2015-16 Upper Deck Trilogy Hockey Cards

This is a total rip off and we (including me) still believe that, maybe, we will get something worth the money we are paying. When you think we are paying an average of $15 a pack to get 4 cards that does not even come close to $5 in Beckett values. Unless you are the lucky winner of a rare hit, Upper Deck is laughing their butt all the way to the bank on most product, including this one. They will kill the business … again. AVOID if you can.

I finally heard back from Upper Deck about my issues on the 9 boxes of Trilogy that I wasted my money on.
They would of replaced any cards with crooked stickers on it but they required the receipt and UPC Code from the boxes. I of course threw the boxes our but did have the receipt.
I sent them the receipt and asked them to call the store that I purchased the boxes from to varify I am a great customer.
To be honest I would of been happy with some sort of replacement for the Overtime packages that I did not get when purchasing. They said no to that too and now do not reply at this point in time.
REMEMBER TO KEEP UPC CODES AN RECEIPTS AND MAKE SURE UPPER DECK HEARS ABOUT ALL ISSUES.
If they ignore you go on their Facebook page, on this site or even write to the NHL so hopefully we can get a plan B on purchasing hockey cards when this contract is up.

Most of the cards do not fit in magnet holders. I do not understand why Upper Deck would cut the cards longer. Does anyone know why? So many of the stickers are not straight as well. I paid 1500 plus tax in Canadian dollars and feel ripped off. I do like the base cards and Tryptychs. Scored a nice Gretzky stick card.
The Canadian dollar sucks these days and McDavid made everything go up in price.

This product is stacked with hits that are not even as nice as the base card. They are numbered base cards in my opinion and trash. The jersey cards are small swatches and pretty ugly. The change in product this year is a huge dissipointment from years previous.

I give 2.5 stars to this product. I opened 2 hobby cases.

Checklist � I like the fact that 3 players represent every team. The checklist is well balanced and they inserted 10 old stars, so they did a nice job.

Design � Very nice design, especially the base cards. I like the circle pattern. I enjoy the Signature Pucks with darker colours. It looks serious and professional. I also love the greenish shades on the rookie cards.

Quality
1. Come on UD! The signatures on puck look horrible. I can’t remember which collection had the exact same problem with the colour of the ink used to sign the cards, but this is not the first time they make a mistake about the exact the same issue, which normally indicates they don’t take in consideration the feedback they receive from customers. I don’t know if they do it, but they should pay people just to read the forums, such as this one, and take note of the problems customers complain about.

2. And also, the same problem in every collection: QUALITY CONTROL. I end up in every collection with a High-End card with chipped/damaged corners or edges. People who buy High-End products care a lot about these things and UD should make sure there are no mistakes on patches such as McDavid. I pulled one #/35 and it had some marks here and there. It’s not a catastrophe, but it’s not professional either. And I’m not even talking about the numerous damaged base cards.

Innovations
1. I really like the idea to have Patch and Jersey parallels for the base set.
2. Also, I really love the Triptychs, which brings in a fun element for collectors : a puzzle. I believe there should be more sets such as this one where people chase after different pieces to complete the entire card. And I’m talking about real patches and jerseys, not the bad joke with Manufactured Patches from Black Diamond. Sure the idea was nice, to collect 6 cards to built the logo, but its application was really lame.

Notable Pulls � 6 McDavid (2 autos, 2 rookies, 1 patch, 1 jersey), 3 Domi (1 auto, 1 rookie, 1 jersey), 6 Larkin (2 jersey, 2 auto, 2 rookies), 3 Panarin (1 auto, 2 rookies), 4 Eichel (2 rookies, 2 jerseys), 1 Gallagher puck signatures # /3. As you can see I didn’t have any major hit, but I can’t complain either.

