Paradox Engine
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Paradox Engine is a powerful artifact card from Magic: The Gathering that untaps all nonland permanents you control whenever you cast a spell, enabling highly explosive combo turns.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paradox Engine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8806468 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paradox Engine Context triple: [Paradox, hasComponent, Paradox Engine]
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A.
Aurora Engine
Aurora Engine is a role-playing game engine developed by BioWare, best known for powering classic titles like Neverwinter Nights.
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B.
Quantic Dream engine
Quantic Dream engine is a proprietary game engine developed by Quantic Dream, known for powering their cinematic, narrative-driven titles with advanced performance capture and realistic facial animation.
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C.
Blam! engine
The Blam! engine is the proprietary game engine developed by Bungie that powered the early Halo titles, enabling their large-scale environments, AI, and physics.
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D.
Frostbite Engine
Frostbite Engine is a proprietary game engine developed by DICE and widely used across Electronic Arts titles for high-fidelity graphics, physics, and large-scale environments.
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E.
Infinity Engine
Infinity Engine is a classic isometric role-playing game engine best known for powering late-1990s and early-2000s Dungeons & Dragons–based PC RPGs such as Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paradox Engine Target entity description: Paradox Engine is a powerful artifact card from Magic: The Gathering that untaps all nonland permanents you control whenever you cast a spell, enabling highly explosive combo turns.
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A.
Aurora Engine
Aurora Engine is a role-playing game engine developed by BioWare, best known for powering classic titles like Neverwinter Nights.
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B.
Quantic Dream engine
Quantic Dream engine is a proprietary game engine developed by Quantic Dream, known for powering their cinematic, narrative-driven titles with advanced performance capture and realistic facial animation.
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C.
Tempest Engine
Tempest Engine is Sony’s dedicated 3D audio processing hardware used in the PlayStation 5 to deliver immersive, spatial sound in games.
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D.
Blam! engine
The Blam! engine is the proprietary game engine developed by Bungie that powered the early Halo titles, enabling their large-scale environments, AI, and physics.
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E.
Frostbite Engine
Frostbite Engine is a proprietary game engine developed by DICE and widely used across Electronic Arts titles for high-fidelity graphics, physics, and large-scale environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Magic: The Gathering card
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artifact ⓘ |
| artist | Dimitar Marinski ⓘ |
| belongsToGame | Magic: The Gathering ⓘ |
| cardTextFocus | untapping nonland permanents ⓘ |
| cardType | Legendary Artifact ⓘ |
| collectorNumber | 179 ⓘ |
| colorIdentity | colorless ⓘ |
| combosWith |
card draw engines
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cheap spells ⓘ mana dorks ⓘ mana rocks ⓘ |
| convertedManaCost | 5 ⓘ |
| designedForFormat | Commander ⓘ |
| enables |
combo turns
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infinite mana combos ⓘ storm-style turns ⓘ |
| firstPrintedInSet | Aether Revolt ⓘ |
| hasCardNumberInSet | 179/184 ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
MTG Arena
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linked to:
Magic: The Gathering Arena
Magic Online ⓘ paper ⓘ |
| hasFrameEffect | Legendary ⓘ |
| hasManaCost | 5 ⓘ |
| hasOracleText | Whenever you cast a spell, untap all nonland permanents you control. ⓘ |
| hasSubtype | none ⓘ |
| isBannedIn |
Commander
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Duel Commander ⓘ Explorer ⓘ Gladiator ⓘ Historic Brawl ⓘ Pauper ⓘ Pauper Commander ⓘ Penny Dreadful ⓘ Timeless ⓘ |
| isColorless | true ⓘ |
| isLegalIn |
Brawl
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Historic ⓘ Legacy ⓘ Modern ⓘ Oathbreaker ⓘ Pioneer ⓘ Vintage ⓘ |
| isLegendary | true ⓘ |
| languageAvailability |
Chinese Simplified
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Chinese Traditional ⓘ English ⓘ Japanese ⓘ |
| rarity | Mythic Rare ⓘ |
| rulesText | Whenever you cast a spell, untap all nonland permanents you control. ⓘ |
| setCode | AER ⓘ |
| triggerCondition | whenever you cast a spell ⓘ |
| untaps | all nonland permanents you control ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Paradox Engine Description of subject: Paradox Engine is a powerful artifact card from Magic: The Gathering that untaps all nonland permanents you control whenever you cast a spell, enabling highly explosive combo turns.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.