I would have to give the "best deck name" award to Stax. It's a triple entendre: 'stacks can refer to Smokestacks, a card prominently featured in the deck; "stacks" as there are a ton of triggered abilities that use the stack each turn, or "$T4KS," which is short for "The Four Thousand Dollar Solution," the unabbreviated actual deck name, the idea you can cram (then) four thousand dollars worth of cards into a deck to build the best Vintage deck in the format.
I was also told that the name Death and Taxes also referred to the fact that it was inevitable that someone in a Legacy event was running the deck since it was originally rather cheap (for a Legacy deck) to put together and straightforward to pilot.
Some historical notes: Nizzahon mentioned Mystic Enforcer in Miracle Grow. The white splash was actually invented by Ben Rubin. He sent it to Brian Kibler as a file named sickestever.dec (I believe .dec was the old MTGO file extension). They both top 8'd a GP with it and there was a while when the white splash version was just known as sickestever.dec before it ultimately became Super Grow. I can't confirm this but I've heard that MUD was also a play MUC (mono blue control) which used to a popular archetype. The prison elements making MUD something like mono brown control. Death and Taxes' name is also a reference to white weenie strategies being ubiquitious throughout Magic's history. The joke being that death, taxes, and someone trying to play white weenie in every format are inevitable. My all time favorite deck name is Solidarity. It was an old only instants version of High Tide in Legacy. The deck's creator was poking fun at Legacy's history of deck names that tell you absolutely nothing about the deck and named his deck after the junk common enchantment from Urza's Destiny.
.dec was the Apprentice file format suffix, which was a late 90s early 2000s thing before Magic Online ever came out, and didn't enforce the rules, so it was more like just an online table top with functionality pertaining to magic. I think one such program still in development is Cockatrice - I used something recently to try out test draws of a deck idea without having to buy all the cards on Magic Online or proxy them up on paper, so there's still some use for it.
@@stevenglowacki8576 Apprentice! Thanks! I was actually trying to remember that name the other day and couldn't. I forgot the site but I used to play tournaments through Apprentice. You would use IRC for matchmaking and judge rulings and stuff. I remember Cockatrice being in beta and the debate about switching was pretty fierce.
@@SirChocula I feel like this might be a joke, but acting in good faith, HM05 was (at least in generations 1-3) the way you'd teach a Pokémon the move "flash"
Understandable why Four Horsemen isn't on the list but that holds a very special place in terms of deck naming since it strikes fear into judges hearts when they need to do a ruling with the deck with its "infinite combo" and the name accurately describes the deck with the "four horsemen" being 3x narcomoeba and a 1x dread return in the graveyard so when you saw them all you lost.
As much as I love these, my favorite (and favorite deck type) is Hate Bears. It immediately explains that it will have a lot of bears or things close to bears like Leonin Arbiter, Tidehollow Sculler, Gaddock Teeg, Thalia, Sanctifier en-Vec, Kataki, Leonin Relic Warder, etc. that all hate on the opponent's deck. It may be a deck with a lot of variations, but that aspect to it is always there and the name is short, sweet, and to the point about what it is and what it does.
To add to what the other comment said: "hate bears" is a name for a certain kind of card. A creature, that usually costs 2 mana and has 2/2 (same statline and cost as most bears in the game) and that hates on something. Death & Taxes is THE hate bear deck as pretty much all of its creatures are hate bears. So, yeah, hate bears was on the list.
I was a bit disappointed too, when there wasn't any cereal decknames at all. One of my favorites gotta be "Oops, all spells". Just love the idea of someone starting to mill out, while pretending to be suprised when they find no lands.
I never knew MUD was also an acronym; great video! :) My favorite name that I came up with for a deck was "Legacy Pregame"; it uses several cards that you can reveal from your opening hand, as well as pitch spells to win the game on the very first turn. Pregaming can also refer to getting really drunk before going to a sporting event, which is generally a bad decision, just like playing Legacy Pregame, so I think it fits pretty well.
I think one of the best named decks of all time is Soul Sisters. Soul Sisters is a rather simple deck, gain life while running creatures that either gain you life, or interact with said life gain. The wincon being Ajani’s Pridemate or your opponent conceding due to your insurmountable life gain. However the name of the deck is both a reference and directly named after two separate cards in the deck. The two cards that gave the deck its name are Soul Warden and Soul’s Attendant. These two cards have an identical effect, "Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life." Both cards depict similar looking female characters and they both have the same effect, hence why players grouped them together and called them sisters. However the second part of the name comes from a popular song at the time of the deck's inception, Hey, Soul Sister by Train. Seeing both of the cards have soul in the name while also being commonly grouped together, along with this songs release, it forever cemented Soul Warden and Soul’s Attendant as sisters. Soul Sister since the begin has never been a particularly high tier deck, however the deck is still sought after due to its simplicity allowing new players to get into the game and have a semi-competitive deck, and for that it will always have a special place in my heart.
