deckbuilding

English

Etymology

From deck +‎ building.

Noun

deckbuilding (uncountable)

1. The construction of a deck of playing cards in certain games where players can make decisions about which cards to include.
   • 2012, George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, K. Robert Gutschera, Characteristics of Games, page 133:

     In Magic, a blue card so powerful that everyone played blue, and games hung on who drew that particular card first, and the other cards in the deck all went toward supporting that card, would turn a game of making choices in deckbuilding into a game with one choice […]

Related terms

• deckbuilder

Further reading

• Deck-building game on Wikipedia.Wikipedia