Friday 31 December 2021
2021 Adventures in Repacks Part 50 - The Finale for 2021
Wednesday 29 December 2021
TMV Mailer!
I showed off one of the cards from the mailer yesterday as part of a Raptors post. Today, the rest of the goodies!
What are the chances that a card I'd been looking at acquiring to complete a nameplate would become available not only once, but twice, within a couple weeks time. And that assuming all 5 letters on the nameplate have equal print runs, that happening with a card that has a print run of about 80 total. Looks like it is COMC for this one!That was it for the hockey, but not it for the cards vanishing off my not-so-realistic want list. This SSP variation of Vladdy spent about a week or so on there, replacing the Stanley Johnson relic want, before it was replaced by...
my desire to add a Jose Canseco Jays autograph to that collection. Which again disappeared off my list. Some great work in doing damage for that list.
But there were some more generic additions to my PCs. 5 players - 5 new 2/14 cards. The Garrard is a Select version - the only numbered card in this fivesome, being /999.
But the 2/14 love didn't stop with just those football cards, as here's a printing plate out of Flawless, adding yet another 1/1 to that binder, as I close in on the 100 mark for Rip Hamilton.Monday 27 December 2021
Raptors of Various Sources
When you have a couple Raptors cards in your COMC to-be-posted and several in your trade box, here's a way to get them all out of the way in a single post.
There was but a single Raptors card in my latest mailer from Dennis @ Too Many Verlanders, but it is an important one for the binders. I would like to add one card of every player who got one as a Raptor, and National Treasures' relic cards provided my only Stanley Johnson possibilities. Here's one that where it was better to send out the batsignal than to pay $20 for cross-border-shipping.Even in cartoon form, I have to add any championship themed cards.
As I close in on the moment where he'll actually have cards as a member of the Raptors, here's my second relic card of Scottie Barnes.
Switching to a recent PWE from Kerry @ Cards on Cards, here's another player who didn't get a lot of cardboard during his one-and-done season in Toronto. While I realize he didn't exactly have piles of photos to choose from for this card, could Panini possibly have come across at least one where his foot covering up his country on this International entry?Despite being listed with Portland, I'm certainly counting this Norman Powell card towards the ol' PC. He's still a Raptor in the photo, and that's good enough for me!
A holographic finale from the PWE!So, to my trading partners, thanks for these cards, and thanks to my COMC credit for the Siakam, Watson and Barnes!
Sunday 26 December 2021
Just A High-End Vladdy Sr Sorta Sunday
And it is harder to do more high-end than a card out of Transcendent. Perfect when I'm in the mood to show off a card, but not feeling verbose.
Saturday 25 December 2021
Christmas Chronicles
I was originally going to show off the contents of one of the hobby boxes I had of this, but I'm lazy. So you get this:
Yet, this worked out quite nicely for both overall contents, and one of my PCs.Pretty blah for the first card out, but Score's still a solid design, and it does allow me to flashback to my best pull of 2021.
If this were Bowman, I'd call these the paper base cards. That works just fine here as well. I'm automatically going to like any 2021 release that features cardboard fans looking on.
Here's the one-per hanger America's Pastime card.
Now, the collation gets interesting, as a pair of Trevor Story cards appear back-to-back. Gold Standard's baseball debut is my favourite design among these newer base cards.
Mets content! WOO-HOO!
2/14 content! WOO-HOO! This pulsar entry becomes my 12th card of the 2/14 collection newcomer, who only debuted in the binders a little less than 2 months ago.
Plus, pack-pulled additions to that collection are always the most fun.
Something chrome-y, something shiny.