Engram My Way

 

Even though Evan Engram is no longer apart of the NY Giants, once a Giant, always a Giant.

I still collect cards of former Giants players as long as they are wearing blue on the card.

I think that @MashingDingers knew this as he grabbed these two cards from a stack sale and had them sent my way! The Optic is a silver Rated Rookie and the Luminance is a blue parallel /99.

Thanks again to @MashingDingers for this nice surprise in the mail!

New Addition:2021 Donruss Optic Preview Holiday Parallel

Today's card I didn't pick up from Burbank Sportcards or even eBay, today's card I acquired from a trade from my father.

We don't meet up too often, but when we do, we make a card trade and it's usually in an odd spot of doing so. This time we met up in a hospital parking lot right before my urology appointment. Why do we trade in such odd spots? We both are busy and just take advantage of the time we do find.

In our latest trade, I knew he needed a Matthew Stafford rookie so I dangled one out there in exchange for some Donruss Holiday cards including today's Donruss Holiday Optic Preview Holiday parallel.

Ojulari is having a great rookie season with the Giants so I was really pumped to see this one included in our trade.

 

Card Back is the same as his Donruss other than the word Prizm in the corner.

The lightbox really captured how great these cards look in person.

I didn't post the other cards I acquired, but there were two other holiday Optic previews and three of the Rookie Sweater cards. I thought we both won in that trade and that's what matters.

PACK WARS EPISODE 7

Hello once again! Here is the latest installment of Pack Wars!

We have quite the battle going on today with the battle of Mega Boxes, one by Topps and one by Panini. There can only be one winner so let's check this out.

 VS 

It's time to see if the Mega Box of 2021 Bowman I found at Walgreens can take down the Box of 2020 Optic Mega I trade for.

And it all starts now with Optic,

Carolina Blue Parallels

Mythical Inserts, Lindor is a silver Parallel

 

Alonso Silver

Daza Silver

Bart Silver

Inserts including a couple Gavin Lux and Acuna

Bo Bichette Rated Rookie

And a surprise auto....of a pitcher.

Now the Bowman Mega,

Prospect Parallels. Not too many big names in the mix

Rookies and Prospects I found

Top Players

 

Best Card?

I know many don't want to hear it or even see it, but Optic has gotta win here right? It had an auto, it had some good player parallels but is unlicensed. I want to hear your thoughts in comments below!

Summer Of Wes Card #4

Summer Of Wes Card #33

CARDBOARD REVIEW:2021 Chronicles Draft Picks Football x2

It's football season folks! That time of year where every teams hopes and dreams are high, yes even you Lions fans. Everyone is 0-0 and it's anyone's game until they start.

It's also time for those rookies cards you have been hoarding out of 2021 products to arise. Wait, you don't have any yet? Well, do I have a product suggestion for you. Dive on into a box of Chronicles football and I promise you will find the names you need.

Let's check out my break, breaks, of this product.

In every hobby box of 2021 Chronicles football there are 6 packs of 8 cards. Each hobby box comes 4 hits, autographs and memorabilia cards, and each box roughly goes for $250.

BASE:

Chronicles has it's own base set, but it also has other products in it which build up into one big 400 card set.

Here are the other product options you will find in 2021 Chronicles,

• Donruss
• Donruss Optic Rated Rookie
• Flux
• Legacy
• Playbook
• Playoff
• Prestige
• Rookies & Stars
• Score
• Select
• Spectra
• Status

Each of these individual sets has 25 cards to collect in them.

Flux

Chronicles

Score Retro

Donruss Retro

Select

Illusions

Recon

Spectra

XR

Status

Prestige

PARALLELS:

Most PARALLEL CARDS: Bronze, Green, Orange, Pink, Red /149, Blue /99, Purple /49, Cracked Ice /11, Gold /10, Platinum 1/1.
Optic PARALLEL CARDS: Holo, Bronze, Green, Orange, Pink, Red /149, Blue /99, Purple /49, Cracked Ice /11, Gold /10, Gold Vinyl 1/1.
Flux/Select PARALLEL CARDS: Silver, Bronze, Green, Orange, Pink, Red /149, Blue /99, Purple /49, Cracked Ice /11, Gold /10, Gold Vinyl 1/1.

Select silver of Trey Lance (NIIIIICE!!)

Purple /49

HITS:

There are a lots of great pulls to be found, I just didn't find them.

Davis Mills could be the future of the Texans if Watson is traded.

6th round WR Dazz Newsome plays for the Bears

And final hit, Kadarius Toney. You guessed it, I was mostly excited about this one...GMEN BABY!

I figured there was no point in doing a double review of the same product, so here is how the second box went,

Patterson plays for the Washington Football Team

Ehlinger (nice looking card) plays for the Colts and Newman signed with the Eagles as a rookie free agent. That card is /10

Tamorrion Terry Full Coverage

 

Ja'Marr Chase (niiiiiice pull-Bengals top pick)

And two more wows to end out the second box, Trevor Lawrence silver Select and a Trey Lance Red from Illusions

OVERALL THOUGHTS:

First box was a little meh, but what wasn't in the first box was in the second box. So that makes me wonder if some boxes are better than others or maybe that's just the way it appeared this time around.

I really like the mix of cardboard and chromed cards in this break. Made for a fun chase in trying to find the top rookies in each part.

I think price point and value, well, I think this is the closest it can get in today's hobby.

Let me know your thoughts on these breaks and the product overall in comments.

Coffee Break:2021 Donruss Baseball Blaster Box #1

2021 Donruss Baseball Blaster Box

88 Cards Per Box

11 Holo Purple Per Blaster

5 Rapture Parallels Per Blaster

$19.99 Per Blaster

Summary:Donruss comes hard hitting with shiny inserts and parallels once again. I know the logos don't exist but I am huge fan regardless especially of the inserts and this years Unleashed.

The base set consists of 262 cards which is base, Diamond Kings, Rated Rookies and 1987 Redux. 

There are also multitude of parallels to find, which many you will find in a blaster box. These include, Holo Blue, Holo Orange, Holo Pink, Holo Purple, Holo Red, Independence Day, Liberty, Red /2021, Career Stat Line /500 or less, Season Stat Line /400, One Hundred /100, On Fire /75, Presidential Collection /50, Mask Emoji /19, Artist Proof /10, Press Proof /5, Number One 1/1, and Printing Plates 1/1.

Donruss also brings back plenty of past insert themes along with new ones in 2021 along with a powerful lineup of hits with autographs from Sammy Sosa to relic cards of Babe Ruth.

Here are the key cards I found in this break: