For the record, that isn’t how it works. 
I am missing a bunch of dk and demon hunter from the “Legacy” set, but you definitely can’t get them from classic packs.
Lesson learned. Oh well, now I have a prep, if it ever gets booted from core, I guess…
Demon Hunter and DK never had any cards in Classic packs. You need to buy wild packs for Legacy cards that weren’t in Classic.
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Don’t do that. “Wild packs” are terrible. They can contain cards from any expansion, and most of those cards are unplayable trash. TBH, you might want to buy up to 10 for your guaranteed legendary (if you didn’t already get it), but even that isn’t likely to change the fact that most cards you will get are unplayable due to power creep.
If you want a number of cards from a particular wild expansion, then buying packs from that set might be worthwhile, especially if you don’t yet have the guaranteed 10-pack legendary.
But, overall, if you want wild cards, its best to just craft them.
There is only 1 Demon Hunter card in legacy that is craftable (uncraftable cards cannot be pulled from packs). That is Kor’vas Bloodthorn.
If you want that card, then realistically you need to craft it. For some reason all the other DH legacy cards are uncraftable. These cards have “special unlock requirements” which means you have to do something very specific to unlock them, and its possible that the task (and therefore the card) may be no longer available.
Most of the DK cards are craftable, which means they can be found in “wild packs”. However, if you want these, you’re probably still better off just crafting them.
However, most of these cards are unplayable in wild format, so crafting them is probably a waste of dust anyway.
Remember also, that if a card ever rotates into core, you will get free (temporary) core versions of those cards, so you won’t need to craft them.
What I would do is make a list of which cards you want, and work out how much it would cost to craft them. However, I wouldn’t expect it to be worth the dust.
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Of course not.
Absolutely.
If you wanna know the technical details of how it does work, check this out, for example:
https://hearthstone.wiki.gg/wiki/Legacy
Classic packs contain cards from the EXPERT1 set, to be precise, the rest is in LEGACY.
Dunno where you got your idea, gotta check out the wording for Classic packs, I suppose… I don’t think it mentions ‘Legacy’ cards, though, gotta be something about ‘Classic cards’ (UPD: yep) or the like.
Like what?
https://hearthstone.wiki.gg/wiki/Legacy/True_Legacy_cards#Demon_Hunter
Apart from Kor’vas Bloodthorn, these are former Basic cards, if I’m not missing anything, and both normal and golden version are unlocked automatically as soon as you unlock Wild, if the wiki info is not outdated, or something along those lines.
If you refer to the ‘Demon Hunter Initiate’ set, it’s a separate story.
https://hearthstone.wiki.gg/wiki/Demon_Hunter_Initiate#How_to_get
(See also the note below)
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“Special unlock requirements” is a catch-all phrase used by the wiki to describe cards than can’t be obtained by opening packs or crafting.
Here’s what it says about Chaos Strike (for example):
How to get
The Regular and Golden copies of Chaos Strike are [uncraftable] . They have special unlock requirements and cannot be crafted, disenchanted, or opened from [card packs]
However, I notice I missed the word “free” earlier in the article:
Chaos Strike is a free demon hunter spell card, from the Legacy set.
So, apparently “special unlock requirements” includes “free” cards. Who knew?
Anyhoo… for the benefit of the OP: you need to see which cards you are missing, and since all but one of the DH legacy set are “free”, you should already have those, if you have unlocked wild format.
What you need to do is make a list of what cards you are missing, and check the “how to get” instructions for that card on its wiki page. If, after doing that, there’s anything you’re unsure of, please come back and ask for help on specific cards.
And remember: my main point in this thread is that only a few “wild” cards are worth having, and that it is often better to just craft a few cards that you need, rather than buy a load of packs from old expansions, or worse, “wild packs” that can contain cards from any wild expansion.
It is possible you want to collect them all just for the sake of doing so. However, this game isn’t pokemon… if you want to “collect 'em all”, its going to be very expensive to do so.
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What are you talking about? 
https://hearthstone.wiki.gg/wiki/Chaos_Strike#How_to_get
Beneath the generic ‘catch-all phrase’, as you put it, is a very specific requirement in that table:
Legacy Unlock Wild format Regular, Golden 2
AFAIK, that’s the requirement for all former Basic cards now, which this one used to be:
Patch 20.0.0.77662
- 2021-03-30: Moved from the Basic set to the Legacy set.
https://hearthstone.wiki.gg/wiki/Basic
Some of the info in that article might be dated, though.
Well, since the question was about the Legacy set in particular, the answer is twofold:
EXPERT1cards can be obtained from Classic packs specifically (see below on Wild ones) or crafted. Maybe you’re doing it for that Diamond Ragnaros, to play Twist, if it ever comes back, or for whatever reason — that’s not the point.- The rest, namely
LEGACYcards, apart from special rewards (Old Murk-Eye, Captain’s Parrot; there are also golden Gelbin and ETC, but I don’t think you can get these anymore), are either free and obtained automatically, or, realistically, you’d have to craft them — I agree that trying to ‘fish’ for them in Wild packs probably isn’t a good idea. Examples are Gelbin (note, him and ETC are not in Classic packs; I might have made this little mistake once, but no matter) or Brightwing.
That’s about it.
PS https://hearthstone.wiki.gg/wiki/Legacy#How_to_get
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