Buzz Break: 2025 Topps Update baseball cards (blaster)

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The box: 2025 Topps Update baseball cards (blaster)
First Buzz preview & checklist/odds: Click here
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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: 12
Cards per box: 84
Cards in this box: 88
Base set completion: 
67 of 350 (19 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Notables on base cards – Aaron Judge, Elly De La Cruz, Jason Heyward ... very lean box on this front.

RC logo cards (42) – Notables include Drake Baldwin, Marcelo Mayer, Kristian Campbell, Agustin Ramirez, Roki Sasaki, Chandler Simpson, Cade Horton, Luke Keaschall, Caleb Durbin

Insert/short-print cards: 21 (all in gallery below with some base)
Rainbow Foil parallel (1) – Carlos Duran
Holo Foil parallel (1) – Dylan Crews
Gold parallel (1) – Luke Keaschall (/2,025)
Holiday parallel (3) – Mick Abel, Caleb Durbin, Oliver Dunn
Holiday Jack O' Lantern parallel (1) – Blaine Crim
All-Star Game (3) – Ronald Acuna Jr., Jacob deGrom, Ryan O'Hearn
1990 Topps (2) – Dylan Crews, Jackson Chourio
Night Terrors (1) – Rafael Devers
Most Valuable Players (1) – Buster Posey
Stars Of MLB (7) – Pete Crow-Armstrong, Luke Keaschall, Hyesong Kim, Dalton Rushing, Chase Dollander, Kyle Tucker, Salvador Perez

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: I found this one in the retail wild a couple weeks ago but waited to post it here to see if it felt better after giving it some time. On paper, it's a good box with the Gold (one in 30 packs) and some other types of finds here not landing in every box. With some key names in that mix, too, it was good. The rookie crop was deep, too, with more than half of the base cards here rookies ... but those things should be expected in Update at this point. The All-Stars as insert add some literal flash and star power, too, but I think this format (and maybe others) still need something more. I don't think more foilboard and Holiday parallels are the answer at all ... so it was a good box but just felt a tad flat. Perhaps it would be better in a bigger box format ... but I just don't need to bother with hobby with its elevated start price these days. Even my best stuff here could be picked off as singles with plenty of money left over vs. a blaster ... so ultimately this one feels like it's built with more of the mindset for chasing -- but I'm not apt to do much of that at elevated SRPs. If anything, I'll just wait given the print run as indicated by the odds, and, in the meantime, I'll just look other directions. Grading key names could be fun here but all that foilboard isn't necessarily all that slab friendly. Watch the top and bottom edges as much as the corners -- and surface nicks also happened a lot here just like other times I've opened recent releases to land good names on inserts. That's also not going to entice me to open more. All in all, this one is fine -- perhaps the best of the three flagship sets this year -- but there's a lot made where your nicer, un-numbered pulls will be affordable as singles ... so that's one more reason stuff like this needs a unique kind of draw to get people like me to open more than one. Will I? We'll see ... it just depends what the other options are on the shelf vs. this one the next time I look.

Product Grade: A- (loaded with rookies this time ... and more inserts, too)
Box Grade: A- (Gold here is one in 30 packs -- or five blasters --but should a numbered card truly be that hard to find?)
Fun Grade: B+

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