======Glossary======
This page gather a collection of terms specific to Hidden Dimensions (most of which you will encounter in the **[[http://nulll-void.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=21|forum]]**) and collectible card games in general, with a short definition for each.

=====A=====
  * **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**
=====B=====
  * ** 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
=====C=====
  * **CA** : Ca'anian (race) / {{hidden:eng2.png}} 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) / {{hidden:eng4.png}} 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
=====D=====
  * **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
=====E=====
  * ** Early Game ** :  The first few turns, when energy is the limiting factor on playing cards
  * ** Expensive ** :  High cost to cast, or potentially to activate
=====F=====
  * ** Finisher ** :  A card that is meant to end the game right away when it is used
=====G=====
  * **Green** : see **CA**
  * **Gold** : see **RD**
=====H=====
  * ** 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) / {{hidden:eng1.png}} energy
=====I=====
=====J=====
  * ** Jumping the curve ** :  Playing things more quickly than is normally possible
=====K=====
=====L=====
  * **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
=====M=====
  * **MT** : Mith'ri'aeil (race) / {{hidden:eng6.png}} energy
=====N=====
  * **Nerf** : weakening of a card in a game update
=====O=====
  * ** Off Color ** :  Any kind of energy your deck can only use for random costs
  * ** Over the board ** :  Through playing a game
=====P=====
  * **Pump** : to increase (often repeatedly) the stats of a ship
  * **Purple** : see **MT**
  * **Pink** : see **CC**
=====Q=====
=====R=====
  * **Rush deck** : deck focusing on speed to overwhelm the opponent 
  * **RD** : Rift Demon (race) /{{hidden:eng8.png}} energy
  * **Red** : see **HU**
  * ** Regen ** :  From regenerate, when a ship heals itself every turn as an ability
  * **RL** : Relic or Artifact (race) / random ({{hidden:eng9.png}}) energy
  * **RV** : Rivi'i (race) / {{hidden:eng5.png}} energy
=====S=====
  * ** 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
=====T=====
  * **Teal** : see **TM**
  * ** Team, the ** :  All the ships currently in play on a side
  * **TM** : Technomancer (race) / {{hidden:eng7.png}} energy
=====U=====
=====V=====
=====W=====
  * **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
=====X=====
  * **XY** : Xyloxi (race) / {{hidden:eng3.png}} energy
=====Y=====
  * **Yellow** : see **RD**
=====Z=====