when you press w, is the first card you get randomly chosen or what?

When you first press it it starts changing cards over your head, cycling through red. yellow, and blue, though I forget the order. When you press it again the card currently up is fixed, and it is used on your next attack. There's a limited time to both the cycling and post selection, wait too long and it fizzles.

i know that you can fix it by pressing w again

but the thing is, once i used the ability, i wait 5 sec, i press w and it starts at red card cycle
10 sec later ( cd )
i wait 5 sec, i press w agin and it starts at gold card cycle

so is the start really random or is there a system?

Start is a bit random.

Order is red->gold->blue->repeat.

It is easy to pick if you pay attention.

u guys still dont get it what i want to know..... i know how to lock in lol and the cycle is blue red yellow since closed beta
the thing is after the second time of PoC the cycle starts somewhere else than blue, sometimes it starts with gold, sometimes with red and sometimes with blue
and i want to know if its random or a specific system

if there is a system this will allow me to lock in the card i want to have as fast as possible in a hectic situation

He wants to know if the first card in the cycle is random, not the cycle itself. And to answer the OP, I don't know/

the cycle continues from the previous card you chose

so if you pulled a yellow card last, expect the yellow card to come up for a fraction of a second next time you hit w, followed by blue etc