Buzz Break: 2020 Donruss Optic baseball cards (blaster)

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The box: 2020 Donruss Optic baseball cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (other formats)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of images.

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 4 in standard, 3 in parallel pack
Cards per box: 27
Set completion: 
18 of 200 (9 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Ronald Acuña Jr., Cody Bellinger, Gleyber Torres, Masahiro Tanaka, Kevin Newman, Trey Mancini, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Aaron Judge, Alex Bregman, Shane Bieber, Christian Yelich

Rookie Cards (7) – Jaylin Davis, Sheldon Neuse, Brusdar Graterol, Anthony Kay, Jonathan Hernandez, Justin Dunn, Patrick Sandoval

Insert/short-print cards: 9 (all cards in box in gallery below)
Holo Prizm (1) – Freddie Freeman
Rated Prospect (1) – Nate Pearson
Pink Prizm (3) – Ronald Acuña Jr., Brandon Lowe, Joey Votto
Retro 1986 (1) – George Brett
Stained Glass (1) – Kris Bryant
Illusions (1) – Yordan Alvarez
Mythical (1) – Mike Trout

Autographs/memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: Compare this smaller box to the mega box I previously ripped ... it seems that these smaller boxes might offer up a bit more bang if you land the right names. You get a ton more rookies here -- at least comparing the two boxes -- and that means more chances at key names. This one also didn't include any of the bigger rookies but it did seem like a better mix with its larger rookie presence. For the dollars, I might go with two blasters instead of a mega just because of the better rookie volume and the chance that those might be found in the better parallels here, Pink, vs. the sky blue cards -- and this wasn't even the blaster with the most RCs/RC parallels of my small volume of boxes opened here. They can deliver more, though there is an auto in every mega. You get a definite minority of standard base cards here that also help the boxes feel like there's more going on between subsets and inserts and those seem to have better names attached. Had this box included some of the key RCs it owl have been an A box ... and as it stands now it's not far off. This wasn't a super-flashy box but its one that has the potential to deliver well for a collector.

Product Grade: B
Box Grade: B+
Fun Grade: B+

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