"Swing" is the act of attacking, usually directly to cause damage. The phrase originates from baseball as there are many ways to respond or stop an attack in Yugioh, so "swinging" means your attempting an attack and are waiting to see if it's a hit or miss. It's typically presented as a question, and a player will usually say the attack power of the attacking monster to make things easier for the other player. Example: "Swing for 3000?" "Crash" refers to when 2 monsters of the same attack battle, which in the rules destroys both. Since this is usually done on purpose, it's seen as "Crashing" one monster into another. "Handtrap" describes a type of card which can be activated in your hand during your opponents turn. As Trap cards can be hidden and used on your opponents turn, these are seen as traps that are in your hand instead of on the field. Oddly enough the majority of handtraps aren't actually trap cards themselves, but monster cards with similar effects. There are also terms used for cards that have common types of effects, which were popularized by certain notable cards throughout the years, used to quickly explain how a new card works. Like say for instance I were to explain the effect of a new card to a player who was unfamiliar with it, I might simply say "It's a ____" instead of reading out the entire effect text. Rota: A phrase that refers to any spell card that adds a certain type of monster from your deck to your hand, which are very common. Named after the spell card "Reinforcements of the army"(typically shortened to ROTA) which was the first type of card to use this effect. Stratos: Similar to the above, except refering to a monster which adds another monster of a specific archtype to the hand when it's summoned. Named after one of the first and most well known user of this effect, Elemental Hero Stratos. Garnet: A card that is played in your deck that you DON'T want to draw. Usually as part of a particular combo. Named after Gem-knight Garnet, a monster with no effect. Players would put a single copy of it in their deck in order to use the card brilliant fusion, which could fuse a Gem-knight(of which Garnet had the highest attacks and therefore was used over others) and any light attribute to summon a useful fusion monster. The catch was it fused these 2 monster from the deck and ONLY the deck, meaning if Garnet was in your hand both it and brilliant fusion were rendered useless.
"Cowboy for game" meaning finishing your opponent off with burn damage, usually after dealing battle damage first. Named after the XYZ monster Gagaga Cowboy.
That can also apply to any deck that uses a archetype that has card with burn effect. Like for example running a satellarnight deck and running the burn one for win steal.
I feel Cowboy for Game should be to describe winning by using a monster's Burn effect during your Main Phase 2, since that's where the phrase originated.
"Brick" is also a card that is useless if you draw it to your hand (e.g., a card you need in your deck or graveyard to do something, and drawing it makes other cards not function correctly...though "Garnet" after "Gem-Knight Garnet" from the Brilliant Fusion engine has become a more common term). Brick can also refer to not having a way to access your main combo pieces in your opening hand...such as only being able to normal summon a monster and you don't get any effects off to do anything beyond that.
I would differ between a brick and a garnet, garnet is a term which( as you mentioned) can make a whole engine/ gameplan useless while a brick can be for example 5 handtraps, for me a brick is a combination of cards in your hand that doesnt let you play your gameplan
@@lortsilk6416 Yeah, Garnet is "makes an engine not work if you draw it because the primary card needs it in the deck" and brick is either garbage hand or "card you need to use resources/effects to get it where it needs to be because it's useless in your hand." Wulf, Lightsworn Beast (and Felis, Lightsworn Archer) is the best example of a brick draw card...you *can* discard it with Lumina to summon it back, but that's not how you want to actually get it on the field (you want to mill it with Raiden and the like).
If you play the Scrap Engine in a deck, 3 Scrap Recycler, 1 Scrap Golem, and 1 Mecha Phantom Beast O-Lion. Both Golem and O-Lion are "Garnets" however if you play Jet Synchron Instead of O-Lion, the Golem is just a "Brick" because you can still do the combo by discarding the Golem with Jet. However if you only play 1 Jet Synchron, then it is also a "Garnet"
"Piercing" and "Banished" were also fan terms that became official as konami needed to use more concise language to make up for longer text blocks of effects. "Piercing" means defense monsters that are beaten act like they are in attack mode but use defense stats for calculation. "Banished" replaced "remove from play" when other cards started interacting with cards in the category, and konami fully embraced it with card lore about what the banished dimension looks like. (dark/different dimension cards)
you making me imagine that if they referred other card in the text and how much would be easy to cut it down if the effect is like common. for example collosus "Neither player can add card blah blah" to "Cont:"Mistake" effect""
@@dianputra7336 It is likely that the term 'Spin' was named due to the rotation of the card as it goes back into the Main. Unlike sending a card to the GY or Banishing it, the card has to be rotated to be put back.
To quote Jaden, from the anime, "Throwdown" refers to setting cards on the field face down. "GG" is short for "good game" and is a respectful phrase to close out your interaction with another duelist after the game is over. "Spin" refers to returning a card to the top of the Opponent's Deck. An example of this would be from the Trap card "Phoenix Wing Wind Blast".
@@cherrylk4188 The name of the game in Japanese is 遊☆戯☆王！ オフィシャルカードゲーム , which literally translates to Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game. Source: the Japanese OCG website www.yugioh-card.com/japan/
"Floater" is used specifically to describe monsters that do something when they *leave* the field. Any card that replaces itself from the deck immediately when played is a "Rota" (see Reinforcement Of The Army, where the acronym comes from).
