You guys ever give your buds nick name's while playing MTG? It's actually kinda funny because at my place we have our bud called Sam and we call him "Cheater Sam," or "Target Sam" because you KNOW which directions those spells are going. We tend to play the game while enjoying a few drinks, usually playing 2 on 2's or 3 on 3's or Pentagram. Our bud Bob we call "Head and Shoulders" or "Corn Flakes" just for the simple fact that he says he will show up to play but usually flakes out on us. Our bud Dan we call "The Bat Dan" cuz he usually ends up leaving before even saying later to anyone and does it very discretely. Ummmmmmmm so any one have any names to share? lol
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Why was he called like that? Because DURING TOURNAMENTS, he stands behind some players and blurts out their hand to everyone.
I was once a victim of this guy. During the last round of a tournament, I was playing Oath of Druids. Unfortunately, I had my creatures in hand and had no brainstorm. I play oath. My opponent was down to 6 and had no solution to the oath. He said, "If you oath out Akroma next turn, I lose." He was about to reach over the table to shake my hand when Village Idiot, behind me, suddenly says "Why are you conceding? Akroma is in his hand and he doesn't have brainstorm!" My opponent laughed and didn't concede (he was a close friend, so no hard feelings there). I eventually won, but, damnnnn that was annoying.
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"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Why was he called like that? Because DURING TOURNAMENTS, he stands behind some players and blurts out their hand to everyone.
I was once a victim of this guy. During the last round of a tournament, I was playing Oath of Druids. Unfortunately, I had my creatures in hand and had no brainstorm. I play oath. My opponent was down to 6 and had no solution to the oath. He said, "If you oath out Akroma next turn, I lose." He was about to reach over the table to shake my hand when Village Idiot, behind me, suddenly says "Why are you conceding? Akroma is in his hand and he doesn't have brainstorm!" My opponent laughed and didn't concede (he was a close friend, so no hard feelings there). I eventually won, but, damnnnn that was annoying.
Wow. I'm the Head Judge for my group, and I can tell you the first time he did that would get him a verbal thrashing, and the second would be "get out of the store. Now. You can come back when the tournament is over". That's just amazing that it could happen more than once. I don't even know what a Judge's call would be for that. Is it cheating if the opponent gets information from a third party without wanting it?
Anyway. We sorta do this. My group started by playing Yu-Gi-Oh! way back when it was popular, and before that, Pokemon. We played at the sanctioned league at a local Hastings, and when it died off, we started playing at the cafe at Target down the road. We'd go to Peter Piper's after that to play DDR and stuff, then go home. Eventually we got kicked out of Target, because we were too loud, and one kid had been stealing cups for free drinks. We've been at Peter Piper's for like, 5 or 6 years now, every Saturday, and the owner LOVES us. Hard to be too loud there, and the thief moved.
Anyway, as a joke, only the ~5 of us who were the 'founding members' kept our real names. Everyone else has a nickname. One guy is named Jeff, but we call him Joe, because we thought that was his name. Another is called Chili Dog, because he wore a shirt with a chili dog on it once. His younger brother is Munch, because he's a human Munchlax, I swear to god. Our TO is Red, which was his nickname way before that because of his hair. The list goes on and on.
and he always plays dutch staxs, which i like to call "Stupid Stax".
god i hate that deck.
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1.) Anyone who thinks cancel is viable should be shot. in the face. with a hammer.
2.) You misunderstand, what I was suggesting was the total exclusion of Spellstutter Sprite, because it just isnt that good anymore.
3.) Understand, Dredge is not really a Magic: The Gathering deck. When a card is playable in it, it doesn't mean it's a tournament playable card. It means it's playable in whatever crazy fantasy world that Dredge operates in.
Montreal-area magic players will often nickname particularly big and efficient creatures with hockey player names. Example: Wooly Thoctar is Alex Ovechkin, because they're both big hairy beasts. And Pelakka wurm has recently been dubbed ''Plekanec Wurm'' by a friend.
Mine requires a bit of backstory:
My surname is Earnshaw (as in Wuthering Heights, with the first syllable pronounced like the word "earn"). Back during triple Scars draft season, I had a deck with two Embersmith that was really searching for cheap artifacts. I turned to my late picks and put in a Golden Urn. You can see where this is going.
Apparently I was the first person at the store to play Golden Urn in a draft deck, so I became known then and forever as "Golden Urn-shaw". One fanciful variation I like from the store owner is "the golden child," though I'm not one of the young people in the group, so it doesn't make much sense.
Another one I like, that also has a story:
There was a young kid, say 12 or 13 years old, who in his first draft happened to beat someone who really fancies himself a top-tier player (the kind of guy who talks down to everyone's deck choices, tries to point out play mistakes all the time, can't take criticism, etc.). Word goes round the store that this guy was beaten by a "toddler".
Fast-forward a week or so and a friend of mine is going over the story during a draft match, again mentioning that he was beaten by "the toddler". I point out that the toddler is in fact his current opponent, i.e. sitting right across the table, at which point the potentially awkward situation is defused when he gives the kid a big high five and starts to call him "the dreamcrusher." So now the kid is known as the "D.C. Toddler," or just "D.C."
