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Collectible card game

You build up a collection of cards, earned from packs, rewards or trades, and use it to put together decks to face other players. The challenge plays out twice: when building the deck and during the match.

Also known as: CCG, collectable card game, digital collectible card game, DCCG, TCG

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 1997
    Origin

    The first digital collectible card games appear in 1997, such as Chron X and the digital Magic: The Gathering. The format was born on paper with Magic (1993).

    Digital collectible card game (Wikipedia)
  2. 2014

    Hearthstone, free-to-play on PC and mobile, becomes a major critical and commercial success.

    Hearthstone (Wikipedia)