Once again, Panini returns with their flagship baseball offering. While Topps has an exclusive deal with major league baseball, Donruss can still offer baseball cards licensed by the players association, even if none of the cards are able to feature team logos or names. It can be striking at times, as you notice jerseys and hats are altered to not show team related icons, but you get used to it.

The general format of this set will feel familiar. There are 260 base cards, 2 SPs, and 2 additional Rated Rookies at the end, to bring the set to 264 cards. There are also a lot of base card variations, with pictures, nicknames, and more. You also see long time insert sets like the Elite Series and Dominators. Most of these also come in a large variety of parallels, including base parallels featuring emojis. As in recent years, this release also pays tribute to an old Donruss release from the 80s. This time, it’s 1986.

A box contains 24 packs of 8 cards. It advertises 3 autographs or memorabilia cards per box on average. This box contained:

130 Base (50% of 260 base set) (14 Diamond Kings, 15 Rated Rookies)
17 VAR SP
1 RR SP Yoshitomo Tsutsugo
24 Base Holo Blue Parallels
1 Base Career Stat Line Parallel
1 Base Milestone Stat Line Parallel
1 Base Season Stat Line Parallel
4 Base Independence Day Parallel
1 Base 100 Emoji Parallel
1 Base Baby Shark Emoji Parallel
1 Base On Fire Emoji Parallel
1 Base Presidential Collection Emoji Parallel
1 Dominators
1 Dominators Blue
1 Elite Series Red
1 Now Playing Silver
1 The Rookies
1 Donruss Materials Tony Gwynn
1 Sky High Signatures David Dahl
1 Signature Series Bryan Abreu