2024-25 Upper Deck Artifacts Hockey Hobby Box

Release date: 2024-12-11

Box of 8 packs

Pack of 4 cards

10 boxes per Inner

2 Inners per case

2024-25 Upper Deck Artifacts Hockey kicks off the season with autographs and commemorative cards. Rookie Redemptions also return, delivering somewhat mysterious IOUs for the year's best early-season debuts.


Hobby boxes promise three hits in total, which can be autographs, commemorative cards or other premium inserts.

What to expect from a hobby box (on average):

  • Autographs, memorial cards or premium inserts - 3 in total
  • Rookie cards or acetate cards - 1 total
  • Basic cards or serially numbered parallels - 4 in total

The structure of the basic set doesn't change much from recent years. Including Rookie Redemptions, there are 250 cards in total, but it's the first 200 that are in the packs. These are divided into a handful of thematic subsets that divide the players.

The first 100 cards are normal cards and can be considered common in terms of rarity. The remaining 100 cards are all serially numbered:

  • Stars (#101-135) - /699
  • Guardians (#136-155) - /699
  • Legends (#156-170) - /599
  • Recruits (#171-200) - /999

All 200 cards have similar parallels:

  • Neon Green - 1:4 blaster packs
  • Foilboard - 1:20 hobby packs
  • Gold Foilboard - 1:40 hobby packs
  • Plexi - 1:60 hobby packs
  • Ruby - /499
  • Emerald - /149
  • Copper - /75
  • Orange - /65
  • Yellow - /50
  • Pink - /35
  • Purple - /25
  • Spectrum Jungle - /15
  • Seafoam Green - /10
  • Black - /5
  • Masterful Artifacts - 1/1

In addition, most cards feature basic autographs and various combinations of numbered versions of memorabilia.

Autographs and memorabilia cards

The 2024-25 Upper Deck Artifacts Hockey checklist includes several other autograph and memorabilia subsets in addition to the base.

Auto Facts (1:50 packs) returns for another year with a global approach.

Fresco Signatures (1:150 packs) make their appearance. They use more design elements, inspired by the style of art.

Rare autograph inserts include Signs of Success, Signature Clothes, Top Rookie Signatures (1:1,000 packs), Esteemed Endorsements (/28), Story Scripts (/25) and Admirable Impressions (/24).

NHL Remnants (1:50 packs) is one of the most common souvenir sets. An extra layer is hidden in the background. Assembling the set reveals a puzzle, although the cards are independent of each other.

Other relic themes include Stanley Cup Showdown jerseys (1:200 pack), silk mittens (1:1,200 packs), Tundra teammate duos (/249) and Tundra teammate quads (/49).

It's not just player equipment that's part of the souvenir. Inaugural Access Ticket contains stubs from the teams' first seasons. Modern covers franchises from 1980 to the present day, while Vintage is reserved for teams from 1967 to 1979.

There's also Arena Artifacts (/67), commemorating Philadelphia's Spectrum Arena. Players showcase Flyers greats while relics come from the arena.

Additional inserts

Artifacts has a few other insert sets. Hobby boxes without Rookie Redemption are replaced by an acetate card. These are available in four forms: 2023-24 Clear Cut Artifacts Rookies (1:67 packs), 2023-24 Clear Cut Artifacts Rookie Updates (1:55 packs), Antiquity (1:100 packs) and Antiquity Rookies (1:200 packs).

Aurum returns with a list of 48 cards. Standard cards are in 1:20 packs, with additional subsets having higher odds: Rookies Tier 1 (1:160), Rookies Tier 2 (1:320), Legends (1:640) and Legends All-Stars (1:640).

Rookie Redemptions

Ask most collectors and they'll probably agree that redemptions aren't ideal. Yet Artifacts Hockey has made it one of the hallmarks of the brand. With the league strict that players must appear in an NHL game before receiving their first cards, Artifacts usually arrives too early to get the season's cards. Artifacts usually arrives too early to get the first cards of the season. The cards carried over from the end of the previous season make up the live rookie content. This is how redemptions come into play.

Each team has a mystery redemption, usually reserved for its best first-year player. The rest of the checklist is made up of Wild Cards, which can come from any team. These are, in fact, the best of the leftovers.

The only standard Rookie Redemption parallel cards are Emerald.

They are joined by horizontal variants of SP photos and a variety of Roman numeral autographs, commemorative cards and autographed commemorative cards.

Rookie Redemption names are usually announced mid-season.