Explaining MTG Jargon, Terms, and Common Phrases 

"Bolt the bird." "What?" "I cast Shock on your Noble Hierarch."

The color blue being abbreviated with "U" is something that trips newer players up.

"math is for blockers" to indicate that you're pretty sure you'll win by attacking with everything but you don't want to figure it out yourself. "Looting" to indicate draw a card, discard a card. And it's best friend "card selection" which is kind of like card advantage but you don't actually get more cards (scry, surveil, looting, etc)

Seeing the character growth in real time as he learns to pronounce more and more of the color combinations

More slang off the top of my head: -Wheel: An effect that makes all players discard their hand and draw some number of cards, named after Wheel of Fortune. -Pump: An effect that raises a creature's stats until end of turn. -Combat trick: An instant that alters how combat was going to happen, like by saving a creature. Mostly relevant in Limited. -Fix/Colorfix: A card that helps you get to more colors of mana easily, but not more (so not ramp). -Manabase: The lands and mana-producing cards in your deck with which you plan to develop your game. Mainly used when discussing consistency and probability. -Dual: A land that taps for two different colors of mana, with whatever restriction or cost necessary to do so. -2 for 1: A card advantage exchange where someone ends up +1 card ahead. Often because 1 card was used to remove 2 but also used in other cases. -Hatebear: A small creature with an effect that restricts your opponent. Started out as bears (2/2s for 2) but I've seen it used with other stats as well. -Toolbox: A ministrategy where you play a bunch of one-ofs and a card that can tutor any of them, so that you adapt to what you need. -Trade: To block a creature with another creature such that both are destroyed in combat. -Red zone: Combat, often in regards to attacking specifically. -Instant speed: An action you can do anytime you have priority, just like how you play instants. -Sorcery speed: An action you can do during your main phase when the stack is empty, just like how you play sorceries. -Scoop: To concede, surrender -Fizzle: A spell or ability fizzles when it can't resolve properly because its target was removed or changed in some way. -Gray Ogre: A 2/2 for 3 -Hill Giant: A 3/3 for 4. Neither are as popular a term as "Bear" -Manadork: A creature that taps for mana, usually a 1-drop.

One thing that I think is really interesting is that I've actually heard a few terms that originated in Magic make their way over to Yu-Gi-Oh. One example of this is "mill," which originated as a shorthand reference to the card Millstone and its then-unique decking out mechanic. It became such an ubiquitous shorthand for "put the top cards of your deck into your graveyard" that not only did it make its way to Yu-Gi-Oh slang, it eventually ended up becoming an official Magic keyword.

"Blink effects" can also be called "flicker effects", named after the card Flicker, which came 7 years earlier than Momentary Blink, so technically the name "flicker" has a longer history. Besides it still hasn't been obsolete today.

One minor but confusing distinction is the difference between mono-red Burn decks and “Red Deck Wins” (RDW). They’re both mono-red aggro decks, but RDW is more creature-based, and Burn is more based on damaging non-creature spells. (Which also reminds me, something that confuses a lot of new players is that every card that isn’t a land is a “Spell,” even artifacts & creatures.)

Coming from Legends of Runeterra, its pretty cool to see the origins of terms we use. We say things like "tutor" and "ramp" and I never knew where those words came from

Big ones that should probably be noted "Mana Dork" A creature that can (and usually only is) tapped for mana "Bolt the Bird" A piece of advice that has turned into a play sequence, using a burn spell or removal to kill a 1 drop dork like Birds of Paradise "Fizzle" When an effect fails, usually because it's target has become invalid "Fail to Find" this one is...special. its a very creative use of rules about searching your library that has made some memorable moments. "Fetchland, Shockland" two special land card cycles that define entire formats "Cycle" A series of related cards printed across the colours "Cracking" Sacrificing a non creature permanent for it's effect, usually used with Fetchlands

In both of my most recent tournaments, I had an opponent refer to activating an ability that creates a creature token as "making an idiot"

MTG shorthand lead to one of the greatest sentences I've ever said in an official event. "Heath, Fetch, Savannah, Plow your mom?" Legacy Maverick players anyone?

