definitions/slang jund/american/noodles
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Posted on Aug. 7, 2013, 11:56 a.m. by hetwiel
Hey,
I am kinda new to this game and i have no clue how all the slang came to be and what some of them mean, so i figured i'd ask.
Now first off i wish to appologise if i placed this in the wrong section, but because it is not regarding rules i figured it did not belong in the Q&A section.
What are jund and junk and all that stuff? Can anyone point me to a site that explains, because every time i try to google it, all i get is 1mil tappedout deck results :D
What is "american"? I know it has something to do with control or midrange and i know the decks that people are talking about, but what actually defines a deck to be american control rather then other control?
What is an instant noodles deck? Or better yet, noodles to begin with? Found 4 decks calling themselves instant noodles but they are nothing alike, so now i'm very confused!
Thanks!
GreatSword says... #3
It's totally a good place for this topic.
Jund is usually a midrange deck that plays Black, Red, and Green. The expansion Shards of Alara had 5 worlds in it, each of which only had 3 of the colors of Magic. "Bant" had Green, White, Blue. "Grixis" Had Black, Red, Blue, etc. "Jund" was Black, Red, Green.
"American" is Red, White, Blue.
Junk is White, Black, and Green. There's no definitive reason why it's called that. Probably when it first won an event, it was called "A bunch of junk".
Noodles I don't have a clue, sorry. Though Magic does have an early history of naming decks after breakfast foods(Cherrios, eggs, etc) Don't ask me why about that either.
I guess we had to call them something.
August 7, 2013 12:06 p.m.
American Control is control deck utilizing Red, White, and Blue... just like the colors on an American Flag...
Junk/ Morglen is any deck utilizing Green, White, and Black. usually made of cards someone had lying around and wanted to do something with....
Jund, Bant, etc are shards of alara names for specific color combinations....
hopefully this helps... also try looking this up on magic wiki as well.....
August 7, 2013 12:06 p.m.
RussischerZar says... #5
Most of these are just descriptions of color combinations.
Check out the List of Magic Slang.
August 7, 2013 12:08 p.m.
The Alara shards have already been explained, though for completions sake I'll list the five shards: GWU (Bant), WUB (Esper), UBR (Grixis), BRG (Jund), RGW (Naya).
American got explained too.
Junk is generally attributed to Adrian Sullivan, which is the name that he used for a successful GWB deck around 2000 that was a response to the metagame at the time and which he described as just a bunch of junk thrown together. The name just stuck even if it doesn't mean the same thing anymore.
RUG and BUG are fairly obvious, based on their colors. That leaves only WBR as a three-color combination without a cool name, barring those Necra or Morglen-based names that no one seems to actually use in the real world.
I know not what this Noodles thing is, though I hope it involves Emrakul, the Aeons Torn .
August 7, 2013 12:21 p.m.
Thanks everyone and a extra special thanks to RussischerZar that site is very helpfull indeed!
I must say i am rather disappointed in the meaning of "american" though. Might aswell call it French or Dutch or call azorius Israeli... so weak :D And besides, they call it UWR in the pro scene. I guess you could say i was hoping for something related to typically american or perhaps some kind of ability i missed (like flickering).
August 7, 2013 12:22 p.m.
fluffybunnypants says... #8
I would assume instant noodles to a deck that sneaks Emrakul, the Aeons Torn into play.
August 7, 2013 12:24 p.m.
Also, thanks for that lil story about junk Barandis. I'm tempted to go build a junk deck, just because of that.
August 7, 2013 12:25 p.m.
According to the slang definition page, "noodles" are shock lands ("new duals newduals nooduals noodles"). I think that "instant noodles", however (based on my 30 second Google search) is a deck full of card that give you nice things instantly (basically, things with ETB effects, cards that make tokens, Planeswalkers with beneficial + abilities).
August 7, 2013 12:40 p.m.
Let's go ahead and change that to Emrakul, the Aeons Torn Instant-Reanimator. Seeing as that's actually a thing, it should fit nicely.
August 7, 2013 12:42 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #14
Or "newspaper"
also, I always heard RUG as fruity pebbles.
Kre says... #2
Magic Wiki If you search Jund or Junk you'll get some results.
August 7, 2013 12:01 p.m.