The card counting is harder since we can hide which cards were top decked or held since the start by just rearranging/shuffling our hand. We could have 0-4 counters or setups waiting for the gating decision.
The possible game state is also much larger than poker. Deck construction alone is 60 cards out of about 30,000 unique cards. Sure, not all cards are viable in all decks, but we can have 1-4 copies of a card in our deck.
So we might not even know if we’re playing against mono-red or multicolored since the decklist is unknown. You can think you’re playing mono-red and then they suddenly play a Plains. Poker at least always has the same 52 cards to reason about.
I do think AI could be great at coming up with decklists though.
The possible game state is also much larger than poker. Deck construction alone is 60 cards out of about 30,000 unique cards. Sure, not all cards are viable in all decks, but we can have 1-4 copies of a card in our deck.
So we might not even know if we’re playing against mono-red or multicolored since the decklist is unknown. You can think you’re playing mono-red and then they suddenly play a Plains. Poker at least always has the same 52 cards to reason about.
I do think AI could be great at coming up with decklists though.