Where did these wedge names come from?
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Posted on June 24, 2013, 12:28 a.m. by Formortiis
A Google search only comes up with a few MTG related results for the names this site seems to give the 3 enemy color wedges (Such as WBR being "Chavest"), so I know it's just on this site, so where did these names come from?
I think there are official names for the wedges, according to http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/List_of_Magic_slang#Wedge
- WBR is Dega
- RUG is Ceta
- BWG is Necra (or more commonly known as Junk)
- WUR is Raka (sometimes called American)
- BUG is Ana
June 24, 2013 1:25 a.m.
Formortiis says... #4
I know those names and know they come from the enemy color identity cards in Apocalypse, but I'm confused by the ones on THIS site. Based on the hubs, this site calls them
WBR is ChavestRUG is IrinduBWG is MorglenBUG is UlgrisWUR is Sorok
It's these names I'm confused about the origins of.
June 24, 2013 1:34 a.m.
The "official" names are a little bit weird. I'm a huge fan of Junk and always have been, and I've never once called it "Necra" or "Morglen" or heard anyone else call it either. Nor have I heard any of the other names (either "official" or the ones used on this site) ever used.
The only problem with that is WBR. We have Junk and American and BUG and RUG, which seem to be fine, but that leaves us without a commonly used name for what is a relatively commonly played color combination (especially in Standard with The Aristocrats). Yet even then I've never heard it called Dega or Chavest. (I have heard Weber on a couple of occasions.)
That doesn't serve to answer any of the OP's questions (I don't know those answers). I just mean to wonder how important any of these names actually are in practice.
June 24, 2013 8:38 a.m.
Formortiis says... #6
I hear Dega because, as you said, there is no commonly accepted name for WBR (Though I've been trying to push Nazi since it makes it sound like it opposes American), however I haven't heard any of the names on this site until I joined. This is why I have been wondering how and, more importantly, why this site uses these names that seem to exist nowhere else.
June 24, 2013 11:50 a.m.
Since no one else answered this -- a ?few years? ago, the community here participated in a set-creation activity -- we made up cards for 'nega-shards' so called because they were the wedges, rather than the shards, and, wedges sounds, well, not as awesome as nega-shards. The negashards were named irindu, chavest, sorok, morglen, and ulgris. The project was run mostly by mistergreen527, with lots of help, of course -- I think he invented the names? At any rate, they were made up from thin air for that project.
July 19, 2013 4:36 p.m.
Formortiis says... #8
Wedge is more or less what they are universally referred to as by everyone else. I don't understand the reasoning behind the name, either, but there are enough people who use the term that I don't question it.
July 22, 2013 8:25 p.m.
Behind the name "Wedge" ?
It's because each wedge is made up of a colour, and the two enemy colours, which make a wedge shaped chunk out of the colour pie. The colour and its two allied colours is called a 'shard'
KrazyCaley says... #2
We did some set design for those wedges a while back and tried to come up with convincing names for them.
June 24, 2013 12:41 a.m.