First Buzz: 2023-24 Topps Merlin Chrome soccer cards

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[Gin&Juice]

Sweet, a chance to get a Lamine Yamal rookie.

[YayNJ]

first year I'll be giving it a complete miss

[fadster]

2490 numbered parallels per player, that's eye watering
edit: with a checklist of 150 and 3 numbered per box that puts it around 10,000 cases

[anusinha]

I'll buy the Messi match ball auto for about half the price of a case, assuming they make one of him. Aside from that, I'm good.

[YayNJ]

Inception and Merlin are my two current favourite releases each season.

I've bought / will be buying ZERO sealed this year.

It's just too much. Too much of the same stuff, year after year after year... just with even more each passing year.

There's not been a truly great set since 2018.. last good one was 2020/21 Merlin.

[crdbored]

10x the hobby by including more high numbered parallels no one asked for.

[mfw13]

How long into the 24-25 season are Topps going to be releasing 23-24 products?

[anusinha]

I think they still have stadium club, then that's it.

[703dispensary]

What a relief! "150 cards with each having more than 20 parallels" I'm good as well. Topps need to go on a retreat to some remote village, spend a week or so with the shamans, go to hyperspace a few dozen times and return with the creative juices flowing because they have absolutely none. But I guess someone buys it so keep turning it out.

[crdbored]

Originally Posted by anusinha

I think they still have stadium club, then that's it.

They could also release online-exclusives like the Finest Flashbacks set that no one is interested in.

[mikee1186]

Who honestly wants these parallels? It’s one thing to have this setup when there were only a few soccer products. But in today’s market, with all the various soccer options, these have essentially no value except for maybe 2-3 players.

Neon Green Shimmer Parallel: #'d to 399.
• Rose Gold Shimmer Refractor Parallel: #'d to 299.
• Pink Mojo Refractor Parallel: #'d to 275.
• Atomic Refractor Parallel: #'d to 250.
• Aqua Refractor Parallel: #'d to 199.
• Aqua Speckle Parallel: #'d to 199.
• Yellow Shimmer Refractor Parallel: #'d to 175.
• Speckle Parallel: #'d to 150.

[footfutbol]

Originally Posted by mikee1186

Who honestly wants these parallels? It’s one thing to have this setup when there were only a few soccer products. But in today’s market, with all the various soccer options, these have essentially no value except for maybe 2-3 players.

Neon Green Shimmer Parallel: #'d to 399.
• Rose Gold Shimmer Refractor Parallel: #'d to 299.
• Pink Mojo Refractor Parallel: #'d to 275.
• Atomic Refractor Parallel: #'d to 250.
• Aqua Refractor Parallel: #'d to 199.
• Aqua Speckle Parallel: #'d to 199.
• Yellow Shimmer Refractor Parallel: #'d to 175.
• Speckle Parallel: #'d to 150.

No one, but it let's them call out 3 or whatever parallels per box. Sounds better than 1 so I get it.

[mfw13]

Originally Posted by mikee1186

Who honestly wants these parallels? It’s one thing to have this setup when there were only a few soccer products. But in today’s market, with all the various soccer options, these have essentially no value except for maybe 2-3 players.

Neon Green Shimmer Parallel: #'d to 399.
• Rose Gold Shimmer Refractor Parallel: #'d to 299.
• Pink Mojo Refractor Parallel: #'d to 275.
• Atomic Refractor Parallel: #'d to 250.
• Aqua Refractor Parallel: #'d to 199.
• Aqua Speckle Parallel: #'d to 199.
• Yellow Shimmer Refractor Parallel: #'d to 175.
• Speckle Parallel: #'d to 150.

As has been discussed in multiple threads on the baseball board, we're in the junk parallel era.....the only parallels that people actually collect are blacks and gold, and just about anything #/d to 25 or less will draw investors.

[YayNJ]

Originally Posted by mfw13

As has been discussed in multiple threads on the baseball board, we're in the junk parallel era.....the only parallels that people actually collect are blacks and gold, and just about anything #/d to 25 or less will draw investors.

I'm a Red man myself.

I'm so tired it's /10 or below, and I couldn't GAF after that.

[gomiamigo]

Originally Posted by crdbored

They could also release online-exclusives like the Finest Flashbacks set that no one is interested in.

Hey now!

[crdbored]

https://www.topps.com/pages/topps-ucc-merlin

Looks like it's dropping 9/20. No checklist.

Reviewing the odds from last year to this one and looks like a hobby increase.
Last year Grail - 1:5,087
This year Grail - 1:11,060

[mikee1186]

Somebody do math.

https://www.topps.com/media/pdf/odds...MerlinOdds.pdf

[mikee1186]

On card autos will be a chase but they will be super rare.

1:311,000 in a blaster for a jumbo auto booklet. Imagine pulling one of those from a blaster lol.

Not sure what a sword card is but again quite rare.

$230 and $30 for this so right about as expected. Can’t imagine I’ll rip much or any at that price. Even if we assume a numbered card per blaster, it’s tough to justify since these go up to /399.

[BRob1]

Odds say you can’t hit Renaissance in blasters. Went from ripping close to 100 last year to zero this year.


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[mikee1186]

What in the name of ash Ketchum is this


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[703dispensary]

Originally Posted by mikee1186

What in the name of ash Ketchum is this

Guessing related to this? "Merlin’s Gamers which feature different designs and levels of scarcity."

And just knowing Topps creativity level I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that "Search for the super-rare Sword Cards! " is related to some sort of die-cut card.

[YayNJ]

Is it too much just to want clean looking cards

[crdbored]

Originally Posted by mikee1186

What in the name of ash Ketchum is this [IMG][/IMG]

Gotta catch all these inserts

These look like the blaster exclusive GAMERS LIGHTNING GREEN REFRACTOR from the odds sheet. Plenty of parallels. I can see people who are into TCGs go after this set.

Curious on the checklist. Anyone else annoyed they show the odds but not the checklist..

[BRob1]

Originally Posted by 703dispensary

Guessing related to this? "Merlin’s Gamers which feature different designs and levels of scarcity."

And just knowing Topps creativity level I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that "Search for the super-rare Sword Cards! " is related to some sort of die-cut card.

Sword checklist sucks


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