For the second time in as many days, I was granted a Christmas wish - to receive 2018-19 hockey cards for Christmas; this time around, my Mom bought me a full box of 24 eight-card packs of
Upper Deck 2018-19 Series 1 cards.
The hits were pretty massive this time around as well, including six regular-issue
Young Guns rookie cards, including hyped first-overall pick
Rasmus Dahlin (as well as
Marcus Pettersson,
Samuel Montembault,
Trevor Murphy,
Morgan Klimchuk, and
Luke Johnson):
I also pulled four
Portraits cards, featuring
Ben Bishop,
Jake Guentzel,
Semyon Varlamov and rookie
Lias Andersson:
There were also five
Canvas cards, including
Young Gun Dominik Kahun,
Claude Giroux,
Artem Anisimov,
Mikael Granlund and the checklist card featuring
Taylor Hall and
Nathan MacKinnon (not pictured):
One pretty sub-set that is contantly a staple of
Upper Deck's flagship set is
Shooting Stars, and I managed to land
William Karlsson:
But the card that will soon make its way to my binders is this
Ben Bishop jersey card:
My main gripe with this one is the card selection mixed with the odds; the main set consists of just 200 cards. This box had 190 pieces of cardboard (173 regular-issue cards, as the jersey card took the space of three cards in a pack) and my tin from yesterday had 96 (89 regular-issue cards if you take away the inserts).
Out of those 89, 75 were doubled in this box - or 85%. I still have 17 cards left to collect to complete the main set (notwithstanding the 50
Young Guns and other assorted sub-sets). This at a cost of over $100. Somehow, it doesn't feel
right.
Still, it's a quality set.
I'll stick with the 8/10 grade I tacked onto it yesterday, it's just that it's accompanied by a slight feeling of disappointment.
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