Here is the highly anticipated comparison. What do you mean you weren't highly anticipating this comparison? I'm shocked! And appalled!!
First up is the blaster. It contains 7 packs plus an unbelievable, incredible, stupendous, exc....never mind. It has 8 packs, each with 4 cards. That's a whopping total of 32 cards for $20 plus tax.
Pack 1:
Ian Desmond
J.A. Happ
Erick Aybar
Pack 2:
Allen Craig
Pablo Sandoval
Lyle Overbay
Pack 3:
Josh Donaldson
Matt Latos
Yadier Molina
Pack 4:
Brennan Boesch
Mike Napoli
Carlos Lee
Pack 5:
Mike Leake
Evan Longoria
Ubaldo Jimenez
Pack 6:
Geovany Soto
Michael Bourn
Torii Hunter
Pack 7:
Drew Stubbs
Francisco Liriano
Bobby Abreu
Pack 8:
Sergio Santo
Shane Victorino
Manny Ramirez
The refractors and x-fractors both have insertion rates of 1:3 so you should get 2-3 of each per blaster. I got 3 of each, plus the purple refractor (1:12) and the National Chicle Chrome (1:81) so it wasn't too bad. No Ranger refractors or parallels, but that's ok. I got 24 of the 220 base cards with no dupes.
Now on to the rack packs. For comparison sake, I have two of the "value" rack packs. For a total of $18 plus tax, I have 6 packs of 4 cards plus two 3 card packs of the special orange refractors. Two of these don't quite equal a blaster in cost or packs, but the orange refractors are supposed to make up for it. We'll see.
Rack Pack 1:
Orange Refractor Pack
B.J. Upton
Edwin Jackson
Zack Greinke
Adam Wainwright
Pack 1:
Alex Rios
Bryan Anderson
Hideki Matsui
Pack 2:
David Wright
Lance Zawadzki
Andrew Cashner
Pack 3: No scans here...
Joe Mauer
Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle
Denard Span
Jake Arrieta
Rack Pack 2:
Orange Refractor Pack
Zack Greinke
Adam Wainwright
Pack 1:
Wandy Rodriguez
Jason Bay
Matt Kemp
Pack 2:
Ichiro
Javier Vasquez
Luke Hochevar
Pack 3:
Tim Lincecum
Scott Sizemore
Brian Matusz
The odds on these packs are the same as the packs from the blaster. I got three x-fractors and only one regular refractor.
As for the comparison, it really comes down to whether you want the orange refractors or not. If so, you definitely want to pick up the rack packs. The next time I was at the store they were all gone.
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