2024-25 Upper Deck Black Diamond is a premium hockey release that also includes the Exquisite Collection line of cards. As the first premium release of the season fans can look forward to higher end cards of top name players. The set makes good use of gem pieces, autographs, relics, manufactured relics, base, and inserts. The […]
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2024 Upper Deck Black Diamond AEW is perhaps the biggest set that AEW has had thus far. The set uses hockey’s Black Diamond product to bring offerings that feature gem pieces, as well as large relics and big name autos. The set also includes the Exquisite Collection line of cards, which is generally spread through […]
2024 Upper Deck Portfolio Golf is a new release that seems to act as a catch-all release, bringing a huge number of brands into one product. This type of release will be familiar to fans of Panini Chronicles, which also bring multiple brands under one name. The set has cards from sets that include Allure, […]
2023-24 Upper Deck Black Diamond Hockey is a premium style release that also includes the Exquisite Collection set. Hobby boxes offer 6 cards each, including 1 auto or Diamond Relic card, as well as 1 Exquisite Collection card, 3 memo or inserts, and 1 base or parallel. The set draws from a checklist that includes […]
2022-23 Upper Deck Black Diamond is a premium style hockey release that offers just 6 cards per hobby box. The set is well known for its use of manufactured gem relics, as well as manufactured patch relics. The release also includes a variety of signed cards, most of which are usually sticker autos. Key sets […]
2018-19 UD Black Diamond is a premium hockey release from Upper Deck that offers 5 Black Diamond cards, and a bonus pack containing 1 Exquisite Collection card. The main draw for this release continues to be the Relic Rookie Gems cards, which offer manufactured diamonds that are embedded in the card. Black Diamond also offers […]
2017-18 Black Diamond is an Upper Deck product that is best known for its inclusion of Rookie Gems Diamond cards, which include lab grown diamonds, as well as the jumbo manufactured patch cards, which can be collected to form team logos. Also included is the first round of Upper Deck Exquisite Collection cards for […]
1999-00 UD Black Diamond is a great example of what the brand used to be, a clean and simple product focused on base and inserts. While the potential for a big hit was there, the release catered perfectly to set collectors and smaller budget fans. While the tiered base system had not yet emerged, the […]
2003-04 Black Diamond is an Upper Deck product that is very straight forward in its design and layout. As with all Black Diamond releases, the base and rookies are divided up into tiers of rarity denoted by the number of diamonds on the card. Each of these tiers also has a variety of parallels to […]