2023-24 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey Cards Checklist and Odds

Thanks for all your great work! There is a mistake in the Excel checklist and therefore on the site checklist as well. Star Surge Insert #SS-9 is not Dustin Wolf, but rather Jaxson Stauber.
Thanks again,
-Jamie (ebay/sportscardsforfun)

Hey Treyyyyy!!
I have bought a few of these boxes and didn’t do too bad.
My question is…..I bought a box on E-Pack and ended up pulling a Forte Green Die-Cut Linus Ullmark card. These cards are not listed on your above checklist.
Do you know anything about these ??

This is, if not the one, one of the worst hockey card products ever produced.

Motownmalki /
Zoogin – comc

I’m a set builder, a base set builder, to be more specific. I purchased two 2023-24 Series 1 Hobby Boxes which is a total of 288 cards. The base set is made up of 200 cards. Of the 288, there are 72 inserts/parallels between both boxes. This leaves 216 cards to try to complete the 200 card base set. I’m not looking for a miracle but something even remotely close would have been nice. After all the sorting was done I have 117 cards of the 200 needed for the base set (young guns not included) This leaves 83 cards still needed. So total number of cards is 288 minus what I have for the set (117) plus the inserts/parallels (72) equals 189 cards, this gives me 99 duplicates. That is pretty crappy to me. The card designs are attractive. There are lots of inserts/parallels but no definite auto or relic per hobby box and I didn’t get either out of two boxes. Only one numbered card out of 250. This is only Series One. I’d need another box to even attempt to complete the base set which would put me over $350 never mind trying to complete Series Two and Extended Series. Set builders beware!

Well bought a few boxes and not impressed. No real value here. Same ol’ inserts that in a flagship product should be better – alot better. Quality control is better but still chipping everywhere. Actually a boring product for the absurd prices being charged now. I respect if your a set collector you will love it. For my money no way.
Series 2 on the way at a starting point of $300.00 a box preorder. Bedard or not just absurd. Nope.

Just finished the rip of my case. I must say, I very much like the new configuration. Also a very fun break, ended up with complete Young Guns set (which had me worried, because others did not get a complete set), also pulled great YG canvas, and I got the Bedard SP. Over, very happy with this product. Did not personally have quality issues.

Ok… always nice cards to collect. But 60 bucks for a tin???? This is robbery. Bedard has talent but in the long run he is not Crosby, Ovi or McDavid. I would stay away at this price point and buy singles. I think hype is wearing off since so many investors have been burned by the next best can’t miss prospect. Remember the word prospect!!!!

Fanimation
number 16 is Connor McDavid… can be viewed on ebay

Deons
1 Auston Matthews
7 David Pastrnak
10 Nathan Mackinnon

all are on ebay now

Deons D-6 is Jack Hughes

Four stars because it was fun break. While some of the insert sets are completely stupid looking overall base Upper Deck is always a fun product to break for the price. Young Guns rookie class is interesting. Can’t wait to see what 2023-24 UD two brings to the hobby!

Apparently snow spray autos are back. Saw a Sonny Milano pulled.

Base Swagnificent Set Checklist

138 Sidney Crosby

there is the usual unannounced Easter Egg called Fanimation
this year ..they are BIG HEAD cards…
Cale Makar is SP-FM-1… and so on…
there’s a bunch on ebay to be seen

Leave it to the mediocre minds at UD to come up with a totally inane name for a hockey card like
DEONS
there is absolute ZERO, ZIP, ZILCH .. NO hockey reference whatsoever for such a stupid word used in a hockey product…
its absolutely embarrassing … and not for the first time that UD produces a card set that is laughably bad and embarasses UD as the NHLs exclusive hockey card producer.
There needs to be some process or protocol that we as hockey card collectors can once and for all tell UD….. what in the bleep are you doing… stop embarassing yourself with this kind of crap…
and stop your mindlessness in thinking that any.. even one card collector would ever want the stupid kind of things that your STUPID product development dummies keep coming up with..

