I'll start by saying that I was pretty skeptical about Ovur Cards before ordering. If you've spent any amount of time collecting sports cards or Pokémon cards, you've probably come across repacks before, and my experience with them has been mixed at best. A lot of repackers advertise huge potential hits, but when you actually open the packs, they seem to be filled with garbage base cards, random inserts, and cards that somebody clearly just wanted to get rid of. My kids often want to buy these mystery packs and I cringe every time.

Because of that, I normally stay away from repacks.

Ovur caught my attention because they take a slightly different approach. Their website makes a pretty big point about their packs actually having good cards in them, including what they describe as "big hits." Obviously, every company selling mystery packs is going to tell you that you can pull something good, so I still wasn't completely convinced.

The packs were only around $10-$15, though, so I figured it was worth giving them a shot. They also have team-oriented packs, but we went with the 'random' ones.

Pokémon & Basketball Packs

My kids and I collect both Pokémon and basketball cards, so I ordered one TCG pack containing Pokémon cards and one basketball pack. I thought that would be a good way to see whether Ovur was actually doing something different or if this was going to be another repack where the marketing was much more exciting than the cards inside.

We opened the Pokémon pack first.

Overall, it was actually pretty solid. The best card in the pack was a Tyrunt promo card from Mega Evolutions. It wasn't some massive $500 Pokémon card or anything like that, but it was a legitimate card that we were happy to pull and definitely better than the type of filler I've seen in a lot of other repacks.

More importantly, the pack was fun to open. My kids knew the Pokémon, the cards were in good condition, and it didn't feel like someone had simply taken a pile of unwanted bulk cards and stuffed them into a wrapper. and with a full art promo hit, the kids were excited.

At that point, I was pleasantly surprised.

Then we opened the basketball pack.

This was where my opinion of Ovur changed completely.

Ridiculous Hits

That alone would have made the entire order ridiculous considering the pack cost about ten bucks. But somehow that wasn't even the only hit. The same basketball pack also had a Nate Robinson autograph, a Dylan Harper rookie insert and a few base Steph Curries and refractors.

But some huge, legitimately exciting cards in the same $10 pack.

I know enough about repacks to understand that you obviously aren't going to pull a $200 card every single time. That wouldn't make any financial sense, and I certainly wouldn't buy these expecting every pack to produce the same result that ours did. Still, there is a big difference between understanding that you got lucky and feeling like a product actually gives customers a chance to get lucky.

That's what impressed me most about Ovur.

They say there are big hits in their packs, and at least based on the packs we opened, those hits really do exist. The Jokic card wasn't some technically "rare" $3 insert being marketed as a huge pull. It was a card that I would genuinely consider a big hit, especially coming out of something that cost $10.

The Nate Robinson autograph being included on top of that was almost comical. My kids were obviously thrilled, and I think that is probably the biggest compliment I can give the product. Opening packs is supposed to be fun. Over the last few years, hobby boxes and even retail products have gotten increasingly expensive, and it can be frustrating spending a lot of money only to open a box and feel like you got almost nothing back.

With Ovur, we spent about $25 (with shipping) between the two packs and had a great time opening them.

The Pokémon pack delivered a solid Tyrunt promo, while the basketball pack massively exceeded anything I expected with the Nikola Jokic Glass Canvas and Nate Robinson autograph. Could we have just gotten extremely lucky? Absolutely. But somebody has to actually put those cards into the packs in the first place, and that alone separates Ovur from a lot of repackers I've tried or seen online.

I went into the purchase expecting to confirm my skepticism about repacks. Instead, I came away genuinely impressed.

For around $10 per pack, it was easily worth the experiment, and after what we pulled from the basketball pack, there's no question that my kids and I will be ordering more.

Not bad for a $10 pack. Not bad at all.