Please note, When you click on links to retailers on this site, such as eBay, and make a purchase, it may result in this site earning a commission. It’s time for another Upper Deck Box Battle! This time we are going to take a look at 2022-23 Upper Deck Ice and 2022-23 Upper Deck Credentials. Whether you like to open boxes or buy singles, I will give you some info to decide which of these products is right for you! 2022-23 Upper Deck Ice Hobby Boxes of 2022-23 Upper Deck Ice contain 12 packs with 6 cards in each pack. At the time of this post, they can be found on eBay for about $85 per box ..read more

Please note, When you click on links to various merchants on this site, like eBay, and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. There are a few different approaches to vintage set building, and I plan to run through the pros and cons of them here in this post. At the end I’ll share what has worked best for me. I love sports cards. Ever since I was a kid, one of my favorite aspects of collecting has been building sets. From that first 1986 Topps set I put together via weekly packs from the grocery store, to the mid-90s basketball sets I built just prior to taking my ..read more

Please note, When you click on links to various merchants on this site, like eBay, and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. There are cards from my youth which are burned into my brain. I can name the player by seeing even a sliver of the photo. All the childhood sorting, resorting, binder page flipping, and trading permanently embedded the names of hundreds of players from the junk wax era into my memory. But every once in a while I stumble across a card or player I only have a vague recollection of. Tony Bernazard is one of those players. While sorting a recen ..read more

Please note, I include affiliate links within this post to support the maintenance and development of this site. I love the Philadelphia Phillies. I mean, as a Cubs fan, how could I not love them for going through with one of the most uneven trades in MLB history? Before the 1982 Season, the Phillies traded Ryne Sandberg and Larry Bowa to the Cubs for Ivan DeJesus and the rest is history. I don’t have a ton of Sandberg cards, but I wanted to take a minute and share a few of the best Ryne Sandberg cards in my collection. These five cards aren’t necessarily the most expensive Sandberg’s I own ..read more

Please note, I include affiliate links within this post to support the maintenance and development of this site. In 1980, Star Wars partnered with Hershey’s to promote The Empire Strikes Back by including a trading card on the back of specially marked 6 packs of candy bars! Over the years, Star Wars has mastered the use of product licensing and promotion with a variety of brands. Toys, packaged food products, and restaurant promotions are just some of the ways brands have capitalized on the rabid Star Wars Fan base. For this partnership with Hershey’s, there were 5 different cards which found ..read more

I had a chance to sit down with Drake McGruder to discuss his collection! The link to the entire interview is at the bottom of this post. WaxPackHero: Drake McGruder is a sports and wrestling card collector who primarily focuses on Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, and modern wrestling cards. He can be found on a guest on a variety of different sports and wrestling card podcasts, and he is not afraid at all to submit his questions to try to put the host on the spot. Drake, welcome. Drake: Mike, thank you so much for having me. Long time listener, first time caller to the podcast, I guess we'll say ..read more

Please note, I include affiliate links within this post to support the maintenance and development of this site. Upper Deck continues to provide Canadian Football League fans with a product to celebrate their favorite players and teams! 2022 Upper Deck CFL released in May of 2023. Hobby boxes contain 16 packs with eight cards in each pack. The base set is made up of 200 cards of players from all 9 CFL teams. This set isn’t fancy. All 200 cards are pure base cards. There are no base subsets or inserts of any kind in the release. That’s too bad because creative inserts are typically one of my f ..read more

Please note, I include affiliate links within this post to support the maintenance and development of this site. Upper Deck CHL provides an opportunity to do some hockey prospecting! Baseball card collectors have what seems like an endless supply of opportunities to buy cards of minor league and amateur players. Panini Stars and Stripes, several Bowman releases, and Topps products like Heritage Minors and Pro Debut cover pretty much every level of professional and amateur baseball. Hockey card collectors don’t have quite as many choices, but Upper Deck does provide a few options. They have pr ..read more

Please note, I include affiliate links within this post to support the maintenance and development of this site. If you have a variety of interests, Upper Deck Goodwin Champions is a product for you! The Goodwin Champions name dates back to the 1800’s. It was first released by Goodwin and Company which was the parent company for a couple other tobacco products that pre-war collectors may be familiar with. Goodwin also made Old Judge and Gypsy Queen cigarettes! The Goodwin Champions release contains a variety of athletes and individuals who excel in whatever they do. It also includes a variety ..read more

Please note, I include affiliate links within this post to support the maintenance and development of this site. Our topic today is going to be a topic that we've never done before: Harry Potter cards. There are a lot of Harry Potter cards that are out there, but some of these entertainment related cards don't always get the notoriety that baseball and basketball and football do. I wanted to talk with somebody who from my perspective is an expert on Harry Potter cards, and has had some big Harry Potter cards come through his collection. But as you'll hear, when he gets into something, he goes ..read more