sedinfan
Verified Trader,
I don't know if I've ever used the word mojo in a thread title before, but I just had to on this occasion.
As some of y'all know I'm a bit nutty in my master set obsession with Lord Stanley's Mug (just 8 non 1/1 cards left to go). It's been awfully slow working on the collection since almost nothing new is surfacing (where's the back doored stuff when you need it?) - so I've taken to joining group breaks, not really counting on them to fill the handful of remaining cards on my want list, but more hoping to hit some of the nice 1/1's in the product.
While I like the design of lots of the subsets, the product can be pretty hit or miss in terms of value - maybe one third of boxes have a solid hit, and true 1/1's (non-parallel cards) fall around 1 every 20 boxes, and even then while there's quite a few big names there are also your Brian Bellows et al. So while I had dreams of hitting something nice, realistically I was just hoping by participating in enough group breaks that I'd hit at least a 1/1 of someone half decent.
So this morning I get a message from the group breaker that I'm gonna be happy with the results, at first I thought he was talking about the previous day's break that I was in where I also had a nice hit, but then I realized he meant it was in the video he was about to post... and sure enough, minutes later I danced like a little kid on Christmas...
Oh, I probably don't need to mention, but I have Montreal in this break... and the Beliveau autograph I also hit isn't even close to the best hit of the box... enjoy!
As some of y'all know I'm a bit nutty in my master set obsession with Lord Stanley's Mug (just 8 non 1/1 cards left to go). It's been awfully slow working on the collection since almost nothing new is surfacing (where's the back doored stuff when you need it?) - so I've taken to joining group breaks, not really counting on them to fill the handful of remaining cards on my want list, but more hoping to hit some of the nice 1/1's in the product.
While I like the design of lots of the subsets, the product can be pretty hit or miss in terms of value - maybe one third of boxes have a solid hit, and true 1/1's (non-parallel cards) fall around 1 every 20 boxes, and even then while there's quite a few big names there are also your Brian Bellows et al. So while I had dreams of hitting something nice, realistically I was just hoping by participating in enough group breaks that I'd hit at least a 1/1 of someone half decent.
So this morning I get a message from the group breaker that I'm gonna be happy with the results, at first I thought he was talking about the previous day's break that I was in where I also had a nice hit, but then I realized he meant it was in the video he was about to post... and sure enough, minutes later I danced like a little kid on Christmas...
Oh, I probably don't need to mention, but I have Montreal in this break... and the Beliveau autograph I also hit isn't even close to the best hit of the box... enjoy!
