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topdeck en · VERB

Etymology

From top + deck.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:collectible card games, transitive) 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, qualifier: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>:

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