About the extent of it.

I just ripped through 2 Mega boxes of 2025 Stadium Club and well more than that of 2026 Series 1 and these 2 a pretty much the only Ivy cards that turned up.  (I'm trading the rest of them)

Both out of Series 1.  Not a single one in the Stadium Club set.  I hadn't started bindering the Ivy set, despite my continuing promises, well threats really, to do so recently.  I thought I'd have plenty of new candidates to add to the check list.  I mean what are we paying you our money for if not Ivy??!?

Topps should be shooting every NL action shot at Wrigley Field like they did in the 80s and their sets were a lush, thick, textured green all throughout.  With Interleague play now every team in the AL can get a chance to showcase themselves in front of the Ivy.  Hell, photoshop the AL in from spring training.  I don't care.  I just want something to chase after.  

When I started my various Frankensets I didn't know that's what I was building.  I was just tickled to notice the ivy (or floating baseball equipment or defaced) cards and tossing them into a cigar box.  After I built my first few sets, I'd kind of look at the binder pages or box rows and feel less than whelmed.  But when I pulled out frankenset boxes and started doing something I felt like I opened up a world of possibilities.

It feels like using a paint by numbers kit that that you threw the color chart away along with the paint. And then you assembled paint from old spray cans, house paint, nail polish and crayons.  There is a template of sorts.  You have to have the pieces fit something, but each piece does not have to be any one thing.  No matter the theme there are probably multiple possibilities at many, even most, card numbers.  I can periodically change up if a better card presents itself at a given number or add it as the B-side and making a whole 2nd Frankenset.  

When I think back to my early collecting days what drew me in was making order out of a pile of random cards, but the more I do it the more I want to introduce a level of disorder.  I'm not sure what to think about my mind wanting a certain level of chaos to stay interested.