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Uh one, uh two, uh three ... uh thirteen

As the resident card blogging owl, I've known how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop since the mid-1970s. But one thing this wise old owl has never known is how many blasters it takes to complete a set. I don't have the kind of money required to buy a bunch of boxes at once, and I don't have the dedication to chart how many boxes I've bought when my set is finished. So when I had the opportunity to buy $2.98 boxes of 2013 Opening Day, I figured this was my chance. They were cheap enough that I thought I could get the whole set in just a couple of shopping sprees. And the set is only 220 cards, so it seemed extra manageable. So after buying those six blasters I wrote about a couple days ago , I went back and grabbed the six remaining ones. Including the one blaster that I bought when I first discovered they were so cheap, that was 13 Opening Day blasters in three days. Would that be enough to complete the set? Well, when I had...