First Buzz: 2021 Bowman Draft baseball cards

What: 2021 Bowman Draft baseball cards
Arrives: Dec. 29
Box basics: No autos guaranteed in 10-pack LITE boxes (16 per case); three autos per 12-pack hobby boxes (eight per case); five autos per super-jumbo box (six per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: The three-format approach comes to Bowman Draft, which has a tentative January arrival with the newest draft picks and more all in their MLB threads -- and with some new textures like Lava (above) among the Refractor rainbow.

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The Basics: The super-jumbo packs are back with 120 cards apiece -- 76 base cards and 33 Chromes along with eight Refractors, two inserts and an auto -- that's 600 cards per box, while standard (jumbo) packs include 23 base, seven Chrome and two Refractors. Hobby LITE packs will have 11 base cards, four Chromes and one Refractor with five Black & White RayWave Refractors per box. (All parallels are in play for each format except for exclusive colors noted later.)  ... The base set against will consist of 200 players with a rainbow that includes Sky Blue (/499), Purple (/250), Aqua (/199), Green (/99), Gold (/50), Red (/5) and 1/1 Black as well as printing plates just like last year. On the Chrome side there will be standard Refractors, Purple (/250), Sparkle, Aqua Lava (/199), Green (/99), Green Sparkle (/99), Yellow Lava (/75), Gold (/50), Orange (/25), Red (/5) and 1/1 Superfractors and printing plates. There will once again be image variations.

Among the inserts will be Franchise Futures and Glimpses of Greatness with both having standard Refractors (/250) as well as Green (/99), Gold (/50), Red (/5), Red Lava (/5) and 1/1 Supers as well as plates. For inserts, there will be image variations for basic cards, Franchise Futures and Genesis inserts. The two inserts will have standard Refractors (/250) as well as Green, Gold, Red and Supers at same volumes as above. Joining them will be Bowman Draft Night and Bowman Invicta inserts as well. The Draft Night cards will have the same parallels while Invicta will have Atomic (/150), Gold, Red and Supers.

Chrome Prospect  autos will have the following rainbow -- Refractor (/499), Purple (/250), Aqua Lava (/199), Blue (/150), Blue Wave (/150), Green (/99), Sparkle (/71), Gold (/50), Gold Wave (/50), Red (/5), Red Lava (/5) Red Wave (/5) and 1/1 Supers as well as 1/1 Black Wave and printing plates. Again, just like last year. Image variation autos will be limited to only 99 copies. They will be joined by Genesis auto parallels (/99) with Reds and Supers for parallels. Also inked will be Franchise Futures duals (/99) with Gold, Red and Supers and those same parallels will be found for Draft Night autos (/99), Class of 2021 autos (/250) and Invicta autos (/99). Also in the mix will be prep All-American game autos.

Only found in hobby boxes will be Orange base (all /25) and Orange Chrome parallels as well as Sky Blue Chrome Refractors. For ink the Invicta cards will have Orange autos, while the Chrome autos will have Orange as well as Black (/75). Orange autos will also be found in Franchise Futures and Draft Night sets. Only found in LITE boxes will be Black & White RayWave Refractors and those boxes only autos will be Black & White RayWave sigs (above).

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