Buzz Break: 2018 Topps Series 2 MLB cards (five blister packs)

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The packs: 2018 Topps Series 2 (five Meijer blister packs)
Where to buy: Meijer stores for these; BlowoutCards.com (other formats)
Cards per pack: 12 plus one Purple parallel
Cards in this lot: 65
Base set completion: 
47 of 350 (13 percent)
Duplicates: 4

Base cards of note – Albert Pujols, Yadier Molina, Middle Infield Marvels, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers

Rookie Cards (5) – Shohei Ohtani, Ryan Sherriff, Victor Caratini, Taylor Williams, A.J. Minter

Insert/short-print cards: 14 (all in gallery below with some base)
Purple parallel (5) – Tim Locastro, Tomas Nido, Aaron Altherr, Jason Heyward, German Marquez
Gold parallel (1) – Marcus Stroman (/2018)
1983 Topps (1) – Roger Clemens
Salute (1) – Juan Segura
Legends in the Making (2) – Adrian Beltre, Javier Baez
Legends in the Making Blue (1) – Clayton Kershaw
Longball Legends (1) – Noah Syndergaard
Topps Home Run Challenge (1) – J.D. Martinez
MLB The Show code (1) 

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: The first pack delivered Shohei Ohtani's Rookie Card and it continued to build from there with a Topps Home Run Challenge card (check those odds ... one in 53!) of a guy who's on pace for a career year for homers. It also over-delivered with the Gold the Blue Legends in the Making card. With Toys' R Us' demise known before this one packed out, the Purple parallels have been moved to Meijer stores and that's noted on the packaging here (see gallery). Those are the biggest long-term potential draw here if you ask me as the Ohtani, for example, is likely to be among his rarer cards from this release with him falling in every 350th $1.99 blister pack -- if there were no duplicates. The stars on the base cards once again weren't that deep in this particular run of packs just like when we busted a blaster but the overall feel of this one still wasn't that bad -- and we landed Ohtani.

Product Grade: A-
Lot Grade: A
Fun Grade: A

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