Cards: 2009-10 Upper Deck Black Diamond
Happy New Year’s Eve! The new Upper Deck Black Diamond hockey hits stores today, delivering the third John Tavares rookie card of the 2009-10 hockey-card season. Tavares is card #222 in the Rookie Gems Quads subset of the base set. What does that mean, well, it means that collectors will find a Tavares rookie card in every 504th pack. (There are 42 Quads that fall on average one in every 12th pack).
PRODUCT BREAKDOWN:
Regular Set
90 Regular Cards – Single Diamond
45 Regular Cards – Double Diamonds – inserted 1:4
22 Regular Cards – Triple Diamonds – all Triples Diamonds combine to fall 1:4
23 Rookie Gems rookie cards – Triple Diamonds – all Triple Diamonds combine to fall 1:4
21 Regular Cards – Quadruple Diamonds – all Quad Diamonds combine to fall 1:12
21 Rookie Gems rookie cards – Quadruple Diamonds – all Quad Diamonds combine to fall 1:12
Black Diamond’s Great Parallel Cards and Inserts
Regular Cards (single, double, triple and quad diamond) – Ruby Parallel – #’d to 100
Regular Cards (single, double, triple and quad diamond) – Gold Parallel – #’d to 10
Regular Cards (single, double, triple and quad diamond) – Platinum Parallel – #’d to 1
Rookie Gems (triple and quad diamond) – Ruby Parallel – #’d to 100
Rookie Gems (triple and quad diamond) – Gold Parallel – #’d to 10
Rookie Gems (triple and quad diamond) – Platinum Parallel – #’d to 1
Cool Black Diamond Inserts
Hardware Heroes (die-cut PETG card) – #’d to 100
Horizontal variations – inserted 1:48
Horizontal variations, perimeter die-cuts – inserted 1:12
Signature & Memorabilia Cards
Black Diamond Quad Jerseys – inserted 1:13
Black Diamond Quad Jerseys, Ruby // – #’d to 50
Black Diamond Quad Jerseys, Gold // – #’d to 25
Black Diamond Quad Jerseys, Onyx // – #’d to 10
Black Diamond Quad Jerseys, Onyx Auto // – #’d to 5
Gemography signature cards – inserted 1:48
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