2025 topps chrome blaster pack by pack

i am really enjoying the experience of ordering product directly from topps. i don't have to stalk the local big box card aisles hoping to see new products (or remember to check the end caps in the toy sections) and i don't have to pay card shop prices if i don't want to. instead, i sit back and find a box on my porch when i get home from work.

that was the case on wednesday when i received the blaster (or value box) that i had ordered from topps. right on time with the product release date, too. i wasted very little time opening it up.

roki sasaki is the poster boy for this release - here's a wrapper

unfortunately for me, this is the closest i got to a dodger. but i am not disappointed.

the blaster contained 7 packs with 4 cards each for 28 total cards. but then there are 4 additional exclusive sepia refractors, so it's really 32 cards per blaster. here's what i found.

pack 1

i have been a coby mayo magnet this year. the chris bassitt ray wave refractor scanned a bit aqua, but it's just a regular ray wave.

pack 2

another ray wave refractor, this one of old friend miguel vargas.

this pack also had the first of the 4 sepia refractors

this ozzie albies card will come in handy if i can kickstart another trade with sluggo.

pack 3

blake dunn is a regular refractor.

i found my second sepia parallel in this pack

rocker hasn't done anything to make the mets regret not signing him a few years ago, but he's just 25.

pack 4

three more base but a nice prism refractor of the reigning american league cy young winner.

pack 5

the rangers have a lot of young up and comers and i seem to find a lot of them in the packs i open. this pack also yielded the second white sox ray wave refractor. two too many perhaps.

the third sepia card was in this pack

the tigers are keeping up with the white sox in terms of parallels.

pack 6

ok. another tiger (and it's skubal) refractor, plus another white sox parallel. the purple rookie chrome autograph is numbered to 250 as usual. that's probably more than i should have expected from a blaster.

pack 7

another straight refractor, and the fourth and last sepia refractor - it's another brave.

you may be wondering why i showed the sepia refractor with the main cards from the pack when it is a "bonus" card. that's because this pack also yielded the big hit from the blaster:

that's a dylan crews shadow etch insert. these fall at 1:481 packs, and with 15 cards in the set, the odds of pulling a crews card specifically would be 1:7215 by my "california math" (as bert blyleven would say).

not seeing any dodgers was disappointing, but i can't complain. plus, i still have a mega box that topps will be shipping out soon. stay tuned for more chrome in the future!