Who invented the lingo?

[Twoddle]

Where did all these terms like "go face", "top-decking", "zoo deck", "mulligan", "lethal" and all that nonsense originate? It's like every time I watch twitch I learn a new fanboy term.

Attack the enemy hero boss with everything = yolo face, what?

[xChurch]

Just because some people say it, doesn't mean it's really a thing. Top decking makes sense though.

[Jester Joe]

Some are from Magic the Gathering, last I checked mulligan is actually in rule books.
Lethals always been a word last I checked
Top deck probably Magic too I would imagine, and zoo.

Rest probably crawled out of Twitch.

[Mormolyce]

"Mulligan" is an early-20th century sporting term, it possibly originated in golf.

Many other terms (eg zoo) are carried over from MtG and/or other card games.

Attack the enemy hero boss with everything = yolo face, what?

Well that's just an obvious neologism, yolo indicates reckless behaviour and face means hitting the hero's face as opposed to dealing with his/her board. So if you go apeshit hitting face hoping to score a kill before they play a taunt or board clear or just kill you - yolo face.

[mongoose6]

Where did all these terms like "go face", "top-decking", "zoo deck", "mulligan", "lethal" and all that nonsense originate? It's like every time I watch twitch I learn a new fanboy term.

Attack the enemy hero boss with everything = yolo face, what?

To put it simply "Them damn kids"

[Jester Joe]

Well that's just an obvious neologism, yolo indicates reckless behaviour and face means hitting the hero's face as opposed to dealing with his/her board. So if you go apeshit hitting face hoping to score a kill before they play a taunt or board clear or just kill you - yolo face.

Please, lets never again act like "yolo" is a regular term Pleassseeeee

[Gourmandise]

After all these years I still hate "mill" although it comes from a pretty reasonable background.

[Bayuriel]

Mill came about from the cart Millstone from magic the gathering

[Jester Joe]

After all these years I still hate "mill" although it comes from a pretty reasonable background.

Admit it, its because you really just hate the decks that come along with it.

[Gourmandise]

Admit it, its because you really just hate the decks that come along with it.

Hell yeah. Fuck Memory Adept and Consuming Aberration.

[Jester Joe]

Hell yeah. Fuck Memory Adept and Consuming Aberration.

My favorite blue card was the one that any time your opponent played a spell, they had to mill 2. I forgot its name, but it was just a simple card that annoyed so much.

[Jester Joe]

As others have said, all those terms popped up over time in games like MtG.

Even "zoo deck" is a concept/name from MtG despite some Reynad fanboys claiming he invented the deck and name.

But Dire Wolf wasn't popular until he put it in!

That's what my friend keeps saying at least as a joke

[Kathranis]

Some is new, a lot comes from Magic (see: http://mtg.wikia.com/wiki/Slang), some actually comes from WoW itself.

Hunter decks are a good example of the latter. While face refers specifically to (attacking) the opponent's "hero portrait", it's also been conflated with the WoW slang term "faceroll," which comes from an old forum post suggesting that paladins are so simple to play that you can bind their skills to every key on the keyboard and succeed just by rolling your face across it. And of course, "huntard" is carried over too.

[Gourmandise]

My favorite blue card was the one that any time your opponent played a spell, they had to mill 2. I forgot its name, but it was just a simple card that annoyed so much.

Ahh shards of alara. My some of the favorite cards come from that block.



I think most terms, if not all, come from mtg.

[Deleted]

MtG and Twitch Chat.

[Anzen]

Where did all these terms like "mulligan" and all that nonsense originate? It's like every time I watch twitch I learn a new fanboy term.

Rofl.

Also, never watch Forsen lol.

[BicycleMafioso]

Where did all these terms like "go face", "top-decking", "zoo deck", "mulligan", "lethal" and all that nonsense originate? It's like every time I watch twitch I learn a new fanboy term.

Attack the enemy hero boss with everything = yolo face, what?

"Go face" and... that other face-related term come from Hearthstone, meaning that you forgo trading, which is a term that comes from MtG when you choose to block and both the blocker and blocked creature die. Top-decking means achieving an answer or lethal from the turn-related draw, in a situation you'd otherwise be quite screwed in - this is also used in MtG.
Mulligan is an actual term in MtG, and is even referenced in at least one card.

Hell yeah. Fuck Memory Adept and Consuming Aberration.

Aww, don't say that! Jace, Memory Adept's 0 ability + Rings of Brighthearth is both fun and fair!
All you need to do then is cast things from their graveyard and win.

My favorite blue card was the one that any time your opponent played a spell, they had to mill 2. I forgot its name, but it was just a simple card that annoyed so much.

Memory Erosion. I still run that in my Dimir (Blue-Black) Commander deck. It gets all the hate, for some reason.
I did remake the deck into a Sultai (Blue-Black-Green) Commander deck, when I got my pre-release card from Fate Reforged, which is a lovely deck for self-mill and giving your opponents difficult choices.

[Ham on Rye]

"Go face" and... that other face-related term come from Hearthstone,

Go Face most certainly does NOT come from Hearthstone. It's been used for over ten years.

[BicycleMafioso]

Go Face most certainly does NOT come from Hearthstone. It's been used for over ten years.

As an expression? Sure. I'd not necessarily call it relevant.

[Symphonic]

I'm going to start calling my deck, my "library".