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

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The box: 2025 Topps Chrome Update baseball cards (mega)
First Buzz preview & checklist: Click here
Where to buy: Click here (a few formats)

Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

Packs per box: 7
Cards per pack: 6
Cards in this box: 42
Base set completion: 
23 of 200 (12 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards – Eugenio Suarez, Joc Pederson, Walker Buehler, Camilo Duval, Merrill Kelly, Erick Fedde, Wilyer Abreu, Jonathan Aranda, Clay Holmes

Rookie Cards (14) – Denzel Clarke, Agustin Ramirez, Caleb Durbin, Dalton Rushing, Adael Amador, Edgar Quero, Chase Petty, Chad Patrick, Ryan Gusto, John Rave, Connor Thomas, Shane Smith, Craig Yoho, Chase Meidroth

Insert cards: 19 (all cards from box in gallery below)
Refractors (2) – A.J. Blubaugh, Cade Gibson
RayWave Refractors (2) – Walker Buehler, J.P. Sears
Prism Refractors (1) – Chase Lee
X-Fractors (10) – Jacob Wilson, Tim Elko, Matthew Boyd, Dalton Rushing, Junior Caminero, Matt Gorski, Tyler Tolbert, Rhett Lowder, Carson Palmquist, Danny Jansen
All-Star Game (1) – Brendan Donovan
1990 Topps (1) – Fernando Tatis Jr.
Power Players (1) – Cal Raleigh
Fortune 15 (1) – Pete Crow-Armstrong

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: A different format for this one, but, as the old song went, "second verse, same as the first." I spotted a pair of these megas in the retail wild at a chain with a buy-one, get one 40-percent off price this week to lure holiday buyers ... and that was enough to entice me, despite my rough first blaster. This time? Nearly the same circumstances with my best rookie (as an X-Fractor) being as badly miscut as it gets without being part of another card. The awful centering that I landed on an entire blaster box's worth of base cards last time was basically limited to just my 10 X-Fractors here -- the exclusives in the box -- and the contents here were not nearly as sticky or roughly cut as what I found last time. But, oddly, I had a diamond-cut card and plenty of scratches and some dimples (see that vertical centering and a sample dimple above) ... so definitely not clean like it should be -- even in this bigger format. Why rip? Well, those Pro Debut patch cards are the legendary potential finds in this release with them starting at one in 922 Breaker's Delight packs. In this format? It's not quite as tough as the blasters' one in 90,398 packs -- here it's a cool one in 80,487. (Shrug.) Would I do more here? Well, the overall upped volume of inserts and parallels in megas helps -- but this box was still, oddly, lean on key names among the rookies and base. The inserts show the potential ... if they are clean, though X-Fractors have never, ever really been my thing. I'll probably decide for sure after sorting out my second mega box, but it's not yet a definite end to my Update opening, though I'll probably leave the long-odds chase to those with deeper pockets. Like blasters, this format is also perhaps best consumed by the case for an equal shot at all that it includes -- and it can include a lot ... though at that price you might go with the breaker box if you don't care about the regular stuff.

Product Grade: A- (big potential here on a lot of fronts ... but the odds are big, too)
Box Grade: B- (really bad centering again -- this time on all X-Fractors -- was a bummer when those included perhaps my best rookie)
Fun Grade: C (see above)

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