<p><strong>No, you do not draw 4 cards from the Treasure or Door deck when you empty your hand.</strong></p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/rules/munchkin_rules.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">official rules</a> mention '4' seven times, and 'four' twice. All the '4' references are examples (I.e. [general rules list] &quot;<strong>4. You must kill</strong> a monster to reach Level 10,&quot; [phase] &quot;<strong>(4) Charity</strong>: If you have more than five cards in your hand,&quot; &quot;Drooling Slime and an Elf helps you, the monster’s combat strength is <strong>increased by 4</strong>,&quot; etc. ). The two places 'four' are mentioned is in the <strong>Setup</strong> and <strong>Death</strong> sections. These are the only rules that allow you to draw four cards from both the Treasure and Door decks.</p>
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<p><strong>Setup</strong> - [...] Divide the cards into the Door deck and the Treasure deck. Shuffle both decks. <strong>Deal four cards from each deck to each player.</strong> (page 1)</p>
<p><strong>Death</strong> - [...] Your new character appears when the next player begins his turn, and can help others in combat . . . but you have no cards.
On your next turn, start by <strong>drawing four cards from each deck</strong>, face-down, and playing any legal Race, Class, or Item cards you want to, just as when you started the game. Then take your turn normally. (page 3)</p>
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<p>No, you do not draw a new hand when yours runs out. Your friends are playing with a house rule. It <em>might</em> be an optional rule in some expansion's handbook, but I'm not aware of such an optional rule.</p>

<p>The only time you draw a new hand is when you start a new character: at the beginning of the game, or after you die.</p>

<p>You are <em>not expected</em> to always have cards in your hand in Munchkin. In fact, it's highly likely that you won't have any cards in your hand a while into the game, and that's fine!</p>

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I don't remember seeing this rule anywhere in the first eight expansions.
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<p>I played with a new group of friends recently and they are playing with such a rule where they will draw a new hand if they don't have any card. Basically their strategy is to finish off all the cards in their hand so they can draw a new 4x treasures and 4x doors the next turn. Any idea if this true? Thanks.</p>

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# Do I draw a new hand if I start my turn without any card?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-12-24)

I played with a new group of friends recently and they are playing with such a rule where they will draw a new hand if they don't have any card. Basically their strategy is to finish off all the cards in their hand so they can draw a new 4x treasures and 4x doors the next turn. Any idea if this true? Thanks.

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2013-12-24. Score: 9 | Accepted answer

No, you do not draw a new hand when yours runs out. Your friends are playing with a house rule. It *might* be an optional rule in some expansion's handbook, but I'm not aware of such an optional rule.

The only time you draw a new hand is when you start a new character: at the beginning of the game, or after you die.

You are *not expected* to always have cards in your hand in Munchkin. In fact, it's highly likely that you won't have any cards in your hand a while into the game, and that's fine!

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: I don't remember seeing this rule anywhere in the first eight expansions.  

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### Answer by username_1 on 2013-12-24. Score: 5

**No, you do not draw 4 cards from the Treasure or Door deck when you empty your hand.**

The [official rules](http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/rules/munchkin_rules.pdf) mention '4' seven times, and 'four' twice. All the '4' references are examples (I.e. [general rules list] "**4. You must kill** a monster to reach Level 10," [phase] "**(4) Charity**: If you have more than five cards in your hand," "Drooling Slime and an Elf helps you, the monster’s combat strength is **increased by 4**," etc. ). The two places 'four' are mentioned is in the **Setup** and **Death** sections. These are the only rules that allow you to draw four cards from both the Treasure and Door decks.

> **Setup** - [...] Divide the cards into the Door deck and the Treasure deck. Shuffle both decks. **Deal four cards from each deck to each player.** (page 1)
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> **Death** - [...] Your new character appears when the next player begins his turn, and can help others in combat . . . but you have no cards.
> On your next turn, start by **drawing four cards from each deck**, face-down, and playing any legal Race, Class, or Item cards you want to, just as when you started the game. Then take your turn normally. (page 3)


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