[citation needed] Internally, the term was coined by then-WizKids Communications Director Jason Mical to describe the game where players assemble ships from hulls, masts, and deck pieces punched out of credit card-like plastic (polystyrene).
A second CSG from WizKids, Rocketmen, was released in summer 2005, and a NASCAR-themed CSG called Race Day came out later that year.
WizKids now utilizes the term "PocketModel" to describe this genre, as with Star Wars PocketModel Trading Card Game[1] and the modern Pirates of the Spanish Main website.
[2] White Wolf, Inc. released their own CSG, Racer Knights of Falconus, under their Arthaus Publishing imprint in mid-2005.
Wizards of the Coast was awarded U.S. patent 7,201,374 in early 2007 for the constructible strategy game.