Buzz Break: 2025 Topps Chrome Update MLB cards (blaster)

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The box: 2025 Topps Chrome Update baseball cards (blaster)
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 4
Cards in this box: 28
Base set completion: 
18 of 200 (9 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Will Smith, J.P. Sears, Brian Woo, Randal Grichuk, Chris Paddack, Aroldis Chapman

Rookie Cards (12) – Drake Baldwin, Zac Veen, Will Wagner, Cam Smith, Rhylan Thomas, Christian Koss, Luis Mey, A.J. Blubaugh, Noah Cameron, Blaine Crim, Moises Ballesteros, Braxton Ashcraft

Insert cards: 10 (all cards from box in gallery below)
Refractors (1) – Tyler Rogers
RayWave Refractors (1) – Trent Grisham
Aqua RayWave Refractors (1) – Kevin Alcantara (/199)
Sepia Refractors (4) – Tim Elko, Cole Henry, Matthew Boyd, David Bednar
All-Star Gane (1) – Brent Rooker
Power Players (1) – Seiya Suzuki
Night Terrors (1) – Jacob Wilson

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

All of the base cards had this centering -- really seen on the backs -- in this box.

What's Buzz-worthy: A trip out in the retail wild led to spotting five of these and a sea of new Chrome NBA boxes, too, but I opted for just this single box as its $39.99 price tag wasn't as alluring as it might have been in the past. Why? Well, sure, those Pro Debut patch cards are the legendary potential finds in this release with them starting at one in 922 Breaker's Delight boxes. In this format? One in 90,398 packs -- so that's one in 12,914 boxes -- so, yeah, not good enough to take 'em all. (In the past? Maybe.) What I found here was a good glance at first -- first card in first pack the reigning National League Rookie of the Year -- but the centering was brutal on all base cards between the left-right on fronts and top-bottom on the backs. Atop that, edges were funky, too, and again I found surface issues here and there and some stickiness to surfaces that may or may not worsen over time. (Chrome WWE was sticky in some cases immediately after sleeving, so we'll see. These are not that extreme.) The biggest highlight here beyond the basic Baldwin RC was the one in 100-plus pack Aqua Raywave, so that saved this box from being an average box or worse with all the centering flaws. The inserts didn't have that issue and I did land a couple other cards not found in every box ... but there wasn't a ton more here to amp things up otherwise beyond the Wilson insert. Would I do more here? Perhaps, but I'm also realistic about those odds and what I could have found for $40 for sure thing singles if anything catches my attention here or elsewhere. This format is perhaps best consumed by the case for an equal shot at all that it includes -- and it can include a lot.

Product Grade: A- (big potential here on a lot of fronts ... but the odds are big, too)
Box Grade: B- (one rarer find but really bad centering on all base and some rough cuts were a bummer ... even on my best RC)
Fun Grade: C (see above)

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