No falso advertising here, today we start in on a 2018 Topps Opening Day baseball blaster...
11 packs with 7 cards each, and heading into opening this one, I have 142 of 200 base cards. It may be optimistic, but I'd love to close that missing card gap in half if I could. Knowing my luck, I'll only get a couple new to me base cards, but there are always the Jays and the inserts to help make the opening work, even if the base cards fail me.
I already have one of these in my unopened pack collection, so we do get to open the whole box - so let's knock one pack off today.
A design that has grown on me over the years, "the wave" as it were. Not a great start as these were all dupes, no Jays, no error cards, so me hope for a good pack lies on the insert...
I can get behind that. I must say, the Opening Day insert sets are usually pretty solid affairs, and the team traditions and celebrations theme is a good one. Here documenting the opening day parade for the Reds which has a history stretching over 100 years now - very cool.
Only going to head yp from here - right?
I know it's less than a decade old, but this is a pretty cool blaster (can't believe how expensive these are). I messed up and didn't build this set back when it was affordable. Hope you're able to put a dent in your set build with this blaster. Maybe you'll pull an extra Ohtani which you could use as trade bait to help you complete this set.
ReplyDeleteFingers crossed, but yeah, I guess understandable on the price bump but still crazy for what it is.
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