DA Drops of the Week: 7/18-7/22

By Alex LeMere on July 20, 2022 in DA Drops, New Releases

Time for another edition of DA Drops – where we break down this week’s new and hottest releases to get you all ready!

This week is chock full of big-time releases Basketball & Football releases to keep turning up the heat this Summer, get ready!

Wednesday, July 20th

Basketball

One of the most anticipated releases of the year, National Treasures returns offering a variety of autograph memorabilia content!

Collectors can expect to find 4 autographs per box, including popular Rookie Patch Autographs, Treasured Tags Autographs, Logoman Autographs, and much more.

Find prime and super-prime memorabilia swatches from Team Logos to Logomans! Each box contains 4 memorabilia cards per box.

Chase after the brand new Treasure Chest Booklets featuring the top superstars in the NBA!

Search for brand new Dual and Triple autographs, featuring combinations of the top NBA superstars.

Featuring Rookie Cards of Cade Cunningham, Jalen Green, Evan Mobley, Scottie Barnes, Jalen Suggs, Josh Giddey, and Franz Wagner!

Each Box contains Four Autographs, Four Memorabilia Cards, One Printing Plate, and One Base or Base Parallel!

Baseball

Next up is the new and innovative baseball card set turned game – 2022 Historic Autographs Trivia World Series Cut Signature Edition Baseball!

A 220-card Trivia game, complete with a gameboard poster, 4 player markers and a cut signature card featuring an autograph of a player or manager that appeared in the World Series.

Contents of each box:

– (1) cut signature card featuring an autograph of a player or manager that appeared in a World Series.
– A 220-card trivia question/answers set. Catagories are Baseball, Football, Basketball; Other Sports and Potpourri (for those that are not sports fanatics).
– A 24″x24″ gameboard poster and four colored poker-chip style markers

Signatures included are Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Roberto Clemente, Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Gil Hodges, Sandy Koufax and Pie Traynor.

Friday, July 22nd

Football

We’ve been ripping a lot of Chronicles Football and it’s been LOADED so get pumped for the release of 2021 Panini Chronicles Football H2 Boxes!

Look for updated Rookie photography in their NFL jerseys printed on OptiChrome in Score and Legacy Update!

Find the historically popular release of years past with- Dynagon Rookies, Prizm Black, Panini, Gridiron Kings, Crown Royale, Turn of the Century Autographs, Clear Vision Rookies, and Playoff Momentum Rookies!

NEW in 2021! Look for Flux Rookies, Magnitude, Ascension Autographs, Totally Certified Signatures, and Invincible Autographs!

Featuring Rookie Cards of Mac Jones, Ja’Marr Chase, Jaylen Waddle, Kyle Pitts, DeVonta Smith, Trevor Lawrence, and Trey Lance!

Each Box contains One Silver Parallel, Four Opti-Chrome, Four Acetate, Ten EXCLUSIVE Crown Royale Inserts, and Two Numbered Parallels!

Next up is another absolute banger and staple of modern football card collectors – 2021 Panini Donruss Optic Football is finally here!

2021 Donruss Optic is loaded with on-card autographs, parallels, and all the best rookies the NFL has to offer.

Look for on-card Rated Rookie autographs of Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Justin Fields, Najee Harris, and all the other top RPS Rookies from the 2021 Class.

New to 2021! Look for Base Ice #’d/15 and Rated Rookies Ice #’d/15.

Look for new inserts in 2021 Donruss Optic: Gifted Rookies, Rising Sons, Globall, and Legendary Logos.

Look for the rare and ultra-popular case hit insert Downtown, which parallels down to Gold Vinyl 1/1!

Each Box Contains One Autograph, 20 Rated Rookies, 10 Parallels (Eight #’d), and Four Inserts!

Basketball

Switching from the gridiron to the hardwood we have another variation of a staple product – 2021/22 Panini Prizm Basketball Fast Break!

2021/22 Prizm Basketball features familiar highly sought-after parallels, inserts, and autograph content.

Find one autograph per Fast Break box in exclusive Fast Break Autographs and Fast Break Rookie Autographs.

Collect Fast Break-exclusive parallels such as Prizms Fast Break, Prizms Fast Break Blue (#’d/150), Prizms Fast Break Red (#’d/100), Prizms Fast Break Purple (#’d/75), Prizms Fast Break Pink (#’d/50), Prizms Fast Break Bronze (#’d/20), and Prizms Fast Break Neon Green (#’d/5).

Find six inserts per box in Prizmatic, Fireworks, Widescreen, Mentality, and Fearless in exclusive Fast Break parallels.

Each Fast Break box contains one exclusive Rookie Variations Fast Break card!

Featuring Rookie Cards of Cade Cunningham, Jalen Green, Evan Mobley, Scottie Barnes, and Jalen Suggs!

Each Box Contains One Autograph, 12 Prizms, Six Inserts, and One Rookie Variation!

Gaming

Time to channel your inner millennium items because Yu-Gi-Oh Legendary Duelists Season 3 boxes drop this Friday!

Legendary Duelists: Season 3 collects cards for heroes, villains, and heroes-turned-villains, all in one place! Featuring cards introduced in Legendary Duelists: Immortal Destiny and Legendary Duelists: Magical Hero, Legendary Duelists: Season 3 is the go-to set for fans of Dark Magician, HERO, Synchrons, and more!

Each box of Legendary Duelists: Season 3 includes 1 Secret Rare – a rarity that wasn’t available in Immortal Destiny or Magical Hero – as well as 6 Ultra Rares. For this release, because it has a double dose of Jaden, the Ultra Rares will come in the colors of the 3 Duel Academy dorms: 2 red Ultra Rares for Slifer Red, 2 blue Ultra Rares for Obelisk Blue, and 2 standard Ultra Rares for Ra Yellow.

And as a special bonus, each Legendary Duelists: Season 3 box will also contain one of several collectible dice featuring famous monsters or symbols associated with Yugi, Jaden, and Yusei.

Each Legendary Duelists: Season 3 box contains a grand total of: