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.
Retail Box
A full box of the individual packs sold loose at big-box stores, often 24 of them. Same base set as the hobby version, with fewer or no guaranteed hits.
gravity feed
A retail counter display filled with loose packs, sold sealed as one unit. It is pack volume, not a box with its own odds.
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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A solid first box. Cheap to crack, fun to rip, and you'll still land the year's rookies without dropping serious cash.
Q2What's the main rookie chase in Series 2?
Young Guns are the core rookies, with 50 cards in the set (#451-500). They're short prints at 1:4 packs, so you'll pull about six per hobby box. They're the bread-and-butter hit for most collectors.
Q3Are there autographs in this product?
No. Series 2 is old-school Upper Deck Hockey focused on base cards, rookies, and inserts rather than autographs or memorabilia. It's more about the design and the chase than modern hits.
Q4What's the toughest insert to pull?
Day with the Cup is the marquee short-print at 1:1,000 packs, featuring Tampa Bay Lightning players. It's a legendary chase card in Upper Deck Hockey. Clear Cut Young Guns are also brutal at 1:288 packs.
Q5How many UD Canvas cards should I expect per box?
You'll average four UD Canvas cards per hobby box. The set expanded to 150 cards with four subsets, so you might pull veterans (1:8 packs), Young Guns (1:48 packs), retired stars (1:192 packs), or Team Canada Program of Excellence cards (1:192 packs).
Q6What are the base set parallels?
French versions are about one per box. Clear Cut is 1:96 for vets and 1:288 for Young Guns. Exclusives are /100 and High Gloss are /10. All add variety to the base card hunt.
Q7What's included in a typical hobby box?
You'll get six Young Guns, one premium card (Clear Cut, Fluorescence, or Rookie Material), one Dazzlers Blue, two Honor Roll, four O-Pee-Chee Update, two OPC Retro, two OPC parallels, four UD Canvas, two UD Portraits, and one French parallel.
Q8Is there a memorabilia option?
Yes. Rookie Materials hit about 1:72 packs (roughly one per three boxes) and include jersey cards. Patch parallels are /25 and Rookie Threads Retro Patch versions are /15, so they're scarce.
Q9What's the difference between Series 1 and Series 2?
Series 2 picks up where Series 1 left off with cards #251-500 in the base set. It adds another batch of Young Guns and expands insert sets like UD Canvas (150 new cards) and Dazzlers (50 new cards), plus new inserts like Fluorescence and NHL Passages.
Q10When did 2021-22 Upper Deck Series 2 come out?
It dropped June 15, 2022.
Q11What's in a 2021-22 Upper Deck Series 2 hobby box?
24 packs per hobby box, 8 cards per pack
Q12What's the cheapest 2021-22 Upper Deck Series 2 hobby box right now?
Cheapest we're tracking is $62.95 USD. Prices update daily, and the trend arrow on this page shows which way it's been moving.
Q13Where can I buy 2021-22 Upper Deck Series 2?
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 Series 2 Hockey
Series 2 continues the 2021-22 Upper Deck Hockey base set with another 250 cards and a fresh batch of Young Guns rookies, plus expanded insert sets like UD Canvas and Dazzlers.
On average per hobby box
6Young Guns rookie cards
1Clear Cut, Fluorescence, Rookie Material or other premium card
1Dazzlers Blue
2Honor Roll cards
4O-Pee-Chee Update cards
2O-Pee-Chee Update Retro cards
2O-Pee-Chee Update parallels
4UD Canvas cards
2UD Portraits cards
1French parallel
Inserts to watch
Young Guns1 in 4 packs; 6 per boxThe core rookie chase, with 50 rookies in the set and six per hobby box on average.
Day with the Cup1 in 1,000 packsOne of Upper Deck Hockey's toughest inserts, spotlighting Tampa Bay Lightning players.
UD CanvasMajor 150-card expansion with four subsets including UD Canvas Young Guns (1:48 packs) and retired stars (1:192 packs).
Clear Cut1 in 96 packs (vets), 1 in 288 packs (Young Guns)Hobby-exclusive parallel with numbered versions (/100 Exclusives, /10 High Gloss).
Dazzlers1 in 144 packs (Pink); 1 in 6 boxes50-card insert set with Blue versions landing about one per box and scarce Pink parallels.
Rookie Materials1 in 72 packs; 1 in 3 boxesMemorabilia cards hitting roughly one per three boxes, with Patch parallels (/25) and Retro Patch versions (/15).
Fast facts
Released
June 15, 2022
Box config
24 packs per hobby box, 8 cards per pack
Set size
750 cards
Top rookie
Cole Caufield
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24 PACKSPER BOX
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