What: 2015-16 Upper Deck Portfolio hockey cards
Arrives: Aug. 10
Box basics: Two autographs or memorabilia cards per 20-pack box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The short-printed subsets are a star here, which build upon a 200-card base set with a variety of looks and approaches while presenting the stars you'd expect and plenty of Rookie Cards from this year's talented class to build a 364-card collection.

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The recent arrival of 2015-16 Fleer Showcase hockey cards from Upper Deck included a mix of styles from the rich history of 1990s Fleer cards applied to the ice.

Like past years and other sports, the Precious Metal Gems cards have captured the attention of buyers on eBay with the card of Connor McDavid above fetching a pretty penny, despite not having one dollop of autograph ink or a jersey swatch anywhere on the card.

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What: 2015-16 Upper Deck Premier hockey cards
Arrives: July 27
Box basics: Five hits guaranteed per seven-card box (five boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: The biggest young names on some of the biggest Rookie Cards with some of the biggest swatches sums up what Premier delivers most -- but that's not all.

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The newest Upper Deck hockey product arrived last week with plenty of hits and plenty of Rookie Cards that will command attention.

And a few bucks, too.

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What: 2016-17 Upper Deck MVP hockey cards
Arrives: Aug. 3 (and Aug. 17 or later for e-Pack)
Box basics: No hits guaranteed per 20-pack box but two autos and three memorabilia cards per case (20 boxes per case)

Final Checklist: Click here to view.

What's buzz-worthy: A 360-card base set opens the new season with plenty of inserts and parallels along with a mix of new rookies and stars.

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What: 2015-16 Upper Deck Champ's hockey cards
Arrives: June 29
Box basics: One autograph or and two memorabilia cards per box (10 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: After a few years off, Upper Deck revives its retro brand that brings big names and big surprises from the world of hockey and beyond and an overall package that, of course, includes the latest Connor McDavid Rookie Cards and autographs.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Retro breaks, NFL Mock Draft, Upper Deck Series 2, a BGS Mailday & more ...

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When 2016 In The Game The Final Vault hockey boxes arrive in late March, there will be quite a bit of history found inside -- some big hits from the history of In The Game as well as big hits from the history of the NHL.

Every box will include 10 cards -- five game-used memorabilia cards, four autographs and one mask card -- with special Vault stamping noting that it came from this release.

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Less than 24 hours after the reveal of Upper Deck's e-Packs, there are more than 200 Silver Foilboard parallel cards for 2015-16 Upper Deck Series 1 hockey cards on COMC.com, which is the initial home of the cards in their physical form once they are pulled and stacked to be eligible for reality.

One of those cards is card No. 201 of Connor McDavid. This card was made into reality by a collector buying enough e-Packs to land five digital versions of the card and then upgrading to post on the site. There are 50 Young Guns each landing one in every four packs so you can do the math. (Young Guns are eligible to immediately be made physical as regular base cards without stacking just like inserts pulled.)

Now, the real question ... how much?

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The arrival of 2015-16 SP Game-used hockey cards from Upper Deck will usher in the newest wave of high-end memorabilia cards along with the newest looks at today's young stars on a more-premium platform.

Each box will contain five autograph or memorabilia cards in a single-pack format just like last season.

Keep reading to check out a gallery of some potential pulls in the brand.

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What: 2015-16 SP Authentic hockey cards
Arrives: May 2016
Box basics: Three autographs per 20-pack box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: One of Upper Deck's longest-running brands in all sports returns on the ice with not only the newest designs and stars of today, but also a look back into the 1990s with some Retro SP designs as well as Upper Deck Updates and Young Guns cards that keep the here and now up-to-date, too.

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What: 2015-16 Upper Deck Black hockey cards
Arrives: April 2016
Box basics: five autographs or memorabilia cards per six-card box (eight boxes per case  with two four-box inner cases)

What's buzz-worthy: Black is back packing nearly just the hits and the hits include some of the biggest names in today's game as well as the past. The Wayne Gretzky-Connor McDavid dual autograph above? Well, we all know that one's big even if we don't know the NHL.

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We're about a month away from this year's version of National Hockey Card Day -- an Upper Deck promotion that gets two different sets into collectors' hands if they visit a card shop during the hobby holiday.

There will be one 16-card set available in the United States and a different 16-card set available in Canada -- beginning on Feb. 6. Only one will include NHL newcomer and No. 1 overall draft pick Connor McDavid, though.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: 1/1 showcases, unopened wax stashes, Connor McDavid, big-time retro box breaks & Muhammad Ali.

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We all knew that Connor McDavid was going to be a big deal and we all knew his Young Guns Rookie Card from 2015-16 Upper Deck would be kind of a big deal, too.

But what about a perfect BGS Black label specimen? Well, one of these sold this week so we know how big it can get.

How much?

