2017-18 SPx Hockey Cards

Truly an unfortunate product from Upper Deck. For over $100, I received one player worn jersey card and one low tier rookie auto. The other two cards were essentially base cards. I am usually an advocate for Upper Deck and their hockey products, even when I strike out like in this case. However, I truly feel that this is not the greatest look for the brand nor the best buy for the consumer.

I love the cards, hate the fact that you have to get “Lucky”. With only 4 cards a box and boxes at $90.00+, you better hit something or it is depressing. Participated in 6 or 7 breaks and have seen an example of almost every configuration. Black Obsidian, Lustrous RC, and Shadowbox cards are top notch. Have seen a lot of damaged cards coming from brand new packs/boxes/cases.

After 3 boxes I fairly say that I would never recommend buying this product, to much of a gamble. Its feast or famine when it comes to what you opened. From my 3 boxes the most valuable thing I opened was a shadow box rookie of Nolan, thats like a 20$ card max out of 300$+ CDN spent. The retired stars super scripts have minimal collector interests in a market flooded by upperdeck products. With the tagline “A hit in every pack” you expect a little more

For the dollar value, you’re better off ripping these little 4 card boxes yourself than gambling on a group break….still needs more Vegas!!

The design is breath-taking especially for UD Black, and those Obsidian parallels, oh my God… The Shadow Boxes are very nice and contrary to the last year, they reduced their thickness to 180 pts. I love the idea of incorporating UD Black into this set, and not as its own collection. Now, the problem is that the rookie crop this season is meah…Of course this is not the fault of Upper Deck. Their problem is the diminished checklist with so many missing stars. They chose to go with an active players/old stars combo, but honestly, there are many old stars there that don’t interest many collectors anymore. This is a mid-to-high-end (I believe) and when you get 4 cards per box you should only have the top of the top. I’m sorry, but Pominville and Chychrun (no offense guys!) do not pertain to this category. Also, the 3 auto subsets, Super Scripts, Lasting Marks and Impressions, are very similar. No originality there. All in all, I would have granted 3 stars if the checklist was better.

I was pretty reluctant to buy this product but I’m not the biggest fan of trilogy and sp game used. Went to my LCS and picked up 2 boxes and was pleasantly surprised. Hit a Gretzky extravagant materials jersey group A 1:1,445, jarri kurri impressions auto, Dubois shadow box rookie (which are a huge improvement from last year), Daniel and Henrik double xl duo jersey and fleury Vegas insert. The design this year is 100x better and I like the addition of black. Which I also hit a redemption for a lustrous black rookie auto of forsbaka-karslon. I’d like to give this product a 3.5 but it isn’t an option. I will definitely buy more, I think UD has stepped it up this year so far as I was also a big fan of artifacts. Others may disagree but I’ve been happy opening boxes this hockey season

Was in a few breaks. WAY too many patch cards of veterans that have no resale or collecting value. Have to hope to hit on a rookie.

Awful product. Why is Ryan Johansen and Dave Schultz in every product lately ?

Bought a pack for $25 plus tax and ended up with a Kopitar base card /299. I know it’s a gamble but wow I got robbed. Never again on anything high end UD! Lesson learned!

I was actually pleasantly surprised with my box. I got one Shadow box card, which is all I really wanted. I got two cards from UD black and then an SPx jersey card. SPx Jersey card was nothing to write home about but, for the $80 I spent I walked away happy with my four cards. Also, unlike trilogy I was happy to see semi low numbers on the cards rather than my “big hits” being numbered to 999. I would gladly buy a second a box of the product.

With only a single Predators card on the entire checklist, I guess I’ll be saving a lot of money that would have gone to breaks. Thanks Upper Deck! Man, I miss Panini. UD is an increasingly unfunny joke.