When you think of gypsies, you think of exotic fortune tellers and tarot readers. In the past, Topps Gypsy Queen baseball has had fortune tellers. Now, it is adding tarot to the mix.
This year’s product includes an insert set called Tarot of the Diamond, a 22-card offering that has artistic renditions of players with a traditional tarot background. Pair that with the returning Fortune Teller insert set, which makes predictions about future player achievements, and it doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that Gypsy Queen is working toward an exotic feel.
In opening a blaster box of 2018 Gypsy Queen baseball, a collector will find seven packs of six cards each, plus an exclusive five-card pack of parallels. The base set has 300 cards, and there are an additional 20 short prints. The blaster I opened had 37 base cards, plus a green parallel of Angels pitching/hitting sensation Shohei Ohtani and a Bazooka back parallel of Marlins pitcher Jose Urena.
Other parallels include cards with missing nameplates, Indigo (numbered to 250), a Gypsy Queen logo swap, Red (numbered to 10) and a 1/1 Black card. For those who buy hobby boxes, there is a chance to get a Black and White parallel, numbered to 50.
This year’s product includes an insert set called Tarot of the Diamond, a 22-card offering that has artistic renditions of players with a traditional tarot background. Pair that with the returning Fortune Teller insert set, which makes predictions about future player achievements, and it doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that Gypsy Queen is working toward an exotic feel.
In opening a blaster box of 2018 Gypsy Queen baseball, a collector will find seven packs of six cards each, plus an exclusive five-card pack of parallels. The base set has 300 cards, and there are an additional 20 short prints. The blaster I opened had 37 base cards, plus a green parallel of Angels pitching/hitting sensation Shohei Ohtani and a Bazooka back parallel of Marlins pitcher Jose Urena.
Other parallels include cards with missing nameplates, Indigo (numbered to 250), a Gypsy Queen logo swap, Red (numbered to 10) and a 1/1 Black card. For those who buy hobby boxes, there is a chance to get a Black and White parallel, numbered to 50.
For those who enjoy more variations, there are 20 cards depicting players without caps. Also, there is a Jackie Robinson Day variation, with players shown wearing the Hall of Famer’s No. 42 jersey.
The card design features a drawing of the player with his name in the lower right-hand corner of the card. The player’s team and position and featured in the upper right-hand corner of the card, with a distinctive “GQ” located in the lower left part of the card. Every card I pulled from the blaster had a vertical design, which I love.
The card backs contain four lines of biographical type, with the player’s name in capital letters above the description.
As for inserts, I did receive a Tarot of the Diamond card of Boston’s Rafael Devers, and a Fortune Teller card of Amed Rosario that predicted that the Mets shortstop would be the youngest Opening Day starter in the National League and would contend for Rookie of the Year honors. The 22-year-old did start on Opening Day and went 2-for-4 with two RBI.
I did get a treat in my blaster box, as I pulled an on-card autograph card of Rays pitcher Jacob Faria.
The Gypsy Queen set is a nice-looking product with plenty of variations that are sure to stymie master set collectors. The fact that the autographs are hard-signed makes it a much more attractive product, too.
The card design features a drawing of the player with his name in the lower right-hand corner of the card. The player’s team and position and featured in the upper right-hand corner of the card, with a distinctive “GQ” located in the lower left part of the card. Every card I pulled from the blaster had a vertical design, which I love.
The card backs contain four lines of biographical type, with the player’s name in capital letters above the description.
As for inserts, I did receive a Tarot of the Diamond card of Boston’s Rafael Devers, and a Fortune Teller card of Amed Rosario that predicted that the Mets shortstop would be the youngest Opening Day starter in the National League and would contend for Rookie of the Year honors. The 22-year-old did start on Opening Day and went 2-for-4 with two RBI.
I did get a treat in my blaster box, as I pulled an on-card autograph card of Rays pitcher Jacob Faria.
The Gypsy Queen set is a nice-looking product with plenty of variations that are sure to stymie master set collectors. The fact that the autographs are hard-signed makes it a much more attractive product, too.
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