{"id":39833,"date":"2017-03-11T13:37:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T19:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=39833"},"modified":"2017-03-11T13:38:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T19:38:29","slug":"digital-dabblings-6-best-worst-topps-wwe-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/03\/11\/digital-dabblings-6-best-worst-topps-wwe-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"DIGITAL DABBLINGS #6 &#8211; The Best (and Worst) of Topps WWE SLAM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2611466991\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With several thousand cards already released and several thousand still to come (assuming the game lasts as long as the others, and there\u2019s no indication it won\u2019t, seems like Slam is the #1 or 2 game in Topps arsenal currently), the value of cards gets to be a bit contentious amongst players. \u201cWhat\u2019s it worth?\u201d is a question that gets asked a lot in this game, just as much as \u201cis this a fair trade?\u201d I\u2019ve already taken a look at general values, and undoubtedly we\u2019ll go over them again in the next few weeks, but let\u2019s take a look at the best and worst that Topps has produced thus far. Of course, this is my opinion alone, however I\u2019m basing this on my personal experiences, and sold eBay listings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">First individual cards, the best of the best. I\u2019m only including cards that are 25cc or higher, meaning that everyday players had a chance at actually obtaining them at some point. Maybe.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Backlash Women\u2019s Championship Six Signature (50cc) &#8211; Sometime in the last couple of months I\u2019d say this card took over the number one spot from the Battleground Triple Sig. It\u2019s sold for over $100 recently, and was the first 6 sig in the game.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Becky Lynch\/Alexa Bliss TLC Gold Signature (30cc) &#8211; Anything under 50cc in a female sig is valuable, but this is the best PPV sigs. Helps that this was the PPV where Alexa won her first title.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sasha Banks Gold Rush (50cc) &#8211; You could swap this card out for Paige, Becky Lynch or Bayley Gold Rush, though Sasha sells for slightly higher.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Battleground Signature Gold (75cc) &#8211; Long the #1 card in the game other triple sigs have overtaken it, plus the 500cc version is still super-popular. This card has basically sold through, in that the people who own it now aren\u2019t selling or trading.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Elimination Chamber Midnight 6 Signature (50cc) &#8211; KInd of a sneaky card, it\u2019s the first \u201cbooklet\u201d which doesn\u2019t mean much, they basically die-cut the card. It doesn\u2019t fold out like it could. In any case, it\u2019s got value to be sure, and there\u2019s a 500cc version for those who don\u2019t want to shell out the big bucks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Charlotte Flair Topps Now Mat Relic (25cc) &#8211; Once again you can swap this one out for any of the other 4 mat relics, since they\u2019re all 25cc. Charlotte seems like the most valuable.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Then, Now, Forever Brock Signature (25cc) &#8211; Another 25cc card, there\u2019s plenty of Brock signatures in the game, but this one has the low cc cache.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Then, Now, Forever Women\u2019s Triple Signature (100cc) &#8211; Nattie, Charlotte and Becky on one card, they\u2019re all HOFers in my book, and in a lot of folks book. Goes for $40 or more regularly<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pat Patterson Green Hall of Fame Award (85cc) &#8211; Another one where similar awards could sit in this spot, thinking the NXT Gen Bayley or Finn, or the QOTR Lita. This Patterson though is key for other awards, and it\u2019s pretty low for an award. Means the Green Award for Ric Flair and Stone Cold Steve Austin from the same set are going to be very very low CC.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Finn Balor Demon King Red Signature (100cc) &#8211; Lastly this was the best Finn I could think of to go on this list, even though his other cards are just as popular, this one really shines. I think it\u2019s sold through as well, considering you don\u2019t see him up for sale or trade often. If you do you should probably grab it. Once he makes his comeback shortly his popularity will skyrocket even higher.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Honorable Mention &#8211; Black Base NXT Eva Marie -(3cc), Low CC Lime Greens\/Purple. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The live signature 1\/1s were basically a bust as far as secondary value goes. Cards with 20cc and under are usually reserved for the super-collectors or \u201cwhales\u201d who have money to spend on the game. Since most of those cards don\u2019t get traded or sold anyway, it\u2019s hard to put them on a most popular list. That said, those 10cc Lime Greens that were given away for TapJoy Contests which they have put on hold for now, sell for between $50 and $100 depending on performer. Suffice to say if you manage to pull a very low cc card, your best bet is to flip it as soon as possible unless you collect that performer. \u00a0The 3 cc Eva Marie NXT Black Base might be the single most valuable card in the game, but then there\u2019s only 3 of them. You won\u2019t be able to trade for one, no matter what you have.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Worst of the Worst &#8211; No criteria, just cards you never want to see in a trade and cards you shouldn\u2019t put in your trade offer unless you want a 1-star rating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">10.\u00a0 Stone Cold Steve Austin &#8211; Week 1 Award (11,457cc) &#8211; Let\u2019s start with an award that you\u2019d think would have some value, but no it doesn\u2019t. This one was given to everyone who had all 7 Week 1 freebies, which makes it the 2nd most populous award (the first is the HIAC Awards, but since those actually had value due to being needed for the PPV Season 1 awards, they aren\u2019t here).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">9.