Cardboard Review:2021 Topps Finest Baseball Master Box

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.

REVIEW:2019 Inception Baseball

2019 Topps Inception is back once again! And once again it’s bringing everything you expect from it.

A artsy approach with it’s design and plenty of autograph material.

I have never personally done well with the product but I have seen many who have.

Let’s take a look if 2019 treated me any better.

In every box of 2019 Topps Inception baseball, there is one pack with 7 cards.  Each box comes with one hit and two parallels and boxes currently run $60.

The base cards go back to a light colored background this year which I think works better and shows less chipping. There are 100 cards In the base set with players of today and tomorrow on the checklist.

The card back features a small write up along with the stats from the 2018 season and their career.

The product has parallels like most products do.

I pulled two non numbered Greens in my break. 

Other parallels include, Purple /150, Magenta /99, Red /75, Orange /50, Blue /25,  Inception 1/1 and Printing Plates 1/1.

Now onto my one hit, it was this Dakota Hudson player worn memorabilia auto.

I wanted to point out the player worn part as I haven’t seen much of this from Topps. Hopefully we won’t see a ton of it. That’s Panini’s thing.

Other hits you can find in this product not in my box are,

• · Base Rookies and Emerging Stars Autographs
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• · Mystery Redemption autograph
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• · Inception Autographs Short Prints
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• · Inceptions Legendary Debut Autographs
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• · Inception Silver Signings
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• · Inceptions Jumbo Patch autographs
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• · Inception Autograph Jumbo Hat Patch
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• · Inception Autograph Laundry Tag
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• · Inceptions Autograph Letter Book
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• · Inception Autograph MLB Logo Book
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• · Inception Autograph Team Logo Patch book

Overall Thoughts: For $60 there isn’t a huge gamble here, but you are banking for a partially decent hit and maybe a good parallel. My box had two unnumbered parallels and not the greatest hit.

With that being said, with every product it’s a gamble. You could end up with a hot box or end up with a cold one or possibly end up even. Each box is different so don’t judge a product by how I did, but by if you like the look, presentation and possibilities. That’s at least how I look at things.

And I think if you based this product on appeal, there is a lot going for it. The designs from base to hits look great. I have seen some images of the booklets and they look superb.


A cheaper way to possibly land a hit in a break like this would be to buy into a box break which I suggest Midwest Box Breaks when you do so.

Please make sure to take a minute out to thank Topps for providing this box for me to review and to be able to add cards to the giveaway on Twitter I am hosting. Please follow me there to enter @SportCardCollec. Also follow Topps on all social media sites and visit their SITE, as well.