Buzz Break: 2020 Donruss baseball cards (blaster box)

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The box: 2020 Donruss baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 11
Cards per pack: 8
Cards per box: 88
Set completion: 
61 of 264 (23 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Cody Bellinger, Pete Alonso, Ronald Acuña Jr., Mike Trout, Christian Yelich, Keston Hiura, Max Muncy, Ramon Laureano, Giancarlo Stanton, Nick Senzel, Cal Ripken Jr., George Brett, Dale Murphy, Rickey Henderson, Jose Canseco

Rookie Cards (14) – Luis Robert, Aristides Aquino, Matt Thaiss, Trent Grisham, Justin Dunn, Anthony Kay, Logan Webb, Isan Diaz, Bryan Abreu, Joe Palumbo, Edwin Rios, Josh Rojas, Aaron Civale, Yu Chang

Insert cards: 26 (a sampling of everything in gallery below)
Variations (8) – Ronald Acuña Jr., Pete Alonso, Juan Soto, Fernando Tatis Jr., Francisco Lindor, Eloy Jimenez, Logan Allen, Yu-Cheng Chang
Variation Holo Purple parallel (1) – Jose Altuve
Independence Day parallel (1) – Stephen Strasburg
Baby Shark parallel (1) – Lorenzo Cain
Holo Purple parallels (10) – Buster Posey, Nick Solak, Pete Alonso, Jose Abreu, Eric Hosmer, Max Scherzer, Kirby Yates, Corey Kluber, Barry Larkin, Don Mattingly
Rapture American Pride (1) – Tyler Brown & Gerrit Cole
Rapture Rated Prospect (1) – Royce Lewis
Rapture Now Playing (1) – Eloy Jimenez
Rapture Dominators (2) – Pete Alonso, Jorge Polanco

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Retro 1986 Materials (1) – Kyle Seager

What's Buzz-worthy: The volume of variety here and inserts -- almost a third of the box -- make this one a run rip with easy-to-spot variations and plenty of parallels being part of the charm here. On a base set variation, the rarer versions have a red Donruss logo on the back and on the retro cards the backs are flipped around with a black baseball for the card number instead of white. Those include a mix of nicknames, full names, alternate team notations (on backs) and photo swaps -- and they can also be found as parallels. This one's design seems like an improvement over last year with a cleaner and slicker look that lets the photos and the various features carry the way here. The Diamond Kings and Retro cards are 1986-style here (a plus, though the color is somewhere in between the Diamond Kings and the rookies if you ask me). Blasters are the home of Rapture (sparkly) inserts and Holo Purple (foilboard) parallels only found here. From a collector perspective, there's a lot to chase -- and hobby boxes (hit that link up top) will deliver a lot more with ink guaranteed, too. I didn't do as much of this one last year (the design got me) but this year's is one were i'll likely dabble more. A mega box is probably on my mental radar next to see here sometime soon.

Product Grade: A-
Box Grade: B+ (good names among inserts and variations but no "bigger" card to get an A)
Fun Grade: B+

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