Golden Duplicate Protection?

So we know how the duplicate protection works for regular cards -- once the cards are all marked as "collected" in a given set, whether you dusted them or not, that rarity becomes totally random with no duplicate protection.

My question is -- do we know which order the duplicate protection happens in for golden cards? What I mean is, does it first check your collection to see if you have collected all the commons, then roll for whether you're getting a regular or golden common, and then choose which card? Or does it first check for whether you're getting a regular or golden common, then check if you have all the golden commons "collected" from this set, and then choose which card? In which case you can effectively not open duplicates of golden cards unless you already collected them all?

My first guess was "definitely not", but since the patch I have opened six golden cards (four commons and two rares), as well as getting a golden Bronze Gatekeeper as an arena reward, and none of those seven were duplicates. The sample size is really small, obviously, so I'm guessing the community as a whole will know?

Even with the pre-order packs from Outland, it's pretty unlikely to get a 3rd golden common or rare to disprove the duplicate protection is happening for golds. Anyone out there experienced this yet?

I have had a more than 2x golden cards before. So I guess not.

By "before" do you mean after the patch? I also had more than 2x golden cards before the patch, before any duplicate protection on commons, I had 4 golden Earth Shocks for a while before dusting them.

I guess I misunderstood. Sorry.

But it would seem strange to me that they would extend this to golden cards. Is this even important that they do? Most guys I play against barely have any goldens. Make me look special for keeping mine.

I don't recommend this to anyone else, but I'm actually one of the foolish people who likes to collect the golden cards. I guess for most players this question isn't relevant at all.

Duplicate protection will check the following:

• Do you have at least two copies of a (non-Legendary) card, across non-golden and golden?
  • If not, you will open non-golden or golden copies until you own two.
  • If you do, you won't open any more copies until you've collected two copies of every card of that rarity in that set.

Once you own at least two of every card in the set, there is a second check in place.

• Do you own two non-golden copies of a card?
  • If not, you will open copies of that card until you have two non-golden copies.
  • If you do, you won't open any more copies until you've collected two non-golden copies of every card of that rarity in that set.
• Do you own two golden copies of a card?
  • If not, you will open copies of that card until you have two golden copies.
  • If you do, you won't open any more copies until you've collected two golden copies of every card of that rarity in that set.

So the game gets you to two of every card first, then fills in the gaps in your non-golden and golden collections. Of course, the rates are still the same on finding those cards in packs. Once you own two of every card in a set at that rarity, subsequent pulls will be completely random (even if you disenchant cards).

Wait does this mean that if I get a golden card I won't get the normal one anymore? I don't want to play with golden cards so I always disenchant them immediately.

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Wait does this mean that if I get a golden card I won't get the normal one anymore? I don't want to play with golden cards so I always disenchant them immediately.

Hey, I know this is an old thread but I've been able to open a fair few packs to see this system in action now that the new expansion is out. Hopefully you're not worried about this anymore. It looks like the duplicate protection allows for dusting your gold cards. Even if you dust the gold copy of a card, the game will not consider the regular (non-golden) one "collected" and will fill it in eventually.

All in all, I'm extremely happy & impressed with the new system!

So, i was missing two Living Roots after i dusted them when they were considered epics (LOL). I then bought a TGT pack to get them back, and I got 2 epics, 1 rare, 1 regular living roots and a golden common.

So, even tho Living Roots was the only common missing, the golden common didnt take that into account and just gave me a random golden common.

I did notice tho, that if you have all cards of a certain rarity, but one of them is regular and the other one is golden, you will get a regular copy of that card.

I guess is good when you have all legendaries in a set and one of them is golden. Next legendary should be a regular copy of the golden one (so you can dust it afterwards without impacts on your collection and craft another legendary of your choice).