![]() ![]() "Brick" is a term loaned from poker, used to describe a hand full of unplayable cards or just a card that you can't use at the moment.Named as such thanks to both cards being some of the earliest and most iconic cards that carried the effects. "Stratos" for any monster that adds a card from deck when summoned, and "ROTA" (short for "Reinforcement of the Army") for any spell that adds a card from deck when activated."Floater" for any card that replaces itself in card advantage when it enters or leaves the field, such as Sangan, Mystic Tomato or Card Trooper.but nearly all of said effects they have really aren't that useful to justify the summoning cost, or are incredibly easy to get off the field once summoned regardless. "Glorified Beatstick" is also used to describe monsters that are more difficult to summon, have high attack, and do have a variety of effects.(or no effect at all, in the case of normal monsters) "Beatstick" is often use to describe monsters that have a high ATK stat, are easily summoned, but don't have any outstanding effects.The name comes from the fact that, since the deck is so focused on winning turn one and not letting your opponent get a chance fight back or even play a single card that the person using it might as well be playing Solitaire instead of Yu-Gi-Oh. "Solitaire decks", for decks that focus on winning turn one and not even letting the opponent get a chance to play.Named after Apoqliphort Towers, which was a very prominent juggernaut in its prime. A "Towers" is a type of Boss Monster that possesses immunity to other card effects (or a combination of protective effects that comes close), and can only be outed by a Kaiju or a very big beatstick.Naturally, true to the name, once it's on the field, it feels like a Boss Battle trying to get it off the field. "Boss Monster" is often used to refer to any particularly powerful monster that's tied to an archetype and has a powerful effect that makes dealing with it difficult, as well as being difficult to summon and often requiring cards from said archetype to even get it on the field.Opponent has no options left even after the draw. ![]() Attacks the monster, direct attacks, and Stein attacks directly. That player draws Cyber Stein and summons Cyber-Twin Dragon. The player has no cards on hand or field due to massive misplays but has over 5000 LP left. For example, an opponent has a 4 card advantage with 2 at hand, 1 monster on the field, and 1-spell/trap. note While this was common since the beginning of the game, it reached extreme levels in 2006 when Cyber-Stein was released and caused the "Random stein" to win games. "Topdecking" or "Lucksacking" is a derogatory term used when a player at a major disadvantage draws that card that has shifted the advantage in their favor with minimal effort."Staples" are Boring, but Practical cards with good effects and no activation conditions, allowing them to be used in any Deck.It got an extended form, "CCCC", meaning "Cookie Cutter Chaos Control" after the introduction of the Envoys and before the banlist was implemented. The term describes how every deck looked the same, with at least half the deck consisting of "staples". "Cookie Cutter" was a term from the 2000's, when archetypes were largely under-developed and beatdown was the reigning strategy.Official sources in both the TCG and OCG have used "series" and "theme" inconsistently, but the use of "archetype" is just that widely used by the fanbase. The term "archetype", often used to describe a theme supported by having a specific name. ![]()
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