Prizm is all the rave right now, you can’t go to a Wal-Mart or Target without seeing an empty display. People are buying them buy the bulk, it should honestly be illegal… But then I wouldn’t have been able to get my stash 😏.

This year’s Prizm is a bit different, I’m not sure why Panini decided to switch things up, but they did. What you’ll see are a lot more parallels and a lot less numbered cards… This is something we’re going to get into on another day… In short, I think the Prizm train is coming to an end or at least it’s going to slow down.

Outside of the new parallels you’ve also probably noticed that there we’re some rookie variations within the rookie set, reminiscent to 2019–20 Prizm Draft.

At first, this was no big deal, in fact, I was kind of turned off by the idea, but after a couple of days of searching on eBay and watching live YouTube breaks, I begin to notice how limited these variations cards are… at least when it comes to retail. It became even more clear to me after I ripped open 100 packs of Prizm and didn’t pull not one variation.

Or did I? I didn’t really know how to tell which card was a variation and which one wasn’t. There was no label or color difference, the only thing that changed was the photo of the player. What I did notice is that each variation seems to have the player passing the ball, either under their legs or behind their back. After looking through my cards once more I noticed I had a Carsen Edwards card and he was performing this move… I didn’t get too excited because, well, it’s Carsen Edwards, but I did get a little bit of joy when I found out that I did pull one.

Carsen Edwards Base RC

Except… I didn’t. When I checked the checklist Carsen Edwards was nowhere to be found. A lot of the players weren’t actually. There are 50 rookies in this year’s Prizm and only 14 of the players have a variation. At first, I thought, this is such an arbitrary number, but then it quickly resonated with me that these 14 players were drafted in the lottery. The RC variations are only available in Walmart Hanger packs when it comes to retail, I was also informed that you can pull them in Fast Break and Choice hobby boxes. For those of you that didn’t watch the draft, here’s the full checklist below.

248 Zion Williamson

249 Ja Morant

250 RJ Barrett

251 De’Andre Hunter

252 Jarrett Culver

253 Coby White

254 Jaxson Hayes

255 Rui Hachimura

256 Cam Reddish

257 Cameron Johnson

258 PJ Washington Jr.

259 Tyler Herro

260 Romeo Langford

288 Darius Garland

So before you sell your RC lots be sure to check to see if any of the cards are variations, here are some images for those of you who are still kind of unsure what to look. Shoutout to the people at Beckett for getting this up for us all to see so fast.

2019–20 Panini Prizm Basketball Rookie Variations Gallery

#248 Zion Williamson, New Orleans Pelicans