What: 2020 Topps XFL football cards
Arrives: March 18
Box basics: Three autographs per 24-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Full details are still to come, but it looks like the new version of the XFL will return to Topps for its cardboard this coming season -- just like it had for the inaugural campaign in 2001.

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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: 2019-20 Panini Prizm NBA cards (Walmart Mega Box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

Packs per box: 11 (10 standard, one Pink Ice)
Cards per pack: 4 (10 in pink)
Cards in this box: 50
Base set completion: 
24 of 200 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird, Hakeem Olajuwon, Isiah Thomas, Kyle Lowry, C.J. McCollum, Buddy Hield, Jrue Holiday, Jimmy Butler, D'Angelo Russell

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What's Buzzing Today: Some unreal -- but totally legit -- Star Wars pulls, MLB breaks, new Optic NFL and plenty more in today's edition.

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Buzz Breaks are always among our most-read features here on The Buzz as many of you are curious about seeing what comes out of a new box of cards -- whether it's some affordable retail box or some pricier box from the many that are out there.

Excluding our monthly #Buzz8in8 marathon days -- those will return in 2020, by the way -- Buzz ripped nearly 300 boxes for Buzz Breaks this year. While we'd love to present all of them here, that's not just going to happen today. (There's just not enough on caffeine for that.)

Instead, here is a sampling of the most interesting breaks of the last year -- some new boxes, some not -- presented in no particular order.

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Buzz Break: 2019-20 Panini Prizm NBA cards (mega box)

Buzz Break: 2018-19 Panini Prizm NBA cards (mega box)

Buzz Break: 2019 Topps Big League baseball cards (hobby)

Buzz Break: 2019 Panini Diamond Kings (FOTL)

Buzz Break: 2019 Topps Tier One baseball cards (hobby)

Buzz Break: 2017 Donruss Optic football cards (SE blaster)

Buzz Break: 2019 Topps Tribute baseball cards (hobby)

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Making The Grade is a monthly department here on The Buzz that ran all year long in 2019 -- its first complete season so far. Its a place where newly slabbed cards and a few pick-ups get the spotlight -- a little show-and-tell to get people talking and thinking about cards beyond "What's it worth?"

Sometimes I picked cards for fun, sometimes I chased 10s, but other times I slabbed with some longer-term "investment" thought -- and I don't even do that often. (My go-to is to simply slab stuff that I like.) The card you see up top? You can firmly place it in the red-hot fun file. The card at right? You can put it in the long-term keeper stack along with the guy below him, who had plenty of appearances in the series this year.

As one of a couple of 2019 retrospective posts I have planned -- they're at least on my to-do list at least until other work pops up -- here's a look at the series where I talked about 158 new slabs this past year. You can see them all at the links below.

January -- Making the Grade: Patrick Mahomes, The Mick, Tommy Chong, Whitney Houston, botched cardboard & more

February -- Making the Grade: Patrick Mahomes, Bo Knows, Wendy Peffercorn, Tom Brady, Super Bowl stars & more

March -- Making the Grade: Young MVPs, iconic Hall of Famers, Silent Bob, March Madness, a Future Superstar & more

April -- Making the Grade: Vince McMahon, Steve Austin and WrestleMania icons plus Ronald Acuña Jr. & more MLB stars

May -- Making the Grade: Baker Mayfield, JLo's Rookie Card, Joe Cool, Nuke LaLoosh, Hailie Deegan & more past gems

June -- Making the Grade: The Dream Team, Ronald Acuña Jr., Bart Starr, Mike Trout, Deadpool, Kelly Hu's rookie & more

July -- Making the Grade: Aaron Judge, Jayson Tatum, Ric Flair, Michael Jordan, Ronald Acuña Jr., Billy Ripken's bad bat knob, Chrissy Teigen's Rookie Card, The Big Lebowski's ink & more

August -- Making the Grade: New Vladdy, Acuña, Rally Squirrel, Undertaker, Juggernaut, Michael Jordan, Paige, Kurt Cobain, The Bad News Bears' ace ... and Keith Comstock's beanballs?

September -- Making the Grade: Joe Namath's ink, Dak & Jerry Rookie Cards, Saquon Barkley, Lonzo Ball, 1990s NFL classics, high-grade vintage, The Four Horsewomen of NXT & more

October -- Making the Grade: Ronald Acuña Jr. heaters, Clerks, Ernie Davis, hot ink, Supergirl, Catwoman & real Nuke LaLoosh

November -- Making the Grade: Dak Prescott, Luka Doncic, Magic Johnson & John Cena rookies, Robert Mueller, the first perfect Keith Comstock, Meghan Markle's MLB card & more

December -- Making the Grade: Rare Shohei Ohtani, Star Wars, Pete Alonso, Tim Duncan, vintage, several WWE stars & more

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Need even more? See previous months' Making The Grade posts by clicking here (scroll down)

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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: Massive wax hauls, other break highlights and pondering which graded slab is better.

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What's Buzzing Today: Chasing Zion Williamson from fresh NBA boxes, big pulls and more surprises in today's holiday edition here on The Buzz.