That's actually not true people came up with that way after Meta was a term Meta is short for Metagame basically meaning the game of playing the game that acronym came up a long time after Meta came up
Absorber: Any monster with an effect that allows it to attach or equip monsters to itself. Examples include Relinquished, Thousand-Eyes Restrict, Number 101: Silent Honor Arc, Cyber Dragon Infinity, etc. Fodder: Any card included in the deck for the purpose of tributing or discarding it for the summon or effect of another card. Instant Synchro: Any card that directly combos into the synchro summon of a monster when played. Instant Xyz/Instant Rank x: Any card that directly combos into the Xyz summon of a monster when played. Instant Pendulum: Any card that directly combos into the immediate setting of a pendulum scale when played. Win-Con: A desired end-game state where victory is inevitable, short for "Win Condition". Flop: When a card or deck is expected to do well competitively, but doesn't. Discount: A weaker version of another card. Cheat out: when you summon a monster that's difficult to summon normally through the use of a combo that uses fewer resources and/or is more consistent than the intended summoning method.
I use the term “Deck Shredding” [When you’re consistent on going back into the deck] “Cookie Cutter Deck” [When the Deck is made of random cards] (made doing random pack duels) or (a deck put together with no archetype engine idea).
Been looking for you. With Pot of Avarice at 3, that buffs the deck more than normal, and I fear they’re probably going to be cautious about printing stuff that causes the consistency or power to jump too astronomically. But, you could make the same argument about the archetype always having access to firestorm guard, so maybe they’ll do that monster into an instant Blaze Accelerator thing you mentioned
I play Yugioh but my primary game is Magic the Gathering so for me this video was fun to see which of these Yugioh words/phrases also apply in MTG. The ones that do apply to MTG include: Board, Playset(which is 4 of in MTG for anyone curious), Vanilla, Tech Card, Staples, and other basic terms that can apply to multiple games. Here is a fun one, words/phrases that are the same but worded differently between the two games: Piercing in Yugioh is called Trample in MTG Nuke is usually referred to as Wrath/Board Wipe in MTG Banished is referred to as Exile in MTG. Don't know why I took the time to write this comment but it was fun comparing the wording of these two games.
@@Sillimant_ ikr. I once said BF (bad fight) to someone Who trash talked The whole game and also played The Field barrier with mystic exodia deck. And i somehow won. And i got banned.
@@TGSAnime bro Yugioh was the first game I actually was good at😂and has been one of my favorites ever since and it's thanks to guys like you who still make it enjoyable
I'd like to issue a thought on floating. I've always known that term as for a card who has an automatic affect activation when it's summoned or when it leaves the field. Princeton plasma when he summoned has a floating effect that automatically negates all monster effects on your opponent's side of the field. While absolute zero has an effect that if he leaves the field for any reason. He nukes my opponents monsters
Last I recall, floating just meant an effect where the monster replaces itself after leaving the field. Officially, it can be either through regenerating card advantage, or literally floating into another summoned monster. yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Floater
stitches neither of those are floaters, plasma is a floodgate and as u said absolute zero just nukes, but if absolute zero special summoned a monster after it was destroyed then it would be a floating effect. :)
Here are some other words: Errata: A change in the card text. Erratas are made in order to update the terminoligy of the card, Fix mistakes, to clarify the effects of the card so that it is easier to understand and etc. It also occurs in order to nerf a certain card to get it of the Ban-list like the Crush card Virus. Going Plus/Minus: this is used to clarify how much of a card advantage in your hand one card can provide. For example: Pot of greed makes you go Plus 1 since you have to send POG to the grave in order to get 2 cards.
Netdecks are a great starting point, like cooking new recipes found online. Playing well-built deck found online can provide insight into a how an archetype or strategy works, which can then be tweaked and modified for personal tastes. Additionally, I find it fun looking up tournament strategies from years long-gone by and building some of those decks in Legacy of the Duelist to play with a slice of Yu-Gi-Oh history. Some are still quite good, others need some adjustment of support cards around the main strategy, others get torn to shreds despite once being a first-place deck.
Nomi: A monster that can ONLY be Special Summoned through their effect (Judgement Dragon for ecample). If a Nomi is destroyed, you can't use Monster Reborn to Special Summon it. Semi-Nomi: A monster that must first be Special Summoned by certain requirements or it's effect, but it can be revived afterwards with like a Monster Reborn.
@@musicalsystem927 "Nomi" (のみ nomi, a Japanese adverbial particle that means "only") is a special term that refers to some Monster Cards. Nomi monsters cannot be Normal Summoned, Set or Special Summoned, except by fulfilling a special requirement. Idk, maybe it's a tad more rare
The footage used in the explaination of Scoop is from Star, a Greek tv channel. Im Greek, I grew up and was introdosed to Yugioh throught that channel. It caught me off guard seeing it and I am overjoyed. Also, I adore watching your videos!
Great video tgs! Very quick and concise, but you clearly define each term. The only one I’d say was a little off, but not wrong, was the buff and nerf. While they do mean what you said, in yugioh, I more commonly hear that referred to a certain deck/archetype getting direct or indirect support. It could also refer to a card that got banned or came of the list, that helped a certain strategy. All those things would either “buff” or “nerf” a deck in their consistency, power, or both! Can’t wait for the next video!
