Shortened and abbreviated card names and terms
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Some card names in the TCG and OCG use shortened or abbreviated names, either because the names would be too long unabbreviated, or for stylistic reasons. This page serves to list what each of these abbreviations stand for.
Monster Cards
English | Japanese | Expansion | Notes |
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"A/D Changer" | "Attack/Defense Changer" | ||
"B. Dragon Jungle King" | "Black Dragon Jungle King" | ||
"B. Skull Dragon" | "Black Skull Dragon" | ||
"Constellar Ptolemy M7" | セイクリッド・トレミス |
"Constellar Ptolemy Messier 7" | |
"Dark Napoleon" | |||
"D. Human" | "Drago Human"/"Dragon Human" | often mistaken for "Demon Human" | |
"Five God Dragon" | |||
"G.B. Hunter" | "Gladiator Beast Hunter" | ||
"KA-2 Des Scissors" | KA-2 デス・シザース | Not an abbreviation, but a pun in that 2 is ni in Japanese, thus KA-2 may be read kani meaning "crab" | |
"Giltia the D. Knight" | "Giltia the Dark Knight" | ||
"Lady of D." | "Lady of Dragons" | ||
"Little D" | "Little Dinosaur" | ||
"Lord of D." | "Lord of Dragons" | ||
"M-Warrior #1" | "Magnet-Warrior #1" | ||
"M-Warrior #2" | "Magnet-Warrior #2" | ||
"Meteor B. Dragon" | "Meteor Black Dragon" | ||
"Muse-A" | "Muse-Angel" | ||
"Obnoxious Celtic Guard" | "Obnoxious Celtic Guardian" | name shortened to exclude it from the "Guardian" archetype | |
"Red-Eyes B. Chick" | "Red-Eyes Black Chick" | ||
"Red-Eyes B. Dragon" | "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" | ||
"T.A.D.P.O.L.E." | Not an abbreviation, but refers to a pun in Japanese where otamajakushi means "tadpole", but can also be split into the five words o / tama / ja / ku / shi, individually meaning "evil / soul / vice / pain / stop". |
Spell Cards
English | Japanese | Expansion | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
"The A. Forces" | "The Allied Forces" | ||
"Double Tool C&D" | ダブルツール |
"Cut and Drill"/"Chainsaw and Drill" | |
"EN Shuffle" | "Elemental Neo Shuffle" | ||
"NEX" | "Neo-Spacian Extent" |
Trap Cards
English | Japanese | Expansion | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
"D. Tribe" | "Dragon Tribe" | ||
"D2 Shield" | "Defense 2 Shield" | ||
"G Force" | "Gem Force" |
Card groups
English | Japanese | Expansion | Notes |
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"A" | "Alien" | in "Alien" support | |
A-Counter | Alien Counter | ||
Ally of Justice | |||
A | Attack | in the Japanese version of the anime | |
B.E.S. | Bacterium Empire Ship | ||
Black Feather | the Japanese name for the "Blackwing" archetype | ||
"C" | "Cockroach" | the Japanese name abbreviates the word ゴキブリ (gokiburi), which is Japanese for "cockroach" | |
C | "Carrier" | in the Japanese version of the anime | |
Chain | the Japanese name of the "Iron Chain" archetype | ||
Chaos | |||
CXyz | Chaos Xyz | ||
Dark Tuner | in the Japanese anime | ||
Deformer | the Japanese name of the "Morphtronic" archetype | ||
D | Destiny | in "Destiny HERO" support | |
D.D. | Different Dimension | ||
Destiny HERO | |||
Elemental HERO | |||
Evil HERO | |||
EX | Extra | in "Arcana Force" monsters | |
G | "Guard" | in the Japanese version of the anime | |
Heroic Challenger | |||
Heroic Champion | |||
Hyper-Rank-Up-Magic | |||
LV | Level | ||
Masked HERO | |||
Number C | Chaos Number | ||
Number | |||
R-Genex | Real-Genex | ||
Rank-Down-Magic | |||
Rank-Up-Magic | |||
T.G. | Tech Genus | ||
T | "Top" | in the Japanese version of the anime | |
Vision HERO | |||
Double-Rank-Up-Magic | |||
ZW - | ZEXAL Weapon | ||
ZS - | ZEXAL Servers |