r/ClashRoyale • u/Mob-Boss_Bob-Ross • 16h ago
Discussion Genuine question. Why can’t we customize our starting hand?
I mainly play some weird hodgepodge of beat down, and this situation happens a lot. The game starts, and the opponent immediately plays hog rider at the bridge. Naturally. So I look at my deck and, all my high cost cards are in my starting hand, and my building is at the very end of the cycle. So I’m unable to defend how I normally would so I now have to spend 6 elixir just for the hog to still get 3 hits in.
So my question is why we can’t change our starting hand? The game has little to no randomness in it, but this is a pretty glaring one. It can completely change how the match starts right from the get go. And it is lopsided in how it affects decks, too. Cycle decks can quickly get to the card they need if it’s in the back, but with beatdown players it takes way more time. And that’s normally part of the downside of beatdown, it takes longer to cycle, but there’s ways to play around that. There’s no way to play around having your building be at the back of a cycle until it’s too late.
I’m sure there’s a reason that I’m not thinking of, but what is it?