This week, Panini leads the charge with three different sets featuring the sports of Basketball, and Football. Topps and Upper Deck both are launching premium products for high-end collectors. Pokémon closes out the weekly trading card calendar with the highly-anticipated Japanese language Eevee Heroes set.
2020-21 Panini Court Kings Basketball
2020-21 Panini Court Kings Basketball is a set where the art world meets the basketball card hobby as it delivers some of the wildest designs you will see this year. The main focus of the set is on the 2020-21 NBA rookie class and divides the rookie checklist into four tiers – Tier I, Tier II, Tier III, and Tier IV – that increase in rarity as you move up, with Tier IV holding only Super Short Print (SSP) cards with print runs that will only be a small percentage compared to that of Tier I. Like most basketball sets this year, LaMelo Ball and Anthony Edwards are the two biggest rookie cards you will be able to find. Aside from rookies, you can also look to find autographs from established stars and even recent hall of fame inductees like Kevin Garnett.
The 2020-21 Panini Court Kings Hobby Box contains one pack per box that holds ten cards total. Two of the cards in the box are supposed to be hits in the form of autographs or relics. You can also look to find one rookie, two inserts, and one color variation parallel per box.
The 2020-21 Panini Court Kings Hobby Box releases on May 26th at online and local trading card stores.
2021 Panini Contenders Draft Picks Collegiate Football
2021 Panini Contenders Draft Picks Collegiate Football brings a wide range of football cards from NFL veterans and this year’s top draft picks donning their collegiate uniforms. Much like its basketball card counterpart, the set uses the ticket stub design. The College Ticket Autographs subset holds most of the cards collectors will be chasing after, as it includes the top picks from the 2021 NFL Draft like Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Fields, and many more.
The format of the 2021 Panini Contenders Draft Picks Collegiate Football Hobby Box does differ from its basketball card counterpart released earlier this month as it contains 18 cards per pack, and six packs per box. The box promises six autographs, six limited print run variation parallels, and 36 inserts from subsets like the extremely rare Campus ID.
The 2021 Panini Contenders Draft Picks Collegiate Football Hobby Box releases on May 26th with presales going for around $370. This set will have retail products as well.
2021 Panini Legacy Football
2021 marks the third year for the Panini Legacy Football line. Once again the set introduces several options and oddities to add to your collection such as Optichrome base cards, mini cards, and tear cards that give you the option to rip them open in order to find a different card stored inside. The base set checklist totals 200 football cards, 60 of which are rookies from the 2021 NFL Draft Class in their collegiate uniforms. This means rookie cards for frequently talked about rookie quarterbacks like Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Justin Fields, Trey Lance, and Mac Jones.
The 2021 Panini Legacy Football Hobby Box gives you plenty of opportunities to find what you are looking for as it is loaded with eight cards per pack, and 16 packs per box. You can expect to find two autographs, four regular optichrome cards, two mini optichrome cards, four serial numbered color variation parallels, 12 inserts, and 32 rookie cards.
The 2021 Panini Legacy Football Hobby Box releases on May 26th at online and local trading card stores.
2021 Topps Sterling Baseball
2021 Topps Sterling Baseball marks the second consecutive year for the high-end baseball card product after a lengthy hiatus. Topps Sterling Baseball provides your collection with only hits as every card is an autograph relic, autograph, or relic card. The set is headlined by some of the most legendary players in the game including Willie Mays, Ken Griffey Jr., and Derek Jeter. However, current stars and rookies are also featured such as Jo Adell. Every card in the set is limited to 25 copies or less.
The 2021 Topps Sterling Baseball Hobby Box contains two total cards each sealed in its own pack. One of the cards you pull will be an autograph relic, while the other could come in the form of an autograph relic, autograph, or relic. All autographs in the set are on-card, meaning the player actually signed the surface of the card itself.
2021 Topps Sterling Baseball releases on May 26th at online and local trading card stores.
2020-21 Upper Deck SPx Hockey
2020-21 Upper Deck SPx Hockey brings another high-end set to the weekly trading card release calendar. The base set checklist is made up of one hundred NHL veterans and stars with each card having no more than 299 copies produced. However, if you are only interested in rookie cards you can still find them in various SPx autograph and relic subsets. Alexis Lafreniere, Kirill Kaprizov, and Tim Stutzle are among the most sought-after rookies included.
The 2020-21 Upper Deck SPx Hobby Boxes hold four packs, with each pack containing one card. Each box guarantees that you will find two or three autograph or relic cards inside with a chance of getting one of the very rare 2020-21 Upper Deck Black Hockey Patch Autograph Parallels. These parallels have a maximum of 125 copies made of each player included.
2020-21 Upper Deck SPx Hockey releases on May 26th at online and local trading card stores.
Pokémon TCG Eevee Heroes (Japanese)
The Pokémon Eevee Heroes set will be releasing on May 28th, and serve as an enhancement to the Silver Lance/Jet-Black Spirit set that released back in April. There will be three main boxes that contain Eevee Heroes booster packs. For full details on all of these products, you can click here.
