Buzz Break: 2021 UD AEW All Elite Wrestling cards (blaster)

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The box: 2021 Upper Deck AEW All Elite Wrestling  cards
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for newer AEW hobby releases) 

Keep reading to see a full breakdown and gallery from this one.

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 61
Base set completion: 37 of 100 (37 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Notables on base cards include Jon Moxley, Britt Baker, Orange Cassidy, Penelope Ford, Adam Page, The Bunny, Sammy Guevara, Tay Conti, Kenny Omega, Pena El Zero M, Sting, Jake Roberts, Taz, MJF, Cody Rhodes, Chris Jericho, Brodie Lee

Rookie Cards – None are noted on-card via a RC logo, but anyone in base set without previous WWE, WCW, Impact, Panini Lucha Libre AAA or BBM (Japan) or Leaf in-pack cards is likely a RC here based on traditional definitions.

Inserts/short-prints: 23 (all cards from box in gallery below)
Gold parallels (8) – Penelope Ford, Dustin Rhodes, Shawn Spears, Arn Anderson, Lance Archer, Brian Cage, Sting, Best Friends
Pyro parallels (3) – Hikaru Shida, Isiah Cassidy, FTR
Canvas (2) – Jon Moxley (SP), Big Swole
Main Features (7) – Brodie Lee, Rey Fenix, Frankie Kazarian, Anna Jay, Big Swole, Nick Jackson, Santana
Main Features Gold (2) – Sting, Santana
Rhodes To Success (1) – Cody Rhodes

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Silver Relic (1) – Joey Janela

What's Buzz-worthy: With the new edition of this one out -- I'll get to it likely next week -- I opted to dip back to this first release that is truly loaded with Rookie Cards for a number of names here who made their top-tier wrestling debut in these packs alongside a few others who have had TNA/Impact or WWE experience and cardboard. Due to the volume made here, there's not a lot of money in the RCs but they are what they are -- and not helping these is pack-out condition issues. This box again had a lot of cards with tweaked top-left corners as well as a lot of surface dents and upper right edge issues (a big deal if you contemplate grading) but overall it's a comfortable first release. I did find a couple of parallels that were clean and my Moxley Canvas card here is a SP as well as a rarity in that its edges aren't chipped beyond belief like all other cards I've seen on that front. These boxes typically do deliver a hit when hobby boxes actually didn't have any big guarantees every single time. This is my fourth box and I do like it more over time but the singles are cheap and lots might be considered at this point if you do some hunting online. I had hoped the condition problems weren't in this one ... but they were. There are a lot of cheap singles I'd want to grade here but only if I had a chance at top marks.

Product Grade: B+ (delays hurt this one ... a lot of notables not in the set)
Box Grade: A- (Moxley is an SP and some of my good names on parallels are clean for grading, unlike many others here)
Fun Grade: B (a lot of variety even in these small boxes ... but top-edge issues and corner curls are super-heavy here)

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