Urza's AI
AI
generative card design
SHOW HN2022
188points
95comments
#311of 2,570 in 2022
Top 13%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
18 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 24 critical, out of 58 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Execution: 6 for, 17 againstIdea: 8 for, 0 againstDesign: 3 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Generated cards are fun and often balanced-looking
From 3 comments
Pretty good! All of the cards I saw were reasonably balanced - not unlike looking through random cards in a new set. Makes me think there could be a game type online where all…
ALittleLight on HNThis is seriously cool—I had way too much fun playing with it. Wish there was a way to specify a creature subtype!
karweiss on HNThis is great! The couple cards I generated were spot-on in terms of what felt like a realistic mtg card.
chillpenguin on HN
Flavor text is funny and impressive
From 3 comments
"Those who cannot get along with humans often make them wizards." Love this text. 2/2 red flying angel with a 4R cost, a bit expensive BUT its ability is pay R and get +1/+0.…
iamcurious on HNBelievable art, text and flavor text : https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=9d76fd94-95b2-4d20-bbb3-9348a588937f
Piribedil on HNI've had a lot of fun playing around with this, great job! One thing I thought was awesome was the imo incredible flavor this randomly generated card has all around:…
tommit on HN
Deck printing and draft play ideas are appealing
From 3 comments
We are experimenting with a deck printing API! We printed a couple of decks and played with them - it was really delightful and fun!
mostelato on HNWow! Imagine a new tournament category where you receive an AI generated deck on every match! Sounds fun :)
haolez on HNI would play AI generated MTG Draft in a heart beat. Maybe a 50/50 mix with real cards so you don't have to learn every single card every game.
nemacol on HN
Objections
Card text is often nonsensical or broken
From 3 comments
Illustrations are impressive, but text seems very fragile. I generated in sequence from names: ``` Ice Lake Land - Islanders T: add U or R Tiger Lake Land Tiger Lake enters the…
HelloNurse on HNLet's try a few things. In some of the tries below I didn't realise the URL is unique to a card. In others, I did, but I copied the URL too soon and it points to an earlier card.…
YeGoblynQueenne on HNThis is really cool! I noticed a few things you might be interested in: It looks like there might be issues rendering mana costs that have, e.g., 1GG where it does not render the…
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on HN
Generated cards render mirrored left-right
From 3 comments
Is the card rendered mirrored for anyone else? Chrome/MacOS
captn3m0 on HNAll the ones I'm generating are mirror imaged left-right reversed. Text, image, everything.
ianferrel on HNhttps://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=2ff42256-1794-4720-a008-aa36040fe28f the generated card for me is somehow reversed. makes me wonder if the image is captured on the…
mzzter on HN
Art and images are not coherent
From 1 comment
Let's try a few things. In some of the tries below I didn't realise the URL is unique to a card. In others, I did, but I copied the URL too soon and it points to an earlier card.…
YeGoblynQueenne on HN
Site was blank or images failed to load
From 2 comments
Your website is just a blank page.
tintor on HNImage loading is down right now, Wombo is throwing more GPUs at it!
mostelato on HN
Requests
Fix mirrored rendering
From 2 comments
Is the card rendered mirrored for anyone else? Chrome/MacOS
captn3m0 on HNMy card came out mirrored lol https://www.urzas.ai/cards/?card_id=511b085d-da3a-4ab0-af20-89bb3a1f12b6
Acceptance on HN
Allow specifying creature subtype
From 1 comment
This is seriously cool—I had way too much fun playing with it. Wish there was a way to specify a creature subtype!
karweiss on HN
Document the API
From 1 comment
How do we use the wombo api? Can't find documentation.
KaoruAoiShiho on HN
Questions
How is the mana cost symbol syntax specified
From 1 comment
Anyone know the correct mana syntax for advanced options? I tried 4RRR and got the text "4RRR" in the mana cost, instead of red mana symbols and 4 colorless.
eutropia on HN
How close is generated art to training data
From 1 comment
How "far" from the training art is the resulting generated art? Do the generated cards have features which are recognizably lifted from the training data?
WhyOhWhyQ on HN
Alternatives named
RoboRosewater Twitter bot
From 1 comment
There was a very popular Twitter account that was tweeting out a similar concept (starting way back in 2015, even!) https://twitter.com/RoboRosewater LoadingReadyRun, a very…
chc4 on HN
This Trading Card Does Not Exist
From 1 comment
Hey, a few months back I trained a NN to generate MTG cards. I submitted a post to the MTG subreddit but it got blocked as spam and I never managed to get the mods to approve it.…
angarg12 on HN