Since the 1990's, Topps Finest has been a staple in my collection since the 90's.
Every year I try to pickup some form of it up whether it's through trading, a box break, mini box break, etc. It doesn't quite have the same UNPEEL as the 90's, but I still like it. And speaking of the peeling off, please don't ever unpeel those. Yes the cards look better, but my OCD goes nuts finding them that way. I have never once peeled one off.
Getting back on track, let's see how this years Topps Finest faired for me.
Each Master Box of 2021 Topps Finest comes with 2 Mini Boxes. Each mini box comes with 6 packs per box and 5 chrome cards per pack. Each Master Box comes with 2 autographs with 1 autograph per mini box.
Boxes go for around $270.
BASE
There are 100 cards in the base set with rookie and veteran content. The cards are chromed with a funky futuristic design.
The card backs give career statistics.
There is also an extended base card set with 25 more cards which gives the overall set total of 125 cards to chase. (Ruiz isn't in the extended base set and given just as an example of a rookie)
There are also rookie variations that fall 1:12 packs where the background is different.
PARALLELS
There are plenty of refractors to find this year as they upped from a few to a good handful this year. The offerings are, Refractor, Sky Blue /300, Purple /250, Purple/Aqua Vapor /250, Aqua /199, Aqua Shimmer /175, Blue /150, Green Speckle /125, Green /99, Rose Gold /75, Rose Gold Mini-Diamond /50, Gold /50, Orange /25, Red /5, Purple/Pink Vapor /3, and SuperFractor 1/1.
Refractors fall 1:3 packs.
Green Speckle falls 1:47 packs. This card is beautiful in person!
Purple /250 falls 1:24 packs
Sky Blue falls 1:20 packs
Rose Gold falls 1:78 packs.
INSERTS
Legacies Inserts combine the past and the future of a team. These fall 1:6 packs and have 20 to collect. I gotta have the Kyle Lewis/Ken Griffey Jr.
Masters pays tribute to 1997 subset and falls 1:3 packs. There are 25 cards to collect overall.
Every year Topps celebrates a player and their careers with Finest Careers. This year it's Mike Trout and these fall 1:48 packs. There are 10 of these to collect.
HITS
The autographs are all on-card with 81 cards to land from. There are also parallels to find such as Blue /150, Green /99, Green Wave /99, Gold /50, Orange /25, Orange Wave /25, Red /5, Red Wave /5, and SuperFractor 1/1.
Base
Green Wave /99
OVERALL THOUGHTS
Price Point always plays a role for me as a budget collector. This is a big gamble product with a lot of big hits to chase though. I suggest picking up singles or joining box breaks if you like what you see from my break as the average collector can't afford a full box.
Overall though, nice design and I always like the throwback inserts.
Thoughts on my break or on Finest in general welcomed below. I will also be doing a solid giveaway on Twitter or on here as well.
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