My favorite parallel cards have always been the border color parallels. In the first few years of the blog, I'd gush over the Topps Chrome parallels, particularly the blue ones. There actually weren't a ton of border parallels around at the time -- the gold parallels were ... uh ... the gold standard, of course -- and you mostly had to go to Chrome or some high-end set to find something other than that. That eventually changed about 12 years ago and now there are so many color border parallels in your basic flagship set that it's impossible to focus on them all. It's overkill and some of them I don't care about at all. As an example, that gold foil thing that started a couple years ago is really pointless. But give Topps credit for still trying because sometimes it stumbles across something I love, like this year's aqua parallels. I love these things -- not the Chrome ones -- just the flagship ones. I didn't realize that these were Fanatics exclusive...
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