Wow, um lets see if I can remember all of them. Frankly at our old LGS only about 3 guys didn't have nicknames.
I was goatboy thanks to my now gone facial hair.
We had a young kid we called "winey" and not because he liked to drink.
Mushroom constantly acted stoned even when he wasn't.
Marshmellow, Applesauce, Cheese boy jumped around a few times.
Frankly we had two older guys who just seemed to hand out nicknames, I don't know why but many of them still stick and I love seeing the looks on people's faces when I still call them by their nicknames
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by ninja squirrels either. - Dr. Wilson
The only two nicknames I can remember being used at my last 2 LGS were for the most annoying players there. There was "****ing ****** Stevie" at my old LGS and we have "that obnoxious ****" at my current one.
EDIT: They lose a lot of their meaning when censored, but I suppose I'd be infracted for working around that; meh.
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My first LGS that i went to with friends during high school, i used high school nicknames for them and they all sticked. now, about 6 years later, my friend is still called chiclet and my other friend is named chocotaco.
In our area, we have a player we call "Greasy." He shows up to every event with a calzone or pizza or other greasy food, and eats loudly while he plays - with his hands. It's like he pulls a hunk of cheese out of his calzone, throws it in his mouth, and then grabs one of your cards to see what it does, leaving a big smear on your sleeve.
Let see, we have Frenchie (as we joke, token black guy in group who is from france), B-Boy guy whos first name starts with b, and hippie guy who looks and acts high all the time, never got high when we gave him the nickname.
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I call my best bud Freeloader, because his first deck was a hand-me-down from me. We have fatty, he is chubby but that's not why we call him that. We call him fatty because he almost always plays a pump deck. Most people call me Rabbit, which I assume is because the deck I use as of recent has several ways to win. (I "hop" around to a different win condition if a different one fails me) But all of my group of friends started playing within 1-3 years except for one, he was playing for quite a long time.
We call him Maid, because no matter what we do he usually sweeps the floor with us.
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Been playing Magic for 2 years.
Currently play in Modern with a u/w Control deck.
ehhh the only guy around here with a nickname that they got from magic is a guy everyone calls stinky---- because he smells like every third guy at every major comic/game convention youll ever attend.
Lol, so my friend luuuuuvs his angels and is always playing some sort of W/x/x deck. When we all built EDH decks he built his to contain as many angels as possible, and so ended up with a Jenara Bant colored deck. Because of this, he earned the nickname "Captain Bant"
Well my last name is "Cao" and many people pronounce it as "cow" (Kinda ended up going with it), so I get stuck with Cowboy, Moo, Moo Moo, Cao Cao, etc. Basically theses nicknames I got from my buddys, and eventually made it into my MtG "life". Not too bad as it could be worse.
Well, my LGS sadly went out of business mere weeks ago. But there was this guy Gram who used to play nothing but control. We called him "Sherman" because he would say "Sure" every time you cast a spell. Though now the nickname seems to be transferring to me, cause I've started playing a lot of control and I've picked up the habit. Not to mention since the store closed we don't ever see the old Sherman anymore, and it's too good of a nickname to waste.
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penetrates our facades, even the most
perceptive would still be fundamentally
unprepared for the truth of House Dimir."
So far we have:
Bandit Keith/Obi-Wan
Jennifer Whitaker-(me)
The Hamburgler
Buttscratcher/Goggles
Roo
Weasel Kid/Moneybags
A.D.D. (although I think he might have stopped coming for good)
Indiana Jones kid
The kid from Up (disney movie)
Groo
Moleman
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Accept the truth.
Why was he called like that? Because DURING TOURNAMENTS, he stands behind some players and blurts out their hand to everyone.
I was once a victim of this guy. During the last round of a tournament, I was playing Oath of Druids. Unfortunately, I had my creatures in hand and had no brainstorm. I play oath. My opponent was down to 6 and had no solution to the oath. He said, "If you oath out Akroma next turn, I lose." He was about to reach over the table to shake my hand when Village Idiot, behind me, suddenly says "Why are you conceding? Akroma is in his hand and he doesn't have brainstorm!" My opponent laughed and didn't concede (he was a close friend, so no hard feelings there). I eventually won, but, damnnnn that was annoying.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Wow. I'm the Head Judge for my group, and I can tell you the first time he did that would get him a verbal thrashing, and the second would be "get out of the store. Now. You can come back when the tournament is over". That's just amazing that it could happen more than once. I don't even know what a Judge's call would be for that. Is it cheating if the opponent gets information from a third party without wanting it?
Anyway. We sorta do this. My group started by playing Yu-Gi-Oh! way back when it was popular, and before that, Pokemon. We played at the sanctioned league at a local Hastings, and when it died off, we started playing at the cafe at Target down the road. We'd go to Peter Piper's after that to play DDR and stuff, then go home. Eventually we got kicked out of Target, because we were too loud, and one kid had been stealing cups for free drinks. We've been at Peter Piper's for like, 5 or 6 years now, every Saturday, and the owner LOVES us. Hard to be too loud there, and the thief moved.
