Why can this happen when drafting in arena?

When you are drafting an arena deck, if you choose a card that says “if you’re deck started with no duplicates” , why can you then be forced to choose a duplicate?

This has happened to me multiple times over the years. Most recently I attempted to put the Staff of the Nine Frogs in a shaman deck, and then around pick 23 or so, I was forced to choose a duplicate.

Either there needs to be code to where if you choose a “no duplicate cards” card in arena, that you cannot be forced to choose a duplicate, or they need to remove the “no duplicate cards” cards from arena.

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Because there’s no forces synergy in the arena draft
You’re willing to take the high-risk high-reward choice and said risk is that you can end up with a useless legendary

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Because the draft card pool is random. It makes no effort to ensure the card choices are “good” or “work well together”.

That was a risk you took when you chose the Staff, and sadly that risk did not pay off.

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This is happeneing to me right now. Im at card no 30 and every choice is a card i picked already i feel so fooled wasted run wasted money

You took a risk and it didn’t pay off, thats on you

Not a bug

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definitely this is a Bug guys, and they need to fix this crap!
I’ve tried 4 or 5 times this trash Click-Baiting card and the same s!@t just Happened :slight_smile:

maybe stop trying???

the Point that doesnt make it a “risky” point is that the whole deck is ruined because the draft was completly suited to the choise so the wholle run is ruined

its a trap dont try to do it

For all the kids saying “you took a risk” , “maybe stop trying” or other idiocracy remarks, you should just shut up.

This is lazy from Blizzard not doing it. I didn’t even know you could get duplicates if you got a legendary who forces you to start with no duplicates. I picked up multiple times a legendary like this with nowhere near a duplicate all the draft.

Somehow, now, at the 27th card, I got a duplicate. This is stupidity. Literally.

If is not a bug, is lazy coding.

Umm… That is not what happens.

Your low IQ is not a bug, sorry

Its exactly what happens, wtf? Do you want me to read the Legendary Power of the said card?

Low iq? Hello? When your best card in a draft ( Arena ) forces you to have a deck with no duplicates …and then the system gives you duplicates when you are building your Arena run … what is it ?

No , you are not smart, sorry. Put chatgpt to answer for you.

But I did it …

This situation is more of a bad game design issue rather than a bug, though it depends on how the drafting system is designed in Arena.

Why It’s Bad Design:
Contradiction in Mechanic vs. Drafting System – If the game encourages a no-duplicate deck for a powerful effect but later forces you to pick duplicates, it undermines the entire deck-building strategy.
Lack of Player Control – Arena is already RNG-heavy, but this situation removes strategic decision-making. You are forced to break your synergy, making your Legendary card much weaker.
Inconsistent Gameplay Experience – Ideally, the draft system should recognize when you are building a “no duplicates” deck and avoid presenting duplicate choices unless you willingly pick one.
Could It Be a Bug?
Not necessarily, unless the game explicitly prevents duplicate picks when drafting and this breaks that rule. If there’s no safeguard against duplicates in the Arena draft system, then it’s just a flawed implementation rather than a technical bug.

Possible Fixes:
Implement a “Singleton Mode Awareness” where the Arena draft avoids duplicate picks if you started with a singleton deck.
Give an alternative reroll or extra card choice in cases where all options are duplicates.

Hope you can understand it, else its fine … just move along.

The power is something like “If your deck started with no duplicates, do X”.

That is not FORCING your deck to have no duplicates.

Your deck is perfectly free to have duplicates. If it does, the X ability simply does not trigger.

Nothing is “forced”.

Sorry, but are you slow minded or something? THE only Legendary card you get and which is the most powerful card in your deck is nulled and yet you say if I get duplicates my deck is completely fine without my legendary ?! A super OP deck yes, but if not, you depend a lot on your Legendary.

I have won and lost countless of times because of that 1 legendary card.

Now off you go . You literally don’t know anything about Arena…

this is not a bug

it is working as intended

draft reno cards at your own risk

Its lazy coding not working as intended.

you are intended by the devs to be able to get duplicates in a arena draft with a reno legendary

you dont like it, but thats your opinion, and thats worthless here

not a bug, working as intended

Dude, 1st thing, learn to read :

I didn’t say its 100% bug , yes? Yes? Good …

Now , for the idiocracy which you keep throwing away . Before we go any more into this discussion, please show me your Arena stats.

Thanks!

Because I find it hard to believe that anyone with common sense and who plays mostly Arena would agree with you.

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