The thesaurus is not your friend.. because you have no clue how to use it….
continuing to try to find new words that you havent used before and put them into cards…
just to boost production and add more valueless cards to steal our money.
There needs to be an urgent meeting at UD this coming Monday morning at 10am sharp where you fire all your dumb product folks and whoever replaces them needs to have some consideration for real hockey card customers.. its totally lacking right now and lacking very badly.
Pathetic is too complimentary for this garbage… the standards need to be raised significantly.

Jason Robertson DEON D-9
Nikita Kucherov DEON D-14

Confirmed, Deons go to at least 15 cause the Deon of Sidney Crosby was just pulled (D-15). Tried posting a screenshot of it but I think it caught a spam filter.

DEONS
D-1 Connor McDavid
is on Ebay

This DEONS thing is weird no? I cant seem to find any references on the box, web, etc.

D11 – Conor McDavid

Just opened 1 of 3 boxes I bought and got ZERO young guns!!!! I had 6 packs that had only 2 inserts which explains my missing YGs. I will be calling UD first thing in morning to see what crap excuse and BS they will feed me. Not opening other 2 boxes until I get answers either. Anyone else have an issue like this?

here is a link to a DEONS
D-13 Elias Pettersson https://ebay.us/fUNJfx

i pulled an insert card…. not listed on your checklist….

its called DEONS
card D-12 Tage Thompson

in case you get any other reports of such a card…. adding my feedback

what the heck is DEONS..lol
UD strikes again…geez

I gave in and spent way too much on 1 box. It was like buying a scratch ticket for 20 dollars and winning $2.00.
Way too many inserts that you get overwhelmed. I did not get anything to make me jump around. Lesson learned. As a Senators fan I did hit three inserts with Senator players. This was the only positive.

BEDARD’s 1st BLACKHAWKS SP CARD!!

UD put a redemption card for 1st overall pick in MVP…. (for years now)
if they have any brains ..there should be a simllar type of unannounced redemption card for some bedard card… 1st overall pick .. not a young guns card in this
if they do that.. then this product will hold value.. if not….. watch it drop…….

lets all see what the announced easter egg could be
we shall see..

I think Chris B hit it on the head, should have ditched 22/23 Extended Series. This crop of rookies have no star power other than Devon Levi. Sure as heck doesn’t justify the $150 CAD price tag, really should be a $100/hobby box at most.

So far strangely, have only seen random breaks instead of pick-your-team (doesn’t mean this won’t happen). Maybe breakers realize no matter how they price out the teams, teams will be overpriced when in a couple of months collectors can pick Young Guns for sub-$5 on COMC.

I love Young Guns but the pricing has continued to have the word GREED written all over it. Collectors can only speak up by not purchasing.

What more proof does the collecting public need to conclude that Upper Deck is a horse s##t card company. I have long-suspected that they are swirling the drain, only do hockey cards and they can’t manage to get a single product out in a timely fashion. Now this crap! I hope all the folks that pre-ordered (and overpaid) for Series 1, tell Upper Deck to shove Series 2 up their fat, stinky a****. Fanatics doing hockey–not so far-fetched.

The design of the Young Guns is fairly nice, decent crop, worth the chase. And the base set is as expected, typical each year. I do like the Young Guns variants, adds another level of collectability. I am a collector first, and really look forward to the S1 Flag Ship release each year, signals the start of hockey season. I will get my usual 1+ case. Just hope the quality issues get further sorted.

Continues to be a staple for someone like me: I collect my team; I’m not going for value or strike-it-rich big hits. I think the ROI on this specific product as an investor has been in decline for quite some time. So I’ll continue to buy it in quantities far lower than SP Authentic and in spite of the massive amounts of penny inserts and ongoing quality control issues.

But I have a question: what happened to the French parallels? Are they not doing that any longer? Or maybe they’re making them rarer/unannounced? It seems they doubled the print run of Clear Cut (maybe to eliminate French, or maybe to trade scarcity a bit)?

And just a comment: The 2023-24 pages are hard to find because the main menu hasn’t been updated. Sure, it’s easy to coerce the URL manually, but should be an easy fix for less technical users.

