Buzz Break: 2020-21 Topps Chrome Bundesliga soccer cards

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The box: 2020-21 Topps Chrome Bundesliga soccer cards (hobby box)
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of images.

Packs per box: 18
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 72
Base set completion: 
54 of 100 (54 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Rookie Cards – Jude Bellingham, Youssoufa Moukoko, Silas Wamangituka

Insert cards: 17 (all in gallery below with RCs)
Refractors (6) – Youssoufa Moukoko, Joshua Kimmich, Jonathan Schmid, Kevin Akpoguma, Jean-Philippe Matte, Andrej Kramaric
Purple Refractors (1) – Loris Karius (/299)
X-Fractors (1) – Reinhold Yabo (/250)
Blue Refractors (1) – Youssoufa Moukoko (/150)
Blue Wave Refractors (1) – Yussuf Poulsen (/150)
Green Wave Refractors (1) – Giovanni Reyna (/99)
Pink Refractors (1) – Hee-Chan Hwang (/75)
Future Stars (3) – Ellyes Skhiri, Marcus Ingvartsen, Daichi Kamada
Decade of Dominance (2) – Marco Reus, Timo Horn

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Orange Refractor Autographs (1) – Wout Weghorst

What's Buzz-worthy: This is a scorcher of a box. Why? Two cards. The Youssoufa Moukoko Refractor and its Blue pal are both cards that pay for the box and more ... and even more atop that if they grade well. Why don't I say it more firmly? Well, cards from hot releases like this are pretty erratic when it comes to sales and since there's so much interest and competition the prices can get nutty on the asking side vs. the actual sales side ... with reality perhaps seen on bot highs and lows on both side and perhaps somewhere in the middle of all of it. ... A PSA 10 of the standard Refractor has sold for more than $1,300 on eBay while a raw Blue has pushed $1,000. There aren't a lot of mid-range boxes that can yield that kind of power but Chrome soccer (and Prizm) have done that in recent years ... and its really not limited to just soccer, either, but the box builds for other sports seem to be more complicated at times and that can make everything pricier and tougher to chase. In the case of this one, your only option is this box and a recently released Sapphire cousin which uses the familiar lineup but on a different stock approach. I also landed his basic RC and his teammate's RC ain't a shabby find, either. Ink and rarities for key young names here can all pay for your box ... or a few.

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

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