Here's this month's roundup of items that have recently caught my eye as a buyer ...

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TWO OF BLACKHEARTS
The Card: Shotzi Blackheart 2025 Panini Instant MLW Autographs Water parallel (/10)
The Price: $39.99 each via Panini
Why it’s Buzz-worthy: This former WWE star is taking over a prominent spot in indy wrestling with appearances downright everywhere these days but with only a handful of card appearances to show for it (at least for now). Panini's newer foray into cardboard for Major League Wrestling has so far spawned a trio of base cards with parallels and some with autographed versions. I've been lucky enough to be plugged in and online to land ink for a couple of those drop days and in this case landed a pair of these autos where only eight others exist. Generally speaking, I'm not that big of a fan of the elemental parallels used in Instant these days, but they are an upgrade over the previous year's parallels that merely colored in one of the stripes in a design similar to this instead of the border as it is here. Either way, this one I'm a fan of as she's arguably my top collecting target these days as WWE stuff has gotten too pricey to comfortably dabble/rip boxes and have fun with the typical returns. In this case, the only angst is battling bots -- cards like these vanish in seconds and end up on eBay with prices three (or more) times higher. At least when I plunk down the money for these I know what I'm getting. (For those curious, the auto stickers here are older when she was signing in higher volumes for WWE releases -- her auto is back to an every-letter sig now.)
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What: 2018 Leaf Showcase Baseball Vault cards
Arrives: June
Box basics: One past Leaf Showcase box and five 1/1 (or /5) autographs per box (12 boxes per case)
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What's buzz-worthy: Leaf revisits the Perfect Game Showcase with a limited-edition release that's even rarer than last year and revisits past years of the prep all-star event via full boxes of those past products combined with newer bonus cards.

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What: 2016 Leaf Perfect Game National Showcase baseball cards
Arrives: October 2016
Box basics: 25 autographs per box (15 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf makes the Perfect Game a big box with nothing but hits and one of the most-limited ones, too, with just 99 cases made.

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