Monday 11 December 2023

Leaf Trading Cards - 2023 Leaf Metal Continuum (07) - Bonus Card


2023
2023 Leaf Metal Continuum
Leaf Trading Cards
USA
? cards (1 football)

At the beginning of the year Leaf announced that anyone completing the set of Metal Continuum cards issued throughout 2023 would be rewarded with a special bonus. That bonus card has now been revealed.

Lionel Messi
Shohei Ohtani (Baseball)
Carlos Alcaraz (Tennis)

2 comments:

  1. That's a nice card and would be epic if it were not a sticker autograph card, knowing that all Leaf does is consign athletes to autograph a quantity of sticker sheets then create whatever "signed" card they want to at any time present or future, limited to 1 or more. On-Card (like what Topps Now does online) is more prestigious than a sticker. I wonder if anyone would ever buy a baseball bat with a authentic signature sticker on it and consider that a true "signed bat"? So, a lot of collectors sort of feel the same way towards cards as far as preferring on-card versus sticker. I wonder how many customers bought every Continuum card, as some were high priced other were lackluster releases. I'm guessing maybe 5 or less. I bought into a few Leaf releases with sub-10 print runs in the past, so 'tho their cards are pretty nice by design, it feels the unlicensed nature makes them less desirable and collected.

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    1. I can't disagree with anything you say. I notice now that Leaf have started not to use images of some players like Kylian Mbappe, they kust show a numbered football jersey to represent the player. I am amazed that any of those types of cards ever sell. There's loads on eBay but no idea if they actually sell.

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