Another Gypsy Queen post...

The wife "had" to run into Old Navy this afternoon so I took my daughter into the neighboring Target to kill time.  The store was a mess as they were in the process of adding a produce section to their grocery portion of the store so I didn't feel like spending too much time there.  We made a bee line to the card area and my daughter grabbed me one of those Gypsy Queen value rack packs.  $9 for 3 packs + a 3 card pack of retail exclusive green border cards.  OK, not a bad I thought.  I haven't spent too much time looking at GQ, but after receiving my group break cards (post coming) from the Daily Dimwit and opening this pack this evening I can say I love the cards.  I don't know if anyone else has made the Topps Magic football comparison yet, but that was the first thing that came to mind after thumbing through a few of the cards.

I only found out about these retail only value packs the other day.  I knew they contained some exclusive parallels, but I didn't know what they looked like until today.  By now most of us have already seen plenty of the base cards and the slew of inserts and parallels so I decided just to share the 3 card pack.

#024 Chipper Jones

Well of course this card is a keeper!

#027 Roy Oswalt

#059 Duke Snider

I like these matte framed cards.  Immediately they reminded me of the old Emotion cards by Fleer/Skybox.  The Oswalt is up for grabs, but I figured night owl would appreciate the Snider card so it's going in his stack.

I'm on the fence with this set.  I love the art and some of the inserts are nice (Wall Climbers), but I don't want to tackle another set w/ SPs.  I may go after the set minus the SPs, but like with a lot of other sets I'll have to lean heavily on trades and retail purchases.  I do plan on having at least one more GQ post coming in the next few days as the blaster I picked up yielded something I wasn't expecting.