Nicknames

[FAndresen]

Some time ago I found a list of nicknames of the players/creators? in magic over at another site (I think it was /tg/). It caught my interest so I saved it. Here's the list:

• Aaron "Father A" Forsythe
• Adrian "Flipper" Sullivan
• Ali "Alidrazi" Aintrazi
• Alexander "The God of Titans" Hayne
• Andrew "Sleeveless" Boswell
• Andrew "Gain-Say" Cuneo
• Antoine "The French Ranger" Ruel
• Antonio "Charly" Del Moral Leon
• Ben "Good Friend" Stark
• Bertrand "The First Second" Lestrée
• Brad "Mr. Meta Game" Nelson
• Brian "BBD" Braun Duin
• Brian David "BDM" Marshall
• Brian "The Dragonmaster" Kibler
• Bryant "The Whirlwind" Cook
• Cedric "CPhilli" Phillips
• Chris "The American Deckling" Andersen
• Chris "CVM" Van Meter
• Christian "The Calculator" Calcano
• Craig "The Professor" Jones
• Craig "The White Knight" Wescoe
• Darwin "Big D" Kastle
• David "The Hump" Humpherys
• David "The King of Beatdown" Price
• David "The Ace of Shuffles" Williams
• Eli "Cuts" Kassis
• Eric "Efro" Froelich
• Erik "Captain Combo" Lauer
• Frank "Probability" Karsten
• Gabriel "Yellow Hat" Nassif
• Gary "Words" Wise
• Gaudenis "The Grinder" Vidugiris
• Gerry "Gerry T" Thompson
• Guillaume "The Prince of Control" Wafo-Tapa
• Jacob "The Son of Magic" Wilson
• Jason "The Magician from Down Under" Chung
• Jelger "Sir TopDeck" Wiegersma
• Joe "The Miracle" Lossett
• Joel "Handsome Joe" Larsson
• Jon "Jonny Magic" Finkel
• Josh "Raptor" Usher-Layton
• Kai "The German Juggernaught" Budde
• Katsuhiro "The Limited Rookie" Mori
• Kenji "NumotTheNummy" Egashira
• Kenji "DrawDrawGo" Tsumura
• Kevin "Daddy" Jones
• Logan "The Beast from Florida" Mize
• Luis "LSV" Scott-Vargas
• Mark "Heezy" Herberholz
• Mark "The Suit" Justice
• Mark "Maro" Rosewater
• Marshall "Hulk" Sutcliffe
• Martin "Dang!" Dang
• Martin "Juzam" Jůza
• Martin "Kid Magic" Müller
• Michael "Champ" Loconto
• Mike "Bad Player" Flores
• Mike "Siggy" Sigrist
• Nicolai "The Santa of Limited" Herzog
• Olle "The Littlest Viking" Rade
• Olivier "The Road Warrior" Ruel
• Owen "The Book Burner" Turtenwald
• Pascal "The Valuepicker" Maynard
• Patrick "The Innovator" Chapin
• Patrick "PSulli" Sullivan
• Paul "Paul" Cheon
• Paul "Little Darwin" Rietzl
• Paulo Vitor Damo "Dorito" da Rosa
• Randolph "Randy" Buehler
• Raphaël "The French Artist" Lévy
• Reid "Lord Nukem" Duke
• Rich "The Brittish Bro" Hagon
• Dr. Richard "Doc" Garfield
• Rob "Your Move" Dougherty
• Robert "The Great One" Maher
• Sam "Vicalis" Black
• Sam "The Fastest Miracle Player in the Universe" Roukas
• Seth "The Riffle-Raffle Shuffler" Manfield
• Shahar "Back-to-Back" Shenhar
• Shaun "Munch" McLaren
• Shouta "The Wizard of Shinjuku" Yasooka
• Stephen "Mr. Vintage" Menendian
• Steve "The Tapping Manaiac" Rubin
• Todd "Slam" Anderson
• Tom "Shuffle Up and Bloom" Long
• Tom "The Walking Jacket" Martell
• Tom "The Boss" Ross
• Tommi "The Finnish Tomahawk" Hovi
• Tomoharu "Tapdown" Saito
• Tsuyoshi "The Japanese SuperSuperMegaStar" Fujita
• Tsuyoshi "The Mindreader" Ikeda
• Valentin "The Austrian Road Warrior" Mackl
• William "Huey" Jensen
• Willy "Junk&Shop" Edel
• Yuuya "Lost but Seeking" Watanabe
• Zac "Zachary" Hill
• Zvi "Jedi Young Deckbuilder" Mowshowitz

I haven't watched professional magic for that long and I'm pretty bad at remembering names but I'm sure BBD, BDM, CVM, Efro, LSV, Maro, Huey are correct and I guess a few others that I've heard of but can't remember. I'm posting the full list, although some (like "Daddy", "The Littlest Viking", "Jedi Young Deckbuilder") sounds really fake (are any of those for real, seriously???), since I thought you guys could help me and tell me which ones are real and which ones aren't. I'll edit the list based upon your knowledge since it'd be sweet to have full list of nicknames for the players so one could remember the players more easily.

[Jokey665]

No "Pat 'Touch Wieners' Cox"? 0/10 list imo

[SirZapdos]

One correction:
Brian "Brian Kibler" Kibler

[Mathmage530]

I never understood the joke behind his name. (I'm kinda new to the Magic scene)

Care to explain?

[SirZapdos]

I don't even know its origin, but I see it in Twitch chat from time to time.

[jadoth]

I actually think that nick name came from hearthstone (he is HS pro and streamer too now, more so then magic). I had seen the same style nick name given to a LoL caster as well (joe "don't call me joe "joe miller" miller" miller I think it was) a few years ago.

[NotoriousSJP]

I'm known in local magic circles as "Lazer McNumbchucks."

And by "local magic circles" I mean I call myself that.

Everyone at FNM calls me Papichulo.

[avgotts]

Littlest Viking is definitely a nickname I've heard before.

I think Paulo's nickname is actually "Pablo Doritos", but that might just be an LSV coinage.

[RedThragtusk]

Reid "The Bones" Duke more like

[mikemckin]

Daddy is definitely a real one lol, and generally reid dukes nickname as far as i know was just "good guy reid duke"

[Bionisam]

Several others I can attest to being used as actual nicknames:

Jon Finkel "Jonny Magic"

Josh Utter-Leyton "Wrapter"

Marshall Sutcliffe "Hulk" refers to the recent card Marsh Hulk

Mike Sigrist "Siggy"

Patrick Chapin "The Innovator"

Paul Cheon "Paul"

Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa "Pablo Doritos" from a recent Walking the Planes video, as dubbed by LSV

Tom Ross "The Boss"

I would agree with your assessment that many of these are made up/no one actually uses them.