Buzz Break: 2022 Topps Chrome baseball cards (blaster)

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The box: 2022 Topps Chrome baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: Click here (a few formats)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

Packs per box: 8
Cards per pack: 4 or 5
Cards in this box: 36
Base set completion: 
23 of 220 (10 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Paul Goldschmidt ($20!), Max Scherzer, Bo Bichette, Mookie Betts, Trea Turner, Triston McKenzie, Shane Bieber, Manny Machado

Rookie Cards (2) – Brandon Marsh, Jake Burger

Insert cards: 12 (all inserts and some base in gallery below)
Refractors (2) – Jake Burger, Isiah Kiner-Falefa
Prism Refractors (1) – Salvador Perez
Sepia Refractors (1) – Anthony Rendon, Anthony Rizzo
Pink Refractors (2) – Randy Arozarena, Bryan De La Cruz
Green Refractors (1) – Trevor Story (/99)
Future Stars (1) – Kyle Lewis
1987 Topps (2) – Joey Votto, Jose Abreu
New Classics (1) – Luis Robert 

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Chrome Rookie Autographs  (1) – Anthony Bender

What's Buzz-worthy: I've never been a big Chrome chaser -- not enough cards per pack for the price for me for a long time -- but the blasters can be fun with a lot more variety than other formats (parallels previously in different formats are all now jammed into blasters the last couple years). Then when I found a good price on blasters I actually bit on five to take part on the Topps MVP Buyback promo. This time, I found Goldschmidt, making a cheaper box even cheaper. Ink here isn't easy -- one in 120 packs -- and this one isn't a big-money guy, but I'll take it. The Green parallel is a ridiculous one in 633 packs -- the odds are higher than the value here for sure -- but also a win for a small box ... and I'll admit I found this color more than once as well as some other parallels here in only five blasters ... so I might rip more if they present themselves while the buybacks are in play. Why? You never know how those Refractors or color might flow.

Product Grade: B (huge auto checklist hurts in my view)
Box Grade: A+ (Goldy for some cash back, an auto and a numbered insert ... some long odds beaten here)
Fun Grade: B+

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