I hope one day the Duel Logs embrace insanity and starts making videos like "Top10 differences between MtG and YGO mechanics" lile the stack work or banish/exile zone, or how in MtG a 0/0 card can't stay on the field unlike YGO. Would also be fun to point some of these differences in videos like these, so also other games players can be introduced to foreign mechanics. But I will acknowledge that would be a ton of work.

Mill was actually recently canonized as a term for sending the top card(s) of your deck to the Graveyard, based on Millstone. Another analogous term for tutor is "fetch", particularly for lands, wherein the most famous are the "fetchlands". (I've also heard "slow fetch" to refer to stuff like Evolving Wilds that bring in lands only to immediately tap them.) Lands have all sorts of nicknames, usually named for the condition (if any) for which they come into play untapped. Aside from the aforementioned fetchlands, shocklands are dual lands (any land that can tap for one of two colors) that can come in untapped by taking 2 damage, painlands let you tap for one of their two colors by taking 1 damage each time (or a colorless for free), and scrylands (a.k.a. Temples) always come in tapped and let you Scry 1 when played, among many others. In general, lands that always come in tapped get referred to as "taplands", a supertype under which there are many subtypes. "Cycles" are any group of cards (usually one of each color / combination) that follow a common pattern, often some kind of common trigger. A recent Dominaria United cycle were the creatures that, when on the board, turn certain colors of mana on spells you cast into Phyrexian mana (which itself means mana you can pay by tapping 1 color _or_ by paying 2 life instead). Another synonym for splashing is to call a deck by its major color(s) and to give it an adjective indicative of its splashed color (i.e. bright, dim, wet, warm...). For example, Jund with a splashed amount of Red might be called "warm Golgari" or something of that nature. A pretty recent one I occasionally hear is that, if you cast a Creature with an Adventure using its Adventure half (exiling the creature to cast its Instant / Sorcery half and allowing you to cast it as a creature later), you might hear "[creature] is going on a trip". If you cast the creature immediately afterwards, you might call it a "short trip". It'd be kinda' funny if people started calling "venture into a dungeon" effects "crawling" (named for "dungeon crawling", a term common to Dungeons and Dragons, as well as numerous video games that function similarly), but the effect is too new for it to be named just yet.

I've played Magic for a long time, so these terms are pretty ingrained in my head, but seeing them all laid out and explained is still pretty crazy. I could see why new players would seem overwhelmed.

Also worth mentioning, if I'm not mistaken, the turn "swinging" with a creature to describe attacking with it comes from MTG as well despite seeing use in many card games. Both stemming from the idea of using your creature as a weapon (like how you'd swing a weapon at someone) and how the motion of tapping your creature while you attack with it actually "swings" one end of the card outward.

Mana Dork - creatures that tap for mana Mana Rock - artifacts that tap for mana Sac - sacrifice Sac outlet - a card that allows you to sacrifice cards Combat trick - cards, usually instants, that modify stats or give abilities that interact with combat Milling - putting the top card from your deck into your graveyard, comes from Millstone and is now an official keyword

My favorite term named after a card that wasn't listed here is "wheel", where players discard their whole hand for a brand new one. Named after wheel of fortune, tons of cards that do this still have wheel in the name in reference

There are official names for the four color decks which were announced in 2016 when the commander preconstructed decks for that year were each of the 4 color combinations, although most people don’t remember them. Non-white is “Chaos”, Non-blue is “Aggression”, Non-black is “Altruism”, Non-red is “Growth”, and Non-green is “Artifice”. Prior to those commander decks, the closest thing to a 4 color legendary card that many people allowed as a commander were the cycle of Nephilim cards from the Ravnica set. The “Chaos” nephilim is Glint-Eye Nephilim so people would refer to the combo as “Glint”, Aggression has Dune-Brood Nephilim so “Dune”, Altruism has Ink-Treader Nephilim so “Ink”, Growth has Witch-Maw Nephilim so “Witch”, and Artifice has Yore-Tiller Nephilim so “Yore”

There is a funny name that consist 2 of the terms hate and bear into hatebears which are 2/2s that run a form of hate against certainty stradegy, sometimes I’ve seen people use this term to basically reference a stradegy that runs a lot of hate or a creature with a hate effect.

