What's Buzzing: Horizontal cards, new NFL and MLB pulls, collector thoughts and more in this Saturday edition.

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What: 2024 Topps Transcendent Collection baseball cards
Arrives: Jan. 22, 2025
Box basics: 10 hits and more per 42-card box
Checklist: TBD
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Transcendent returns via a different approach with "careful crafting and elegant touches" for its super-premium VIP product experience -- and with only 100 VIP party invitations now randomly inserted into the run and a second rarer VIP party package to be found, too.

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What: 2024 Topps Finest UFC trading cards
Arrives: Jan. 24, 2025
Box basics: Two autos per six-pack hobby box (eight boxes per case), one auto per six-pack mega box (20 boxes per case), four autos per 40-box blaster case
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps' Finest brand enters the Octagon for the first time in more than a decade with a mix of stars and plenty of the color and flash collectors know for this brand -- but with three formats all packing their own exclusives.

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What: Cheers Premiere Edition Trading Cards
Arrives: Feb. 26, 2025
Box basics: Two autographs and one memorabilia card per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Pre-order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Making your way in the hobby world today may take everything you've got, but Rittenhouse Archives will start off a new year where everybody knows your name as the cast of this past classic -- and a number of notable guest stars known elsewhere -- come to cardboard for the first time.

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What: 2025 Leaf Seasons In The Sun baseball cards
Arrives: April 30
Box basics: Two autos and two memorabilia cards (typically) per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: A new baseball season will get a new line from Leaf with stars from the past and present all in play and with some of the biggest surprises possible within its "premium" hits-only boxes.

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And the award goes to ... those who open this one to find the cardboard treasures inside.

Baseball America's Best of 2024 Awards issue is here and just like its Draft Preview it's jam-packed with everything one needs to know -- and it once again includes bonus collectibles.

Beyond the annual awards, this double issue also features player profiles and scouting reports for 150 top prospects in the American League -- but the bonus insert should add to its demand. The inserts are similar to Sports Illustrated for Kids trading cards, which are heavily collected and, in the case of iconic stars and newcomers, often quite valuable.

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The pack: 2024 Score football cards (value pack)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a couple other formats)

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The box: 2024 Topps Update baseball cards (hanger)
First Buzz preview & checklist/odds: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

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The box: 2024 Panini Select WWE wrestling cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

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The box: 2024 Panini Select WNBA cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

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Sometimes you have all the details thanks to an authentication sticker ... and sometimes you don't.

It's those don't times that can be work -- but often you can still photo-match an item's damage or other unique traits to photos from the on-field action. Other times, there's nothing. This month's item in the Collecting Game-used series is one of those "other" times and one where there aren't that many details ... yet I know it all. (And still can't prove a thing, either.)

Huh? Keep reading to see the details this time ...

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What's Buzzing: A crazy Sapphire box, talking past box prices, new pulls, case hits, Cody Bellinger and, of course, NFL chatter.

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What: 2024 Topps Triple Threads baseball cards
Arrives: TBD
Box basics: Two autographs and two Relics in every two-pack box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here (when live)

What's buzz-worthy: Triple Threads returns after a year on the bench with just the basics known so far via the checklist and odds.

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What's Buzzing: Cool hockey cards, new pulls, MLB and NFL chatter, a new twist for a popular WWE brand, Caitlin Clark and more.

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What: 2023-24 Topps Finest basketball cards
Arrives: Jan. 23, 2025
Box basics: Two autographs per six-pack hobby box (eight boxes per case) or Two autographs per 10-card breaker box (10 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
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What's buzz-worthy: Topps Finest hits the court for the first time in 16 years with this union-approved release that's packed with color and flash as well as nods to its fully-licensed past.

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What: 2024 Leaf Eclectic Football cards
Arrives: March 14, 2025
Box basics: Four autographed cards per box (12 boxes per case) or eight autographed cards per jumbo box (eight per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Eclectic takes the football field for a new year with a few brands joining together all in one spot with stars of the past, present and future all in play as part of an autograph-packed release that's mostly cards limited to no more than 10 copies.

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What: 2025 Pieces of the Past Nine Year Edition Series 1 trading cards
Arrives: Feb. 10
Box basics: Nine hits per nine-pack box (nine boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Pieces of the Past takes a hits-only approach for its ninth anniversary with "the greatest cards we have ever produced" found in this one as it revisits back as far as 2017 releases.

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The box: 2024 Topps Holiday baseball cards (tin)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Where to buy: Click here

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The box: 2024 Mattel UNO Elite NFL football cards (Draft Pack)
Where to buy: Retail for now ... BlowoutCards.com when available + other NFL here

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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 still that simple.

YourDozen.com is back with more free cardboard up for grabs to one lucky winner -- this time it's for Sunday NFL 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.

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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: NFL Week 15, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, a big pull, allegedly fake patch cards and pondering 2025 Topps.

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What's Buzzing: Travis Hunter wins the Heisman, pondering 2025 Topps inclusions, NFL Week 15, showing off Michael Jordan and more in this Sunday edition.

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What's Buzzing: NFL chatter, new pulls, talking comics, WWE new arrivals, Caitlin Clark and more in this Saturday edition.

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What: 2024 Panini Obsidian football cards
Arrives: Feb. 5. 2025
Box basics: Two autos and two memorabilia cards per seven-card box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Obsidian hits collectors' hands with the same inclusions as it takes its look at the NFL via "its trademark blend of dark Optichrome aesthetics and futuristic inserts."

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Minor league baseball cards from the past can include some weird stuff ... stuff you wouldn't imagine to be found on a baseball card. Here are some some new oddities in this latest edition of MiLB Madness. 

BO KNOWS MiLB
The Card: Bo Bichette 2018 Topps Heritage Minor League (image variation)
The Buzz On This: My most-collected active player bats lead-off this time as I just wanted some MLB star power here -- he has that despite a down year in 2024 -- and this one also is a reminder. Of what? That, while the MiLB options in packs are not what they used to be right now, you can find a lot of today's younger stars on Heritage MiLB cards that ran from 1962 to 1973 on cardboard -- that's 2011 to 2022 in reality -- before the line was shelved last year. This was a slightly pricier pick-up vs. my typical stuff dropped here (oddball finds from team sets) as this is a photo variation SP ... a little tougher find but not an impossible one. What might be impossible finds at some point soon or the next few years? Unopened Heritage MiLB boxes and perhaps even some earlier editions of Pro Debut ... they have to have the smallest print runs of anything from Topps in recent years. No new stuff to open in box form has had me looking at singles more and more, despite many older MiLB boxes having affordable prices ... I may dabble with both more next year.

Keep reading for more examples of some weird or fun baseball cards you can find in MiLB.

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