<p>I believe I found it via some more thorough browsing through a list of collectible card games. The game was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magi-Nation_Duel" rel="noreferrer">Magi-Nation Duel</a> which came out in 2000.</p>
<p>The creature card I was vaguely remembering was in fact called <a href="https://www.cardgamecollector.com/magi-nation-duel/single/xyx-arderial.html" rel="noreferrer">Xyx</a>.
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/axU9s.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/axU9s.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>

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2023-04-04T14:40:14.697Z
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Shufflepants
<p>I remember playing some customizable card game with a friend back sometime between ~1998-2004. I don't really remember much of anything about the game except that I think it was element based, and there was some lightning/air elemental called something like Zzyzzx. I've tried looking through the list on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collectible_card_games" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia</a> and googling variations of &quot;Zzyzzx card game&quot;, but nothing is jumping out at me. It's possible it's on that list and I'm just not recognizing it.</p>

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2023-03-31T19:56:24.530Z
Was the elemental perhaps called "Xyzzy", in tribute to [Colossal Cave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyzzy_(computing))? That doesn't help much because now you get lots of hits on Google instead...
Philip Kendall
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2023-03-31T23:49:49.030Z
There is
Zzzyxas's Abyss in Magic the Gathering https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74336
Mosquite
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2023-04-01T16:37:20.760Z
Incredibly [Wikipedia has a disambiguation page for this name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx). Of note is the 1983 **video** game *Zzyzzyxx*, could that be it?
Cain Goldhardt
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2023-04-03T22:56:54.187Z
@Mosquite It was definitely not MTG. But it was magic-like.
Shufflepants
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2023-04-03T22:58:36.100Z
@CainGoldhardt It was not a video game. It was a physical collectible card game. And it was definitely not called Zzyzzyxx. "Zzyzzx" or whatever the card was actually called was just the only card in the game I could come even close to remembering the name of.
Shufflepants
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2023-04-17T07:38:57.037Z
@Cohensius I'm struggling to see the relevance of the image here?
Philip Kendall
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2023-04-17T11:53:47.090Z
I googled Zzyzzx and found about this road in California.  I think that the picture adds flavor to the question but I might be wrong.
Cohensius
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2023-04-18T21:49:07.880Z
@Cohensius Yeah, not sure it's relevant since I originally remembered the name of the card I had seen wrong.
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Game Identification: some air elemental called something like Zzyzzx
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# Game Identification: some air elemental called something like Zzyzzx

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-03-31)

I remember playing some customizable card game with a friend back sometime between ~1998-2004. I don't really remember much of anything about the game except that I think it was element based, and there was some lightning/air elemental called something like Zzyzzx. I've tried looking through the list on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collectible_card_games) and googling variations of "Zzyzzx card game", but nothing is jumping out at me. It's possible it's on that list and I'm just not recognizing it.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Was the elemental perhaps called "Xyzzy", in tribute to [Colossal Cave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyzzy_(computing))? That doesn't help much because now you get lots of hits on Google instead...  
> **username_2**: There is Zzzyxas's Abyss in Magic the Gathering https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74336  
> **username_3**: Incredibly [Wikipedia has a disambiguation page for this name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx). Of note is the 1983 **video** game *Zzyzzyxx*, could that be it?  
> **username_0**: @username_2 It was definitely not MTG. But it was magic-like.  
> **username_0**: @username_3 It was not a video game. It was a physical collectible card game. And it was definitely not called Zzyzzyxx. "Zzyzzx" or whatever the card was actually called was just the only card in the game I could come even close to remembering the name of.  
> **username_1**: @username_4 I'm struggling to see the relevance of the image here?  
> **username_4**: I googled Zzyzzx and found about this road in California.  I think that the picture adds flavor to the question but I might be wrong.  
> **username_0**: @username_4 Yeah, not sure it's relevant since I originally remembered the name of the card I had seen wrong.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2023-04-04. Score: 7 | Accepted answer

I believe I found it via some more thorough browsing through a list of collectible card games. The game was [Magi-Nation Duel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magi-Nation_Duel) which came out in 2000.

The creature card I was vaguely remembering was in fact called [Xyx](https://www.cardgamecollector.com/magi-nation-duel/single/xyx-arderial.html).
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/axU9s.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/axU9s.png)


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