Last Updated on April 26, 2026 by Matt Musico
It’s always exciting to pull a baseball card with a signature on it, but that excitement level goes up even higher depending on who it is. For instance, it’s hard to find anyone who wouldn’t get jacked up about uncovering some Juan Soto autos.
Finding one is enough to boost your mood for a prolonged period, but finding two within one $25 purchase? That’s next level, and it happened to a Reddit user (u/ScienceZestyclose450), according to a recent Sports Card Investor Instagram post. The collector picked up a Walmart mystery championship tin, popped the lid, and somehow pulled both a 2021 Topps Heritage High Number Real One auto and a 2021 Allen & Ginter Chrome auto, both featuring Soto.
The odds of pulling even one Soto auto from any retail mystery tin are essentially lottery territory. But pulling two from the same one? That’s just outrageous.
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What Are These Walmart Mystery Championship Tins, Anyway?
These MJH-manufactured tins are a Walmart exclusive retail product, typically priced around $25. They’re not sealed hobby boxes with published odds. Instead, they’re mystery products, which means no guaranteed hits and no disclosed pack ratios. You’re essentially rolling the dice on whatever assortment of packs and cards happened to get packed in. The tins cycle through various configurations, often mixing in packs from different years and product lines.
That’s actually how this pull happened. In this specific instance, there were two separate Topps products, both from 2021, both pulling the same player’s signature. The hobby community has long speculated that some mystery products are loosely seeded with more desirable cards to keep buyers coming back, but there’s no hard data to confirm that suspicion.
What we do know is that autographs aren’t guaranteed, which makes this kind of double-hit story genuinely rare.
Taking a Closer Look at Both of These Cards
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The first card is a 2021 Topps Heritage High Number Real One auto (#ROA-JS). Heritage High Number autos are on-card signatures, and Soto’s version from that set has real staying power. These are not print-run-limited in the traditional sense, making raw copies accessible, but the market reflects strong demand for graded examples.
PSA 10 copies of comparable Soto Heritage autos have sold in the $200–$400 range, depending on the specific year and ink quality.
The second card is a 2021 Allen & Ginter Chrome auto (#AGA-JS). A&G Chrome autos fall at roughly one per case in hobby, so this is a legit case hit. The base version is unnumbered, but colored parallel versions can fetch serious money. A numbered Orange /25 parallel of this specific Soto A&G Chrome auto has sold for well over $400.
Between the two cards together, this collector likely landed somewhere in the $200–$400 range in real-world value on a $25 tin. That’s the kind of return on investment all of us hope for whenever we’re ripping open a product.
Why Juan Soto Autos Are Worth Paying Attention to Right Now
Soto’s card market has been on a consistent upward trajectory since his record-breaking $765 million deal with the New York Mets. While the club missed the postseason during his first campaign in Queens, Soto did plenty to boost his individual stock during the 2025 season. Despite a slow start in April and May, Soto won his sixth Silver Slugger Award and finished third in National League MVP Award voting. He posted a .921 OPS with 43 home runs, 105 RBI, 120 runs scored, and 38 steals in 160 games played.
SportsCardsPro is currently tracking thousands of Juan Soto cards, and the high-end stuff has been moving. His 2018 Topps Heritage High Number auto, his most significant early auto, has sold for four figures. His 2016 Bowman Chrome Prospects auto has touched the same territory. The 2021 cards this collector pulled probably aren’t at that level, but they’re real assets from a player whose trajectory all but likely points toward a Hall of Fame career.
Should You Be Hunting These Tins?
Hunting mystery tins feels as close to gambling as you can get in the hobby. There are no published odds, no guaranteed hits, and plenty of collectors who walk away with nothing worth double-sleeving. The expected value from a $25 tin is almost certainly below $25. If that wasn’t the case, Walmart wouldn’t be selling them.
But this story is a good reminder that the hobby occasionally rewards the impulse buyer, and there’s real entertainment value in the format for casual collectors who aren’t chasing PSA 10s.
If you’re a serious Soto collector building a PC, you’re not finding your grails in a mystery tin. But if you’re looking for a low-cost entry point into the hobby or want something fun to open at a reasonable price point? These tins exist for exactly that reason.
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