I'm somewhat sad that no cereal names got in, as one of my top picks for deck names was "Full English Breakfast", which was a Survival of the Fittest deck that sought to win using Volrath's Shapeshifter and timing tricks with Survival activations. It was so-named because, like cereal decks, there was a straightforward combo in the deck that generally led you to winning, but it had a lot more heft to it (and game plan outside the combo) than just assembling a combo like the cereal decks, such that it was a full breakfast, not just cereal. I suppose a strike against it (and the other cereal decks) is that you have to know something about the history of the naming convention of cereal decks to understand what's going on, and it also doesn't really describe the actual combo itself very well. Also, it didn't really catch on much before it was no longer legal in any format that it was worthwhile playing in.
I’m personally a fan of Ponza and Blue Moon. Describing each ingredient of the deck as an ingredient of a delicious Italian dish. And referencing a real world name of a kind of full moon that’s also a beer that also describes perfectly that it’s a blue deck that plays blood moon. They are just solid deck names. I guess you could argue that Ponza isn’t exactly descriptive if you don’t know why it’s called that but Blue Moon is both clever and descriptive.
You see Blue moon, upon a blue moon when the meta is right. Also it might be simple name for a deck Taking Turns, doesn't give your opponents a turn when they go off
Hammertime has become a big deck in modern but hasn't had the chance to prove itself in a tournament. I'm curious where that would rank had it qualified. I love the videos. Keep it up!
My favorite deck name is "Rectal Agony." It uses Academy Rector to get Yawgmoth's Bargain, then wins with Tendrils of Agony, hence the name. As for my least favorite, that honor goes to "Boat Brew," so called because it was created on a cruise. I think it was a Boros aggro deck, but I can't remember, and the name tells you nothing about the deck itself, so... Also, MUD is an acronym, not an anagram.
@@danielwappner1035 "the deck ain't gonna suq itself!' For reals though, it's the father of the control decks and it was named so because it was The Deck that could survive all the busted bs of early magic.
My favorite deck name is probably Suicide Zoo. Take some cards from the old Zoo deck like Wild Nacatl, add a little self-harm to power up a Death's Shadow, and bam-Suicide Zoo.
I'm pretty upset about no Grishoalbrand, Eggs, Ponza, 8 Rack/Whack and many others what aren't immediately coming to mind. Mtg has a bunch of insanely great names for decks
@@noahr4951 Mono Blue or U/r Trix was a much more stable deck than the version with Necro. Personally, I thought it was the better deck overall, but I also was more disgusted at people's refusal to tech against Trix and their inability to not play badly into it.
I like how you set and followed your criteria not just by name of the deck contents, but also by its functioning. Also, a lot of names people may be referencing here didn't found success in high levels of competition, so great and precise job :D
While Ravnica, Tarkir and Alara brought much to the game, their popularity meant that the practice of giving quirky names to competitive non-mono, non-artifact decks has become few and far in between. Nowadays, everything is named after a guild, shard or wedge.
@@stevenglowacki8576 that makes no sense. If the image shows a bear-like creature in a snowy environment and the cards name is "Underwood-Fox" then that's just bs and has nothing to do with fantasy or not fantasy.
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in reference to how early decks in MtG's history were named after breakfast cereals, I named my U/B flash deck "Slithercrisp" because Slitherwisp was the deck's wincon
I know it’s kind of generic, but I love the name “stompy”. It makes it very clear what your deck it about with no other context necessary, and it’s fun to say.
The origin of ponza's nomanclature is pretty entertaining, but that's mostly because i'm from wisconsin and have actually gone to jimmy's grotto and eaten a ponzarotta on many occasions. But also i feel like cheerios and all the other cereal based names deserve a collective honorable mention
Theres a deck called "smoke machine" which was like a singlton brown control deck. I also really like "blue moon" for mono blue decks running blood moon and maybe lightning bolt, and "ponza" for big mana red decks with mana denial
Happy to see D&T, Standstill and Caw-blade here. But The Rock deserved a spot imo. I always thought this was the name of the deck due to it being solid or something like that. I still can't get over it really being a reference to Dwayne Johnson
I like to think the death part in death and taxes can also refer to one of the original cards of the archetype, Mangara of corondor having that mutual exile trigger on him.
There is also one more meaning to the Death and Taxes name. A common saying is "nothing is certain but death, taxes and ____." In this case, because of the prevalence of white aggro decks throughout magic's history, the saying goes "nothing is certain except death, taxes, and some guy at a tournament is gonna be playing white weenie."
