520 seems overwhelming when you’re sitting at 0, which is where I was about 5 years ago. Then I got a really good deal on a dark cap Matty and I was hooked. One of the best looking cards in the hobby in my opinion.
Like others have said, I would recommend starting with 1 or 2 and seeing how you feel about it then. Once I held that Matty I knew I was all in.
If you decide to move forward from there, there are so many ways to go. The way I did was to get one pose of each HOFer first. I figured that would take care of a few of the more expensive cards up front and I always wanted 1 card of every HOFer anyway, so two birds etc. if you go this route and then decide it’s not for you you’ll have no trouble selling or trading t206 HOFers.
From there, I still needed something to segment the set into chunks. If I didn’t do that, it would still seem like too heavy a lift. So my approach is to focus on 1 or 2 teams at a time. Granted, this will take longer, and you end up paying more for certain cards than you would otherwise and missing out on deals for cards from teams you’re not presently focused on, but for me personally the trade off is worth it, having a checklist in front of me of 15-25 cards rather than 400. It makes it seem much more doable. I try to do about a team a year and that pace works for me.
No wrong way to do it though, and the years-long journey is a big part of the joy.
Good luck!
(I currently have Boston AL, Boston NL, Cincinnati, Washington, Philadelphia AL, Philadelphia NL, and Pittsburgh complete, and I’m very close on New York NL and Cleveland)
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