So, I plan on getting this game for my birthday, and I'm wondering whether or not I should ask my friends to get me amiibo cards. I really only want them for the special cards like Sable, Isabelle, etc., but I'm not sure what my chances are for getting too many doubles. For example, I wouldn't mind getting two Sables and everybody else be different, but I don't want to ask five friends for five packs and wind up with five Tom Nooks. What do you think?

This is kinda late, but here goes. When you first start collecting the cards you don't seem to get many duplicates. It's only when I got down to about 20 needed for the first series that that changed. I still need 9 to complete that 1st series, I bought three packs and my husband bought me six more for my birthday. In the series 1 pack, I had 5 duplicates and 1 that I needed. I still think they're worth getting. And considering that they have a microchip in-bedded in the cards to save the information about them, I think the price is reasonable. And, as my sister-in-law buys them too, we can trade or buy the ones we need from each other. We only pay a $1 for each card since that's what they cost, or trade card for card. We think that's fair.

I found that I didn't get as many duplicates if I didn't buy all my packs at once from the same place.

I got two more series 1 packs and only got 1 that I needed. So now I only need 7 more to finish series 1. Series 2 went well so far with no duplicates and just 1 duplicate for series 3. I'm working on getting all of them provided my pocket book has the funds to purchase them. Not buying them as often as I did at first. We also found that you can use them with the Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival as well as the Happy Home Designer.