Buzz Break: 2024 Mattel UNO Elite NFL (Draft Pack)

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The box: 2024 Mattel UNO Elite NFL football cards (Draft Pack)
Where to buy: Retail for now ... BlowoutCards.com when available + other NFL here

Keep reading to see a breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

Cards in this box: 60 -- 56 player cards, four player foil cards in a sealed pack (right)
Base set completion: 
I'm not fully sorting this one this time, but there are 192 players in the basic set each with four base colors -- Blue, Green, Red, Yellow -- and then foils. That's 768 base cards -- but that's not all that's found in this one.

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Notables on base cards in this box – Jalen Hurts, Tua Tagovailoa, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Travis Kelce, Jason Kelce, T.J. Watt, Trevor Lawrence, Garrett Wilson, Baker Mayfiel, CeeDee Lamb, DK Metcalf, Christian McCaffrey, Tyreek Hill, Justin Jefferson, Bijan Robinson

Rookie Cards – N/A ... gaming releases aren't Rookie Cards by the standard definition, though there are likely some rookies and first appearances in this release given the depth of the set as it includes a lot of defensive players, linemen and even kickers ... not your typical finds in a typical basic set.

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Interactive Checklist: Click here

Note: Atop the four base color versions per player, there are also base color foil, dual color foil and wild foil. Here's the rundown of Patrick Mahomes' cards via the Mattel site. That should mean more than 2,100 total cards in a master set, unless some things are tweaked for some players. (Buzz admittedly did not check every card.)

Insert cards: 4 (a sampling of it all in the gallery below)
Green foil (1) – Boogie Basham Jr.
Yellow foil (1) – CeeDee Lamb
Blue foil (1) – Kolton Miller
Wild foil (1) – Ja'Marr Chase

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: It's been more than a year since I last ripped into one of these decks, which I think are a solid low-cost rip full of star power (most of the time) and then with some chase fun as there are four foil cards every time here with some perhaps surprising potential for value, despite these being sub-$5 packs. The Wild Chase is a solid find -- I think I have only landed one Wild before with a lot of these opened -- while the other foils show some of the potential here. Lamb is a known player, of course, but these Miller cards are his first since 2018 releases (his Rookie Cards) while Basham hadn't had any since 2021 when he was a rookie. Neither, of course, is a superstar when it comes to cards (otherwise they'd have had more cards made) but with the depth here there are likely to be some players with little to no cards -- so all of those, including foils, might spark more interest than you might think if somebody is a dedicated college/team/player collector. The biggest draw here are the rarer foils of bigger names -- not the easiest finds given the depth of the set -- but still not bad for the price. Some of the cards here also have really strong photos in their simple gaming frames and there are colors to collect for each players -- a simple parallel. (You'll see a few more of these breaks here in the coming weeks.) ... As I noted before, if there are no short-print shenanigans for foils, for example, then your odds of finding any one card there is one in 336 packs. Even if they made a lot, that's still going to make some players -- stars or commons -- not the easiest finds and then there will be a volume of the run that gets played. Lay on grading potential atop this, I think this one is a winner with potential for a low price. At worst this is a cheap rip for a collector ... how many star-filled sub-$5 packs can you find at retail right now?

Product Grade: A 
Box Grade: A- (Chase Wild is a solid find)
Fun Grade: B+ (it's all about your foils, really, and then if you can load up on top names in the rest)

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