Wamyc: I would, but ths forum is about as tech-savvy as I get with the internet. If a someone could teach me how to do the link, i"d be more than happy to add it.
It should be pretty easy to do. I mean, I don't know a ton about wiki editing, but I've done a couple of things here and there. All you have to do is create a page in the wiki that has the title "Magic Lexicon" and edit the main page so that it links to it. Then you just copy over the stuff you have on this thread into that page on MTGS wiki and other users and players can help edit the page and make the page link up to other terms' pages. You can even still use this thread to furnish discussion about the page and then edit it as suggestions are made.
I'll think about it. There is still the dictionary already on wiki that's more than likely more advanced than mine. But that will change all in due time. This WILL be a success.
Sure, It's only a suggestion. But just to let you know, I checked the wiki page and it doesn't have anything like what you've got going on here. There isn't a good collection of terms that need to have pages made for them. So, you're doing something unique.
Oh, and the entry for "spike" has the ratio of games off. If he loses two(not eight) games, he goes home unhappy. Spike wants to win games: all of them.
and the allied color painlands were first printed in Ice Age, not 5th.
Good&Evil: I'm still weighing whether or not to put in those abilities. It's a little bit of rules jargon,a nd I'm going for as much random lexicon as possible. But in due time it will probably be added.
Random note: It's starting to take the page longer and longer to save after the edits. I think it's time to cut some of that first paragraph off.
Alright, I know I might get hit for necro-ing my thread, but I don't wnat this to die.
COME ON PEOPLE! I need you guys to give me suggestions so that I can further my contribution to the site and the whole community of Magic Players. I know Wikipedia has one going, and it's probably currently better than mine, but I want to keep this going and surpass that. I'll be adding to this for as long as I play Magic.
Also, please check to see if I already have the definitions. If I do have it and you make a comment on it, please note if it's an add-on to the definition. Thank you.
Most of this is local San Antonian MTG lingo.
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Greenie - White/Green (W/G) Weenie. Hinder Vision - The use of two cards in combo: Hinder and Tunnel Vision. Robert - It's a local (San Antonio) thing, named for a guy who looks like the guy on the card Magical Hacker. Hymn - Hymn to Tourach. Cat - Savannah Lions. Dog - Isamaru, Hound of Konda. Queen - Sliver Queen. Gro - Short for Aggro.. simple. Shiners - Any of the Mox cards. Gain - Term used for the "life gaining" portion of a deck, or name of a deck that revolves around life gaining cards. Hammer - Volcanic Hammer. Birds - Birds of Paradise. Flush - Term used for a mono-colored deck. Sponge - Szadek, Lord of Secrets. The Porch - Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers. Soli - Giant Solifuge (pronounced SAH-LEE) Glimpse - Glimpse the Unthinkable. Never in my days confused with Glimpse of Nature. Fists - Fists of Ironwood. Witness - Eternal Witness. Traumatog - The use of Traumatize on yourself to pump up Psychatog. Cloak - One of three cards; Armadillo Cloak, Whispersilk Cloak, or Moldervine Cloak (which makes it a vague and confusing addition to your dict.), but more-often the latter. Mickey - Paradise Mantle. Geddon - Armageddon. Chump - A creature (usually with some sacrificial ability) used to block another creature and gain you a card or something of the sort. Jewelry - See Shiners. Orb - Zuran Orb. Icy - Icy Manipulator. Angel - Once upon a time this was the term for Serra Angel, but these days, it refers to either one of two particular angels; Akroma, Angel of Wrath or Angel of Despair. Ball - Ball Lightning. Horde - Balduvian Horde. Sketti-man - Term used for the card Fiddlehead Kami, because of how much he looks like spaghetti. Library - Library of Alexandria. Workshop - Mishra's Workshop. Factory - Mishra's Factory. Elves - Llanowar Elves. Rock, Scissors, Paper - Term for the 3-card combo, from Unglued, used to start games (instead of rolling a die, etc..); Scissors Lizard, Rock Lobster, Paper Tiger. True Blue - Whenever someone has a full hand in a blue deck, and has two untapped Islands- ready to play a Counterspell. Loxy - Loxodon Hierarch. Knight - Term referring to either White Knight, Black Knight, Silver Knight, Hand of Honor, or Hand of