mono-brown

adjective

Featuring or using mostly artifact cards.

Meanings

adjectivemono-brown (comparative more mono-brown, superlative most mono-brown)

comparative more mono-brown · superlative most mono-brown

  1. Magic: The GatheringFeaturing or using mostly artifact cards.

    The situation that came up was me playing my control critters deck vs. a mono-brown deck and some others.

    2001 September 18, Howling Fang [username], “Token ownership”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.rules (Usenet)
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    I was thinking that you could use the same engine to put Atogs and big artifact creatures in, similar to the mono-brown deck with a splash of blue.

    1999 March 6, Michael Wong, “the new combo deck for April 1st”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc (Usenet)

    This seems to be a common problem I have been encountering against mono-brown decks, oath of ghouls, living death decks.

    1999 May 17, Nathan Murata, “help against darwins....”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet)

Origin

From mono- + brown, from the brown border formerly used for artifact cards.

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