2023/24 Upper Deck Extended Series Hobby Box

2023-24 Upper Deck Extended Series Hockey accomplishes a couple of things. The big one is that it wraps up the season’s flagship hockey card line with a third and final installment. Yes, that means another helping of Young Guns. A significant portion of the checklist also reaches back into Upper Deck’s past to create some new inserts.

2023-24 Upper Deck Extended Series Hockey Checklist Overview

Like Series 1 and Series 2, Extended Series delivers a 250-card base set. This brings the total set across the three releases up to #750.

Here, the first 200 cards are veterans. The final 50 are a mix of Young Guns Rookie Cards and 1st Round Rookies. Both of these subsets are short prints, combining to land every other hobby pack or six per box.

Parallels include:

• Outburst – 1:30 packs, Young Guns – 1:100 packs, 1st Round Rookies – 1:150 packs
• Clear Cut – 1:96 packs, Young Guns – 1:240 packs, 1st Round Rookies – 1:360 packs (hobby only)
• Deluxe – /250
• Exclusives – /100
• Outburst Red – /25
• High Gloss – /10
• Outburst Gold – 1/1

Inserts

It’s not just the main set that’s growing. Some of the inserts are a continuation as well.

UD Canvas is back with more stellar photography. Of course, the canvas card stock is there, too. Subsets here include Young Guns, Legends, and All-Stars. Additional parallels versions come in Black and White, and Printing Plates. All UD Canvas cards combine to land 1:3 hobby packs.

The always colorful Dazzlers expand as well with one Blue version per hobby box. Pink and retail-only Green are among the other colors available.

Population Count, which are inspired by graded cards, grows. The “pop” numbered featured matches with the card’s print run, although they are not serial numbered. Levels include Population Count 1000, 500, 100, 50, 25, 10 and 1.

Other inserts include Silver Skates (1:5 packs), Hockey Heroes (1:15 packs), HoloGrFX Rookies (1:60 packs) and HoloGrFX Future Fame (1:360 packs).

Seeing Red (1:3 packs) makes its debut. Silver Spectrum (1:36 packs) and blaster-only Gold Foil (1:4 packs) join them.

Going Retro

Virtually all Upper Deck sets now reach into the company’s past in some form. 2023-24 Extended Series Hockey does on several fronts. 2008-09 Upper Deck Retro has both veterans (1:10 packs) and Young Guns (1:7 packs). Parallels come in Exclusives (/100), High Gloss (/10) and Printing Plates (1/1).

It’s not just old flagship sets that get the insert treatment here.

1997-98 SPx Holoview Retros (1:6 packs) draw from the original hologram-driven release. Red (/250) and Gold (/50) versions are also available.

1998-99 UD3 (1:4 packs) stick with the decade. Numbered parallels include Blue (/1000), Gold (/200) and Red (/50).

Special Forces delves into MVP’s past. These are on the tougher side, falling 1:60 packs or approximately every fifth hobby box.

Moving up a decade are 2003-04 Beehive cards (1:7 packs, Rookies 1:10). Red (/250), Gold (/50) and Printing Plates (1/1) can be found for these.

Finally, there’s 2007-08 Black Diamond (1:29 packs). Like the original, standard parallels add to the star count with 2 Star (1:43 packs), 3 Star (1:50 packs), and 4 Star (1:200 packs). Ruby versions numbered to 100 also exist as do Emerald Autographs for select players (/10, Rookies /25).

2023-24 Upper Deck Extended Series Hockey at a glance:

Cards per pack: Hobby – 12
Packs per box: Hobby – 12
Boxes per case: Hobby – 12
Set size: 250 cards
Release date: June 26, 2024