Chrome Original Series 1

In August 2013, the brand brought Original Series 1 into the metallic era with Chrome Original Series 1, revisiting the roster of miniature grotesques on stiff, shiny stock. The core numbering mirrored the original lineup of forty-one pairings, presenting familiar figures like ADAM Bomb and Blasted BILLY, Nasty NICK and Evil EDDIE, along with enduring subjects like Dead TED, Fryin' BRIAN, and Tee-Vee STEVIE. The all-chromium presentation covered the entire 82-card base lineup.

Reaching buyers required nine distinct wrapper designs spread across a wide assortment of retail and hobby configurations. The hobby channel relied on boxes containing twenty-four four-card packs, with twelve boxes to a case, which left an opened box yielding about 0.85 common base sets under ideal collation. Retail shelves saw a wider variety of footprints, including twenty-four-pack and sixteen-pack boxes of eight-card packs, a pink bonus box holding eight packs, and four different gravity feed boxes: dedicated versions for Target, WalMart, and specialty stores, along with a mini gravity feed box. Retail shoppers could also pick up retail value packs offering three packs and four refractors, or dedicated Target bonus boxes that held four refractors of their own.

The release featured several refractor parallels divided across hobby and retail offerings. Hobby packs featured basic Refractors falling at one in every three packs, but retail collectors found Chrome Atomic Refractors at that exact same one-in-three rate, with Chrome X-Refractors reserved exclusively at one per value box. Dedicated pack-rippers hunting deeper into cases pursued Prism Refractors at one in 50 packs and Gold Refractors at one in 200 packs, culminating in the ultra-scarce Superfractor parallels that appeared at long odds of one in 9,967 packs.

A selection of inserts and rare chase cards rounded out the release. Eighty-two Pencil Art Concept Sketches by John Pound appeared alongside fifty-five different Artist Autograph Base Parallel Cards inserted at one in 498 packs. Packs also offered twenty Returning Characters "C" Cards at one in 1,152 packs, a Base Printing Plate Card at one in 2,490 packs, a Concept Sketch Printing Plate Card at one in 3,340 packs, and a Redemption Card at one in 21,900 packs. There were no variations included in the release.