Upon opening my second box, I was hoping to make some serious headway into completing the rookie set and coming close to completing the 7 different insert sets. I couldn't have been more dissapointed in the draw of the cards.
For example, I'd gotten a pretty good sprinkling of inserts in the first box. In my second box I got 24 Dupes of insets I already had. I'd beaten the insert seeding of 1 insert per two packs...only to get the EXACT same inserts I got in the first box. The problem is that a couple of the inserts really look well done, and I want to complete them. So I'll have to make a run to the price gouging LCS to see if I can't rummage through their singles before resorting to ebay to complete the sets.
Secondly, there is one RC per pack. I got 25 new RC's and 11 Dupes. I'm left with 60 of the 100 RC's from 2 boxes of 36 packs. Not good enough. At this rate, even if I actually bought a third box, I don't know if I'd really come any closer to completing the RC's and the inserts. $40 in the LCS and ebay could go a long way to completing the set - maybe more so than the value of an additional box.
Another problem I didn't realize when I opened the first box is that there is no checklist. This sounds trivial I know. But what I didn't know is that many of the RC's are of the same player. Hasheen Thabeet, for instance, is on card #'s 352, 305 and 302. Many rookies have more than one RC. I don't know why this is. And without going to the Panini website to check their online checklist, I don't really know if I'm going to end up with different RC's when I complete the set - or just more of the same guys I've got already.
The bright spot of the break was another great auto. I pulled a Dante Cunningham auto. I'm a big fan of both Tyreke Evans and Dante Cunningham and I'm glad to have pulled a couple of their autos.
So, based on really poor seeding of boxes I assumed came from the same case, I'm having to drop this products grade to a B.
Two boxes should get me more in the way of inserts and RC's. For a flagship product in any sport, 2 boxes at least lets you build the entire base set, if not the majority of insert set that are only set of 10 to 20 cards. Panini needed to do a bit better with this.
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Yeah, I don't really get the multiple rookie cards thing Panini is doing it. It's not just in the flagship set either. I realized yesterday that Tyreke Evans has two different cards in the Prestige set. My Prestigious Picks hunt just got a lot more expensive. Anyway, if there are any cards you need to finish your set, let me know. I have a few dupes already and I have a feeling Santa left me a box under the tree.
Thanks.
Same to you. I'm counting up my extras. We can make a trade if you need some to complete your set of flagship.
I was a bit miffed when I saw the third variation of Thabeet dunking. All he did was change his shirt.
I'll send you a list of my RC's I need. Feel free to do the same.
no matter the sport, I am always hesitant about buying more than one box from the same supplier/case.
Allen & Ginter was the absolute worst of them all.
Good luck in your chase.
Thanks. I thought flagship would be safe to do this with. WIth 36 packs X 12 cards per pack...it is in theory designed to build you a base set at minimum.
Just rough on getting the same inserts.
Well i don't get the multiple rookie cards for each player. The amount of cards you get is nice but it kind of sucks that you only get one auto. All in all it doesn's look like a bad box.
By the way check out bballcardpro.com for nice box reviews.
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