Not A Box But An Envelope

Hope everyone had a great day yesterday, as we now move into clean up mode in our house from the frantic happy Christmas of yesterday past. I got a package which, I didn't get the envelope for as it was opened and left for me. At first, I thought it was a trade, but ended up being a pay it forward envelope, and I don't know who it was from - but I am still thankful for it!

Some nice cards here, and some needs as well as a few dupes. The winner is the two 2024 Donruss cards as these were both new for me and were the two Jays cards from the set, so in and out, and all done on that complete team set....

As for the Leaf cards, always happy to get Artifacts Leafs as the designs are almost always wonderful looking. I needed the rest of the Leaf cards as they were all new to me, so a great surprise overall that I was more than happy to receive!

Apologies for not having a name, and hope the blogosphere may be able to help me with it so I can provide a proper thank you.

I should also briefly share my Christmas cardings from yesterday - Santa was good this year and on point - very nice of the big guy. There may be more as we do my family side get together later today, but wanted to share what I had thus far...

These were stocking stuffers which are great as the Mystery Booster 2 release was not a "normal" release but really a convention only one, so getting packs is tougher and would otherwise have to come off of ebay or something like that for probably $25 a booster or so. The newer Phyrexia set are a solid set for artifact cards, so nice there.

By far the best of the more recent sets for artifact card collecting, not only a bog, but a bunch of draft boosters as well should make for some new additions to the collection. As I don't keep the rest, also a chance to pull and maybe sell to say 401games, any decent hits in exchange for other artifact cards.

These ma have been a pick up I did, handed to my wife and said to give them to me for Christmas....maybe....but that works too!

As for the rest, these were the rest of the stocking and are a bunch of packs which should all be new to me and my unopened pack collection, though I will need to triple check to make sure the big guy didn't goof on anything.

The promo packs were all cheap given they were give aways, but nice to pick them up 10+ years later in some cases.

Definitely a solid Christmas - now I really need to just start working through the massive pile of cards to share here...might need to swear off buying cards in 2025 just to catch up.