I dont know if it was an official name, but I liked "wubrg goodstuff pile" that appeared in legacy and modern around uro, oko and then tibalt until bans and rule changes. The decks werent interesting but super strong and the name was just that too. Just putting in zhe best cards of the colours and ignoring color pie.
Oh yeah, best deck names! The best names are always the ones I give my own decks. I mean who wouldn't want to play a deck called DUNGEON MASTER.dck or Multani Hand Draw.dck, or even SadBoiDavvol.dck? Surely we can all agree that those are the best names ever devised for decks. Just like we can all agree that we need "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)!"
I would give my decks weird names too. 1 I played for a long time before realizing it was basically Maverick but trying to not use white other that KotR n Path but since it was more focus on the land sac theme I called it Lumberjack n the Tree Fuckers as an inside joke with my friends since that was a temporary name my old band had.
There was a deck when madness made its first appearance, it was gruul and worked around Wild Mongrel and most of the creatures were reptiles. It was called " Frog in a blender"
I mean Dirty Kitty n Cheerios r funny names but iunno if they'd be worthy of a list like this but I'm kinda surprised I didn't see Fruity Loops or Hammertime
The ones I mentioned are awesome there was a time when Edna re names Ofer breakfast cereals, other than Twix which was basically a super powerful combo deck with necropotence, illusions of grandeur and donate. There was a deck called fruity pebbles which was enduring renewal goblin bombardment and shield sphere for infinite pings and coco pebbles same deck that splashed some Black cards prolly for interaction with your opponent!!
@@gregames4843 The latter. The creator of the deck, Sol Malka, was a huge fan of wrestling back in the 90s, and The Rock was huge and one of his iconic quotes was "Me and my *pause, dramatic look into the distance.* millions and millions of fans. The Rock was the big finisher creature which was Phyrexian Plaguelord with the millions and millions of fans being all the squirrel tokens being created by Deranged Hermit. It has since become synomous with green black midrange or aggro decks.
I don't think the deck has been played at any premier level events worthy of awarding it points in Nizzahon's traditional scoring system, but I think one of the best newer deck names to come out in a long while has to be Squeaky-Jiki! It's a combo deck that seeks to use the new card from Modern Horizons 2, Scurry Oak, and the card, Ivy Lane Denizen, to produce an infinite number of squirrel creature tokens (plus an arbitrarily large Scurry Oak as well) to win the game. The deck has been dubbed Squeaky-Jiki because it bares resemblance to combo decks featuring the card, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, in that the goal is to make an infinite number of creatures with a tight, two card combo the same way Kiki-Jiki decks do. In addition to this the "squeaky" bit of the name is supposed to be because the combo involves making an infinite number of squirrels and squirrels, well, often can make squeaky noises. The deck is still pretty new and mostly considered a meme in Modern, but I have to say that Squeaky-Jiki is still my favorite deck name in recent times!
my personal favorite deck name was for my merfolk standard deck during rivals of ixalan I called Merfolk Surprise( the surprise being one Thalia in the main bored)
1. Wild Djinns 2. Aurelia double-strike 3. Loam 4. The cursed treasure of King Macar 5. The Legendary Deck 6. Black Powder 7. Bloomdrain 8. Lesbiennes 9. Superthopter 10.... dk
In honour of Covid restrictions, I made a White/Blue deck called Lockdown, filled with Pacifisms and similar Auras. Also, did you know that this video was sponsored by Card Kingdom?
I was hoping more creative stuff like here tinfins or strawberry cheesecake. Also I've heard that name death and taxes comes from nothings certain except death and taxes and white weenie being popular deck.
I miss the old days of combo decks being named after breakfast cereals and being able to use wordplay to describe your combo with a breakfast cereal. Like Trix tricking your opponent to have an illusions, Pebbles killing your opponent 1 damage at a time with Goblin Bombardment, cocoa pebbles when they added necro to the deck, and it all culminating to one of the most complicated combo decks ever, Full English Breakfast, because it was more filling than a simple cereal.
I love this topic, and I agree with the list for the most part based on your prescribed criteria. However, personally I prefer deck names that are more wacky than informative. Some of my favorites include, Full English Breakfast (and all the related types of breakfasts), The Rock, Dead Guy Ale, Parfait, Dirty Kitty, and Xerox. Of course none of them really tell you much about what they are doing. I would say for some want informative ones, Red Deck Wins, Oops All Spells, and TES are near the top of my list. But for the the best deck names of all time is Sylvan Plug. It is actually descriptive of what it is doing but also the origin of the name is hilarious to me.
