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 Today: Donruss Optic is just starting to heat up, Houston Astros cheating chatter ain't going away, storage strategies, 2020 Topps breaks and ... investing in Jeter Downs?

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What: 2019-20 Panini National Treasures basketball cards
Arrives: April 15
Box basics: Eight autos or mem cards, one printing plate and one base/parallel card per box (four boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: National Treasures takes to the hardwood with a new crop of Rookie Cards -- the biggest one of them all in Zion Williamson above -- and plenty more for another season of high-end chases.

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What: 2019-20 Panini Impeccable Premier League soccer cards
Arrives: July 29
Box basics: Four autograph and one other auto or mem card per eight-card box (three boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Impeccable hits the pitch for the first time with a meaty array of inclusions as well as a number of established stars and newcomers all in one place -- and 15 different autograph sets for starters.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What: 2019 Panini Chronicles football cards
Arrives: April 15
Box basics:  Two autographs and one memorabilia card per six-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Panini's all-in-one brand hits the football field for the first time with new rookie and plenty of other notables on several familiar brands that either weren't standalone releases or featured college photography when they arrived earlier this year.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery of images released so far.

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What: 2020 Leaf Flash football cards
Arrives: April
Box basics: Five autographs per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Flash hits the field for the third season in a row with a new crop of NFL Draft picks in their college colors with nothing but autographs in play here.

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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 Today: Nothing but big pulls and breaks highlights in today's edition.

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What: 2020 Bowman Chrome baseball cards
Arrives: Sept. 18
Box basics: Three autographs per one-pack HTA Choice box (12 boxes per case);
Two autographs per 12-pack master box (two mini-boxes per master box; 12 masters per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps continues with the format that it introduced for Bowman Chrome a few years ago with HTA Choice boxes that are autograph-only with their own features and a traditional release that includes standard cards and more via a mini-box format.

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YourDozen.com had a rare perfect picks week this past week and the craziness continues this time around with a mix of new questions that include a heavy dose of NBA All-Star Weekend picks.

Everything from the All-Star Game to the Slam Dunk Contest are in the mix along with questions for the Daytona 500, XFL and UFC, too. This week's winner will a jumbo box of 2020 Topps Series 1 baseball cards.

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Did you get in on last week's action? Check the leaderboard and contact fish@blowoutcards.com to claim your prize if you're the winner.

How does it work? It's short and simple. Register and you'll get a dozen questions where your answers will be compiled and compared to others. Whomever gets the most correct gets the prize -- or at least a shot at it if there's a tie.

The goal with YourDozen.com? Have a little fun and get free stuff into some of your hands.

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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: 2020 Topps Series 1 baseball cards 
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
First Buzz preview with checklist/SPs/more: Click here

Packs per box: 8 (seven standard, one medallion card pack)
Cards per pack: 14
Cards in this box: 99
Base set completion: 
82 of 350 (23 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Mike Trout, Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger, Gleyber Torres, Trea Turner, Stephen Strasburg, Juan Soto, Max Scherzer, Anthony Rendon, Justin Verlander

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

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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 Today: Potential MLB postseason changes chatter, Optic NBA arrives, sketch card artist issues, 2020 Topps Heritage heat, 2020 Topps pulls and ... who makes the Mount Rushmore of MLB?

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What: 2020 Topps The Mandalorian: Journey of The Child trading cards
Arrives: April 8
Box basics: 30 cards per set along with two parallel cards (40 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: The biggest little deal in Star Wars today -- Baby Yoda -- gets a card set of his own that will go retail-only when it arrives this spring.

Keep reading for more as well as a gallery.

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The XFL's return became a reality this weekend with all eight teams taking the field and now we have new football cards to show for it.

That's thanks to Topps Now.

The 2020 Topps Now XFL set will be slightly different than other Now sets in that the cards will be available for a week -- not one day -- before they are printed to order.

