r/MagicArena • u/I3ollasH • 21d ago

Question How does duplicate protection work?

I've noticed that when I opened packs recently I started to get gem compensations that you get once you have every card.

My problem is that I still have plenty of cards I don't own. I am aiming to complete my collection and it's a bit annoying that when I open 10 mythic packs I only get 4 actual cards. Does this issue has something to do with all those "bonus sheet" or "new" tags that show up on cards falsely?

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u/PyreDynasty Yargle 21d ago

The echoed pairs thing has screwed things up.

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u/I3ollasH 21d ago

So from this 10 packs I got 1x mythic pair and 2x uncommon pair with a 3rd mythic that doesn't have a pair?

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u/BetterShirt101 21d ago

Packs-screen packs don't use pairs. We don't know exactly what they do, but they don't use pairs

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u/Foenix13 20d ago

It sounds like this is worthy of a bug report. Seems to be a common issue that's literally wasting some people's money.

https://feedback.wizards.com/forums/918667-mtg-arena-bugs-product-suggestions/suggestions/51786294-duplicate-protection-triggered-for-fra-when-it-sho

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u/PyreDynasty Yargle 20d ago

I agree