After unboxing and unwrapping a box of 2020 Donruss (Panini) Nascar trading cards, I decided to keep going. Now we dive into two “Blaster Boxes”—small boxes of 7 packs each. Join us as we go through each eight-card pack to find the good, the bad, and the downright weird.
PACK 25—Byron, Larson, and Getting Your Sparkle On
More orange, in both original and overly-sparkly form! We also get a Retro Series card and a throwback variant (note the gray instead of black on Bowyer’s card, as opposed to Custer’s). Again, I wonder sometimes if the seemingly-endless supply of variants, parallels, and subsets scare more collectors away than they attract. It doesn’t help that this particular pack has virtually nothing of note in it.
FIRST THING’S FIRST: Here we see Ray Black Jr. in a sparkle-riffic orange Optic card. Sparkling like the ocean, because he’s a SCUBA guy, in case you didn’t hear about it the first 800 times.
SECOND LOOK: And here we see Cole Custer oddly seeming like he’s trying to fit his arms into the card itself.
TO THE BACK: Maybe its just me, but I always think of “Lu” (pronounced “Loo”) when I see the Liberty University logo.
FINAL SCORE: 1 trip to the Nascar hauler out of 10