Buzz Break: 2024 Mattel UNO Elite NFL (Draft Pack)

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The box: 2024 Mattel UNO Elite NFL football cards (Draft Pack)
Where to buy: Retail for now ... BlowoutCards.com when available + other NFL here

Keep reading to see a breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

Cards in this box: 60 -- 56 player cards, four player foil cards in a sealed pack (right)
Base set completion: 
I'm not fully sorting this one this time, but there are 192 players in the basic set each with four base colors -- Blue, Green, Red, Yellow -- and then foils. That's 768 base cards -- but that's not all that's found in this one.

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Notables on base cards in this box – C.J. Stroud, Dak Prescott, Jaylen Waddle, Christian McCaffrey, CeeDee Lamb, Jason Kelce, Jalen Hurts, Ja'Marr Chase, Brian Robinson Jr., Kenneythj Walker III, Matt Stafford, George Kittle, Deebo Samuel, Adam Thielen, Mark Andrews, Minkah Fitzpatrick.

Rookie Cards – N/A ... gaming releases aren't Rookie Cards by the standard definition, though there are likely some rookies and first appearances in this release given the depth of the set as it includes a lot of defensive players, linemen and even kickers ... not your typical finds in a typical basic set.

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Interactive Checklist: Click here

Note: Atop the four base color versions per player, there are also base color foil, dual color foil and wild foil. Here's the rundown of Patrick Mahomes' cards via the Mattel site. That should mean more than 2,100 total cards in a master set, unless some things are tweaked for some players. (Buzz admittedly did not check every card.)

Insert cards: 4 (a sampling of it all in the gallery below)
Green foil (1) – George Kittle
Yellow foil (1) – Marquise Brown
Blue foil (1) – Treylon Burks
Green & Blue foil (1) – D.J. Moore

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: It's taken a few of these packs to hit average-ish results and I think this is that. Only a couple of A-listers were among the base cards and the foils are lighter on popular players if you ask me ... but that'll happen and it hadn't happen for me until now. ... As I noted before, if there are no short-print shenanigans for foils, for example, then your odds of finding any one card there is one in 336 packs. Even if they made a lot, that's still going to make some players -- stars or commons -- not the easiest finds and then there will be a volume of the run that gets played. Lay on grading potential atop this, I think this one is a winner with big potential for the low price ... hit the gaming aisle for a look after you check out the typical card stuff next time you're out and about. A $5 buy might not get you a lot these days -- cards or not -- but there's potential with these. (For deeper thoughts, check out my previous breaks of these ... this is just a quick mid-week filler post but it's worth it if you can find them at their SRPs.)

Product Grade: A 
Box Grade: C+ (pretty much average this time)
Fun Grade: C

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