mono-brown
English
Etymology
mono- + brown, from the brown border formerly used for artifact cards.
Adjective
mono-brown (comparative more mono-brown, superlative most mono-brown)
- (Magic: The Gathering) Featuring or using mostly artifact cards.
- 1999 March 6, Michael Wong, “the new combo deck for April 1st”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc, Usenet:
- 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 May 17, Nathan Murata, “help against darwins....”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy, Usenet:
- This seems to be a common problem I have been encountering against mono-brown decks, oath of ghouls, living death decks.
- 2001 September 18, Howling Fang [username], “Token ownership”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.rules, Usenet:
- The situation that came up was me playing my control critters deck vs. a mono-brown deck and some others.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:mono-brown.
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