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Old 04-14-2026, 08:34 PM   #43
LeeD
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It's just normal distribution when you run into 80-90% dupes after having opened a few hundred packs. Look at the odds. Bronze, one in five. Silver, one in ten. Gold, one in 50. Diamond, one in 150. Perfect, one in 1000.

Open a thousand standard packs, you get a thousand guaranteed bronze cards (one in every pack). Of the remaining 5000 cards (matching to the odds), five would be perfects, 33 would be diamonds, 100 would be golds, 500 would be silvers, another 1000 would be bronze, leaving 3362 irons. So...out of 6000 cards pulled, you get 5362 iron and bronze cards, the vast majority being duplicates since they make up nearly 90% of all cards pulled, past and present.

To convert the odds to percentages (for standard packs):
Perfect: 0.083%
Diamond: 0.55%
Gold: 1.67%
Silver: 8.33%
Bronze: 33.3%
Iron: 56%

TLDR: Needle in a haystack. The only way you don't get 80-90% dupes is if the devs pump out a steady stream of iron and bronze cards, like, almost daily. Even then, those aren't the cards we're really looking for, are they?
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