First Buzz: 2020 Topps Diamond Icons baseball cards

What: 2020 Topps Diamond Icons baseball cards
Arrives: July 8
Box basics: Seven autograph cards, two auto Relics and one Relic per 10-card box (four boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Diamond Icons hits the cardboard field once again with a release that Topps calls "the high-end collector’s best friend."

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The Basics: There will be on-card autos, multi-colored patches and genuine diamond cards in the mix for this one with all ink on-card and limited to no more than 25 copies. On the autograph front there will standard ink (/25 or less) each with Purple (/10), Red (/5) and 1/1 Gold parallels just like last year, while there will be red-ink autos (/25 or less) with Purple (/10), Red (/5) and 1/1 Gold versions, too. There also will be Diamond Icons autos (/25) with the same parallel rainbow, too. The cut auto lineup will include cards limited to just four copies and with a Gold 1/1 parallel just like last time along with 1/1 Immortal Cut Signatures cards back, too. ... Auto Relics will include Jumbo Patches (/25 max) with the Purple-Red-Gold rainbow, single-player auto Relics (/10 max) with Red and Gold versions, single-player dual-team auto Relics (/10 max) and single-player dual auto Relics (/10 max) as well as dual-player auto Relics. The last three will have Red and Gold parallels. Also in play will be autographed diamond relics (/10) that will only have 1/1 Gold parallels as well as new dual-auto diamond Relic books (/3) with a 1/1 Gold version as well as autographed Pre-eminent Pieces Relics (/3) where players sign directly on pieces of game-used cleats embedded into the cards. They will also have Gold parallels. ... For ink-free Relics, there will be single-player cards (/10), dual-player books (/10), Diamond Relics (/5 with four real diamonds per card), Pre-eminent Pieces (/10) with 1/1 spikes versions and MLB logo patches that are 1/1 cards. Relics will have Red (/5) and 1/1 Gold parallels.

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