@@gregames4843 Sure. Sylvan plug is a GBx deck in Legacy built around sylvan library and various prison effects. The plug part could be used to describe the game play in some sense, but the deck is actually named after a sculpture which the deck creator happen to see when making the deck, and which resembles an adult toy. So naming a deck after a sex toy but in a way that is actually kind of clever, is pretty impressive to me.
That one would have a 20-way tie for first place, thanks to all the people naming decks after guilds/shards/clans just because the color combination matches, despite having no cards from those factions in the decks.
When I saw/heard Caw Go, my immediate assumption was deck doing something in a "cargo" sense 😄 dunno what that would be, vehicles weren't even a thing then
6:47 "In addition to being an anagram" so close, lol. Although, it is at least an anagram of 'dum', not an English word, and potentially some other words (although I think it is still an anagram even if things like 'mdu' aren't words?)
I love it when professionals give there decks creative names that identify what the deck does with some personality. Unfortunately all the popular ones right now are painfully literal
The intro was so good that I used the referral link twice
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Damn. Nizzahon must have cast a Time Walk on us with that intro HAHAHA
Time sieve in a roflthopter deck (with thopter foundry & sword of the meek)
i thought i was going crazy but its really there twice
Taking Turns must be #11
It at least allowed him to draw and put down another land.
I would have to give the "best deck name" award to Stax. It's a triple entendre: 'stacks can refer to Smokestacks, a card prominently featured in the deck; "stacks" as there are a ton of triggered abilities that use the stack each turn, or "$T4KS," which is short for "The Four Thousand Dollar Solution," the unabbreviated actual deck name, the idea you can cram (then) four thousand dollars worth of cards into a deck to build the best Vintage deck in the format.
I was also told that the name Death and Taxes also referred to the fact that it was inevitable that someone in a Legacy event was running the deck since it was originally rather cheap (for a Legacy deck) to put together and straightforward to pilot.
It originally comes from "there are only three things certain in life, death, taxes, and someone bringing a white weenie deck to a tournament".
Some historical notes:
Nizzahon mentioned Mystic Enforcer in Miracle Grow. The white splash was actually invented by Ben Rubin. He sent it to Brian Kibler as a file named sickestever.dec (I believe .dec was the old MTGO file extension). They both top 8'd a GP with it and there was a while when the white splash version was just known as sickestever.dec before it ultimately became Super Grow.
I can't confirm this but I've heard that MUD was also a play MUC (mono blue control) which used to a popular archetype. The prison elements making MUD something like mono brown control.
Death and Taxes' name is also a reference to white weenie strategies being ubiquitious throughout Magic's history. The joke being that death, taxes, and someone trying to play white weenie in every format are inevitable.
My all time favorite deck name is Solidarity. It was an old only instants version of High Tide in Legacy. The deck's creator was poking fun at Legacy's history of deck names that tell you absolutely nothing about the deck and named his deck after the junk common enchantment from Urza's Destiny.
.dec was the Apprentice file format suffix, which was a late 90s early 2000s thing before Magic Online ever came out, and didn't enforce the rules, so it was more like just an online table top with functionality pertaining to magic. I think one such program still in development is Cockatrice - I used something recently to try out test draws of a deck idea without having to buy all the cards on Magic Online or proxy them up on paper, so there's still some use for it.
@@stevenglowacki8576 Apprentice! Thanks! I was actually trying to remember that name the other day and couldn't. I forgot the site but I used to play tournaments through Apprentice. You would use IRC for matchmaking and judge rulings and stuff. I remember Cockatrice being in beta and the debate about switching was pretty fierce.
my vote goes to "Oops All Spells"
I like to imagine someone saying that when playing against someone who doesn't know the combo
I feel like "Red Deck Wins" is pretty good, especially as its so often used tongue in cheek by both those that use it and that face it.
Honestly my favorite deck name is one I came up with. It's a sub-par historic deck revolving around creatures with flash and I call it HM05
Could you explain? x)
@@SirChocula I feel like this might be a joke, but acting in good faith, HM05 was (at least in generations 1-3) the way you'd teach a Pokémon the move "flash"
Got a good chuckle out of this one, well done.
Nice! I dig it!
Understandable why Four Horsemen isn't on the list but that holds a very special place in terms of deck naming since it strikes fear into judges hearts when they need to do a ruling with the deck with its "infinite combo" and the name accurately describes the deck with the "four horsemen" being 3x narcomoeba and a 1x dread return in the graveyard so when you saw them all you lost.
As much as I love these, my favorite (and favorite deck type) is Hate Bears. It immediately explains that it will have a lot of bears or things close to bears like Leonin Arbiter, Tidehollow Sculler, Gaddock Teeg, Thalia, Sanctifier en-Vec, Kataki, Leonin Relic Warder, etc. that all hate on the opponent's deck. It may be a deck with a lot of variations, but that aspect to it is always there and the name is short, sweet, and to the point about what it is and what it does.