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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 Card: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 2019 Topps Chrome RC (PSA 9)
The Price: About $15
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: The pop report on this one is flip-flopped like a lot of new modern cards -- it's got more than 1,500 PSA 10s but just over 150 PSA 9s out of nearly 1,700 graded ... not the norm, really. Nonetheless, I still didn't mind it in this grade for this price. The short-printed Series 2 card that carries the same photo as this one is a tougher grade -- those corners can be chippy -- but rather than sub my own there and hope for a PSA 9 I just decided to go this route on Chrome. I'll probably do more when they present themselves or perhaps submit others at some point. (I'll have a big submission I already made batting lead-off in a future Making The Grade, too.) My gut feeling is that this super-rookie didn't live up to the massive hype we had envisioned last year -- so 2020 could be one that is dramatic for his cardboard ... one way or another.
Grab a box right here: 2019 Topps Chrome 

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What: 2019-20 Topps UEFA Champions League Museum Collection soccer cards
Arrives: Oct. 23
Box basics: One autograph, one autographed Relic and one Relic per eight-card box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Topps brings Museum Collection to the Champions League pitch once again with the familiar format it has used here and elsewhere.

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

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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 Today: Purple parallels are back in 2020 Topps, Ozzie Albies, 2020 Topps Heritage heat, The Modern Wax Fund and more in today's edition.

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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: 2020 Topps Series 1 baseball cards 
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
First Buzz preview with checklist/SPs/more: Click here

Cards per pack: 67
Base set completion: 
57 of 350 (16 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Juan Soto, Mike Trout, Fernando Tatis Jr., Shohei Ohtani, Nick Senzel, Gleyber Torres, Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander, Buster Posey

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

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Want a tourney bracket with some extra collecting oomph? Then we've got something for you.

It's the Blowout Big Baller Promo and it's a bonus for those who pick off items at the case level between now and tourney time. The rewards don't go out to the collector with the team that wins it all, either, as all participants who have a team that advances to the Elite Eight get sealed cases as a bonus in this program that will end on March 23.

And all of them even get a choice as to what they win.

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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 Today: Big 2020 Topps pulls, Rookie Cards vs. prospect cards, Zion Williamson, The Modern Wax Fund and more in today's edition.

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Serious investors wanting to get into the card world have a new option.

It's The Modern Wax Fund, which is a first of its kind private-equity fund that is focused on trading cards.

Set to close on Feb. 28, the Fund is a creation of Attic Investments and Blowout Cards. They have packaged more than $3 million in unopened product -- some of the rarest and most-desired baseball, basketball, football and other cards from the modern era -- into the project.

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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 Today: A grading debate, the XFL is here (again), who might sign for Ginter, predictions, pondering old card volumes and 2020 Topps Series 1 pulls.

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What: 2020 Bowman Sterling baseball cards
Arrives: Aug. 14
Box basics: Five autographs per five-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Bowman Sterling is back for another go as an auto-per-pack product with five parallels in every one of them as well as a mix of prospects, rookies and veterans all in one colorful place once again.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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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: 2020 Topps Series 1 baseball cards 
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com
First Buzz preview with checklist/SPs/more: Click here

Packs per box: 8 (seven standard, one medallion card pack)
Cards per pack: 14
Cards in this box: 99
Base set completion: 
82 of 350 (23 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Rafael Devers, Alex Bregman, Miguel Cabrera, Carlos Correa, Max Scherzer, Ramon Laureano, Clayton Kershaw, Mike Yastrzemski, Christian Yelich, Shohei Ohtani, Keston Hiura, Cody Bellinger

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

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Can't wait until March to get a bracket going? Well, we've got a way for you to get into the game.

It's the Blowout March Gladness Jackpot and it's a bonus for those who pick off sale items -- an overall bracket winner gets a mega box of the red-hot 2018-19 Donruss Optic (home of Luka Doncic Rookie Cards) but all teams that make the Final Four get a spot in a championship game bonus grid where they'll get a share of an overall big-dollar jackpot that pays out Blowout gift cards for a number of possibilities.

There will be a number of brackets filled in this one -- and they are filling already -- and every team in the field in every bracket is tied to a sale box.

Keep reading for five items -- not just basketball and with a variety of price points -- that got Buzz's attention in this one. And every one you buy gets you a team on a bracket.

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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 Today: Big pulls, 2020 Topps error cards, Pete Rose, Zion Williamson and who would you sell first -- Ronald Acuña Jr., Juan Soto or Gleyber Torres?

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What: 2020 Topps Transcendent Collection Tennis Hall of Fame tennis cards
Arrives: April 1
Box basics: 33 autographs and more per box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Transcendent takes to the court with the super-premium format known to baseball and wrestling fans but this time around it's the biggest legends from the tennis world -- the stars in the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

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

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