Buzz Break: 2021 Topps Chrome MLS Sapphire Edition

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The box: 2021 Topps Chrome Major League Soccer Sapphire Edition
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of images.

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 32
Set completion: 
26 of 200 (13 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Rookie Cards (4) – Andres Perea, Christian Torres, Michael Halliday, Christian Torres (PP)

Insert/SP cards: 7 (all cards in gallery below)
Big-city Strikers (1) – Darwin Quintero
Gold Big-city Strikers (1) – Caden Clark (/50)
Pitch Prodigies (2) – Michael Halliday, Christian Torres (listed these as SPs; seemed like they were for regular release)
Aqua Refractors (1) – Alvaro Barreal (/99)
Green Refractors (1) – Caden Clark (/75)
Rookie Image Variations (1) – Julian Carranza

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Refractor Autographs (1) – Diego Valeri

What's Buzz-worthy: What a huge box. Ink is one in 21 packs (every third box), the Gold parallel insert is one in 169 packs (22 boxes), the photo variation is one in 45 packs (six boxes) and then Aqua and Green are one in every other box statistically. To top it all off? One of the priciest names -- if not the best name -- on the rookie front in this release, Caden Clark, I found on the rare card as well as on one of the parallels. The standard Chrome version of that Gold alone here has sold for $100 on eBay, making the rest of the highlights here pretty strong if one is just looking at it from the dollars standpoint. (And that's assuming this one won't be more popular ... it might be.) The main set remains at 200 cards but these boxes are smaller so that makes landing any one name even tougher in there. Crunching numbers you can see that some Supers are actually one in 1,000 boxes so these might be stronger rips than you might think and a better break than some other Sapphire editions out there for all sports. This was a big box from just a couple inclusions and there could be other stuff that this soccer newb may not even know ... I'm not scouting all names here but I was a little more impressed with this smaller box vs. the hobby boxes I've opened. Throw in parallel autos and color here and I think these have some massive potential if you land the right names.

Product Grade: B
Box Grade: A++ (ink not guaranteed in every box along with some of my other finds ... plus strong Clark appearances)
Fun Grade: A-

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