Yu-Gi-Oh Glossary

This page notes terms used by Yu-Gi-Oh players and the description of those terms.

update 04/09/2016

A

Term	Description
Absorption	The effect of equipping a monster.
Advantage (Card)
Advantage (Field)
Advantage (Hand)
AHL	A Hero Lives.
Alternate artwork	An Illustratio of a card designed differently from the original one.
Archtype	A series of cards. Cards within a certain archtype support each other.
Artwork	Card illustration.
Attach	When an Xyz monster is summoned by using Xys materials, those materials are attached to and put underneath the summoned one.
Attack

B

Term	Description
Backrow	Backrow is a card which is set or placed upside down.
Banish	Placing a card the bannished zone.
Battle position	Battle position refers how a card is placed and works. There are two positions: attack position and defense position.
Beatstick	A card has high attack and is used mostly to atatck an opponent's monster card. The word is usually used to refer a level 4 or lower level card, a card that requires 1 tribute to summon, and a level 5 or higher card that can be summoned without a tribute due to its effect.
BEWD	Blue-Eyes White Dragon
BKSS	Because Konami Said So. Used when a ruling is complicated or causes a conflict.
Blitzer	Cards such as destroying all monsters on the field (or an opponent controls) and destroying all spell and trap cards on the field ( or an opponent controls).
BLS	Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
BoM	Book of Moon
BRD	Black Rose Dragon
Brio	Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
Broken	A card or a strategy that make a significant advantage and will unbalance the game.
BTH	Bottomless Trap Hole

C

Term	Description
Card evolution
CB	Crystal Beasts
CcD	Cardcar D
CED	Compulsory Evacuation Device / Cyber End Dragon / Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End
Continuous effect	An effect of a monster card that keep working after being activated.
Cookie Cutter	A deck that primarily has versatile cards without a particular theme is called Cookie Cutter.
CotH	Call of the Haunted
CyDra	Cyber Dragon

D

Term	Description
DAD	Dark Armed Dragon
DDV	Deck Devastation Virus
Dead draw	A draw that pulls a useless card.
Deck fattener	A card that has an effect of adding cards into a deck.
Deck out	A loss that is for that no cards remain in a main deck.
Deck thinner	A card that has an effect of pulling a card (or cards) from a main deck.
Discard	An act that moving a card from the hand to the graveyard.
Disqualification	A penalty that a player lose a game due to violation of rules.
Ditch	Discarding a card from the hand.
Double-edged sword	A card that a player can either benefit from and be harmed by.

E

Term	Description
EEV	Eradicator Epidemic Virus
Engine	A card or a combo that helps a player gain hand advantage.
Equip	Using an equip spell card for a face-up monster card.
Extra Deck

F

Term	Description
Fetch	Adding a card to the hand from a deck.
Field clearing	Destroying all or almost all cards on the field.
Flip	Switching a monster card from face-down defense position to face-up attack position, Flip summon, Flip effect.
Floater	A monster card that give a player card advantage.
Folder fodder	A card that a player get for a collection rather than being used in a duel.
FTK	First Turn Kill

G

Term	Description
Gain	Increasing a player's life points.
Game loss	A penalty given to a player due to rules violation.
GB	Gladiator Beasts
GEPD	Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon
GK	Gravekeepers / Gem-Knights

H

Term	Description
Heavy	Heavy Storm
HF	Hazy Flame
Hybrid Format

I

Term	Description
Ignition
Inflict	Damaging an opponent and decreasing life points.
Infraction	Violating rules.
IRS	Inferno Reckless Summon

J

Term	Description
JD	Judgment Dragon

L

Term	Description
LADD	Light and Darkness Dragon
Limbo
LPD	Lightpulsar Dragon
LS	Lightsworns
Lucksack	Drawing a card that can changes the course of the duel when no card in the hand.

M

Term	Description
Mass monster removal	A card that can destroy many monster cards all together.
mass spell and trap removal	A card that can destroy many spell/trap cards all together.
MC	A card that is signed to tell what the card is without actually see. Marked card.
metagame	Referring to decks that prevail in the current state of the card game due to those decks' higher winning rate.
mill	Moving a card from a deck to the graveyard.
mimic	A monster card that can copy other monster's ATK and DEF.
modified card artworks	Card illustration that is changed for religious reasons.
Monarch	Monster cards that are classified into "Monarch" archetype.
MPB	Mecha Phantom Beast
MST	Mystical Space Typhoon

N

Term	Description
nab	Noob, newbie.
negate	Disabling the card effect.
nelf	Weakening a monster card.
netdeck	A deck that is based on other player's idea.
nomi	A monster card that cannot be placed on the field by special summon.
noob	Newbie.
nuke	Destroying all or almost all cards on the field.
nut	The hand wit very nice cards. Winning a duel with that hand.

O

Term	Description
Official proxy	Card artwork revealed that is officially revealed.
OTK	One Turn Kill.
overextending	Placing cards on monster zone or spell/trap zone more than necessary.

P

Term	Description
pick up a card
PoA	Pot of Avarice
PoC	Phantom of Chaos
PoD	Pot of Duality
pop	Destroying a card.
proxy	A card that is used instead of a real card.
PSZ	Plaguespreader Zombie
public knowledge	Information that players can see without any cost: life points, the number of cards in the hand, the graveyard, and a deck.

Q

Term	Description
quick	quick effect
quick-play	quick-play spell card

R

Term	Description
replay
resolve	Dealing with chain link.
reveal	Showing a card up.
RFG/RFP	Placing a card vanish zone. Remove From the Game/Remove From Playing.
ROTA	Reinforcement of the Army
run	Referring to a situation that a card a player want is still in a deck.

S

Term	Description
s / t	spell / trap
searcher	A card that allows a player to pick a card from the deck.
semi-nomi
semi-staple
SJ	Solemn Judgment
SkD	Skill Drain
Solemn	Solemn Judgment
spin	Putting a card on top of a deck.
Splashable	A versatile card.
SS	Six Samurai
stacking
stall	A card that defenses a player from being attacked.
staple	A card that is versatile and used in almost all decks.
Stratos	Elemental HERO Stratos
Stun
suicide	Attacking an opponent's monster card that has higher ATK than the one a player controls.
SW	Solemn Warning
swarn	Summoning many monster cards.
synch	Synchro summon

T

Term	Description
target
tech
TGU	Tour Guide from the Underworld
thinning	Reducing the number of cards in a deck.
tip card
TKRO	Thunder King Rai-Oh
toolbox
top-decking	Drawing a card that changes the course of an duel in a tough situation.
town
Trag	Tragoedia
Tribute
tribute fodder	Monster card for being tributed.
Tribute Summon
trigger	Trigger effect
trinity	Delinquent Duo, Graceful Charity, and Pot of Greed.
Trish	Trishula,Dragon of the Ice Barrier
Trooper	Card Trooper
TT	Torrential Tribute
twilight	A deck based on lightsworn monstar cards and dark-attribute monster cards.

U

V

W

Term	Description
wall	A monster card that is for defensing.
warning	Solemn Warning
WU	Wind-Up

X

Term	Description
xyz	Xyz Summon

Y

Z

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