Jason Rohrer (Passage, Sleep Is Death) thought it’d be fun to train an AI to create fake Magic: The Gathering card names. It was a good hunch.
To do it, he created a database of 18,978 card names, which the AI would then use to jumble all the words up and come up with new stuff. Amazingly, aside from simply offering up combinations of existing words, it also learned to create new words like “Soulstorm”, which despite sounding like the most Magic name ever isn’t actually on any card.
Some of the other highlights include:
Sangrome Archers
Kazanda Astator
Resounding Chief
Grim Canopy
Reckless Speaker
Harbinger of Blood
Grave Glory
Blood Market
Siren of the Gate
Goblin Sanctuary
Spirit of the Well
Grave Glory! Blood Market! Grim Canopy! If they weren’t fake Magic cards they’d be excellent doom band names.
You can see the full list of names here
