Well, there are cards that change this dynamic, either giving you a huge benefit when you discard your own cards or by punishing people for having few or zero cards in hand
Additionally, the option between two different attacks means that the player playing Raging Bolt ex has the choice to discard their hand and draw six fresh cards they can use during their next turn if they dont need to take a knockout that turn or to go for the damaging option with Bellowing Thunder
During your next turn, this Pokmon cant use Ogre Hammer
In Premodern, however, control tends to fall into four different categories: Classic Control, UW Standstill Lock Control, Stasis / Spirit of Resistance Creature-based Control, The Solution Non-UW Control, BUG / Domain UW Control Blue and white are the best colors to start with when building a control shell
Fast forward a few months (like three or four) in 2021 and I got my cards back