Re:Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
by Xelbair on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:02AM
(#19848956)
there are cards that:
restore your library,
grab cards from exile(out of game, literally),
Reverse win conditions,
Prevent losing,
Generate infinite loops - both deterministic and not(with randomness).
Create tokens(sometimes coupled with above) - which provide unlimited resources with a sac outlet.
And those aren't fringe cases - for example in EDH format quite a lot of decks win by creating some kind of infinite loop, or by generating infinite resources(or sky high amount of them)
restore your library,
grab cards from exile(out of game, literally),
Reverse win conditions,
Prevent losing,
Generate infinite loops - both deterministic and not(with randomness).
Create tokens(sometimes coupled with above) - which provide unlimited resources with a sac outlet.
And those aren't fringe cases - for example in EDH format quite a lot of decks win by creating some kind of infinite loop, or by generating infinite resources(or sky high amount of them)
So i would argue that resources aren't finite.