Tuesday, January 07, 2025

2024 Topps Chrome Update Mega box break

This was gifted from sister back in December and basically ends up being a glorified lottery ticket to pull a Rookie Debut Patch Autograph Card - I don't think it's worth what my brother in law paid at the card shop, but I was grateful to be able to bust this and see what I got.

Trying to read up on this particular box configuration online, was there not even a chance to pull a Rookie Debut Patch Autograph Card [?] - I think the fine print somewhere was that the chances for pulling such a card came at 1:336,040 mega packs.

To get the my curiosity out of the way, I ripped through these and didn't find anything at first, but when I formally list out the contents later on - the Wyatt Langford rookie I pulled was an variation, so while that didn't save the box or anything, it ends up a notable pull.

Pack one
#USC193 Junior Caminero - Rookie Debut
#ASGC-20 Emmanuel Clase - 2024 MLB All-Star Game insert
#USC81 Jeimer Candelario - X-Fractor
#USC170 Seth Lugo - RayWave Refractors

Pack two
#USC50 Robert Gasser RC
#USC35 Wyatt Langford rookie - Refractor; Image Variation 1:187 mega packs
#USC104 Landen Roup rookie - X-Fractor
#USC162 Dylan Lee - X-Fractor

Pack three
#FSU-17 Paul Skenes - Future Stars insert
#ASGC-31 Logan Webb - 2024 MLB All-Star Game insert
#USC97 Graham Pauley rookie - X-Fractor
#USC73 Victor Caratini - X-Fractor

Pack four
#USC125 Ronel Blanco RC
#SSC-15 Evan Carter - Stratospheric Stars insert
#USC96 Cam Eden rookie - X-Fractor
#USC63 Elvis Peguero - Refractor

Pack five
#USC2 Jorge Soler
#USC157 Kyle Harrison - Rookie Debut; Prism Refractors
#USC49 Nelson Velázquez - X-Fractor
#USC168 Manuel Margot - Refractor

Pack six
#USC68 Nolan Schanuel - Rookie Debut
#USC54 Ramon Urías - Green RayWave Refractors - Serial #’d 59/99
#USC137 Hunter Stratton - X-Fractor
#USC189 Eddie Rosario - RayWave Refractors

Pack seven
#USC110 Christian Scott - Rookie Debut
#89CU-17 Corbin Carroll - 1989 Topps Baseball
#USC98 Michael Kopech - X-Fractor
#USC12 Jonathan Cannon rookie - X-Fractor

2 comments:

Fuji said...

When you consider there are only four cards per pack and two-plus cards are parallels or inserts... this set must be almost impossible to build.

Laurens said...

Presumably enough boxes will be busted by breakers, where there will be leftovers such as the base cards and whatever isn't a hit - it would definitely be hard if you tried to build the set by just buying boxes.