The term Draw-go actually comes from the first control deck (called "Draw-Go") to participate/win in a tournament. It got the name because literally he would only untap draw and pass turn, leaving mana open to counter and instant spells that drew cards.

Most decks that get called control in magic are actually a subset of control decks called reactive control decks. Another name for prison decks is proactive control decks. It's not super common terminology among the community, but fundamentally, both are trying to control the game, but classic control is trying to react with answers to opponent's threats as or after they come down, whereas prison decks are placing answers down proactively to prevent the opponent from enacting their gameplan. Also, a pretty important shorthand for MtG is the color coding. All five colors together are referred to as WUBRG (woo-berg), for White, blUe, Black, Red, Green. Since black and blue both start with B, blue was changed to U. This makes it real easy to denote mana costs, such as 2uu for a spell that costs 2 generic and 2 blue mana. It also gets used to denote colors for decks, particularly for Temur and Sultai decks, which are RUG and BUG respectively. A further convention some have adopted is using lower case for splash colors. So for the Jeskai Black example mentioned, that'd be WURb.

Funny enough, Stax doesn't actually come from smokestacks, even though it's the most common interpretation. It comes from the originator being called "the 4000 dollar solution", or $T4KS, hence the name Stax

Got into a nerd fight once with somebody who insisted that the guild names exclusively refer to decks built using ONLY cards from that guild and that everyone who generalizes them (so, everyone else) are wrong.

I'm a fan of the term "Flunge", meaning to attack with every creature you have without doing the combat math first. Basically a reckless alpha strike. Because math is for blockers ;P

6:06 Slight adendum to the term Stompy. Stompy decks are aggro decks that relly on very well costed and efficient creatures, acting almost as a missing link between aggro and midrange. There's a deck in Pauper called Mono Black Stompy that uses cards like Carniphage and Sangrophage, a 1 mana 2/2 and a 2 mana 3/3 respectively which both deal damage to you every turn, to win the game quickly. Because of the raw stats of the creatures being used, the deck is called Stompy.

One of my favorite terms is fizzle. When a spell cannot resolve, it fizzles instead. Like if you play Titanic Growth on a creature but I Murder it, the Titanic Growth now has an invalid target and just fizzles.

This is a great video even for people who play MTG. Knowing the origin of names, how the stack works, and these concepts are something that every player needs to know.

The way he said "diabolic" edict

Another term that comes to mind is "mana dork" referring mostly to green creatures that produce mana, like Llanowar Elves and Birds of Paradise, which leads to another phrase called "bolt the bird", from the early days of Lightning Bolting a Birds to slow an opponent's ramping.

"Goodstuff" is another term for a midrange deck where the cards it uses have little synergy but are all so individually powerful that it works out. It tends to have a high percentage of rares and mythics. "Everybody just plays mono-black goodstuff in Standard these days."

For four-color combinations, another nominal notation is to use the names of the Nephilim, which are all four-colored creatures. Some sites/resources like EDHrec use this notation. The names for the combinations are listed below: WBRG: Dune-Brood WURG: Ink-Treader WUBG: Witch-Maw WUBR: Yore-Tiller UBRG: Glint-Eye Terms for 5-color decks include “rainbow” and “5 color”, which is often shorthanded into “5C”. Similarly, four color decks can be shorthanded and written as “4C”, although that wouldn’t specify which 4 colors are being used.

