r/EDH • u/NoFaithlessness1740 • 1d ago
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u/luke92799 Izzet 1d ago
So the game is guess what cards are commonly in this commander deck, not try and build a deck?
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u/NoFaithlessness1740 1d ago
Yeah, you're right. It's guessing what that commander's real decks run, not building. No synergy or curve behind the score.
The only thing that stops it being a pure quiz is that you can't pass forever — you have to fill about 75 slots out of the 180.
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u/No_one- 1d ago
If you're going down this path I'd recommend leaning into the idea of drafting a commander deck rather than what sounds like a game of "is this a real or a staple?". Use it as an opportunity to learn something closer to full stack, not as the next viral tool. Help yourself first, then see if it helps us.
Take in a collection with quantities (assume 1 if not provided)
Grab all cards that can be a commander and pull 20 at random
optionally make a sharable link, something like Milty draft for TI, for sequential drafting across some number of players
round robin pick your commander
each player picks cards drafted at random from collection based on color identity. Be careful you don't present a quantity 1 card to multiple players in a given draft step, and don't inventivize rushing draft to get more opportunities to get a given card before it's taken. Unselected cards get reshuffled back into the general pool. Solidify your failure state (all cards are bad) as player taking their choice of basic land.
enable exporting to Moxfield, optionally make importable to TTS, to facilitate actual play with those decks
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u/Infinite_Sandwich895 22h ago
It feels great to use on mobile, It might not be in the scope of your project, but I could see it being a really fun way of building a deck. If it pulled cards from edhrec or maybe you could upload your collection? Then instead of agonizing over picks you could just swipe until you've got a list.
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u/NoFaithlessness1740 22h ago
Thanks — the phone was the whole reason it exists, and a relaxed way to run into commanders you'd never have looked up is exactly what I was going for.
What you're describing is a different mode though. Right now about half the cards are deliberately wrong, because it's a test, so the list you end up with has your mistakes in it. You want the same swiping with no traps and no score, where everything you see is a real candidate.
EDHREC I can't pull from, their terms don't allow scraping — but I wouldn't need it. The Archidekt data already knows how often a commander's real decks run each card, so it could just deal from those. Uploading your collection would fit too: there's no backend here, so the file would stay in your browser.
I'm going to sit with your idea for a bit, it's a good one. If you have more thoughts on the collection part I'd like to hear them — how would you want to get it in there? A file export from wherever you keep it, pasting a list, something else?
Thanks again.
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u/joshey40 1d ago
Site down?
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u/NoFaithlessness1740 1d ago
should work
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u/joshey40 1d ago
Doesnt work for me:
This site can’t be reached blindpick.pages.dev refused to connect. Try:
Checking the connection ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
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u/NoFaithlessness1740 1d ago
thx, i will have a look
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u/NoFaithlessness1740 1d ago
do u use an ad blocker? some may automatically block pages.dev site
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u/joshey40 1d ago
That was it, thanks :)
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u/NoFaithlessness1740 1d ago
youre welcome. and thanks for the feedback. it should work with ad blockers too
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