Gold cards suck!

[hayspggammer]

I recently realized something about gold cards that sucks. I had 7 American standard wildcards to spend. So I opened my collection and found that all of my standard cards had a total of 4 if plain and gold were added together. However, I have 3 cards that have 4 plain and 1 gold each. This tells me that when I open a new deck it could still contain standard American cards. So I spent 4 of the standard wildcards to have 4 plain of every standard card. Hopefully that will lessen the chances of getting any more standard American cards in a new deck. Will elite cards function the same way? Conclusion: since the only function of gold cards is bling, gold cards suck!

[romy]

Duplicate protection is in place on all rarities.

What it means :
when you open a pack and rng determines an ELITE card you will get an ELITE card you do not already own. If you already own all ELITE cards, a random one will be chosen and converted to some progression to your crate.

same for other rarities except you continue getting duplicates of cards you own until you reach 2 (special), 3 (limited) and 4(standard) copies.

now for gold cards it is the same, if rng determines a GOLD STANDARD card, you will get a GOLD STANDARD card you don't already have 4 copies of.

normal cards and gold cards are basically 2 different pools in your collection, containing the same cards, working the same way, simply it's more rare to draw in the gold pool.

Originally posted by hayspggammer:

So I spent 4 of the standard wildcards to have 4 plain of every standard card. Hopefully that will lessen the chances of getting any more standard American cards in a new deck.

When you open a pack and rng determines a standard card, you will get a standard card you don't already have 4 copies of. That is guaranteed.

But even if you own all standard cards, you will still get standard cards and they will be converted to your crate. A card of a certain rarity won't be converted into a card of another rarity because you have a complete collection of that rarity. In other words, you won't get more elite cards because you own all the standard cards. Also you can still get gold copies of those cards that you don't have 4 gold copies of.

Conclusion : "gold cards suck" is a popular opinion, another popular opinion is "I like gold cards" and collecting all gold cards is an objective for some people.

[puschit]

Well. if gold cards would count towards your total, players wouldn't cast that "gold cards suck" verdict. For the purpose of completing your PLAYSETs they do indeed suck. It's especially hard to stomach with the end-of-month-reward where you get an elite card each month but since it's golden the duplicate protection won't trigger.

It's an easy to fix problem that persists for an eternity which probably means they'll never fix it. The only saving grace here is that Kards is comparetively easy to complete even as F2P and even with gold cards circumventing duplicate protection. Duplicate protection is, in itself, a positive thing that makes collecting cards easier. The problem with gold cards makes it less effective but duplicate protection with the "gold glitch" is still better than no duplicate protection at all, so it's a bit unfair and greedy to complain about it. A tad bit.

Luckily, at this point, personally, I just don't care because turning my decks golden is the only thing I can still do. For new players, however, it must indeed suck. But even new players have to think about their perspective: You can scrap golden cards for more crate content than regular cards. In some way they'll turn into wild cards of sorts. Which means, if you open a gold card you don't need then are still making more progress than opening the same card in non-golden but with duplicate protection. All it does it that it converts it to crate filling automatically. But that's less than scrapping the golden version manually.

What I REALLY miss is the original system where you just auto-"dust" excess cards and create new cards from this dust as you see fit. No wildcards that are limited to specific nations or rarities, no detour to crates that obfuscate and delay, no BS.

[hayspggammer]

"But that's less than scrapping the golden version manually."
That's very interesting. Can you tell me where I could find out the details of that? How to do it, the result of manually scrapping, etc.?

[puschit]

Oh, I just checked, apparently you can't scrap any cards manually anymore unless they are reserved cards, my bad. But if it's a reserved card, go to your collection, right-click a card and click that recycling symbol to scrap it. One of the many drawbacks of the new system is that you need to memorize crate content level and somehow compare in between scrapping. Like I said, it's obfuscated and not user-friendly.

[emahi011]

Gold cards good.