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This would be amazing to use when playing absolutely any card game with friends who don't live close enough for a real game.

If this would be open-source and there was an easy way to modify some of the actions to fit the most common operations to a particular game, it would likely start as an engine for tons of other games/websites (Pokémon, Magic the Gathering, Star Realms,...).

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Cockatrice is okay for Magic: the Gathering, though it could certainly be improved a lot (I feel like XMage is really of the same flavor).

It’s a shame playing Magic requires a lot more features than, say, Bridge — this is hardly exhaustive but in addition to needing to be able to put dice on cards, you need to be able to select and reveal cards at random from all zones, manipulate the top of your deck, create token cards, and tap/untap cards. I feel that this presents a large UX problem.

I will open source it soon!

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