'Because Science' Demonstrates Turing Completeness of Magic: The Gathering

New submitter jklappenbach writes: Further cementing Kyle Hill’s nerd creds, he’s just released a YouTube video [via Because Science] where he demonstrates how Magic: The Gathering can be used to construct a Turing Machine, using both a specifically-constructed deck and the current rules of the game (except the ability to pull cards from all of history). Kyle posted the full setup of the deck in a comment below the video, with a link to the paper that can be found via arXiv.

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