Trilogy is back for another year of rookies, autos, and relics from the 2020-21 NHL season. Here is a review of the product and a link to the full checklist!
The Breakdown
Each hobby box of 2020-21 Upper Deck Trilogy hockey contains 6 packs with 4 cards in each pack. What might you expect to find inside those packs? Well, if variety is your thing, then this is the product for you.
Trilogy contains a huge variety of autograph, relic, rookie, and serial numbered content for collectors to chase.
Base Set
Let’s start with the base set. Each pack typically contains two base cards, so depending on your hits you should end up with about 10-12 base cards in a box. With 50 cards in the set, it could take quite a few boxes to complete you set from busting packs. With such a limited checklist, the names included are pretty stacked with some of the leagues biggest names like Matthews, Crosby, McDavid, and Ovechkin to name a few.
This is the Victor Olofsson puck auto
Rookies play a big role in Trilogy, and you can see this by looking at the next 100 cards on the checklist. They are all rookies and and they are all serial numbered! Upper Deck rolls the youngsters out with 4 levels of scarcity. The common rookies are /99, uncommon /499, rare /299, and there is one rare triple rookie /99. In addition, there are 18 more “Extended Set” rookies with the same scarcity levels above which are numbered with the players initials. Alexis Lafreniere made in into the “regular” base set as a rare rookie #149, but Kirill Kaprizov of the Wild landed in the extended set.
Inserts
There are two insert sets in Trilogy, and they both have a rookie focus.
Rookie Renditions is a 30 card set which also comes in a red parallel /799 and a blue parallel /399. The Rookie Super Stage set only includes 20 cards and has the same colored parallels, however at different scarcity levels. The reds are /999 and the blues are /499. You can expect to get about 8 inserts per box including a couple serial numbered parallels.
Hits
Each hobby box also contains an average 2 hits of which at least one is supposed to be an autograph. This is where things start to get crazy, and it’s hard to get your mind around all the different auto and relic options. By my count there is the potential for multiple rookie and superstar hits, and levels of scarcity that range from unnumbered relics to 1/1 autos.
Box Break
Upper Deck provided me a hobby box to review, and here’s what I found.
First of all, it’s a pretty quick rip. If you are more focused on the hits and numbered cards, then this is a great product for you. As I mentioned earlier, each box averages 2 hits, but my box ended up with three! I received a Rookie Premieres relic card of Jason Robertson /499, a Mikey Anderson Rookie Premieres auto /399, and one of the manufactured puck autos of Victor Olofsson!
My other two hits were rookies!
The two rookies in my box were not big names, but were in the second and third tiers of scarcity. Ty Dellandrea is a “level 2” rookie and Ty Smith is in the “rare” extended series tier.
The design of the inserts provides a bit of variety with the Rookie Renditions having a vertical orientation, and the Rookie Super Stage set having a horizontal layout. Despite not getting any big named rookies, I was pretty happy with the inserts.
Wrapping It Up
If you are a set builder, then this probably isn’t the product for you. Upper Deck Series 1 and 2 are more suited for building a broad set of base and inserts. However, if you love serial numbered cards, and a huge variety of potential relic and autos with only a handful of standard base cards, then this is a product that you will love. The cost is reasonable for the possibilities inside, and it provides a good mix of rookies and stars to chase.
Did you open any Trilogy? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
Checklist
Here are photos of the base cards and both insert sets.