizard]

Had one card that put your entire graveyard pile back into your deck second from the top. Which I thought was hilarious

[@portalmasterlp453]

You should try the deck builder on Uzras ai. You just need an name and color to get an entire deck

[@CardmarketMagic]

That would remove the best part of the video? 😅

[@minininja2792]

Oh my god, you answered my call. I love the Ai videos

[@TheOutcast17]

Enjoy watching the process of generating the cards, one thing i've seen is that it seems to heavily favor creatures and instants/sorceries (also loved spitting out blue human wizards??? thats probably just me though) I think i've only ever once seen it actually generate a multicolored card as well. It goes against the spirit of the process a bit but there are advanced settings which can allow you to set colors, subtypes, etc, a slightly more guided generation process that could in future be used to make a more focused deck/one with more synergies (particularly thinking of akroma and similar effects that literally just can't proc because the AI doesnt gen multicolored cards hardly ever)

[@ArtifexExMachina]

You should do a tribal version of this, each player picks an obscure creature type from magics history and all creatures have to have that type in it's name. Three re-rolls per player, free re-roll of a card got mangled or is not playable, if a card refers to another card: create that card as well (e.g. the combo must be playable, if a card says sacrifice xyz, xyz cannot be an instant)! Got Great card results with squirrels.

[@waterunderthebridge7950]

I was just like they sound so German and lo and behold, looks like they’re actually based in Germany

[@pedrocosta7469]

hellish pupeteer, overhelming gargantua, the joy of the miraculous ones, fountain of youth and health, the adventures of umlag, dragons of the onslaugth day of the great reckoning these are some suggestions, hope they turn into some good if not goofy stuff

[@Ramschat]

Now I want to generate "Mox Lotus"

[@Alexsnow0_0]

More of this content please.

[@Azurios]

This was rly fun. I would like to see more. But maybe in the feature the players should use words like "dragon" or "elf" to get some creatures =)

[@aabrightlove]

MOAAARRRRRRRR I would love to see what some of the recent models could do with this concept, also you should definitely be using the Advanced Options

[@CardmarketMagic]

Unfortunately the more advanced options, as well as Urza's AI now in general, are simply too good 😅 most people enjoyed these video because they are funny. The AI was just bad enough that this content is comedy. The tool now just generates reasonable magic cards. At which point people will usually prefer seeing cards they already know

[@aabrightlove]

@@CardmarketMagic well, consider that I, as an actual living breathing audience member, would 100% be interested in it but hey I mean it's your channel, right? I definitely can't hate on artists doing the art they want to do the way they wanna do it, so please don't take this as that

[@CardmarketMagic]

@@aabrightlove I'm happy that you'd enjoy it and we do have fun making the AI card videos even when they are not funny, but we saw it in the retention rates that people click off on the less funny cards. We unfortunately have to follow the numbers 🤷‍♂️

[@aabrightlove]

@@CardmarketMagic hmm... how do I put this... there's an old adage I think that sums my ideas up nicely: "art is worth making, even if it doesn't sell." So, really, make what you wanna make how you wanna make it!~ if this isn't what you wanna make, don't! but if you do, then do! screw the rules you have art to make!

[@CardmarketMagic]

@@aabrightlove hahaha, no, really. Given that I love making anything MTG related and that any of the other content we make is equally as fun, I'd much rather do things that as many people as possible enjoy :) I'm not doing this for myself, these videos are for the community

[@5DollarPanda]

After a few of these match ups where you generate the cards, you should combine some of these wacky decks to see what happens.

[@rominou77]

Love so much those videos 😍😍

[@leemaiden388]

Really thinking very, very hard is legit one of the best cards ive ever seen xD

[@hachnslay]

I would love to see you play two commander decks created by the Deck Creator on the bottom. Make them at least two colours (if you only use one it will try to make a planeswalker commander) and select a useful Deck name, like "sliver overload" or "Rampant Titans". Let them generate and play them blind.

[@GrenDrake]

Just wanted to say, these AI generated card videos are a delight to watch!

[@CardmarketMagic]

Thank you! 😃 they are also a delight to make

[@FantasKanal]

First card Urzas generated for me was a Planeswalker with "[+1] Destroy target nonblack creature"

[@RaginKavu]

Niiice! Could you guys make list with all the generated cards? I miss the other game's ones!

[@Jorge-np3tq]

Control the Mind flavor text: "I have not seen the Threefold Flame, but I have seen the Threefold Flame"

[@CardmarketMagic]

🤣

[@epicnessbrian5295]

I definitely prefer the gameplay over seeing the cards being created, it feels like the surprise of playing them is gone if we see all the cards first.

[@warmpancaxe]

The math lesson had me rolling