What: 2019-20 Panini Obsidian soccer cards
Arrives: Nov. 20
Box basics: Four autograph or memorabilia cards per seven-card box (12 boxes per case)
Order: Click here (live soon)

What's buzz-worthy: Obsidian takes to the pitch for the first time with its unique look accented by autographs and memorabilia cards from the stars of the global game -- "the best and most popular soccer players from an assortment of the most prominent club and national teams from throughout the world."

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We're less than 10 days away from the biggest shopping day of the year and Panini America has begun teasing its promo pack inclusions for Black Friday.

The first wave of teases -- and we'll add the rest right here as they come -- focuses on the parallels found in the eighth edition of packs for the promo packs, which will be bonuses with purchases of the company's products at participating hobby shops beginning on Nov. 23.

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What's Buzzing Today: Just big breaks and other from-pack highlights in today's edition.

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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: Klay Thompson's new record, a collector's new Mickey Mantle Rookie Card, big pulls and more in today's edition.

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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 in today's edition -- some highlights to get you ripping on Sunday.

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What: 2018 Futera Unique soccer cards
Arrives: Sept. 12
Box basics: Four autograph, memorabilia or gold-plated framed autograph/memorabilia cards per box (18 boxes per case via three inners)
Order: Click here

What's buzz-worthy: Fans of the global game -- past and present -- get a new option from Futera very soon with this one including a number of inclusions beyond the hits, which are found in every pack.

Keep reading for more info as well as a gallery of early 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: Nothing but big pulls and breaks in today's edition.

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What: 2017-18 Topps Premier League Gold soccer cards
Arrives: Feb. 12
Box basics: Two autos per 24-pack box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: Topps boasts that this one will have "a fresh new look and high-end finish" when it arrives packing autographs from Tottenham's Dele Alli and Chelsea captain Gary Cahill among others.

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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 breaks today ... and they're all a bit mysterious.

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The box: 2017 Topps Stadium Club Major League Soccer cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 16
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 128
Base set completion: 
100 of 100 (100 percent)
Duplicates: 13

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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: One case with eight 1/1s leads off a day of nothing but the breaks.

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What: 2017-18 Panini Nobility soccer cards
Arrives: Oct. 6
Box basics: Two autographs in every box (eight boxes per case)
Checklist: Click here to view

What's buzz-worthy: A new high-end brand arrives first on the pitch with an autograph in every pack and a focus on past stars of the game -- but there's a limited roster of current greats included, too.

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What: 2017-18 Panini Select soccer cards
Arrives: Early December
Box basics: 20 cards per hanger box (20 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Select comes to the retail aisle for the first time in a bit of a premium hanger box format.

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Do you like Buzz Breaks? Today's your day then as we launch 12 in 12 -- a series of a dozen breaks of past wax boxes and wax packs in a dozen hours. We'll post one every hour on the hour all day long today ... this is Hour 6.

The box: 2016 Topps Apex MLS soccer cards
The cost: Click here

What's inside this one? Keep reading ...

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The upcoming Panini America Father's Day promo packs are nearly upon us and there will be some people found inside those wrappers along with some of the biggest stars from around the sports world.

Among them? Mickey Mantle and his sons. Another? WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels. 

But that's not all.

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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: 2017 Topps Major League Soccer cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 184
Base set completion: 
152 of 190 (80 percent)
Duplicates: 11

Rookie Cards (12) – Jackson Yueill, Hector Villalba, Niko Hansen, Jeremy Ebobisse, Miguel Almiron, Zeiko Lewis, Miles Robinson, Jakob Nerwinski, Julian Gressel, Daniel Johnson, Abu Danladi, Justin Davis

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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 five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: 2017 Topps Heritage, Mike Trout & Kris Bryant RCs, Panini Playbook, soccer, 2017 Topps Allen & Ginter, Topps WCW autos & more.

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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 five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Big breaks and new finds from around the collecting world.

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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: 2016 Topps Premier Gold soccer cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 12
Cards per pack: 10
Cards in this box: 115
Base set completion: 
97 of 100 (97 percent)
Duplicates: 4

Rookie (logo) Cards (12) – Nathaniel Chalobah, Anthony Martial, Joshua King, Dele Alli, Granit Xhaka, Patrick VanAanholt, Xherdan Shaqiri, Roberto Firmino, Marcus Rashford, Kevin De Bruyne, Memphis, Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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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: 2016 Topps Apex soccer cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 2
Cards per pack: 32
Cards in this box: 59
Base set completion: 
47 of 100 (47 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Robbie Rogers, Frank Lampard, Clint Dempsey, Robbie Keane, Steven Gerrard

Rookie Cards (3) – Cole Seiler, Keegan Rosenberry, Jordan Morris

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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 five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Tebow's a Met, big Walmart hits, big breaks and ... where in the world is Manny Ramirez?

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What: 2016 Topps Stadium Club EPL soccer cards
Arrives: Dec. 21
Box basics: Two autographs per box (16 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Topps takes its Stadium Club brand to the pitch with the stars of the Premier League for the first time with an energetic photo-driven look at the game that will carry just an $80 suggested retail price per box.

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The second reveal from Panini America in regards to its National Sports Collectors Convention cardboard arrived on Thursday with a look at the company's wrapper-redemption set.

It will be made up of stars and rookies from four sports -- baseball, football, basketball and soccer. There will be autographs, there will be memorabilia -- but those are for a later time.

Right now, it's all about the basics.

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If you hadn't noticed, there are a number of cases with dramatically discounted prices this weekend over on the mothership and they were dramatic enough that Buzz had to sit down and ponder the possibilities in many of them.

So much so here are five that caught this collector's eye.

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What: 2016 Panini Flawless soccer cards
Arrives: May 25
Box basics: 10 cards -- six autographs, two memorabilia, two gems -- per box (two boxes per case).

What's buzz-worthy: Panini takes the stars of the pitch to its highest of high-end levels -- at least so far -- with the debut of Flawless, which will include "a wide assortment of the world’s best footballers of the past and present with all players shown in action for either their club team and/or their national team."

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