Group breaks have been a game-changer for the card industry for several years now and from time to time Buzz will jump into a BlowoutTV break of some type and break down the results of what he landed by picking up a team. There are near-daily breaks right here with Matt on Blowout TV during weekday working hours and even more from Houdini and others over on the forum in the evening.

Now, it's time for this post's break breakdown -- a mystery box to introduce a new CFCoolectibles realm of breaks ... a Thank You Comic Mystery Box.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2024 Panini Score-A-Treat football cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Keep reading to see a breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

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What: 2024 Bowman Chrome baseball cards
Arrives: Sept. 11
Box basics: Two autos per 12-pack (two mini-boxes) hobby box (12 boxes per case) or three autos per HTA box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here
Sapphire Checklist: Click here
Sapphire Odds: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Bowman will arrive this week via an early pre-sale with no details ultimately yet available other than a preliminary checklist and the odds as seen above.

Keep reading for more info.

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What: 2024 Leaf Trinity Football cards
Arrives: Oct. 30
Box basics: Six autographed cards per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Trinity takes the field for another season with what Leaf says is "the most veteran content ever put into a Trinity product" while also including some new things and new NIL-deal players, too.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2023 Topps Heritage baseball cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery for what was found in this one.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The packs: 2022 Panini Prestige NFL cards (jumbo)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (in a few formats)

Keep reading for a full breakdown of what was in this one along with a gallery of images.

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What's Buzzing: Juan Soto chatter, a "junk wax" question, Star Wars Chrome breaks, comic books and more.

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What: 2024 Donruss Elite football cards
Arrives: Sept. 18
Box basics: Two autographs and one memorabilia card per 20-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Elite arrives for a new NFL season with its familiar foilboard, plenty of parallels as well as new Rookie Cards to chase.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2022 Bowman Platinum baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview/checklist: Click here
Where to buy: Initially at Walmart (here when/if available)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and a gallery of what was in this box.

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What's Buzzing: 2024 Bowman Chrome reactions, Shohei Ohtani, Prizm WWE, a card worth the wait and more in this mid-week edition.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The pack: 2024 Wild Card Decades National Promo Pack
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
First Buzz preview: TBD

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

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What: 2024 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Autographed Football Jerseys Season Edition
Arrives: Oct. 11
Box basics: One autographed jersey per box (five boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The newest reveal in TRISTAR's Hidden Treasures brand of autographed memorabilia is a second series -- the Season Edition -- of signed jerseys that includes some all-time greats as well as stars of today and tomorrow.

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What: 2024 Pieces of the Past One-time Edition Series 1
Arrives: Sept. 25
Box basics: Two Relic cards per two-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Pieces of the Past turns its the hit-per-box approach into a hit in every pack this time with document and memorabilia cuts as well as other unusual items inside cards as it celebrates its past releases all in one spot.

Keep reading for more info and a selection of images.

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What's Buzzing: Impressive pulls, Jackson Holliday, Luis Robert, two 1/1s of the same card and more.

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What's Buzzing: USA Basketball, college football, new pulls, preseason NFL, Bobby Witt Jr. and what's the greatest box or case you ever opened?

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What: 2024 Leaf Metal baseball cards
Arrives: September
Box basics: Five autos per seven-card hobby box (12 per case) or 10 autos per 14-card jumbo box (eight per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Metal is back for another go once again with two box formats -- and both still having exclusives and encased proofs among possible finds.

Keep reading for more.

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What: 2024 Kakawow Diverse trading cards
Arrived: August
Box basics: Two to five "limited edition" cards per 50-card box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: The international card-maker offers up a vast collection of pop culture, history and celebrity all in one spot as part of a release that includes more than 2,000 different cards and only 2,000 cases made.

Keep reading for more info.

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Take a minute and make some predictions and picks -- and if you're at the top of the mountain when it's over then you get free cards.

It's always that simple.

YourDozen.com is back with more free cardboard up for grabs to one lucky winner -- this time it's for Sunday MLB action as well as some Majority Rules questions. Those questions are simple -- whatever gets the most votes is the winning answer -- and we've sprinkled in those along with the traditional picks. The end result is still the same -- whomever has the most correct answers once the dust settles wins free cards.

You have until 1 p.m. on Sunday to get your picks and predictions in. (Do it now -- one of the tiebreakers is who entered first.) The prize is once again a mystery item.

>>> CLICK HERE TO ENTER <<< 

Did you get in on last week's action? Check the leaderboard and contact fish@blowoutcards.com to claim your prize if you're the winner.

How does it work? It's short and simple. Register and you'll get a dozen questions where your answers will be compiled and compared to others. Whomever gets the most correct gets the prize -- or at least a shot at it if there's a tie.

The goal with YourDozen.com? Have a little fun and get free stuff into some of your hands.

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What's Buzzing: Preseason NFL chatter, 2024 Topps Chrome pulls, USA Basketball, retail box prices and more in this Sunday edition.

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What's Buzzing: Card photography, one not for White Sox fans, NFL chatter, Olympic basketball, 2024 Topps Chrome pulls and more.

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What: 2023-24 Topps Chrome basketball cards
Arrives: Aug. 28
Box basics: Two autographs per 12-pack box (12 boxes per case) or two autographs per 12-card breakers box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Sapphire Checklist: Click here 
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps revives Chrome for the pro basketball realm with members of the NBA Players Association -- but not NBA team trademarks -- and the early basic teaser images and also the checklist and odds for that upcoming release are here.

Keep reading for more info.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down the results here. Like this and want to see more -- or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2019 Donruss Optic baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (this and other formats)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and a gallery of highlights from this one.

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With these Ticket Stud or Ticket Dud stories I'm turning just a tiny bit of that energy just a few degrees away from cards (we'll still have plenty of them here) for a different kind of cardboard. What am I doing? Simple ... this is an occasional dip into some random ticket lots -- a show and tell showing something small with a story.

This time? A big night for one rookie six years ago tomorrow night in The Bronx.

Keep reading to see the details this time ... and tell me if you think it's a Ticket Stud or a Ticket Dud.

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What's Buzzing: A surprise pre-war pull, Bobby Witt Jr., Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm and more in this Friday edition.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The pack: 2024 Wild Card Decades National Promo Pack
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
First Buzz preview: TBD

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

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