My 3 Boxes of Superlative from the Expo!

**S4Kh4r0v** · 11-10-2015, 06:55 PM

I'm surprised that I haven't seen a single Show & Tell thread about Superlative yet! I know the price point scared a lot of us Canadians away, but since Superlative has always been one of my favorites I decided to try a box... Which turned into 2... Then 3. Seriously, Self control? Never heard of that...

Anyway, here are the spoils.

That's it for the jersey cards. The usual ITG/Leaf player selection. I gotta say, I just HATE the 1000 Point Club subset. I also got two in the same 7-card box... Now for the autographs...

Much better. The International Ice Signatures are acetate and look really good. The Immortals set is gorgeous, with the dark background and silver autograph. I'm also a big fan of the base autograph set.

Solid selection here. The Tony Esposito is gold /5, and I'll always be happy about a nice Roy pull... Now for a couple 1/1...

The Hull is a Printing Plate... Both Modano and Trottier are what I'd call a Rainbow Parallel 1/1. The foil looks great in person.

I was disappointed by the little vintage stuff there seems to be in the product... I still could get a couple nice pieces...

The Shore is the gold parallel /3... And the piece on the Worsley is just filthy.

Finally, I got one last card to show... Pulled it in my first box, and ended up being the best card of my breaks :

Very happy with that one. It was a nice surprise to pull a Shield out of a ITG/Leaf product.

So there you have it. Pricy? Yes, although the CAD definitely doesn't work in our favor. I really like that Leaf tried to take what wasn't working in the past ("Prospect" Autographs of marginal players for instance... Ian Schultz anyone?) and changed it around. There's still some work to do design-wise... Pictureless cards of a white piece of memorabilia in a 600$ product shouldn't exist (See Goulet or Dionne above). A Goulet or a Dionne gamer is way too valuable to lose some of it in a card like that. However, from the same set, I really like the Worsley, but this has to do with the visual quality of the memorabilia, not the design of the set.

What do you guys think?

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