Borrowing the French word for "painting," 2025-26 Upper Deck Tableau Hockey debuts as a late entry to the NHL collecting season.
Boasting "a product that captures the best players on the planet, and the game itself, like you’ve never seen before," the all-new brand adds another high-end option to UD's selection.
Every box contains one autograph, and over half the cards in the 27-card box are numbered.
2025-26 Upper Deck Tableau Hockey Checklist Rundown
Releasing well after the end of the season, the 2025-26 Upper Deck Tableau Hockey checklist gives fans another option for collecting the '25-26 rookie class.
Base & Parallel Details
Reminiscent of UD's Portfolio designs, at least based on the initial images, 2025-26 Upper Deck Tableau Hockey features 100 Veterans in the base set. UD noted the card thickness as 40-point. Each box has four of these base cards.
There are also base Stars and Rookie Watch cards, combining to average four per box
Promising "the next must-have rookie set," the 30-card Dark Ice Rookies series features a horizontal action image with foil text. All cards are encased and numbered to 100 or less, including True Blue Monochrome (/10) and True Gold Monochrome (1/1) parallels.
Insert Details
From there, the 2025-26 Upper Deck Tableau Hockey inserts showcase a varied selection of designs.
Aspects, Dark Room and Imprints each employ different techniques that result in a distinct look.
Meanwhile, the 100-card Matted Border insert relies on canvas stock within an ornate die-cut frame. Parallels include Gold Border (/50) and more limited versions.
Not actually a relic, the Mounted Slide Relics (/100) insert resembles a film slide with an interior acetate section displaying a printed action image.
2025-26 Upper Deck Tableau Hockey finishes out the inserts with Shadow Portraits (2 per box), displaying a shaded headshot, and Triple Exposure, which captures the player's movement via three images.
Autograph Details
Getting to the autographs, 2025-26 Upper Deck Tableau Hockey is all about on-card signatures. Every box contains two encased autographs.
The main Autograph set has True Blue Monochrome (#'d) and True Gold Monochrome (1/1) parallels. One auto card per box should come from this lineup.
Of course, the more-limited Dual Autograph line highlights top pairings.
There are also other hard-signed editions, such as Shutter Speed Signatures and more.
Shadow Portraits Metallic Silver Auto cards (/99 or less) offer another limited possibility.
Estimated Release Date: TBA
2025-26 Upper Deck Tableau Hockey Product Configuration
Hobby Boxes
- 27 cards per box
2025-26 Upper Deck Tableau Hockey Box Break
Hobby Boxes (on average)
- 2 Encased Hard-Signed Autographs
- 1 Encased #’d Card (Base Dark Ice Rookies, Babineau Collection, Lenticular Monochrome OR Plexi)
- 5 #’d Base Parallels AND/OR #’d Shadow Portraits Parallels
- 4 #’d Base Veterans
- 4 #’d Base Stars AND/OR Rookie Watch
- 2 Babineau Collection Inserts
- 2 Shadow Portraits Inserts
- 2 Lenticular Variants
- 1 Matted Border Insert
- 1 #’d Matted Border Parallel
- 2 Additional Inserts (Aspects, Dark Room, Imprints AND/OR Triple Exposure)
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