Product Overview
2025-26 Flair Hockey marks the return of the brand name to the hockey card industry for the first time since 1996-97. Collectors from that era will likely instantly connect with the design of the base set and several inserts, as Upper Deck has given the product a ’90s Flair feel.
Upper Deck will produce the cards on a thicker and glossy stock, just as Fleer/SkyBox did with the Flair sets of the 1990s. UD acquired the rights to Fleer’s intellectual property – including the Flair brand name – during a bankruptcy auction in 2005 but has only produced a handful of Flair Showcase sets since, including a hockey edition in 2006-07.
Hobby boxes contain 10 packs, and collectors should expect to find four numbered parallels and five inserts in each box.
2025-26 Flair Hockey Checklist Overview
The 200-card base set is broken into 150 veterans and 50 rookies (one per pack).
Parallels that cover all 200 cards include:
1993 Variants /93
Blue Ice /49
Spectrum /5
Image variants also play a big role in the base set, with two versions (/349 and /149), as well as Blue Ice (/25) and Spectrum (/1) parallels.
Upper Deck has seeded four autographs per 10-box case.
Autographics, a memorable line from the 1990s, are the easiest autographs to find at 1:30 packs, while numbered autographed versions of these inserts will present challenges:
Flair for the Dramatic
Hot Hues
Rare Breed
Scoring Power
Trophy Room
Inserts are broken into tiers.
Collectors will find a total of four combined inserts from these sets in every hobby box:
Hot Hues (1:8 packs)
Scoring Power (1:10)
Flair for the Dramatic (1:13)
Trophy Room (1:17)
Rare Breed (1:32)
There are Spectrum (/99) parallels for each of those inserts.
Hobby boxes will include one insert from one of the following sets:
Wave of the Future – 1:20
Center Spotlights – 1:40
Flash and Flair (Flash) – 1:40
On the case level, collectors will find two Hot Gloves or Hot Mitts inserts (both 1:125 and inspired by the original Hot Gloves cards from the ’90s), and a combined two cards from among the following concepts:
Artistic Flair Cards – 1:125
Hot Numbers – 1:200
Flash and Flair (Flair) – 1:250
Legion of Boom – 1:334
If a collector finds both the Flash and Flair versions of a player’s Flash and Flair card, they combine to form a showpiece.
Case hits include 3-on-1 Breakaway (1:100), a layered, multi-photo issue.
Another case hit is Touch of Flair (1:100), heat sensitive cards with a color-changing background.
The toughest hits are Hot Mitts – Rookies (1:250), Time on Ice (1:750), and the short-printed Guaranteed Fresh! set.
2025-26 Flair Hockey cards at a glance:
Cards per pack: 4Packs per box: 10Boxes per case: 10Set size: 200 cardsRelease date: TBA
Can’t wait for the new set? Shop for past years’ Flair Hockey boxes on eBay in the meantime:
Boxes
Cards
What to expect in a hobby box:
Numbered Parallels – 4
Inserts – 5
