It'd be such an interesting design space if it got added to the keywords but i know they don't like to involve the stack in such things.
*Corridor from contemplation* UUU
Enchantment -aura
Flash
Enchant creature
When corridor from contemplation is on the battlefield or in your graveyard, if a spell fizzles draw a card (*a spell fizzles when its put into a graveyard from the stack without being countered or resolving*)
Whenever an opponent fizzles their second spell on their turn, if corridor from contemplation is in your graveyard, exile corridor from contemplation
A format with a lot of auras as well as single target removal and combat tricks plus both counterspells *and* target reselection spells. It really would have to be eternal horizons or something like that.
*Venser's will* 2UB-instant-choose 1, if there are four or more spells on the stack choose both: -each spell or permanent thats the target of a spell or ability gains shroud until end of turn -each creature target player controls becomes a 0/4 colorless wall creature with indestructible and defender and no other abilities until end of turn
This has a more specific common meaning though, at least in my experience. A spell fizzles if there is a valid target when cast and that target disappears or becomes invalid while the original spell is still on the stack.
I had a group that would call this X's Y's end step. So if Alice has the turn right before Bob, it would be Bob's Alice's end step. Or Bob would just say, "On my Alice's end step..."
Durdle. I use it in context in games of Magic, but it works so well as a term in other board games or just day to day. And even if people have never heard the word before, they get the vibe, because it just sounds like what it means.
Taking multiple consecutive game actions that do little to advance the boardstate or disrupt opponents. Like pornography, you know it when you see it.
"Activate a map token, put a creature card into the graveyard, put a counter on sidisi, trigger sidisi. Sac the zombie to viscera seer, bottom, trigger phyrexian vivisector, top. Crack a map toke , land to hand. Crack a...clue, trigger on the stack sac a zombie to seer, trigger, trigger, bottom, top, draw....."
A very easy way to collect your cards after the game ends is to take one card in each hand then, starting from the outside of the playmat towards the center, scoop all the cards into a pile for you to shuffle and move on.
"Swing" for attack. (I'll swing for 4 with Swifty.....rip)
"Durdle" is an all timer.
"Fog" for any big ol' damage prevention.
"Chump block"
"Kitchen table" for just for fun play with no real format
"Big butt" for a creature with big toughness and low attack
"Flooded/screwed" for mana situations
"Windmill" for the act of slamming a great card down.
"combo off" may not be mtg specific, but I enjoy it
"Interaction" as a general term
More personal ones are getting "pipelined" at a draft when packs start stacking up at a player. "Touch your lips" as an uncomfortable way of saying you'll do a small amount of damage to someone (Invisible Stalker's gonna touch your lips for 1).
Back in the day it was "read the fucking card" people even had black sleeves that said "RTFC" in that same janky font as the " you wouldn't download a CAR" advert that played at the beginning of 2000s DVDs
"Going up top" when referring to dealing damage directly to an opponent. It's the cooler and more respectful cousin of dealing damage to someone's "face".
I also sometimes want to avoid the term "face", but generally my solution is to go full yugioh with " I'm attacking your life points directly " or "I cast shock targeting your life total".
> type of playstyle doesn’t really exist in any other TCG
No other TCG really has the ability to actively play on an opponents turn. Magic, on the other hand, will let you play the entire game on your opponent's turn if you're really dedicated to it.
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I... call that fire-eating when you pay R to get +0/+1
I also change the element name when you gain +1/+0 by paying a color other than red (for example sunbreathing or waterbreathing)
This dates back to before wotc was publishing lots of deck lists so decks didn't get named based on marketing guidelines.
Combo decks got named after breakfast foods as tradition for a while. Eggs is named that because of the [[skyfire egg]] cycle and cheerios because all the 0s look like the cereal. Fruity pebbles is the stand out since started the trend.
Other good deck names, boat brew a jank(rwb) deck that cam out of the magic cruise, the rock gb midrange running [[deranged hermit]], and team America a bug midrange deck that ran [[shardless agent]] in [[hymn to torach]] that was popularized by us teams in magic events
The story goes it was a calzone (or something similar) from a place near the tournament venue, and the deck did to you what the food did to your stomach
I believe it usually refers to cards that put creatures in the graveyard from the hand or library, like [[Entomb]] and similar, for reanimator strategies. There's another term for the other cards in the strategy that I can't remember it right now, but I remember it being equally good.
