Thermal Expansion
(360 Card Cube)
Thermal Expansion
Art by Chuck LukacsArt by Chuck Lukacs
360 Card Cube0 followers
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A further continuation of the experiment started with Thermite. I took that cube, cloned it, and ran it through the following steps 10 times:

  1. Resize the cube to 180 cards.
  2. Resize the cube back to 360 cards.
  3. Take a snapshot, compare it to the previous snapshots.

The process converged pretty quickly on this list, as you can see from the following table:

IterationCards Swapped
0N/A
1182
2178
376
419
517
68
72
81
91
101

Some things that I noticed pretty quickly:

  1. Storm Crow (the seed for the initial cube) was stripped out within the first few iterations. RIP, you legend.

  2. The resizer VERY quickly stripped out the garbage cards (like the random Soldier token) that were in the original cube. That says some heartening things about the algorithm behind the process.

  3. The resizer added the Conspiracies really early on and stuck to them like glue. I suspect that that's part of the reason why the cube has so many cards from the Conspiracy sets in it, honestly.

  4. The new cube costs, like, a fifteenth of the original iteration. I find that weirdly funny.

The end result of all of this is a cube that looks like a mediocre "Conspiracy Remastered" cube. There are a bunch of weird decisions here (like the fact that the cube only has two dual lands in it), but it seems shockingly plausible for what amounts to an AI-generated cube.

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