Hard-to-pronounce card names

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Posted on Oct. 24, 2014, 12:08 a.m. by erabel

Alright, So I've been talking to some Magic folks online, and one of them mentioned an idea for a deck. They've got a buddy in their playgroup that consistently pronounces cards wrong, after being corrected. Obviously, the next logical step is to make a deck entirely out of already hard-to-pronounce cards.

So, coming to y'all. I need cards, in all five colors, with difficult-to-pronounce names. Let's see what you got.

Some potential cards include: Chains of Mephistopheles , Loathsome Catoblepas , Clickslither and Quick Sliver together, Goblin Chirurgeon , and Phantasmagorian .

TehCoopeh says... #2

October 24, 2014 12:11 a.m.

xlaleclx says... #3

Unfortunately the most commonly mispronounced are not very hard to pronounce at all ex Umezawa's Jitte and Faerie Macabre

October 24, 2014 12:12 a.m.

EvilKidsMeal says... #4

October 24, 2014 12:15 a.m.

Lhurgyof says... #5

How do you even pronounce Loathsome Catoblepas ?

October 24, 2014 12:39 a.m.

Much says... #6

I believe it's pronounced "Loathsome Catoblepas".

October 24, 2014 12:51 a.m.

-MisterJ- says... #7

Well apparently according to some "magic guru" online Ghave is pronounced like Dave. GhAve. Where I pronounce it Ga vay. Anywho. I didn't know Mephistopheles was hard to pronounce... I hear Myr pronounced Mur quite often. Solemn Simulacrum is another good one I think. Along with Vedalken Orrery mainly because its common for people to mispronounce Vedalken. Sage of Epityr even I can't pronounce.

But the center piece should be Nevinyrral's Disk

October 24, 2014 1:05 a.m.

Lhurgyof says... #8

Thanks for the clarification!

October 24, 2014 1:05 a.m.

Lhurgyof says... #9

I pronounce it "Meer" like in meerkat.

Epityr is pronounced "Ep-it-ear" Epi like in epic and tyr like the band.

I used to pronounce Ghave like Dave, but after hearing Ga-vay, it sounds much more elegant.

October 24, 2014 1:07 a.m.

alulien says... #10

October 24, 2014 1:10 a.m.

-MisterJ- says... #11

Myr should be pronounced that way. Meer.

Its sounds more elegant, and primal even. Much like that people that pronounce Garruk without making the U hard. like muck. gair-uck. Where I think it should be pronounced Garook. Again, sounds more primal. More like the Germanic beast machine that he is.

October 24, 2014 1:13 a.m.

nayrash5 says... #12

Not really a card name, but insofar, the most difficult name I've seen to pronounce is... Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, the deamon that wrote a cookbook.

October 24, 2014 1:16 a.m.

TelleoStar says... #13

October 24, 2014 2:13 a.m.

ChiefBell says... #14

Ven-dill-ee-on Cleek

Unsure but probably Loo Tsun. I've never studied Asian linguistics so someone else will have to help here.

Skolar General

Unsure but probably Who Tow (like saying 'ow!' after someone hits you not tow as in to drag something).

Oom-ez-a-wa-s Jit-Te (hard 't', a bit like 'ter' but without the 'r')

October 24, 2014 7:02 a.m.

ChiefBell says... #15

Almost all of these are real words and googleable.

October 24, 2014 7:03 a.m.

TelleoStar says... #16

Close, ChiefBell. Clique = Click. Lu Xun = Loo Shoon. Hua Tuo = Wa Twoh.

October 24, 2014 8:04 a.m.

ChiefBell says... #17

Actually click is a popular mispronunciation of clique. It should be cleek.

October 24, 2014 9:17 a.m.

Lhurgyof says... #18

I hear it pronounced like "Jit" all the time, but I'm pretty sure it's "Jee-tay"

October 24, 2014 11:49 a.m.

ChiefBell says... #19

There are articles about this. It's definitely Ji-Te. It is a real japanese word you can look it up.....

October 24, 2014 noon

Lhurgyof says... #20

I know that much, it's like a sai but with two prongs.

Just weird that so many people pronounce it that way. Even looking at its spelling that doesn't make sense.

Also, nobody pronounces Blackguard correctly. It's "blaggerd".

October 24, 2014 12:06 p.m.

Korombos says... #21

Omniscience has been asked about as Omni-science at my LGS. Frontier Bivouac seems ripe for tongue-twisting. Oh, and Phthisis started a pronunciation conversation over EDH one day.

MTG is ripe with these. Ask anyone who works the binders at your LGS for their best ones.

October 24, 2014 12:13 p.m.

TelleoStar says... #22

Well, I looked Clique up to make sure I wasn't wrong. Apparently Cleek is the British English way of pronouncing it, Click is the American English pronunciation. Neither are incorrect. My bad. :(

October 24, 2014 8:36 p.m.

hassankachal says... #23

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google it.

October 27, 2014 9:13 a.m.

Voldrin says... #24

You should make an EDH deck of hard-to-pronounce cards. And the commander would be Thraximundar.

November 6, 2014 2:32 a.m.

Korombos says... #25

Thraximundar aka Susan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmWRNZ_0ys

November 6, 2014 10:37 a.m.

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