2021 Wild Card Matte White Football Forum

I just picked up a couple of blasters of this, but I got the Wild Card Matte Black. How should this go in the database? Are they separate sets or variations of one another, like retail vs. hobby? I haven't seen any White, so I don't know how they are distributed, but I got my blasters at the local Wal-Mart.

Also, what do the White inserts look like? Do they have have white backgrounds, too? All the inserts I pulled have black backgrounds like the base, but I don't see any images uploaded of the White inserts yet, so I don't know if they are different like the base.

A local guy did 6 of these blasters in a break. I'm curious what you thought of your blaster? Ours were all repeat cards, like 2 packs were identical and 1 pack has 2 of the same base card in it. One blaster had the exact inserts in each pack. It was one that was worth a try but wouldn't buy again product. 

The collation was horrendous. I also had duplicate cards in the same pack. I think I pulled three copies of one single insert out of my two blasters. The cards look and feel nice, but they don't really call back original Wild Card--except for the collation that you would expect to find when opening overproduction era boxes. I figured with 40 cards per box and 70-card base set, I'd come really close to a complete set, but I barely got halfway there.

We currently have an IR in to remove "White" from the set name, but it wasn't clear if Black and White were separate sets or one is a parallel of the other or what. Once we get the correct info, we'll adjust the set as needed.

https://www.tcdb.com/InaccuraciesManager.cfm?MODE=VIEW&ID=248602

Cool. Thanks, Ed! This set really confusing me.

The Matte set was issued as white, black, silver and gold, same cards just diff colors. (Couple sources list white as base set, and that the black, silver and gold are paralells but all were under Matte and theoretically 4 diff retail sets and 2 hobby sets that are identical???) What is weird is the hobby set was 22 sn cards (Sn349, so another set?)) and retail is 70 cards...and the 22 cards are in diff order than the 70 card set. (More like a SN insert set) and then you have multiple cards with same numbers in inserts and no mention of dueling guns or autograph paralells which are in the set.  Even the response from Wildcard was sorry for the inconvenience but we are still compiling the info to build complete checklists.  Seems like Matte should be all under 1 listing rather than 6 separate, but really don't know. I've got a couple checklists completed but don't know where to put them.        

This release has to be the most idiotic set structure and parallel scheme I've ever seen.

I've spent several hours trying to decipher this set and feel like I haven't made any progress.

Hobby comes in Black or White. 22 card base set. The parallel serial numbering for both sets are different. On top of that black comes in a red version and the white comes in a blue version, also with different serial numbers. The insert sets also come available in most of the parallels.

Retail comes in Black, White, Gold, and Silver. 70 card base set. The black set's red version, you guessed it, have different serial numbering. White has the blue parallel, the gold has a purple parallel, and silver has a green parallel--for all of the base, insert and parallel colors.

On top of that, the retail insert sets have an EXTENDED checklist that are beyond what's available in hobby.

There also appears to be a 'chase' parallel of the parallels that basically look the same they may just have more gloss, they also have different serial numbers.

Wild Card, go out of business, again.

Not sure if this helps all the confusion about this release. I purchased a Blaster Box from Wal-Mart titled 2021 Draft Pick Football Cards. It also says All Rookie Card Edition.. Collect all 70 Rookie Cards. All base cards?? Have black backgrounds.. 

Just imagine the confusion if they also tried to copy the old Wild Card redemption program - sendiing in stacks of singles for striped versions, or vice versa.

They do... supposedly releasing details in January.