MTG Slang is CONFUSING
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- Опубликовано: 14 дек 2024
- MTG has dense slang, culture, and just strange sayings, let's explore all of that!
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Its called a library because of the original fantasy of the game. You are a wizard who memorizes spells (drawing cards) from your library (your deck). You draw energy from the leylines of the various planes youve visited (lands)
Plus the back does kinda look like a big ol book cover.
The term Cantrip comes from dungeons and dragons and refers to spells that don't cost a spell slot to use, but might still require Verbal, Somatic, and very rarely Material Components.
At the time of magic's release, when most players were coming over from D&D, like the creator himself, it was felt that cards in hand was analogous to spell slots and so a card that replaces itself with a new card from your deck is essentially equivalent to a spell that costs no slots.
"don't cost a spell slot to use" They do cost a spell slot, but they were given a "level 0" slot... at least in 2nd Edition, haha.
And originally*, that was only the arcane spells. The divine ones were "orisons" and the psionic ones were "talents", I think.
*in 3rd Edition
@@Sauvenil3rd Ed, too.
I’ve been called out for saying “in the tank” recently and that’s not even from Magic originally, that’s a poker term we just adopted!
Never heard that one what's it mean?
@@goreobsessed2308 it’s when a player takes a very long time to make a decision. ‘They’re in the tank hard deciding how to block’. The opposite in poker would be a ‘snap’ (snap call, snap fold, etc.), which we do use in Magic too, but usually only with mulligan decisions (snap keep, snap mull). Maybe occasionally with concessions?
I also hear ‘angle shooting’ to mean ‘taking an unethical or metagamey advantage’ and I believe that was popularised by poker players too.
@Azeria ah yeah makes sense
"What is WUBRG?"
*ahem*
WHITE, BLUE, BLACK, RED, GREEN! LIVIN' LA VIDA JODAH!
SWING IN WITH A TEAM! LIVIN LA VIDA JODAH!
💃💃🎶
"no seriously, is he with you..?"
17:39 One I’d also recommend keeping in mind is “Man-Lands”: a land that has an activated ability to become a creature(Hive of the Eye Tyrant/Mishra’s Workshop).
I still wish they'd keyword "transients" for non-permanents.
Also “Highlander” means “A format where only one copy of a card can be in a deck”.
Because it is based off the series "Highlander" where the tag-line is, "There can be only one."
That's incorrect.
Highlander is simply the original name for the Commander gameplay format.
Being limited to one copy of each card is a deck-building format called Singleton.
They are not the same.
@@MastaJuggalotus Singleton is WOTC’s term for highlander because they can’t say highlander because of trademark issues.
Commander was called “Elder dragon high lander” because it was a singleton format with an elder dragon.
Other high lander formats are Canadian high lander and Australian high lander.
@theVtuberCh That's also incorrect. I've been playing since 93. I was around when there were three supernumerary versions of early Commander. Again, that is incorrect. Singleton was a term used by players in EDH long BEFORE WotC decided Commander should be their product.
Highlander and Singleton are different words for different things.
@@MastaJuggalotus Were those Elder Dragons born 400 years ago in the Highlands of Scotland? Are they immortal? Why else name it Highlander? Maybe because there are 100 cards instead of the normal 60 so the deck is both higher in size and land count?
I got called out for using the term "goading" during a dnd session I was in recently, so this video is very topical for me lol
Goading is a real word, though? Were you using it to mean "provoking or annoying someone to take a course of action?"
@TalkerDudeMan yee, specifically, i thought the guy we were fighting against was boosting our Player Characters in order to force them to fight one another. I play with a lot of people who also play magic, so it was just a "you used a magic word lol nerd" kinda situation
An MDFC is *not* any card with another card on the back. There are 88 MDFCs and 346 TDFCs, which also came first. There are also 12 meld cards, with half a big magic card on the back.
(TDFC stands for Transforming Double-Faced Card. Instead of being able to cast either side, you can only cast the front*, and there is some way to "transform" it to flip it over. Some TDFCs can flip back and forth and others only transform once.)
(The meld cards come in 6 pairs where if you control both you can meld them together into the card on the back)
*TDFCs with disturb are cast transformed from the graveyard, sieges are cast transformed from exile when they are defeated, The Transformers cards** can be cast transformed for their More Than Meets the Eye cost and are effectively modal and transforming*** except the rules don't work that way.
**Except Grimlock, a silver-bordered promo that came before the other ones
***Transformers (including Grimlock) "convert" instead of "transform" because Hasbro tries to argue that "Transformers" isn't too generic to be trademarked.
