deckbuilding

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noun

The construction of a deck of playing cards in certain games where players can make decisions about which cards to include.

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Meanings

noundeckbuilding (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe construction of a deck of playing cards in certain games where players can make decisions about which cards to include.

    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 […]

    2012, George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, K. Robert Gutschera, Characteristics of Games, page 133

Origin

From deck + building.

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APA

deckbuilding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deckbuilding

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“deckbuilding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deckbuilding. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deckbuilding,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deckbuilding.

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