Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-5616072-20130717204547/@comment-5706972-20130719115903

Yup - that is the way I interpreted it because they made a point to say "YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE MORE THAN 5 CARDS" - so you will just get 5 of the same card, and evolve the new one (maxed) into the one you have already. DO NOT evolve the Reg card together more than 1 time, or you will not have enough cards to reach 'evolution 5'. I will likely wait until I have at least 4 before even pulling them out of gifts...