First Buzz: 2022 Topps Diamond Icons baseball cards

What: 2022 Topps Diamond Icons baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 17
Box basics: Seven auto cards, two auto-Relic cards and one Relic per 10-card box (four boxes per case)
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Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: "One of the Crown Jewels in the Topps trading card collection" is back once again with the same format as previous years but with new players and plenty of hits -- in fact, nothing but hits.

Keep reading for more as well as a full gallery of images.

The Basics: There will be on-card autos, multi-colored patches and diamond cards in the mix with all ink on-card and limited to no more than 25 copies. On the autograph front there will standard autos, Red ink, Silver ink and Diamond Icons. Parallels for these include Black (/10), Red (/5) and 1/1 Gold. New Icons of the Diamond cards (/25) will be on acetate with the same parallels. Cut autos will be limited to four copies with 1/1 Gold versions, while Immortal Cuts will be 1/1s only. ... Auto Relics will include Jumbo Patches (/25 max) with the Black-Red-Gold rainbow, single-player auto Relics (/10 max) with Red and Gold versions, single-player dual-team auto Relics (/10 max) with the same parallels, single-player dual auto Relics (/10 max) as well as dual-player auto Relics. These will have Red and Gold parallels. ... Also in play will be Autographed Diamond Relics (/10) and Autographed Diamond In The Rough Relics (/5) that will only have 1/1 Gold parallels as well as dual-player auto diamond Relic books (/3) with a 1/1 Gold version. Also in play will be 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 standard Relics, there will be single-player cards (/10), dual-player books (/10), Diamond In The Rough Relics (/5), 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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