Topps Allen & Ginter 2025: Skenes-Dunne cards dominate breaks

On December 3, Topps released the 2025 Allen & Ginter product, bringing back their peculiar feel of the 1880s with 350 cards (300 base, 50 shorts) full of rookies, relics, and wild inserts. I’m a big ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ fan, so I’ll be on the hunt for Larry David autos, but the biggest chase of the set? It just might be MLB’s premiere power couple, Livvy Dunne and Paul Skenes? Searches for “Allen and Ginter 2025 Paul Skenes” reach 2.5K per month, and since its launch, Dunne’s influencer pull has received more than 400 posts about her cards. For collectors, Skenes’ Cy hardware and Dunne’s 13M followers perfectly capture rookie scarcity and top influencer crossover.

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Paul Skenes Cards: Rookie Relics Fueling the Fire

Key Inserts and Pull Odds

Regular minis and full-size bases fall roughly 1:3 packs in the 2025 Allen & Ginter base set, with Skenes landing at #128 on the checklist. These are inexpensive commons that still fetch $4-35 raw due to the Cy Young hangover. But the hits are where the real heat is found. A week after they are released, raw Carte de Visite style cards are already selling for between $350 and $850. They are numbered to 50 and have hobby odds of about 1 in 1,500 packs. The 1/1 relics, wood minis, stained-glass minis, and rip-card booklets are the real monsters, and they have already sold for $3,800 to $4,600 in live breaks. The ultra-short Allen & Ginter Framed Mini DNA relics (hair strands from his LSU days, yes, really) are priced between $650 and $900, while the mini cloth framed relics (/10) are The ultra-short Allen & Ginter Framed Mini DNA relics (hair strands from his LSU days) are /3 and have not yet been made public, while mini cloth framed relics (/10) are priced between $650 and $900. Even though hobby boxes only guarantee two hits per 24 packs, finding any numbered Skenes relic is still like winning the lottery. And that’s exactly how the secondary market is handling it.

Value Drivers and Resale

Skenes’ unanimous 2025 NL Cy Young makes every card have immediate staying power. However, scarcity combined with viral demand is the primary motivator. Within hours of the first breaks, 1/1 relics are selling for $3,800 to $4,600, and in the first ten days, the average price of a /50 car has increased by 40% to $650. While videos of pulls on X keep the FOMO cycle going. Pirates collectors and Skenes chasers won’t let anything rated lower than a 9.5 go cheap. Clean 1/1s and low-numbered minis are holding 85–90% of the peak break price on the secondary market, according to early comps. If you hit one, it would be wise to either grade it quickly or flip while the post-release heat is still white-hot.

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Livvy Dunne’s Crossover Appeal: From Gymnast to Card Star

Checklist Highlights

Since Livvy Dunne can be found at #225 in the 2025 Allen & Ginter base set, regular minis and full-size bases can be found in about one of every third pack and are selling for $12–25 raw. The real deal is in her on-card autograph versions: the ultra-short dual auto with her sister Julianna is capped at /5 and has two public comps at $2,100 and $2,450, while the standard autos are unnumbered but tough to get at about 1 out of every 2,000 hobby packs, already selling $800-1,400 raw. She also appears in the extremely rare Rip Card exclusives (1:5,000 odds) and the Sweet Victory insert (LSU championship theme, 1:10 packs). Her Social Media followers are jumping in, driving her valuations and establishing a floor that most celebrity cards in A&G never see.

Hype and Market Buzz

Dunne’s $4.1 million NIL empire, which includes Vuori clothes, Crocs collaborations, and her SI Swimsuit spread, is reflected in her A&G autos, which cost $900 to $1,500 raw and beat out other celebrity comps like DJ Khaled’s $650 by 40% in his releases’ first week. She is the highest-paid female NIL athlete of all time and has 13 million followers on TikTok and Instagram. Since she retired from gymnastics in 2025 and started The Livvy Fund for women’s deals, she has been attracting a lot of fans who aren’t into sports. She trends on X for “Livvy Dunne Allen Ginter cards” since the drop on December 3. A lot of people are talking about her dual /5 with her sister Julz, which is selling for $2,100-2,450. And yes, her boyfriend, Paul Skenes, is publicly looking for her pulls. That’s great content for the couple.

