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What's Buzzing: Votto 2K, Thosebackpages cardboard, Tim Tebow, NBA chatter, wrong cap and new MLB breaks.

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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: 2021 Panini Chronicles Draft Picks football cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for a few formats)

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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: 2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks football (multi-pack)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for other formats)

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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: 2021 Panini Chronicles Draft Picks football cards (blaster)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

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The comeback includes a throwback at The National this year.

Wild Card revealed its wrapper redemption plans on Wednesday for this year's National Sports Collectors Convention that starts one week from now in Chicago.

It includes its newest release and a nod back to the set that started it all in 1991 -- and only 500 30th Anniversary Retro Boxes will be available at the show.

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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: 2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks football (multi-pack)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for other formats)

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What: 2021 Panini National Treasures college football cards
Arrives: Aug. 18
Box basics: Seven autographs or memorabilia cards per eight-card box (four boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: National Treasures goes back to school for another season with some added color in the design as it showcases a new crop of stars.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What: 2021 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Autographed Photo Football Edition
Arrives: Aug. 18
Box basics: One autographed football photo per pack (15 packs per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: TRISTAR's Hidden Treasures line arrives once again with NFL legends and stars of today all in one place -- and with the possibility for autographed memorabilia, too.

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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: 2021 Panini Contenders Draft Picks football cards (blaster box)
First Buzz preview: Click here
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com (for hobby)

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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: New pulls, old classics, The National, NBA pulls and the NBA Playoffs, the bubble and ... Wander Franco, Wander Franco, Wander Franco

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What: 2021 Panini Immaculate Collection college football cards
Arrives: July 28
Box basics: Four autographs and one memorabilia card per six-card box (five boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Immaculate Collection comes to the college ranks once again with "the first premium rookie patch autographs of the 2021 draft class."

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What: 2021 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Autographed Mini Helmet National Edition
Arrives: July 28
Box basics: One autographed mini helmet per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: Hidden Treasures brings its blind-box product to The National this year in Chicago with a number of legends in the mix and some hometown-focused bonus pieces.

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What: 2021 Panini Mosaic Draft Picks football cards
Arrives: Soon via Panini's site
Box basics: Two autographs per two-pack box
Order: Click here (when available)

What's buzz-worthy: Mosaic hits the draft picks field for the first time as an online-only release that guarantees an autograph in every pack and plenty more.

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What: 2021 SAGE Aspire football cards
Arrives: July 20
Box basics: 20 autographs per box
Checklist: Click here
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: SAGE's next wave of cardboard for new NFL draft picks and other prospects this year is a release that's solely about getting their autographs.

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.

Here's this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ... a mix of buys/submissions over the last few months.

MY RAINBOW IS COMPLETE ... I THINK
The Card: Nick Swisher 2015 Panini Prizm USA Baseball Black Finite Prizms #6 (1/1)
The Reason Bought: So, Buzz hasn't gotten his hands on as much wax as normal out there in the retail wild these days -- I'm just not camping out at 5 a.m. -- so that's actually been a good thing for when rarer cards present themselves. One example is this 1/1 card that popped up slabbed recently and I grabbed it because I think it completes my rainbow (I'm not organized enough yet to know for sure but I'm 99-percent sure) and, more importantly, it's one of a few instances where I own game-used memorabilia seen on a card. That jersey? It's in my stash ... though he didn't play a lot that summer. (The No. 11 jersey was sold via Hunt Auctions in a bulk lot of USA stuff from several years in several groups long ago and I found it a few years after that.) Oddly enough, there's a decent chance that this card cost me around the same amount as the jersey ... actually, the jersey might have been cheaper.
The Grade: BGS 9.5

Reality Check: It's the only card that's in existence so the pop report shows that and won't ever change. What I'm not sure of is whether any of the autographed cards for him on the checklist from this release were ever actually made -- or are they might all be out there in a box or two mis-packed. Not one has ever surfaced. (You never know.)

Keep reading for more of this month's pick-ups and new slabs for Buzz.

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This one is a new department here on The Buzz ... Fast Five -- a quick list under a simple topic that might offer a basic starting point for a themed collection. It's a basic list of five items that could be fun for a starting collector or a new way to add to a stash that might already seemingly include everything when it comes to cardboard. For some of you, it's probably common sense. For others of you out there, it's perhaps something to ponder.

