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I am trying a new stagey. The goal is to get as many cards from the new expansion as possible. I have a high number of cards from the card sets before it. I saved all my standard packs from this expansion. I will be opening about 142 packs from the new expansion tomorrow. I think opening the standard packs first is likely a good idea, but I am not sure. Should I open a perils in paradise pack first to make sure those cards open in the standard packs? I am not sure if having cards from the new set in your collection is required to get cards from that set in standard packs.
If you are in your first year of playing please read this post.
Dust does not burn a hole in the jar. Be careful what you craft, especially before and right after a rotation.
You are right, start with standard packs, so you have higher odds of opening new cards.
First of all, you don't need to have PiP cards before you can find them in Standard packs. Standard packs contain cards from all Standard expansions, including the newest one. And just because some people misunderstood this in the past: Your current Standard packs can contain cards from PiP as soon as the expansion is out. Their content is not set on the moment you obtain them (rareties allegedly are, but not the cards themselves).
So, when you open your packs and want to get the most cards from the newest set, you should open Standard packs first. However, there are a few things to keep in mind: When you are still missing commons and rares from other Standard sets, you might want to open PiP packs first, so you can find the missing commons and rares in Standard packs. If you open PiP packs first, you will find epics and legendaries from PiP (obviously), it will make the pool of epics and legendaries you can find in Standard packs smaller, thus the chance would decrease that you'll get some from PiP and not from other sets. On the other hand, if you do want to find epics and legendaries from other sets, open PiP first.
Maximizing the cards from the newest expansion makes sense since this will routinely give you a decent stock of possible nerf candidates. For epics and legendaries, it may come down to preferences. Other than that, dust is dust and the differences are negligible in the long run, depending on how much you spend/open per expansion and how large your collection is.
Short answer: Yes, you'll get more cards from the newest set if you open Standard packs first.
To maximize the amount of new set cards you get, the following opening order is optimal (ignore any you don't have)
Catch Up Packs --> Old expansion packs --> Class specific packs --> Standard Packs --> Newest Expansion packs
With 140 packs, your only concern is Epics and Legendaries.
If you have collected the majority of cards from the currently active sets, then duplicate protection will result in Standard packs dropping new expansion cards.
So yes, if you open Standard packs first you will end up with more expansion cards, BUT expansion packs will obviously only drop expansion cards - making the packs useless once you have all cards.
Therefore, I prefer to open expansion packs first and then fill the holes with Standard packs as the remaining packs keep their value for the next expansion.
Thats one of the goals. A few years back I stopped mass dusting duplicates. My dust has grown like crazy and I now have 56k. But I am sure playing mostly Wild has helped as well.
So today I will start with the standard packs. Thanks to everyone who chimed in.
If you are in your first year of playing please read this post.
Dust does not burn a hole in the jar. Be careful what you craft, especially before and right after a rotation.