2015 Bowman Inception Baseball Cards

Great design and love the on card autographs. My only complaint is the lack of diversity as many teams are left out on the checklist.

Design and on card autographs make the product beautiful, repeat signers isn’t nice. My personal box had a beautiful jumbo patch, plus two numbered autographs along with that. Hoping next year can be even better with bigger names!

I just want to commend revghost on that post. I like the way you think. That was an informative non-biased comment. Id like to save up some money and break a case one of these days. Never done it.

Got a $17.50 cleveland indians case break win off eBay,received a Francisco lindor auto relic 12/50 which is his jersey number,a James Ramsey auto relic not #d,and a Bradley zimmer base auto,not a bad deal considering the case price and got what I wanted out of a one time deal with the set….can not complain at all happy with this product as a small time home team buyer???

I hate Inception. They should have canned this product and stuck with Platinum. So mad that Platinum was shelved….

What’s with the blue parallels? I have a blue auto of Tyler Beede /150 but it isn’t on the checklist/ product info. Overall an OK product. Lot of on card autos but it would be nice to get rid of stickers.

For return buyers, Inception is the same break it was in 2013 and 2014. The only thing missing was an extra incentive: 2013 had Puig autos, 2014 had Bryant Draft autos, but nothing extra this year. I broke a case (my friend and I split the cost) and I have no complaints. But I’m familiar with the product, so I knew what to expect.
Colored parallels in Inception tend to flock together. Every case has about 3 or four boxes that are nothing but base cards. If you’re looking to break, multiple boxes (2+) are the only way to go. If you order one box, I can almost guarantee you won’t like this product.
Sticker autos on the relics are nothing new, again, product knowledge. You wouldn’t buy an $85 dollar raffle ticket without knowing what the prizes are, would you? That’s what gets me with products like Inception. The lack of product knowledge, well, it’s inexcusable. I understand people wanting to try something new, I like to do that from time to time. What I don’t get is people not taking 5 minutes on google to check up on a product before buying it. Cardboard Connection is like a bible for me, I use it religiously for checklists. Group Break Checklists is another great resource that updates regularly.
Point is, if you buy without doing research, that’s on you.
That being said, I had a decent case. For not hitting Bryant, Schwarber, Kang, Correa, this was still a very above average case: 2 Orange parallels (Shipley Relic, Barretto Auto), 1 blue (Renfroe), Three different Severino autos (1 being the Inceptioned Case Hit) and a monster 3 color patch auto of Joey Gallo /50.
One last thing, prospect heavy products are great if you follow milb. If you don’t, this product won’t hold much value for you. Inception is a great, low risk product if you get it on release day. But profits disappear after the first week so if you haven’t bought in on unopened product by now, hold your money and go for the singles you want in a couple weeks, they can be had for very little, and the quality of the base cards is second to none.
Just my two cents, I bought one box in 2013 (all base), one box in 14 (all base) then 5 boxes again in 14 (hit about six or seven parallels, killed it) and a case this year.

Opened 2 boxes yesterday. While didn’t get anything earth-shattering, the autographs were decent. A couple of the players are either in the big leagues or are about to come up. So can’t complain too much. Of course, had to look up every one as none of the names rang a bell.

Agree with the above comments about the relic pieces. Fairly bland, and it’s hard to tell if the piece is from. One was orange and looked like from the Futures All-Star Game from last year. But no indication on the card if it was or not.

Lastly, in the two boxes, only had one numbered card. IMO, for something like this with a premium price, wouldn’t have minded if each box had one. Did watch a couple other boxes opened at my local card store and that person did get a numbered version in each box.

So, not great, but not terrible either. My first time opening this product. And these two boxes were enough. Any further cards will probably come from the secondary market.

Was in 5 case breaks today and although I got fairly lucky, this product just doesn’t do it for me. The comments above point out some of the problems, i.e., teams with no or very limited prospects, and a regurgitation of last year’s players. I swear, if I see another Bryce Brentz auto……..Also, these sticker auto relic cards are primarily a waste. I didn’t see a single one that had a multi-colored relic, even ones numbered to 50. I did see a 1/1 Francisco Lindor Jumbo Patch Auto, very nice. Drop the price $10-15 per box and maybe worth a gamble. If you get in a group break of a case and draw the usual suspects, Cubs, Twins, White Sox, Yankees…and man!, Diamondbacks…you’re in tall cotton.

I use Cardboard Connection as a barometer for those products I wish to purchase…& I trust other collectors do also. Therefore, I take my rating-responsibility very seriously.

Towards that end, and while I like the design and on-card ink, this feels uncomfortably like a re-heated hobby leftover.
Forgetting for a moment that a number of teams have no prospects included in the product, many of those athletes who ARE included in the ’15 iteration appeared in the ’14 release. And, as has been observed above, many of those who are included in the product are marginal players at best.
For me, a disappointing encore.

Stated Below Average due to, not only no cards for Cardinals or Rays, but Orioles, Tigers, Marlins, Angels and Giants all only rep 2 players and Braves and Brewers only rep one player! Chance is way too high to buy a box of 5 autos and none have played in MLB and possibly never will.

Where are the Cardinals on this checklist?

The design is excellent and on-card autos always beats stickers, but according to the checklist there are zero cardinals and Angels fans get a bit of a shaft too. Every team has noteworthy prospects so there is no excuse to exclude an entire team.

This is a great product. Great design, 5 hits for $100 is a great price in today’s hobby. I would purchase this product on release day. A+++++++++++

Like the design and mostly on card autos…. Too many parallels but something for everyone