That MIGHT be a first

 Last Saturday was National Hockey Card Day and free promo cards is a sure way to get me into my local card shop...except for 2024 when I had the wrong date and went the week after. 

While I was there I picked up a hobby box of this year's O-Pee-Chee. At 600 cards and without the artificial scarcity of the Young Guns rookie cards, I think it's my favorite set of each year. With 156 cards per box there's no way I've ever come close to completing a set, but I still enjoy it, a lot. 

This year's set may be the first time ever, in any of the sports or non-sports I collect, that my first card from the set was a checklist. 

I LOVE checklists. Always have. OPC is the only set in any of the three sports I collect that still does a pure checklist, and I don't remember the last set in Non-Sports that got one. The UD flagship also has checklists but they are on the back only, not both sides like a real checklist should be. I am the only collector I know who once listed a Checklist as their #1 most wanted card, happy to say I was able to trade for it on the old and missed Trader Retreat website back in either 2005 or 06. (1996-97 Topps NBA #111)

I don't know for sure, but I don't remember a checklist ever being my first card out of my first pack ever before. I don't even remember a checklist being the first card coming out of a lot or repack either. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, I just don't remember it happening. I did begin keeping track of the first card I get for each set back in 2014 and I know for sure it hasn't happened since then. Before 2014 is not documented but I think I would remember something like that. 

The first player card was from my team which was cool, even though he was traded between the time this card was made and when I got it. Shown here for an example of what the player card looks like. 

Perhaps best news of all, I figured out a way to type my cards in without hurting my wrist much. Basically if I type only with my right hand and hit the caps lock instead of shift key to capitalize things it's not as bad. It's cumbersome and tiring so it's still not fun, but it's better than hurting my wrist literally every card.