Abbreviations and Acronyms

[Erdrick]

Every once in a while, while reading through a post, I run into some abbreviation or acronym that I can't remember what it is suppose to be.  So, I thought I would post a thread that tried to help others. I have listed many of the abbreviations and acronyms that I have run into and what they are suppose to be. I have intentionally left out partial names that only have one option (ex. Fact = Fact or Fiction and Rector = Academy Rector). I have also separated them into sections for hopefully greater ease of use.

Cards

• AK = [card]Accumulated Knowledge[/card]
  
• BEB = [card]Blue Elemental Blast[/card]
  
• BoP = [card]Birds of Paradise[/card]
  
• B2B = [card]Back to Basics[/card]
  
• CoB = [card]City of Brass[/card]
  
• CoP = [card]Circle of Protection[/card]
  
• CotV = [card]Chalice of the Void[/card]
  
• DA = [card]Deep Analysis[/card]
  
• ESG = [card]Elvish Spirit Guide[/card]
  
• F/I = [card]Fire / Ice[/card]
  
• FoF = [card]Fact or Fiction[/card]
  
• FoW = [card]Force of Will[/card]
  
• FTK = [card]Flametongue Kavu[/card]
  
• LDV = [card]Lim-Duls Vault[/card]
  
• LED = [card]Lions Eye Diamond[/card]
  
• LoA = [card]Library of Alexandria[/card] (not [card]Lord of Atlantis[/card])
  
• Mis-D = [card]Misdirection[/card]
  
• Mox Monkey = [card]Gorilla Shaman[/card]
  
• REB = [card]Red Elemental Blast[/card]
  
• SGC = [card]Siege-Gang Commander[/card]
  
• SoLoMoxen = [card]Sol Ring[/card], [card]Black Lotus[/card], [card]Mox Emerald[/card], [card]Mox Pearl[/card], [card]Mox Ruby[/card], [card]Mox Sapphire[/card], and [card]Mox Jet[/card]
  
• SotF = [card]Survival of the Fittest[/card]
  
• StP = [card]Swords to Plowshares[/card]
  
• Superman = [card]Morphling[/card]
  
• TFK = [card]Thirst for Knowledge[/card]
  
• Tog = [card]Psychatog[/card]
  
• 3sphere = [card]Trinisphere[/card]
  
• WGD = [card]Worldgorger Dragon[/card]
  [/list:u]
  
  Decks
  
  • BFD = Big Fat Deck
  • EBA = Eon Blue Apocalypse
  • FCG = Food Chain Goblins
  • GPR = Green Power Ranger
  • GAT = Grow a Tog
  • RAT = Rectal Agony Trix
  • Sui = Suicide (usually Black)
  • TNT = Tools 'n Tubbies
  • TPS = The Perfect Storm
  • WTF = Worse Than Fish
  [/list:u]
  
  Concepts
  
  • C = Color (ex. 4c=Four color)
  • CC = Casting Cost (ex. 4cc=Four casting cost)
  • CIP = Come Into Play
  • EOT = End of Turn
  • ID = Intentional Draw
  • LD = Land Destruction
  • MD = Main Deck
  • SB = Sideboard
  • Xx = Primary colors are capitalized, splash colors are lowercase (ex. Ur=Primarily Blue with a splash of Red)
  [/list:u]
  
  Others
  
  • 3CB = Three Card Blind
  • SCG = StarCityGames
  • TMD = TheManaDrain
  [/list:u]
  
  Feel free to post replies with additional abbreviations and acronyms or just PM me and I will edit them into my post (for less thread congestion).  Also, if any corrections are needed PM me and will make them.  Thanks.

[johnstown713]

Finally someone does this for lazy people like me who can't remember everything without taking a few extra seconds in life to figure it out.  I was waiting for this to happen.  What about Yawg Win, or is that to self explanatory.  

Johnstown713

[Ric_Flair]

Naming conventions:

Block format:  Name of major set, plus BC (Block Constructed)

Example:  Odyssey, Torment, and Judgment: Odyssey Block Constructed or OBC.

Exception:  Onslaught Block Constructed: OnBC, Mirrodin Block Constructed: MirBC, Ice Age Block Constructed: IABC, Mirage Block Constructed: MiviLight (Mirage, Visions, Weatherlight).

Draft or Limited formats:  Letter of the first name in each set.

Example: Odyssey, Torment, and Judgment: OTJ.

Formats:

Extended: 1.x

Vintage: T1

Standard: T2

[Erdrick]

I thought I would add all the sets.

Core Sets (In Order)

• AL = Alpha
• BE = Beta
• UL = Unlimited
• RV = Revised
• 4E = 4th Edition
• 5E = 5th Edition
• 6E = 6th Edition
• 7E = 7th Edition
• 8E = 8th Edition
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Expansion Sets (In Order)

• AN = Arabian Nights
• AQ = Antiquities
• LG = Legends
• DK = The Dark
• FE = Fallen Empires
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Ice Age Block

• IA = Ice Age
• HL = Homelands
• AI = Alliances
[/list:u]
Mirage Block

• MI = Mirage
• VI = Visions
• WL = Weatherlight
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Rath Cycle Block

• TE = Tempest
• ST = Stronghold
• EX = Exodus
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Urza Block

• US = Urza's Saga
• UY = Urza's Legacy
• UD = Urza's Destiny
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Masques Block

• MM = Mercadian Masques
• NE = Nemesis
• PY = Prophecy
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Invasion Block

• IN = Invasion
• PS = Planeshift
• AP = Apocalypse
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Odyssey Block

• OD = Odyssey
• TO = Torment
• JD = Judgment
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Onslaught Block

