Description

The second edition of Fleer Mystique was released in August 2000. Each five-card pack retailed for an MSRP of $4.99.

The base set consists of 175 cards -- the last 50 making up a short-printed and serial-numbered to 2000 copies "Prospects" subset. Unlike the wildly successful 1999 Mystique, the rookie selection (Johan Santana notwithstanding) was less than stellar and not every pack had a "covered" card.

The "covered" cards were randomly inserted into packs. All of the inserts (except for the Club 3000 cards), parallels and short-printed "Prospects" were inserted into packs with an opaque "sparkly" covering (on both sides of the card) that had to be peeled away to reveal the card -- hence the name "Mystique." Each 20-pack Hobby box should yield 13 "covered" cards: two serial-numbered "Prospects," one Gold parallel, and 10 inserts.

In addition, Fresh Ink on-card autographs came every-other box, and Feel the Game game-used cards were seeded every sixth box. Fortunately, the "hits" were not covered by a "sparkly covering."

The only rookie of note is of Johan Santana, and among the Fresh Ink cards is the first ever on-card autograph of Hideo Nomo.

Distribution

Boxes of 2000 Fleer Mystique contain 20 packs of 5 cards each. This product is a hobby exclusive.

Reviews

Stale Gum (archived)

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Odds
Base	175	-	?
short set	125	-	?
Prospects	50	2000	?
Gold	175	-	1:20
Masterpiece	175	one-of-one	?
Diamond Dominators	10	-	1:5
Rookie I.P.O.	10	-	1:10
Supernaturals	10	-	1:10
High Praise	10	-	1:20
Seismic Activity	10	-	1:40
Seismic Activity Richter	10	100	?
Feel the Game	14	-	1:120
Fresh Ink	44	-	1:40
Dave Winfield Autographed Helmet Exchange Card	1	40	?
Dave Winfield Autographed Ball Exchange Card	1	20	?

Checklist

Promos

P54 Cal Ripken, Jr.

Base Set

Prospects

Each card is numbered to 2000, and comes out of the pack with a opaque covering.

126 Cole Liniak
127 Alfonso Soriano
128 Lance Berkman
129 Danny Young
130 Francisco Cordero
131 Robert Fick
132 Matt LeCroy
133 Adam Piatt
134 Derrick Turnbow
135 Mark Quinn
136 Kip Wells
137 Rob Bell
138 Brad Penny
139 Pat Burrell
140 Danys Baez RC
141 Chad Hermansen
142 Steve Lomasney
143 Peter Bergeron
144 Jimmy Anderson
145 Mike Darr
146 Jacob Cruz
147 Kazuhiro Sasaki RC
148 Ben Petrick
149 Rick Ankiel
150 Aaron McNeal RC*
151 Octavio Dotel
152 Juan Pena
153 Nick Johnson
154 Wilton Veras
155 Wily Mo Pena
156 Mark Mulder
157 Daryle Ward
158 Chad Durbin
159 Angel Pena
160 Dewayne Wise
161 Tarrik Brock
162 Marcus Jensen
163 Kevin Barker
164 B.J. Ryan
165 Cesar King
166 Geoff Blum
167 Ruben Mateo
168 Ramon Ortiz
169 Eric Munson
170 Josh Beckett
171 Rafael Furcal
172 Matt Riley
173 Johan Santana RC
174 Mark Johnson
175 Adam Kennedy

Parallels

The entire base set is mirrored by Gold and Masterpiece parallels. The Gold parallels are seeded 1 in every 20 packs. The Masterpieces are numbered 1 of 1.