Archenemy is also a 3v1 format with special rules and special 'scheme' cards for the solo player, not just when a commander game turns into a 3v1
Vorthos is an aesthetic profile rather than psychographic, along with Mel (who finds beauty in the mechanics of cards and interactions)
I have a "Supervillains" deck instead of "Superfriends". Because most of the planeswalkers I use in it have extremely oppressive effects. (Karn, the Great Creator; Narset, Parter of Veils; Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God; Ugin, the Spirit Dragon; Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge.) Incidentally, Saheeli, Sublime Artificer has amazing synergy with Mind Stone.
15:29 Fun Fact, Alpha only had 9 dual lands, as WotC famously forgot to print Volcanic Island
I thought that was Beta?
Steve is short for Sakura Tribe Elder Value Engine, Affinity is articfact aggro because of the affinity mechanic's first showing in original Mirrodin was used for an extremely dominant aggro deck.
An "Un-set" is a special printing of cards not valid in any formats. They're designed to be wacky, fun, but not necessarily playable. They can be historically identified by a Silvered Border, or in more recent times by an Acorn shaped stamp under the text box.
It might be because i was introduced to tcg's from Yugioh , but sometimes yugioh has better terms for similar concepts .
Stax and floodgate come to mind , you understand a floodgate but most people wont know about that one 30 year old card that has stax in the name .
(Yugioh is by no means guilt free of the problem , just has far less severe symptoms )
In my experience mtg slang is very simple and straightforward most the time
Often true, but if someone hasn’t played a card game before and you say you’ll use your rock to cast a ritual into a wrath so you don’t die to your opponents weenies with evasion, they’re not going to understand, even if that’s a pretty simple concept once you get into the game
@nephdrummond3168 most slang is used between players who know the cards and slang they are being used with. With new players your less lively to see someone toss out every slang word there is against them. Sure the extremely common ones like wrath or counter spell for example will get used but a lot of them likely wouldn't get brought up.
@@cread13 it is very easy to refer to color combinations with their nicknames which can easily mess up new players
@superyahoo1822 u can say that for most if not all slang. Even outside of magic. With a lot of magic specific ones though from my experience they are easy to explain because a majority of the common ones stuff like "wrath" which I've used in teaching new player help generalize/simplify things for them
@@cread13 yeah but these are a lot of terms so it will take longer for them to learn them all and in the meantime it is very easy to use them and then have to explain them
The 4 color combinations are named after the nephilim: Glint-Eye, Dune-Brood, Ink-Treader, Witch-Maw, and Yore-Tiller.
Have you ever heard someone saying they were playing a deck in "Dune-brood" colors?
@@Rougesteelproject To be honest, I don't hear many people playing 4 color decks in first place. I was simply saying that the four color combinations names, as shown at 13:29, are named after the nephilim. Tho I imagine most people don't actually refer to them by those names.
@@nitrodacks Gotcha. Sorry if I was being rude.
@@Rougesteelproject No worries
@@Rougesteelproject What I find is that it's hard to make a 4-color deck without just making a 5 color deck, haha. (Besides, everyone knows anything over 3 colors is a green deck anyway.)
This video is incredible. I found myself enjoying the sort of stream-of-conciousness nature of the commentary more than i thought i would. My brain wants to categorize everything more than youve done but the segues were well executed
The graphic of mana being tapped at @8:31 has real Animorph book cover energy. As if the Christmas tree in the background is morphing first into a forest card (tree in card form) then into a mountain card.
MY first ever magic game was a draft where we got a bunch of packs from the store and made decks out of them at the kitchen table, then randomly played against each other. And in this first game, I shit you not, we were BOTH mana flooded for like 5 or 6 rounds straight. Until my opponent drew one big monster and instakilled me with it.
I kind just got used to it. However, I will say, when I use terms like wrath people get confused sometimes. I've been playing for about 4-5 years now so I know 90% of the terminology. Still have no idea what the 4 color combination names are though
Yugioh is the same with "old card becomes the basic term." MST (Mystical Space Typhoon) is anything that can remove a single spell/trap from the field (either a quick-play spell or a monster with a trigger effect), Compulse (Compulsory Evacuation Device) is anything that can return a target to the hand. Reborn (Monster Reborn) is anything that summons a monster from the graveyard. ROTA (Reinforcement of the Army) is anything that adds a card from a specific type/archetype from deck to the hand, etc. MST hasn't seen much play since Twin Twisters (discard a card to pop TWO spells/traps!) and Cosmic Cyclone (pay 1000 LP to BANISH a spell/trap!) got released in 2015/2017, but it will always live on as the generic term for popping backrow :)
Other cards have their nicknames, too, like Compulse, Imperm, Ash (and Ash-Forehead and Ash-Feet to specify which art...), MST, ROTA (pronounced ROH-tah), because of course :) And some make less sense, like Spellbook Magician of Prophecy is "Blue Boy."
We still use the standard mill/spin/pop/bounce terms from the early days of MTG (and other TCGs).
