In my years of playing Magic: the Gathering, I have become familiar with most of the slangs or shortcut terms used to describe a certain card or play or situation. These slangs are mostly invented by players, and not game rules related. A few I’ve known and still continue to use are: “Alpha Strike”, “Bear”, “Vanilla”, “Chump-block”, “mana float” and many more to mention.

The wiki at MTG Salvation compiled a list of Magic: The Gathering slang, which you can check on the link below.

http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/List_of_Magic_slang