Insert Column Name Here – Wizards’ Incredibly Lazy Secret Card-Naming Formula

A whopping twenty percent of the cards in my deck this week are named using this same, trite formula. Oh, sure, it’s easy to port the card’s name into German or Japanese – but it’s also hackneyed, light on flavor, and is probably done by some sort of automated Card-Name-O-Matic 3000(tm) in the back room to save Wizards’ some time. So what is the lamest card naming process ever?

Okay, Wizards. It’s time to have a talk. Because you guys have gotten *lazy*. What the heck is *up* with your names these days? When we started…

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