Significant Anagram/Tabletop Games

Examples of Significant Anagrams in Tabletop Games include:

Board Games

In the Warhammer Fantasy Battle Genevieve series, the minor character Alvdov Renastic is revealed to be Vlad von Carstein, the last descendant of a famous vampire family. However he's not actually a vampire yet, and is using the pseudonym to hide from his family and associated hangers-on who want to turn him into one and demand he conquers the Empire. All he wants to do is pursue a career as a ventriloquist. Note that this is not a perfect anagram, as "Alvdov Renastic" contains only one n and "Vlad von Carstein" contains two.

Card Games

Several Magic: The Gathering cards have names which are Significant Anagrams, such as:
- Phelddagrif (Garfield PhD)
- Pemmin's Aura (I Am Superman)
- Mangara, which is an anagram of... anagram.
- The least dignified is probably Telim'Tor, which is anagrammed from a designer who attempted to get nicknamed after a household appliance and was thusly dubbed "Mr. Toilet".
- Onulet's name was anagrammed from Soul Net (both cause you to gain life when a creature goes to the graveyard) but had the final "S" removed because the art had only one creature. Later cards were anagrammed from "Darker Onulet" and "Mega Onulet".
- If backwards spelling counts, there's Nevinyrral's Disk.
- Slightly less old-school, 2007's Lorwyn set gave us Liliana Vess. With her dark magic and dealings with demons, she might be considered "A Villainess", though Word of God says it was completely accidental.
- Genius Bonus: Bösium Strip lets you recycle cards, and the Möbius strip is a symbol for recycling. A related card is Elkin Bottle.
- The cards Mijae Djinn and Ydwen Efreet were named after a married couple at Wizards, Jamie and Wendy. Note the similarity of their abilities.
The Dragonmaids in Yu-Gi-Oh!; the low-Level members of the group are Cute Monster Girl Dragon Type monsters dressed as maids, their names reflective of their jobs, Parlor, Nurse, Kitchen, Laundry, and House. The high-Level Dragonmaids are their true Dragon forms, with names that are anagrams of their low-Level forms: Lorpar, Ermus, Tinkhec, Nudyarl, and Sheou.

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