Femme_Fatale on New Feature in Progress: LLM …

2 weeks ago

Tappedout is developing a new large language model search engine. You can find this new form of search by clicking on the eyeglass in the top right in the site’s header, then clicking on “Card Search” that appears in the dropdown. You’ll be redirected to the advanced card search page. At the top of this page there will be tabs you can click on. One says “search” and the other says “LLM search”. By default it lands you on the normal search tab, so click the “LLM search” tab to access it.

How to Use It?

When you land on the LLM search page you’ll be presented with two input fields. The first one is hard data. That is, data that is printed on the card, other than the textbox. Things like colour, mana value, type and subtype, name, etc can be filtered in this field. The second one is semantic data, the effect you’re looking for on the text box.

An example:

• Hard data: Creature that cost less than 3 mana
• Semantic data: Makes zombies stronger.

It is important to split these two up because if you write down “aggressive creature” in the semantic data it’ll give you a bunch of things that buff your creatures as these all care about and modify creatures.

There is also an embedded feedback system with thumbs up and thumbs down buttons to the left to denote which results you see make sense and which ones do not. Do note however that a feature that’s in progress is an input form to list things that are missing with your specific search results.

Limitations and Restrictions

This being an LLM search engine means that it has some restrictions on what it is capable of doing that you will want to know beforehand.

It can:

• Filter by all the normal values a card can have.
• Look for vaguely described effects.
• Frequently compare your input with cards that have a similar name linguistically.
• Frequently prefer the reminder text of cards of french vanilla style of cards.
• Be quite good at getting kindred stuff.

It can’t:

• Look at what’s in the art of a card.
• Cross reference a popular deck archetype or name.
• Check the intrinsic mechanics of the language you are using.
• Use an existing deck on the site.
• Use magic slang or meta terminology.
• Use an individual/multiple card(s) as a reference.

However, the list of things it will do and things it can’t do are work in progress. The devs are working to deliver an improved version to you as soon as possible, but understand that LLMs have limitations and they may not be able to fully deliver on what they or you want.

Additional Notes

This LLM is trained on tappedout’s own card data, so it cannot give you results based on information that the site doesn’t have; like scryfall’s tagging data or mtgtop8’s historical decklist data.

Also, there are limits to the amount of times you can use this search: 3 times per week for free users, 20 for upgraded users and 250 for subscribed users. This restriction is not set in stone and will fluctuate as the costs of running this engine are evaluated.