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4 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 2:22PM
#11
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Date Joined:
Oct 12, 2010
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Pump is the older term. Buff just comes from MMORPGs. Shrink is the reverse, by the way, referring to an eponymous Homelands card  .
Clever deduction Watson! Maybe you can explain why Supergirl is trying to kill me.
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[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] = Lightning Bolt 
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4 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 2:47PM
#12
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Date Joined:
Apr 14, 2008
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Another voice for pump being time based and buff being persistent/static.
Luckily, we have stop-having-fun guys to remind us that having anything more than 60 cards in your deck is tantamount to being a rapist and anyone considering it should be strung up by their ****  .
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4 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 3:01PM
#13
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Date Joined:
Oct 12, 2010
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Another voice for pump being time based and buff being persistent/static.
That sounds good. And by "time-based", I assume you mean until EOT?
Clever deduction Watson! Maybe you can explain why Supergirl is trying to kill me.
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[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] = Lightning Bolt
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4 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 3:18PM
#14
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Date Joined:
Apr 28, 2008
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Pump is temporary p/t increase, buff is computer game terminology.
To me.
Everything Mown does is elegant.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 10:39PM
#15
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Date Joined:
Jun 14, 2006
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I haven't ever heard "buff" before.
If someone were to say buff I would think that could reference any kind of buff (for example giving a creature hexproof or vigilance) while pump specifically boosts power and toughness.
Don't be too smart to have fun
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4 months ago ::
Feb 01, 2013 - 12:48AM
#16
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Date Joined:
Jan 13, 2012
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Pump is temporary p/t increase, buff is computer game terminology.
To me.
This.
Buff = opposite of nerf
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I hope you all feel really smart now. 
This is like someone coming into class with a bloody nose and everyone's like "Jeez what happened to you" and they're like "I ran into a wall" and everyone laughs at them for being an idiot but then at the end of the class they say "HAHA JUST KIDDING I PUNCHED MYSELF IN THE FACE!!!!!! TALK ABOUT OWNED HAHAHAHAHA"
I really enjoy imagining this from Kevin's perspective. Because in Kevin's world, Rosewater actually reads everything he types. Mark is sitting there right now, reading this, and thinking "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled. . ." Or some such. He chuckles low, then clicks on "The Best Of KEVINSET" and says "Yes, this'll do just fine. A busty lady with banding who deals direct damage to Zones!? Why this will be the star of my next set, and no one will ever believe you Kevin." Then he closes his Macbook, so his servant may move it out of the way, while another servant puts a Fetal Richard Garfield Clone lathered in Steak Sauce in front of him. Then Mark Feasts.
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I wish more girls play magic cards...
Have you considered assassinating Kevin?
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4 months ago ::
Feb 01, 2013 - 2:53AM
#17
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Date Joined:
Aug 22, 2007
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Buff is any positive effect from a p/t increase to giving it a keyword ability.
Pump is any heavy resource devotion to a card
You can pump up a creature to buff it. That is the most common usage so 99% of the time a pump is a p/t increase.
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Constitution Based Class for Next!
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4 months ago ::
Feb 02, 2013 - 5:14AM
#18
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Date Joined:
Mar 22, 2009
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Personally I only say "pump", although I find "buff" unoffensive. ~ Tim p.s. Oh and I am from the UK, so I drink "pop" and not "soda" (soda water tastes rank)
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That makes no sense to me.
If they spelled the ability out on the card in full then it would not be allowed in a mono-black Commander deck, but because they used a keyword to save space it is allowed?
~ Tim
Yup, just like you can have Birds of paradise  in a mono green deck but not Noble Hierarch  . YAY COLOR IDENTITY 
Is algebra really that difficult?
Survey says yes.
You want to make a milky drink. You squeeze a cow.
I love this description. Like the cows are sponges filled with milk. I can see it all Nick Parks claymation-style with the cow's eyes bugging out momentarily as a giant farmer squeezes it like a squeaky dog toy, and milk shoots out of it.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 02, 2013 - 7:51AM
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For me n my circles, it seems like "pump" has always been a temporary until-end-of-turn thing, and a "buff" is something like a Goblin King or Deathbringer Liege.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 02, 2013 - 8:02AM
#20
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Date Joined:
Jun 14, 2007
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Let's compromise and call it "puff".
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