mage VS Cockatrice

Yeah, that surprised me too, given that https://github.com/magefree/mage is open source and pretty actively developed.

The project you want is http://xmage.today/

All cards available, and full rules engine.

My guess is that fully modeling MtG's rules in Datalog would take a lot more work, because MtG's rules are a lot more complex. Looking through the source for one of the freely-available game engines like https://github.com/magefree/mage would probably be more informative, though.

There's a draft every day, with events at different starting times to accommodate players from around the world, plus asynchronous side events including Rich Draft, Team Sealed, and Rotisserie Draft. We play on XMage which has full rules enforcement like MTGO but is 100% free software.

If you can tolerate some of its shortcomings, you can draft against bots on Xmage.

https://github.com/magefree/mage/issues is a more reliable place to report - this might not be a trivial fix

Update: My problem happened because the launcher had reverted to the non-beta xmage home address on its own. You probably have the same problem. You need to go to settings, set branch to custom, and the xmage home address to http://xmage.today/

Real life example: The open source implementation of MTG card game multiplayer

Check our Cockatrice.

I'd suggest going to any deck browsing site (like https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/pioneer/full#paper) and glancing at the top decks and seeing which one interests you. It's okay to post and ask questions about decks if you're not sure how one works (I personally struggled understanding how legacy control decks can seem to run 0 win conditions but also have no issues winning games for instance). When you find a deck you're interested in you can find a discord for that deck or make a post to ask questions and be sure you want to play it. There are also online tools to help you play for free with any deck like https://cockatrice.github.io/ and similar, so you can try the deck online if you'd like

Props for your resourcefulness, but you could just use Cockatrice, or XMage.

Go to https://cockatrice.github.io/ and download the software, installing it afterwards;

Cockatrice can do that, configured for magic by default if i remember correctly. Youll have to cough up image files for different card sets.

There is a client and a server, so not super easy, but not hard if you have any sysadmin experience. I had a server up for almost a year once

https://github.com/Cockatrice/Cockatrice

https://cockatrice.github.io/ - haven't used this too much myself but this one does have built in servers and decent controls

My favorite is Cockatrice even though you sound like a mostly in person seeking fellow. It is a web application that is like a card game simulator, it plays magic and can auto update to show you card images, doesn't cost a dime and theoretically could play other games like Android Netrunner if you really wanted to, downside is it sometimes changes domains if the authorities try and shut it down, but the last one https://cockatrice.github.io/ has been around a while. also no rules enforcement, but upside is play any format including some weirdness like "bring your own standard" from any era or tiny leaders, the all less than 3 mv commander played 1v1