I would like to suggest a video where you explain to new people why we call ""Bob"", ""Steve"" or ""Gary "" certain cards Even "" Tim "" could be included

As a hearthstone player; Learning why it's called ramping is crazy

After enjoying many of your WoW videos over the years, when coming back to Magic after a decade I can’t tell you how much I appreciate that you also have MtG content as well. Cheers!

A friend and me realised a term a couple other groups of mtg players were saying (we are germans): „Ich komme für X Schaden vorbei“. Wich means translated: „I am coming over for X amount of damage“ Phrase is used if somebody attacks.

Looting (“draw a card, then discard a card” effects) and rummaging (“discard a card, then draw a card” effects) are a pretty good jargon inclusion missed here.

Couple others I can think of: Drake: 2/2 creature with flying for 3. not as popular as bear but I've heard it being used a lot more. Named after Wind Drake IIRC. Bomb: A card that can win games alone in limited. Rummage: An effect that makes you discard card(s) to draw equal amount of cards. Comes from Rummaging Goblin. Loot: An effect that makes you draw card(s), then discard equal amount of cards. Comes from Merfolk Looter. Firebreathing: An activated ability that gives you +1/+0 until end of turn. Named after the aura Firebreathing, but first was introduced by Shivan Dragon. Going off: Related to combo decks when your deck is doing their combo. Goldfishing: Testing your deck by playing your deck without an opponent. Hard cast: Paying the mana cost of a spell instead of its alternative cost, likewith Force of Will. Rainbow: A deck which players all the colors. Might also be called WUBRG decks. Impulse Draw: A card effect that exiles the top card(s) of your library and you being able to play them that turn. Possibly named after Act on Impulse. Lethal: A chance to deal enough damage to bring opponent's life to 0. for instance: "Swinging for lethal" meaning that you attack with enough creatures to win the game. Mana sink: Cards with activated abilities that do not tap, meaning you can use it repeatedly. Nonbo: An interaction between two or more cards that is a negative/disadvantageous to you. Pump spell: A spell that increases power/toughness until end of turn. Like Giant Growth Voltron: A deck archetype where your goal is to boost a single creature with auras/equipments/pump spells to win through. Named after the anime Voltron.

I like the Yu-Gi-Oh analogy. The reason why MTG "control" isn't as prevalent in Yu-Gi-Oh is because every deck has to run negates and removal in order for their decks to succeed. Especially how archtypes in both TCGs are vastly different. Herald of Perfection is essentially a control deck in Magic terms. In magic, Aggro decks can succeed with a few removal spells, but in some matchups it's pretty much sided out for better options.

On the topic of colour combos, WUBRG is used for all 5 colours which is named after the acronym for each colour.

I call board wipes "nukes" sometimes also. You also have things like; pump, wheel, gas, mana dork, storm and solitaire and group hug.

Another excellent video to refer people to! I would love more of these, maybe organized into a “Explaining Magic for Newbies” queue. I’d imagine that’s already the plan, so basically I just want to encourage that plan! 😄 I’d suggest maybe going over good entry points to paper Magic, like Jumpstart, and a list of online resources, though I know Prof just did that video. I really enjoy watching these, please keep it up!

I’ve seen a bunch of your videos but I think this one is a little confused in places, but that is going to happen when talking about slang and jargon. Thanks for making this video as jargon is one of the lesser discussed topics and I’ve always thought it raises the barrier of entry for new players.

"Rock" meaning artifacts that tap for mana "Voltron" decks being decks that focus on buffing 1 or 2 creatures through enchantments, equipment, or a combination of both "Tribal" being decks built around a specific creature type "Group hug" when you have effects that on the surface benefit everyone "Tax" being effects that make your opponent have to spend more mana to do things

Superfriends For Decks that have lots of planeswalkers! (Usually 5 color decks)

I followed you years ago for you yugioh content even though I haven’t played since 2004, magic I’ve played steadily since 2014 and love that you’re mtg channel is growing. You make very simple and easy to understand videos and I find them quite enjoyable for both yugioh and mtg as well.

i've always named the 4-color decks based on the Nephilim from Guildpact: 🔵⚫🔴🟢 is Glint from Glint-Eye Nephilim ⚪⚫🔴🟢 is Dune from Dune-Brood Nephilim ⚪🔵🔴🟢 is Ink from Ink-Treader Nephilim ⚪⚫🔵🟢 is Witch from Witch-Maw Nephilim ⚪⚫🔵🔴 is Yore from Yor-Tiller Nephilim

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

I just started playing magic like 2 days ago via MTG Arena. I'm a Yugioh player and really like your duel logs channel. I just discovered this channel and thank you for making these videos. They are really helpful.

