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The box: 2021 Topps Star Wars Masterwork trading cards (hobby box)
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of cards in this one.
Packs per box: 4
Cards per pack: 5
Cards in this box: 20
Base set completion: 6 of 100 (6 percent)
Duplicates: 0
Base cards – Grogu (Baby Yoda), General Hux, Director Krennic, Krayt Dragon, Senator Bail Organa, Captain Phasma
Insert cards: 10 (see every card from box in gallery below)
Blue parallel (3) – Dewback, Jyn Erso, Padme Amidala
Green parallel (1) – Chirrut Îmwe
Welcome To The Dark Side (1) – Darth Vader
LucasFilm 50th Anniversary (1) – Darth Maul
LucasFilm 50th Anniversary Rainbow Foil (1) – Anakin Skywalker & Padme Amidala (/299)
Out Of The Box (2) – Stormtrooper, Luke Skywalker
Out Of The Box Rainbow Foil (1) – Jawa (/299)
Autographs/Memorabilia: 4
Royal Mail Stamp Card (1) – Fode & Beed
Autographs (2) – Mercedes Varnado as Koska Reeves, Matthew Wood as General Grievous
Blue Autographs (1) – Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Gov. Arihnda Pryce (/99)
What's Buzz-worthy: It's been a few years since I have ripped into this high-end, hit-per-pack brand and this one packed punch for me right off the bat with the Mercedes Varnado (aka Sasha Banks) autograph in the first pack. (That's the one I'd want here aside from the dollar-sign autos.) From there I found a couple of the more notables for collectors here in the base and inserts in Natalie Portman as Padme Amidala and Baby Yoda and then my favorite OG figure of Luke Skywalker in his X-Wing uniform in the unusual but welcomed insert set that takes a look back at some oldschool toys here. I think this is the first time I have ever found three autos in a box as normally there has been some type of commemorative Relics or similar creation as one of the hits. The format remains one hit per pack (a mini box) and I like that development as the medallion cards would be dramatically heavier so odds are you might have been stuck with those when doing single packs. The inserts here take a little step back with Lucasfilm history so things like "Disney+ launches with Star Wars films and The Mandalorian" gets a card and that toys set is a deep one at 25 cards. ... The stock here is the thick stuff and it's clean and crisply done -- a big plus for grading and I like the feel of these so as a collector I'd like some key cards graded -- and the autograph list, for the chasers, is deep. The big names are here to add to some dollar signs, too, with on-card autos the regular (but not the exception) and names like Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, Emilia Clarke, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Varnado, Natalie Portman, Rosario Dawson, Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Carl Weathers, Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Alan Tudyk Samuel L. Jackson, David Prowse and Carrie Fisher among the possibilities. Throw in other unusual cards like Pen Relic autos and then the medallions and other types of cards and I think this one is pretty solid -- though the market prices (due to the big names) can outpace the typical returns if you don't land a big. I don't tend to like high-end for high-end's sake but this one having a hit per pack helps make this one a little more do-able for all though there definitely is risk if only ripping to flip as the autograph list is deep. All in all, I liked pretty much everything I found here -- I just wish you got more basic cards per pack
Product Grade: A
Box Grade: A (easy A for me as Varnado is perhaps my No. 1 auto here beyond big-money signers)
Fun Grade: A-
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