More Shiny

 I am not scanning all of the cards I picked up from 401games here, but there is a smattering to show. I continued to buy foil cards I was missing with the saving on the sales tax until mid-February that happened, and my 10% of singles loyalty discount, so was good reason to pick up 200 or so cards.

I will say, with the cards mostly spanning 2018-2022, you could see the vast difference in quality with the tweaks to the foiling process as the cards in some sets were very much pringles with curves that were enough to push the scanner lid up and allow you to still see the bend like these...

The etched cards do much better as shown with some below as they tend not to curve at all. The look is very different, and for some sets they have different cards getting each treatment...

I like the etched cards too, though they scan quite dark, especially with the brown retro frames, still nice and sparkly in hand though.

The bulk of the 200 cards were for artifact cards from the Unfinity goofy set as there were whole mechanics and special cards of "artifacts" for use in the game with those mechanics. The "fun" part is that each of those artifacts had multiple different versions because of the "lights" on nthe right side of the box as you can see in the example below...

Not all of the cards have 6 different versions, some only 4 or or less, but yeah, you can see what I mean of the differences. Cool to get so many cards for a solid price, even if they are a bit repetitive like these.

Dan Is The Man

 Dantheman at TCDB is a good guy for wrestling cards, I just usually don't have much to trade to him. I did have a few cards and worked to narrow down a few of my wrestling base lists - though wasn't able to get any specific one done.

I thought I may have the 2020 WWE Topps Road To Wrestlemania base set done, but I seem to be three cards short which I am having a hard time finding, though I supposedly have them. I put them back on my want list, but at the same time, I am going to hunt for them. I am just surprised they are MIA unless they somehow made it to my trade list also, by mistake and have left the premises by error.

The rest here are flagship Topps sets for WWE, and each are over 80% done at this point. I just have to keep trying to narrow these down, but should be able to get there eventually. Bo Dallas is criminally under utilized still and has deserved better - just wish they knew what to do with Uncle Howdy and had a long drawn out plan for him and the group. May not be 2 years plus like Cody's title chase, but something to last 6 months and put some direction on him would be great.

A Smaller Completion

It may not be completing three base sets, but this small PWE trade with TCDB member Metch35...

These include the last two of three Jays from the 2022 Panini Absolute retail base set, which are the two big names you would expect if you were picking three Jays for a 2022 base set.

With one base add for 2021 Topps, that winds up this PWE. I did add the missing base cards to my want list for 2021 Topps as I figure they may come in this way...one or two in many trades, instead of full trades for missing one. Time will tell if it continues.

Nyoj1971 With My Most Productive PWE

I'd say it's a productive PWE if it finishes off not one, not two, but three different base sets. Not to mention, they are all of the same brand and set, just different years.

Readers on the blog probably know how much I like the Tim Horton sets, and I slow collect them all. Well, here I have the final cards I needed for the 2017-18 set. It may only be 100 cards, but yes, took me about 7 years to finish.

With the lot of cards from Value Village I picked up a while ago, it also left me near completion on the 2019-20 set, with these two cards finishing that set off and...

These are the last I needed for the 2020-21 set as well.

I can't recall a PWE that was able to finish off this many sets for me at one so it was a great trade and nice to put some of these sets to bed, though none of them are ones I have binders for so they get the box treatment - but I love them just the same!

Three Different Things

 A trade to share from TCDB member b14rebel which was just three cards but with very different purpose.

Cora Jade fills the "collect everything wrestling" bucket. I am not a big Panini fan but the Prizm set is starting to wear on me a bit, in a good way.

Fred Lynn was....I think an upgrade for a very rough version I wanted replaced. Nothing special really but now and then I will look to upgrade if a card is really rough.

Cameron is a base card add for a slow set build.

Sometimes, a lot can be done with just a few cards!

As always, appreciate the trade!

Start Of The End

 It is April - one month of the busy crazies left at work for busy season. I've made it through 24 times so far this life...let's make it 25 I guess. Sorry if the chats get shorter here while the month goes, but first of the month and I am no fool - happy to have done this PWE trade with TCDB member Nashino.

The best of this trade is the Nylander cards from 2021-22 Artifacts. I think I still have a blaster or two of this to open, but I am going to try and build this base set, so either way, will need a dupe.

The green foil parallel is nice and at least you can see the difference in the cards.

The Robertson rookie is a great one-off addition too, do t get me wrong, but the Nylander works towards a bigger build. Hopefully I can keep having time for little trades at least this month.

Just One Card

 I don't usually do trades for a single card, but if it's an auto or memorabilia card, I will almost always make an exception. I traded a couple 1972 O Pee Chee base for this auto...

Kevin appeared in 18 games for Toronto in 2021, then spent 2 years in Oakland appearing in about 59 games each season there before going to the Yanks. In about 330 plate appearances, he is batting under .180 - not great.

May be that his biggest accomplishment was being part of the players traded by Oakland to get Matt Chapman from Toronto - for what that is worth.