UD should have skipped ’22-23 Extended Series Young Guns/Draft Picks altogether, and then waited a bit longer to release ’23-24 S1, in order to include a better amount of rookies such Connor Bedard in S1. Design is also tacky for many inserts, with no great chase cards, and over-priced. I don’t mind the 3 inserts per pack/36 per hobby box if the inserts were better quality. I suspect UD’s S1 will sell poorly and so I will wait very patiently for the prices to drop as distributors adjust their prices down to clear out stock.

Heard that the updated release date for Upper Deck Series 1 will be Oct 18th with a price increase
and 50 less cards per box

UD is positioning less product for more money as a “refresh” and “compelling collector experience”. Amazing.

Young Guns design is nice, and do like that they are producing some rare variants.

PLEASE fire the graphic designers. The design of these cards is dismal. Very sad to see that Bedard’s rookie design is so uninspired …

You all realize that your LCS gets these boxes for like $50 apiece if that, and raises them to $150 per box, right? I had a friend who had a distributor account with southern hobbies and got Panini product. 2020 National Treasures boxes were $100 a piece and resold for $800 at the time.
That is how we as consumers are robbed.

Sadly I know this won’t get posted.
Ever since 2012 Upper Dek having exclusive rights to hockey cards, it has been a controlled monopoly.
First upon getting sole contract they forced distributors to only sell to brick and mortar stores, even if you had have a vendors permit distributors won’t sell to you cause Upper deck enforced,even back in the 1990s we could go into a distributor but what ever hobby or retail boxes cases we wanted and save with even paying sales tax, reason though is cause UD won’t have control of what you be selling boxes at thus you be under cutting the approved shops from there huge profits and all have the same price, just check what presell price they have they will laa have same minus $5 difference.
If a shop is non approved they can’t even lust boxes cases for sales on there web site, if they do and UD finds out then they inform distributors not to sell to that shops.
Sadly this is the truth and no wonder boxes case breaks are now being controlled who can sell in Ebay. Sadly the hobby is now into a control mod by card companies and hobby shops that are now shilling prices.

Just confirmed today there will be no 2023 draft picks in 2023/24 Upper Deck Series 1
They could not even find enough draft picks (which were crap) in extended Where are
they going to find 50 rookies to put in Series 1

Going from 24 packs per box / 8 cards per pack to 12 packs per box / 12 cards per pack and charging $20 more per box for 48 less cards is not going to make us traditional collectors very happy and I bet many will abandon this product moving forward. Such a shame.

I just read on BREAKAWAY SPORTS CARDS that the 2023 draft picks and Connor Bedard won’t be in Series One…November 1st

Incredible product

But will Bedard be in it?? Nobody wants to answer and/or UD won’t disclose. It’d be nice to know during presales!

The Bedard race begins. Upper Deck could easily print this like 1990 Donruss and sell every box for huge profits. There is no better time for this company to kick every one of us collectors in the junk. THIS IS A BASIC ENTRY LEVEL SET NOT THE CUP.

Less cards more money…. No Thank You! This is a standard release. Shame on Upper Deck. At this point, I now hope they loose their license. It’s getting to the point this hobby is not at all affordable for the average collector. The “Investors” can keep it. Without interest from average collectors your investments will turn to lead. Keep listening to fools like Geoffy Wilson and the end will come quicker.

That McDavid UD Portraits – I really hope that is a joke or the designers at UD have given up.

A saw another report that the MSRP on packs was going from $4.99 to $8.99, so the per card price is going up, but less of the cards are base. I’m sure this is all to raise prices while at the same time massively increasing the print run due to next year’s rookie crop (Bedard, Fantilli, etc). Also, no word on how many boxes will be in each case. I wouldn’t be surprised if that configuration is also changed.

Over/Under $50k on the Bedard YG 1/1?

Less cards per box. Probably cost more and still same awful quality.
We will see…

I wonder if the print run is higher with these changes; I hope the odds aren’t increased for everything. UD standard is always a good product!