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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: 2019-20 Panini Prizm NBA cards (blaster box)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 24
Base set completion: 
10 of 200 (5 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Kevin Garnett, Scottie Pippen, Kevin Love, Tracy McGrady, Jaren Jackson Jr., Markelle Fultz, Jusuf Nurkic, Kevin Knox II, Taurean Prince, Mario Hezonja

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down 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 boxes: 2019 Topps WWE Women's Division wrestling cards (Target blasters)
First Buzz preview & Checklist: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

Packs per box: 11 (10 packs plus one one-card hit pack)
Cards per pack: 7
Cards per box: 71
Cards per lot: 142
Base set completion: 
63 of 100 (63 percent)
Duplicates: 45

Notables on base cards: Mandy Rose, Mickie James, Elizabeth, Zelina Vega, Ruby Riott, Ember Moon, Becky Lynch, Bayley, Nia Jax, Beth Phoenix, Asuka, Carmella, Ronda Rousey, Alexa Bliss, Stephanie McMahon, Mia Yim, Sasha Banks

Rookie/First NXT Cards (17) – Toni Storm, Kacy Catanzaro, Chelsea Green, Xia Li, Io Shirai, Lacey Evans, Marina Shafir, Nikki Cross, Lacey Lane, Jessamyn Duke

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YourDozen.com continues its simplified picks format -- it's just NFL but against the spread this season -- and that has presented some challenges for some of the expert collectors out there as it's not as easy as it looks to out-pick the rest of the pack.

How tough? Perfection has happened just three times all year -- and only once where ties didn't come into play.

The Week 17 prize is a 2019 Blowout Holiday Pack Party football box -- a mix of many popular NFL releases all in one place with plenty of big-card potential.

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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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What's Buzzing Today: A little bit of everything in today's edition.

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It's fitting that he's green ... he's generating plenty of it.

In the Twitter and meme galaxies, he's "Baby Yoda," but on Topps Now cards for The Mandalorian, he's "The Child" -- the 50-year-old silent (so far) alien boy that is the center of attention as the sci-fi western series plays itself out over on Disney+.

He's been a focal point of the series for all seven episodes so far, but he didn't make his cardboard debut in the weekly episodic Topps Now sets until the third pack -- and that's where we start to see his Forceful ways.

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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: 2019-20 Panini Prizm NBA cards (blaster box)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (a few formats)

Packs per box: 6
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 24
Base set completion: 
9 of 200 (5 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Kemba Walker, Jayson Tatum, Brandon Ingram, DeMarre Carroll, Thon Maker, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Terrance Ferguson, Kelly Olynyk, Kevon Looney

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down 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: 2019 Leaf Wrestling Autographed Photo Edition
First Buzz Preview: Click here 
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (when available)

Packs per box: 1
Photos in this box: 5

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What's Buzzing Today: Pondering the NFL's all-time Made of Glass Team, collectors react to Hyun-Jin Ryu to the Blue Jays, and big breaks to start off the week.

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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. Would they capture yours? I'd be interested to know -- sometimes they might, sometimes they won't and that's fine. It's a buyer's market out there with plenty of options and bargains as well as high-end gems to chase.

So, with all that said, here are a few Buzz Buys ... and this time around it's the biggest roundup ever (in volume, not price).

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The Card: Tony Gwynn 2015 Panini Immaculate Collection Collegiate Memorabilia (/99)
The Price: $16.25
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: It took me a while to find one of these (only casually looking), but this card of the Baseball Hall of Famer is one of a few that show him in his other sport, basketball, which he played at San Diego State. His estate auctioned off a number of game-used pieces and other memorabilia in 2015, generating more than $217,000 partly going to the Tony and Alicia Gwynn Foundation to help kids in need. His first Aztecs basketball uniform went for $11,858 in that SCP Auctions sale and the buyer was Panini America. These cards aren't all that plentiful in this release -- and they certainly aren't the only place the swatches went as there are just 99 standard cards and a second one limited to five copies with a much larger prime swatch. The follow-up release to this one had a few more, including prime cards, and he also had posthumous autographed cards (stickers) showing him in his basketball uniform in a National Treasures release. Spoiler alert: you'll see one more of these here at some point.
Grab a box right here: 2015 Panini Immaculate Collection Collegiate (when available)

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What's Buzzing Today: Big pulls, collecting goals for 2020, a beginner talks grading and more.

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A memorable card style of the 1990s is coming back soon.

They are Pinnacle Inscriptions acetate autographs and Panini America teased their return on Friday as they will be a "a new cut-across insert" found in a few upcoming NFL brands.

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What: 2020 Panini Diamond Kings baseball cards
Arrives: April 29 June 10
Box basics: One autograph and one memorabilia card per 12-pack box (24 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Diamond Kings will take to the field once again with an insert in every pack and plenty of notable names from the past and present inside, too.

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What: 2018-19 Leaf Pearl sports cards
Arrives: January
Box basics: 11 premium cards including one cut auto per box (two boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What’s buzz-worthy: Leaf Pearl will take on a multi-sport approach in in the coming year with a range of athletes and sports stars from the past and present with autographs from O.J. Simpson, Lionel Messi and plenty more in the mix along with some legendary pieces of memorabilia, too.

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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 pack: 2019 Topps Mini baseball cards
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: Click here when available (only initially offered via Topps.com)

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What: 2019 Panini Flawless football cards
Arrives: March 20
Box basics: One or two gems, six on-card autos and two or three memorabilia cards per 10-card box (two boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Flawless hits the field once again with some new touches for Rookie Cards and a number of other new inclusions as well as "more NFL Shields, brand logos and laundry tags than ever before."

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What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but new breaks and pulls from around the collecting world in today's edition.

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What: 2019 BenchWarmer Holiday Archive trading cards
Arrives: Jan. 3
Hobby box basics: TBD cards per box (16 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: BenchWarmer has a limited holiday release on tap with a few new inclusions and everything with a holiday theme.

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The box: 2019 Panini Elite Extra Edition baseball cards (blaster box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

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