Digital collectible card game

A video game in which players collect digital cards and build decks for strategic play, often against other players. Its digital format can automate rules and support updates, matchmaking, and online play.

Deck-building game: A game in which players construct or improve a deck as a central part of play. Deck construction determines which cards and strategies a player can bring into a match.
Magic: The Gathering: A tabletop collectible card game created by Richard Garfield and first published in 1993. Its collectible cards, deck construction, and competitive play established a key model for the digital genre.
Collectible card game: A game in which players acquire cards and build decks from a changing collection. Digital collectible card games adapt this physical-game structure to software.
Ranked play: A competitive game mode that matches players and tracks their performance in a ranking system. Ranks give repeated online matches a measurable competitive goal.
Living card game: A card game whose planned expansions are sold in fixed card sets rather than randomized packs. It offers collection growth without the randomized booster model common in digital card games.
Mana curve: The distribution of cards across resource costs in a deck. A balanced curve helps players make useful plays throughout a match.
Magic: The Gathering Online: A digital version of Magic: The Gathering launched in 2002. It brought a major physical card game into persistent online play.
Trading card game: A game whose players collect and exchange cards to assemble decks for play. Trading shaped how players acquire cards before digital collections became account-based.
Draft (card game): A format in which players select cards from temporary groups to build decks for play. Draft modes test adaptation and card evaluation without relying on a permanent collection.
Roguelike deck-building game: A game combining run-based progression with choices that build a deck during each run. Its cards are usually chosen within temporary runs rather than collected for persistent PvP decks.

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