It had occurred to me that a lot of people at my LGS used different definitions for Voltron, Battlecruiser, Punishment, etc than what I see on here almost every day.
So what I would like to know is: What kind of lingo do you use for EDH? Not just Voltron, Battlecruiser, Punishment, but what kind of lingo goes around your LGS or gaming table that you think is 'unique' or perhaps it isn't completely unique.
creatures are dudes or critters. when I ask about a cards i generally ask "that's the one when stuff happens it does stuff?" or the like most people in my group know what I am talking about so it works. thats all I can think of right now though.
Whenever someone casts a turn one Sol Ring I shout "Mental Misstep!" I actually run Misstep in my blue decks though, so some of the time I'm not just bsing.
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I actually wrote a 20-page ethnography for my linguistic anthropology class about variances in Magic lingo, along with a 20-page glossary.
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2UURRniv mizzet, the firemind endless fiery mind wheels of death 3WRjor kadeen, the prevailer weenies and extra combat forever 3RRzirilan of the claw dragons and damage doublers 4:SymRG::SymRG:wort, the raidmother burn is now EDH viable 2WUkangee, aerie keeper birds 1UBRjeleva, nephalia's scourge spellslinger/storm
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At my LGS, most cards have translated nickname and most of the time it is either literal or something-like-that translation, leading to quite funny names. (Snapcaster Mage -> Nappitaikuri -> Magician of Buttons.)
Oh, and creatures are guys and tokens are maggots (finnish "toukka"), and if we say "X to the head" it means "you take x damage".
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If you swing for lethal at someone with damage and it's more than 20 in one go the people usually yell 'in the face' there was a time when it was actually worth another point in the league to do it.
If you swing for lethal at someone with damage and it's more than 20 in one go the people usually yell 'in the face' there was a time when it was actually worth another point in the league to do it.
You mean like the scene from The Hangover? Yell it like that? Cause if so that's pretty funny
When I take a player out I say exile target (name) I also usually tell them to go make me a sammich
Killing someone with commander damage usually gets a "Skeet Skeet Skeet!"
When I attack I say "rawr"
Damn You! When I play Damnation
I refer to my zombie tokens as Keith Richards tokens (unglued token)
Quite a few commanders get nicknames. Any damage a player takes is "to the face." We say stuff like "4 ya" though when it's 1v1 and we're playing faster and a little more cutthroat. Don't know why that is. Maybe because it's something we mostly picked up at FNM.
It had occurred to me that a lot of people at my LGS used different definitions for Voltron, Battlecruiser, Punishment, etc than what I see on here almost every day.
If a specific card would drastically change the board state, or if we know someone will play it and this influences what we do on our turn, we usually say 'Because (insert card name) is a thing' after we make our relevant play. This is the most interesting one in that I have no idea who started it or why, but it stuck.
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we use "savage" as an adjective to good plays... "savage top deck", "savage land drop"... this stemmed from when jund was popular and many turn 1 plays was savage land
any asian cards (japanese, korean, chinese, etc) are called "bok" cards. the chinese place near the gaming store in college was bangbok palace or something like that.
"rawr you", "rawr PLANESWALKER X", "these dudes at you, this dude at you" - all pretty common attack step phrases
"party draw" - jace beleran +2 ability, or mikokoro
We don't usually have specific lingo but whenever we draw/untap cards we usually made 6 Million Dollar Man running noises and our games usually boil over into us making kamehame explosion noises. And farts. We're really mature. Also counterspells are always announced by saying "Sorry!" in the cattiest way possible.
We don't usually have specific lingo but whenever we draw/untap cards we usually made 6 Million Dollar Man running noises and our games usually boil over into us making kamehame explosion noises. At farts. We're really mature. Also counterspells are always announced by saying "Sorry!" in the cattiest way possible.
This is excellent... 6mil Man noises are always appropriate.
We also adhere to the "be as big a douche as possible" rule.
A few more:
Machine Gunning = any Mike & Trisk style combo. Goblin Sharpshooter'ing a ton of tokens is the best use of the term.
