Ironsmith – MTG card (de)compiler and multiplayer rules engine
Parses Oracle text into live effects instead of hardcoding 20k+ cards like XMage does.

Browser-based MTG playtester with no signup, but Cockatrice and XMage do this free.
Magic: The Gathering players who want to test decks online
Cockatrice · XMage · Untap.in
Stack: SvelteKit on Cloudflare Workers, PartyKit (Durable Objects) for the authoritative game server. Clients propose actions over WebSocket; the server validates and broadcasts state.
Up front: my background is networking and my cofounder's is industrial design — neither of us had shipped a codebase like this before. We built it over the last 5 months with heavy Claude assistance. Happy to get into what that actually looked like in the comments.
It's rough in places (the deckbuilder is just ok right now) but the core multiplayer loop is solid and we have played a ton of games on it with our Commander pod. We'd love feedback, especially from anyone who's played Cockatrice/XMage/Untap and has opinions on what a browser-native version should feel like.
Parses Oracle text into live effects instead of hardcoding 20k+ cards like XMage does.
Webcam MTG player with ViT detection, faster than Spelltable's perceptual hashing.
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Compiles 23k card rules from grammar at runtime instead of hardcoding every single card.
LLMs play full-rules Magic: The Gathering with no simplified rulesets or shortcuts.
AI agents QA and playtest your MUD autonomously—playtester files bugs, designer audits balance.