topdeck
See also: top deck
English
Alternative forms
- top deck
- top-deck
Etymology
top + deck
Verb
topdeck (third-person singular simple present topdecks, present participle topdecking, simple past and past participle topdecked)
- (collectible card games, transitive) To draw (a card) from one's deck and play it on the same turn.
- 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>:
- opp [...] was one turn short of death, when he topdecked wrath... i topdecked skizzik, but he had counter...
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- (collectible card games, intransitive) To draw cards from one's deck and play them immediately turn after turn because one has no other cards to play.
- 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>:
- 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.
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