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What's Buzzing: Scouting Black Friday/Black November, NFL Week 12, MLB chatter and more.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2023 Panini Chronicles baseball cards (mega)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (when available)

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What: 2023 Topps Heritage High Number baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 13
Box basics: One autograph or Relic per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Odds: Click here
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: It's once again time to turn back the clock a few years with Topps Heritage taking on 1974 for a final time this year with an arrival set for just a few weeks from now.

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What: 2023 Topps Rip baseball cards
Arrives: Now via Topps.com
Box basics: Four Rip Cards per box
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: Rip Cards are back for another year with nothing but rip cards in the mix with the chase being what comes inside the cards if one dares to tear into them.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2023 Topps Archives baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Scouting Black November, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, pondering Hall of Famers, NFL Week 12 and more.

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What: 2023 Bowman Chrome Sapphire Edition baseball cards
Arrives: Today via Topps.com
Box basics: Two parallels per eight-pack box (four cards per pack)
Checklist: Click here
Odds: Click here
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: Sapphire returns to the diamond for another run with the notables found on Bowman Chrome -- veterans, rookies and prospects -- with a limited lineup of other inclusions.

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices right now right here as the new wave of Blowout Cards' Black November sales is here

Many of the discounts were dramatic enough that Buzz once again had to ponder the possibilities in many of the boxes and cases -- and here are five that caught this collector’s eye ... and there's far more that just might suit your tastes in the big sale.

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MY SAFE PICK
2015 Topps Football factory set (Retail)
There's plenty to find in this set -- you get everybody -- but there's one basic card inside that's a Rookie Card (but not noted as one) with a lot of attention. It's the Pat McAfee Rookie Card. The NFL punter turned media mogul turned WWE commentator turned ESPN talker and now a full-on brand for that empire. I'm not a big fan but he doesn't have a boatload of cardboard and this is the home of the RC. It didn't get a RC logo as he had some medallion-looking insert the year before and then this one -- they weren't thinking about RCs for veteran punters -- but it's still a RC. Each set comes with some variations for rookies, a bonus hit and everything. When it's on sale, that's the time to grab ... it's a safe pick but there's still a little variety with that bonus hit.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Pondering the Heisman winner, NFL Week 11 reactions, MLB trade chatter, ripping a boatload of boxes, Black November boxes and a Hall of Fame question.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Bo Nix puts on a show, NFL Week 11, market reactions, college football chatter, MLB and Black November.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Pondering Hall of Fame WRs, MLB and NFL chatter, Black November, baseball trivia and talking Bruce Lee cards.

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What: 2023 Topps Chrome Black baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 15
Box basics: One autograph in every four-card box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: TBD
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: This one returns for a fourth season with the same approach of the past -- an encased autograph and more every time -- in what the company calls a "premium breaking experience."

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: MLB's got two new MVPs, Joe Burrow, Jim Harbaugh, Black November, completing a set from 1890 and more.

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Today's the day MLB reveals its MVPs ... and that means the beginning of the Topps MVP Buyback Program this year as well.

What is that? For the second year in a row, participating hobby shops including Blowout Cards - The Fantastic Store in Chantilly, Va., will give collectors store credit in exchange for their MVP cards -- as many as they can collect -- found inside boxes of 2023 Topps Chrome and 2023 Topps Chrome Logofractor Edition.

Blowoutcards.com will not be accepting MVP Buyback Cards through the mail this year, but please note that our hobby shop, The Fantastic Store, will be accepting cards for the program for in-store customers only.

However, as an added incentive to visit our store and participate in this exciting promotion, we are offering reimbursement for travel expenses on larger submissions.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Show me the Moneyball (A's will head to Vegas), collectors have their thoughts on things, NFL Week 11, Back November and more in this one.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2023 Leaf Metal Pop Century 1/1 Pre-Production Proofs
Where to buy: Click here (when available)

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Buzz buys and busts a lot of boxes right here for Buzz Breaks, but one of my goals is to rip a little less and talk more about cardboard that I -- and you -- might like. One way to do that? Simple show and tell -- present a few pick-ups and say why they captured my attention.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ... 

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THE PERFECT EARLIER SIG
The Card: Shotzi Blackheart 2020 Topps WWE NXT Roster Blue Autographs (/50)
The Price: Less than a box these days
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: If you're a regular reader, then you know this set and this auto -- in all colors -- is high on my radar and that's why I grabbed this super-clean copy with an eye on grading. It's not totally perfect but I'm fine with that as the core reason I bit here was how clean this sig is with her original WWE ink, not the shortened one that has come about on her cards since this earlier signing. (It's not quite her pre-WWE auto, which is more of a puffy almost "tagging" writing style with big curves and loops on all letters.) A quicker auto happens for many signers as they ink more and more stuff and some styles just won't come back -- so that's another reason this one is a favorite ... plus, not that many of her WWE cards have this auto.
Grab a box right here: None for this one ... but WWE boxes are here

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What's Buzzing: Bronny James, MLB chatter, big on Japanese Bowman Chrome, a grading question, scouting Black November and NFL Week 11 chatter.

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices right now right here as the new wave of Blowout Cards' Black November sales is here

Many of the discounts were dramatic enough that Buzz once again had to ponder the possibilities in many of the boxes and cases -- and here are five that caught this collector’s eye ... and there's far more that just might suit your tastes in the big sale.

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BLACK IN NOVEMBER
2021 Topps Allen & Ginter X Baseball Box
Most boxes in this wave of picks are ones I have personally opened in the past, but this one is the lone exception for Allen & Ginter X as in it's the only one that I missed landing since 2018. Why? I actually don't remember -- it was likely timing of arrival -- but Ginter X is a pretty safe buy as there's an autograph in every box with the ink here typically trending rarer than the standard stuff. Almost everything here is in the trademark black take on the Ginter designs and among the autos this time are Aaron Judge, Chipper Jones, Corey Seager, Johnny Bench, Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto, Mike Trout, Pete Alonso, Ronald Acuña Jr., Ryne Sandberg, Vladdy Sr. and Vladdy Jr. and more from the MLB realm. From beyond baseball, there's Bobby Moynihan, Jose Andrés, Rocky Bleier, Randall Cunnignham, Sara Spain and Trevor Lawrence to start. Again, regular Ginter doesn't include ink every time and these boxes do ... and some years of X could statistically deliver two.

Keep reading for a few more boxes you should consider (and are likely to end up in Buzz's cart).

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What's Buzzing: Corbin Carroll and Gunnar Henderson are your Rookie of the Year winners, NFL Week 11, all aboard the C.J. Stroud hype train, The Rock's autos, Black November and ... is Mac Jones done?

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2022 Topps Archives Snapshots
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
Checklist: Click here

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What: 2023 Onyx Premium baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 20
Box basics: Two on-card autographs per box (24 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: This brand arrives once again with nothing but autographed cards inside its boxes with top prospects in the mix as well as some iconic young MLB stars and even some other-sport surprises among the subjects.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: The Rock's Leaf autographs, NFL Week 10, non-sports cards, MLB chatter, Connor Bedard and Black November deals.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: New pulls from 2023 Topps Archives, NFL Week 10, fake cards, "bet," Victor Wembanyama and, of course, Black November.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Inside a new WNBA case, a big Ichiro Suzuki sale, Black November, NFL Week 10, new pulls and more.

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