Cruelty. Deck - See Mill. Decked Out - No cards left in your library. Netdeck - A deck copied card for card exactly from a winning decklist, or another source of unoriginality, such as the internet. Breathers - People who stand behind you real closely, during a Tournament or other game. So close that you can hear them breathing. Taplands - See Karoo. Bouncelands - See Karoo. Slinky - Chimeric Coils. Sweep - When a player knows he's going to lose, to save time he/she picks up all of his/her cards off the table (sweep) so they can go right into another game. Manascrewed - Not drawing or having enough land to play enough or any cards in your hand, causing you to discard valuable plays. Hard Shuffle - Shuffling your deck by pushing cards into one another, as in half the deck being pressed into the other half. Pile Shuffle - Shuffling your deck by putting the top card in randomized piles until you have no cards left in your hand, usually to be Hard Shuffled after that. Mash Shuffle - See Hard Shuffle. Land Shuffle - Taking the ratio of land to spells and placing them down on the table in varying patterns. Example: 40 spells/20 lands, put 2 spells down, then 1 land, repeat. Then shuffled another way after that. Daffy - Wellwisher. Cut - When a game starts, usually players will take the bottom half of each others' decks and put it on top. Other variations on cutting are just basically shuffling to randomize an opponent's deck. Stabilize - To have all necessary lands out so you can cast all spells in your library. Removal - Includes any spells that get rid of permanents, such as Stone Rain, discard spells, see Glimpse, Hymn. Proxy - A printed out card or a card written on (with the name of another card) used to take place of either a real card that has high value that a person does not wish to take out in public, or to take place of a card that a person does not have yet so that they can playtest a deck either before they have acquired the card or before they spend the money to get the card.
Taplands - The dual mana-providing lands that come into play tapped, or the same that don't untap during their controller's next upkeep. Bouncelands - The Guildlands that make you return a land to your hand in exchange for a land that provides 2 mana, like W/B, G/U, etc.. From the Ravnica Block.
.. i'll add more later
Taplands are generally the onesfromInvasion. The ones from Kamigawa that skip untapping are referred to usually as "laglands".
The guildlands are more commonly referred to as "karoos".
Sure, stuff like Snapping Drake and Goblin Piker are for limited. But Null isn't even playable against a 5 year old whose hand consists of a 6 of Clubs, Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Chimney Imp, and a very large cumquat.
Mox Monkey = Gorilla Shaman
Bloody Butter Knife/Swiss Army Knife = Umezawa's Jitte
Solidarity = Mono-blue legacy storm combo deck utilizing High Tide, Reset and Brainfreeze
Scrub = Noob
Alpha Strike = Attack with all creatures one controls (usually in limited)
EDIT:
BoP = Birds of Paradise
EOT = End of Turn
kp = keep your hand (not mulligan)
p, pl, = Play first (as opposed to going second and drawing)
d = Draw, play second
p or d = Play or Draw (when a player decides after winning a die roll or losing the previous game
Wish = The Judgement Wish cycle
Okay, I will add BoB tot he list and make the obvious clarifications with the last B. Also, I'm adding Scrub and Proxy. Don't know how those slipped my mind.
Don't flame me for this! Yu-Gi-Oh'd When a player topdecks the exact card needed to turn a game around
Never called it that...though we often joke about "the heart of the cards"
Generally this called Mising. Or to "Mise"
comes from Mise'well...which comes from "Might as Well". Which is when you play out a turn or take an action when you have clearly lost...and it wins you the game.
Team Titans: Reanimator varient which quickly reanimated and sacrificed multiple Sundering Titans. Kept opponents landless and locked games down. Rotated out of Extended when Goblin Welder left that format. Success of this deck can be seen in some Welder/Stax variants in Legacy and Vintage.
(Side note. When I ran this deck I put stickers with Cyborg from Teen Titans on each of my Titans)
We generally use the term to make fun of the show...and exclame our enormous luck for the top deck...we never called it mise...but I can see why you call it that
My last Yu-Gi-Oh play was a topdecked...crap I cant think of name...its the selesnya card that wraths nontokens. Anyways it won me the game because of a saproling flood
Wrathchild: Both entries aded.