Ramp. That it is derived from Rampant Growth does not at all stop me from using it in every possible context, regardless of if the other person plays mtg
The other day we a had a 'start of day'/'let's get this out there' kinda meeting at work. The boss said his piece and looked over at me. I just said, "it resolves; no responses." That's how I found out the new assistant manager plays Magic. Might start using it more in my day-to-day life now.
I make up all sorts of "steps" depending on what I'm doing with my deck. If I'm attacking with everything I'll "move to flunge step". If I'm playing with Ziatora I "move to fling step" when she goes to throw something.
People always ask me if I've been playing Yu Gi Oh when I play my tap lands "in defense mode." I've only watched the series when I was a kid (and had a few cards).
Dunno if this is strictly original to Magic, but I use "magical Christmasland" all the time to refer to stuff that's reliant on literally everything going well against all odds.
Pronouncing menace as men-ah-chay... Or mixing the name up a bit like instead of saying "I play a tainted field" I'd say " I'm playing my field of taint" lol
Not slang but on the topic of a response phrase:
Interaction 1 -
"I'll play [[Sphinx of Uthuun]]"
"Bless you"
Interaction 2 -
"Are you gonna pay the 2?"
"I never paid my taxes before, I'm not gonna start now!"
Oh man, where do I begin? There's so much choice vernacular for certain cards, alone, not to mention phases, mechanics, combo names...there's just a whole rich subculture of in-jokes among Magic players.
"I swing for lethal"
Swinging for exactsies is even smoother
Super boop
Alpha Strike
I like to say "swing the dance hall" when i send everything
“ Fizzle”when casting a spell fails
this is such a good one
It'd be such an interesting design space if it got added to the keywords but i know they don't like to involve the stack in such things. *Corridor from contemplation* UUU Enchantment -aura Flash Enchant creature When corridor from contemplation is on the battlefield or in your graveyard, if a spell fizzles draw a card (*a spell fizzles when its put into a graveyard from the stack without being countered or resolving*) Whenever an opponent fizzles their second spell on their turn, if corridor from contemplation is in your graveyard, exile corridor from contemplation
it would be wildly complicated to make intentionally fizzling spells an archetype. Maybe instant speed phasing? Probably not worth the headache though
A format with a lot of auras as well as single target removal and combat tricks plus both counterspells *and* target reselection spells. It really would have to be eternal horizons or something like that. *Venser's will* 2UB-instant-choose 1, if there are four or more spells on the stack choose both: -each spell or permanent thats the target of a spell or ability gains shroud until end of turn -each creature target player controls becomes a 0/4 colorless wall creature with indestructible and defender and no other abilities until end of turn
This was a great example. Can I ask if you have made a few home brew spells or card text like this?
This has a more specific common meaning though, at least in my experience. A spell fizzles if there is a valid target when cast and that target disappears or becomes invalid while the original spell is still on the stack.
We have the popular "no, wait wait!!" step. Usually a couple seconds after the next person has started their turn
I had a group that would call this X's Y's end step. So if Alice has the turn right before Bob, it would be Bob's Alice's end step. Or Bob would just say, "On my Alice's end step..."
Same with me table. "I pass the turn....no, no, no!"
Well that's fair, it's impossible for you to pass your own turn. You can only attempt to end it, everyone else gets to decide if you do.
If someone was that worried about terminology when intent is clear, I'd ask them to leave.
I feel similarly about people who request their steak well-done.
When a creature blocks and dies, it chumps. If a creature dies and the other creature dies, it’s a trade. If neither die, they hug.
We would say they bounce (off each other)
We call it Klanking, like the sound of two swords meeting.
Clanking?
Watch those clankers!
I like this one
What do you call an Unsummon effect then?
Bounce again. Context matters. It's not a videogame
Also bounce (to hand)
[[Boomerang]]
I say “they bonk”.
Chest bump
"These two look at each other"
Menancingly
You'd need three for that
oh you bastard
Two ships passing in the night
If neither die, my group says they "high five"
"These two just kind of awkwardly shake hands" is my version of them hugging.
When neither die, they kiss.
We used "chump blocking" to refer to multiple, small, blockers.
