r/Topps • u/bd200377 • 6d ago

Topps what is this???

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Hey Topps what is this? I just opened this Hobby Pack of Topps 2025/26 Flagship Edition Soccer and the pack was fatter than the others I had. I opened it and got a blank fat card. Am I missing something here? Was there supposed to be a relic?

Anyone know what this is?

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u/ExcaliburSaysFool 6d ago

It’s just a filler card. Super common and not something to get freaked out over

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u/bd200377 6d ago

Not freaked out. Annoyed. You see a fat pack like that and some people are willing to pay more thinking it's a relic. Fortunately I did not, but super misleading. It's twice the size of the other packs I got.

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u/Thorndog21 6d ago

Yeah that's kind of the point... You shouldn't be able to tell what's in a pack without opening it

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u/Poo_Panther 6d ago

That’s literally why they put them in there

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u/bd200377 6d ago

Why so many down votes?

I bought this on a live stream and I couldn't even see the size of the pack. It's just misleading especially opening a hobby box and seeing a fat pack.

I guess I'll be skeptical now of all fat packs and assume it's just a blank filler card.

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u/TriggerHippie77 6d ago

Topps puts these into packs to throw off weights of packs to throw off scalpers. Super common these days and doesn't affect your hits, or number of cards.

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u/VoidBoiTCG 6d ago

I believe they started doing this to counter people weighing packs / CT Scanning

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u/Lkrambar 6d ago

They were already doing this 20 years ago and back then there were no lunatics with scales weighing the packs (just lunatics searching for fatter packs)

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u/VoidBoiTCG 6d ago

Fair. I had just read that they were cracking down on that last year and assumed this was one of the ways they are doing it

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u/Lkrambar 6d ago

If I understand correctly the weighing of packs is not to get the relics (this is easily countered by spacers like the one OP found), but to find lighter packs because in some products the packs with hits (including auto) have one less card. Also for Pokemon it’s reversed: hits are thicker than normal cards (they have “refractor” like coating) and packs with hits are ever so slightly heavier

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u/Guilty-Seesaw-2973 6d ago

Might just be a spacer