Line #12 FunWithAcronyms/CardGames


1	* The HORSE format consists of alternating rounds of '''H'''old'em, '''O'''maha Hi/Lo, '''R'''azz, 7-card '''S'''tud and 7-card Stud '''E'''ights-or-better. One can't help but feel that the last couple of letters are somewhat forced. There's also HOSE, which is the same but without Razz.
2	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' players have a mnemonic guideline for drafting. Put it all together and it spells BREAD:
3	** Bombs (extremely powerful), Removal (get rid of opponent cards), Evasion (creatures that are hard to block), Aggro (BoringButPractical creatures), Dregs (whatever's left)
4	** The infamously unintuitive Protection ability has its effects summarized with the acronym DEBT which standards for preventing '''D'''amage, not allowing the card to be '''E'''quiped or '''E'''nchanted, can't be '''B'''locked, can't be '''T'''argeted.
5	** The joke set Unstable has SNEAK, a group of spies, which stands for a different thing in every flavour text that spells it out.
6	** A common joke about the card Koth of the Hammer is that the name '''Koth''' stands for [[RecursiveAcronym Koth of the Hammer.]]
7	* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'':
8	** The monster called a T.A.D.P.O.L.E., one vital component for a [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Des_Frog Des Frog]], is a pun-based acronym that only truly makes sense in the original Japanese name. The five Kanji that make up its name are 悪 / 魂 / 邪 / 苦 / 止 (pronounced o / tama / ja / ku / shi respectively) which individually mean "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast evil / soul / vice / pain / stop]]", but the syllables can also form the single word ''otamajakushi'' or "tadpole".'' The English name is an attempt to reproduce the pun, but Konami has never given any suggestion for the letters representing English words. (Fanfic writers [[FanficFuel have offered many suggestions.]])
9	** Number 101: '''S'''ilent '''H'''onor '''ARK''', which aside from being a literal CoolShip, has capital letters that spell out SHARK. This is a reference to its user in the ''[[Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL ZEXAL]]'' anime, Ryoga Kamishiro, who was frequently nicknamed "Shark" and also used several shark-based monsters. As a call-back to this, the card game later released '''N'''afil '''As'''ylum '''H'''eth Knight (and its upgrade, [=CXyz=] '''N'''afil '''As'''ylum '''Ch'''aos Knight), meant to work with Shark's cards from the anime. The anagram here spells out "Nash" or "Nasch", both of which are spellings for the name of Ryoga's Barian identity.
10	** Packs have a special prefix put on each card to denote which set that card came from. They're taken from the first letters of the set's name, and will sometimes be used to spell out a word. For example, '''C'''lash '''o'''f '''Re'''bellions becomes CORE. Another example is '''Du'''el '''De'''vastator, whose prefix is [[EmbarrassingInitials DUDE]].
11	** Decks themselves have anagrams made by fans, though only a few are officially recognized. One of them is a deck mixed with Hands, Artifacts and Traptrix, which becomes ''H.A.T.'' and Shaddoll-Artifact-Traptrix becomes [[EmbarrassingInitials ''Sh.Ar.T.'']]

Context FunWithAcronyms / CardGames