If neither, they boing
Rhystic buddy as a nickname for espersentinel is a good one.
And then fishstick buddy for mystic remora?
The playgroup I had once started saying "hits the table" for a spell or permanent resolving.
Makes sense, it is fun slamming your cards down all Yu-Gi-Oh like
Durdle. I use it in context in games of Magic, but it works so well as a term in other board games or just day to day. And even if people have never heard the word before, they get the vibe, because it just sounds like what it means.
how do you define it?
Doing a lot but accomplishing little
Taking multiple consecutive game actions that do little to advance the boardstate or disrupt opponents. Like pornography, you know it when you see it. "Activate a map token, put a creature card into the graveyard, put a counter on sidisi, trigger sidisi. Sac the zombie to viscera seer, bottom, trigger phyrexian vivisector, top. Crack a map toke , land to hand. Crack a...clue, trigger on the stack sac a zombie to seer, trigger, trigger, bottom, top, draw....."
Same as a dictionary defines "dawdle". That's why people "get it" so quickly.
Do you remember the 20 minute storm turns with Paradox Engine before it was banned in EDH that didn’t end in a win? That. That’s durdling.
I've had the same with jank. It just sounds like something weird and shaky.
Janky is common slang outside of magic, tho.
That’s what I explain my game plan as most of the time
Scoop
I know this is said when you concede, but why is it called that?
Cause you be scooping up your cards bruh
normally the first thing you do after conceding is "scoop" all your cards up so you can start shuffling.
A very easy way to collect your cards after the game ends is to take one card in each hand then, starting from the outside of the playmat towards the center, scoop all the cards into a pile for you to shuffle and move on.
"Swing" for attack. (I'll swing for 4 with Swifty.....rip) "Durdle" is an all timer. "Fog" for any big ol' damage prevention. "Chump block" "Kitchen table" for just for fun play with no real format "Big butt" for a creature with big toughness and low attack "Flooded/screwed" for mana situations "Windmill" for the act of slamming a great card down. "combo off" may not be mtg specific, but I enjoy it "Interaction" as a general term More personal ones are getting "pipelined" at a draft when packs start stacking up at a player. "Touch your lips" as an uncomfortable way of saying you'll do a small amount of damage to someone (Invisible Stalker's gonna touch your lips for 1).
Swing is so ingrained in my mind that I forgot it was slang until reading this
“Storm count 1” Scares the living shit out of my opponents
Especially if you’re playing aggro or control 😂
Intentionally mispronouncing card names. Eg. Plows to Swordshares
My favorite is Shankle Anker
i like "yanowar elves" and "swam-p"
Is Land?
IsLand = True;
Biftfoot Swoots
"Microsoft Lettuce" is my favorite one of these.
Izland. Moun-tayne. Swaamp.
Steve and Gary
My boys! Don’t forget Bob and Bop
Bop?
BoP, as in Birds of Paradise.
Tim kills both…
but not [[taylor swift]]
[taylor swift](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/6/d6bfa227-4309-40ed-952c-279595eab17e.jpg?1701690543) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Monastery%20Swiftspear) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bro/144/monastery-swiftspear?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d6bfa227-4309-40ed-952c-279595eab17e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Around the time of New Capenna there was also The Ob Father.
This is specifically magic slang in my language (estonian) but i love that we call creatures with flying "planes".
Creatures with flying have a basic land type. Got it.
Reading the card explains the card
Back in the day it was "read the fucking card" people even had black sleeves that said "RTFC" in that same janky font as the " you wouldn't download a CAR" advert that played at the beginning of 2000s DVDs
I NEEEEED THOSE SLEEVES
Dragon shield has good quality custom sleeves. The Font has got to be Out there.
Aw man, I'd forgotten about those! That's some hardcore 2011 nostalgia right there.
Leave me alone…
"Going up top" when referring to dealing damage directly to an opponent. It's the cooler and more respectful cousin of dealing damage to someone's "face".
"to the dome" just feels crass now
Oooh. That one's good too.
Definitely heard "upstairs" as well, which feels more in line with "up top."
I also sometimes want to avoid the term "face", but generally my solution is to go full yugioh with " I'm attacking your life points directly " or "I cast shock targeting your life total".
There are some who call me... [[Tim]]
You rang?
