While attending the 40th annual Ephrata Lions Club Sports Card Show & Auction (the longest-running one-day show on the east coast) on 3/30, I saw a handful of dealers selling new wax. One of the products that I witnessed many collectors breaking was 2019 Topps Inception Baseball. People seem to really enjoy it. By the end of the show, I didn’t see many boxes left.
The Topps Inception brand reminds me a lot of Star Wars. Especially when it comes to the design. Some years its dark, while other times its light. As fun as the dark-side can be, I prefer my Inception to have the lighter look. That’s exactly what the 2019 version has. It seems to swap back and forth one year to the next. Show prices for a box seemed to settle around $55. Online its a bit higher, and that doesn’t count shipping.
I enjoy quick-thrill, one pack per box products. Inception is just that. I hope the format never changes.
Housed inside every pack are (7) cards. You should find (4) base, (2) parallels, and (1) autograph or autograph/relic. The base set has (100) cards with the following parallels – Green, Purple #’ed/150, Magenta #’ed/99, Red #’ed/75, Orange #’ed/50, Blue #’ed/25, Inception Black #’ed 1/1, and Printing Plates #’ed 1/1. Matte backgrounds, glossy player photos, and thick card stock continues from previous years.
Hits are truly what Inception is all about. Autographs come in a wide range of ways. For the most part, its highly likely your autograph will come from the Base Rookies & Emerging Stars checklist. Really lucky box breakers can find rarer gems which range from Short Print Autographs to Autographed Team Logo Patch Booklets. Not everything is signed on-card, but a good chunk is. Silver and gold paint-pen autographs which are in the Silver Signings set continue to be some of my favorites.
Did you pull a redemption for a Mystery Autograph? There are two – A & B. As of this writing we have yet to learn who A will be. Topps recently announced that B is of White Sox star rookie Eloy Jimenez.
Every product today can be considered hit or miss. That’s only if you’re concerned about the dollar value of your hit. So many products get unnecessarily bashed today because the hit didn’t pay for the box. If that’s the only reason you’re opening a box, you’re not doing it for the correct reason.
Colorful explosion of fun! White stock really makes these cards pop.
Here is what I pulled:
Auto/Relic
- David Fletcher RC Blue Button Relic Auto #’ed/6
Parallels
- Luis Urias RC Green
- Ryan Borucki RC Magenta #’ed/99
Base
- Bryse Wilson RC #22
- Chris Shaw RC #30
- Jose Altuve #79
- Noah Syndergaard #43
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I bought my box today. Nice looking cards. I did get a Silver Signature Blue Jay, my team of choice. One and done.