topdecks

Verb

topdeck (third-person singular simple present topdecks, present participle topdecking, simple past and past participle topdecked)

1. (transitive, collectible card games) To draw (a card) from one's deck and play it on the same turn.
   • opp [...] was one turn short of death, when he topdecked wrath... i topdecked skizzik, but he had counter...2002 January 7, Watman, “Re: [t2] deck critique - mono red (and counter-burn too)”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <a1dvht$mv9$3@news.tpi.pl>
2. (intransitive, collectible card games) To draw cards from one's deck and play them immediately turn after turn because one has no other cards to play.
   • I've countered, burned, destroyed pretty much everything he's played, but now I'm out of cards and so is he. So now it's a topdecking game.1998 November 8, Steven Merritt, “Re: Is it really the Academy?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <36461201.2C67@165.95.92.10>