I was just looking for explanations of holding priority the day before, thanks for clarifying it. All the implied shortcuts make things complicated.

This is great knowledge for newer player, great job!

Mill (the process of putting a card from the top of a players library directly into their graveyard) may be a common keyword now, but it used to be always referred to with the long definition in the rules and only the players shortened it to mill, referencing Millstone which was the first major card with that effect.

Man, I know you from your Yu-Gi-Oh! Videos. I knew I remembered your voice! Keep up the awesome work! I've been into MTG for a while, but haven't had the pleasure to play yet, so your videos are perfect for a beginner like me!

This... was invaluable thank you so much!

It's cool learning the origins of terms I have known for a long time from watching/playing hearthstone

I learned more in this video than I have from any of your other videos, so useful for me! In our circle, I naturally shorthanded "Tap and freeze" for "...it doesn't untap during its controllers next untap step", due to primarily being Blue and usually with ice themes. I only recently learned the community at large says "freeze" for the same too. Though WotC recently settled on "Stun Counter" instead of Freeze Counter, I'm guessing so that it doesn't have to be so attached to Blue. Oh, and maybe you can add pronouncing "WotC"?

Been playing on and off for a while and I've picked up some of these terms, but it's nice to find out where they came from. The one that was neat for was Lord. I play an Elf deck with a bunch of elf "lords."

Thanks for this! I started playing MTG back in early 1994, but drifted out of it around 1998 or so. I'm just getting back into Magic now, after almost 25 years away, and this video was super-helpful! I knew a lot of these terms already, and others I had picked up by context, but this definitely still filled in some blanks. 👍🏻🙂

Good and informative video. Will keep it handy if I ever introduce someone to MTG.

remember, always bolt the bird which doesn't actually mean to bolt it, but getting rid of it in whatever way instead and bird (bird of paradise) is basically the short version of mana dork with mana dork being any creature that tap for mana

I didn’t hear WUBRG. And the 4 color combos are Glint Eye, Dune Brood, Ink Treader, Witch Maw and Yore Tiller

Love to see a video of all the cards that have their own names. Like Steve for Sakura tribe elder

here in brazil, I don't know if it is the same in every region or other portuguese speaking countries, since is more of a slang word, but we usually say "zica" or "zicado" instead of mana screwed. In english "zica" and "zicado" would be "jinx" and "jinxed"

Tbf in the earlier days of Yugioh, control decks referred to the same thing they do in magic: winning through favorable trades and card advantage. It was even the reason Don Zaloog was the most dominating monster in the game for a time period, as using a board wipe followed by a direct attack from Don Zaloog could mean a massive difference in card advantage. Thousand-Eyes Restrict was essentially the king of early control decks, eating up a monster, often then destroying another monster in battle and ultimately eating a removal spell, trading 3-1. It was also the reason the gadgets were so strong initially that they ended up semi limited: they were weak, but since they added another one to your hand you could essentially spam the removal spells you drew naturally while always keeping a gadget on the field so you'd eventually win through sheer card advantage too. Nowadays regular decks have adopted a "card advantage matters" mindset too, while control decks became more prison like.

