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# Automated card game playtesting and strategy benchmarking

Run autonomous game simulations through engine tooling to evaluate game decisions and deck performance

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askStart automated playtest session
- ThenSimulate game matches via engine tools
- ResultLog match results and win rates

Set up automated game simulations against game engine interfaces to evaluate strategic reasoning and deck balance. The bot connects to game tools, observes turn states, executes legal moves, and logs outcomes across repeated matches to benchmark strategy performance and identify weak card interactions.

## Prompt to start with

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```
Connect to the game simulation server via terminal tools. Parse current game states, evaluate legal actions based on configured strategy guidelines, and issue turn commands. Record match progression, chosen plays, and outcome statistics into the database. Export summary metrics into a spreadsheet, and wait for confirmation before purging previous match records or updating master engine configs.
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## Tools it uses

TerminalDatabaseSpreadsheet

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- gaming
- benchmarking
- simulation
- strategy

## Source

[Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049227)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-16

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-16 · Updated 2026-10-16 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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