Upper Deck SPx: What the Jordan Die-Cuts, the Brady and the Hockey Parallels Sell For

Published October 9, 2026 by the HobbyCardIndex Editorial Team. Prices are 8,787 recorded single-card sales of Upper Deck SPx cards from May 1 to October 9, 2026, about $1.22 million in total. Product details for 2025-26 SPx Hockey come from published checklist pages, linked below.

Two links before we get into it. If you're holding an old SPx die-cut and wondering about a slab, the should I grade this card checklist walks one card through the decision. And if our comps look different from another site's, the Card Ladder alternatives rundown explains what each tool is actually counting.

SPx first shows up in our catalog in 1996, as a die-cut hologram card in five sports at once. Football, baseball and basketball fell away when the league licences did. Hockey kept going, and today Upper Deck SPx is a hockey set with Finite numbered cards, Holoview F/X die-cuts and a big rookie class every spring. So the name covers two very different markets. One is a few hundred old Jordan and Brady cards that sell for real money. The other is thousands of hockey cards that mostly sell for less than a pack of gum. I think the second one is where the interesting question is, though: which hockey parallels actually earn their numbering.

How much are Upper Deck SPx cards worth by sport?

Here's every recorded SPx sale since May 1, split by the sport of the player in the title. Raw and graded are counted together.

Basketball is under a quarter of the sales and nearly two thirds of the money. That's Jordan. His SPx cards sold 580 times in the window for about $647,000, which is 53% of every SPx dollar we recorded. Brady's 127 sales add another 26%. Put the two together and you've got roughly four of every five dollars on two players.

The rest is a long, cheap tail. About 60% of all SPx sales went for under $10. Only 668 of the 8,787 sales named a grading company, under one in twelve, but those graded sales carried about 85% of the dollars. And the ten biggest sales added up to 61% of the total.

Which SPx years carry the money?

Same sales, split by the year printed on the card. This is the clearest way to see where SPx value lives.

Our catalog holds 39,643 SPx cards. Hockey is 23,899 of them, about 60%, and it's the only sport with rows past 2014 apart from a small 2024 golf issue. Baseball stops at 2009 and football and basketball at 2014. The hockey count jumps from 2020 on, which lines up with how many Finite tiers and parallels each new set carries now.

What are the 1996 and 1997 SPx basketball die-cuts worth?

Most of them, not much. The base cards from those two basketball sets are $3 to $5 raw unless the name is Jordan or Kobe. The parallels are where it gets more interesting, and 1997-98 had a full ladder: Bronze, Silver, Gold and the Grand Finale numbered to 50. Here's how those sold raw, with Jordan and Kobe pulled out so they don't swamp the medians.

Bronze and Silver barely move the price. Gold is the first finish buyers pay real money for, about three and a half times the plain card. The Grand Finale sits on another level entirely. Only two sold in the window and both were graded: a Shaquille O'Neal /50 in BGS 9 for $32,700 at Fanatics Collect, and a Chris Webber /50 in PSA 8 for about $7,930 at Goldin.

The other sports didn't get that Gold bump. In the 1996 football, baseball and hockey sets the Gold parallel sold within a dollar or two of the plain card, a $3 to $4 card either way. It's a basketball thing.

The Jordan cards

The plain 1996-97 SPx Jordan, card 8, sold 35 times raw at about $90. In a PSA 8 it ran about $175 on seven sales, in a PSA 9 about $355 on eight, and the one PSA 10 went for $1,900. The Gold version is a different tier: two PSA 10 copies sold for about $7,200 and $6,900. The plain 1997-98 Jordan is cheaper raw, about $60 on 18 sales, with PSA 9 copies at $375 and $555.

The autographs are where the big Jordan money is. The 1997 SPx ProMotion Jordan autograph, numbered to 100, sold three times: $174,000 for a PSA 6 copy with a 10 autograph, then $84,000 and $87,000 for two authenticated copies, all on Fanatics Collect. A 1996 SPx Jordan autograph in BGS 9 went for $49,200, and a 1996 Record Breaker autograph numbered to 250 got $21,900. Those five autograph sales alone are about a third of every SPx dollar in the window.