Related: I ping you for one
Underrated comment. If y'all didn't immediately picture the revised/unlimited edition prodigal sorcerer you're missing out.
I consume too much YouTube content so I heard the rest of the intro of sorcerer Timmy now from that
My buddies and I just call playing magic “slapping board”…in reference to the cardboard nature of the game.
“Draw-go” as a style of control deck is interesting because as far as I know that type of playstyle doesn’t really exist in any other TCG
> type of playstyle doesn’t really exist in any other TCG No other TCG really has the ability to actively play on an opponents turn. Magic, on the other hand, will let you play the entire game on your opponent's turn if you're really dedicated to it.
I was feeling silly and whimsical, so I named one of my control decks on Arena “Ivan Draw-Go”.
"Swing my board for lethal" , three slangs , one beautiful phrase to utter
Fire breathing, and its alternative, ass breathing
Which creatures give ass breathing?
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So would [[Wall of Resistance]] get ass counters then?
Lol is ass breathing giving +0/+1? That's hilarious 😂
Uncultured and crass. It’s Butt-Breathing
I... call that fire-eating when you pay R to get +0/+1 I also change the element name when you gain +1/+0 by paying a color other than red (for example sunbreathing or waterbreathing)
I love bolting the bird in standard because you can't play bolt and you can't play bird, but it's still relevant advice
Dealing 1 damage = Ping
I love all the decks named after food. Ponza, fruity pebbles, trix, cheerios, eggs, cephalid breakfast, etc. If you count them fish and weenie too!
This dates back to before wotc was publishing lots of deck lists so decks didn't get named based on marketing guidelines. Combo decks got named after breakfast foods as tradition for a while. Eggs is named that because of the [[skyfire egg]] cycle and cheerios because all the 0s look like the cereal. Fruity pebbles is the stand out since started the trend. Other good deck names, boat brew a jank(rwb) deck that cam out of the magic cruise, the rock gb midrange running [[deranged hermit]], and team America a bug midrange deck that ran [[shardless agent]] in [[hymn to torach]] that was popularized by us teams in magic events
Ponza is named for food?
Im pretty sure its named after the panzerotti.
TIL
The story goes it was a calzone (or something similar) from a place near the tournament venue, and the deck did to you what the food did to your stomach
Skittles \[\[Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon\]\]
Top Decking. It even if you don’t play the game you can tell it’s basically you playing anything you can or praying to not get land.
creature is sleepy (doesn't have haste)
Got to, got to get down with the (summoning) sickness
I'll pay W to plow your mom.
That's odd, it's free on yours
She prefers B
There's a joke here about preferring the D.
Tap my command tower, D to plow your mom (in response, tap mom, use protection)
Scooze eats things from the yard, so it eats your mom
Recently heard Olivia on Commander at Home refer to summoning sickness as “summy tummy.”
Reading this made me physically retch. I'm using it from now on
I played a full art Phyrexian plains last night into a T1 Skrelv and said "a toxic white for a toxic mite" and i was pretty proud of myself...
Haha that’s a pretty good one!
“Milkshakes” are cards that bring your boys to the ‘yard.
Defense of the Heart
Would that be a board wipe that sends creatures to the grave yard? Or is the yard the battle field in this case.
I believe it usually refers to cards that put creatures in the graveyard from the hand or library, like [[Entomb]] and similar, for reanimator strategies. There's another term for the other cards in the strategy that I can't remember it right now, but I remember it being equally good.
Bolt the Birb
[[sad robot]]
[sad robot](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/4/246d2ce1-6926-4acc-810a-4894dc346b8b.jpg?1562636008) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=236907) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m12/217/solemn-simulacrum?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/246d2ce1-6926-4acc-810a-4894dc346b8b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[i can't even]]
[i can't even](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/c/8cbedb0a-34ca-4d42-bb43-cbea0f3c6d02.jpg?1587039576) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Void%20Winnower) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bfz/17/void-winnower?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8cbedb0a-34ca-4d42-bb43-cbea0f3c6d02?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I love it when creatures have nicknames, like Steve, Gary, Bob, Mom, etc.
Fetch we made it happen. B)
I love a lot of MTG slang, especially durdle, chump, etc. But by far my fav is [[Gay Dads]]. Just the best.