Nice video TGS, I have another term used by Yugioh community and 1 term mentioned in this video that I would like clarity on. The term "spin" - to spin a card or do spinning removal is to send a deck from the field back into the owner's deck. I heard from another Yugituber that Tier 0 decks are only Tier 0 if they achieve more than 65% representation in top cuts of YCS's.
fun fact: the term Mill comes from the MTG card Millstone, which made its debut in Revised Edition. It became widely adopted in the MTG community, and was later adopted by multiple card games, including yu-gi-oh. another wildly adopted term for many card games it Tutor, named for the card Demonic Tutor from MTG. However, this is used less often in yu-gi-oh, as they have adopted the terms ROTA,(for a specific monster type,attribute, or archetype) or search/searcher for more generic searching needs.
Floodgate - a card with a continuous effect that either prevents players from doing a certain action or negates all of a certain group of cards/effects. Spell Speed 4 - A card that cannot be responded to. Loop - to remove cards from the opponents hand. Pitch - to send a card from your hand to the graveyard. 37 card deck - A deck of 40 cards containing 3 copies of Upstart Goblin. Foolish - to send a card from the deck to the graveyard, in reference to Foolish Burial. Search - to add a card from the Deck to the Hand Inherent Summon - A summon performed through game mechanics or through a method specifically listed in a card’s text that does not start a chain. Summon response window - the window that occurs after a monster is successfully Summoned where cards and effects can be activated directly in response to a card’s Summon. Book - to flip a monster into face-down defense position, in reference to Book of Moon. Boss monster - a monster that acts a strategy’s win condition usually by having high attack points and having strong effects, but are more difficult to summon than the strategy’s other monsters. Steal/take - to swap control of a monster from one player to another. Removal - cards dedicated to removing cards from the field. Extender - a card that generates advantage either by summoning another card or summoning itself for the sole purpose of extending a play. Terms from the anime but aren’t specifically used in-game: Contact Fusion - to Special Summon a Fusion Monster by using monsters on the field without the use of Polymerization or any other fusion spell card. Reincarnation Link Summon - to Link Summon a Link Monster using a Link Monster with the same name as the entire material.
Vanilla can also mean "orignal" as well, for instance if a card (like blue eyes) has had several art works and reprints. Having a vanilla blue eyes refers to having its original art work.
A Spin is a rarer version of bounce, where the card, in general, is spun back from field into the deck Rip is a quicker slang for forcing your opponent to discard, as in: "To rip a card from their hand" Kaiju'd is where a monster you control gets forcefully tributed and while the Kaiju monsters popularized it, it did start with Volcanic Queen and Lava Golem
Ram: attacking an opponent's monster resulting in your monster being intentionally destroyed, either to destroy both monsters, or just to set up your own effect.
I just watched your Nobel knights videos I had a idea maybe make a “coolest card text” or “coolest normal monster card text” or “Coolest vanilla Yu-Gi-Oh card”
Garnet/dead card. A term used for a card you drew, but did not want to draw/or wanted to have it stay in your deck. Term is based on a popular monster Gem-knight Garnet which is heavily used as a target for brilliant fusion, but you need it in your deck to resolve the effect of brilliant fusion.
Great video! 95% accurate, and that's only from nitpicking little things like how you described "Nuke". (You can Nuke a side of the board or the whole board.) One term I would add in a future video is that YGO players use "Foolish" as a verb to refer to an effect or cost that sends a card from the deck to the GY. It comes from the card Foolish Burial, which sends any monster from the deck to the GY.
A term I feel I may have invented is "fetch" basically meaning an effect that lets me pull a target from either my graveyard or my deck and added to my hand, thus "fetching" it from said location.
Another word usually used for describe cards is r.o.t.a (from reinforcement of the army) used for every card (spells usually) that add a card from your Deck your hand
Tutor: searching your deck for a card Zoo: a bunch of low level monsters swarming the field Trample: Attacking into a weaker monster Pump: Increasing the stats of monster, usually with an equip card Exiled: Banished / Removed from Play Scrap : Discarding a card from your hand
Whenever i make a deck, i dont ENTIRELY net deck, i change quite a few cards to my liking to feel like im playing. Mostly spells/traps and extra deck monsters. If i get cards in a pack i think fit, i add them. My deck is basically always building
My current deck is unfinished, but I’ve looked through the internet for deck ideas, looked at what I had and could afford. Basically avoided the net deck.
Also asked for beat sticks, while it is true that the monster has high attack. Very high, I've always known the term to refer to a monster that has very very high attack. But also no initial protections for itself. Like Vision hero Trinity, it's effect is only meant to boost its attack not protect it
"Uh nuh-gate?" -> is a phrase said when a player activates an effect that 'negates' another cards effect. Typically said/asked in the form of a question to imply that the opposing player may or may not have a response to the effect that causes the negation. (Ex: Player 1 has a Borreload Savage Dragon with 2 Borrel Counters and Player 2 activates Pot of Greed. Player 1 then chains Borreload Savage Dragon's to remove 1 Borrel counter to activate its effect to negate the effect Pot of Greed of drawing 2 cards. Player 1 then asks, "Uh, nuh-gate?")
Another term in the card game is “recipe”, which is a term used to describe all cards in your Main and Extra Decks (and occasionally the Side Deck, though typically that isn’t the case since the Side Deck only contains cards that you switch out with Main/Extra cards in Matches). The Side Deck is, as just explained, a combination of up to 15 cards that you can switch with cards in your Main and Extra Decks. Note I said “switch”, not add. I’m fairly certain you can’t add or subtract the respective card totals of your Main, Extra, and Side, only substitute in an appropriate manner. Match refers to when two people duel each other multiple times in a row, typically in a 2-out-of-3 setting. This isn’t to be confused with “Mirror Match” (which you’ve already explained), but as these are typically done 2-out-of-3 it doesn’t really matter.
