[Dogberry99]

Originally Posted by Charlatan

The problem with lowering the odds you get a card you own is that most of the cards are by necessity going to be crappy ones. If you open 1000 packs you will probably own all the iron cards there are. So if they lowered the odds you got a card you owned then that would increase the odds you get a good card, which is screws up the card distribution odds.

If you get a duplicate of a good card you own (which will happen to many people) you should just sell it and use the funds to either buy a different good card or more packs. Granted, buying a good card doesn't give the adrenaline rush that opening it from a pack gives you, but that's a small price to pay.

Decreasing the odds of dupes doesn't have to work across tiers. I agree that the game would indeed be imbalanced if owning every iron card increased my chances of acquiring better cards. All I am hoping for is for the game to help me fill out my missing irons just a smidgen faster by decreasing (not eliminating - that'd be too extreme as well) the chance of getting a 10th JaCoby Jones before I pull my 1st Isiah Kiner-Falefa.

Think of it this way... if you already have all the iron cards, then it would be like every ballpark in the league being set to max offense. The odds of pulling a dupe iron would be back to even, just as the same ballparks make all offenses even as well.