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by c256 2665 days ago
Not at all.

Constructed players already (for a very long time) use the collective data of other players — this has lots of names, it is commonly called “net-decking”. It turns out, that the best players and the best deck builders have a lot of overlap, but not completely so, and it’s common for multiple high-ranking players to play the same decks. A key skill to winning tournaments is to figure out what decks are going to be played by the other top players, and how to give yourself the best chance against them.

In other words, MtG is a game where deck-construction and deck-playing are both important and distinct skills, and high-level tournaments generally assume a high level of both, so a helper bot for the former is unlikely to give an advantage (because it’s compared to “the best efforts of a lot of people over a lot of time”).