2025-26 Flair Hockey Details

2025-26 Flair Hockey marks the return of the brand name to the hockey card industry for the first time since 1996-97. Collectors from that era will likely instantly connect with the design of the base set and several inserts, as Upper Deck has given the product a ’90s Flair feel.

Upper Deck will produce the cards on a thicker and glossy stock, just as Fleer/SkyBox did with the Flair sets of the 1990s. UD acquired the rights to Fleer’s intellectual property – including the Flair brand name – during a bankruptcy auction in 2005 but has only produced a handful of Flair Showcase sets since, including a hockey edition in 2006-07.

Hobby boxes contain 10 packs, and collectors should expect to find four numbered parallels and five inserts in each box.

2025-26 Flair Hockey Checklist Overview

The 200-card base set is broken into 150 veterans and 50 rookies (one per pack). 

Parallels that cover all 200 cards include:

• 1993 Variants /93
• Blue Ice /49
• Spectrum /5

Image variants also play a big role in the base set, with two versions (/349 and /149), as well as Blue Ice (/25) and Spectrum (/1) parallels.

Upper Deck has seeded four autographs per 10-box case.

Autographics, a memorable line from the 1990s, are the easiest autographs to find at 1:30 packs, while numbered autographed versions of these inserts will present challenges:

• Flair for the Dramatic
• Hot Hues
• Rare Breed
• Scoring Power
• Trophy Room

Inserts are broken into tiers.

Collectors will find a total of four combined inserts from these sets in every hobby box:

• Hot Hues (1:8 packs)
• Scoring Power (1:10)
• Flair for the Dramatic (1:13)
• Trophy Room (1:17)
• Rare Breed (1:32)

There are Spectrum (/99) parallels for each of those inserts.

Hobby boxes will include one insert from one of the following sets:

• Wave of the Future – 1:20
• Center Spotlights – 1:40
• Flash and Flair (Flash) – 1:40

On the case level, collectors will find two Hot Gloves or Hot Mitts inserts (both 1:125 and inspired by the original Hot Gloves cards from the ’90s), and a combined two cards from among the following concepts:

• Artistic Flair Cards – 1:125
• Hot Numbers – 1:200
• Flash and Flair (Flair) – 1:250
• Legion of Boom – 1:334

If a collector finds both the Flash and Flair versions of a player’s Flash and Flair card, they combine to form a showpiece

Case hits include 3-on-1 Breakaway (1:100), a layered, multi-photo issue. 

Another case hit is Touch of Flair (1:100), heat sensitive cards with a color-changing background.

The toughest hits are Hot Mitts – Rookies (1:250), Time on Ice (1:750), and the short-printed Guaranteed Fresh! set.

2025-26 Flair Hockey cards at a glance:

Cards per pack: 4
Packs per box: 10
Boxes per case: 10
Set size: 200 cards
Release date: TBA