Meet the CEOs and their AI labs

Nine labs. Nine ways to scale. Every CEO starts with 30 Health, a unique once-per-sprint power and a complete starter deck. These characters are part of an independent satire of the AI industry.

Sam Altman OpenAI
Build Hype, then cash it in: GPT-5 gets cheaper with every point of Hype, and AGI turns it into damage.
Vague Post · 1 Compute
Gain 2 Hype.
“The Hype Machine. Ships first, explains later.”
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Dario Amodei Anthropic
Protect your board with Safety Filters and Guardrails, then Fine-Tune Claude models into stronger versions.
Constitution · 2 Compute
Give a friendly minion Safety Filter.
“The Constitutionalist. Safe, slow, and then suddenly not slow.”
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Demis Hassabis Google DeepMind
Generate spells, Research new answers and build value over a longer game.
Self-Play · 2 Compute
Add a random DeepMind spell to your hand. It costs (1) less.
“The Grandmaster. Solves a field, collects a Nobel, moves on.”
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Elon Musk xAI
Play cheap aggression and random damage. Launch rockets, then live with the consequences.
3AM Post · 2 Compute
Deal 2 damage to a random enemy.
“The Chaos Engine. Posting through it.”
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Mark Zuckerberg Meta
Give models away as Open Weights, grow your board and recruit the opponent’s talent.
Open-Source It · 2 Compute
Summon a random 1-Cost minion for each player. Yours gets +1/+1.
“The Open-Weights Emperor. Gives it all away, then buys the competition.”
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Jensen Huang NVIDIA
Ship GPUs for extra Compute and use it to deploy large Hardware minions.
Ship GPUs · 2 Compute
Summon a GPU.
“The Shovel Merchant. Every side of every war buys from him.”
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Liang Wenfeng DeepSeek
Distill your opponent’s cards, reduce costs and get more from every crystal of Compute.
Distill · 2 Compute
Distill: copy a random card from your opponent's deck.
“The Efficiency Ghost. Does it for a fraction of the price.”
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Arthur Mensch Mistral AI
A/B Test effects, return cards to hand and slow your opponent with regulation.
Mixture of Experts · 2 Compute
A/B Test: Deal 1 damage; or gain 2 Runway. Expert: Attack: Deal 1 damage. Or Expert: Defend: Gain 2 Runway.
“Le Champion. Sovereign, open, and a little windy.”
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David Ha Sakana AI
Grow a school of Models, adapt through research and spend Hype on stronger mutations.
Natural Selection · 2 Compute
Summon a 1/1 Lab Fish. Gain 1 Hype.
“The Evolutionary Optimist. Let the school find a better answer.”
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