Problems:
1.There are too many serial numbered parallels. “This engenders some problems: it mixes up the collectors, you lose track of what rookie has what inserts and parallels, and it dilutes the value of the cards. I understand though this product is called Trilogy and it’s normal to have 3s everywhere and I see why there are Common, Uncommon, and Rare rookie cards, but again, there are so many of them. Besides the Common Base set is numbered out of 999. It’ll be Artifacts all over again when people didn’t make a difference about the parallel cards and all sold for the same price (I’m not talking about the low numbered signatures of course)”.
2. There are way too many rookie autos. They lose a tremendous value because of this, and their quality has to suffer. McDavid’s auto is very ugly and you can see that after making players sign around 1 billion stickers for one collection, they get tired of it and they simply scribble some signs on the card instead of a real signature.
3. Way too many redemptions. I don’t even remember when’s the last time I had so many redemption in a 2 cases break.
4. Stickers, stickers, stickers! Ok, I get it, this is a Mid-to-High End product, not a High End, but still. I would like to see some day UD guaranteeing hard signatures for ALL their High-End products and for some of the hits in their Mid-to-High End products (e.g. for all the cards numbered less than 50).
5. Why put parallels that are numbered higher then the insert?! The Rare Rookie Autos are numbered on 49, but the blue parallel can be numbered on 97.

Fun Facts � I told my wife before she started to open the cases, that if she finds a signed Eichel card it could worth 15.000$. Poor her. I let her look for the card for the first 4-5 boxes, than I told her the truth :)

this is a real joke… I have 2 Larkin out of /999 and they’re not even the same size! One of them doesn’t fit in a magnet case!

I scored a Jack Eichel Rookie Premieres Level 3 Patch numbered to 35 in an auction on eBay that closed in the middle of the day for $36 and a second Level 3 without patch numbered to 49 for $50.
I find the jersey and patch cards remind me of the Black Diamond cards with jersey/patches.
So far the Artifacts cards are my favorites. The highest print run for the rookie redemptions parallels only ran to 399, and there were limited autographs amongst the different parallel levels. I feel like some of the newer sets offer far too many autographs to make them special.

I think this is a great product. I have purchased a total of 5 boxes. Each box had what was promised by upper deck. I didn’t really have any quality issues except for a few memobilia cards had a corner slightly damaged due to the design. I recieved two puck autos and luckly didn’t have a problem with the signatures. It would be nice to see the auto’s hard signed rather than a sticker, it’s more appealing. I paid $100 per box and I got my moneys worth. I do agree that there are too many parallels. If people are paying $130-$170, upperdeck should have inserted a premium auto in each box, especially with only 32 cards per box.

Interesting product but UD totally missed the boat on the autographed pucks. The logos are to big and the ink used makes it almost impossible to see or read the autograph. In my break some of the stickers were not put on the cards straight. Quality control was asleep in this product. I write this and I even hit a couple of nice cards but still only rate it two stars because of the issues with the autographs.

Sorry, forgot to mention I picked up that Eichel for $19.99 buy it now….it has to be worth atleast double that I would think!

After watching many breaks of this product I come to the conclusion that this stuff is boring to open and not worth the money. Many of the jersey cards had chips similar to the infamous Panini chips and all of the autos were on stickers which seems to be the norm now unfortunately. For a high end product autos should be on card ALL THE TIME.

Forgot to mention that the signature pucks autos ESPECIALLY the ones /16 had smudges which is unacceptable!! QC at Upper Deck is just as bad as Panini.

I grabbed an Eichel jersey rc /599 of this product off of ebay. I feel like I got a STEAL seeing that he doesn’t sign in upper deck and I saw some people asking 89.99 for the same card!

Cracked a mini case and it was awful and worse than last years. Parallels went way too fart this year and how they got to numbers of cards is real dumb. Not worth $170 Canadian a box.

