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>> "I was totally surprised by this, because it means that a (mostly) fully-functioning bot capable of playing arbitrary games of Magic: The Gathering has a small enough footprint to run locally on your machine"

> I dont get that. Maybe I am missing something. Lets say, the MTG AI was so intensive to run that it would be unreasonable to run on the customer's machine - then I wouldn't run it on the server either [...]

They said "footprint", not "processing power". The bot's rules engine is small enough to run in the memory footprint on older iPhone or Android devices, a server could have a lot of memory dedicated to holding a state machine or rules engine and still use very little processing power to execute the engine for any particular request.