For a Jordan collector on a budget, I'd guess the raw 1996-97 card 8 at about $90 is the one that makes sense. It's his card in the first SPx set, and it trades often enough that you're not overpaying on a thin market.

What is the 2000 SPx Tom Brady rookie worth?

A lot, and it trades less than you'd think. The 2000 SPx Brady is card 130, numbered to 1,350. Eight copies sold in the window.

The Spectrum sale on August 21 is the single biggest SPx sale we have, 15.5% of the whole window by itself. Set it aside and the regular /1350 still did about $126,000 on eight sales. The jump from a PSA 9 to a PSA 10 is close to three times, which is a pretty normal gap for a modern-era rookie with a big population of 9s. Our Upper Deck SP Authentic breakdown prices Brady's other Upper Deck rookie, the SP Authentic card 118, and that one sold higher in a 10.

Outside Brady, SPx football is cheap. The 1998 to 2001 football bucket was 368 sales at under $4 median, and pretty much all of its money is the one card.

What's in 2025-26 SPx Hockey, and what sells?

The set came out on May 6, 2026, according to Breakninja's checklist page. A hobby box is eight packs of three cards. On average that's four base rookies, three Silver and one Gold base parallel, two numbered Finite cards, four Holoview or hologram inserts and one more numbered card or parallel. The base set is 165 cards: 100 veterans, 50 rookies (101 to 150) and 15 Rookie Holograms (151 to 165). Sports Card Portal's set guide lists the Finite ladder as Bronze /599, Silver /399, Gold /299, Emerald Green /199, Purple /99, Amber /49, Tuxedo /25, Magenta /15, Silver Spectrum /10, Platinum Blue /5 and Gold Spectrum 1/1, and the Holoview F/X parallels as Blue /399 and Gold /25. We couldn't find a box price we could verify, so there's no box-value math here.

Here's how the 2025-26 cards sold raw since release.

The whole 2025-26 set did 2,560 sales at about a $6.60 median and roughly $34,600 in total, so it's a cheap product to collect. The 34.5 LBs insert surprised me. It's a die-cut shaped like the Stanley Cup, it isn't numbered on its own, and it's the second most-sold card type in the set. Veterans like Ovechkin and Crosby drive it, and the Blue /49 and Gold /10 versions sold for $54 and $73 on the copies we saw.

Do SPx hockey parallels sell for more than the base card?

Mostly yes, but you can't tell from the plain medians, and one tier goes the wrong way. Take the 2024-25 rookies. The Grand Finale /50 rookie parallels had a raw median of about $7.60 on 10 sales, while the plain base rookie sat near $9.80 on 243. Read that cold and the /50 looks like it sells for less than the base. It doesn't. The /50s that sold just happened to be lesser names.

So we matched them. For each tier we took players who sold raw in both the parallel and the plain version in the same season, across 2024-25 and 2025-26, and compared each player's own two medians.

Matched like this, the ladder mostly behaves. Silver is a small bump, Gold a bit under three times, and the /50 Grand Finale is about eleven times the plain rookie for the same player, every single time. The Holoview Blue /399 also looked weak on raw medians in 2024-25 (about $17 against $26 for the plain one) and turns out to be roughly double once you compare like with like.

The Finite Bronze /599 is the odd one. Even matched, it failed to beat the Finite /999 for 9 of the 14 players. That's a small sample and I wouldn't lean on it too hard. But it's the same shape we found on SP Authentic, where the horizontal Future Watch numbered to 599 sold under the regular /999. My rough read is that a 599 or 999 print run is so big that buyers don't treat either one as scarce, so the plain-looking card wins on habit. The numbering only starts to matter around /99, where the Purple Finite ran close to five times the /999. The same thing shows up on the Upper Deck Trilogy rookie tiers, where the whole climb from a /999 to a /299 is worth about a dollar and a half.

One note on Gold Finite. It's numbered to 199 in the 2024-25 set and 299 in 2025-26, so the row pools the two.

Which SPx hockey rookies carry the money?

In both recent classes, one player soaks up most of the dollars. In 2024-25 it's Macklin Celebrini, whose rookie-titled SPx cards sold 339 times for about $33,900, roughly 77% of that class's $44,100. Jakub Dobes and Lane Hutson are next, near $4,200 and $3,000. Celebrini's Extended Rookies Silver Spectrum /25, card 160, sold raw twice at $1,200 and once in a PSA 10 for $1,800.

