Card Nicknames
Gary
Who is Gray Merchant of Asphodel?
This blue card and black card are the quintessential game winning combo.
What are Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation?
Aside from their borders, this other element is present in gold on every gold border card.
What is a signature?
My friend must be a broke smurf, because they only have this deck for us to play and everything is blue.
What is Forgetful Fish/Dandan?
This is the most common form of limited played, and is a staple of Friday Night Magic.
What is booster draft?
Mom
Who is Mother of Runes?
This three card combo involves discarding your hand and milling out your deck before then milling out your opponents' decks.
What is Underworld Breach combo (with Lion's Eye Diamond and Brain Freeze)?
Aside from the first product to include gold border cards, every subsequent product was to commemorate this annual event.
What is the World Championship?
This format is just plain rng! And my deck sucks, it's only basic lands!
What is Momir Basic?
This format is still considered limited, even though your card pool is twice as large as in most common limited formats.
What is sealed deck?
Steve
What is Sakura Tribe Elder?
Combined with effects like Badgermole Cub, Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu, and Enduring Vitality, this Commander can non-deterministically flip into a nearly unbeatable boardstate after one use of its activated ability.
Who is Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy.
A symbol appears in the bottom right of about a fifth of gold bordered cards indicating that the card is from this.
What is the sideboard?
The format your least favorite commander player insists that they are actually playing every game.
What is Archenemy?
This beginner friendly limited format requires zero decision making while deckbuilding.
What is Jumpstart?
Who is Morphling?
A combo involving this card sees players bouncing multiple mana positive artifacts to create infinite mana.
What is Hullbreaker Horror?
This was the set that had most recently been released as of the printing of the first gold bordered card, which you can tell by the requisite 5 cards in each of the decks.
What is Homelands?
The online format for people too broke to play pauper.
What is Penny Dreadful?
What is Pai Gow Magic?
Jens
Who is Solemn Simulacrum?
While not explicitly a combo, this tutor easily sets up for multiple different combos no matter what choice your opponents make.
What is Intuition/Gifts Ungiven?
Gold bordered products halted production in this year, following the rising popularity of Fat Packs, which had debuted five years earlier.
What is 2004?
This is everyone's favorite commander inspired, all commons format with cards mana value 3 or less.
What is Kamigawa Block Pauper Tiny Leaders?
This limited format can be whatever its curator wants it to be, and often draws inspiration from other formats or even other games.
What is cube?