Buzz Break: 2020 Panini Diamond Kings (blaster box)

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The box: 2020 Panini Diamond Kings baseball cards (mispacked blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby & FOTL)

Keep reading to see a breakdown and gallery of what's in this one.

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 35
Base set completion: 2 of 100 (2 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Roger Maris, Yordan Alvarez

Insert/short-print cards: 32 (all cards from box in gallery below)
Short-prints (Nos. 101-170) (19) – Bo Bichette, Mike Piazza, Johnny Bench, Tony Gwynn, Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis Jr., Nap Lajoie, Trevor Story, Jose Berrios, Kyle Seager, Brendan McKay, Tres Barrera, Jaylin Davis, Logan Webb, Jake Fraley, Adrian Morejon, Michael King, Deivy Grullon, Brusdar Graterol
Blue Artist's Proof (3) – Randy Johnson, Josh Rojas, Michael King
Blue Frame parallel (1) – Nico Hoerner
All-time Diamond Kings (2) – Mike Trout, Ted Williams
The 3,000 (1) – George Brett
In The Zone (1) – Juan Soto
Aficionado (1) – Mookie Betts
Gallery of Stars (1) – Mookie Betts
DK 206 (1) – Cal Ripken Jr.
Artist's Palette (1) – Ronald Acuña Jr.
DK Originals (1) – Ty Cobb

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Jersey Kings (1) – Aaron Nola

What's Buzz-worthy: My third and final one of these as part of my revisiting this past favorite perhaps delivered the best results of my trio with another hit, some serious star power among the inserts and a good run of mis-packed SPs. What does that mean? Well it seems that a lot if not most Diamond Kings blasters from this one have nearly all short-printed cards inside while also over-delivering on inserts. They aren't the super-flashiest of rips (and this botch doesn't help values a lot) but I don't mind them at all with this approach, which has the volumes of SPs vs. base cards essentially flipped. Instead of getting two or three SPs per box, this one included just two base cards and the rest were from Nos. 101-170, which are the short-printed cards for this brand and then inserts. ... This brand is a colorful one jam-packed with stars from the past and present with some big names among the mem cards so it could be one to watch as more people open these. Hobby boxes (link up top) are your best bet with guaranteed hits but if you like to dabble with the chance at something more for a low price then the blasters are worth a look. For more thoughts on this one, check out my other breaks ... I've done a few.

Product Grade: A
Box Grade: A- (loaded with star power here and not all have hits)
Fun Grade: A-

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