Buzz 8 in 8: Busting 2020 Topps Holiday MLB cards (Hour 8)

Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 8 in 8 -- a series of a eight breaks of wax boxes and wax packs in as many hours today. We'll post one every hour ... this is the finale for today.

The box: 2020 Topps Holiday baseball cards
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The cost: BlowoutCards.com

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

Packs per box: 10
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 101
Base set completion: 
92 of 200 (46 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Ronald Acuña Jr., Albert Pujols, Aaron Judge, Keston Hiura, Noah Syndergaard, Gary Sanchez, Gleyber Torres, Miguel Cabrera, Ozzie Albies, Ramon Laureano, Max Scherzer, Buster Posey, Mike Trout, Walker Buehler, Blake Snell, Clayton Kershaw, Christian Yelich, Max Fried, Gerrit Cole, Josh Donaldson, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Anthony Rizzo, Rafael Devers, Michael Conforto

Rookie Cards (24) – Kyle Lewis, Aristides Aquino, Brendan McKay, Nico Hoerner, Nick Solak, A.J. Puk, Danny Mendick, Kean Wong, Jake Fraley, Sean Murphy, Jon Berti, Kwang-Hyun Kim, Rangel Ravelo, Mauricio Dubon, Sam Hilliard, Adbert Alzolay, Isan Diaz, Willi Castro, Randy Dobnak, Travis Demeritte, Zac Gallen, Domingo Leyba, Jack Mayfield, Zack Collins

Insert cards: 8 (all in gallery below with some base)
Metallic parallels (5) – Kyle Lewis, Gregory Polanco, Nick Castellanos, Andrew Benintendi, Jose Berrios
Ornament card (1) – Gleyber Torres
Variations (2) – Aaron Judge (candy cane sleeve and wristband), Shun Yamaguchi (gift bag)

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Relics (1) – Clint Frazier

What's Buzz-worthy: These dropped after the holidays but they have been a popular, safe and somewhat loaded option at the retail aisle in recent years. You get a hit in every box here -- with a shot at ink and some Santa hat Relics, too -- and that, along with some fun Photoshopped image variations make this a unique one. I only picked up two of these but perhaps should have done more -- I'd recommend them if you find them and you're a collector. I pulled one less parallel card than last time but one more variation and had some decent names among the inserts, though this was a bit of a Yankees box. ... Some variations have Santa Claus hats, scarves, snowballs, Santa Claus belts and more worked into their photos -- and some have more than one tweak on their images depending on how scarce the card is -- there are three tiers of SPs (one in 7, one in 20 and one in 161 packs). ... The box is a meaty one -- a good value -- and it's a loaded large checklist. I like this year's basic design color scheme a little better than last year and there are all of the notable RCs to chase, too. Parallels aren't the easiest to spot but you will feel the lifted texture, while the variations are flipped over in the packs to make those easy finds. All in all, it's a fun one that I'd dabble with -- there's always a chance they made less of this one than in previous years since it was so delayed by COVID. I'll admit the many variation releases over the year made classic cards like the Acuña a little less amusing but the concentration of what's found here and the volume of what's in a box make this one where you can load up on rookies and stars quite well if you rip.

Product Grade: A
Box Grade: A-
Fun Grade: B+

What's next? Look for a new marathon sometime next month.

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