An unofficial Magic: The Gathering experiment

Same packs. Different decks. Hundreds of games.

I wanted a Magic draft that felt a little like Wordle: a fresh, shared challenge where everyone starts with the same packs. Draft with the bots, build your forty-card deck, and see what you make.

Then the experiment begins. Forge—a free, community-built Magic game engine—plays your deck against shared reference decks and other entrants over and over. Its AI has limited Magic skills, so the results aren’t definitive. But it’s pretty cool to see how a deck fares across hundreds of games instead of just one or two.

Draft today’s packs Free to draft and build. A free account runs your deck. How it works →

See a finished draft → Explore the deck, picks, and results. No account needed.

Interjection Brain Freeze Wander Off Subterranean Tremors Studious First-Year
The experiment Hundreds of games played by Forge’s AI
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Today’s featured draft Secrets of Strixhaven Draft

Happening in Forge

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Vintage Mono Blue 1–0 Vintage Mono Red

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A few things I’ve made

What do you feel like trying?

Three different ways to make a deck and see what happens to it.

Four new formats each day

Today’s Daily Drafts

Everyone starts with the same packs. Draft against the bots, build a deck, and see how Forge plays it against the rest of today’s field.

Draft as a guest; create a free account to run your deck. These four choices change tomorrow.

  1. 01 Secrets of Strixhaven Play Booster display with purple, green, and blue wrappers Current Something recent that people could plausibly be drafting in events. Secrets of Strixhaven Draft Five colleges and a spellbook full of Magic history. No decks yet today
  2. 02 Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate set symbol Classic A real format from Magic’s past, with its original products and pack order. Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate Draft Draft HBG×3 in published pack order. No decks yet today
  3. 03 An ancient cosmic vault erupting with impossible artifacts and time magic Cube A named, frozen version of someone’s curated environment. MTGO Vintage Cube December 2020 Draft The high-powered cube experience: fast mana, iconic cards, combo decks, and enormous swings. No decks yet today
  4. 04 Edge of Eternities Play Booster display with three booster wrappers Crazy A hand-built experiment that changes one of draft’s usual assumptions. Three-Body Problem Three players form a tiny orbital draft pod around Edge of Eternities. No decks yet today
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A very long wall covered with mystery booster packs.

The chaotic one

Pack It Up

Spin the Wall of Chaos for three mystery booster products, then Pick Two your way through whatever turns up.

No piles finished yet today. Also free to try, and rarely sensible.

Spin the wall

An ongoing constructed league

Anything Goes

Skip the draft, build a constructed deck, and leave it in the field. Forge keeps playing it against everyone else’s creations.

13 contenders · 4,773 battles in the last 24 hours.

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The computer gets a turn at deckbuilding, too

Can it discover a deck worth playing?

The Deck Lab starts with a card pool, plays candidate decks, and tests changes. Follow the experiments to see whether the ideas that survive are actually getting stronger.

About the computer player

This isn’t a claim that Forge plays perfect Magic.

The simulations aren’t definitive competitive analysis. They’re little Magic tournaments I make the computer play because I think that’s fun. Sometimes Forge makes an odd decision. Honestly, so do I.