State of the art Magic: the Gathering Draft and DeckBuilder AI.

This repository contains an algorithm for automated drafting and building for Magic: the Gathering. I used this algorithm to achieve the highest rank (Mythic) on Magic Arena. I did so in 23 drafts, with a 66% win-rate, which is comparable to how I perform on my normal account in which I do not use any algorithms. The highest rank within Mythic I have hit so far is #27. As far as I know, this is the first time anybody has acheived results of this caliber using an AI in Magic: the Gathering.

Below is a general description of the transformer architecture for the Draft AI in order to make it easier to grok than reading through code.

• Step 1: clone this repository, and cd into it.
• Step 2: create a virtual environment in whatever your favorite way to do that is (e.g. conda create -n my_env -> conda activate my_env).
• Step 3: pip install . will install this repo such that you can use from mtg.xxx.yyy import zzz.

NOTE: I am not currently providing a pretrained instance of the Draft AI or DeckBulder AI in this repository. That means you cannot simply install this codebase, launch Magic Arena, and use the bot like I do. If you would like to do that, you need to use this code to train it yourself following these instructions. A non-cleaned version of the UI I use that interacts with Magic Arena can be found here, and it will eventually be cleaned and added to this repository under mtg/app/.

Find any documentation on usage of the different sections in the README of their corresponding folders.

• Integrate deckbuilder and drafter in one end-to-end pipeline.
• Add mtg/viz/ as a folder for containing 17lands data visualizations, explorations, and useful insights.
• Add mtg/app/ as a folder to contain the application UI for running on live arena drafts.