Deck
Common collocations
| tons | deck tons | pile tons |
Both words in one sentence
- They have very little base-breaking or minion-altering abilities, instead utilizing their deck and discard pile in unconventional ways, such as placing cards from their discard pile on the bottom of their deck.
Source: Tabletop Game / Smash Up - Lysandre's Trump Card, a supporter card which returned the entire discard pile back to the deck.
Source: Game Breaker / Pokémon -
If you look at the pile of cards he's shuffling, it's clear he's not playing with a full deck.
Source: Web Video / The Joker Blogs
Cite this Source
Pile and Deck. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/deck/pile
Deck & Pile. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/deck/pile>.
Pile or Deck. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/deck/pile.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "deck" and "pile" have occurred on timeline