16-17 UD Series One: Boxes vs. Tins vs. ...

[Dnose18]

I've gotten hooked on the UD Series 1 Set for this year and am looking into buying some boxes from Canada Card World. They seem to offer several options in packaging of packs and wanted to know from you guys which way I should go. I have read a few other threads that say certain boxes/packs offer more or better chances for insert hits. If anyone could provided some more info on which packages offer the best chances for hits, Id appreciate your input. Odds of hits are provided but if anyone has some first hand experience, id like to know,

Here are the different packages they offer:

-Retail Box (24 Packs of 8 Cards each)
-Blaster Box ( 12 Packs of 5 cards each)
-Fat Pack Box ( 18 Packs of 32 cards each???)
-Tin (12 Packs of 8 Cards each?)

[edler4114]

Depends what you want, as I recall there are some things that are exclusive to certain options. Personally I am a Hobby Box breaker and will never spend my money on tins, fat packs, blasters, or retail. But if I do buy one it would be a retail box purely from the amount of young guns and they usually drop in price or are always on sale after a year or so usually.

[Dnose18]

Depends what you want, as I recall there are some things that are exclusive to certain options. Personally I am a Hobby Box breaker and will never spend my money on tins, fat packs, blasters, or retail. But if I do buy one it would be a retail box purely from the amount of young guns and they usually drop in price or are always on sale after a year or so usually.

After examining the product breakdown more closely, it looks like the fat pack (while having better odds) does not have the same variety of inserts as the retail box. This is not something I was aware of. Although I would be more after the UD Portraits and Young Guns.

[edler4114]

Yeah the way I look at it is take the hobby box for example as a starting point at

$110 a box and just see how much of the other subproducts you could get for the amount then pick whatever you like.

[YoungGuns1988]

Like others have said, in hobby boxes you have a chance at the exlcusives #/100 and high gloss #/10 cards. The hobby stuff costs more but it also seems like you are guaranteed an insert of some sort in every pack, even if it's just a goalie nightmare or super colossal card.

When you purchase a blaster or tin or retail box, a good number of your packs will be all base cards, but you will still get jerseys, young guns, canvas, etc..

Basically the decision is whether or not you are willing to pay more to get more low end inserts and have a chance at the higher end stuff.

[odjickfan]

Personally, I like retail and tins when there is a big clearance sale on them. Cheap way to try my luck on biggest YGs, and some cools hits on the way.

[geschrocks33]

If you are just looking for YG's:

Hobby Box: 6 YG's, chance at Exclusives, HG, etc.
Retail Box: 6 YG's
Tin: 3 YG's
Blaster: 2 YG's
Fat Pack Box: ??? - Not sure on odds on those.

[CasualCollector28]

Dnose- Retail 24 pack boxes are cheaper than hobby boxes while providing the same amount of Young Guns, plus an UD Jersey which falls at 1 per box vs hobby which is like 1:40 or 1:48 packs. Obviously I'm giving price knowledge based upon the USA, but I can't imagine it would vary much up north. Its a good $25-30 price difference between the two. Tins I would personally stay away from unless you collect the oversized Winter Classic insert cards which fall 1 per tin. Blaster boxes are okay for Upper Deck but you really only get 2 young guns per out of them and I would imagine the odds of an Auston Matthews are insane.

[Dnose18]

I ended up going with the retail box (x2). We'll see what comes of it. Thanks for all your input.

[Dergula]

Well I can tell you what I have experienced. I'm a Leaf fan and I'm looking to get the Leaf YGs.

I purchased 3 hobby boxes at the big expo cracked them and got nothing. It made me question purchasing this set. One of the boxes I opened had Literally the same 5 of 6 YGS I opened in the previous box. ( I purchased them all from different vendors)

I then decided to wait for the tins. Last week I split on a case of tins with a work friend ($200) and opened 1 of my 6 tins. First tin 2 packs in BAM Matthews. My buddy also got a Matthews in one his 6 tins.

Personally I'd stick to the tins after doing both in my travels. Tins are cheaper and have a nice Jumbo card.