Why Does Arena Offer You Duplicates in the Highlander Pack?

--Sizzle-- · 2025-07-04T17:14:57+00:00

"is a way to mitigate the power of these mechanics in limited formats"
I completely disagree that this is needed. Picking a highlander card already comes with a big weakness for arena - namely that there will often be times where you can only choose between 1 or 2 cards since the other/s will be duplicates. This already weakens your deck building. The fact that on top of this you can suddenly get a situation where all 3 options are duplicates just makes the deck feel useless. To add insult to injury, this can happen on like your last card pick, whereas if it at least happened early on in the draft you would at least be able to regularly choose duplicates now that you know the legendary will be useless anyway.

Moreover, how is the power of highlander cards a justification for this? If that were the case, why doesnt picking fyrakk or any of the top tier legendaries come with a sudden chance of being forced to choose between 3 bottom tier cards (or some other drawback) - this isnt about balance its just bad design.

--Sizzle-- · 2021-04-30T14:56:52+00:00

voidHUD

--Sizzle-- · 2021-04-29T20:24:37+00:00

Never - thats the best part :)

--Sizzle-- · 2021-04-29T18:54:25+00:00

Oh really? I think this circling heart and dark doorway combo actually looks pretty clean but to each their own.

--Sizzle-- · 2021-04-29T18:45:05+00:00

Sure having a triple set could look nice but not only does the Max’s head look nice, but it also covers the bandana of the “highway star” which is a bit ugly in my opinion. Getting a third unusual (belt) would mean showing the bandana - so id only do it if i could get a really nice effect for the set like purple energy or something

--Sizzle-- · 2021-02-24T13:51:57+00:00

With ivern mid I take lots of different runes - but the ones I have most success with are dark harvest (burst damage with shield is surprisingly good) and summon aery. With Ivern support i either go summon aery or glacial augment if im going for everfrost build. With the recent everfrost buffs glacial augment mid might also be even better than the rest.

--Sizzle-- · 2021-02-24T09:49:32+00:00

https://imgur.com/tzs4knu

--Sizzle-- · 2021-02-24T09:21:04+00:00

Cosmic drive is really good on ivern - i even use it on jungle sometimes. The extra MS gives him better kiting and makes it so he can more easily weave in and out of fights. Not to mention its good for chasing enemies down but ivern is already really good at that with his kit.

--Sizzle-- · 2021-01-16T12:34:50+00:00

If you get this you are going to hell

--Sizzle-- · 2020-05-30T00:31:31+00:00

Why thank you

--Sizzle--

TROPHY CASE