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It's a time of change, a time of high-end product exploration and a time of options for many collectors in what we call the sports card industry these days.

Tastes, products and prices continue to evolve as does the business environment that helps bring us our cardboard. For every super-pricey box being made, there are seemingly just as many buyers ready to rip or pick off singles for not-always-so-super prices (but super bargains).

The Buzz has only been around for part of 2015, but Buzz has been here all along as part of the world of collecting. Here are Buzz's picks for 15 cards that helped define 2015.

2015-16 Upper Deck #201 Connor McDavid RC
The impressive prices being paid for what's just a simple piece of cardboard with just gloss and some foil stamping shows that fundamentals never go out of style when there's a big name involved. This time, it's the No. 1 pick Connor McDavid, a Canadian phenom drafted by the Edmonton Oilers. This photo was selected by collectors and it even has a fun sign of 2015 -- the fan showing off a photo on her phone in the background.

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Upper Deck revealed its checklist for the 2015-16 MVP rookie redemptions on Tuesday with 35 cards of newcomers headed to the printer and into collectors' hands soon.

No surprises who's at No. 1 -- Connor McDavid has a standard card, an autograph card and a gold autographed card.

Who's on the rest of the list? Keep reading.

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What: 2015 Leaf SportKings trading cards
Arrives: January 2016
Box basics: One autograph, one memorabilia card, four base cards and one mini per box.

What's buzz-worthy: SportKings returns with a new mix of cards that includes numbered autographed parallels and buyback autographs for stars throughout the sports world (and even a few from elsewhere) on the famed design from the 1930s.

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With the holiday season here, cardboard is probably on the minds of many Buzz readers as they wonder what might await them soon.

Others, like Buzz, might be thinking of Cardboard of Christmas Past -- you know, some of the Santa Claus trading cards we've seen throughout the years. Most of it's trivial and not all that collectable -- but they all stand out in a way compared to our traditional sports cards.

1989 Pro Set Promos #1989
When Dallas-based Pro Set created this card during its first season of making football cards in 1989, it sparked a trend that we saw in not just football cards but other areas in the years that followed. (Boy are there some bad Photoshop jobs there in the 1990s.) For all intents and purposes, though, Buzz would call this one a "Rookie Card." Yes, there were previous non-sports cards -- but this was the one that put cards like this on the minds of the sports-collecting masses after it was mailed out to dealers and selected NFL-related people.

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Even if he's not playing, he's still kind of a big deal.

Edmonton Oilers rookie Connor McDavid is still on the mend, but the arrival of 2015-16 Upper Deck Black Diamond continues the big-time action on hockey cards featuring the No. 1 draft pick.

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After a lull in new arrivals around Black Friday, there are a whopping 13 new products set to arrive this coming week with some heavy hitters in baseball, the college ranks and even non-sports territory on the calendar.

The biggest just might be 2015 Bowman Draft, which will arrive redemption-free on Wednesday with a selection of the newest MLB draft picks in their official MLB uniforms. Autographs for 31 of the 35 first-round picks will be found in this one. For prospectors, this is perhaps the biggest day of the year ... every year.

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What: 2015-16 O-Pee-Chee Platinum hockey cards
Arrives: March 2016
Box basics: One autograph in every 20-pack box -- 16 boxes per case

What's buzz-worthy: The highly colorful and highly paralleled O-Pee-Chee Platinum returns with a secret weapon that's far from a secret -- Edmonton Oilers rookie Connor McDavid.

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What: 2015-16 Fleer Showcase hockey cards
Arrives: March 2, 2016
Hobby box basics: One autographed patch card (limited to 499 or less) and two other hits in every 12-pack box -- 5 cards per pack, 16 boxes per case (two eight-box mini cases per case).

What's buzz-worthy: Fleer Showcase showcases a few famous brands from the past all under one roof with looks at Showcase, Skybox Premium, Metal Universe and Ultra all in one spot. It's an offering the company says is "one of the most-comprehensive checklists for rookies of the entire year."

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How hot is the Young Guns RC of Connor McDavid even after his recent injury that will leave him sidelined for a chunk of this season?

Well, if the $200 price tags didn't tell you enough, then this should.

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Imagine seeing one million baseball cards all in one location. Now, imagine those can be yours in one fell swoop.

They can.

It can be reality in one active eBay auction and there's an added bonus. What is it? They'll throw in 100,000 free cards for your team if you choose to take this Cardboard Challenge.

Why's it a challenge? Well, consider that the haul -- and your bonus, don't forget your bonus -- amount to roughly 220 5,000-count boxes. Do you have the space? (It might also be a challenge if it's heavy on 1989 Score stripped of the stars ... but disregard this thought.)

Now, the real question is, do you have the cash? Don't worry about shipping -- it's free!
(You get to pick it all up and haul it off, so set your GPS for Manville, N.Y.)

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