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.
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