A random card generator (RCG) can be so much more than just a fun gimmick to add to your app or website. An RCG is a useful tool to introduce cards to your users that they might have never discovered on their own. One of the more well-known examples of an RCG is EDHREC’s “Commander of the Day” which is used to showcase random commanders to encourage players to build new and different EDH decks.
RCG’s also allow you to easily create a “fresh” landing page experience that is never the same no matter how many times someone may visit…
Image recognition technology has emerged to be one of the most popular applications for machine learning in recent years. Image recognition (IR) is often used to detect certain people/places/things inside another, larger image. IR has proven useful for tasks like brand detection, crime prevention, and search result optimization.
IR works through rigorous training of a machine learning model. Every object that needs to be detected is shown to the model in a series of images that act as the training data. …
MTGJSON is “an open-source project that catalogs all Magic: The Gathering cards in a portable format.” The developers at MTGJSON work tirelessly to aggregate a variety of data sources into a single source of truth that is used and consumed by a variety of apps across the web. MTGJSON data includes card text, printings, pricing, erratas, bans, translations, rulings, product information, and more. All MTGJSON data is made freely available to the public in a series of downloadable files, each with a specialized purpose.
MTGJSON’s strongest selling point is that the data is saved in static files and can be…
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