2018-19 SPx Hockey Cards

I opened a 2nd box today, knowing I shouldn’t buy it and I almost hurled on the cards as I opened them. My big hit was a 2016-17 card “update” card because it took the player over 2 years to sign it? If I wanted 2016-17 cards I would buy them… come on UD.

Sucks because UD Black is one of the nicer looking cards (IMO) and you have to buy SPx to get them.

3 Just pulled a Chelios Honey Nut auto and it is numbered to 35. They can not even get the checklist right.

Terrible for the price point. I am paying $30 a pack for a base rookie who may never see the NHL … Unsigned? If you are going to raise prices through the roof, please cut out the mediocre players, only stars. I bought a box recently for $120 … I bought all four packs as singles … the box was really $105 … and got the equivalent of $3 back. Sooner or later, people are going to stop coming back. UD turns a deaf ear. Once they have your cash, they do not care about the consumer.

Probably the worst product put out by UD each year is SPx. The 16/17 version had a far greater rookie crop, and a greater variety of hits, and they follow that up by successfully making the subsequent releases hot garbage. The ‘Big’ hits are few and far between, while the majority of the 4 pack boxes offer the value that should be in one.

I like the Black Lustrous insert cards and on card autos, but the Shadow Box cards are not impressive at all. The signatures can barely be seen and a lot of them are cut off by the shadow box frame. This is poor quality control if any control at all. Again, more sticker autos….??? The spx brand used to be nice, I dont like where it is headed as of the last couple of years. Upper Deck, please keep it simple!

This product is not for your average collector. It is a HIGH RISK and HIGH REWARD series of trading cards. I opened quite a bit of this product (over a case), and got some great hits…but having said that, the return on your dollar on SPx is never very flattering!

Box full time of lame jersey cards of lame players nobody has heard of.

Just heads up Trey, the 30th diamond relic is a single diamond of P.K. Subban.

I have been sayn this since panini stop making hockey cards that ud wud do this all ther products have gone down hill you think its bad in hobby its werse in retail they have pushed the price way out of the reach of kids so they have basically pushed kids out of the hobby and value in any of ther high end hobby product is not ther they have so many parallel an sets that tryn to build a base set is very difficult and the cost would be double than the value I have collected cards fer 45 years now an I’m now sad to say that cost vs value has pushed me out as well so thanks ud you are ending a 45 year obsession

It’not that the product is bad. It’s just the fact that Upper deck is boosting the price knowing very well that, now, group breaks are the (inexpensive ?) way to go. This is bad for the collector who would like to buy a box, it’s too expansive and, also for the local hobby shop that is unable to sell the boxes individually. How could a kid, the future of the hobby, afford to buy cards anymore? Sad, sad sad!

I’ll give it a 2.5 because of price and because our only veteran Auto the Wild (I mean Bruins) is Charlie Coyle…. really?

I’m with chip, $25 a card? Then they better be 4 autographs. No thank you.

It’s not Upper Deck’s products that are necessarily bad, but it is their pricing for those products. With exclusive licensing, there is no competition to keep prices reasonable. SPx should be a $50/box product. I mean, it’s a four card box with only one autograph guaranteed!