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title: "Legends of Runeterra Hand Draw Tutorial"
subtitle: "Recreate the card handling effect using Phaser Drag Events."
date: 2021-05-28T00:00:00.000Z
category: tutorial
url: https://phaser.io/news/2021/05/legends-of-runeterra-hand-draw-tutorial
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Legends of Runeterra Hand Draw Tutorial

*Recreate the card handling effect using Phaser Drag Events.*

![image](legends-of-runeterra-hand-draw-tutorial.png)

Emanuele Feronato writes: "Are you destroying enemies in Legends of Runeterra? I am a Platinum player at the moment, and I am enjoying it a lot.

With the power of Phaser’s drag events, I built this “Legends of Runeterra” way of handling cards in your hand. HTML5 example with complete source code to download.

I play mostly on my iPhone, and love the way the game shows the cards in your hand, in the bottom right part of the screen.

So I played a bit with Phaser drag listeners and I managed to create something similar in HTML5.

The whole card drawing process is going to be quite complex, so I decided to break it into steps. In this first step, we’ll see how to display cards in our hand, select them and move them around the screen."

[Read More](https://www.emanueleferonato.com/2020/05/22/draw-a-card-from-your-hand-like-in-legends-of-runeterra-mobile-version/)

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