What's your thoughts on the Upper Deck EPack leveling up???

[walter5o9]

So I just wanted to see where everyone was with this idea of collecting.

If you are not familiar with it you basically collect a set number of cards and trade them in for one foil card. That foil card can even be traded for something even more.

5 young guns (all of the same player) = 1 foil young guns (of that player)

5 foils = 1 Gold Rainbow foils

So 25 young guns = 1 Gold rainbow


Now this bring me to my question. I was just browsing eBay when I came across a Nico Gold Rainbow BGS 9.5 for $400

Now his base YG sells for about $25-$30. But let’s take the low end and say $25

If you were to just sell all those base YGs your at $625. $225 more than the elusive gold rainbow.


That’s a heck of a difference and that just for Nico. Auston Matthews now was the first high end rookie that this was available for and his YG is going at about $170

If you took 25 of his cards to get the elusive gold rainbow your looking at $4250 in “trade” for one card that your hoping holds up.

To me this program is a big gamble, but also a neat idea in making the online purchasing attractive.


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[geschrocks33]

My opinion is that for the high-end guys it's not worth it. For the lower end guys though, definitely worth the effort to go for it.

 

[pathshot]

My opinion is that for the high-end guys it's not worth it. For the lower end guys though, definitely worth the effort to go for it.

The sales prices absolutely support that opinion.

It also makes me wonder how many of the foil young guns get produced, how many make it into the wild, and whether or not they destroy or place these foil versions of the high end YGs into other products/make them redemption alternatives.

I'm picturing an Auston Matthews Rainbow Foil YG "buyback" 1/1 in a future product as a $2500 hit.

 

[Bambino84]

I’ve spoken to epack admins, and they say all expired cards get destroyed. But that being said, the foils don’t expire. The cards required to level up will no longer be on epack to obtain at a certain point.