"Swing" is the act of attacking, usually directly to cause damage. The phrase originates from baseball as there are many ways to respond or stop an attack in Yugioh, so "swinging" means your attempting an attack and are waiting to see if it's a hit or miss. It's typically presented as a question, and a player will usually say the attack power of the attacking monster to make things easier for the other player.
Example: "Swing for 3000?"
"Crash" refers to when 2 monsters of the same attack battle, which in the rules destroys both. Since this is usually done on purpose, it's seen as "Crashing" one monster into another.
"Handtrap" describes a type of card which can be activated in your hand during your opponents turn. As Trap cards can be hidden and used on your opponents turn, these are seen as traps that are in your hand instead of on the field. Oddly enough the majority of handtraps aren't actually trap cards themselves, but monster cards with similar effects.
There are also terms used for cards that have common types of effects, which were popularized by certain notable cards throughout the years, used to quickly explain how a new card works. Like say for instance I were to explain the effect of a new card to a player who was unfamiliar with it, I might simply say "It's a ____" instead of reading out the entire effect text.
Rota: A phrase that refers to any spell card that adds a certain type of monster from your deck to your hand, which are very common. Named after the spell card "Reinforcements of the army"(typically shortened to ROTA) which was the first type of card to use this effect.
Stratos: Similar to the above, except refering to a monster which adds another monster of a specific archtype to the hand when it's summoned. Named after one of the first and most well known user of this effect, Elemental Hero Stratos.
Garnet: A card that is played in your deck that you DON'T want to draw. Usually as part of a particular combo. Named after Gem-knight Garnet, a monster with no effect. Players would put a single copy of it in their deck in order to use the card brilliant fusion, which could fuse a Gem-knight(of which Garnet had the highest attacks and therefore was used over others) and any light attribute to summon a useful fusion monster. The catch was it fused these 2 monster from the deck and ONLY the deck, meaning if Garnet was in your hand both it and brilliant fusion were rendered useless.
I was just about to comment this as he said swing without explaining it
crash could also mean to attack an opponents monster that has more attack, resulting in your own monster being destroyed
Wow
Tone Montana Yeah I’m sure it’s that and not baseball. Just makes more sense for that to be the reason “swing” is a term
There aren’t that many ROTA cards are there? There’s E-emergency call, cynet mining, ROTA of course, what else is there??
There one phase that every duelist knows.
It’s time to duel!!!
Warm Lillie I prefer “get your game on”
Let’s rev it up?
you mean "IT'S TIME TO DUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUEL"
What’s a duel (I’m joking)
@Aizette this
Fun fact: "Mill" comes from Yu-Gi-Oh's rival card game, Magic, where the first card that could do this was "Millstone."
Magic the gathering?
I new that and ive never played magic
ygo in the manga was based of magic the gathering, no big surprise that it copies some aspect of it
Magic is better, tbh, but yugioh is my childhood.
That's something I didn't know.
"Cowboy for game" meaning finishing your opponent off with burn damage, usually after dealing battle damage first. Named after the XYZ monster Gagaga Cowboy.
That can also apply to any deck that uses a archetype that has card with burn effect. Like for example running a satellarnight deck and running the burn one for win steal.
Trick for game
I feel Cowboy for Game should be to describe winning by using a monster's Burn effect during your Main Phase 2, since that's where the phrase originated.
By the way, it's "Xyz" or, as I prefer type and say, "Exceed"! "XYZ" refers to the Fusion Monster "XYZ-Dragon Cannon"! Sorry, little bugbear of mine!
Gladiator beast giodiaz is similar
"Brick" is also a card that is useless if you draw it to your hand (e.g., a card you need in your deck or graveyard to do something, and drawing it makes other cards not function correctly...though "Garnet" after "Gem-Knight Garnet" from the Brilliant Fusion engine has become a more common term). Brick can also refer to not having a way to access your main combo pieces in your opening hand...such as only being able to normal summon a monster and you don't get any effects off to do anything beyond that.
I would differ between a brick and a garnet, garnet is a term which( as you mentioned) can make a whole engine/ gameplan useless while a brick can be for example 5 handtraps, for me a brick is a combination of cards in your hand that doesnt let you play your gameplan
@@lortsilk6416 Yeah, Garnet is "makes an engine not work if you draw it because the primary card needs it in the deck" and brick is either garbage hand or "card you need to use resources/effects to get it where it needs to be because it's useless in your hand." Wulf, Lightsworn Beast (and Felis, Lightsworn Archer) is the best example of a brick draw card...you *can* discard it with Lumina to summon it back, but that's not how you want to actually get it on the field (you want to mill it with Raiden and the like).
@@lortsilk6416 yeah, a garnet is a brick but a brick not necessarily a garnet i would say.
I believe that is a garnet, whereas brick is a n unplayable habd
If you play the Scrap Engine in a deck, 3 Scrap Recycler, 1 Scrap Golem, and 1 Mecha Phantom Beast O-Lion. Both Golem and O-Lion are "Garnets" however if you play Jet Synchron Instead of O-Lion, the Golem is just a "Brick" because you can still do the combo by discarding the Golem with Jet. However if you only play 1 Jet Synchron, then it is also a "Garnet"
"Piercing" and "Banished" were also fan terms that became official as konami needed to use more concise language to make up for longer text blocks of effects. "Piercing" means defense monsters that are beaten act like they are in attack mode but use defense stats for calculation. "Banished" replaced "remove from play" when other cards started interacting with cards in the category, and konami fully embraced it with card lore about what the banished dimension looks like. (dark/different dimension cards)
For piercing i just say trample since i play mtg as well
And here I thought Banished was because the were being banished to the Shadow Realm
you making me imagine that if they referred other card in the text and how much would be easy to cut it down if the effect is like common.
for example collosus "Neither player can add card blah blah" to "Cont:"Mistake" effect""
You forgot the most important one: deodorant.