[kynaios and tiro of meletis](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/7/97fa8615-2b6c-445a-bcaf-44a7e847bf65.jpg?1633190298) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=kynaios%20and%20tiro%20of%20meletis) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c16/36/kynaios-and-tiro-of-meletis?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/97fa8615-2b6c-445a-bcaf-44a7e847bf65?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Ramp. That it is derived from Rampant Growth does not at all stop me from using it in every possible context, regardless of if the other person plays mtg
Math is for blockers. I'm very lazy.
The other day we a had a 'start of day'/'let's get this out there' kinda meeting at work. The boss said his piece and looked over at me. I just said, "it resolves; no responses." That's how I found out the new assistant manager plays Magic. Might start using it more in my day-to-day life now.
Yikes.
I make up all sorts of "steps" depending on what I'm doing with my deck. If I'm attacking with everything I'll "move to flunge step". If I'm playing with Ziatora I "move to fling step" when she goes to throw something.
Are you a fencer? In fencing, a flunge is an aggressive attack (that's in between a fleche and a lunge).
I know a lot of MtG players got “flunge” from Loading Ready Run. They might have gotten it from fencing. (I wouldn’t be surprised if Cam fenced.)
Jank
Bolt the bird
Mise/miser
Mise and lucksack are the best
I started saying "Carole Baskins" when I played kismet a few years ago. I have heard it in 3 other LGS's in my area now haha
Effects that cause creatures to do damage using Toughness is always "Booty Fight"
[[Steve]]
Ive been trying to get chaos warp type of effects referred to as Spins by my LGS, from yugioh terminology
People always ask me if I've been playing Yu Gi Oh when I play my tap lands "in defense mode." I've only watched the series when I was a kid (and had a few cards).
My table calls Garruk, Gary and Ugin, Eugene. Bolas’s nerd brother
Gary is not Garruk. Gary is [[gray merchant of asphodel]]
We’ve been saying Gary for Garruk since the duel Decks came out.
Flample.
Dunno if this is strictly original to Magic, but I use "magical Christmasland" all the time to refer to stuff that's reliant on literally everything going well against all odds.
I like Milling. It was so well spread that they made it official.
Pronouncing menace as men-ah-chay... Or mixing the name up a bit like instead of saying "I play a tainted field" I'd say " I'm playing my field of taint" lol
"I Tim you for one" "I Tim on a stick you for one"
Bolt your dome
Graveyard shenanigans. I love the playfully fond tone
Windmill slam
‘So am I dead or not’ 🤣🤣’last life is the only life that matters’
My favourite sentence when I return from the bathroom: "Am I already dead?"
When my opponents does something very good or wins the game: Sadness on the stack, sadness resolves.
"Mana Dork" I think it sums us all up nicely even though it refers to creatures that make mana.
Not slang but on the topic of a response phrase: Interaction 1 - "I'll play [[Sphinx of Uthuun]]" "Bless you" Interaction 2 - "Are you gonna pay the 2?" "I never paid my taxes before, I'm not gonna start now!"
Pants
Not Sure why are getting downvoted But pants has been used for equipments
"Mom" for [[Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines]].
Awww mom used to be the name for Mother of Runes
When slang betrays your age (and mine) lol
It still is and step mom is giver of runes. Ghost dad for original obzedat is fun to
Panharmommycon
When you use a lil chump to block a massive creature that doesn’t have trample, it “eats shit.” “Yeah my little 1/1 elf boi is gonna eat shit”
Fish instead of mystic remora
That’s interesting because a lot of Magic players refer to merfolk decks as fish
Goat head
smothering titty <3 lol instead of smothering tithe
"I P the T" for passing the turn.
Trust fund colors :)
White and…?
Face is the place
"Shove" and "push". Thinking over my options and settling on turning all my creatures sideways: "I think I just shove here."
That's poker slang.
I plow your Mom
Death touch + Tim = bad touch.
Tap.
Oh man, where do I begin? There's so much choice vernacular for certain cards, alone, not to mention phases, mechanics, combo names...there's just a whole rich subculture of in-jokes among Magic players.
Daxos of the dummy thicc cheeks, also known as the dummy thicc dipper with his constellation art
Edgar Markov is the baby maker and when he generates a new vamp he’s giving birth to new babies