Manadork - a creature that taps for mana "Scoop" - to concede Pump - to give a creature +X/+X until end of turn Firebreathing - creatures with the ability to pay one to get +1/+0 for a turn

That "Holding Priority" bit is actually relevant to a card that got released in last year's Kaldheim set: Tibalt's Trickery. It was an Instant with a cost of 1R, and it had the effect where it counters a spell, that spell's controller mills 1, 2, or 3 cards (determined randomly), and then they exile cards off the top of their library until they hit a nonland card, which they can then cast without paying its mana cost, then return the exiled cards to the bottom of their library in a random order. What people would do with this is on their own second turn, they would cost a 0-cost spell (such as Tormod's Crypt, or an X-cost spell with no mana put into it), then use Tibalt's Trickery to counter it, and then the rest of their deck would be either boss monsters (such as the Eldrazi Titans, the Phyrexian Praetors, Griselbrand, etc.), or other spells that could, themselves, cheat out those boss monsters in other ways. This effect ended up being so good, that Tibalt's Trickery ended up getting Banned shortly after the set's release.

For the next type of video like this make sure to explain cracking. It just means to sac something to it's own effect for value. It comes from the egg cycle which you could sac to filter mana and draw a card

I've been playing over a decade. I know all these terms. But when you started explaining which cards all the names came from 🤯 I learned a few new things. Who knew that lords aren't just the iconic leaders of their tribe, all lords are lords because they're kinda like that one Atlantis lord guy? Not I.

On the topic of multicolored cards/decks, WUBRG (pronounced as woo-berg) is representative of running all five colors, since that's what the shorthand of each of the five colors is in order (White, blUe, Black, Red, Green)

Hey, my suggestion became a video! Neat. Make it a series, since there are a ton of terms that weren't mentioned.

I would love a video explaining the different keywords, what they do and where they would/ wouldnt be useful. I always get mixed up on keywords like delve, dredge, unearth, disturb, crew etc. I dont use often and have to keep reading what they do

I would say one I haven't seen mentioned in the comments is o-ring, which is shorthand for Oblivion Ring. The effect is to exile a permanent as long as said card is on the field, and due to how it is worded it can allow some shenanigans. Its effect shows up a pretty good amount, though it's primarily a W effect.

In regards to the 4-color combinations, I've heard some people referring to them by names related to the original cycle of 4-color Nephilim cards that came out in the set Guildpact. RBGW is called 'Dune' after Dune-Brood Nephilim UBRG is called 'Glint' after Glint-Eye Nephilim RGWU is called 'Ink' after Ink-Treader Nephilim GWUB is called 'Witch' after Witch-Maw Nephilim WURB is called 'Yore' after Yore-Tiller Nephilim And 5-color decks are typically referred to as 'Rainbow decks' because they include all 5 mana colors.

Rhystic Studies, in his video on the Tarmogoyf (which you actually showed in this vid) mentioned the "MtG rite of passage" that is "facing the resolve order" or something akin to that. "Tarmogoyf is a 2/3, bolt the Goyf, bolt deals 3 damage, Goyf is now a 3/4" For those who are wondering, Tarmogoyf is a ×/×+1 that gets +1/+1 per different card type in the graveyard. Creature, Sorcery, Artifact, etc. Since the Tarmogoyf was 2/3, and there were (theoretically) no instant spell cards in the graveyard, as soon as the Bolt resolves and enters the graveyard, Tarmogoyf becomes 3/4 at the same time it takes 3 damage. As for the 4-colour decks, weren't the Nephilim 4 colours? They just never really took off when they were released, and was just super clunky to play, at least from what I remember.