TraitorousTurncoat very funny mr poo poo man. Prepare to meet the world of r/arabfunny:O
Hahaa funny funny verry verry
What about Shower?
what's that? A new card got announced named "deodorant"
That's not a name Yugioh players commonly use/or know about 😂
“Vanilla is the best flavor of ice cream”
Your a monster. *A vanilla monster!!*
You're*
Oh thank god someone else is a grammar nazi so I don’t have to be one 😂
@@GaminSnake cheers
Guy That sucks dong, Ur mom gae lol
I could’ve done so much better than that, but I went for the cheap shot. I am disappointed in myself, and my day is ruined...
*Garnet*: a combo piece that you don't ever want to draw, named after Gem-Knight Garnet
@Light Revaan wrong.
@Light Revaan wrong.
Armed Dragon Lv 7
Spin: this is one step above a bounce. Instead of returning a card to the hand you return it all the way to the deck.
i only know local tornado to do that. why named it spin then?
@@dianputra7336 No clue I've just always heard the effects of cards like castel the skyblaster musketeer as spinning. That's kinda just how it is.
@@dianputra7336 It is likely that the term 'Spin' was named due to the rotation of the card as it goes back into the Main. Unlike sending a card to the GY or Banishing it, the card has to be rotated to be put back.
I like to call it, "yeet".
To quote Jaden, from the anime, "Throwdown" refers to setting cards on the field face down.
"GG" is short for "good game" and is a respectful phrase to close out your interaction with another duelist after the game is over.
"Spin" refers to returning a card to the top of the Opponent's Deck. An example of this would be from the Trap card "Phoenix Wing Wind Blast".
GG could also mean Git Gud.
Just a slight correction: OCG stands for "official card game" not "original".
Really? I've always heard original card game. Google agrees with me.
@@cherrylk4188 The name of the game in Japanese is 遊☆戯☆王！ オフィシャルカードゲーム , which literally translates to Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game.
Source: the Japanese OCG website www.yugioh-card.com/japan/
@@cherrylk4188 Yeah it is... but there are people who get really triggered with localization ;)
I thought it was online card game
Oh, interesting! Thanks for letting me know.
"Floater" is used specifically to describe monsters that do something when they *leave* the field. Any card that replaces itself from the deck immediately when played is a "Rota" (see Reinforcement Of The Army, where the acronym comes from).
Fun fact: M.E.T.A stands for Most Effective Tactic Available!
Interesting
TCO 118 You have taught me something new today. Been using META and had no idea it was an abbreviation. Cheers
That's actually not true people came up with that way after Meta was a term Meta is short for Metagame basically meaning the game of playing the game that acronym came up a long time after Meta came up
@@definitelyaurxra7996 this needs upvotes
Meta means change in Greek.
The game is constantly changing, so you play the metagame.
It's not an acronym....
“Vanilla is the best flavor of ice cream!"
Crazy Fish from Spongebob: *CHOCOLAAAAAATE!!!*
Deck: a term used to describe the 40 - 60 cards that you own in order to play out a duel.
Gonna give you the like button more because of the vanilla ice cream, you're one man of culture, my lad.
Gotta agree
I like caramel and mint chocolate chip. Vanilla is always a close third (no offense)
Absorber: Any monster with an effect that allows it to attach or equip monsters to itself. Examples include Relinquished, Thousand-Eyes Restrict, Number 101: Silent Honor Arc, Cyber Dragon Infinity, etc.
Fodder: Any card included in the deck for the purpose of tributing or discarding it for the summon or effect of another card.
Instant Synchro: Any card that directly combos into the synchro summon of a monster when played.
Instant Xyz/Instant Rank x: Any card that directly combos into the Xyz summon of a monster when played.
Instant Pendulum: Any card that directly combos into the immediate setting of a pendulum scale when played.
Win-Con: A desired end-game state where victory is inevitable, short for "Win Condition".
Flop: When a card or deck is expected to do well competitively, but doesn't.
Discount: A weaker version of another card.
Cheat out: when you summon a monster that's difficult to summon normally through the use of a combo that uses fewer resources and/or is more consistent than the intended summoning method.
This is a very good video for understanding the vocabulary and system of Yugioh.
As a Japanese player It’s extremely helpful.
Great video as always!
I use the term “Deck Shredding” [When you’re consistent on going back into the deck]
“Cookie Cutter Deck” [When the Deck is made of random cards] (made doing random pack duels) or (a deck put together with no archetype engine idea).
What GX fans know:
Get your game on.
Chazz it up.
*Winged Kuriboh noises*
The Most important 3-word sentence : New Volcanic Support
Day 396 of waiting for New Volcanic Support to arrive
I knew it.
I feel blessed to see this commenting in person rather than Yuginono talk about it
Been looking for you. With Pot of Avarice at 3, that buffs the deck more than normal, and I fear they’re probably going to be cautious about printing stuff that causes the consistency or power to jump too astronomically. But, you could make the same argument about the archetype always having access to firestorm guard, so maybe they’ll do that monster into an instant Blaze Accelerator thing you mentioned
Your suffering never ends, does it?
