Glossary

This page gather a collection of terms specific to Hidden Dimensions (most of which you will encounter in the forum) and collectible card games in general, with a short definition for each.

• Abnomnom : Abomination (card)
• Across from : In the same lane as <thing> on the opposing side
• Alpha, card : Any card you can only have if you were an alpha tester
• Artillery : see Direct Damage

• Bait, <thing> : Designed to draw out enemy cards so you can play other stuff safely.
• Block, Ship : To put your ship in front of a specific ship of the opponent
• Blue : see XY
• Board Control : Using abilities of ships or structures to damage or cause stat reductions on any of the enemy's ship slots every turn
• Broken : Extremely good
• Broken in half - More than extremely good
• Brown : see RV
• Buff : benefic effect applied to a ship / improvement of a card in a game update

• CA : Ca'anian (race) / energy / Card Advantage
• Card Advantage : having more usable cards (in hand and board) than your opponent
• CD : Card Disadvantage (inverse of Card Advantage)
• Carrier : Anything that can create a spawned ship
• CC : Caes'cix (race) / energy
• Cheap : Low cost to cast, or potentially to activate
• CIP : Comes into play, any ability of this type is triggered once when the card is put on the board and never again.
• Clear : Nothing blocking a ship
• Come Across : See Attack
• Combo, Card : From Combination, interactions between cards, especially when those interactions have a very high power level
• Combo Deck : A deck built entirely around an interaction between two cards, especially if it uses cards normally considered to be very weak
• Control deck : deck focusing on answering threats and slowly dominating the game
• Cost : What you lose when you build decks with this card in it, pay in energy to play it, and pay in battle with it.
• Cost Effective : Cost low in relation to total power. Low cost cards with low power aren't cost effective nor are high cost cards with low power.
• Curve, the : The average amount of energy available to a deck at each stage of the game

• Debuff : negative effect applied to a ship
• Deck Building : See Deck Construction
• Deck Construction : Before the game when you are deciding which cards to include
• Decking : running out of cards in the deck, resulting in a loss
• Denial : preventing access to essential ressources such as cards (draw denial : see skipdraw) or energy (see draining)
• Direct Damage : ability to deal damage to any single target (or ship) on the board
• Discard : When a player loses cards directly from their hand before they play it
• Draining : "loses X random energy" ability

• Early Game : The first few turns, when energy is the limiting factor on playing cards
• Expensive : High cost to cast, or potentially to activate

• Finisher : A card that is meant to end the game right away when it is used

• Green : see CA
• Gold : see RD

• Hand : The cards you have already drawn and haven't used
• Haste : "can attack or use ability the same turn it was launched" ability
• HD2 / HDS : The name of the game itself, Hidden Dimensions: Spectrum
• Heal / Healing : See Repair, also used for increasing base HP at the same time as repairing
• Hits Multiple : Anything that attacks the 3 ships in front of it
• Hits 3 : Anything that attacks the 3 ships in front of it
• Hits All : Anything that attacks every slot at once.
• HU : Human (race) / energy

• Jumping the curve : Playing things more quickly than is normally possible

• Land : structure, especially one which generates energy each turn
• Late Game : The turns after the early game, when not having more cards in hand is the limiting factor on playing cards
• Life : HP on the base or on a ship
• Life Gain : Increasing/Repairing the HP on the base or a ship

• MT : Mith'ri'aeil (race) / energy

• Nerf : weakening of a card in a game update

• Off Color : Any kind of energy your deck can only use for random costs
• Over the board : Through playing a game

• Pump : to increase (often repeatedly) the stats of a ship
• Purple : see MT
• Pink : see CC

• Rush deck : deck focusing on speed to overwhelm the opponent
• RD : Rift Demon (race) / energy
• Red : see HU
• Regen : From regenerate, when a ship heals itself every turn as an ability
• RL : Relic or Artifact (race) / random () energy
• RV : Rivi'i (race) / energy

• Sack : From sacrifice, to destroy your own cards with either the "Remove" button (for structures) or an ability inherent to the ship (hammerhead, Demonic Rift spawned ships, etc)
• Ship Size : Small (1 - 3 cost), Medium (4 - 6 cost), Heavy (7 - 9 cost), Assault (10+ cost)
• Skipdraw : "skip drawing a card next turn" ability
• Slots : Individual spaces on the board (7 for ships and 5 for structures)
• Spamming : repeated use of a card or ability
• Spawn : a small ship launched by a Carrier or Shipyard
• Splash : additional minor race in a deck
• Stack : The cards in the deck that haven't yet been drawn
• Stalemate : All slots are full
• Stall : Artificially stretching out the length of the game in turns in order to get more use out of abilities usable every turn
• Swing / Swing In : See Attack
• Synergy : When the two cards interact better together than independently, such as increasing the max HP of a ship that can regenerate buying it more turns of regeneration

• Teal : see TM
• Team, the : All the ships currently in play on a side
• TM : Technomancer (race) / energy

• Wall : a ship with little to none attack power but usually high defense / the ability for a deck to block all enemy ships with ships

• XY : Xyloxi (race) / energy

• Yellow : see RD