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* '''Play'''{{anchor|Play}} - An action involving playing a card or cards, often a combo, e.g. "making a play."
* '''Playset'''{{anchor|Playset}} - 3 copies of a card, the maximum amount that could exist in a Deck.
* '''Poplar'''{{anchor|Poplar}} - A Main Deck monster with an effect that allows them to [[Special Summon]] itself after being searched into the hand. The term is named after "[[Snake-Eyes Poplar]]", a monster that started the trend of similar monsters released after it, though the first monster of this kind was "[[Watapon]]", long predating "Poplar".
* '''Powercreep'''{{anchor|Powercreep}} - A general term for the phenomena of new cards outclassing old cards.
** '''Powercrept'''{{anchor|Powercrept}} / '''Strictly better'''{{anchor|Strictly better}} / '''Strictly worse'''{{anchor|Strictly worse}} - A card that fills the same role as another card, but is mechanically superior or inferior in every significant fashion: for instance, "[[Ookazi]]" to "[[Sparks]]."
* '''Adam'''{{anchor|Adam}} - The "[[Adamancipator]]" archetype.
* '''Apo'''{{anchor|Apo}} / '''Apollo''' - "[[Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess]]".
* '''Ash'''{{anchor|Ash}} / '''Ash Blossom''' {{anchor|Ash Blossom}} / '''Fivehead''' {{anchor|Fivehead}} - "[[Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring]]", the latter being a reference to her prominent forehead from her first artwork, in addition of being used to disambiguated this card with "[[Snake-Eye Ash]]", which is also often referred simply as "Ash". Fivehead is also sometimes used to refer to "[[Five-Headed Dragon]]".
** '''Ashed'''{{anchor|Ash}} - Refers to usage of the anti-[[search]] effect of "[[Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring]]" or cards that has their search effect [[negate]]d by "Ash Blossom".
* '''Ball'''{{anchor|Ball}} - "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode]]".
* '''Brave'''{{anchor|Brave}} - The [[Adventurer]] series of cards, based on a common translated name before it was released in the ''TCG''.
* '''CED''' {{anchor|CED}} - "[[Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End]]".
* '''Chungus''' {{anchor|Chungus}} - "[[Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying]]".* '''Cydra''' {{anchor|Cydra}} - A shortening of "[[Cyber Dragon (archetype)|Cyber Dragon]]", used to refer to [[Cyber Dragon|the card]] or the overall Deck. Accordingly, the lower leveled "Cyber Dragon" monsters are sometimes referred to as Baby Cydra.
* '''DAD''' / '''Dad''' {{anchor|DAD}} - "[[Dark Armed Dragon]]".
* '''Dark Ruler''' / '''DRNM''' {{anchor|Dark Ruler}} - "[[Dark Ruler No More]]".
* '''Droplet'''{{anchor|Droplet}} - "[[Forbidden Droplet]]".
* '''Duster'''{{anchor|Duster}} - "[[Harpie's Feather Duster]]".
* '''EARTH Machines'''{{anchor|EARTH Machines}} / '''Earth Machines'''{{anchor|Earth Machines}} - Refers Predominately refers to the trio of an [[EARTH]] [[Machine]] themes whose cards were often played together for their [[Type]]/[[Attribute]] synergy; "[[Machina]]", "[[Infinitrack]]", and [[Train]], though other EARTH Machine themes are also sometimes mixed in with the aforementioned cards. The word is often used to specifically refers to a hybrid deck build consists of the aforementioned themes without any particular focus on each respective themes' game plans.
* '''ECon/E-Con'''{{anchor|ECon}}{{anchor|E-Con}} - "[[Enemy Controller]]".
* '''ETele/E-Tele'''{{anchor|ETele}}{{anchor|E-Tele}} - "[[Emergency Teleport]]".
