While there’s lots happening at Canada’s biggest card show, the 2024 Upper Deck Fall Expo wrapper redemption is likely to be a highlight for many. The annual promo set not only features some of the NHL’s top talents but the checklist also includes a handful of stars from the upstart PWHL. The
2023-24 Topps Chrome Sapphire UEFA Women’s Champions League offers a more upscale and limited look at the main Chrome set. The checklist is significantly smaller as far as inserts and parallels go, but print runs are also more limited giving collectors a stronger change at key signatures and other
2023-24 Panini Impeccable Premier League Soccer opts for a premium configuration that’s heavy on autographs. However, there’s also memorabilia and one of the brand’s hallmarks — cards with small bars of precious metals in them. Hobby boxes have eight cards. Of those, half are autographs with
2024 Panini National Treasures Collegiate Football is the season’s high mark when it comes to NCAA products from the card maker. As usual, it’s almost exclusively hits including lots of autographs from members of the season’s rookie class. But we’re in the NIL era so collegiate products like
2024 Topps Stadium Club Baseball has its bells and whistles, but what it really boils down to is pretty much one thing — great photography. Beyond that is a large roster of autographs and inserts, including a massive expansion of the brand’s Chrome cards. Sticking with recent years, the base set
2023-24 Panini Obsidian Soccer sends cards to the dark side — except when there are floods of color. The high-end chromium set brings its trademark black foundation and continues to combine it with hits in bulk. Four of the seven cards in every hobby box are either an autograph or memorabilia card
Looking for Future Watch Autographs? Specifically Connor Bedard? 2023-24 SP Authentic Hockey is where you’re going to find them. The set keeps largely with the line’s long-standing format with a checklist that has emphasizes on-card autographs including the cornerstone Rookie Cards. In all, hobb
2024 Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball is probably exactly what you’d expect if you’ve been following the brand for any amount of time. It’s another edition of “anything goes” with baseball players past and present mixing on the checklist with everything from celebrities, other athletes, yummy
2024-25 Topps Deco UEFA Club Competitions marks one of the early releases for the new season. Highlighted by art deco-inspired designs, the product is a mix of current and past players. Hobby boxes deliver one autograph (with a small possibility of a second) plus three parallels. More than 150 cards
2024 Panini Select WNBA might be the first time for the brand in women’s basketball but the configuration is similar to other modern releases under the name. Chromium structure, colorful parallels, a multi-tiered base set and a solid flow of autographs and memorabilia cards are all in the mix here
2024 Leaf Metal Baseball continues with the line’s evolution. For many years, it was an all-autograph release under the “Metal Draft” banner that focused exclusively (or 99 percent) on prospects. Here, autographs are still king but base cards have also been added to the mix. Current and retire
Flash takes on double meaning in 2023-24 Topps Stadium Club Chrome UEFA Champions League Soccer. On the surface, there’s the chromium stock that is a foundation of nearly all of Topps’ modern UEFA releases. But there’s also the theme that makes it “Stadium Club” — photography. Action and
