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deckbuilding

deckbuilding noun: the construction of a deck of playing cards in certain games where players can make decisions about which cards to include.

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.
    • 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 of deckbuilding

From deck + building.

Questions about deckbuilding

What does deckbuilding mean?
Deckbuilding means the construction of a deck of playing cards in certain games where players can make decisions about which cards to include.
What part of speech is deckbuilding?
Deckbuilding is a noun.

Words near deckbuilding in the dictionary

  1. deck-wise
  2. Deckard
  3. Deckards
  4. deckbuilder
  5. deckbuilders
  6. deckbuilding
  7. deckchair
  8. deckchairs
  9. decked
  10. decked out
  11. decked over

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