2024-25 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey Hobby Box
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✋ Skip
2024-25 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey (Hobby Box) is a skip at $200 street: only about $95 of expected value inside (48%). Buy the single you actually want instead. It would only rip below $100.
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
Same Young Guns engine as Series 1 with the back half of the rookie class — including whoever debuted mid-season.
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. In Series 2 they occupy card numbers #451–500, so the number alone confirms it.
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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🪧 Base-card tell Young Guns are #451–500 ~$2
Look for: The card number. In Series 2 the Young Guns occupy #451–500 — a number in that range is a Young Guns rookie, whatever else you think you are holding.
Six land in a hobby box at 1:2 packs, which is often enough that they stop feeling like the point of the product. The number range is the fastest way to be certain you have pulled all of them before the pile goes in the box.
See what these sell for → · Beckett — 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey Checklist, Team Set Lists and Details
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✨ Insert Population Count ~$5
Look for: A Population Count insert. Every one is numbered to 1,000 copies or fewer — the serial number is the whole concept of the set.
It sits alongside inserts falling as often as 1:5 packs (Ooh La La, ElectriCITY, Playlist), so it arrives in a stack that trains you to flick past. A four-figure print run does not look scarce until you notice everything around it is unnumbered.
See what these sell for → · Checklist Insider — 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey Checklist, Set Details, Boxes
Questions
Is a 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey (Hobby Box) worth buying?
2024-25 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey (Hobby Box) is a skip at $200 street: only about $95 of expected value inside (48%). Buy the single you actually want instead. It would only rip below $100.
What is the expected value of a 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey (Hobby Box)?
Wildcard estimates about $95 of card value inside a 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey (Hobby Box), against a typical street price of $200 — roughly 48% 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 2 Hockey (Hobby Box) worth ripping?
A 2024-25 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey (Hobby Box) breaks even to open at about $100 (rip below that if you're keeping the cards), and is +EV even after selling fees below about $80. Above that, buy the singles you want instead.