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Great feedback, I think dust might be a better way to calculate how much you really still need. So I added a dust line below the total card line calculating the amount of dust required per rarity, total and a percentage of total dust for both classic and gvg.

RAYMAN taking over PROJECT:

new formula's
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dX1-sQD3UVNvk5_AfjtIMzaydii4TXDfnlKVvB_Px20/edit#gid=191287612

Link to old formula's in the above sheet. Warning: Cards are no longer being updated, you will have to add these yourself.

UPDATE:
Version 2 is now complete. Link has been updated.

Hello everyone,

I made a little spreadsheet to help me calculate which card set has the highest number of cards missing to simplify which deck, gvg or classic, I should buy in order to get the highest possible chance for new cards.

Also, because I'm a completionist and want to have every card in the game at some point :P

I figured I'd share it with everyone!

You can simple download the document at this link, and then start 'striping off' the cards you already have, to see how many cards you're missing, and which you still need. There's a little percentage box that tells you your completion level per set.

IMPORTANT NOTE ON FORMULAS!
The new formulas do not work with every spreadsheet program. Therefor, if you decide to download the spreadsheet in any format, first see if the formulas work (they are in row 276, 425 and 575)  if not, download the old version, and use that instead.
The best idea is to simply make an online copy of the document to use for your own.

The following versions are outdated!
Version with new formulas:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rZobj5ALRs_7X4tH40Sx1g2h5QexptLifeeobAjorJw/edit?usp=sharing

Version with older formulas:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GhqNiBv453OozFX3Fts6orc3wH5sfMmmkNPCjM7nfoE/edit#gid=191287612

Enjoy!
Kind regards,
-BHTrix

Changelog:
- New boxes showing total number of cards
- New top UI for quicker view
- Added TGT cards
- New formula's for determining which packs are best, now even more accurate by excluding duplicates.

I'm looking forward to more information about the new hearthstone cards, and hopefully we'll hear something about Starcraft II legacy of the void! :D

Sludge Belchers are nice, eventhough they cost 2 more mana.

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Ok, so yeah, I have a full time job, have 2 kids, a wife, and many other thing going on in my real life.  Is my success the whole reason why I can't accomplish anything in online gaming?  I used to be real good, but it seems that I am getting worst every day.  I don't know if it's cause I have more "real life responsibilities", or if I'm just not keeping up on times.  I have taken a liking to "Hearthstone" cause it is a game I can participate in without having to dedicate my livelihood to.  I just can't grasp this whole concept of card gathering to be supreme.  How am I, or anyone, supposed to compete on a normal level with people who dedicate their entire life to this?

Yes you can. Hearthstone is not like most other MOBA or FPS games where the skill cap is very high. You need to play for thousand of hours to drill your skill to perfection in other to complete with the elites. HS, however, is a thinking game where you just need to have a clear mind and a good understanding of the current meta to succeed. A HS beginner who has some experiences with similar trading card/turn based games (chess) can quickly surpass even the most experienced HS player without playing a lot.

Bit of a conundrum isn't it. Let's say he doesn't have any experience with other trading games and or chess,.. should he then go spend time aquiring the needed experience to become a better hearthstone player via chess or magic? Time he points out he doesn't really have because of his real life responsibility's... :p.

Sure thinking game, but you're making a few assumptions that... seem very unrealistic to me. In order to become better at thinking games, much like sports, you will need to practice and put in the hours... 191 IQ isn't going to make you any better at chess if you've never played it before and have no experience with the rules. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he cannot become a hearthstone God, he most certainly can, I'm merely saying he cannot become a hearthstone God without putting in the hours required may it be via past experiences through chess or other card games or by simply playing hearthstone.

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Ok, so yeah, I have a full time job, have 2 kids, a wife, and many other thing going on in my real life.  Is my success the whole reason why I can't accomplish anything in online gaming?  I used to be real good, but it seems that I am getting worst every day.  I don't know if it's cause I have more "real life responsibilities", or if I'm just not keeping up on times.  I have taken a liking to "Hearthstone" cause it is a game I can participate in without having to dedicate my livelihood to.  I just can't grasp this whole concept of card gathering to be supreme.  How am I, or anyone, supposed to compete on a normal level with people who dedicate their entire life to this?

As per your question,
Simple, you can't. It's like trying to beat an athlete in the 100 meter sprint. He trained for it all his life, all his waking moments. You simply can't beat all that practice and experience.

Sure you can build a good deck but that's not really what hearthstone is about. Hearthstone is about the meta, and knowing what works against the meta, learning to identify the meta you're in and adjusting. There's a lot of experience required to really understand how this works. And that's just for laddering, after laddering there's tournaments and that's just an entire different ballgame. There you do not fight the meta anymore but individual opponents that tweak there decks to defeat YOU personally, which you have to counter tweak and... wooooo :D

Personally I'm not too bothered anymore with getting to the highest rank, I wanted to be a legendary starcraft 2 player years ago, but it had nothing to do with my passion for the game, I like starcraft but not that much. I just wanted to be one of the best. I can't imagine myself growing old as a starcraft 2 pro, I personally don't think that would make me very happy.
I have other dreams though and I'm doing my best to follow them, to unwind I love playing a videogame or two,
but knowing I'm not doing it to become the best anymore shifts the focus from competetive long term play to being competetive in the moment verus my current opponent, and just enjoy that. I think that's where true satisfaction in gaming lies.

edit: so yeh, just try to become competetive at the level that you're at and don't worry about the immediate future. When your experience and card collection grows so will your level of competiveness, just try to enjoy the experience.
That's all I can say from my perspective and I hope it helps you in some way.

Look at it this way

You don't need to get all the cards the day you start playing.
Enjoy the game. Do your daily's. Savor it. Sure it'll take a while, but the entire experience can be free, there's absolutely no need to get everything in one go. Buying isn't time efficiënt at all, nor financially efficiënt. You have plenty of time to get all the cards. Why would you want to get them all now and then have absolutely nothing to do with your dust and gold afterwards?

Just seems weird to me is all.

edit: time efficiency to me is spending the total of allocated time you have towards the goal, in this case collecting all the cards. It's not efficient to get everything the first day, and then nothing at all for the 5 months afterwards. It's time efficient to spend the 5 months collecting a few cards per day, maybe even per week, and then at the 5 month marker having all the cards... however, you've got even longer than 5 months so :D

It's just this need that people seem to have these days to get everything they want instantly, it's just going to have you be done with the game that much sooner.

And if Shaman Sylvanas?:D I mean with reincarnate it's just blatantly OP xD