2016-17 SPx Hockey Cards

Opened a box. Cost around 150 canadian, value of cards 40-75$. Got one of the top tier shadowboxes with the patch auto, got a 1 of 15 orange parallel patch rookie, and two non-numbered cards. If either of the rookies was the right guy I would’ve had something, so can’t say it’s the worst.

It says on here that the Black Impressions autos are #’d to 5, I pulled a black variation John Gibson and it was #’d to 3?! Anyone know why this is?

UD finally decided to make their products for group breakers only!

This is a pseudo high end product which delivers absolutely no value in return (not because of epack).

It’s just 4 cards per box and you’ll most likely end up with a sticker autograph and a one colored jersey. If you’re in it for the Shadowboxes, just get the ones you likes from the bay (even Matthews and Laine are affordable).
If you expect to hit something for your PC you’ll need a lot of luck, as this product is so watered with all those rookie parallels and subsets and filled up with a few veterans and almost no legends.
I’ve seen also many quality issues with foils and corners.

I’ll stay away from SPx after I’ve seen several case breaks breaks and I wonder for how long group breakers will support such a terrible products.

This years product is a bit underwhelming. The card it’s self is boring with some of them having some shine to them, but not much else. The auto cards are ok at best, the Patch card are only good if it has extra color. The 2015/16 SPX had far better color scheme, and using the 4 little patches/Jersey to create a somewhat of an X type pattern with gold around them. Showing an auto on a stick like area is creative, Not to mention you get only 4 cards in a box vs 40 cards in last years, all you did is down grade the auto/patch cards this year and exchanged the base cards from last year to one technology card. In closing, I would have used the same exact pattern from last year instead of what you guys choose for this year. It shows that upper deck either lacks the consistencies to be creative or is all about the buck and is using a cheaper color scheme, both of which doesn’t look good. Last year I bought at least 5 to 6 boxes of this product, however, will not even entertain one box. I hope this message gets to the appropriate person. Thank you and have a great day.

A lot of the boxes I saw had 2 or 3 base cards which is unacceptable for a 4 card box. Again UD is downsizing to 4 packs and the customer is the big loser.Anyway i’m done with wax gonna buy singles from Ebay from now on.

I like some aspects of the design, but the /99 patch auto shadowboxes have a weird auto design. It looks like the card with the patch is 1 layer that they added 1 layer of acetate to which was signed by the player, then another layer of acetate with the card design. So the auto graph can be obscured by the top design of the card showing goofy looking autos.

P.s. are you going to post the excel version of the checklist?

This is not a high end product.
It is low-mid end.

Should have made the auto shadowbox rookies in the base set.

As always too much fluff like the /399 rookie inserts.

The checklist doesn’t cover all the teams. There so many teams without a rookie or with just only one. The serial numbers are too high for a High-End product. As someone before me underlined, it’s so hard to hit a #/99 card. I don’t understand either when they put redundant subsets. In every High-End product there are 3-4 jersey subsets. They change a bit the design of the card, but it’s still a jersey card: Red Jersey, Extraordinary Materials, Ice Shreders, Extravagant Materials…Just make 3 materials sets. Two with jerseys and one with patches and that’s it. The design is awesome though. The shadow boxes are fine. Not new though, because you can find this in The Cup and Ice. I really loved the White Out and Black Out autos. Superbe design for those. The price? Well, the price is not extremely high if you ask me. This seems a decent collection. I’ve seen much worse. The problem with hockey products is that established collections such as Series 1 and 2, Artifacts, SP Authentic, will attract much more customers who pay more money for cards less difficult to find. Even if it’s a High-End, since it’s a refurbished product and since people complain a lot about it, the prices for singles go very low comparing to the prices payed for sealed boxes. And that’s obvious since people will start to sell rookies for 2-3$ even though the average cost for a card in this set is 25-30$.

Nice to finally see a McDavid card with “C” on his jersey in this set. First ones of the 2016-17 season.

