Buzz Break: 2018-19 Topps Chrome Bundesliga soccer cards

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The box: 2018-19 Topps Chrome Bundesliga soccer cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 18
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 72
Base set completion: 
58 of 90 (64 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Insert cards: 13 (all in gallery below)
Blue Refractors (2) – Christian Pulisic, Makoto Hasebe (/199)
Blue Wave Refractors (2) – Jiri Pavlenka, Julian Weigl (/99)
Green Refractors (1) – Luca Waldschmidt (/99)
Orange Refractors (1) – Milos Veljkovic (/25)
Superstar Sensations (4) – Rob-Robert Zieler, Andrej Kramaric, Nils Petersen, Julian Brandt
Future Stars (3) – Matthias Ginter, Benito Raman, Salif Sane

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Blue Wave Refractor Autographs (1) – John Brooks (/75)

What's Buzz-worthy: Germany's soccer league that packs in plenty of fans on a regular basis now have American-made cardboard with low-numbered cards to chase with this release. Interestingly there were no standard Refactors to be found here -- they don't appear in the product -- instead you get color and you get Waves, too. The key American player -- at least in my pre-novice football mind -- was found here via a parallel (that's Christian Pulisic) but not on a base card. I'll take it. Almost all of the parallels here were limited to no more than 99 copies and that's a pretty good value considering the potential for world-wide attention with a release like this. Orange Refractors are one in 58 packs, while the Blue Waves over-delivered here, too. The rest are on-par with what you should get in a box.  Blue Wave autos aren't dramatically rarer than standard autos, so you could see them often.

Product Grade: A-
Box Grade: A-
Fun Grade: A-

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