Buzz Break: 2021 Panini Prizm NASCAR cards (blaster box)

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The box: 2021 Panini Prizm NASCAR cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby when available)

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Packs per box: 7 (six standard, one Blue Hypers pack)
Cards per pack: 4 (three per Blue Hypers)
Cards in this box: 27
Set completion: 15 of 90 (17 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Kevin Harvick, Chase Briscoe, Ryan Vargas, Anthony Alfredo, Corey Lajoie, Noah Gragson, Matt DiBenedetto, Kyle Busch, Austin Dillon, Danica Patrick, Carl Edwards, Mark Martin

Rookie Cards (logo) (3) – Drew Dollar, Sheldon Creed, Kody Vanderwal

Insert/short-print cards: 12 (all cards from box in gallery below)
Photo variations (2) – Kyle Busch, Sheldon Creed (Note: Find via the checkered flag on backs.)
Prizms (1) – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Burnouts Prizms (1) – Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Illumination (1) – Austin Dillon
Heroes (1) – Bubba Wallace
Teamwork (1) – William Byron
Blue Hyper Prizms (3) – Kevin Harvick, Taylor Gray, Kaz Grala
Red Prizms (1) – Chris Buescher
Reactive Green Prizms (1) – Jeff Gordon

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: This one just didn't feel as flashy as past breaks for Prizm NASCAR but the overall design does feel tighter and more precision-details vs. some past releases. (Just a gut feeling from me ... I don't do a lot of NASCAR any more.) This was actually my first one of these and that's because I found this one for less than half of its original price so I figured I'd dabble. The subsets make these feel like there is more going on and it's a way to get some past names into the mix to help with the NASCAR ranks getting younger and younger it seems all the time -- at least that's my gut feeling based on what I see here. The variants here were all about the trophies and they're easy to spot if you check the card backs for checkers. I got some good names but this one felt like it was missing a "big" card to get it a higher grade. With slasher prices here so low, I'll probably do more at some point just to see if I can improve upon this first impression. I know the higher suggested retail prices on Prizm/Optic stuff at retail probably scared me off of releases like this -- this one would have been rough in my eyes at a higher price.

Product Grade: B+
Box Grade: B- (nothing really felt bigger this time)
Fun Grade: B (cleanly made and tightly designed ... just didn't get enough bigger active names this time)

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