Game Concept

Deep IQ is a deck building tool, or virtual opponent, for play with your Magic: The Gathering physical cards.  It implements several versions of rules bases upon a virtual opponent that rolls dice and looks up the results on a set of tables to determine how to play.  Deep IQ is NOT an Artificial Intelligence game at all!!  It is a tool for you to use to test your decks against when you do not have a live person to play with, but still want to play with your physical cards. 

On each turn, Deep IQ rolls on the current Action Table and uses the result to determine the action for a turn.  As play progresses,  Deep IQ  will move up through Action Tables, from Table I to Table VI, which yield more powerful results in the same way that players eventually cast more powerful spells as the number of lands they control increases. The Deep IQ system also uses a Token Table to give the creatures it creates a versatile set of abilities, and a Spooky Table to allow for a wider set of effects at a given time than just one table

The most important point to realize is that Deep IQ is NOT an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).   There is NO decision making -- it is simply a set of Tables and the roll of a single d10 die to determine the actions to take during its Turn. 

YOU will manage the Attack Phase for Deep IQ during its Turn, and YOU will manage the Block Phase during your Turn as well.

Deep IQ is a tool.  It is meant to help you play-test your decks.  Cheating serves no purpose - you should ALWAYS choose the best course of action for Deep IQ as you would for yourself. 

Setup is similar to Goldfishing. You have a library, but Deep IQ does not (and therefore no hand). Deep IQ begins the game with Action Table I as their current table.

Deep IQ  goes first. On its turn, it will roll a 1d10 and consult the current Action Table. This action happens during Deep IQ ’s Upkeep step. Like rolling on a planar die, the roll itself is a special action and does not use the stack. Deep IQ consults the table and determines the action.  On some turns YOU will be asked to make decisions --for example, if asked to “Destroy your best artifact or roll on the Spooky Table”--you choose the option which is ​worst f​ or you. Similarly, if an ability tells you sacrifice your best creature, choose the creature which is actually your best one.

Deep IQ creates Creature Tokens with a given Power and Toughness. Part of that ability is rolling a 1d10 and consulting the Token Table. The token is created with the given power and toughness and additional characteristics taken from the result on the Token Table that matches the die roll with any modifiers applied.

Deep IQ advances to the higher Action Tables as the game progresses.  Some actions will advance or retreat Deep IQ up the Tables automatically.  YOUR Actions will affect Deep IQ by changing the current Table and by applying roll modifiers, all as the result of your actions such as Discarding, Milling, or Land affecting spells or abilities your deck may possess.

Because Action Tables roughly correspond to lands, land destruction will cause Deep IQ to retreat to lower-numbered Action Tables. Destroying one land will move Deep IQ back one table. Destroying two or more with one effect will move it back to Action Table I.