Category: Box / Pack Breaks

I recently purchased another box of 2007-2008 Upper Deck MVP Hockey cards Here is the box breakdown. You get 24 packs in a box.

– 165 base cards
– 12 MVP Rookies

Inserts
– 4 Monumental Moments
– 4 New World Order
– 2 Game Faces
– 2 Hart Candidates
– 2 Gold Scripts
– 1 One-on-One dual jersey card (Doug Weight / Michael Handzus)
– 1 Rookie Redemption card (good for 3 RCs)

Last month, I purchased my first box, and posted a box breakdown here.

After two boxes, I have 299 out of 300 cards for the base set, and 24 of the 50 short-printed rookie cards.

Again, I hope to post a review of this set once I have all the cards 1-350.

Earlier this month, I wrote a review of the 2007-2008 Victory Hockey Set.

This is a bit late, but I thought I’d post the box breakdown for the two boxes of Victory that I purchased.

Box 1

• 177 base cards
• 18 MVP Rookies
• 9 Game Breakers inserts
• 9 Stars On Ice inserts
• 3 EA Sports Face-Off inserts

Box 2

• 176 base cards
• 18 MVP Rookies
• 9 Game Breakers inserts
• 9 Stars On Ice inserts
• 4 EA Sports Face-Off inserts

The collation of cards was very good. Between two boxes, I got an entire base set. Of the 36 rookie cards (18 per box), none of them were doubles. I was able to track down the last 9 rookie cards on eBay.

The insert cards were another story. I got duplicates of several of them, which is frustrating, because there are so many of them. But I’m not sure if I really want them; I mean, will I feel a great sense of accomplishment when I get all 50 “Game Breakers”, or all 50 “Stars on Ice”?

Yesterday, in a weak moment, I bought a box of 2007-2008 Upper Deck MVP hockey cards. I knew that if I bought a box, that I’d have to get at least one more to complete a base set. But I’ve always enjoyed opening packs, so I gave in to the Dark Side.

I won’t post a review of this year’s MVP until I get at least a complete base set.

In the meantime, here’s my breakdown of what I got in the 24-pack box.

Base set & Rookies:

• 165 Base cards
• 12 MVP Rookies (1:2 packs)
• Rookie Redemption card (good for 3 RCs)

Insert cards

• 1 One-on-One Jersey (dual swatch card featuring J.S. Giguere and Dan Cloutier…the Giguere swatch was 2-color)
• 1 Gold Scripts parallel /100 (Chris Drury 34/100)
• 1 Super Scripts parallel /25 (Roman Hamrlik 9/25)
• 2 Game Faces (Forsberg, Jagr)
• 2 Hart Candidates (Heatly, Kiprusoff)
• 4 New World Order (Kopitar, Mikko Koivu, Ovechkin, Parise)
• 4 Monumental Moments (Crosby, Recchi, Scott Niedermayer, Briere)

Not a bad assortment for one box. But insert cards these days–other than jersey cards–always look so 1990s. While I like cards from that decade, the inserts these days aren’t anything to get too excited about. The New World Order cards look like something Fleer Ultra did ten years ago.