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• Teaching a machine to understand Magic is harder than I thought

  By Wylie Conlon · November 2, 2026 · What I got wrong in the first month of Manayard understanding Magic card text

• Can Machine Learning Predict Star Trek's Most Popular Commander Cards?

  By Wylie Conlon · October 22, 2026 · I tested eight ways to forecast which new Star Trek cards Commander players will use most. The best one in practice did not reliably beat a simple text model.

• How Manayard scores fit

  By Wylie Conlon · October 18, 2026 · Why Manayard has two kinds of score, theme fit and execution for a theme and a Fit score for your deck, where a language model helps, and how I check the results.

• Why Manayard doesn't start with popularity

  By Wylie Conlon · October 8, 2026 · An introduction to Manayard, a Commander deck builder that judges cards by what they do in your deck, and why that meant it couldn't begin with what everyone else plays.