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Star Wars Mandalorian Chrome (Topps, 2022)

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September 30, 2022, 09:43 AM
Greg Geerts
Star Wars Mandalorian Chrome (Topps, 2022)
Boxes are 18 packs per box and 4 cards per pack. I opened 2 boxes:


Season 1 base - 43/50 cards (no duplicates)
Season 2 base - 38/50 cards (no duplicates)
Short Print base - 0/25 cards
Season 1 refractor parallels - 17/50 cards (no duplicates)
Season 2 refractor parallels - 17/50 cards (no duplicates)

1 - Blue refractor base parallel (##/99)
1 - Purple refractor base parallel (##/75)

Concept Art inserts - 6/25 cards (no duplicates)
Armored & Ready inserts - 6/10 cards (no duplicates)
Chrome Comic Covers - 2-5 card sets and 2 duplicates

Diana Lee Inosanto as Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth autograph
Matthew Wood as Bib Fortuna autograph

B & W sketch of The Mandalorian by Andrew Perkins

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October 01, 2022, 09:56 PM
catskilleagle
That's great that you got hardly any duplicates but you needed to buy two boxes just to get pretty close to a base set. Are you happy with what you got?
October 02, 2022, 05:18 AM
mykdude
I supported my local store and picked up a few boxes of this.

As much as I hate shiny cards these do look really nice. As usual the autograph pulls were sad.

Will post a breakdown later on.

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December 08, 2022, 04:31 PM
xtime
Opened 3 boxes,
18 packs per box, 4 cards per pack
Completed S1 & S2 base sets
22 total extra base cards
28 S1 refractors
23 S2 refractors
0 extra refractors
8 CC
9 AR
11 IC
1 variation refractor
3 autos
3 parallels
18 Comic

Overall grade C-/D+
Pros - chrome, AR and Art chase designs.
Cons - only 18 packs, 1 auto, & 1 parallel per box, at least three boxes just to get a base set, duplicate comic chase, and cost.

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February 23, 2024, 02:09 AM
catskilleagle
I'm thinking of getting one. I see one dealer with boxes under $60 plus shipping. Some of the autographs are not great, though - one letter or initials, and one looks like a simple line drawing of a sailboat on a calm bay. I haven't seen a bad sketch yet and there are some good ones but the odds are low to pull one.
March 16, 2024, 12:53 AM
catskilleagle
Last week, I looked at the autograph list. I thought it would be great to get a Carl Weathers or Werner Herzog. Then, I made the move and got a box for under $70 shipped. It arrived on Wednesday and I opened it that night. The cards looked great and then on the ninth pack, I saw a red refractor flash as I peeled away the wrapper. Is that real? It's a red refractor Werner Herzog autograph numbered in gold foil out of 5.

As for the complete breakdown of the box:

Season 1 base - 17/50 cards (no duplicates)
Season 2 base - 19/50 cards (1 duplicate)
Short Print base - 0/25 cards
Season 1 refractor parallels - 8/50 cards (no duplicates)
Season 2 refractor parallels - 9/50 cards (no duplicates)

0 - base parallel variation refractors
0 - die-cuts

Concept Art inserts - 3/25 cards (no duplicates)
Armored & Ready inserts - 3/10 cards (no duplicates)
Comic Book Covers - 1 sets and 1 duplicates

Needless to say, I'm very happy.


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March 16, 2024, 02:21 AM
mykdude
Nice!

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March 16, 2024, 08:16 PM
catskilleagle
Thanks. What did you get from your boxes?

I've watched a couple of box breaks from sports card dealers. It seems a decent number have a base parallel refractor. The dealers doing the breaks note that the cards are for someone else. I noticed that they are overhandling the cards a little when they open the packs. I assume they are little more careful when they open their own sports card packs.


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Originally posted by mykdude:
Nice!