I got permission to x-post this from Reddit. This is a really helpful guide for anyone who is confused about the new no duplicate system. (Read: anyone who now thinks they will start getting packs of all epics/legendaries or anyone who thinks they have come up with a clever way to scam the system.)
What duplicate protection DOES do:
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Ensures you open a new card of the same rarity if one is available. Once you have already obtained, for example, all the commons, you will start getting duplicates again. I cannot stress enough: duplicate protection works across a rarity. Separately for commons, separately for rares, separately for epics, seperately for legendaries.
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Makes it so that you will never open 8 Gurubashi Offerings anymore. After 2 copies of a garbage epic, you will never see it again until you obtained all other epics.
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Makes crafting cards much more safer. Wanna craft 2 Apexis Blasts for your Spell Mage meme? Craft away, you can be 100% sure you won't see it in the pack again and thus have wasted valuable dust.
What duplicate protecton DOES NOT do:
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Increase your chances for other rarities (epics are still per 5 packs on average, legendaries are still per 20 packs on average)
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Make you open packs full of epics and legendaries once you have all the commons and rares
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Fix your sleep schedule
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I guess they wanted to go for the opposite of Underbelly Angler, but worse lmao
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Interesting concept!
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Fair enough, I forgot about that card. I still remain kinda skeptical, I think this is one of those cards we'll have to wait and see.
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I'm not sure how good this is in standard. It's bad tempo (5 mana 5/5 do nothing) and heropowering in turns 5+ doesn't feel great (even if it has divine shield). Libram of Wisdom could save it though.
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They'll probably nerf it, but not too much, just like with Bloodboil Brute.
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Why does young Rexxar look like a mime hahaha
No wonder he covers his face, poor guy
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Mozaki + discounted spells to increase mozaki's spell damage + frostbolts to your opponents face
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There was a similar post weeks ago:
https://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-discussion/244816-runestones-and-arcane-orbs
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Soul DH farms face hunter
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If you want to be taken seriously, avoid saying stuff like "I don't like this", "I despise", "it's not nice". Instead, use something more along the lines of "it's not fun to play against", "it's uninteractive", "it's unbalanced" (regardless of that being true or not).