I feel proud to know that I once dueled you in YgoPro, Payne!
I play Yugioh but my primary game is Magic the Gathering so for me this video was fun to see which of these Yugioh words/phrases also apply in MTG. The ones that do apply to MTG include:
Board, Playset(which is 4 of in MTG for anyone curious), Vanilla, Tech Card, Staples, and other basic terms that can apply to multiple games.
Here is a fun one, words/phrases that are the same but worded differently between the two games:
Piercing in Yugioh is called Trample in MTG
Nuke is usually referred to as Wrath/Board Wipe in MTG
Banished is referred to as Exile in MTG.
Don't know why I took the time to write this comment but it was fun comparing the wording of these two games.
Did you just not mention mill ?
@@dudono1744 I mean it's mill in both games.
Got this from Rata that falls under damage Burst Damage Flame Wingman’s effect is best example
Rata from RANK10YGO: Yeah I called the effect of Flame Wingman burst damage because its sounds cool just try and fucking stop me
Aldrin Flores ok who asked
@@Yami_Poof 🤣
Instead of saying "That's game", most of us say "GG".
"GG" means good game.
@Ghotyo Locanisyn pretty much
KrispyNoKen
Both are generally used wherever I duel actually, and are acceptable. 👍🏼
gg ez
But suddenly when you shorten "good fight" I get banned
@@Sillimant_ ikr. I once said BF (bad fight) to someone Who trash talked The whole game and also played The Field barrier with mystic exodia deck. And i somehow won. And i got banned.
Can I just say that you are by far one of my favorite you tubers to have ever walked the earth thank you so very much for being around
Jake Heydenrych thanks Jake I appreciate that. Hope I can keep making content you enjoy 😊
@@TGSAnime bro Yugioh was the first game I actually was good at😂and has been one of my favorites ever since and it's thanks to guys like you who still make it enjoyable
Here are few phases I love to say when dueling.
It’s times to feel the flow!!
I believe in the heart of the cards.
Shinning Draw!!!
Sorry to be that guy but *feel
diego romero Don’t be sorry, If anything I’m happy that your that guy.
I really appreciate you are correcting me, Thank you so much!!!
@@WarmLillie Uhmm.. Ik this is weird but, "your" should be "you're"
Neon Disguise ?
Neon Disguise Okay thank for correcting me. You can’t believe how many time I make that mistake.
I'm pretty sure "rogue" decks refer to decks/archetypes that while aren't actually meta, still have a chance to do well in tournaments.
It's time to d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-duel
Wow thank you so much teaching me some these terms. I actually didn’t know some of these meaning.
it's always a blast when TGS upload
This is what I subscribed for. I love this kind of videos and they are really informative. Keep it up and also stay safe.
For Yu-Gi-Oh Archetype, can you do the Number Archetype or Utopia Archetype, please?
I was going to ask that
If he does the number archetype how long would that video be
@@rhyssuy8361 Maybe a 2-part video.
@@cyanrose0712 depends how long each video will be
@@trentonporter True
Glad to finally have a discription of all these terms. Some I’ve picked up through play but others still confused me
I'd like to issue a thought on floating. I've always known that term as for a card who has an automatic affect activation when it's summoned or when it leaves the field. Princeton plasma when he summoned has a floating effect that automatically negates all monster effects on your opponent's side of the field. While absolute zero has an effect that if he leaves the field for any reason. He nukes my opponents monsters
Last I recall, floating just meant an effect where the monster replaces itself after leaving the field. Officially, it can be either through regenerating card advantage, or literally floating into another summoned monster. yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Floater
stitches neither of those are floaters, plasma is a floodgate and as u said absolute zero just nukes, but if absolute zero special summoned a monster after it was destroyed then it would be a floating effect. :)
Rokkets are a great example of this
Lucksacking: the art of topdecking but said by salty ass players when their opponent uses something like dark hole and then win the game.
Here are some other words:
Errata: A change in the card text.
Erratas are made in order to update the terminoligy of the card, Fix mistakes, to clarify the effects of the card so that it is easier to understand and etc.
It also occurs in order to nerf a certain card to get it of the Ban-list like the Crush card Virus.
Going Plus/Minus: this is used to clarify how much of a card advantage in your hand one card can provide.
For example:
Pot of greed makes you go Plus 1 since you have to send POG to the grave in order to get 2 cards.
Netdecks are a great starting point, like cooking new recipes found online. Playing well-built deck found online can provide insight into a how an archetype or strategy works, which can then be tweaked and modified for personal tastes. Additionally, I find it fun looking up tournament strategies from years long-gone by and building some of those decks in Legacy of the Duelist to play with a slice of Yu-Gi-Oh history. Some are still quite good, others need some adjustment of support cards around the main strategy, others get torn to shreds despite once being a first-place deck.
I think you left out the most important volcab that every Yu-Gi-Oh player should know:
*deep breath*
*WHAT DOES POT OF GREED DO?*
Siphe Manana This card allows me to draw 2 cards from my deck!
@@sunbro7853 SSHSHSHHHH you are too powerful hush
I thought it let you get kicked from tournaments for using a banned card in the deck
@@bestaround3323 that is one thing it does yes.
It allows you to play 3 Blue eyes white dragons in one turn
Nomi: A monster that can ONLY be Special Summoned through their effect (Judgement Dragon for ecample). If a Nomi is destroyed, you can't use Monster Reborn to Special Summon it.
