[nittany13]

Yes... the Kmart blasters of 2001 Quantum base veterans were a different set. It stated on the package.

There are 296 cards in this set and the last 96 are RCs, so if what you are stating is true there are 200 parallel retail base cards from this major set that are currently omitted from the checklists. That is a big discovery. I have since looked through my own duplicates in the hope of finding one without all that sparkly stuff on it, but no such luck so far.