S1lDevi1: Thanks for the correction.
You also forgot about Circle of protection: artifacts.
A random aside, today at my card shop some kid asked of Cop: artifacts was standard legal. I laughed.
Oh, and the entry for "spike" has the ratio of games off. If he loses two(not eight) games, he goes home unhappy. Spike wants to win games: all of them.
and the allied color painlands were first printed in Ice Age, not 5th.
Good&Evil: I'm still weighing whether or not to put in those abilities. It's a little bit of rules jargon,a nd I'm going for as much random lexicon as possible. But in due time it will probably be added.
Random note: It's starting to take the page longer and longer to save after the edits. I think it's time to cut some of that first paragraph off.
COME ON PEOPLE! I need you guys to give me suggestions so that I can further my contribution to the site and the whole community of Magic Players. I know Wikipedia has one going, and it's probably currently better than mine, but I want to keep this going and surpass that. I'll be adding to this for as long as I play Magic.
Don't let this die!
Swing = to attack with all of one's creatures in a last ditch attempt to deal damage/clear the board.
I REFUSE TO LEECH OFF OF SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK!
Also, please check to see if I already have the definitions. If I do have it and you make a comment on it, please note if it's an add-on to the definition. Thank you.
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Greenie - White/Green (W/G) Weenie.
Hinder Vision - The use of two cards in combo: Hinder and Tunnel Vision.
Robert - It's a local (San Antonio) thing, named for a guy who looks like the guy on the card Magical Hacker.
Hymn - Hymn to Tourach.
Cat - Savannah Lions.
Dog - Isamaru, Hound of Konda.
Queen - Sliver Queen.
Gro - Short for Aggro.. simple.
Shiners - Any of the Mox cards.
Gain - Term used for the "life gaining" portion of a deck, or name of a deck that revolves around life gaining cards.
Hammer - Volcanic Hammer.
Birds - Birds of Paradise.
Flush - Term used for a mono-colored deck.
Sponge - Szadek, Lord of Secrets.
The Porch - Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers.
Soli - Giant Solifuge (pronounced SAH-LEE)
Glimpse - Glimpse the Unthinkable. Never in my days confused with Glimpse of Nature.
Fists - Fists of Ironwood.
Witness - Eternal Witness.
Traumatog - The use of Traumatize on yourself to pump up Psychatog.
Cloak - One of three cards; Armadillo Cloak, Whispersilk Cloak, or Moldervine Cloak (which makes it a vague and confusing addition to your dict.), but more-often the latter.
Mickey - Paradise Mantle.
Geddon - Armageddon.
Chump - A creature (usually with some sacrificial ability) used to block another creature and gain you a card or something of the sort.
Jewelry - See Shiners.
Orb - Zuran Orb.
Icy - Icy Manipulator.
Angel - Once upon a time this was the term for Serra Angel, but these days, it refers to either one of two particular angels; Akroma, Angel of Wrath or Angel of Despair.
Ball - Ball Lightning.
Horde - Balduvian Horde.
Sketti-man - Term used for the card Fiddlehead Kami, because of how much he looks like spaghetti.
Library - Library of Alexandria.
Workshop - Mishra's Workshop.
Factory - Mishra's Factory.
Elves - Llanowar Elves.
Rock, Scissors, Paper - Term for the 3-card combo, from Unglued, used to start games (instead of rolling a die, etc..); Scissors Lizard, Rock Lobster, Paper Tiger.
True Blue - Whenever someone has a full hand in a blue deck, and has two untapped Islands- ready to play a Counterspell.
Loxy - Loxodon Hierarch.
Knight - Term referring to either White Knight, Black Knight, Silver Knight, Hand of Honor, or Hand of Cruelty.
Deck - See Mill.
Decked Out - No cards left in your library.
Netdeck - A deck copied card for card exactly from a winning decklist, or another source of unoriginality, such as the internet.
Breathers - People who stand behind you real closely, during a Tournament or other game. So close that you can hear them breathing.
Taplands - See Karoo.
