Naming things is hard

I'll just come out and say it. I can't stand the new names for the wedges. I tried to remember when Ravnica first came out and how I felt about those names. Also for Shards of <Something really stupid that I can't remember>.

Azorius, Dimir, Rakdos, Gruul, Selesnya, Orzhov, Izzet, Golgari, Boros, and Simic

Bant, Esper, Grixis, Jund, and Naya

Mardu, Jeskai, Temur, Sultai, and Abzan

I also should mention the totally sweet wiki page I mercilessly stole images from.

These names are super important. We used to have to use dumb color shortcut jargon for the names of our decks. Like BUG or RUG or something else totally dumb. Now we have slick one word names. But can I stand saying the new ones. As I said I'm not sure if it's just because they are new.

Here are my official rankings of all 20 names.

1. Golgari
2. Rakdos
3. Jund
4. Naya
5. Azorius (... B.I.G. lol - that's what we've always been thinking, right?)
6. Bant
7. Boros (serious GRRM ripoff)
8. Simic
9. Selesnya
10. Izzet
11. Temur  (town in Kahzakstan ripoff)
12. Dimir
13. Mardu
14. Jeskai
15. Grixis
16. Orzhov
17. Sultai
18. Abzan
19. Esper (serious FF ripoff)

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  83. Gruul  (we all can agree this one is just horrible, I mean pronunciation? gruel? grul?)

Thoughts? Comments?

If I had more time I would run each term through a neutral google search and make a sweet xkcd style graphic. Maybe next week.