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The Role of RNG and Starting Hands in Tower Rush
Declan Gerstaecker edited this page 2026-07-20 23:51:00 +00:00


However, there is one unavoidable element of pure, unadulterated luck that infects every single match from the very first second.

This initial dose of RNG can drastically alter the flow of the match, occasionally creating scenarios where a player is mathematically guaranteed to take massive damage before they can even react.
The Unwinnable Opening
The term 'starting handed' is used by the community to describe a situation where your opening four cards offer absolutely no viable defensive options for the opponent's immediate attack.

This is intensely frustrating because the damage was not caused by a strategic error or a misplay, but purely by the random shuffle of the deck.
If you have a terrible starting hand, play completely passively.Identify your cheapest 'cycle' card in your opening hand.Taking 1000 tower damage is better than losing the entire game instantly. Testing the Waters
If your opening hand contains your primary win condition and a supporting spell, you can launch a full-scale assault the exact second the match begins.

However, if the opponent happens to have the perfect hard-counter in their opening hand, your aggressive first play will be effortlessly destroyed.
Game FactorHow it Affects the StartWeight of the DeckHeavier decks suffer exponentially more from bad starting hands because they cannot afford to cycle useless cards awayFixed Starting Hands in Tournaments (Requested Feature)The community constantly asks developers to let players choose their opening 4 cards to remove this RNG entirely, but devs refuse, claiming RNG keeps the game exciting The Chaos of the Arena
The developers intentionally maintain the randomness of starting hands to ensure that matches do not become perfectly scripted, robotic sequences of identical plays.

You cannot control the shuffle, but you can control your reaction to it.

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