Semi-Nomi: A monster that must first be Special Summoned by certain requirements or it's effect, but it can be revived afterwards with like a Monster Reborn.
Why "Nomi"?
Where was this term first used, and why have I never heard of it before?
@@musicalsystem927 "Nomi" (のみ nomi, a Japanese adverbial particle that means "only") is a special term that refers to some Monster Cards. Nomi monsters cannot be Normal Summoned, Set or Special Summoned, except by fulfilling a special requirement.
Idk, maybe it's a tad more rare
@@HRCFre4k Thank you. Yeah, maybe it's not used much here in North-East US because it's in Japanese.
Let's see if we can claim to know about yugioh by knowing all of these
I always liked Spin, similar to bounce but you bounce a card back to the hand or extra deck, but you spin a card into the main deck
Great to see. Excellent video
Here's another, Hat Trick: Winning 3 Duels in a Row... Regardless of what Deck your Opponent is using
*God Card:* A card that is literally invincible. An example of a God Card is *Skull Servant*
Well said...No Mortal Can Resist that
Nice vid keep up the good work do a salamangerate deck
The footage used in the explaination of Scoop is from Star, a Greek tv channel. Im Greek, I grew up and was introdosed to Yugioh throught that channel. It caught me off guard seeing it and I am overjoyed.
Also, I adore watching your videos!
this is very interesting, now i know a bit more.
really good video :D
stay healthy
Degenerate: A term used when a meta player gets beaten by a rogue player.
Boss monster: a monster that is typically hard to summon but also hard to deal with, and in some cases might win you the game.
That was a very helpful video. Do you plan on making a continuation with more terms? I missed things like "Spin" and "ZTK".
Great video tgs! Very quick and concise, but you clearly define each term.
The only one I’d say was a little off, but not wrong, was the buff and nerf. While they do mean what you said, in yugioh, I more commonly hear that referred to a certain deck/archetype getting direct or indirect support. It could also refer to a card that got banned or came of the list, that helped a certain strategy.
All those things would either “buff” or “nerf” a deck in their consistency, power, or both!
Can’t wait for the next video!
Nice video TGS, I have another term used by Yugioh community and 1 term mentioned in this video that I would like clarity on.
The term "spin" - to spin a card or do spinning removal is to send a deck from the field back into the owner's deck.
I heard from another Yugituber that Tier 0 decks are only Tier 0 if they achieve more than 65% representation in top cuts of YCS's.
Negate actually stands for
Never
Ever
Give
A
Turn
Ever
I'm surprised I knew as many as I did,thanks for the info c:
fun fact: the term Mill comes from the MTG card Millstone, which made its debut in Revised Edition. It became widely adopted in the MTG community, and was later adopted by multiple card games, including yu-gi-oh.
another wildly adopted term for many card games it Tutor, named for the card Demonic Tutor from MTG. However, this is used less often in yu-gi-oh, as they have adopted the terms ROTA,(for a specific monster type,attribute, or archetype) or search/searcher for more generic searching needs.
Floodgate - a card with a continuous effect that either prevents players from doing a certain action or negates all of a certain group of cards/effects.
Spell Speed 4 - A card that cannot be responded to.
Loop - to remove cards from the opponents hand.
Pitch - to send a card from your hand to the graveyard.
37 card deck - A deck of 40 cards containing 3 copies of Upstart Goblin.
Foolish - to send a card from the deck to the graveyard, in reference to Foolish Burial.
Search - to add a card from the Deck to the Hand
Inherent Summon - A summon performed through game mechanics or through a method specifically listed in a card’s text that does not start a chain.
Summon response window - the window that occurs after a monster is successfully Summoned where cards and effects can be activated directly in response to a card’s Summon.
Book - to flip a monster into face-down defense position, in reference to Book of Moon.
Boss monster - a monster that acts a strategy’s win condition usually by having high attack points and having strong effects, but are more difficult to summon than the strategy’s other monsters.
Steal/take - to swap control of a monster from one player to another.
Removal - cards dedicated to removing cards from the field.
Extender - a card that generates advantage either by summoning another card or summoning itself for the sole purpose of extending a play.
Terms from the anime but aren’t specifically used in-game:
Contact Fusion - to Special Summon a Fusion Monster by using monsters on the field without the use of Polymerization or any other fusion spell card.
Reincarnation Link Summon - to Link Summon a Link Monster using a Link Monster with the same name as the entire material.
Vanilla can also mean "orignal" as well, for instance if a card (like blue eyes) has had several art works and reprints. Having a vanilla blue eyes refers to having its original art work.
Kaiju = War
Bro I'm a noob so this kinda helps me out
Cimoooooooo once did a video with 100 terms. If you want to learn more, go check him out
@@henryderrick4149 thank you very much
A Spin is a rarer version of bounce, where the card, in general, is spun back from field into the deck
Rip is a quicker slang for forcing your opponent to discard, as in: "To rip a card from their hand"
Kaiju'd is where a monster you control gets forcefully tributed and while the Kaiju monsters popularized it, it did start with Volcanic Queen and Lava Golem
you forgot, Boss Monster, Control Deck, Aggro, Combo Deck
most new player is confuse with this kind of words
never heard aggro
I'm a noob in yugioh so these kinds of videos are very much appreciated. Thank you!
Love the video! Just want to add a term "Spin" returing a card from the field to the top of the deck.
not just to the top but shuffle the card back into the deck..