This time? Five players who interest me on draft night

WHERE WILL AARON RODGERS GO?
The No. 1 pick in the draft sounds like it's a no-surprises no-brainer this year ... Trevor Lawrence at No. 1 ... but what about the rest? The experts and amateur analysts say it's a good crop of QBs (I'm just a collector) and it seems that collecting/flipping/whatever you want to call it for football cards right is pretty much all about QBs, QBs, QBs and maybe an RB or WR or two. The Aaron Rodgers stories that are coming out literally right now make it seem like the biggest trade returns for the future Hall of Famer would be before the draft ... but will that affect QBs? I dunno ... but it could. So, is Rodgers one of my five players here? Not really -- he's established and expensive -- the question is who's the next Green Bay Packers QB. If it's Jordan Love, OK ... there's potential with his cards that's there now that wasn't perhaps a few hours ago. But ... what if the Packers get a QB in return? There might be less interest or need for Jordan cards than a few hours ago. And a trade of a guy like this could basically flip over the table for a lot of teams draft-wise if they are in there early and needing an arm ... you might even have a Jeopardy! joke in there somewhere.

Keep reading for four more making up the list this time.

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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: New pulls, a supplies run delivers big, MLB chatter, Star Trek breaks and more breaks.

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What: 2021 Panini Contenders Draft Picks football cards
Arrives: May 19
Box basics: Six autographs per six-pack box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: An autograph in every pack is here once again as the newest NFL Draft hopefuls sign on here along with an assortment of past greats all in their school colors.

Keep reading for more info as well as some early images.

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What: 2021 TRISTAR Hidden Treasures Autographed Mini Helmets
Arrives: April 30
Box basics: One autographed mini helmet per box (10 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: TRISTAR's Hidden Treasures hits the gridiron once again with new NFL names, all-time greats and some top 2021 NFL Draft prospects all in one place.

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What: 2021 Leaf Flash football cards
Arrives: May
Box basics: Five autographs per box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: The fourth edition of Leaf Flash football arrives soon with the familiar volume of autographs but a new crop of signers, including the Heisman Trophy winner as well as the likely No. 1 overall pick all signing on here.

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Update (March 1): The first card sold 57,111 copies and 1,000 of the cards in that total will be reversed-negative variations. They will be randomly placed into orders, according to Leaf.

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Pro Set football cards are back in the collecting landscape for the first time in nearly 30 years -- but you can't yet open packs to get them.

They're back as print-to-order program from Leaf Trading Cards that kicks off today with likely No. 1 draft pick Trevor Lawrence as the first card in the 2021 Pro Set series.

Keep reading for more details and updates on new cards in the release.

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What: 2021 Panini Prizm Draft Picks football cards
Arrives: TBD
Box basics: Five autographs per five-pack box (16 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Panini opens its 2021 football card season with a hit-per-pack Prizm release once again that will include likely draft picks as well as glimpses at young NFL stars and greats in their college years.

Keep reading for more info and a full gallery.

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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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FINALLY LANDED HIM
The Card: Roger Maris autographed 1975 Topps MVPs card (PSA/DNA authenticated)
The Price: About $200 less than I figured it would cost me
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: For several years now, something on my want list for when I'd head to The National was to find a clean and slabbed Maris autograph of some sort. They're rare but not impossible as the former single-season home run champ who hit 61 homers in 1961 died in 1985 just as doing autograph shows was about to truly explode for past players. Had he died a decade later he'd probably be an easy autograph to find -- or at least an easier one -- but still in high demand. A typical signed and slabbed plain 3-by-5 card of him typically was around $500 when I was looking in the past and I've seen many of them but that was still a little too much to swing for me if I wanted to keep shopping while at a show. Signed and slabbed cards from his career are often a lot pricier depending on the condition of the card and the year ... some are quite impressive and many are not having been signed in ballpoint pen. Like pretty much everything, prices on his autos have jumped in the last few years but I still had been looking for something like this ... and then one day late last year I woke up and checked emails to see this one on the block with a buy price that made it an instant grab. It's not a perfect card, it's not a mangled card ... but it was an affordable one for me as it's a lesser card from just after his career ended (last cards as an active player were in 1968). As a bonus to me, he's seen alongside pretty much the other player I actively collect from the era ... but his auto is easy to find. I've crossed a big one off my want list.
Grab a box right here: No boxes of this one ... but MLB stuff is here

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What: 2021 Wild Card Matte BLK & 2021 Wild Card Matte WHT football cards
Arrives: May 14 (BLK) and May 28 (WHT)
Box basics: 18 on-card autographs per six-pack box (four boxes per case)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Wild Card returns to the football card landscape for the first time since 1993 with a high-end, all-hits release that will arrive in two waves called BLK and WHT.

Keep reading for more info and a gallery of images.

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What: 2021 SAGE HIT Premier Draft Low Series football cards
Arrives: March 26
Box basics: 16 autographs per 16-pack hobby box (16 boxes per case), three autographed cards per 63-card blaster box (40 per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: SAGE gets an early start on the card front for possible NFL Draft picks with this one that has an autograph in every hobby pack.

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