<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Manayard blog</title><link>https://cardspace-wylie-conlons-projects.vercel.app/blog/</link><description>Notes on building a Commander deck evaluator.</description><item><title>Teaching a machine to understand Magic is harder than I thought</title><link>https://cardspace-wylie-conlons-projects.vercel.app/blog/how-manayard-reads-cards/</link><guid>https://cardspace-wylie-conlons-projects.vercel.app/blog/how-manayard-reads-cards/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>What I got wrong in the first month of Manayard understanding Magic card text</description></item><item><title>Can Machine Learning Predict Star Trek&#x27;s Most Popular Commander Cards?</title><link>https://cardspace-wylie-conlons-projects.vercel.app/blog/star-trek-spoiler-predictions-october-20/</link><guid>https://cardspace-wylie-conlons-projects.vercel.app/blog/star-trek-spoiler-predictions-october-20/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>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.</description></item><item><title>How Manayard scores fit</title><link>https://cardspace-wylie-conlons-projects.vercel.app/blog/how-fit-works/</link><guid>https://cardspace-wylie-conlons-projects.vercel.app/blog/how-fit-works/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>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.</description></item><item><title>Why Manayard doesn&#x27;t start with popularity</title><link>https://cardspace-wylie-conlons-projects.vercel.app/blog/popularity-is-the-wrong-signal/</link><guid>https://cardspace-wylie-conlons-projects.vercel.app/blog/popularity-is-the-wrong-signal/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>An introduction to Manayard, a Commander deck builder that judges cards by what they do in your deck, and why that meant it couldn&#x27;t begin with what everyone else plays.</description></item></channel></rss>