That is literally Death & Taxes. The lists splash green for Teeg when they have to deal with Mind's Desire and similar fuckery.
To add to what the other comment said: "hate bears" is a name for a certain kind of card. A creature, that usually costs 2 mana and has 2/2 (same statline and cost as most bears in the game) and that hates on something. Death & Taxes is THE hate bear deck as pretty much all of its creatures are hate bears. So, yeah, hate bears was on the list.
No cheerios? The name is cool and describes what the deck does while keeping the breakfast cereal flavor.
I was a bit disappointed too, when there wasn't any cereal decknames at all.
One of my favorites gotta be "Oops, all spells". Just love the idea of someone starting to mill out, while pretending to be suprised when they find no lands.
Cheerios doesn't HAVE flavor.
Interestingly Tron isn't the only archetype named after Voltron. There's another archetype, seen most prevelantly in commander, named Voltron.
its an interesting one: make the command huge and swing at an opponent
The 60 card competitive name for Voltron is Bogles, though, which is a much more boring name
@@DaveyDAKFAE Yeah, but it is descriptive. It's named for "Slippery Bogle," and other similarly small hexproof creatures.
Voltron better describes equipment based commanders, since you become a giant robot with all of the gear on
I never knew MUD was also an acronym; great video! :)
My favorite name that I came up with for a deck was "Legacy Pregame"; it uses several cards that you can reveal from your opening hand, as well as pitch spells to win the game on the very first turn. Pregaming can also refer to getting really drunk before going to a sporting event, which is generally a bad decision, just like playing Legacy Pregame, so I think it fits pretty well.
Oh daaang! I was fully expecting to see Owling Mine in first place.
I think one of the best named decks of all time is Soul Sisters. Soul Sisters is a rather simple deck, gain life while running creatures that either gain you life, or interact with said life gain. The wincon being Ajani’s Pridemate or your opponent conceding due to your insurmountable life gain. However the name of the deck is both a reference and directly named after two separate cards in the deck. The two cards that gave the deck its name are Soul Warden and Soul’s Attendant. These two cards have an identical effect, "Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life." Both cards depict similar looking female characters and they both have the same effect, hence why players grouped them together and called them sisters. However the second part of the name comes from a popular song at the time of the deck's inception, Hey, Soul Sister by Train. Seeing both of the cards have soul in the name while also being commonly grouped together, along with this songs release, it forever cemented Soul Warden and Soul’s Attendant as sisters. Soul Sister since the begin has never been a particularly high tier deck, however the deck is still sought after due to its simplicity allowing new players to get into the game and have a semi-competitive deck, and for that it will always have a special place in my heart.
Soul sisters is a fun deck, but Norins sisters was a nice RW spin-off that played norin the wary
I'm somewhat sad that no cereal names got in, as one of my top picks for deck names was "Full English Breakfast", which was a Survival of the Fittest deck that sought to win using Volrath's Shapeshifter and timing tricks with Survival activations. It was so-named because, like cereal decks, there was a straightforward combo in the deck that generally led you to winning, but it had a lot more heft to it (and game plan outside the combo) than just assembling a combo like the cereal decks, such that it was a full breakfast, not just cereal. I suppose a strike against it (and the other cereal decks) is that you have to know something about the history of the naming convention of cereal decks to understand what's going on, and it also doesn't really describe the actual combo itself very well. Also, it didn't really catch on much before it was no longer legal in any format that it was worthwhile playing in.
I'm surprised that Mister Toad's Wild Ride wasn't up there.
I know, right? _Everybody loves Mr. Toad's Wild Ride!_
I’m personally a fan of Ponza and Blue Moon. Describing each ingredient of the deck as an ingredient of a delicious Italian dish. And referencing a real world name of a kind of full moon that’s also a beer that also describes perfectly that it’s a blue deck that plays blood moon. They are just solid deck names. I guess you could argue that Ponza isn’t exactly descriptive if you don’t know why it’s called that but Blue Moon is both clever and descriptive.
You see Blue moon, upon a blue moon when the meta is right.
Also it might be simple name for a deck Taking Turns, doesn't give your opponents a turn when they go off
There are 3 certainties in life: death, taxes, and that somebody will be playing white weenie at a major event
Yeah, I thought that was actually the reason the deck has that name - because it was certain to show up at every tournament.
Hammertime has become a big deck in modern but hasn't had the chance to prove itself in a tournament. I'm curious where that would rank had it qualified. I love the videos. Keep it up!
My favorite deck name is "Rectal Agony." It uses Academy Rector to get Yawgmoth's Bargain, then wins with Tendrils of Agony, hence the name.