\u00a0 Sasha Banks Clash of Champions Base &#8211; The low-tier or high cc base version of PPV cards all have very very high CC, at least 10K or higher per card. This one though is over 60L due to how they decided to distribute Clash of Champions cards. It\u2019s only redeeming quality is that it\u2019s Sasha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">8.\u00a0 AJ Styles Election Day Parallel &#8211; A glitch in the system made it super-easy to purchase guaranteed Election Day Parallels for virtually nothing, this card was automatically guaranteed in every pack, thus over 60K of them. \u00a0<\/span><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2058896769\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">7.\u00a0 Choose Your Allegiance Teasers &#8211; Besides the fact that there are a virtual butt-load of them, they don\u2019t say anything and have no cool design. If there were 10x less of them (over 30K each) they might have some \u201coddity\u201d value, but as it is, they\u2019re worth about as much as a white common.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">6.\u00a0 Apollo Crews Flex Black\/Purple &#8211; They gave these away earlier this week. Need I say more?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">5.\u00a0 Kevin Owens Flight White (OE) &#8211; I personally hate this card. If I see it in a trade I will automatically decline.\u00a0 Despite the fact that it\u2019s one of the top 10 highest CC inserts, it\u2019s just plain ugly. For the longest time it was my most hated card. Basically any first card from the original Open Edition \u201cVerb\u201d sets (Power, Speed, Flight, Charisma) has been readily available from packs since they day they came out. So you can put in Dolph Ziggler\u2019s Speed or John Cena\u2019s Power here too. The same goes for their Series 2 sets, only they don\u2019t have quite as many specimens out there. The only exception is Sasha Banks Charisma since it was one of the first inserts in the entire game, and it\u2019s Sasha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">4.\u00a0 Daniel Bryan Black Signature Pose (OE) &#8211; Had this set come out after the \u201cSignature Moves\u201d set it might have done something, but as it is, it was pretty weak-sauce, and open edition first cards are the worst of the worst. Don\u2019t kid yourself, it never had any value, and being available still in \u201copen edition guaranteed packs\u201d isn\u2019t helping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">3.\u00a0 Ultimate Warrior Tribute White Day 1 (OE) Our second single Wrestler tribute set went to Ultimate Warrior, and the set was really lame, just badly photoshopped publicity photos on bad backgrounds, with four different color variations. I personally despise this card too, but fortunately I don\u2019t see it that often in trades today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2.\u00a0 Mick Foley Have a Nice Day Tribute Day 1 Purple (OE) My new least favorite card, from my 2nd least favorite set. Foley was a better choice for a tribute set, but multiple variations and no real differences between cards didn\u2019t really make it all that interesting. The two single wrestler sets that have any value at all are the ones with single variations (Bret Hart and Roman Reigns).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1.\u00a0 Bronze Heath Slater\/Austin Aries (OE) &#8211; These are \u201caward\u201d cards you get for playing Topps Coin Suck&#8230;I mean \u201cChallenge.\u201d I could explain the challenge here, but it\u2019s not worth it. Don\u2019t play it, but if you do, after 3 packs I guaranteed you\u2019ll have both these cards. Suffice to say, these have ZERO trade value whatsoever. No one wants them. Including them in a trade is an insult. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Honorable Mention &#8211; Becky Lynch Purple\/Maroon\/Lime Green &#8211; You\u2019d think Becky Lynch cards would be valuable, especially those certain color base variants, as most of the time those are lower CC base variants. However, these cards were issued to a lot of people due to another Topps glitch. Lime Green Becky was supposed to be the award for the top 200 players who did as many TapJoy offers in a certain amount of time (I think it was 24 hours). BUT when time came to distribute the awards Topps gave them to EVERYONE in the game. So to make good they gave away a Purple Award but they screwed that up too, and gave a Maroon one to make good on that screw up. At least that\u2019s how I remember it. In any case, there\u2019s a lot of them out there, and they\u2019re really not worth a lot.<\/span><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1821391540\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>As always if you have any questions or comments post them here, or go to the Reddit Topps WWE Page at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Toppswwe\/\">reddit.com\/r\/toppswwe<\/a>, or find me in the game under user name GRENDELSEN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT LAST WEEK\u2019S ARTICLE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/02\/24\/digital-dabblings-5-new-set-now-forever-released-looking-physical-digital-sets\/\">DIGITAL DABBLINGS #5 \u2013 New Set: \u201cThen, Now, Forever\u201d Released &amp; Looking at Physical-to-Digital Sets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3239310040\"><div id=\"pwtor-3408842617\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>With several thousand cards already released and several thousand still to come (assuming the game lasts as long as the others, and there\u2019s no indication it won\u2019t, seems like Slam is the #1 or 2 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/03\/11\/digital-dabblings-6-best-worst-topps-wwe-slam\/\" title=\"DIGITAL DABBLINGS #6 &#8211; The Best (and Worst) of Topps WWE SLAM!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,4667,27],"tags":[820,3404],"class_list":["post-39833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opnionandanalysis","category-digital-dabblings","category-specialists","tag-topps","tag-wwe-slam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/02\/DigitalDabblings5ToppsSlam.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39834,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39833\/revisions\/39834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}