I’m proof that digital trading cards can be a gateway drug. I recently nabbed a Journey to the Force Awakens Hobby Box for the reasonable (and I’m aware that word is relative) price of $83. The Hobby Boxes contain 24 packs of 8 cards each, and they’re the only place the super-rare Inserts like autographs and one-off sketch cards can be pulled, along with a few exclusive parallels of the base cards.

I’m very new to the collectible card scene, but I suspect this Hobby Box exclusivity is because A) Topps doesn’t want to risk something like a Mark Hammill autograph card getting sold in a random Walgreens or Target to someone that won’t understand what they’re holding, and B) Topps wants to reward the hobby shop owners (and shoppers) that support their core business with all the coolest stuff.

SO, let’s jump right in:

Final tally:

138 total base cards across all parallels. ZERO dupes!

47 Inserts. 38 unique, 9 dupes.

2 Hits: A patch, and a totally rad Sketch.