Anyway, as a joke, only the ~5 of us who were the 'founding members' kept our real names. Everyone else has a nickname. One guy is named Jeff, but we call him Joe, because we thought that was his name. Another is called Chili Dog, because he wore a shirt with a chili dog on it once. His younger brother is Munch, because he's a human Munchlax, I swear to god. Our TO is Red, which was his nickname way before that because of his hair. The list goes on and on.
The latest Comprehensive Rules are also good, and can be found here.
Phyrexian Deadnought?? O_o
We have a thread for card nicknames - this isn't it. Spam Warning.
and he always plays dutch staxs, which i like to call "Stupid Stax".
god i hate that deck.
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My surname is Earnshaw (as in Wuthering Heights, with the first syllable pronounced like the word "earn"). Back during triple Scars draft season, I had a deck with two Embersmith that was really searching for cheap artifacts. I turned to my late picks and put in a Golden Urn. You can see where this is going.
Apparently I was the first person at the store to play Golden Urn in a draft deck, so I became known then and forever as "Golden Urn-shaw". One fanciful variation I like from the store owner is "the golden child," though I'm not one of the young people in the group, so it doesn't make much sense.
Another one I like, that also has a story:
There was a young kid, say 12 or 13 years old, who in his first draft happened to beat someone who really fancies himself a top-tier player (the kind of guy who talks down to everyone's deck choices, tries to point out play mistakes all the time, can't take criticism, etc.). Word goes round the store that this guy was beaten by a "toddler".
Fast-forward a week or so and a friend of mine is going over the story during a draft match, again mentioning that he was beaten by "the toddler". I point out that the toddler is in fact his current opponent, i.e. sitting right across the table, at which point the potentially awkward situation is defused when he gives the kid a big high five and starts to call him "the dreamcrusher." So now the kid is known as the "D.C. Toddler," or just "D.C."
UW UW Gideon Control WU
UWR Loose Control RWU
GR Scapeshift RG
RU Storm UR
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I was goatboy thanks to my now gone facial hair.
We had a young kid we called "winey" and not because he liked to drink.
Mushroom constantly acted stoned even when he wasn't.
Marshmellow, Applesauce, Cheese boy jumped around a few times.
Frankly we had two older guys who just seemed to hand out nicknames, I don't know why but many of them still stick and I love seeing the looks on people's faces when I still call them by their nicknames
There's no proof she's being chased
by ninja squirrels either. - Dr. Wilson
EDIT: They lose a lot of their meaning when censored, but I suppose I'd be infracted for working around that; meh.
If your post loses so much of its meaning when censored, perhaps it would be better left unsaid.
On a trade break. Getting ripped blows...
Thanks to syndarion of Aeternal Studios for the awesome Sig.
Standard: MWLC All-InFect Illusion Control(MTGO)
EDH(MODO): :symg::symu::symb:The Mimeoplasm:symg::symu::symb: 6-2-0 in 4player
For instance I'm either the tribal guy, the fast aggro guy, or the legacy guy
BEtched Champion/InfectB
WSoilders/knightsW
WUVenser SplicerWU
RRDWR
GFeed the Pack comboG
WUPool of ExhaustionWU
EDH
GEzuri, Elf OverrunG
BGeth, GraverobberB
UThada Adel, ThiefU
RUrabrask, Big RedR
WElesh Norn, CrusadeW
WUGAngus Makenzie, Bant ControlWUG
Extended
WGElvesWG
Legacy
RGoblinsR
UBGFariesUBG
UBGRaffinityUBG
Currently Playing
1994 Magic The Rack
Type 1: B/W Zombies
Modern: Kuldotha Red
Legacy: Pox, Oath
Vintag: 10 Proxy Merfolk
Pauper: Pestilence, UG Threshold
EDH: Karn, Roon, Sliver Queen, Xiahou Dun, Arcanus
We call him Maid, because no matter what we do he usually sweeps the floor with us.
Currently play in Modern with a u/w Control deck.
Much thanks to Heroes of the Plane Studios for the siggy!
[EDH Decks]
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WBG ~Teneb, the Harvester; Boardwipes FTW~ GBW
WUR ~Numot, the Devestator; Mid-Range Stax~ RUW
[EDH in Progress]
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URG ~Riku of Two Reflections; Clones and Copies~ GRU
WUB ~Sharuum, the Hegemon; Stax Control~ BUW
Generation 14: The first time you see this, add it to your sig, but add 1 to the number. Call it a social experiment.
"I am confident that if anyone actually
penetrates our facades, even the most
perceptive would still be fundamentally
unprepared for the truth of House Dimir."
Bandit Keith/Obi-Wan
Jennifer Whitaker-(me)
The Hamburgler
Buttscratcher/Goggles
Roo
Weasel Kid/Moneybags
A.D.D. (although I think he might have stopped coming for good)
Indiana Jones kid
The kid from Up (disney movie)
Groo
Moleman
RBUThraximundarUBRRUNiv-Mizzet, the FiremindUR
BWGhost Council of OrzhovaWBWUBRGChild of AlaraGRBUW
WBRKaalia of the VastRBWGBSapling of ColfenorGB