2016-17 Upper Deck Artifacts Hockey Cards – Final Rookie Redemptions List

I agree with Lars And Northside. Not only has the 2016-17 Season started, it has come and gone. The 2017-18 season has started and I am still waiting for my 2016-17 redemption.

UD on the rookie redemption cards… “the set will be built after the start of the season…more like “sometime after the playoffs or whenever we feel like it sucka”. I have since moved my hobby budget to sports memorabilia. Why buy $100’s of $$$$$ on wax boxes, when you can get an an Auston Matthews puck auto for $90 on NHL.com?

Overall I really like artifacts with good value and design….however, why did UD decide to introduce aurum cards at the expense of other hits. I opened four boxes and got three aurum cards and no autos. Come on UD, I felt cheated. Please remove the aurum cards next year and the world we be a better place again and the product will be back to 5 stars

UD on the rookie redemption cards… “the set will be built after the start of the season.” Um it’s February now. It’s been 3 1/2 months now since I redeemed my card. Wow!

Love this set. I had a response from UpperDeck on twitter that they expect the list of rookie redemptions to be released this week sometime. Nov 14-18

Bought 4 box artifacts 2016 for $90 cdn each. Got 9 rookie redemptions, including 1, 4, 5 picks, a rookie jersey patch auto and much more. This felt like a better purchase than 3bx of ud s1@ $99 cdn each.

Hello, just wanted to say this is a great product. I pulled a patch auto emerald of rookie number 3,any idea when the list will be released?

I’d consider this product a huge step in the right direction based off UD’s 15-16. I wasn’t crazy about this product at first but the more videos I watch the more I wanted to try it even tho I’m saving my money for Series 1. I’ve gone to my LCS a couple of times just for loose packs and I’ve pulled some nice relics and a rookie redemption. Went back today for a couple more and pulled a Doug gilmour honoured members signature. Really looking forward to the products UD has coming this year and it seems like they’re even lowering the prices as well. Glad to see they’re listening to us.

Three inner case team breaks in so far with the Rangers and loving the great cards that I’ve pulled so far (including my first one of one)… starting to get some patch duplicates now so maybe I stop after the next one??? Who knows, but I love the product!

This is somewhat a hit or miss product in my opinion. The cards look great, I really like the foil and high end look of the cards, although I don’t like how they only give you 8 packs. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I would way rather get a patch or autograph card rather than their new aurum cards. Don’t get me wrong, the aurum cards look nice, but their not even numbered and it still shouldn’t count as a hit. I really wish they would still gauruntee an autograph card per box. Overall I think it’s a fun product, but in my opinion, 2014-2015 artifacts has a better value than 15-16 and 16-17.

Has anyone heard when they’re going to start release names for the rookie redemption list? Thinking there are some that are obvious, but more interested in the I-V auto/jersey redemptions.

I love arty this year its classy for 80 some bucks a box i think its awesome design this year is hot colors quality forzen artifacts even look awesome best year of arty so far i love it

I like artifacts. I’m debating buying a few boxes and putting together the set through some activity on the forums sites, ebay and COMC.

I’ve joined and spectated a few group breaks to get a sense of what opening a box or case is like. Honestly, it’s actually pretty good. I consider artifacts as a nice step in the right direction after the disaster that was 15-16.

I think the cards look great accross the board. I think the configuration is set-builder friendly (both in reasonable ease to accomplish and reasonable challenge to make it interesting). I think the parallels system is maybe a little bit too diverse for my tastes, but that’s an artifacts thing and always has been.

I think one thing that makes the release cool is the diversity of hits. You really get a sense when opening a box of artifacts that anything can happen (versus a box of series 1 for example where 99.5% of the time you know exactly how many of each card type you’re getting). I like the excitement that brings.

My biggest issue is actually the pack/box/price configuration. Artifacts usually sells between $110-125 CDN at release (and often goes down to about $90 after some time). This isn’t terribly expensive from a wider hobby perspective, but it’s still a significant amount of money for only 8 packs of cards. I think they should bring it back to 10-12 packs and leave the insertion rates exactly as is to make opening a box feel a little more worth the money spent.

for me this is always an average product. you buy artifacts for the rookie redemptions. there aren’t a lot of autos or greats patches to go around. I got two good redemption a silver auto # 1 and the Edmonton oilers.

This is a 4-5 stars for me.

The product looks really nice and I love the design, especially for the rookie cards with the ice impression background. Comparing to the last year or to two years ago, this is really sweet.

There are a lot of parallels to the base set, which is nice since it offers an extra challenge to collectors. The checklist set is quite cool because it’s divided into 4 categories and the stars, the legends and the rookies are serial numbered so it’s a bit harder to get. But all this is not new. It’s an Artifacts trademark.

They innovated the product by introducing the Base Black parallel which may be signed and the Aurum set. A collection can get innovated as much as it can. If they change the product (see Black Diamond) people are unhappy, if they keep a product as it is, people are still unhappy. I don’t see the point in changing completely a collection that proved successful with the customers. People still have to recognize a collection and diversity can be created by introducing a new
collection, as they did last year with Contours and Champs for example. I’m not saying that those collections were necessarily good, I’m just talking about the idea of innovating something. I know I like Artifacts as it is and I also know a lot of customers like it since it sells out every single year.

They simplified the rookie redemption sets, which last year was very complicated and people didn’t understand all the parallels and the sub-parallels. There were a lot of complaints I guess and they realized that. Even now the set is a bit complicated to understand.

As for the value of the cards, I believe they did a fair job. Sure, there are a lot of jerseys because this is a mid-end product, but I pulled a lot of very nice patches, a tag, a lot of nice signatures and a lot of low serial numbered cards. If one buys a box or two, it’s all about luck of course. I’ve watched a lot of case breaks and I believe this is a fair product in terms of value. Of course this is the collecting business and hobby. Once cannot expect to pull 2-3 1-of-1s per case.

The main issue though remains the QC. I find so many damaged cards it’s unbelievable. And of course, many of them are High-End cards.

I think that people get over criticizing now because of the crap UD pulled last year, especially with their High-End Products and the 2-3 fiascos such as Contours, SP Game-Used or Black.

I would give this product a “0”, but lucky for UD, it’s not one of the choices. Annually one of the worst products released. You keep hoping it would improve, but no such luck. This could very well be the last box of Artifacts for me.

UD for me now stands for ultimate disappointment not Upper Deck because every release now is disappointing to say the least.

I understand this is a lower end release, but the old 3 hits for $100-$125 model is wearing thin. So many single color patch cards in this product and never ending rookie redemptions. UD has lost its way and the hobby is losing because of it.

Well I mean do they have retail boxes

Hey Trey what is considered retail in Artifacts

UD saying October 5th release now

I think Artifacts Blaster Boxes should have 1 hit per box I would like that