Tried something different and "Ducked" with 3 boxes of Synergy

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Was that title a pun or typo? Guess you'll have to wait and see haha.

Anyways, I was at my Local hobby shop today to pick up some supplies and just before I was about to leave their mail guy showed up with a bunch of stuff, including the brand new Synergy. Nothing else on the shelf was really peaking my interest and it doesn't feel right to leave a hobby shop without something to open so I grabbed 3 boxes of the new product. Cost me $140 per box which I didn't think was too bad.

This stuff is loaded with parallels and numbered hits which I found super fun. Here's the basic breakdown with some pics to follow.

3 Boxes with 8 packs per box and 3 cards per pack yielded 30 Numbered cards and 13 Red Parallel Bounty cards. I also beat the odds and hit 2 Cast for Greatness cards that fall 1 in every 60 packs.

I'll post some of the hits below but if you want to see the rest you can find everything here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/156368...77720305711858

First off are some Quality control duds. 2 of the 3 boxes had all of the non-numbered inserts very poorly cut.

21-22 UD Synergy Mis-Cuts by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy Mis-Cuts by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy Mis-CutsParallel by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy Mis-Cuts by Jacob, on Flickr



I emailed UD Quality Assurance about this as well as some similar issues I had with Planet Metal so hopefully I'll be getting some replacements in the near future. Or at least a response haha.


Enough about the bad, here's some of the good good.


21-22 UD Synergy Cast for Greatness by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy Cast for Greatness by Jacob, on Flickr



21-22 UD Synergy Synergistic Duos Stars and Rookies/799 by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy Synergistic Duos Stars Gold Parallel/249 by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy Synergistic Duos Stars and Legends Red Parallel/399 by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy Synergistic Duos Stars and Legends/899 by Jacob, on Flickr



21-22 UD Synergy FX Rookies/749 by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy FX Rookies Purple Parallel/275 by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy FX Rookies Green Parallel/199 by Jacob, on Flickr


21-22 UD Synergy Rookie Journey Home/799 by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy Rookie Journey Home Gold Parallel/99 by Jacob, on Flickr



21-22 UD Synergy Rookies Tier 1 Red Parallel Bounty Code by Jacob, on Flickr


21-22 UD Synergy Exceptional Phenoms Green Parallel/99 by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy Exceptional Futures/899 by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy Exceptional Futures/899 by Jacob, on Flickr
21-22 UD Synergy Exceptional Futures Purple Parallel/199 by Jacob, on Flickr





And this dude seemed to be popping up a lot.






21-22 UD Synergy Rookies Tier 1 Red Parallel by Jacob, on Flickr




21-22 UD Synergy Rookie Journey Draft Red Parallel/499 by Jacob, on Flickr





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Exceptional Futures Black Parallel/10
21-22 UD Synergy Exceptional Futures Black Parallel/10 by Jacob, on Flickr



So yeah, overall it was a really fun break. Always nice to hit low numbered cards of decent names. It was also be really cool of UD quality control would get their act together and stop making these printing issues so common.

That is all, thanks for looking.

-Jacob

[creasecollector]

Tough with those cuts, but the Ducks made up for it. Sweet Zegras /10

[odjickfan]

The duos are pretty, some nice Zegras too. I wasn't aware that Synergy was out. I wish you some nice replacements from UD.

[RGM81]

I watched my LCS guys crack a few boxes of the product last night. While there's nothing particularly mind-blowing in most of the boxes, some of the cards in there look great and should be fun to collect. I'll be trying to get my hands on some of the singles for sure.

Congrats on the Zegras, and hopefully UD can come through for you on the replacements.