As for my least favorite, that honor goes to "Boat Brew," so called because it was created on a cruise. I think it was a Boros aggro deck, but I can't remember, and the name tells you nothing about the deck itself, so...
Also, MUD is an acronym, not an anagram.
Cheerios, Solar Flare, and Omni-Door Thragfire as honorable mentions.
“the deck”
@@satansamael666 lol wtf is that?
@@danielwappner1035 you haven’t faced “the deck “?
@@satansamael666 what is it?
@@danielwappner1035 "the deck ain't gonna suq itself!' For reals though, it's the father of the control decks and it was named so because it was The Deck that could survive all the busted bs of early magic.
My favorite deck name is probably Suicide Zoo. Take some cards from the old Zoo deck like Wild Nacatl, add a little self-harm to power up a Death's Shadow, and bam-Suicide Zoo.
I'm pretty upset about no Grishoalbrand, Eggs, Ponza, 8 Rack/Whack and many others what aren't immediately coming to mind. Mtg has a bunch of insanely great names for decks
6:48 It's not an anagram, it's and acronyme
Cool list, I'm sad none of the cereals made the list. I always thought Trix and Fruity Pebbles were both pretty appropriate.
Trix should get in on historical clout alone, that was the Necro Winter deck right?
@@user-et3xn2jm1u it sure was. It also had some life after necro was banned.
@@noahr4951 Mono Blue or U/r Trix was a much more stable deck than the version with Necro. Personally, I thought it was the better deck overall, but I also was more disgusted at people's refusal to tech against Trix and their inability to not play badly into it.
Top spot better be “The Deck”
of the hundreds of decks i built, my favourite is simply "elephant ambush".
No love for Trix? Pebbles? Cocoa Pebbles? Angry Hermit? Zoo?
I like how you set and followed your criteria not just by name of the deck contents, but also by its functioning. Also, a lot of names people may be referencing here didn't found success in high levels of competition, so great and precise job :D
Isnt the DnT name also from white weenie being sort of ubiquitous in Magic formats?
While Ravnica, Tarkir and Alara brought much to the game, their popularity meant that the practice of giving quirky names to competitive non-mono, non-artifact decks has become few and far in between. Nowadays, everything is named after a guild, shard or wedge.
Doesn't help that mid-range decks are generally not doing anything to flashy and don't evoke nicknaming as much.
Some of these names came after those sets came out tho
That's why I said "few and far in between".
The bird in the image of Squadron Hawk is an eagle though, not a hawk.
The bird in the image is from a fantasy setting. It can be called whatever the cardnamers want.
@@stevenglowacki8576 that makes no sense. If the image shows a bear-like creature in a snowy environment and the cards name is "Underwood-Fox" then that's just bs and has nothing to do with fantasy or not fantasy.
Im surprised no "red deck wins." It is so bland and basic, like the strategy of the deck, play red and win.
He explained that at the start: Needs to be both clever/funny and descriptive, not just descriptive.
the title being as simple as the deck is what makes it funny
I think it deserved special mention
I always call my red decks "Red Sucks" cuz its always such a cheap win lol
RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!! RED DECK WINS!!!!
This was a great video. I love all the little nuances in Magic and this scratched that itch.
Honestly yeah, copy cat is a brilliant name, another banger video, good job
My friend has a deck he calls Bear Force One, the strat is bear tribal and making them fly
in reference to how early decks in MtG's history were named after breakfast cereals, I named my U/B flash deck "Slithercrisp" because Slitherwisp was the deck's wincon
The name for D&T is one I've seen also explained as "Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and white weenie"
Always one of my favorite channels to listen to, and loved the double intro 😁
I know it’s kind of generic, but I love the name “stompy”. It makes it very clear what your deck it about with no other context necessary, and it’s fun to say.
The origin of ponza's nomanclature is pretty entertaining, but that's mostly because i'm from wisconsin and have actually gone to jimmy's grotto and eaten a ponzarotta on many occasions. But also i feel like cheerios and all the other cereal based names deserve a collective honorable mention
Theres a deck called "smoke machine" which was like a singlton brown control deck. I also really like "blue moon" for mono blue decks running blood moon and maybe lightning bolt, and "ponza" for big mana red decks with mana denial
Why ponza? I've definitely seen that name before, but what does it mean?
You see Blue Moon, upon in a blue moon when the meta is right.
Had to scroll way to much somebody mention the blue moon deck
The thumbnail earned my like on its own merit
Happy to see D&T, Standstill and Caw-blade here. But The Rock deserved a spot imo. I always thought this was the name of the deck due to it being solid or something like that. I still can't get over it really being a reference to Dwayne Johnson
I thought it was the nic cage/Sean Connery movie it was named after
I like to think the death part in death and taxes can also refer to one of the original cards of the archetype, Mangara of corondor having that mutual exile trigger on him.
Love the hawk wielding the sword. Another great video. Thanks.
i was totally expecting cheerios to make this list. But I liked all the inclusions as well. Thanks for the fun video Nizzahon!
I'm just happy to find Out what MUD stands for
Aww, no "Red Deck Wins"? Always an amusing one.
There is also one more meaning to the Death and Taxes name. A common saying is "nothing is certain but death, taxes and ____." In this case, because of the prevalence of white aggro decks throughout magic's history, the saying goes "nothing is certain except death, taxes, and some guy at a tournament is gonna be playing white weenie."
In college I had a friend who called his deck “I destroy everything and laugh at you.” It still makes me smile 😃
24 minutes and I'm still 16th... Nizzahon is on fire obviously. Woke up for this🥸
I'm sad "Walking on Sunshine" never caught on for Heliod - Balista combo decks
I know that it doesn’t summarize what the deck does but I still love the names: the rock, ponza, and the deck.
I dont know if it was an official name, but I liked "wubrg goodstuff pile" that appeared in legacy and modern around uro, oko and then tibalt until bans and rule changes. The decks werent interesting but super strong and the name was just that too. Just putting in zhe best cards of the colours and ignoring color pie.
Oh yeah, best deck names! The best names are always the ones I give my own decks. I mean who wouldn't want to play a deck called DUNGEON MASTER.dck or Multani Hand Draw.dck, or even SadBoiDavvol.dck? Surely we can all agree that those are the best names ever devised for decks. Just like we can all agree that we need "Top 10 Vintage Cards (Minus Power 9)!"
In a similar vain i call my Hapatra deck "Snek.deck"
I would give my decks weird names too. 1 I played for a long time before realizing it was basically Maverick but trying to not use white other that KotR n Path but since it was more focus on the land sac theme I called it Lumberjack n the Tree Fuckers as an inside joke with my friends since that was a temporary name my old band had.
There was a deck when madness made its first appearance, it was gruul and worked around Wild Mongrel and most of the creatures were reptiles. It was called " Frog in a blender"
I mean Dirty Kitty n Cheerios r funny names but iunno if they'd be worthy of a list like this but I'm kinda surprised I didn't see Fruity Loops or Hammertime
This was amazing we need more thumbnails like this one
The ones I mentioned are awesome there was a time when Edna re names Ofer breakfast cereals, other than Twix which was basically a super powerful combo deck with necropotence, illusions of grandeur and donate. There was a deck called fruity pebbles which was enduring renewal goblin bombardment and shield sphere for infinite pings and coco pebbles same deck that splashed some
Black cards prolly for interaction with your opponent!!
If “The Rock” isn’t number one, we riot
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How is it a good deck name? Haha.
@@NizzahonMagic It's iconic :D
its cause psychatog looks like he's made out of rock, right? and maybe has something to do with dwayne johnson?
@@gregames4843 The latter. The creator of the deck, Sol Malka, was a huge fan of wrestling back in the 90s, and The Rock was huge and one of his iconic quotes was "Me and my *pause, dramatic look into the distance.* millions and millions of fans.
The Rock was the big finisher creature which was Phyrexian Plaguelord with the millions and millions of fans being all the squirrel tokens being created by Deranged Hermit.
It has since become synomous with green black midrange or aggro decks.
I always wondered about Solar Flare being named that. Thank god for the internet for providing the answer.
Death and taxes draws it's roots from a Magic idiom from the late 90s. "Nothing is guaranteed except for death, taxes and white weenie"
Some not bad names for sure. I always enjoyed things like 'Bear Force One' or 'Knight Wider'
I don't think the deck has been played at any premier level events worthy of awarding it points in Nizzahon's traditional scoring system, but I think one of the best newer deck names to come out in a long while has to be Squeaky-Jiki!
It's a combo deck that seeks to use the new card from Modern Horizons 2, Scurry Oak, and the card, Ivy Lane Denizen, to produce an infinite number of squirrel creature tokens (plus an arbitrarily large Scurry Oak as well) to win the game.
The deck has been dubbed Squeaky-Jiki because it bares resemblance to combo decks featuring the card, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, in that the goal is to make an infinite number of creatures with a tight, two card combo the same way Kiki-Jiki decks do. In addition to this the "squeaky" bit of the name is supposed to be because the combo involves making an infinite number of squirrels and squirrels, well, often can make squeaky noises.
