2012-13 Upper Deck UD Artifacts Hockey Official Review

**patriotsguy** · 03-02-2013, 02:00 PM

A Big THANKS to Upper Deck for this box to review!

Box Breakdown:

Online Pricing $84.99 - $96.99
10 Packs Per Box
4 Cards Per Pack
1 Auto or Auto-Mem card
1 Multi-Player Game-Used card
2 Single-Player Game-Used cards
1 Rookie Redemption card
2 Rookie Cards
1 Parallel #'d to 99 or less
2 Goalie & Hockey Canada Subsets #'d to 999

On average every box will have a card featuring either a patch, strap, stick or tag!

Product Breakdown:

Memorabilia Cards:
- Treasured Swatches, (Jersey-Jersey) Blue - 1:320
- Frozen Artifacts, (Jersey-Jersey) Blue - 1:320
- Treasured Swatches/Frozen Artifacts, (Jersey-Patch) Green Parallel - #'d to 35
- Treasured Swatches/Frozen Artifacts, (Patch-Stick) Red Parallel - #'d to 10
- Regular Card Materials (Jersey-Jersey) - #'d to 125
- Regular Card Materials (Jersey-Patch), Emerald parallel - #'d to 65
- Regular Card Materials (Patch-Patch), Spectrum parallel - #'d to 15
- Regular Card Materials (Patch-Tag), Black parallel - #'d to 5
- Regular Card Materials Horizontal (Jersey-Jersey) - #'d to 35
- Regular Card Materials Horizontal (Jersey-Patch), Emerald parallel - #'d to 21
- Regular Card Materials Horizontal (Patch-Patch), Spectrum parallel - #'d to 9
- Regular Card Materials Horizontal (Patch-Tag), Black parallel - #'d to 2
- Autographed Regular Card Materials (Jersey-Jersey) - #'d to 12
- Autographed Regular Card Materials (Jersey-Patch), Emerald parallel - #'d to 8
- Autographed Regular Card Materials (Patch-Patch), Spectrum parallel - #'d to 3
- Autographed Regular Card Materials (Patch-Tag), Black parallel - #'d to 1
- Goalies/Hockey Canada Material (Jersey-Jersey) - #'d to 125
- Goalies/Hockey Canada Material (Jersey-Patch) - #'d to 65
- Goalies/Hockey Canada Material (Patch-Patch) - #'d to 15
- Goalies/Hockey Canada Material (Patch-Tag) - #'d to 5
- Autographed Goalies/Hockey Canada Material (Jersey-Jersey) - #'d to 12
- Autographed Goalies/Hockey Canada Material (Jersey-Patch) - #'d to 8
- Autographed Goalies/Hockey Canada Material (Patch-Patch) - #'d to 3
- Autographed Goalies/Hockey Canada Material (Patch-Tag) - #'d to 1
- Tundra Tandems (dual jerseys) - 1:17
- Tundra Tandems (dual patches), Green Parallel - #'d to 35
- Tundra Tandems (dual fight strap), Red Parallel - #'d to 10
- Tundra Tandems (dual tag patch), Black Parallel - #'d to 1
- Tundra Trios (triple jerseys) Blue Parallel - 1:42
- Tundra Trios (triple patch) Green Parallel - #'d to 15
- Tundra Trios (triple fight strap) Silver Parallel - #'d to 5
- Tundra Trios (triple tag patches) Gold Parallel - #'d to 1

Rookie Cards:
- Artifacts Rookies - #'d to 999
- Artifacts Rookie Redemption cards - inserted 1:10

Signature Cards:
- Auto-Facts - inserted 1:12

Parallel Cards:
- Regular Cards - Emerald parallel - #'d to 99
- Regular Cards - Spectrum parallel - #'d to 25
- Regular Cards - Black parallel - #'d to 5
- Regular Cards - Black Auto parallel - #'d to 5
- Rookies/Goalies/Hockey Canada Cards - Emerald parallel - #'d to 99
- Rookies/Goalies/Hockey Canada Cards - Spectrum parallel - #'d to 25
- Rookies/Goalies/Hockey Canada Cards - Black parallel - #'d to 5
- Rookies/Goalies/Hockey Canada Cards - Black Auto parallel - #'d to 5

Regular Cards & Subset:
- Rookies/Goalies/Hockey Canada - #'d to 999
- 100 Regular Cards

Base : 24/100

Goalies /999 : Jimmy Howard
Rookies /999 : Travis Turnbull , Maxime Sauve

Emerald Parallel /99 : Jarome Iglina
Rookies Sapphire Parallel /85 : Scott Glennie
Rookies Black Parallel /5 : Michael Hutchinson

Silver Jersey /125 : Claude Giroux
Autofacts : Adam McQuaid

Frozen Artifacts : Linus Omark
Tundra Tandems /36 : Eric Staal / Jordan Staal

Wild Card Scratch off:

Base Set Completion: 24/100 24%
Design : 4/5
Fun : 4/5
Value : 3.5/5
Rebuy : 4/5

Overall Box Rating : 15.5/20 for 77.5%

Pros:
- Card designs look crisp and clean
- Good assortment of guarantees per box
- Potentially good value for the assortment you receive.
- If you buy your boxes early and pull a wild card redemption it will have you in suspense all year waiting!

Cons:
- Not a good way for the set collector to complete a base set via boxes.
- Sticker Autos

NPN:
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Once again, thanks to Upper Deck for these packs for review. If you would like to find out more information about UD Artifacts Hockey or any other upper deck product please got to www.upperdeck.com.

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