I have seen just a couple boxes opened today. The signature Pucks look terrible due to the choice of pen. How these got out of QC I have no idea. The content does not deliver value compared to price, which is always the issue with Trilogy. This year because of Mcdavid, they have taken most other content out of products and this one will suffer huge. Just no value here. This product and Contours are going to be very difficult to watch.

did not get the box break breakdown as shown on this page
missed on the premium autograph
– 1 Premium Autograph (Signature Pucks, Ice Scripts, Tryptich or Rare Rookie Autos)

Instead got 2 rookie autos of 499 – none rare

so if you are expecting to pay a premium price and get a premium auto..
since there are many more common autos as compared to premium ones…
you will not get a premium auto in every box break –

misinforming the masses…..

Not actually providing a review of the product because it would be unfair as a guy who doesn’t collect the set, but I will say the set is disappointing for group breaks because sooooo much value is hoarded into a few teams that there’s a ton of teams that have almost no chance of netting you anything of interest at all….

There’s going to be alot of team selects here where the top teams sell right away and the breakers have to beg people to take the medium teams…people take the smaller teams for the fun of it but even at $15 alot of them are like lighting your money on fire

I understand group breaking is a tiny part of the hobby but for me personally it’s the only aspect of it that overlaps with Trilogy specifically

Actually 33NHL, you’re very wrong about your last statement, especially for the 2015-16 products. The best time to buy most of the products(if not all of them), is on pre-order. Down the road they will either cost more, be sold out, or the cards will have less resale value if you’re trying to recoup some of your costs.

lol @ NHL 33…GOOD LUCK FINDING ANY 15-16 PRODUCT CHEAPER DOWN THE ROAD

As long as people buy products whether its low or high in price the manufacture/s will be more then happy to keep producing more and more every year as long as there making profits and PROFITS is the magic word. If Upper Deck for example was not making money from all the hockey products it has printed manufactured over the years it would not be here today.

The real good days for collecting was in the 1970-1980s bought the packs to get gum and they were only 15 cents a pack, hell of inflation in todays world with new packs/boxes going for over $100.00 for 5 cards.

You are better off buying cards that you want to collect instead of buying boxes, in the long run you loose big money buying wax boxes.

And when any product comes out where it be sport cards – cell phones – I pads -TV s- lap tops-computers- what do most they run to buy it as if you wont be able to find later. that’s a big No No cause you can always find stuff 6 months later for cheaper price.

The base set is equilibrated with 3 players for each team and 10 legends, although I guessed I’d say 95% of them in advance. Jamie Benn is missing and there’s Liut again (but to be fair, he’s in Blues uniform, not Whalers anymore). I understand though this is about personal taste and whatever checklist they make, some people will like it, some other won’t. What I don’t really like is the immense number of rookie parallels. This engenders some problems: it mixes up the collectors, you lose track of what rookie has what inserts and parallels, and it dilutes the value of the cards. I understand though this product is called Trilogy and it’s normal to have 3’s everywhere and I see why there are Common, Uncommon, and Rare rookie cards, but again, there are so many of them. Besides the Common Base set is numbered out of 999. It’ll be Artifacts all over again when people didn’t make a difference about the parallel cards and all sold for the same price (I’m not talking about the low numbered signatures of course).

I know this is a mercantile vision of it but I would like to address once and for all the critics who think Hockey cards and sports cards in general are exclusively a hobby. No, this is not true. Hockey cards are ALSO a business. Sure, a hobby, but a BUSINESS too. If not, UD will simply give them away. Let us not be naive and see them only for collecting purposes. What I’m trying to say is that some people will criticize UD business wise (they’re unhappy with the pulls, they dilute the value of a card by making a tone of inserts, etc.), some other will criticize UD hobby wise (unhappy with the checklist, the design of the cards, the errors in printing etc.). To be honest I always see on forums this continuous criticizing from a side to another. I believe both kind of cards users may coexist and if a seller criticizes a product, it doesn’t mean a collecter can’t love it or vice versa.

That being said, I will not leave an evaluation yet, since I haven’t seen the actual product. I’ll break some cases and will see then.

Happy collecting and selling :)