2015-16 UD Black Hockey Cards

User Reviews

1. 

   any idea what the prices are going to be like?

2. 

   I am seeing $250-270 per box.

3. 

   …I’m really having trouble seeing the value at the price point…even in a case (4 box) group case break…you would literally need to knock it out of the park to see your money well spent. 5 of the stores I usually shop with are selling this at $300CAD per box…that my friends is INSANE. I’d rather spend that on Ultimate, Ice or SPA in a heartbeat. This smells like Black Diamond…marketed as “high end”..but come on…its not. Drives me crazy when they have these bogus Upper Deck logo patches..

4. 

   Which exactly are the manufactured patches besides Pride of a Nation Manufactured Flag? I agree with JG. NO High End should have 3 things: manufactured patches, auto on stickers, and the white cloth presented as patch.

5. 

   Is the Black Tie Affair Redemption a manufactured patch?

6. 

   Stay far, far, far away of this product. This is SP Game Used and Black Diamond all over again. A garbage presented as High End product. If I could give it -5 stars, I would. A lot of jerseys, manufactured patches and absolutely worthless and ugly cards. No name, afte no name, after no name. In two cases, I pulled 4 rookies in double! Really UD!! This is the way you mix the cards! Again, stay far, far away! Unless you pull McDavid, this collection is a total garbage.

7. 

   bad
   just plain bad..

   sure all the stores still have a lot of early year product which they have marked down..because UD over-priced and wayyyyyy under delivered on most product this year… this is another of those….
   expect it to drop in price really soon…
   so hold off
   the remaining products this year wont be that much better for value..
   just gotta hope to get that hit from all that cup you are saving your pennies for

8. 

   Good to see UD is doing their best to keep the hockey card bubble of the 2010s going with this ridiculous overproduction. I think they’re releasing new sets with a bajillion redundant parallels on a weekly basis now.

9. 

   Ouch. Way too many products this year. Brutal for the player collectors.

10. 

    not worth the money

11. 

    Horrendous…UD should be ashamed that they touted this as a high-end product…

12. 

    Something sticks and its Upper Deck and the junk that want to screw us with. Hands down, worst product of the year release date wise. Bought 3 masters and the best his is a Carey Price Auto /25… Are you kidding me? Not a single domi, larkin, hanifin, ehlers, hellybuck, panarin or murray in 3 CASES – MASTER CASES… Nope, just the drew shores, jordan neals, brock mcginns over & over… Did I mention this product doesnt have A SINGLE Jonas Donskoi card – one of the top rookies of the year… He doesnt have a single card. On top of my master cases I bought I also watched a whole days worth of breakers. so roughly 12 hours of people breaking cases – 2, yes 2!!! McDavid /199s. 0 Larkin rookies pulled. There was 1 Larkin signature. Saw 1 Domi. 0 Murrays, 3 Ehlers, 1 Panarin… How is this a SP product, and McDavid has the most hits of ANY player and in 12 hours of watching people break cases, only 2 come up?? Is Upper Deck witholding cards til wave 2 like Panini did in the Odell Beckham Jr National Treasures release last year? I think so. And thats complete BS… Oh yea, PS In all that watching only 2 of the Rookie swatch autos were an actual patch – both were Jordan Weals… People Stay FAR FAR FAR FAR away from this product. Dont waste your money like I did… Oh wait, I just remembered, another big hit I saw was a Crosby Stick /5 – non auto. The /5s arent autod but the /10 & /15 of the same set ARE autod… What??! Save your money.

13. 

    Lets not forget the return of 5 year old NHLPA patches that have zero to do with this years players??????? I fricking pulled a Zach Kassian showcase patch. Are you kidding me? Brrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuttttttaaaaaalllll!

14. 

    Here is my review of UD Black. Pluses: On card autos,Beautiful design, Patches are very nice multi colors on 90% of them if not all. Minuses: Rookie jerseys are event-used in a photo shoot which I find unacceptable,Rookie showcase filler with manufactured patches also unacceptable and the quality control although better is deficient cause I’ve seen more than a few cards with soft corners and smudges on them. Finally a lower price point would be nice (250$) or less. Overall a nice product but overpriced.

