The full-size box sold through card shops rather than big-box stores. It has the most packs and the best odds, and most modern hobby boxes guarantee at least one autograph or memorabilia card. Pack and card counts vary by product line. Older listings sometimes call this a wax box.
Blaster Box
The small retail box sold at stores like Walmart and Target, usually the cheapest full box on the shelf. Autographs are not guaranteed, but many blasters carry exclusive parallels you cannot pull from a hobby box.
Cases
The factory-sealed carton a product ships in, holding a set number of boxes. A full case is the whole carton; an inner case is a smaller sealed block from inside it. Case buyers get untouched pack sequencing and a lower price per box. Some rare cards are seeded about once per case, which is what collectors mean by a case hit.
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For collectors who want hits without Cup money. Figure on an auto or relic every box or two, with rookies you'll actually recognize.
Q2What's the big change in 2021-22 OPC Platinum compared to prior years?
The box configuration flipped from 20 packs of 4 cards (80 total) to 12 packs of 12 cards (144 total). The base set also expanded from 200 to 300 cards, with 100 Marquee Rookies going deeper into the season's first-year crop. You're getting way more cards per box overall.
Q3Who are the key rookies to chase?
Cole Caufield is the marquee rookie, but the set goes 100 deep with names like Quinton Byfield, Trevor Zegras, Spencer Knight, and Jeremy Swayman. Every Marquee Rookie has parallels from common Rainbow pulls down to rare serial-numbered tiers and 1/1 Golden Treasures.
Q4Is there an autograph in every box?
Yes. Every hobby box has one autograph, and the majority are Rookie Autos with on-card ink. They come in multiple parallels, from Rainbow (1:120) down to Cosmic (1:576) and serial-numbered versions like Red Prism /50 and Emerald Surge /10.
Q5What are the base card parallels like?
There are 12 parallels total at hobby. The common ones are Rainbow (1:3 for vets, 1:6 for rookies), Sunset (1:6 vets, 1:12 rookies), and Matte Pink (1:9 vets, 1:18 rookies). Then you've got serial-numbered tiers: Hot Magma /499, Violet Pixels /299, Red Prism /199, Arctic Freeze /99, Cosmic /65, Seismic Gold /50, Orange Checkers /25, Emerald Surge /10, and 1/1 Golden Treasures.
Q6What inserts should I expect besides the autograph?
Three insert sets combine to average one per box: Photo Driven (1:3 packs), Platinum Die-Cuts (1:4 packs), and Sweet Selections (1:4 packs, rookie-focused). All three have Golden Treasures 1/1 versions and some carry autographs. You'll also pull about 6 Retro cards per box with their own parallels.
Q7How do the Retro cards work?
Retro Variations change up the design and average one per other pack. They come in Rainbow (1:12), Blue Rainbow /149, Purple Houndstooth /15, and 1/1 Golden Treasures. You'll get roughly 6 Retro base cards and 1 Retro Rainbow parallel per box.
Q8What's the difference between this and standard 2021-22 OPC?
Platinum is a chrome makeover of the standard release. The design, parallels, and inserts are all different. Platinum has the expanded 300-card base, the guaranteed autograph per box, and the premium parallels with photo-based backdrops. Standard OPC is a different product entirely.
Q9When did 2021-22 Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Platinum come out?
It dropped June 21, 2023.
Q10What's in a 2021-22 Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Platinum hobby box?
12 packs per box, 12 cards per pack (144 cards total per box)
Q11What's the cheapest 2021-22 Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Platinum hobby box right now?
Cheapest we're tracking is $99.95 USD. Prices update daily, and the trend arrow on this page shows which way it's been moving.
Q12Where can I buy 2021-22 Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Platinum?
We track listings across the major North American card shops and surface the best price up top. The Buy on eBay links go through the eBay Partner Network.
What to Expect
2021-22 Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Platinum Hockey
A chrome makeover of standard OPC with an expanded 300-card base set featuring 100 Marquee Rookies including Cole Caufield. Every hobby box guarantees one autograph, mostly on-card rookie ink.
Autographs
1Autograph per box on average
On average per hobby box
12Photo Driven, Platinum Die-Cuts, or Sweet Selections inserts combined
6Retro cards
1Retro Rainbow parallel
11Rainbow, Sunset, or Matte Pink parallels combined
5Additional serial-numbered parallels
Inserts to watch
Rookie Autos1 in 192 packs (veterans), 1 in 384 packs (rookies)The main pull in every box; mostly on-card ink with multiple parallel tiers from Rainbow down to 1/1 Golden Treasures.
Sweet Selections1 in 4 packs; 3 per boxRookie-centric insert set that combines with Photo Driven and Platinum Die-Cuts to average one per box.
Photo Driven1 in 3 packs; 4 per boxPhoto-based insert set with Golden Treasures 1/1 versions and some autograph versions.
Platinum Die-Cuts1 in 4 packs; 3 per boxDie-cut insert set with Golden Treasures 1/1 parallels and occasional autographs.
Retro Variations1 in 6 packs; 2 per boxDesign-change parallels averaging one per other pack; includes Rainbow, Blue Rainbow /149, Purple Houndstooth /15, and 1/1 Golden Treasures.
Base Parallels (Rainbow, Sunset, Matte Pink)1 in 3 to 1 in 18 packs depending on tier and card typeCommon pulls with photo-based backdrops; 11 combined per box on average.
Fast facts
Released
June 21, 2023
Box config
12 packs per box, 12 cards per pack (144 cards total per box)
Set size
300 cards
Top rookie
Cole Caufield
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