2023-24 Upper Deck Series 2 Hobby Box

2023-24 Upper Deck Series 2 Hobby Box

Expected release date : 2024-02-28

Box of 12 packs

Pack of 12 cards

Case of 12 boxes

2023-24 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey maintains the flagship reconfiguration first seen in Series 1. Smaller Hobby boxes offer 12 cards per pack and 12 packs per box.

Collectors can still count on the same number of Young Guns rookie cards per box and more inserts per box.

As usual, the 2023-24 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey checklist contains 250 basic cards and 50 Young Guns. This list follows the numbering of Series 1 cards.

Average contents of the 2023-24 Upper Deck Series 2 hobby box:

6 Young Guns
4 UD Canvas cards
1 Outburst parallel base card (veteran or young)
1 Base Clear Cut, UD Canvas Black & White or Fluorescence Red Parallel
6 Honor Roll inserts AND/OR UD Portraits
3 Deep Roots inserts
1 Monster Season or Glaring insert
1 Blue Dazzlers insert
10 additional inserts (board director, ecliptic, instinctive AND/OR PC's)
2 Parallel Sparkle inserts (Board Director, Ecliptic, Instinctive AND/OR PC's)
1 Wildcard (includes all rare ratio and number cards)

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Extended parallels are also present here, including Deluxe (#/250) and Outburst Red (#/25).

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2023-24 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey Parallels Breakdown

Base (#251-450)
Outburst - 1:15 packs
Clear Cut - 1:48 packs (Hobby)
Deluxe - #/250
Exclusives - #/100
Outburst Red - #/25
Brilliant - #/10
Outburst Gold - 1/1
Young Guns (#451-500)
Outburst - 1:60 packs
Clear Cut - 1:144 (Hobby)
Deluxe - #/250
Exclusives - #/100
Outburst Red - #/25
Brilliant - #/10
Outburst Gold - 1/1
In addition, the UD Canvas set (#C121-C270) provides cards for 150 veterans and rookies. Only Series 2 has subsets for the Retired/Program of Excellence short runs. The POE highlights rookies who are part of Team Canada.

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Be on the lookout for hobby-exclusive black-and-white parallels from the entire UD Canvas series.

2023-24 Upper Deck Series 2 UD Canvas Rundown

UD Canvas: Base - 1:4 packs; Black & White - 1:48 packs.
UD Canvas Young Guns : Base - 1:24 packs; Black & White - 1:216 packs.
UD Canvas Retired: Base - 1:96 packs; Black & White - 1:864 packs.
UD Canvas Excellence Program: Base - 1:96 packs; Black & White - 1:964 packs.
There are also UD Canvas printing plates (1/1) and UD Canvas Signatures cards.

2023-24 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey Inserts
Inserts are the other big feature of 2023-24 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey, with several new sets to complete.

Among the debuts, Deep Roots (1:4 packs) showcases "founding players", Director of Boards (1:8 packs) is aimed at the more physical players, and PC's (1:4 packs) aims to highlight the best player on each team.

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Other new inserts include Ecliptic (1:6 packs), which shows the best players at mid-range, Glaring (1:67 packs), which focuses on the eyes, and Instinctive (1:4 packs), which shows the goalkeepers in action.

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That leaves Monster Season (1:15 packs), which celebrates Connor McDavid's 22-23 Hart Memorial Trophy year with match-by-match coverage on 82 cards. The parallel Gold card, numbered up to 153, honors the total number of points he scored.

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Return inserts fill out the rest of the 2023-24 Upper Deck Series 2 field hockey cards. This includes the Dazzlers and the Rookie Honor Roll (1:3 packs).

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Those looking for bright colors have a pair of Series 2 exclusives via Fluorescence, featuring top rookies, and Highlighters, covering stars with a notable highlight of the 22-23 season.

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Promising that "no two portraits are the same", UD Portraits (1:7 packs) is sure to grab your attention with the final 30 cards of the series.

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Population Count also returns with seven different levels, limited to 1,000 or less. As with Series 1, these cards are printed on acetate paper.

Finally, the Day With The Cup short runs remain elusive, with a limit of 1:2,000 packs.