2025-26 Tableau Hockey
The newest addition to Upper Deck’s high-end product lineup combines extraordinary imagery, minimalist designs, and a variety of card substrates and substrate combinations to deliver collectors a product that captures the best players on the planet – and the game itself – like you’ve never seen before! It also introduces a new rookie card that features imagery never seen on a hockey trading card, as well as a new and exciting opening experience! 2025-26 Tableau Hockey embodies all three of Upper Deck’s core tenets: Authenticity, Innovation and Quality. This is a “First Edition” you do not want to miss!
Base Set
This highly collectible set consists of 100 Base Set Veterans cards (standouts; at least 2 per team), 50 Base Set Stars cards (the top players in the world; at least 1 per team), and 30 Base Set Dark Ice Rookies cards (see the next slide for more on these incredible new rookie cards!). The Veterans and Stars cards are 40-pts. thick, numbered to 999 and sport the date and location (including venue) of each spectacular image. Additionally, the product name (including surrounding linework), player name, and team name are presented in foil. You won’t be skipping past these cards in search of insert cards!
Each box contains four (4) Base Set Veterans cards and four (4) Base Set Stars and/or Rookie Watch® cards!
Base Set Dark Ice Rookies
Get ready for the next big rookie card, and the next must-have rookie set!! Each 40-pt. card in the Dark Ice Rookies Base Set subset features a rookie-year “dark ice” action image, is numbered to 100, and encased. Additionally, all text is presented in foil. That’s not all! Prepare to chase True Blue Monochrome (#’d to 10) and True Gold Monochrome (#’d 1-of-1) parallels! Each box contains four (4) Base Set Veterans cards and four (4) Base Set Stars and/or Rookie Watch® cards!
In addition to the players showcased here, look for stunning Dark Ice Rookies cards featuring Artyom Levshunov, Ivan Demidov, Beckett Sennecke, Jimmy Snuggerud and several more standout 2025-26 rookies!
Base Set Parallels
The parallel lineup of the first two subsets (Veterans & Stars) is extensive and features both monochrome (image background only) and true monochrome (the entire image) sets. There are three versions of each (Grayscale, Blue and Gold) and all are numbered, ranging from the Monochrome parallel numbered to 199 through the 1-of-1 True Gold Monochrome parallel. Collect five (5) numbered Base Set parallel and/or Shadow Portraits parallel (see Slide 9) cards per box!
Matted Border Inserts
The beautiful Matted Silver Border set features 65 of the top standout and star veterans, and the top 35 rookies, from the Base Set. Each 42-pt. card picks up the player’s Base Set image, which is printed on canvas stock and framed with a die-cut top sheet. All rookie cards feature an “RC” designation, and the text and intricate linework in the design are presented in foil. There are Gold Border(#’d to 50) and Black Border (#’d to 10) variations, as well as numbered True Monochrome parallels of all three – highlighted by the 1-of-1 True Monochrome parallel of the Matted Black Border variation. Collect one (1) Matted Silver Border card and one (1) numbered variation or parallel card per box!In addition to the players showcased here, look for stunning Dark Ice Rookies cards featuring Artyom Levshunov, Ivan Demidov, Beckett Sennecke, Jimmy Snuggerud and several more standout 2025-26 rookies!
Mounted Slide Relics Inserts
Each 60-pt. card in this set numbered to 100 boasts an outstanding action image printed on an acetate sheet that is encased within two non-acetate die-cut sheets to emulate the look of a mounted film slide. All rookie cards feature an “RC” designation, and all text is presented in foil. The checklist consists of the best-of-the-best from the Base Set checklist. Look for one (1) of these cards per box and chase rare Silver (#’d to 50), Gold (#’d to 10) and Type Zero Black (#’d 1-of-1) parallels!
Shadow Portraits Inserts
This 50-card set sports an awesome shaded, chest- or shoulder-up side portrait of star veterans and top rookies. It’s the image and not much else, and that simplicity makes these cards stunning! All text is presented in foil. Get your set started with two (2) per box! When you open your box, look for an encased and hard-signed Metallic Silver Auto parallel (#’d no higher than 99). When you open your packs, look for Metallic Silver (#’d to 25), Metallic Blue (#’d to 10) and Metallic Gold (#’d 1-of-1) parallels!
Aspects, Dark Room, Imprints, & Triple Exposure Inserts
Aspects is an all-horizontal card set boasting vibrant, full-bleed action images of 25 star players; Dark Room features a mixed 25-card checklist (star vets & top rookies) and action images with a red filter applied to mimic the look of a photo being developed in a dark room; Imprints also features a mixed star veteran/top rookie checklist, and each action image is overlayed with Tableau watermarks; each card in the Triple Exposure set boasts an action image with two subsequent images superimposed over the original. Aside from some text on the Dark Room cards, all text on these 40-pt. cards is presented in foil.
Collect two (2) cards per box from these four sets!
Autograph & Dual Autograph Inserts
The sensational 40-pt. Autograph cards sport on-card signatures from top veterans and rookies. Each box contains one (1) of these encased cards (it is 1 of the minimum 2 autograph cards in each box). Keep an eye out for True Blue Monochrome (Varied #’ing) and True Gold Monochrome (#’d 1-of-1) parallels! The much rarer Dual Autograph cards boast incredible pairings! And like its Autograph sibling, there are True Blue Monochrome (#’d to 5) and True Gold Monochrome (#’d 1-of-1) parallels! If you get an encased Dual Autograph card, you will have a massive hit in your hands!
Mounted Slide Relics Inserts
More encased, hard-signed autograph cards! This varied-numbered set features left-edge to right-edge full-bleed action images manipulated to simulate movement, and all text is presented in foil. It also boasts a loaded checklist, including top rookies! Look for Silver Spectrum (Varied #’ing) and Gold Spectrum (#’d 1-of-1) parallels!
Box Hits (On Average):
At least 16 of the 27 cards in each box are numbered, and at least eight (8) are #’d to 199 or less!
5 #’d Base Set Parallel and/or #’d Shadow Portraits Parallel Cards
4 #’d Base Set Veterans Cards
4 #’d Base Set Stars and/or Rookie Watch Cards
2 Encased Hard-Signed Autograph Cards
2 Babineau Collection Cards
2 Shadow Portraits Cards
2 Aspects, Dark Room, Imprints, and/or Triple Exposure Cards
2 Lenticular Variants Cards
1 Encased #’d Plexi Variant, Babineau Collection Variant, Lenticular Monochrome Variant or Base Set Dark Ice Rookies Card
1 #’d Mounted Slide Relics Card
1 #’d Matted Border Card (Gold Border Variation, Black Border Variation, or True Monochrome Parallel)
1 Matted Silver Border Card
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