Just.. More!

Well, lots of set help yesterday, so why not repeat today. A large bunch of 2023-24 Upper Deck hockey with 400+ more cards as dupes from the extended series, but there were some series 1 and 2, so some Leafs and set helpers to show for today...

Still grumble at those all star uniforms, and grumble more at Marner being gone from Toronto.

5 Timmies wins for most cards for a single Leaf today.

I must admit, some of the horizontal cards use the design really well like Tage and Linus above.

I need more cards like Gustavsson - just love the angle up to see the arena fully in the background.

As you can see, hockey heavy be the lot - and that's okay. A bit low for hockey keepers, but now that the couple repetitive sets are mostly through, should be done more keepers going forward.

Building Continues

 More 2024 Topps baseball - or so said the 2026 Lot, and so there shall be. As I work through a couple of the larger "chunks" for sets, I will not show the duplicated I got, but as always, they are listed in TCDB for anyone interested. Instead, we show the keepers because, those are what make me happies in pulling from the lot!

Definitely not my first copy of this card. Actually, according to TCDB, this is card number four into my collection. A bit surprised just the one given the about 200 cards I went through today, but that's okay, means plenty of other cards to share and build into the set!

The additions today bring my flagship set up to 259 of 700. Getting there, and hoping we can get to about the half way mark from this lot. Still plenty of great looking cards in the set that I am happy to see and get, like the Washington team card above.

The "moment" type cards like the Best of the Best above are growing on me a little. I still much rather each card have it's subject material on the front - ie. individual player cards, manager, team card, but some of these "moments" are pretty nice and have a bit of a Topps Now vibe.

Snell was my favourite LA pitcher in the World Series as a Jays fan - had two good starts the Jays beat up on him in.

Hernandez with the floating bat is a great looking card - too bad it wasn't while still a Jay or I could collect a bunch of them for the team collection!

Definitely getting some rookie cards in the bunch, but a little lighter than I would expect, so guessing some have been pulled - just not Porter here apparently.

A fu day and a bunch of adds.....should see more of that tomorrow!

Let's Call It Complete

The 2026 Lot continues today, ans I just grabbed a big chunk of the 2023-24 Upper Deck cards I could see, and I'll just say that, this finished the extended series pure base set which doesn't include the YoungGuns.

There were Leafs a plenty, so let's of good adding there as well. Nice they haven't been plucked out of the lot.

There were a number of cards from the first and second series but nowhere near the volume that has been in the lot from the extended series.

One surprise in the bunch...

A penalty box variation base card. Very cool and the first one I have had in hand.

I won't scan all the dupes, though they are all listed on my TCDB account if anyone needs set help, but here are all the additions in shorter order...

There was the one shorter run base card - the 701-750 run versus 501-700, with Connor Zary. Still a bunch to go if I actually want a full base set, but awesome to get as much of this base set as I have in this lot.

Footy Shine

Back to the 2026 lot, and some football.....some shiny football. 

Typical Prizm and no stars that I know of so....next...

I like the look of these Illusions cards, and I do keep enough track of the Bills to know some of the players, like Josh. Still a shame we can't see them with great playoff success, but I'm use to it being a Leaf fan.

Some Mosaic with one of the better Mosaic designs in my opion, and then cards from the following year Illusions set which don't look quite as good.

We end with a couple Select Draft cards and me left wondering if I will be able to find homes through trades with these, or maybe should consider a bulk local sale to move them off somewhere....

Lorwyn Standards

 Yes, I am a bit behind on some of my sharing - this being sitting a bit, but the set came out about 6 months ago, I just didn't have opportunity to share....or I forgot to....either way, we are here now.

Lorwyn Eclipsed was another MTG release - they come so fast and furious these days that these "regular" sets can get missed, I swear. I mean, after Avatar at the end of last year, the TMNT release was the next people seemed to focus on that this got a bit lost in the shuffle.

I try to watch when I buy singles that fit my artifact collecting, but goofed and picked up a wrong first card - no black mana allowed here! SOme shiny foils and some regular pick ups, but my favourite of the bunch are...

Two very sweet Sol Rings. One of my favourite cards throughout the history of Magic, one of the first artifacts I regularly played in my decks, and then used as a focal point to boost my artifact decks early on. Extra mana early is great, and even later, is useful for many of the pump up abilities I was playing with.

A decent set and some solid cards, even if it doesn't have the same draw as say TMNT, The Hobbit, or Final Fantasy crossovers do.

Small Trade Good Trade

I have said before, I don't usually do small trades, say less than 10 cards, as I try to ensure the trade is worth the postage. I have been doing a few more smaller trades as it has opened up to getting new Trade partners who may not have a ton of matches.

ShowTimeWBC was looking for a couple Ohtani base cards and sent these my way...

Three Vladdys and a Bo is a great trade for me. I think the cut Goin' Yard is my favourite, but any Bo card since he is gone from the tteam, I am excited to get too.

This trade being me up to 176 Vladdy cards and 104 BoBis - if this was the 1970s, that would sound like career total card numbers instead of today when it could be found in a couple releases.

Very happy and grateful for the trade!

On a completely separate note - we recently bought some Crokinole discs or buttons for the game so that we had enough, and differently coloured for four players. If you haven't played Crokinole, it's on an octagonal board which lies flat on a table, has essentially a large dart board, but instead of pie like sections, there are scoring rings like in archery, the goal being to flick your discs into the centre to score points. Fun game for the family, and quick and easy to play, but why am I writing about it here? Well, the pieces must be made by a religious group (nothing wrong with that by the way - just was interesting), because it came with this:

Never had a Jesus card before! You can look it up, but BibleCards is apparently a thing, and I guess they stick one in with each purchase because - well, that's what they did here.

Definitely not my thing, and I will use the card for packing material as I am not going to bother adding to my tradeers, but was interesting to find a card in such a way, and find out about a whole set of cards I didn't even know existed.

Continuing in '82

Every now and then, I complete a trade which helps to move along my 1982 Topps set build. We get such a trade today with TCDB member crabby1701.

I'm over 650 for the set, though Cal's rookie is not one of them and will likely be the card I will need to shell out cash for if I really want to complete this set.

I wasn't a fan of the old Pittsburgh uniforms from the time, but I am sure I am not the only one. Still a fan of the trade and getting 13 cards closer to done on this very nice set!

Also wanted to continue with the MTG Marvel card additions I made as I had a chance to scan the artifact cards I picked up from the base set, the foil parallels and the commander run as well.

I like Marvel, but I am not a huge comic book guy. I like the movies, but I am not out there waiting for opening day to see any of them. There are ones I still haven't seen, but I can appreciate the crossover and like the nods to some of the characters, and can see the bigger appeal of the set, even if it doesn't hit a big home run with me like Final Fantasy did.

The artwork does well in keeping the MTG feel while encompassing the Marvel universe. The Vibranium Energy Daggers looks solid, and some of the lands are really well done too.

Happy to pick up a solid bunch from the sets, though there are a decent number of cards I'd still need, and as usual, a couple of them are expensive cards right out of the gate that I probably won't be picking up, though I'd love to have them. Still, a good start on yet another new MTG set.