Opening Packs

Which one variant is better? 45 regular packs or 10 golden packs?

If youre looking for value, 45 packs is always better than golden packs because there's an average chance to get at least 2 legendaries out of it (20 packs per legendary on average). 10 golden packs doesn't even come close. In terms of dust, assuming no epics or legendaries, they're about 100 dust apart, so there's no reason to buy golden packs for better dust.

But if youre rich or want to experience what's it like to suffer from buyer's remorse, then 10 goldens is definitely, positively, the best choice.

Pretty sure you're looking at the promo right now, so those golden packs promo will get you 1 golden legendary. If you have a target and don't want to chance it, then getting those golden legendaries does guarantee you the dust to craft it. But I still would rather go for 45 packs than 10 goldens.

Yeah, I didn't played HS for some years. So I need dust and new cards. Thanks for reply. And happy new year!

What's going on R? Long time no see. We need to get the riddle game going again. Everyone but ⚓ and I just dissapears out of nowhere.... Take a look there's a riddle he has up.

I'd rather have the golden packs because I play so much I get pretty much every card anyway and can buy whatever I need.

I'm not a completionist but I do love looking snazzy when I play Arena

The one case for getting a 10 golden pack bundle would be if you had no cards from that expansion. The first legendary pity timer for any expansion is 10 packs (rather than 40), so you'd be guaranteed a golden legendary with a 10 pack bundle. That might be relevant since you could dust it to craft any legendary you want, but after you've picked up your first legendary from an expansion the 45 packs is way more value.

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The one case for getting a 10 golden pack bundle would be if you had no cards from that expansion. The first legendary pity timer for any expansion is 10 packs (rather than 40), so you'd be guaranteed a golden legendary with a 10 pack bundle. That might be relevant since you could dust it to craft any legendary you want, but after you've picked up your first legendary from an expansion the 45 packs is way more value.

Is that for real? Because I heard that golden packs don't follow the same rules for normals

Just looked it up, and clearly I've been wrong for a while lol - no pity timer. Original source is on this Hearthstone blog post from 2017: "These packs use the new pack opening rules regarding duplication protection, but will otherwise have an independent chance of containing Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary cards unrelated to any special rules (such as a guaranteed Legendary within 10 packs)." This is further clarified in 2020 to be broadly applicable to all Golden Packs (via a tweet by Celstalon: https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/1263560197143801857