Star City Games posted some good articles on hypergeometric distributions and multivariate hypergeometric distributions. Check out Luck And The Land Draw and Stats 101: The Math Behind Tom Carpenter's Assumptions for some great material on how these wonderful equations relate to deck building.
Got my problems with MA and Apprentice figured out and it worked great. And since screenshots are so much fun, here is an image from the game I got working. Shows my deck on the top and my girlfriend's deck at the bottom, me with MA and her with Apprentice. Kudos to MA's author, Sal Valente, for his excellent program!
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I've dug up an older version of Apprentice (1.45) (REMOVED). I hope it works with Mindless Automation.
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I've got a a better HTML version of the official Magic rules. I've taken time to try to clean it up, put it in XHTML, create proper cross-references, and otherwise fix the file as created by Micro$haft Word. It isn't done yet and I'm sure it isn't yet completely XHTML compliant. Enjoy.
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Good glub, back when I played magic, around Unlimited and Revised, I don't remember things being so complicated. But today they give out an about 100 page Word Document with the official rules. <sarcasm>Thank's a lot, Wizards of the Coast, for using a cross-platform document format.</sarcasm>
For those of us who don't run Micro$haft software, here is 'a HTML version of the official rules. It is generated by Word for Windows, so the HTML is bad and wrong but it is viewable with many tools. Enjoy!
I don't know what was going on but dragonstudios.com seemed to be down, so I've mirrored locally a copy of their Apprentice for Windows NT/2000 (REMOVED) and Apprentice for Windows 95/98 (REMOVED). This program serves as a virtual table top that you can use to play remote Magic the Gathering games. For people who run GNU/Linux, Mindless Automation is compatible, for cross-platform, remote Magic fun.
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