Bouncelands - See Karoo.
Slinky - Chimeric Coils.
Sweep - When a player knows he's going to lose, to save time he/she picks up all of his/her cards off the table (sweep) so they can go right into another game.
Manascrewed - Not drawing or having enough land to play enough or any cards in your hand, causing you to discard valuable plays.
Hard Shuffle - Shuffling your deck by pushing cards into one another, as in half the deck being pressed into the other half.
Pile Shuffle - Shuffling your deck by putting the top card in randomized piles until you have no cards left in your hand, usually to be Hard Shuffled after that.
Mash Shuffle - See Hard Shuffle.
Land Shuffle - Taking the ratio of land to spells and placing them down on the table in varying patterns. Example: 40 spells/20 lands, put 2 spells down, then 1 land, repeat. Then shuffled another way after that.
Daffy - Wellwisher.
Cut - When a game starts, usually players will take the bottom half of each others' decks and put it on top. Other variations on cutting are just basically shuffling to randomize an opponent's deck.
Stabilize - To have all necessary lands out so you can cast all spells in your library.
Removal - Includes any spells that get rid of permanents, such as Stone Rain, discard spells, see Glimpse, Hymn.
Proxy - A printed out card or a card written on (with the name of another card) used to take place of either a real card that has high value that a person does not wish to take out in public, or to take place of a card that a person does not have yet so that they can playtest a deck either before they have acquired the card or before they spend the money to get the card.
.. i'll add more later
Taplands are generally the ones from Invasion. The ones from Kamigawa that skip untapping are referred to usually as "laglands".
The guildlands are more commonly referred to as "karoos".
Bloody Butter Knife/Swiss Army Knife = Umezawa's Jitte
Solidarity = Mono-blue legacy storm combo deck utilizing High Tide, Reset and Brainfreeze
Scrub = Noob
Alpha Strike = Attack with all creatures one controls (usually in limited)
EDIT:
BoP = Birds of Paradise
EOT = End of Turn
kp = keep your hand (not mulligan)
p, pl, = Play first (as opposed to going second and drawing)
d = Draw, play second
p or d = Play or Draw (when a player decides after winning a die roll or losing the previous game
Wish = The Judgement Wish cycle
The internet is like drugs, it can be alot of fun, but most people on it say really stupid stuff
And I'm glad this is back up and running. I'll do my best to try to keep up.
N00b: A new Magic player who is just learning the game, great for trading with.
Scrub: A Magic player who thinks he knows everything about Magic but sucks at it.
Treetop Village was named BoB = Beats on Blue for its uncounterability.
There is a suttle difference between BoB and Bob
Yu-Gi-Oh'd When a player topdecks the exact card needed to turn a game around
thanks DarkNightCavalier for the sig!
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Never called it that...though we often joke about "the heart of the cards"
Generally this called Mising. Or to "Mise"
comes from Mise'well...which comes from "Might as Well". Which is when you play out a turn or take an action when you have clearly lost...and it wins you the game.
Other decks to add
Final Fantasy: Extended (primarily) deck before rotation which played Platinum Angel and dropped Final Fortune on a Stick. Using Metal Worker, Tinker, Votaic Key and Grim Monolith it was able to attain infinite turns reliably on turn 2. Led to the very fast banning finally of Metal Worker, Tinker, Votaic Key and Grim Monolith in Extended. One of the most powerful (and short lived) extended decks ever created.
Team Titans: Reanimator varient which quickly reanimated and sacrificed multiple Sundering Titans. Kept opponents landless and locked games down. Rotated out of Extended when Goblin Welder left that format. Success of this deck can be seen in some Welder/Stax variants in Legacy and Vintage.
(Side note. When I ran this deck I put stickers with Cyborg from Teen Titans on each of my Titans)
I've never called it Yu-gi-oh'd but I call it "heart of the cards" for top decking. The Yu-Gi-Oh players get mad at us because we keep bringing it up.
My last Yu-Gi-Oh play was a topdecked...crap I cant think of name...its the selesnya card that wraths nontokens. Anyways it won me the game because of a saproling flood
thanks DarkNightCavalier for the sig!
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