The Skenes-Dunne Synergy: Power Couple Chase Dynamics

When you combine Skenes’ Cy Young pedigree with Dunne’s 13 million follower influencer pull, you get the perfect hobby storm. People who break cases are calling them “Skenes-Dunne cases” because even one hit from either side can pay for the whole box. The real magic happens when both are present in the same rip. There are a lot of “couple rainbow” posts on social media now. Collectors are looking for a Skenes base, a Dunne base, and both autos for themed PCs. Those four-card rainbows are already going for $4,000 to $5,000. Skenes has even said on record that he will keep every Livvy pull he hits, which only makes things worse. In 2025 A&G, ripping for one is good, but ripping for both is a great way to make money while the story is still hot.

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Break Strategies

If you’re looking for Skenes-Dunne in the 2025 Allen & Ginter, go straight to hobby boxes (24 packs for $150–160, with two hits guaranteed). Cases (12 hobby boxes) are the best deal right now, especially with Topps Update hitting today. The math works out because one good Skenes 1/1 or Dunne /5 dual pays for the case and leaves eleven free shots. You pay 40-50% more for convenience when you buy the Pirates/Livvy combo spot from a group break, which sells out in minutes. Personal tip: Buy sealed hobby boxes from stores you trust for less, open them yourself, and keep all the good stuff. Rip cards (1:24 packs) are the dark horse: tear them for a chance at exclusive 1/1s or keep them sealed for a 2-3× premium down the road. In short, buy the hobby, skip the middleman markup, and enjoy the power couple hype while boxes are still reasonable. If you miss that window, you may have to pay 30-40% more for singles.

Broader Set Context: Why A&G 2025 Delivers the Heat

Other Chase Gems

A&G 2025 isn’t just Skenes and Dunne. It’s a quirky 350-card set (300 base + 50 shorts) that puts Shohei Ohtani (#132 base/mini, $25-40 raw) next to Larry David minis (red ink autos /10 at $150-200 comps). Add in Elly De La Cruz fireworks relics or Bryce Harper State Birds inserts (1:10 packs), and you’ve got that classic oddball mess. Al Pacino is the star of the non-sports autos, which feature on-card signatures limited to 25 copies each. Raw copies are already selling for $450 to $650, and the only red-ink /10 copy sold for $1,200 last weekend. Larry David (red-ink /10 minis $120–150), Post Malone (full-size autos /50 around $300-400), Kevin Hart (base autos $150-200), and Travis Kelce (mini autos /25 moving for $250-350) are also big names that bring in crossover buyers and keep the celebrity half of the set just as hot as the Skenes-Dunne side. There are Mitchell & Ness collab boxes ($150/18 packs) that come with exclusive items every three packs: black-bordered minis /50, Brooklyn backs /25, and even relic jersey swatches (1:12 odds, $180-250). You can also redeem Golden Tickets worth up to $5,000 in apparel. Values on eBay rose 12% in the first week, and X pull videos (300-800 likes on average, 400+ since December 3) turned breaks into events. Ohtani chrome /25s flipping at $300 fast. But there are so many 151 mini cars on the market that prices drop 10-15% after the holidays. Get the weird ones now, before they go away.

Why 2025 Allen & Ginter Is the Most Electric Rip of the Year (And the Clock Is Ticking)

Allen & Ginter 2025 is meant to be a release that gives the “something for everyone” promise. It has Cy Young heat from Skenes, influencer clicks from Dunne fans, and pure oddball joy from Pacino, Larry David, Post Malone, and the rest of the celebrity crew. The power couple chase is what is keeping the whole product going right now. Once the holiday excitement dies down and the 151 mini autos flood the market, commons will cool down, but the real rarities (Skenes 1/1s, Dunne duals, Pacino /25s) will keep going up. So rip while the story is still new, grade the keepers, flip the rest quickly, and have fun.

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