3 boxes Spgu, super, significant, and extra significant

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No pictures today but will post soon.

I picked up my 3 boxes of SPGU for this year. The results are a little more disappointing this year that the last few but happy nontheless.

1st box:
No major RC's, one /100 jersey and Grachev auto/50 RED.

3rd box:
Again no major RC's, one /100 jersey and Sharks significant auto (Clowe I think...correction, Pavelski.)

There's a reason why I left the 2nd box for last...my 3 box minimum holds true for good pulls.

The damage:
1st pack-Super Mario Patch /35...3 colors.

3rd pack-Significant Bobby Orr /50

5th pack-Extra Significant Landeskog & Nugent-Hopkins!!!

Yes, a hot box! I was happy with the patch but nooo, it had to be 2 more big hits. The rest of the box had /100 jerseys and no significant RC's, but did have one /50 RC, no one big.

Mixed bag. I can see why some open a box & quit. I learned it doesn't pay to do it that way. Three seems like the magic number for me, and it still holds true today.


This may be last break for a while. My wife is planning to "retire" from her job and try her hand at jewelry making and writing for a bit. This, of course cramps our future budget starting in June. I love frequenting the posts and might start to sell some my cards in my Bucket. If interested, let me know. In the meantime, I will be trying to complete my 2 sets in signature.
 
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Your conclusion is correct...this is a product where you need to open at least 3, probably 6, from the same case, to make the break appear somewhat sane.

I've never been a big fan of how UD configures SPGU. You get six packs a box and at $25+ per pack, someone buying packs from a box, it feels like there should be at least one of not two good box hits per box.

But instead you have boxes that may have $30 in cards in there for a $165+ box. And you have to open a ton to get case hits. Each box is basically a pack that costs half the price of The Cup. There are just too many uninteresting cards in there. Sticker autos, parallels, insignificant /99 RCs (compared to other other products /99s), etc. if you don't hit something big that's a per case thing, you get rocked.

If I'm paying that much for one box/pack, I'd do UD Ultimate Collection
 
The 3 box theory has some merit, especially in 6 box cases. But here's how I look at breaks and as a result I open much less now than ever before. Those 3 boxes of SPGU cost $500, so let's assume you are able to retrieve $100 for all except the 3 big hits. The cost then, for these is $400

1st pack-Super Mario Patch /35...3 colors.

3rd pack-Significant Bobby Orr /50

5th pack-Extra Significant Landeskog & Nugent-Hopkins

No doubt all three are very nice pulls and we all know cracking is fun but would you have spent $400 to buy those cards?
 
The 3 box theory has some merit, especially in 6 box cases. But here's how I look at breaks and as a result I open much less now than ever before. Those 3 boxes of SPGU cost $500, so let's assume you are able to retrieve $100 for all except the 3 big hits. The cost then, for these is $400

1st pack-Super Mario Patch /35...3 colors.

3rd pack-Significant Bobby Orr /50

5th pack-Extra Significant Landeskog & Nugent-Hopkins

No doubt all three are very nice pulls and we all know cracking is fun but would you have spent $400 to buy those cards?


Totally agree
 
Finally got some pictures and the rundown of what I actually got.

Box 1-
Hits:
Evgeny Gravchev Significance Redemption
Jonas Hillier /100

Jerseys:
Brad Richards /100 (white)
Kipper (red) C
Byfuglien (white) U
Mike Richards (Orange) K
Vanek (white) R

RC's /699
Zolnierczyk
Teubert
Gaunce

Box 3-
Hits:
Seabrook Significance (I thought it was a shark...my bad memory)
Horton /100

Jerseys:
Doughty /100 (gray with 2 vertical stitch marks)
Getzlaf (white) E
Mike Richards (white) E
Brett Hull (white) 9
Bobrovsky (white) #

RC's /699
Bouma
Despres
Palushaj
Holmstrom
Horak

Box 2
Hits: (Other than the pictures at the bottom)
Holland /50 RC

Jerseys: /100
Howard/Osgood (white/red)
Eriksson (white)
Gaborik (Blue)

RC's: /699
Friedheim
Ullstrom

THe Hits from the box-

Mario Patch /35
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Orr Significance /50
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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins/Gabriel Landeskog ExtraSignificance /25
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Not sure what I want to do with them all. They could be FT or FS. I will accept offers.
 

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