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Magic: the Gathering Deck building requires strategy as players must choose among thousands of cards which they want to play. This requires players to evaluate the power of their cards, and the possible synergy between them, and their possible interactions with the cards they expect to play against. This evaluation is a "metagame" that is constantly evolving over locales and time. The choice of cards is usually narrowed by the player deciding which colors they want to include in the deck. Players expand their card MTG card collection for deck building through booster packs, which have a random distribution of cards from a specific Magic set and defined by rarity. These rarities are known as Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Mythic Rare, with more powerful cards generally having higher rarities.

Most sanctioned games for Magic: The Gathering under the Wizards Play Network (WPN) use the based Constructed format that require players to build their decks from their own library of cards. In general, this requires a minimum of sixty cards in the deck, and, except for basic land cards, no more than four cards of the same named card. The pool of cards is also typically limited to the Standard rotation, which consists of only recently released cards.

The Standard format helps to prevent "power creep" that can be difficult to predict with the size of the MTG card library and help give newer players an equal chance versus long-term players. Other Constructed formats exist that allow for use of older expansions to give more variety for decks. Many other formats have been defined by the WPN allowing different pools of expansions to be used.