Buzz Break: 2018 Panini Prizm NASCAR cards (blaster box)

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The box: 2018 Panini Prizm NASCAR cards (blaster box)
The cost: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 7 (six standard and one Camo Prizm pack)
Cards per pack: 4 (three per Camo)
Cards in this box: 27
Base set completion: 
11 of 50 (22 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Rusty Wallace, Kevin Harvick, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson, Chase Elliott, Martin Truex Jr., Danica Patrick, Greg Biffle, Ryan Newman, Marcos Ambrose

Rookie Cards (1) – Hailie Deegan

Inserts: 15 (all cards from box in gallery below)
Variations (2) – Smoke (Tony Stewart), Jimmie Johnson (in helmet)
Prizms (1) – Hailie Deegan
Camo Prizms (2) – Darrell Waltrip, Terry Labonte
Camo Star Gazing (1) – Tony Stewart
Star Gazing (1) – Kevin Harvick
Instant Impact (1) – Chase Elliott
Vortex (1) – Tony Stewart
Fireworks (1) – William Byron
G-Force (1) – Joey Logano
Explosion (1) – Brad Keselowski
Explosion Prizms (1) – Jimmie Johnson
Stars & Stripes Prizms (1) – Kurt Busch
National Pride Prizms (1) – Austin Dillon

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Panini Rewards (1) – 250 points (redeemed for three NFL autographed Rookie Cards)

What's Buzz-worthy: It's unclear how often these blaster boxes might deliver hits (a second one you'll see here at some point didn't) but this one was an A+ box in my book with not one but two appearances of NASCAR's most-popular rookie when it comes to cardboard and a Panini Rewards points card that wasn't the minimum (they start at 150). The base set here is small but that's helped with a few variations and plenty of parallels. The Camo pack, interestingly, had an insert card among them so that makes things a little more potentially vast for collecting everything from this format. The inserts here were solid in their variety and those feel pretty creative. That's good because the photos in the base set feel a little limited -- kind of standard for NASCAR -- but the basic frame has good energy to it. This one's full potential might be seen better ripping into hobby (link above) but this was a pretty strong blaster to start things off. If the price RPMs drop on this one at some point this year, you'll probably see me rip more of this one right here.

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

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