Busted three boxes and not that impressed. Several cards came out with damage to the foil board on the face of the card. More sticker autos. Box two had two Steven Santini cards in two of the packs. Way to go UD, that is beyond bad! Only good think I saw was the Shadowbox cards and those are impressive. Local was charging $94.00 a box and should be about $65.00

This sucks not even 1 Canucks rookie in this and there is Canucks rookies like Stecher, labate, demko, Rodin like really upper deck at least 1 rookie per team

Also, I have to say, why is the numbering so high? hard to get a low numbered card in SPX. Why number cards this high?? I also hate the non numbered tiering that they say “level D” 1 in 1488 packs. Its all hog wash

Cards look much better than past years, however, once again UD is lacking in conceptual ideas and provides little value! Again with the silver NHL logo idea, again with Shadow Box (though these look nice.) Not nearly enough retired content or current star level players.

Pretty soon it’s going back to 36 packs per box, base and rookies and a chance of an auto. For $59 bucks. This high end, repetitive G U junk is dead.

just hate the
Base #249
Base Red Material #149
Base Blue Auto #199
Base Gold Auto Prem Mem #99
just know this
696… total
not worth this pricepoint
look at the base red stars and legends.. not numbered….
they will be dumping those LARGE just to double or triplify the total print run of this…
I repeat what the other guy said….
BOOOOOOOOOOO
( I know that “triplify” is not a word… but when it gets added to the dictionary in 2037… you will be know where you saw it first)

One good thing the breaks will be very short !! Good luck gamblers…

This is way worse than any spx. 4 total cards. Where are all the legends. I’ve bought 1 box of series 1 this year spent a total of 100 bucks. I was a 10000+ a year buyer but when crap like this is put out I’ll save my money thanks. Just when you think it couldn’t get worse they put out this. Bring back panini or even topps. It’s turned in to a breakers and rich old mans hobby. My wallet just got a little thicker.

Come on guys! You can not hate on a product just b/c of one thing. I am not a fan of epacks either, but does that make every product terrible? Of course not. Epacks are for those collectors that do not have access to a hobby shop, so it works for them. Look at a product for what it is and UD is trying to make products better and SPX looks like a huge improvement for years past. Period!

I collect the Boston Bruins… and once again upper deck failed with a product I would have liked collecting. Not a chance I will invest a penny of my money in this product when the chances of me getting a card I want is basically 0… good job upper deck. Might as well put 30 leafs rookies in every products when they already have 3 top rookies to collect. Just some advise if somebody from UD sees this.. we have 30 NHL teams and they all have fans! Think about all of us when you design something. I love your products but you don’t want me to buy them apparently

Thanks again UD, you saved my wallet once again. Btw, Tryamkin played in the latter part of 15-16 season and most of 16-17 and still you don’t make a rookie card in this, the 11th set for this season. Tryamkin has played more NHL games than Fasching, Kapanen, Milano, Bailey, Santini, Dickinson, Connor, Barzal, and Sergachev. Granted some of those are high draft picks but not all.

One card that does interest me is Igor Larionov in a Canucks jersey.

Trey,

Is this still the release date?..I know Upper Deck sometimes changes it due to production problems…

Thanks

Is this real? Lol upper deck ruining the hobby year by year…

UD’s choice to release more and more products on ePack is why I give this and other ePack related products a low rating.

Just like UD1, UD2, OPC Platinum, SPGU and now SPx is going to be released on ePack this year.

You see the trend right? Eventually every product will be released on ePack, it’s just a matter of time. I feel bad for the hobby shops, just not fair at all.

This is looking alot like Upper Deck Black last year – completely ignored by collectors

Black is one of those products hobby shops can’t even sell to their customers at retailer cost…and for the price of a box you can buy up 30+ singles on ebay because nobody wants them (even though it was a pretty cool looking set)

I think it’s a 4 pack box, not 4 card, which a hit in each pack, as there are base cards to include as well

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
another product going high end– one less for me to buy

These hologram cards really interest me, excited to see what they become