15. 

    Bought 2 packs and both bigger hits damaged. Poor quality control. Virtannen rookie had ink from another card on the back and scratches all over the front. Got a gold Larkin 2/25 but it was also damaged big dent on the front of the card. At 330 Canadian a pack you would think the cards would be better quality then they are. My opinion is UD has the market cornered so who cares about the customer.

16. 

    Train Wreck! Cards look nice, but UD usually does make a nice card. Problem is zero value unless you pull McDavid. Damaged cards and zero creativity outside of the branding, which is 10 years old now.

17. 

    While some of the cards are indeed pretty sweet (cup coronations, black ice sig, ah…..some others…) this is borderline worse than contours. Seriously.
    Don’t believe me?
    Buy 2 boxes.
    $700+ CAD
    Unless you get mcjesus or a low legend (gretzky/similar), it’s shameful.
    Rookie trademarks, rookie coverage, rookie trademarks auto, rookie coverage auto, lustrous rookies, lustrous ink rookies, and on and on and on….. for the love of god man, enough with the dilution – and UD, Shane Prince was traded like a million years ago, can you please stop with the non updated crap – this is high end stuff right………..sure.
    And you’ll have atleast 1 card which is dinged up big style (lustrous ink cards – not the lustrous rookies – seem to be the worst)
    This product should be a $1500 master case TOPS. And that’s generous in my humble opinion.
    Anyway, 15-16 is dead now (unless of course you pull mcdavid) and I wouldn’t waste a dime on this or ultimate (which everyone’s salivating for) when it comes out shortly. UD have hosed the products down so much at this price point (high end product my butt….) it’s absolutely foolish.

    Wait for 16-17 artifacts and then do it all over again next year. But next time, don’t bother with the “high end” summer releases……..you’ll only get burned.

18. 

    This is a garbage product. It a lost lost to even think about this product!

19. 

    I do not understand why people are buying boxes of this. You won’t even make half your $ back if you pull an auto of a big name rookie, sometimes McDavid won’t even make you money

20. 

    @John…I don’t know why people are spending $300 Can or whatever ridiculous price it is for 1 pack of 6 cards. But they are. One guy I know spent close to $300 US on a box and he said he didn’t even get $100 in value from it. It must be the thrill of hitting the Mcdavid or rare card because it’s insanity to spend this kind of coin and get very little in return. But until collectors say enough is enough, UD will continue to turn out tons of product with high price points and very little value. Many people are outraged at UD but they continue to spend their $. Why would UD change then?

21. 

    To pile on here, I saved up for this product as the preview pictures looked great! As a Blackhawks fan I bought in to 7 master case breaks looking for the Breadman. 7 master case breaks later, 1 Panarin. Okay, he is supposed to be a rare find, but the other Blackhawks cards I got don’t even add up to $100 in value. I got $250 in value for a price of just over $1000. UD has all backed in to a corner filling their pockets. My biggest fear is that people will start backing away from breaks, therefore hurting LCS’s and weakening the hobby. People want to spend their money, but they also want a good return for their money. DO BETTER UPPER DECK.

22. 

    @geauxhawks… This is a perfect example of why I am starting to regret getting back into the hobby again. UD had a great opportunity to bring back collectors and new ones to the hobby who left after the mass-produced product that UD and other companies gave us in the wax era. Now you have to be wealthy to collect and you have rich men or stores doing box breaks buying cases and cases of product to get the big hits driving up the prices and forcing the average collector to suffer. People are trying to get the Mcdavids or big hits but to get that you’d have to spend a small fortune. I really liked. UD series 1 last year ~ the YG the game jersey cards the photography…but I still have to pay $100 or more for one box. Forget product like SP game used, Black. Premier and the Cup. $250-300 for 5 cards?!? Are people insane?