I still occasionally call white/ black decks salt & pepper decks, cause that's what i first leaned to call them.
a few things about some of the terms you used. the very expensive duals are mostly called "og duals" since they were the first. and the reveal lands are also refered to as snarls since the enemy colored variants all have snarl in their name. you also should've mentioned the fast lands which enter untapped untill you have more than 2 other lands. they might be less common in commander but are more relevant in 60 card formats. you could've also mentioned taplands which are lands that always enter tapped or creature lands which are lands that can become a creature
Rhino is always fun and good include
I’m making a Foundation Jumpstart Cube-ish thing, but will probably make some other cubes soon.
I nabbed a bunch of JumpStart 2022 packs and keep them in little cube-style boxes to break out whenever. It's a great time. I just weeded out a couple duplicate themes and loaded 'em in cheap sleeves.
@ I picked up a cheap 2020 Jumpstart I came across to do another and the first pack I opened had Rhystic Study lol…I honestly don’t know why I get so lucky.
Don't forget that all the player types have creature cards in the un sets
Great music choices, thanks for the lecture friendo.
What are some things you feel like should have terms but don't? I'm surprised I can't succinctly convey "card you want to be in your library or graveyard but it's dead stuck in your hand"
cEDH is the cheapest format to play, even cheaper than Pauper, because no one cares if your deck is all proxies
Isn't "Bounce" a reference to "Waterfront Bouncer" specifically? Also, there is literally the "firebreathing" "enchant creatuere"/"enchantment - aura" card which grants a creature that "gain +1/+0 until end of turn" ability.
Yes for Waterfront Bouncer.
Not really for firebreathing. The aura was named because the ability pump magic, make Shivan Dragon stronger was already a flavor slam.
@GerBessa to be fair, firebreathing was in alpha so it's not unfair to say that it was named after that card but in all honesty I believe the card Firebreathing was specifically created as a way to explain the flavor behind Shivan Dragon's ability.
Came for the slang, stayed for the 'Viced Rhino old man yells at cloud', seriously tho, where do I find more of VR doing this😂
I haven't played mtg in four years and only a couple of those terms are new to me
Oh... Rhino... don’t get too personal! 😂
I think that in general CEDH is strongly proxy friendly
now that i see WUBRG writen out i understand
I still don't know the three-color "guilds" names... they weren't part of my Magic journey. (I skipped a few "blocks" here and there.)
Lawnmower elves? he did said that right. Did he do it on reflex or was it intentional.. i can't tell.
If your deck doesn't make some number go up exponentially, is it really a deck?
Is Mana Burn still a thing? I very much appreciate the term definition video!
nope, there is one card that brings it back though
@@YakmageI have a Yurlok of Scorch Thrash commander deck.
It's not great, but it is fun.
Tradition is awesome.
Before I watch the video I'm gonna guess; White blUe Black Red Green.
Damn that lion is ripped o_o
Me waiting for the 'enemy color' arrows to form the pentagram star: "...annnd there it is!" :D
I disagree. Blue is the toddler who just learned the word "no" xD
Wait wait wait... who tf is saying hardened scales is affinity?! Since when?! I've been playing since 1997 and this is news to me 😅
So remember when arcbound ravager became the focus of affinity and not atog?
And then more cards came out that made arcbound ravager work better...without affinity cards?
For some people it was a ship of theseus.
@surismtg ah. That's wild. I guess i could see how it made that transition. Still not my "old man's" affinity lol
Also. I realize I didn't really come off as jokingly as I meant to with my initial comment. It was a statement more of shock and confusion, and not one of "you're wrong dummy". I sometimes forget people don't/can't always read
my tone the way I intend.
I would not put precon commander decks as the mid teir level of play they are very much on the low end power wise
precons arent the low power anymore, theyre the standard
@Yakmage ya they are the standard for entry level commander. Not for mid teir decks though. While they have gotten better over the years especially recently they still are weak power wise.
Aight, *-pulls out zuladok, valgavoth. Aminatu, pantlaza, disa-*
@@surismtg ok?
They can be different levels, and especially recent ones can have a swap a few things over and you can have a stronger one.
I am look back at a couple of the precons I "upgraded" out of the box, and can see how much weaker they are compared to the more recent ones that came out of the box. Has had me want to go back and put a past deck up to my current standard that at least some recent precons.
wooga booba
sorry
0/10, didn't have Tim
Unfortunately, tim, Bob etc aren't really used very often
But eventually I could do a follow up on some of the more specialized terms.
@surismtg they're more of nicknames for specific cards. I rarely hear dark confidant called anything other than "bob" especially now when the only people who play it are the boomers in the know. But these names aren't heard often because their associated cards are not played often any more.
Get this vtubsr of my screen
thou hast the power to change thine experience, friend! lo, that with yon mouse, thou can'st hie far away from that which thou hatest!
But... cartoon boobies.
How are you not just condenming WOTC... oh, it makes you money. cool.
I'm sorry for talking about a game I enjoy. I'll make sure not to do that again in the future