Shout-Out in Card Games.
Games with their own subpages:
Other Works:
- Steve Jackson Game's Hacker includes a can of Jolt cola
◊ on the box picture. - The Collectible Card Game Magic: The Gathering likes to slip Shout Outs and in-jokes into the titles and art of its cards.
- Probably the most high-profile (that references something outside of M:tG itself anyway) is Nevinyrral's Disk. "Nevinyrral" is "Larry Niven" spelled backwards. Niven wrote a series of stories about magic as an exhaustible resource, the nature of which was proven in the story "The Magic Goes Away" by a wizard who enchanted a spinning disk in such a manner that it used up all the mana in its vicinity, exploding violently in the process.)
- There's also Time Warp. Flavor text: "Let's do (it) again!"
- The flavor text on the original Weatherlight version of Disrupt was "Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?"
- Innistrad is filled with these. Sure, we have some that only fall on "classical horror tropes" territory, but we have some really specific stuff as well, like a scientist that transforms on a insectoid monster due to an experiment gone wrong, a researcher that manages to transform his violent side into a brutish, monstrous alter-ego and a group of Defending garden plants that has protection from Zombies.
- The flavor text on the 9th Edition version of Balduvian Barbarians is blatantly set to the tune of the first four lines of the Marines Hymn.
- Likewise, the flavor text for the Starter 1999 version of Goblin Mountaineer is one word off from the second phrase of the theme song to The Beverly Hillbillies. "Goblin mountaineer, barely keeps his family fed."
- The flavor text of Deicide (a term that refers to killing a god, but in the context of Christianity is usually used to refer to the death of Christ) references Jesus' last words in John 19:30.
- The art for Smog Elemental resembles the flight form of Hedorah, from ''Godzilla vs. Hedorah'
- A split card is named Toil//Trouble. For maximum effect, fuse both sides and copy the spell twice: "Double double, toil and trouble."
- Pursued Whale, a massive whale that gives your opponent a pirate obsessed with attacking it, references Moby-Dick.
- The flavor text on Admiral Beckett Bass references the memetic "fine addition to my collection" line by General Grevious from Revenge of the Sith.
- Diamond Mare references the diamond horse Butt Stallion from Borderlands 2; the artist has specifically said she had it in mind from the moment she got the art request.
- Alexander Clamilton is, of course, a reference to Alexander Hamilton - specifically the Hamilton version. Word of God is that they intended the flavor text to be "Who lives, who dies, who shells your story", but ran out of room.
- GO TO JAIL, which removes a creature until their controller rolls doubles on two dice, references the rules for jail from Monopoly.
- The split card Fast // Furious references The Fast and the Furious.
- Almost every single card in Time Spiral referenced one or more earlier cards from Magic's history; since every card was a reference, there are too many to list here.
- The anime-inspired Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty set contains a card named You Are Already Dead, referencing Fist of the North Star.
- Oathsworn Knight, from Throne of Eldraine, can absorb any amount of damage in one hit but loses one of its four +1/+1 counters each time until it runs out and dies, referencing the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- Attendant Socialite, from the mafia-focused set Streets of New Capenna references Scarface1983 with its flavor text of "Say hello to my little friend."
- Another card from Streets of New Capenna, Witness Protection, references the Al Capone quote that indirectly named Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club by transforming the enchanted creature into a new one called "Legitimate Businessperson."
- "Mystical Medleys: A Vintage Cartoon Tarot":
- The puppet body, hat, donkey ears, and bindle on "The Fool" are references to Pinocchio. The last two, in particular, allude to when the wooden kid runs away from home and gets transformed into a donkey as a consequence of foolish behavior.
- The "Page of Pentacles" looks similar to Tom Sawyer. It likely alludes to Sawyer's The Trickster nature and cruel streak.
- The "Two of Swords" is an Ace of Hearts that looks like one of the playing cards in Alice in Wonderland.
- The "Seven of Swords" has an Aladdin-like appearance.
- The deck includes a bonus "Happy Squirrel" card that references the one that appears in The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Wedding".
- The redhead girl riding a lion on the box is a dead ringer to Betty Boop. Well, if she wore a green cap, anyway.
- The Star Wars Customizable Card Game is made of this trope: Smuggler's Blues obviously, but also Mostly Armless and Bionic Hand "We can make him better, stronger, faster."
- Yu-Gi-Oh! is absolutely loaded with Shout Outs to Konami games, mostly notably the Gradius archetype: so far, a card exists for the original ship, an upgraded version of same, the second player ship, the ships from Gradius Gaiden, most of the various ship bosses (complete with support card Boss Rush), the game's power-ups, at least three of the other various bosses, and at least five of the game's enemies. Plus, they synergize pretty well with the cards based on the protagonist ships in Xexex and Thunder Cross. And let's not even get into the set of Union Monsters based on Aitsu, Koitsu, Soitsu, and Doitsu...
