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Card Pack Changes Coming - No More Duplicate Legendaries
There are a few changes coming in the future, that are not yet live, to how we obtain cards in packs.
These changes will go live with the next expansion.
- No more duplicate Legendary cards. Once you've crafted or obtained a certain card (gold or normal), it isn't possible to obtain again until you've earned all the legendaries from a set.
- You will get a guaranteed Legendary within the first 10 card packs of a new set.
- It will not longer be possible to open more than 2 of a Common, Rare, or Epic card out of a single card pack. You can still obtain dupes in other packs of course.
Ben Brode states in the video that the team is "super excited" about the changes in "the context of our next expansion". It sounds like we may be getting some pretty awesome Legendaries and we won't have a repeat of what happened with Un'Goro.
- If we get another 50 card pack pre-order, that means you'll be certain to get 2 Legendary cards.
- You can buy bundles during the sale, and if you delay opening the packs until the new expansion arrives, they'll benefit from the new system. (Source)
Additionally, a special promotion is going to be run starting soon which will increase the number of packs you will receive when purchasing Un'Goro Packs.
Original Pack Bundles | Special Pack Bundles |
---|---|
7 packs | +2 packs = 9 packs total |
15 packs | +5 packs = 20 packs total |
40 packs | +12 packs = 52 packs total |
60 packs* | +18 packs = 78 packs total |
Announcement Video
Announcement Blog
Quote from BlizzardWAAAH, Legendary!
Starting with the release of Hearthstone’s next expansion (but applying to ALL Hearthstone card packs), every time you open a Legendary in a card pack, it will be a Legendary card from the same set that you don’t already own. Once you own either the golden or non-golden version of a Legendary card, you won’t get a duplicate of it until you own all the Legendary cards from that set. Soon, you’ll be able to craft a Legendary without the worry of opening it in your next few packs!
In addition, you will never open more copies of any card in a pack than you can use in a single deck—no more opening three or more of the same common, rare, or epic card in one pack!
Even More Legendary!
Beginning with the release of the next expansion, you’re also guaranteed to get a Legendary within your first 10 packs of a new set. The release of a new Hearthstone expansion is a super exciting time, and with this change we hope your pack openings start off on a celebratory note!
Combined, these changes should make the pack opening experience more exciting than ever—especially when you see that flash of gold heralding a Legendary card!
The Greater Crater Promotion
Elise Starseeker and her junior explorers have stumbled upon a fascinating discovery: a crater full of card packs! Starting in the next few days, we’re having a special limited time promotion for Journey to Un’Goro card pack bundles: the price stays the same, but the number of packs gets dino-sized!
Original Pack Bundles
Special Pack Bundles
7 packs +2 packs = 9 packs total 15 packs +5 packs = 20 packs total 40 packs +12 packs = 52 packs total 60 packs* +18 packs = 78 packs total We can’t wait to see your Legendary pack openings starting with Hearthstone’s next expansion!
*60 card pack bundle size available only on PC.
This is FAIR!
This had to be this way since the beginning, but it's never late...
Why not starting now??? Why will we have to wait for the next expansion?
They already talked a lot about this: the problem is way Hearthstone is coded - patching it every time is a headache.
No one can say something bad about this. It's impossible. That's fucking awesome.
I HAVE TO SPEND LESS MONEY NOW TO COMPLETE MY COLLECTION.
ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS GIVE BLIZZARD MY MONEY.
BLIZZARD, TAKE MY MONEY.
Hahahahahaha
Amazing news. Too many times have I opened Milhouse Manastorm.
Oh man, this is such a great comment. I *just* changed our excerpt on the homepage for this post to talk about the Millhouse bs! Too many damn times indeed.
Appreciate the genuine compliment, fam.
I still don't have it. And I've seen Harrison Jones like 6 or 7 times.
Hold on a sec.
No more dups, no more 400 free dust PLUS no chance at a Golden version of the Legendary if you already got it normal?? I dunno about this...
Edit, below quote from blizz, this is very sad to see.
This line of thought makes literally no sense. You're going to get the same number of legendaries so if you want to dust the one you would have got over the duped one then just...dust that. You aren't losing ANYTHING from this, this is only positive.
Yes but at the same time, if you get a legendary that you don't want, you can still disenchant it for the 400 dust.
The golden versions does stink a little cause I'll never invest into a whole golden set but nice to get them out of packs. But the ability to have a full collection increases some with this change so happy about that for sure.
Overall, very happy about this change and hope the bonus card pack sale goes well to start including stuff like that with new expansions.
Long overdue. Also we'll get a legendary in our first 10 packs of an expansion!
Great, now I can get Dustwalker Cho right after I dust Dustwalker Cho.
but joking aside, this is like a huge positive thing. I've been playing since the game left beta and still a lot of legendaries keep dodging me because I keep getting the duplicates. looking forward to some pack openings.
So what if you already have all legendaries for a given set?
Of course, not to sound like I'm just complaining, I'm also very happy and pleased with that! :-)
Oh dang, I'm curious what happens. Someone answer this!
Then you will get duplicates.
I imagine it'll be like opening boxes in DOTA where suddenly all the items/legendaries become up for grabs again and you just rotate through them once more.
Based on what Blizzard has said, it works like this:
Pack is generated according to the old rules.
New check #1: for each Legendary, does the player already have it? (Ignoring golden status.) If yes, and there are any not-possessed Legendaries in the set, reroll it among the not-possessed Legendaries from that set. If the card was generated golden, it stays golden on the reroll.
New check #2: for each copy of a specific card after the second in the pack, reroll it among all cards from the set with the same rarity, except for that card. Rerolled golden cards stay golden.
It'll be interesting to see if they cover the case the pack generates as Snark, Snark, Snark, Widget, Widget, and check #2 rerolls a Snark to a Widget.
This is amazing.
Of course, it makes me somewhat bitter considering all the duplicate legendaries I've opened in the past which won't be compensated for, but at least it won't happen again. Thank Yogg.