• ON = Onslaught
• LE = Legions
• SC = Scourge
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Mirrodin Block

• MD = Mirrodin
• DS = Darksteel
• 5D = Fifth Dawn
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Champions Block

• CHK = Champions of Kamigawa
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Other Sets

• BD = Beatdown
• BR = Battle Royal
• CE = Collector's Edition
• CH = Chronicles
• PT = Portal
• P2 = Portal: Second Age
• P3 = Portal: Three Kingdoms
• ST = Starter
• S2 = Starter 2000
• UG = Unglued
• PR = Promotional
[/list:u]

[Username?]

thanks this is helpful
but u gotta forgot
slavery
zoo
bus
keeper
chains
hulk

[Subaru]

thanks this is helpful
but u gotta forgot
slavery
zoo
bus
keeper
chains
hulk

it's easy

Slavery : it's a deck created by Toad (The primer of the deck)
Zoo : it's an URG aggro deck
Bus : Germbus the new version of Keeper
Keeper : the best control deck in T1
Chains : Chains of Menphistopheles
Hulk : Hulk Smash, the vintage version of Tog.dec

[AggressiveDude]

thanks this is helpful
but u gotta forgot
slavery
zoo
bus
keeper
chains
hulk

it's easy

Slavery : it's a deck created by Toad (The primer of the deck)
Zoo : it's an URG aggro deck
Bus : Germbus the new version of Keeper
Keeper : the best control deck in T1
Chains : Chains of Menphistopheles
Hulk : Hulk Smash, the vintage version of Tog.dec

first of all Keeper is not the best control deck in T1.
Germbus gets its name because of german dudes build it with this tmd admin guy(yeah i cant spell his nickname ;D)
most zoo versions I know base on 2 colors.
and Slavery gets its name from Mindslaver.

I also woul like to know where the name per example:Welder Mud comes from and why they called it like that..

[nataz]

welder mud evolved from MUD a (mono brown prison deck) that added welders. Hence, welder-mud (color of artifacts before they got all silver-y)

Germbus gets its name because of german dudes build it with this tmd admin guy(yeah i cant spell his nickname ;D)

lol

[defector]

This is a great thread, you shoudl also do a thing for thiose of us that never undertsood what "pwned" meant, as well as the rest of this new, nutty, netspeak(spare me the aight though this aint teenie girls talking boybands)
defector

[Tempe]

For non magic related netspeak, look them up on the Wikipedia. For instance, Pwned or Internet Acronyms. Thank you.

--Tempe

[defector]

Thanks for the links, now I finally understand what less than three means
defector

[Bram]

To the original author: great post. Good work.

Germbus gets its name because of german dudes build it with this tmd admin guy(yeah i cant spell his nickname ;D)

It's Zherbus and he's not some admin guy, he's the site's owner and founder :-)

thanks this is helpful
but u gotta forgot
slavery
zoo
bus
keeper
chains
hulk

First of all: learn how to use punctuation. Also: these are hardly abbreviations, so they would not be included in this thread.

Slavery : it's a deck created by Toad

...CO-created and tuned by Toad. Kim had something to do with it, too ;-)

I thought I would add all the sets.

Good plan. But please add them to the original post so we don't have to scroll halfway through the thread. Some other suggestions:
- The letter cobination for Champions of Kamigawa has already been confirmed. Strangely, it's CHK.
- You could also add that LoA is sometimes used for Lord Of Atlantis :-)
- A possible interesting addition would be that TPS was meant to stand for either The Perfect Storm or Total Piece of Shit, depending on its performance.
- Maybe you could add frequently used team name abbreviations and stuff. Such as ISP and DTHT :-P
- CIP effects are also widely known as 187 effects.

[sa17dk]

Just a question, why do people call URFish, GayR?

[Phele]

That's how the inventor of the deck - Phantom Tape Worm - called his U/R-Fish build without any fish but with voidmage prodigy and especially grim lavamancer. The name shows the roots of the deck which is based on the former Gay Fish build.

[Tempe]

- The letter cobination for Champions of Kamigawa has already been confirmed. Strangely, it's CHK.

Would you rather have it be "COK?"

[Bram]

Heh. While I obviously thought of that at first, I never wrote it down to see how silly it looks. One would have statements such as '<3 the COK' flying all over the place, and we really can't have that :-)

[Dr. Sylvan]

I'm rather disappointed that there won't be that possibility, actually.

[Jacob Orlove]

Heh. While I obviously thought of that at first, I never wrote it down to see how silly it looks. One would have statements such as '<3 the COK' flying all over the place, and we really can't have that :-)

In fact, that'd end up as the abbreviation for the entire block. The puns would be awful.

[Razvan]

Slavery : it's a deck created by Toad

...CO-created and tuned by Toad. Kim had something to do with it, too

I think a lot of people developped it independently as well. It was way too strong a card to be ignored. I don't think it has a single inventor. Smennen  was the first to publicly talk about it online (as far as I saw it), but I could be wrong, obviously.

[Bram]

In fact, that'd end up as the abbreviation for the entire block. The puns would be awful.

OMG! 'The COK BLOCK' !!! What a waste of a great opportunity for photoshoppery!

[jpmeyer]

Innovation--making bad decks, or replacing good cards in good decks with worse cards

Stagnation--having a stable metagame where it is clear which decks are good and which decks are bad.

[shaq]

Germbus gets its name because of german dudes build it with this tmd admin guy(yeah i cant spell his nickname ;D)

thanks. I thought it was a deck created by german dudes on a bus trip.

[Jacob Orlove]

This thread was dead for months. Now you have returned it to an unholy semblance of life. The power of christ compels you!