The Price is Right failure noise = Counterspelling somebody.
getting "Dooked" = getting decimated in some form or another... the term "dook" is a variant of a term I use for getting knocked the eff out like John "the Duke" Wayne used to do in his movies. Seriously that guy was the Indiana Jones punch noise of his time.
Whenever someone plays Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite every body moans because "Lady Gaga" has taken the stage.......she's also refered to as Diddles the Clown
Punch you in the face for X/ to the face for x is used when there are no blockers
There are also a lot of deep voiced "Jigsaw" esque comments when we play.....don't really know why though
If I have enough creatures on the field to kill someone/everyone, I'll just push my stack of creatures all over their field with both hands. All in.
When reading a card I've never seen before, I'll say the first few words out loud before i just start saying "Blah blah blah"
" When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, blah blah blah blah blah"
Almost forgot, if I am being attacked and cannot block I say "in response I take X combat damage"
When I kil or otherwise shut down a creature when it is declared as an attacker "not with ~ you don't"
Countering a spell "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you do that" or "ah,ah, ah, you didn't ask permission"
So what I would like to know is: What kind of lingo do you use for EDH? Not just Voltron, Battlecruiser, Punishment, but what kind of lingo goes around your LGS or gaming table that you think is 'unique' or perhaps it isn't completely unique.
Just a bit curious.
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I actually wrote a 20-page ethnography for my linguistic anthropology class about variances in Magic lingo, along with a 20-page glossary.
3WR jor kadeen, the prevailer weenies and extra combat forever
3RR zirilan of the claw dragons and damage doublers
4:SymRG::SymRG: wort, the raidmother burn is now EDH viable
2WU kangee, aerie keeper birds
1UBR jeleva, nephalia's scourge spellslinger/storm
here are the mana costs of generals i no longer play: 2BR3BB3UBG4UB:SymUB::SymUB:2URRG3WWU2UU2GGUUBGG
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Relevant to my interests. I love reading all of the different things people say for different things, it's really interesting.
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GGG Ezuri, the Renegade Leader
Constructing: Karn, Silver Golem - Ephara, God of the Polis
Oh, and creatures are guys and tokens are maggots (finnish "toukka"), and if we say "X to the head" it means "you take x damage".
You mean like the scene from The Hangover? Yell it like that? Cause if so that's pretty funny
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Killing someone with commander damage usually gets a "Skeet Skeet Skeet!"
When I attack I say "rawr"
Damn You! When I play Damnation
I refer to my zombie tokens as Keith Richards tokens (unglued token)
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I would LOVE to read through the glossary if it's at all possible for you to make it available, paperhand.
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any asian cards (japanese, korean, chinese, etc) are called "bok" cards. the chinese place near the gaming store in college was bangbok palace or something like that.
"rawr you", "rawr PLANESWALKER X", "these dudes at you, this dude at you" - all pretty common attack step phrases
"party draw" - jace beleran +2 ability, or mikokoro
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This is excellent... 6mil Man noises are always appropriate.
We also adhere to the "be as big a douche as possible" rule.
A few more:
Machine Gunning = any Mike & Trisk style combo. Goblin Sharpshooter'ing a ton of tokens is the best use of the term.
The Price is Right failure noise = Counterspelling somebody.
getting "Dooked" = getting decimated in some form or another... the term "dook" is a variant of a term I use for getting knocked the eff out like John "the Duke" Wayne used to do in his movies. Seriously that guy was the Indiana Jones punch noise of his time.
Punch you in the face for X/ to the face for x is used when there are no blockers
There are also a lot of deep voiced "Jigsaw" esque comments when we play.....don't really know why though
When reading a card I've never seen before, I'll say the first few words out loud before i just start saying "Blah blah blah"
" When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, blah blah blah blah blah"
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When I kil or otherwise shut down a creature when it is declared as an attacker "not with ~ you don't"
Countering a spell "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you do that" or "ah,ah, ah, you didn't ask permission"
amazingly epic sig courtesy of DarkNightCavalier at Heroes of the Planes.