2011/12 Exquisite Basketball Box Break



Well I had the opportunity to get a piece of an exclusive, or should I say Exquisite box break on Mojobreak.com the other night.  Six spots, with the sixth getting a base card and a box of 2012/13 Prestige Basketball as a consolation.  I had to jump on it.  With a product stuffed full of Jordan Autos and limited edition patches, duals, triples, and quads, as well as this years rookies, the only worry is what pick would I get.  Well, as fate would have it, I got pick #2.  Not bad, but it's not #1.  As they broke the box, the Hakeen Olajuwon base card #'d to 99 was on it's way to #6 already.  Next up, a Gail Goodrich Championship Bling On Card Auto #'d 99, nice. Card #3, BOOM, Michael Jordan/Magic Johnson Dual Auto On Card #'d 20, okay, so I'm hoping this one slips to #2, probably not.  Card #4 It's a Booklet, Bill Walton/Gail Goodrich UCLA Logo Patch Black Dual Auto On Card 33/50, sweet, but not and MJ/MJ dual auto!  Card #5 Nolan Smith Rookie Auto On Card #'d 199, nice, a Duke-y. Card #6  Endorsements Shadowbox Auto Mark A. Jackson inscribed "God Bless U" On Card Auto, very nice.  Okay, so i know that MJ/MJ is not coming my way, so i picked the nest best value in my opinion, the Booklet, Bill Walton/Gail Goodrich UCLA Logo Patch Black Dual Auto On Card 33/50.  Stay tuned, because I did another one of these, a few days later, wait till you see what happened there.

2012 Topps Update Jumbo Box Break

 



Good lord there's a lot of cards in this box.  Almost 500 base cards and inserts galore. Ten of the fattest packs known to mankind, okay, I'm going a bit overboard.  After all is said and done, you should end up with a complete 330 card base set and a "few" duplicates.  Now to the hits.  You get a ton of Gold parallels, or one of the other colored parallels, one Golden Giveaway card, the occasional "App" card for Topps Pennant, the Gold Moments Parallel cards are one per pack as well, and to finish it out, you get a Golden Moments card or parallel.  Oh, I almost forgot about the mini cards, because they almost always slip out and onto the floor.  And then there's an occasional hit.  My first pack was thick and heavy, so I tore into it and saw a thick beast in the middle.  As I slid it into view, I saw "The Hawk" Andre Dawson and a ring for his 1977 Rookie of the Year Award, sweet, and heavy!  If you haven't seen these cards they are nice. A couple of packs later the Oakland A's Tom Milone autograph showed up, nice!  Second to the last pack, a Robinson Cano All Star Workout Jersey card, yes! Overall not a bad box.  My one knock about this product came when I started sorting the cards.  WTF! Topps decided that uniformity of the cards numbers wasn't neccesary, and they are all different sizes and were confusing as heck.  It wasn't because a name was too long, or it was a vertical or horizontal layout, someone just randomly sized these things just to mess with my eyes.  Hope you enjoyed the break and check us out at the Key West Card Show, October 20, 2012, Lexington Hotel, 7 a.m.-5 p.m.

 

 

Return To Ravnica 2 Pack Break

I decided to bust a couple of packs of Return To Ravnica to take a peek at the new stuff. I have some booster boxes and some Fat Packs and Intro Packs avaiable. We will be giving a Fat Pack away at the October 20th Key West Card Show. Here is a breakdown of the two packs:

#	Name	Color	Cost	Converted Cost	Type	Power	Toughness	Rarity
144	Auger Spree	BR	1BR	3	Instant			C
4	Avenging Arrow	W	2W	3	Instant			C
119	Chorus of Might	G	3G	4	Instant			C
228	Codex Shredder	A	1		Artifact			U
65	Deviant Glee	B	B	1	Enchantment – Aura			C
163	Goblin Electromancer	UR	UR	2	Creature - Goblin Wizard	2	2	C
69	Grim Roustabout	B	1B	2	Creature – Skeleton Warrior	1	1	C
174	Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord	BG	BBGG	4	Legendary Creature - Zombie Elf	2	2	M
13	Knightly Valor	W	4W	5	Enchantment - Aura			C
47	Psychic Spiral	U	4U	5	Instant			U
246	Selesnya Guildgate				Land – Gate			C
105	Splatter Thug	R	2RR	4	Creature – Human Warrior	2	2	C
262	Swamp				Basic Land – Swamp			L
202	Teleportal	UR	UR	2	Sorcery			U
80	Terrus Wurm	B	6B	7	Creature – Zombie Wurm	5	5	C
205	Trestle Troll	BG	1BG	3	Creature - Troll	1	4	C
86	Ash Zealot	R	RR	2	Creature – Human Warrior	2	2	R
115	Axebane Guardian	G	2G	3	Creature – Human Druid	0	3	C
91	Cobblebrute	R	3R	4	Creature – Elemental	5	2	C
66	Drainpipe Vermin	B	B	1	Creature – Rat	1	1	C
156	Dramatic Rescue	WU	WU	2	Instant			C
164	Golgari Charm	BR	BG	2	Instant			U
128	Horncaller's Chant	G	7G	8	Sorcery			C
40	Hover Barrier	U	2U	3	Creature – Illusion Wall	0	6	U
12	Keening Apparition	W	1W	2	Creature - Spirit	2	2	C
?	Knight	?	?	?	Creature	?	?	?
70	Mind Rot	B	2B	3	Sorcery			C
191	Rites of Reaping	BG	4BG	6	Sorcery			U
75	Sewer Shambler	B	2B	3	Creature – Zombie	2	1	C
260	Swamp				Basic Land – Swamp			L
26	Swift Justice	W	W	1	Instant			C
112	Viashino Racketeer	R	2RR	4	Creature – Viashino Rogue	2	1	C
	Pack 1
	Pack 2