Opinions vary but these are my top 5 favorites from this season’s offerings on Topps Huddle for the 2016-2017 season.
Top 5 Finest 3 Waves of fun. Top players on an exciting dynamic designed set, great action photographs and chase levels for whatever you are into. Legends cards for the old school fans, relics and a wide array of signatures. A solid design and look throughout. I’ll be pecking away at completing the sigs from this set for a while. Very nice signature awards for the base sets gave a very strong incentive to chase! Fast delivery of the first two waves awards then a bit of a gap on wave three awards. Signature Series 2017 This could have been my number one overall as I collected more of these in so many different variants throughout the season than anything in the app. The frame design lent itself to a number of uses both in the Marathon as well as various events like Thanksgiving, Christmas and into the playoffs in a Red vs Blue scheme for AFC and NFC respectively and into the mack daddy realms of the Platinum 1/1s. They also featured a bunch of Legends sigs with this design and they all look amazing. Tip of the hat to a design that was a true workhorse but still had enough flair to not get boring. Gypsy Queen I didn’t love these at first and the size of the set in two waves was daunting to say the least but it’s a perennial favorite in both Huddle and Bunt and features variety of players past and present side by side in a style that just fits. Another unified card design that looks great on the sheet and a fast chase to very nice awards. I tried to resist but they won me over and drew me in. Topps Now Although the base cards encompass a set that is absolutely enormous and there were no awards the photography and the moments captured in the set really tell the story of the 2016-17 season in a compelling way and the easy odds and easy trading at drops make them incredibly attractive and just fun to do. And the Signature and Relics and their various rare variants made them some of the most interesting cards in the app week to week. Even though I did not collect all the base on these it was impossible for me to resist cracking a few packs every week and they even managed to get my wallet out a few times too. Retro Originals and Then One thing I think that Topps Jer in conjunction with Topps Digital’s Designers did absolutely right was the incredible retro sets this year that not only honored the history of the NFL but also more importantly broke the Year to Year mold of Huddle as an app. In the past it has seemed that very few Huddle players care very much about cards from the previous year and tend to try and dump them off on new players for today’s hot stuff. One aspect of that is of course the year to year value of cards as tools for scoring points in the contests which renders cards basically obsolete as soon as the season ends and the following season is basically a reset of the arms race for contests each week where the most well equipped users with current players at their disposal will prevail. These retro sets like Originals and Superbowl Then I feel will have value to collectors beyond this season. Having come from the Star Wars Card Trader there is an understanding of a collector’s mentality at play here that if their guess is right will serve to grow the app by giving more lasting value to the players from year to year. That is by no means a sure thing but I feel they have made a very smart move. And yeah, I’m new to the app. I don’t know everything but it’s easy to look back at the last few years’ worth in All Cards and see the incredible difference between those cards and what was offered this year. This was a breakout year for this app and if they can maintain the balance they have achieved this year then many of the cards from this year are likely to be every bit as sought after by Huddle Players next year as cards like Vintage and Nightbrothers are in Star Wars Card Trader.
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