The 2025-26 class is flatter so far. Matthew Schaefer leads with 208 sales and about $6,400, around a third of the class's $18,100, ahead of Ivan Demidov (about $2,600), Beckett Sennecke (about $2,200) and Michael Misa (about $1,600). His Blue autograph numbered to 99 sold for $450 raw, the top 2025-26 sale we have. For where Schaefer and Demidov sit in pricier Upper Deck products, the Upper Deck The Cup hockey breakdown has the high-end side, and the Upper Deck Black Diamond hub covers a one-pack box with the same rookie class.

Should you grade an SPx card?

For the old Jordan and Brady cards, if the card is clean, yes. A raw 1996-97 Jordan at about $90 becomes roughly $355 in a PSA 9, and the Brady roughly triples from a PSA 9 to a PSA 10. Those die-cut edges are fragile, so 10s are scarce and the slab carries most of the value.

For modern SPx hockey, mostly no. The typical 2025-26 card sells for $6 or $7 raw, and only 8 of the 2,560 sales we recorded for that set were graded. The exceptions are the top rookies in low-numbered parallels, the Celebrini /25s and the like, where a PSA 10 has sold for several hundred dollars more than a raw copy. If you're not sure where a card sits, our hockey prospect cards guide walks through how SPx stacks up against Young Guns and the other rookie lines.

What we couldn't measure

A few gaps worth owning. Sport is read from the player named in each title against our SPx catalog, plus team and league words, and anything from 2015 on is treated as hockey because that's the only SPx sport still printed (a golf title is the exception). Years come from the first year in the title, so a "2025" title counts as 2025-26. Our recorded sales are much thicker from August on than in May and June, so the window leans toward late summer. Parallel names are read from titles, and sellers sometimes leave the color or the numbering out, which drops those sales from the ladder rows. The matched comparisons rest on 4 to 30 players per tier, small enough that one hot name can move a row. And the vintage autograph sales are a handful of auctions, not a trend.

Frequently asked questions

How much are Upper Deck SPx cards worth?

Most sell for under $10. The median across 8,787 recorded sales from May 1 to October 9, 2026 was about $6. The top sales were a 2000 Tom Brady Spectrum /25 at $189,100 and a 1997 Michael Jordan ProMotion autograph at $174,000.

What is the most valuable SPx card?

In our sales, the 2000 SPx Tom Brady rookie Spectrum parallel numbered to 25, which sold for $189,100 in BGS 9.5 at Heritage on August 21, 2026. The regular Brady card 130, numbered to 1,350, sold for about $29,000 to $31,000 in PSA 10.

How much is a 1996 SPx Michael Jordan worth?

The plain 1996-97 SPx Jordan, card 8, sold for about $90 raw on 35 recorded sales. PSA 9 copies ran about $355 and one PSA 10 sold for $1,900. Gold parallels in PSA 10 sold for about $6,900 and $7,200.

Is SPx Finite Bronze /599 worth more than the /999?

Not in our sales so far. Matching the same player across 14 cases, the Bronze /599 failed to beat the Finite /999 for 9 of them, at about 0.8 times. Silver /399 ran about 1.4 times and Purple /99 about 4.7 times.

When did 2025-26 SPx Hockey come out?

May 6, 2026. A hobby box holds eight packs of three cards, including four base rookies, two numbered Finite cards and four Holoview or hologram inserts on average. The set has 165 base cards, 50 rookies and 15 Rookie Holograms.

Does Upper Deck still make SPx basketball and football?

No. Our catalog has SPx football and basketball through 2014 and baseball through 2009. Only hockey continues, through the 2025-26 set, apart from one small 2024 golf release.

How we counted

Sales are recorded sold listings from May 1 to October 9, 2026 whose title includes SPx as a separate word. SP Authentic and SP Game Used are separate products and don't match. Lots, boxes, packs, breaks and pick-your-card listings were removed, and duplicates were collapsed on title, price and date. Graded means the title names a grading company. Prices are what cards sold for, before fees.