Couple of quick things to add on... When you mentioned priority, there was one mistake. The turn player does receive priority as the "default" when most things happen (stack empties, new step/phase starts, etc.) but when a player with priority activates an ability or casts a spell, THAT player retains priority until they decide to pass it, it doesn't go right back to the turn player after. The graphic was correct but your script contradicted it a little, or left out that part. And in regards to the four-color combinations, this is less a correction and more just an interesting tidbit: you're certainly not incorrect that no names for them have "stuck", but there is a pretty accurate moniker for each of them that comes from the 4-color Commander decks a few years back. Like how you mentioned that it's easiest to identify a 4-color deck by the color it lacks rather than the color it is, Wizards actually caught onto that too, and managed to actually form a coherent pattern for 4-color interactions around that time. Each one is defined not by some mish-mash of the four colors it is, but by the antithesis of whatever color it's missing. To go in order: White is the color of order, stability, and fairness, so the blue-black-red-green color combination is "Chaos". Blue is the color of intelligence, patience, and 'mind over matter', so the white-black-red-green combination is "Aggression" (of the implicitly physical variety). Black is the color of manipulation, selfishness, and exploitation, so the white-blue-red-green combination is "Altruism". Green (we'll skip red for now because that's the most interesting one for me) is the color of nature and life, so the white-blue-black-red combination is "Artifice". Now the cool one, Red is defined by passion, force, and haste, to destructive (and self-destructive) extents. Anything with a physical form, it can kill; it has spells to destroy artifacts and lands, and can burn creatures, Planeswalkers, and even players to death with enough force behind the spells. And in the same vein, its strengths are highly self-destructive as well. Flashy red cards are often defined by powerful effects that are usually VERY temporary, or hurt the user as well. Red can do amazing things, but both it and everything around it are going to be worse for wear when it's done. So naturally, the white-blue-black-green combination is "Growth".

A good one I like is any kill spell when used on a mana dork (Creature that can be tapped for mana) being called 'Bolt the Bird' in reference to Birds of Paradise a 1 drop that was notorious for being lightning bolted

One of my favorites: “Say go”: To pass the turn to your opponent. A joke referring to the fact that you announce most of your actions in a game of magic, therefore you’re announcing that you’re telling your opponent you are passing the turn.

Personally my group has a few extra words along the lines of Blink. Blink means to exile and return immediately as part of the same effect, Flicker is to exile something and return it at the end step (named after Flickerwisp), and Banish is to exile something until the card with that effect leaves play (named after Banishing Light).

i love how You represented Jack of all trades with Jund 🤣 ps. Your mention of "Jeskai-black" reminded me of other deck referred in similar fashion, i'm talking about "Wet (or Moist if You will) Gruul" which was basically Gruul Adventures with splash only for Negate (and sometimes sideboarded Braze Borrower)

Very nice vid, i like people going educational for newer players to feel integrated better, well done Also i know it’s not a contest or anything but i knew them all

A couple of terms i thought you missed: Bomb: a high impact card that immediatly swings the game Mono(color) decks: decks playing only a single color Hatebear: Wizards has a tradition of printing 2 mana creatures that hate on specific mechanics Tax effects: cards that have a continous cost for your opponent, if prison decks prevent you from playing those decks just make it harder to play Mana rocks: cards that generate mana (french)vanilla: creatures without effect (but with keywords) toolbox: a deck playing cards that are good in specific situations and a way to tutor them from deck (Birthing pod/collected company/etc) There are hundreds of terms you can include but you got most of the commonly used ones, although if you mentioned bears you might aswell give all the named statlines since they are quite fun to know

Is cool to know the origins of all these terms, for the longest time I wondered what does kiiling your creatures have to do with aristocracy?

It's honestly kinda wild when it's all laid out that for as much slang and shorthand was gone over in this video, there's still like a bajillion more terms and phrases left. I'm almost not even joking when I say that an entire channel could easily be dedicated to it 😂

Legitimately such a good video.

a intresting little thing from a format i love is in the commander format, the extra mana cost applied to commanders when they get destroyed and need to be recast from the Command Zone is often referred to as "commander Tax".

Back when I was playing in high school, we called effects that would deal one damage directly “Timming” because Prodigal Sorcerer reminded people of Tim the Enchanter

I don't remember if this was mentioned, but "hand attack" refers to forcing opponent to discard. "Wishboard," cards in sideboard intended to be accessed with "wish" spells, like the adventure half of Fae of Wishes, Granted. "Making dudes and turning 'em sideways," a deck with only creatures in it that attacks each turn.

