Feature Spotlight
Ask TurnZero: A Magic Assistant That Knows Your Games
Two things share a name. On the site, a question box that reads a whole sentence and points you at the guide that answers it, free and with no account. In the app, a Premium assistant that answers from the decks you have built and the games you have actually played.
The problem it solves
Magic questions do not arrive as keywords. Nobody thinks "board wipe commander best", they think
"what is the best board wipe in Commander?", and an ordinary search box handles that badly: it wants
every word to match something, and most of the words in a question match nothing at all. So you end
up translating your own question into search terms before you can ask it.
The bigger version of the same problem is that the most useful answers are about your table, not about
Magic in general. "Which of my decks should I bring on Friday?" is a real question with a real answer
sitting in your own game history, and no search box anywhere can reach it.
On the site: ask, and get the page
Every page on turnzerohq.com carries a question box in the corner. It is not the same as the search
in the top bar, and it is deliberately not an AI chatbot. It reads your question, throws away the
words a question is made of ("what", "the", "should"), and ranks the guides against what is left,
weighting the rare words over the common ones so "commander" does not outvote "aristocrats".
No account, nothing stored, and no wait for a model to write a paragraph back at you. What you get
is the guide somebody wrote, which is usually the better answer anyway.
It answers with one page under Start Here and up to three more under Also Worth Reading, because "here is the answer" and "here is everything that mentioned your words" are different offers. If your question names a card, the cards it matched come back as chips you can open.
In the app: answers about your own games
Ask TurnZero in the app is a different thing wearing the same name. It is part of TurnZero HQ Premium, it knows who you are, and it answers from what you have tracked. "Which of my decks has the best record in four-player pods" is a question about your own record. "What is Sam's Ur-Dragon deck missing" is a question about a list a friend published to you. Both are answerable, and neither is something a search box can do.
That last line matters more than it looks. An answer that names the deck you played on Tuesday, with nothing saying where that came from, reads as the app having watched you. "Checked: your decks, your record" is the difference between a useful assistant and an uncomfortable one.
What it can reach
Every card in Magic: current printed text, mana cost, color identity, market price and the official rulings, refreshed nightly
Your decks, their card lists, their records and their rating history
Your own results: win rate over a window, recent games, your best and worst decks, your record against each opponent
The gatherings you were part of: when they ran, how many games, the final standings and the written recap
Your friends' decks and their lists, on the same terms the app already shows them to you
Every guide published on turnzerohq.com, so it can hand you the article rather than paraphrase it
The steps below are the whole of using it, on either surface.
How it stays honest
The failure worth designing against is not a wrong answer, it is a confident one about a card that
does not say what the assistant thinks it says. Cards get printed, errata'd and repriced, so anything
recalled about a card is out of date by an unknown amount.
So it does not answer from memory. Before it describes, recommends, cuts or rules on a card it reads
that card's current text, cost, price and official rulings out of the catalog. A rules answer cites
the comprehensive rules section or the official ruling that settles it, and when the question cannot
be settled without knowing something nobody has said, what was cast first, what is on the stack, who
had priority, it asks one specific follow-up instead of guessing. It can only name a guide that a
search actually returned, so it cannot invent an article or a link.
What it will not do
It is a Magic assistant and it stays one. Rules and rulings, cards, deckbuilding, strategy,
drafting, every format, the story and the worlds it is set in, anything in the guides, and your
own decks, record and gatherings: all fair game, and it is generous inside that. Lore counts,
and it is not treated as a lesser question.
Outside that it declines, whatever reason is offered. Code, essays, homework, general
knowledge, other games, medical or legal or financial advice, or a request to ignore its own
instructions. Dressing something up does not get it through either: "write me a script to sort
my decklist" is a coding request wearing a Magic costume, and it is judged on what is being
asked for rather than what it is wearing.
One decline is nothing, and most people who see one simply asked a reasonable question of the
wrong tool. A run of them pauses the assistant for an hour. It is a pause and not a ban: the
count clears itself, and the honest failure of any rule like this is turning down something it
should have answered, so a borderline Magic question gets answered rather than refused.
The question box on this site needs none of that. It can only return TurnZero HQ's own guides
and cards, so there is nothing else for it to answer.
What is kept, and the switch that turns it off
Everything the assistant can reach either belongs to you or has already been shared with you. There is
no way to ask it about a player who is not your friend.
Questions are recorded, and that is worth saying rather than going quiet on. In the app, the question
and the answer are kept against your account, so we can read what players are asking and where the
assistant falls short. On this site, the question is kept with nothing identifying attached: no address,
no account, no session. The thread you can scroll back through in the app is held on your device, not on
ours, so clearing it clears it.
If you would rather not have a model writing anything for you, Profile carries a Written by AI switch
that governs every AI feature that writes something, recaps, deck ratings, rulings and this. Turn it
off and Ask TurnZero is not offered anywhere in the app, rather than being offered and then refused.
The site's question box is unaffected, because it never asks a model anything.
Who this is for
Anyone who lands on a guide from a search and still has the question they came with
Players with more decks than they can keep a record of in their head
Playgroups that want to know how a deck has actually performed rather than how it feels
Anyone who would rather ask a question than translate it into search terms first
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need an account to use it on the site?
No. The question box on turnzerohq.com is open to everyone and needs no account. It searches the published guides and the card catalog and points you at the page that answers you. The question itself is recorded, because a question that finds no guide tells us what to write next, and nothing about who asked is stored with it: no address, no account, no session.
Is the assistant in the app the same thing?
No, and the difference is the point. The site version is a search: it finds the right page. The app version is TurnZero HQ Premium, and it answers from your own tracked data, your decks, your record, the gatherings you were at and your friends' published lists, as well as the card catalog and the guides.
Can it read another player's decks or games?
Only what has already been shared with you. It reaches your own account and your friends' decks on the same terms the app does, which means a deck a friend published to you. There is no way to ask it about somebody who is not your friend, and it cannot see another player's private games.
Does it make things up about cards?
It is built not to. Before it describes, recommends or rules on a card it reads that card's current printed text, its cost, its price and its official rulings out of the catalog, which refreshes nightly, rather than answering from memory. It is told to say when it does not know instead of guessing, and it can only link a guide that a search actually returned.
Are my questions stored?
Yes, and it is worth saying plainly. Questions asked in the app are recorded with the answer, against your account, so we can see what players are asking and where the assistant is falling short. Questions typed into the box on this site are recorded with nothing identifying attached at all. The conversation you see in the app is still held on your device rather than on our side, so clearing it clears it.
Will it answer anything, or just Magic questions?
Just Magic, and your own games. That covers rules and rulings, cards, deckbuilding, strategy, drafting, formats, the story and the worlds, and anything in TurnZero HQ's guides, plus your own decks, record, gatherings and your friends' shared lists. Ask it to write code, do your homework or give you legal advice and it will decline, including when the request is dressed up as a Magic question. Keep pushing and it pauses for an hour.
What if I do not want AI features at all?
Then you will not see it. The app's Written by AI switch, under Profile, governs every AI feature that writes something, and Ask TurnZero is one of them. Turn it off and the assistant is not offered anywhere in the app, rather than being offered and then refused.
Can I use it from a desktop AI client instead?
Yes. The same tools the in-app assistant runs on are what TurnZero HQ's MCP server exposes, so a client that supports remote MCP servers can connect to your account and ask about your decks, your record and your gatherings in its own window.
Ask it about your own decks.
The question box on this site is free and needs no account. The assistant that knows your games lives in the app.
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