Buzz Break: 2021 Topps 3D baseball cards

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The box: 2021 Topps 3D baseball cards
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Packs per box: 1
Cards per pack: 8
Base set completion: 
5 of 100 (5 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Luis Robert, Max Scherzer, George Springer

Rookie Cards (2) – Nick Madrigal, Pavin Smith

Insert/short-print cards: 3 (everything in the pack in gallery)
Rookie Class Motion (2) – Cristian Pache, Sixto Sanchez
Image variations (1) – Aaron Judge

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: Just 12,500 boxes of this one were made and they sold out within minutes over on Topps' site. Despite that, Buzz was able to land a couple for this one -- my first time for the brand -- so here goes. I actually demolished the odds here -- whatever odds there are -- with a one-in-20-pack photo variation pull. The 10 photo variation cards are the only chase in the release and they are obvious as they are on the backs of the packs where the Rookie Motion cards are normally found. Card math time ... if 12,500 packs were made and variations are one in 20 packs then no more than 63 copies per card should exist for those. I'll take it. A checklist was not posted for this but it should be full of the top names and rookies from Series 1 and Series 2. It's posted as a 100-card set but the card numbers here were as high as 633, so it must be a skip-numbered release. Crunching the numbers for the base cards, inserts and packs, there should be roughly 743 copies per base card in this one, so I'd grab the players you want while they appear to be plentiful from this release. They should dry up quickly. Obviously key RCs and top stars will be the main draw over time but I wouldn't be surprised if common players also become tough to find as people may not think to put them up for sale later, not realizing how little of this one was actually made.

Product Grade: B+
Box Grade: A
Fun Grade: B (small pack can be hit and miss)

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