Looting and Rummaging! and my personal favorite you forgot "oh thats *insert namesake of card effect* on a stick" for when a unique ability that was on a spell/artifact/enchantment is now printed on a creature. e.i. Mondrak, Glory Dominus is Anointed Procession on a stick.

To note, all 5 colors together in one deck (which usually is only in commander) are typically referred to a WUBRG decks. Pronounced Wu-Burg. Since thats the abbreviation that every color gets by the player base. W = white, U = Blue, B = Black, R = Red, and G = Green. Typically, color pips in casting costs and ability costs are put in the patter of White, then Blue, then Black, then Red, and then Green with generic mana symbols going before the colored ones. U is used for Blue because Black and Blue share the first two letters, so we used the third letter of blue. 5 color decks are typically not used in other formats simply because its optimal to play decks focused on 2 or 3 colors rather than having cards with all 5 somewhere, so cards with all five colors in their casting cost are normally cheated in through some method.

I don't know if it's a widely accepted term, but when my friends or me play a 5 color deck, we call it a rainbow deck. I've heard other people call it that too. At the very least, I've never had anyone ask me what I mean when I'm talking about rainbow decks. It's pretty selfexplanatory, but how many people actually use it, I have no idea.

The name for the 4-color mana combinations are based off of the nephlims, eg ink is r g w b Attacking is sometimes called swinging. having no mana sources left is called being tapped out

Sol Ring and other similar artifacts that give you mana are called 'mana rocks'

The common term "Rubric" refers to all 5 colours being in the mana cost of a spell or ability. "The card's casting cost is rubric." rather than saying that is requires White, Blue, Black, Red and green or saying it requires all five colours. Additionally, the way most magic players will list the casting cost for cards and abilities they will say each colour symbol that appears and then a number for the colorless mana value. (you can also use the names for 2/3 colour groups.) Example: "The card's casting cost is Blue, Blue, 3." or "I paid Bant plus 2".

4 color decks usually get called by the name of one of several 4 color legendaries. Mainly because those kinds of decks were the easiest way to bring them out without some form of shenanigans. And 5 color decks have SEVERAL different names. WUBRG (Woo-Berg) and Rainbow being two of them.

Virtual card advantage: a type of card advantage agro decks usually achieve after beating an opponent who has cards in his hand left unplayed all game long, like they never drew them at all.

Tucking means to put something on the bottom of the library (used to be very common in EDH). Mana Rocks are usually artifacts that tap for mana. The different types of lands all have special names (eg shocklands, fetchlands, painlands, duelands). Your definition of Midrange is different from when I played. Midrange usually referred to playing creatures slightly larger then aggro to create virtual card advantage. Playing all of the best cards used to be called goodstuff. Fog is used for every fog effect. Tron refers to playing the Urza's lands. Top Deck refers to playing the card you just drew.

Fetches or fetch lands are a group of lands that let you sacrifice the land in order to search your library for a land that shares a land type with a land type mentioned on the card (mountain, forest, plains, etc.). Some people will refer to the sacrificing of the fetch land as “cracking a fetch land”. These lands are generally considered the best lands ever printed so if you play formats where they are legal, it’s good to know what the term refers to.

Rummage Effects, when you discard a card and then draw a card This effect is featured on cards like Insolate Neonate, Fable of the Mirror Breaker, and Seasoned Pyromancer

The one name I heard for four-colour combinations was naming them after the Nephilim, ancient Ravnican gods from the Guildpact set, and the only four-colour cards for a long time (until Commander 2016 ten years later): Dune (no Blue) Glint (no White) Ink (no Black) Witch (no Red) Yore (no Green) But as he said, exactly four colours aren't that common, and the Nephilim weren't really all that good nor popular, so I guess it just doesn't come up very often.

"Mill X cards" - take X cards from top of library and put them into graveyard, originated from card Millstone. Term was so popular it became a keyword since 2021. A variant of Mill that mills the library until specific card is found is called Grind.