2024-25 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey
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2024-25 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box) is a rare +EV rip: an estimated $108 of value inside against a $96 street price (113%).
EV is a full-print-run average built from a Wildcard editorial estimate — it assumes every chase card is still sealed, and most boxes return less than the average. We do not record when this estimate was last checked — it may have been written at release and never revisited. How we rate, and what these numbers assume →
What's in the box
- 6 Young Guns rookies per box (on average)
- Canvas ~1:6 packs
Best EV ratio of the traditional hobby boxes most years — Young Guns carry the product.
The cards worth chasing
How to spot them in hand:
- Young Guns rookies — The Young Guns subset has its own design — a distinct bordered layout that does not match the base cards around it — and the words Young Guns on the front. About six land in a hobby box.
Don't toss it — what gets binned by mistake
Everyone opening this box knows what the headline card is. These are the ones that go in the bulk box instead, and what separates them from a common in your hand.
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🎯 Short print Outburst Retro Young Guns no live comp
Look for: A Young Guns card using an OLD Young Guns design rather than this season’s, with a different finish on it.
A super short print. Borrowing a retro design is exactly what makes it easy to dismiss — it can read as a filler throwback insert rather than the scarcest Young Guns card in the product.
See what these sell for → · Checklist Insider — 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey Checklist, Set Details, Boxes
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🌈 Parallel UD Canvas Black & White parallel no live comp
Look for: A Canvas card printed in greyscale rather than colour. At Young Guns level it falls around 1:144 packs — roughly one every dozen hobby boxes.
It is easy to read a greyscale card as a design choice rather than a parallel, especially mixed into a stack of Canvas cards that already look unusual.
See what these sell for → · Beckett — 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey Checklist, Team Set Lists and Details
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✨ Insert UD Canvas Young Guns no live comp
Look for: A Canvas card (matte, textured stock and its own design, clearly not a base card) that is ALSO a Young Guns rookie. Canvas alone falls about 1:3.5 packs; a Canvas that is a Young Guns falls about 1:24.
Canvas cards arrive four to a box and read as ordinary inserts, so the whole Canvas stack tends to get treated as one thing. Roughly one box in two contains a Canvas Young Guns hiding in that stack.
See what these sell for → · Checklist Insider — 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey Checklist, Set Details, Boxes
Questions
Is a 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box) worth buying?
2024-25 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box) is a rare +EV rip: an estimated $108 of value inside against a $96 street price (113%).
What is the expected value of a 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box)?
Wildcard estimates about $108 of card value inside a 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box), against a typical street price of $96 — roughly 113% of what you pay. These are directional editorial estimates from odds sheets and recent sales, not guarantees.
At what price is a 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box) worth ripping?
A 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey (Hobby Box) breaks even to open at about $113 (rip below that if you're keeping the cards), and is +EV even after selling fees below about $91. Above that, buy the singles you want instead.