The deck is still pretty new and mostly considered a meme in Modern, but I have to say that Squeaky-Jiki is still my favorite deck name in recent times!
my personal favorite deck name was for my merfolk standard deck during rivals of ixalan I called Merfolk Surprise( the surprise being one Thalia in the main bored)
This is what I subscribed for. I LOVE deck names of old
No dirty kitty or nic fit? I know they're nondescript but they're fantastic deck names
i really liked “Cat Pact,” a combo deck in standard that used Harmless Offering to donate Demonic Pact
1. Wild Djinns
2. Aurelia double-strike
3. Loam
4. The cursed treasure of King Macar
5. The Legendary Deck
6. Black Powder
7. Bloomdrain
8. Lesbiennes
9. Superthopter
10.... dk
In honour of Covid restrictions, I made a White/Blue deck called Lockdown, filled with Pacifisms and similar Auras.
Also, did you know that this video was sponsored by Card Kingdom?
I was hoping more creative stuff like here tinfins or strawberry cheesecake. Also I've heard that name death and taxes comes from nothings certain except death and taxes and white weenie being popular deck.
Nizzahon: *Recites complete Benjamin Franklin quote*
Me: Oh, yeah. He's got a PhD in History.
First woooo. I vote TRIX being the best name ever or cephalid breakfast!!!
never realized "caw-blade" came from "caw-go" which was a pun on "draw-go", dang
I miss the old days of combo decks being named after breakfast cereals and being able to use wordplay to describe your combo with a breakfast cereal. Like Trix tricking your opponent to have an illusions, Pebbles killing your opponent 1 damage at a time with Goblin Bombardment, cocoa pebbles when they added necro to the deck, and it all culminating to one of the most complicated combo decks ever, Full English Breakfast, because it was more filling than a simple cereal.
so nice and totally not trigger my OCD that some entries have the deck title before the person's name and some after 🥶
No cheerios ‽⸘‽⸘‽⸘
That's such a great name!
Aw, Omnidoor Thragfire didn’t make it? Craziest deck I’ve ever played against and even lost to.
I love this topic, and I agree with the list for the most part based on your prescribed criteria. However, personally I prefer deck names that are more wacky than informative. Some of my favorites include, Full English Breakfast (and all the related types of breakfasts), The Rock, Dead Guy Ale, Parfait, Dirty Kitty, and Xerox. Of course none of them really tell you much about what they are doing. I would say for some want informative ones, Red Deck Wins, Oops All Spells, and TES are near the top of my list. But for the the best deck names of all time is Sylvan Plug. It is actually descriptive of what it is doing but also the origin of the name is hilarious to me.
Care to explain it to us neophites?
@@gregames4843 Sure. Sylvan plug is a GBx deck in Legacy built around sylvan library and various prison effects. The plug part could be used to describe the game play in some sense, but the deck is actually named after a sculpture which the deck creator happen to see when making the deck, and which resembles an adult toy. So naming a deck after a sex toy but in a way that is actually kind of clever, is pretty impressive to me.
Love the thumbnail
I was pretty happy with a red deck I built around Roiling Vortex which I called "Roil with the punches". It was pretty bad tho
I'm looking forward to the MTG Top 10: WORST Deck Names video!
"Jund"
That one would have a 20-way tie for first place, thanks to all the people naming decks after guilds/shards/clans just because the color combination matches, despite having no cards from those factions in the decks.
No owling mine...
Ironically, five years later a small artifact was thrown at GW Bush
What artifact?
@@techoutsider5631 IIRC, a shoe.
oops! all spells is a personal favorite
Raisin' Brand is my fav... griselbrand reanimator deck
Heard of a deck named yeltsa kcir. It’s a deck that doesn’t give you up and doesn’t let you down.
Omnidoor thragfire is the best name for a deck, hands down.
really surprised countertop didn't make the list.
Crazy cat lady hahaha the best deck name ever.
I had a carrion feeder + hardenes scales modern deck that I think I called "Hardened something Carrion Breeder"
Kinda sad that Cheerios, Pickles and The Deck didnt make the list
When I saw/heard Caw Go, my immediate assumption was deck doing something in a "cargo" sense 😄 dunno what that would be, vehicles weren't even a thing then
I built a standard deck called "Rat and taxes" during kaladesh/dominaria which saw all of 0 wins, but the meme'ery was too good at the time.
6:47 "In addition to being an anagram" so close, lol. Although, it is at least an anagram of 'dum', not an English word, and potentially some other words (although I think it is still an anagram even if things like 'mdu' aren't words?)
I love it when professionals give there decks creative names that identify what the deck does with some personality. Unfortunately all the popular ones right now are painfully literal
Some of that has to do with WotC. Even if a player calls their deck something clever, WotC distills it into a descriptive yet boring name.
For me the best is Iggy Pop, the Ill-Gotten Gains storm combo.
My list would be full of all the cereal names, fruit loops, Cheerios, Frosted Flakes.