@@tetrakiva6812 Ah. I got hug up on that one. Your right.
Floodgate: continuous effect that restricts one or both players from performing some action.
Ram: attacking an opponent's monster resulting in your monster being intentionally destroyed, either to destroy both monsters, or just to set up your own effect.
Great vid. Heh took me a while to catch up to all the lingo.
Also when i heard "brick" i got triggered. Ugh...
I just watched your Nobel knights videos I had a idea maybe make a “coolest card text” or “coolest normal monster card text” or
“Coolest vanilla Yu-Gi-Oh card”
Garnet/dead card. A term used for a card you drew, but did not want to draw/or wanted to have it stay in your deck. Term is based on a popular monster Gem-knight Garnet which is heavily used as a target for brilliant fusion, but you need it in your deck to resolve the effect of brilliant fusion.
I love your outro music 🎶
I love how when he's talking about O.P he shows pot of greed :)
in the scene where marik touched his duel disk, on the top corner theres the icon of a greek TV channel called star
1:39
TGS: Says "vanilla"
Random person: Is it ice cream!?
Great video! 95% accurate, and that's only from nitpicking little things like how you described "Nuke". (You can Nuke a side of the board or the whole board.) One term I would add in a future video is that YGO players use "Foolish" as a verb to refer to an effect or cost that sends a card from the deck to the GY. It comes from the card Foolish Burial, which sends any monster from the deck to the GY.
Who would have imagined Téa would one day be clickbait material
I remember there was a despacito barrel dragon cyberdark neos 22 card deck meta in duel links once
5:27 Hey don't say that ur scaring me XD
A term I feel I may have invented is "fetch" basically meaning an effect that lets me pull a target from either my graveyard or my deck and added to my hand, thus "fetching" it from said location.
MultiViewer so a search?
The example for brick gave me such anxiety it’s like those horror cursed videos
-Spin
-Hand Loop
-Stack
-Revive
-Miss Timing
-Chain Block
-Floodgate
-Hand Trap
-Spell Speed 4
When it comes to engine I've been making videos regarding those for a while now. It's actually much more fun than one would expect.
Garnet
It describes a card that you need to play for a certain combo but you don't want to draw it because it is required in your deck
A float is an effect only used when the card leaves the field.
Not on summon
I love how the entirety of "OP" was a showcase of Pot of Greed in the anime.
I like how he kept using my machines the good old ancient gears
Another word usually used for describe cards is r.o.t.a (from reinforcement of the army) used for every card (spells usually) that add a card from your Deck your hand
0:07:24 - That's me in that 20+ turn duel! :D Even besides that, I think it was a great video! :D I love that you were able to include stream clips.
Longest duel ever 😁
@@TGSAnime 😁
Tutor: searching your deck for a card
Zoo: a bunch of low level monsters swarming the field
Trample: Attacking into a weaker monster
Pump: Increasing the stats of monster, usually with an equip card
Exiled: Banished / Removed from Play
Scrap : Discarding a card from your hand
Whenever i make a deck, i dont ENTIRELY net deck, i change quite a few cards to my liking to feel like im playing. Mostly spells/traps and extra deck monsters. If i get cards in a pack i think fit, i add them.
My deck is basically always building
i'm sorry. "Floater", that made me giggle
Also the Term SPIN : used to describe Returning a card to the deck
My current deck is unfinished, but I’ve looked through the internet for deck ideas, looked at what I had and could afford. Basically avoided the net deck.
Also asked for beat sticks, while it is true that the monster has high attack. Very high, I've always known the term to refer to a monster that has very very high attack. But also no initial protections for itself. Like Vision hero Trinity, it's effect is only meant to boost its attack not protect it
this was a interesting video. I love watching Yugioh. 💜👏🏼
"Smash" and then fill out the rest of the list with 29 Yu-Gi-Oh! Girls.
"Uh nuh-gate?" -> is a phrase said when a player activates an effect that 'negates' another cards effect. Typically said/asked in the form of a question to imply that the opposing player may or may not have a response to the effect that causes the negation. (Ex: Player 1 has a Borreload Savage Dragon with 2 Borrel Counters and Player 2 activates Pot of Greed. Player 1 then chains Borreload Savage Dragon's to remove 1 Borrel counter to activate its effect to negate the effect Pot of Greed of drawing 2 cards. Player 1 then asks, "Uh, nuh-gate?")
Another term in the card game is “recipe”, which is a term used to describe all cards in your Main and Extra Decks (and occasionally the Side Deck, though typically that isn’t the case since the Side Deck only contains cards that you switch out with Main/Extra cards in Matches).
The Side Deck is, as just explained, a combination of up to 15 cards that you can switch with cards in your Main and Extra Decks. Note I said “switch”, not add. I’m fairly certain you can’t add or subtract the respective card totals of your Main, Extra, and Side, only substitute in an appropriate manner.
Match refers to when two people duel each other multiple times in a row, typically in a 2-out-of-3 setting. This isn’t to be confused with “Mirror Match” (which you’ve already explained), but as these are typically done 2-out-of-3 it doesn’t really matter.
JIM'S FOSSIL DECK IS GETTING PRINTED!!!!
Out of those big 3 staples heavy storm is banned, dark hole sees no competitive play and reborn sees some play as an extenders
The new big 3 staple cards are
Maxx c Ash blossom and solemn judgement
that's in ocg, because in tcg maxx c does something called being banned