Topps Facing Class Action Lawsuit After Revealing Rare Blue X-Fractor NBA Card Is Missing from Mega Boxes

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A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Topps of misleading consumers after the trading card company revealed in an email that its 2025-26 NBA Chrome Basketball Trading Card Mega Box sets were missing the ultra-rare Blue X-Fractor cards, which were central to the company’s marketing of the product.

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The 15-page lawsuit contends that Topps, one of the largest trading card producers worldwide, deceptively labeled the NBA Mega Box sets at issue with statements about the Blue X-Fractor cards, the most prized, valuable cards with the highest resale value. However, Topps revealed in a mid-January 2026 email that, due to an apparent printing error on product packaging, there was “zero chance” a consumer would pull a Blue X-Fractor card out of a Mega Box, the suit states.

Though the defendant initially told consumers that only some Mega Boxes did not contain any Blue X-Fractor cards, Topps thereafter confessed that no Mega Boxes contained the prized cards, the complaint says.

According to the case, the Topps Mega Boxes are sold as a collection of random player cards from a given professional league, with each card varying in value and consumers unable to discern which trading cards the box will contain before it is opened.

Specifically, the case argues that because Topps included statements on its Mega Boxes that encouraged consumers to “Chase Exclusive Blue X-Fractors,” buyers were reasonably led to believe that they had a chance to obtain a rare X-Fractor card within a Mega Box.

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“... Topps’ Misrepresentation deprived Plaintiff and the Class of the benefit of their bargains, in that they purchased the Mega Box based on Topps’ express representation they could pull an ‘Exclusive Blue X-Fractor’ card, when in reality that was never a possibility,” the complaint states.

After the email was sent, Topps changed the packaging of its Mega Boxes to remove any references to the X-Fractor cards and also slashed the price of the set from $84.99 to $49.99, the lawsuit continues. The suit argues that the price drop amounted to an “acknowledgement” by Topps that the false chance to obtain a Blue X-Fractor card increased the Mega Boxes’ market value.

The Topps class action lawsuit looks to represent all consumers in the United States who purchased a Mega Box from Topps or any of its authorized retailers during the applicable statute of limitations period, excluding purchases made on a secondary market.

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