Has this ever happened to you? I was drafting a druid deck and selected Rheastrasza. But I was shocked to see a pick (about pick 15) where I was only offered a set of 3 cards I already had. There was no actual way for me to make a highlander deck. If this were pre the change to highlander cards, I could simply draw into one of the copies of the card and my Rheastaza would still be active. But with the recent change, the Rheastrasza has already turned into a vanilla 8/8 before game 1 and there’s nothing I can do about it.
With the highlander change I think they need to change arena so that, if you pick a highlander legendary, they never get offered picks where you only get cards you already have. Picks where you get 2/3rds being cards you have are fine, since that enables you to make a choice between a potentially suboptimal card versus highlander. However, a later pick that complete disables my legendary doesn’t feel like good game design. I know arena has a large element of the luck of the draft, but that felt very unfun and demotivating.