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Magic the Gathering

Building decks, reading the meta and learning to lose well. Magic has taught me more about probability and system design than half the books on my shelf.

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mario@deckbuilder $ deck-list --format=modern

mainboard 60 cards

sideboard 15 cards

avg-cmc 2.4

mario@deckbuilder $ winrate --last=20

[OK] 12W / 8L (60%)

mario@deckbuilder $ metagame --pulse

energy decks rising · combo decks soft

mario@deckbuilder $

⌬ Magic · Apr 22, 2026 · 4 min

Magic taught me to think in curves before cards

Building a Magic the Gathering deck is a probability-modelling exercise that looks suspiciously like designing a detection architecture.

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