No de-duping of copies and near-copies

[vtbassmatt]

In a private discussion on Discord, someone pointed out that there’s no de-duping of decks. Each copy of a deck (whether on the same source site or not) will count towards a commander’s popularity. This overweights format staples, explosive new builds, and possibly decks built by popular content creators

[vtbassmatt]

Near-dupes are especially interesting/irksome. If I swap a couple of mana rocks, is it a different deck? Knock out a basic for another rock? What if I swap a single basic for a snow-covered basic?

[vtbassmatt]

This is probably a solved problem in the search world. At worst, I’m guessing that we can treat each deck as a document, each card as a token, and compute similarity with traditional techniques.