Upper Deck Trilogy: What the Rookie Tiers, the Hits and the Old Crosby Sell For

Published October 11, 2026 by the HobbyCardIndex Editorial Team. Prices are 519 recorded single-card sales of Upper Deck Trilogy hockey cards over the year to October 11, 2026, about $19,000 in total, plus current catalog price medians for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 rookie tiers. Product details come from published checklist and retailer pages, linked below.

Two links before the numbers. If you pulled a Trilogy hit and you're thinking about a slab, the should I grade this card checklist walks one card through the decision. And if our comps don't line up with another site's, the Card Ladder alternatives rundown explains what each tool is actually counting.

Trilogy is a mid-shelf Upper Deck hockey brand that's been around, on and off, since 2003-04. The gimmick is right in the name: every rookie shows up three times, at three print runs, so a collector can chase the same player up a ladder inside one product. That's a neat idea and it has mostly produced $2 cards. Our catalog holds about 8,840 Trilogy hockey rows, and two thirds of them sit in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 sets alone. I think the interesting bits are at the edges: the 2005-06 Crosby, whatever happened to the brand after 2023-24, and whether the three tiers really sell in order. Here goes.

How much are Upper Deck Trilogy cards worth?

Here's every recorded hockey sale in the window, split by the era printed on the card. Raw and graded are counted together.

That last line but one is the story. The newest Trilogy cards aren't from a Trilogy box at all, and they're still the biggest pile of money. Across the whole year, 314 of the 519 sales went for under $10. Only 23 sales named a grading company, but those 23 carried about 30% of the dollars, which is the usual shape for a cheap product with a couple of real cards in it.

What is Upper Deck Trilogy, and when did it stop being a box?

Trilogy launched as a hockey set in 2003-04 and ran, with gaps, through 2023-24. Our catalog has no rows for 2004-05, which was the lockout year, and none for 2010-11 through 2012-13 either. It also skipped 2021-22 on purpose: Upper Deck pulled 2021-22 Trilogy and 2020-21 Ice from the schedule on October 19, 2021, citing production and supply problems, per Beckett's report at the time. The brand came back for 2022-23 and then 2023-24.

And then, as best we can tell, it stopped. Retailers listed a 2024-25 Trilogy hobby box as expected in May 2025 with the pack and card counts left as TBD, and that listing never filled in. We have no 2024-25 or 2025-26 Trilogy set in the catalog and no sale of one. What we do have is the Trilogy Rookie Premieres showing up as an insert inside 2024-25 Upper Deck Extended Series, released May 29, 2025 according to Checklist Insider's Extended Series guide, numbered T-1 to T-33 with Common /999, Uncommon /499 and Rare /99 versions. The 2025-26 Extended Series, which Beckett's release calendar dates to June 3, 2026, carries the same three tiers. Sellers tend to list them as Level 1, 2 and 3.

This had happened once before, actually. When the 2021-22 box was dropped, Trilogy Rookies turned up inside 2021-22 Extended Series, numbered to 499. We recorded two of those selling in the window, for about $2 and $3. So the pattern is: no box, the rookies ride along in the flagship's second series. I'd guess that's where Trilogy stays unless Upper Deck says otherwise, but we're not going to state a cancellation nobody has announced. If a new box gets a date, this page will carry it.

What's in a 2023-24 Trilogy hobby box, and what do the cards sell for?

The last proper Trilogy box came out on May 15, 2024. Checklist Insider's 2023-24 Trilogy page lists six packs of four cards, 20 boxes a case, with a box averaging two hits (autographs or relics), three Rookie Renditions or Trilogy Generations inserts and five numbered parallels. The base set is 250 cards: veterans 1 to 100, then the 50 rookies printed three times as Common (101 to 150, /999), Uncommon (151 to 200, /699) and Rare (201 to 250, /299). The signed lines are AutoFocus, Crystallized Signatures, Signature Pucks, Rookie Signature Pucks and Scripted Hall of Fame Plaques, with Honorary Triple Swatches and Generations Jersey on the relic side. Blowout had a box at $124.95 on October 11, 2026, marked down from $139.95, with two left.

Here's how the 2022-23 and 2023-24 cards sold, pooled because the two sets share a build and neither one has much volume on its own.

Pucks and patches are the product. The 2023-24 McDavid Signature Pucks numbered to 3 sold raw for about $713 on June 20, and his Honorary Triple Swatches /15 went for $425. A Draisaitl Crystallized Signatures SSP did about $178, and a Bedard Rookie Renditions Green /99 sold for $200. Below those, the plain autographs sit at a $5 or $6 median, which is where most AutoFocus and Generations signatures of mid-roster players land.

So the box math is rough. Two hits at a $5 autograph and a $25 relic is about $30, maybe $45 if one of them is a Signature Puck. Three Renditions or Generations inserts add about $6, five numbered parallels maybe $14, and the fourteen base and rookie cards about $20 at a buck and a half each. Call it $55 to $75 of cards against a $124.95 box. You open it for a McDavid puck or a Bedard patch, not for the average.

Do the Rookie Premieres tiers actually sell in order?

Barely, and only at the top. Our recorded sales of 2022-23 and 2023-24 Rookie Premieres are thin (28 in the year), so for this one we used the current catalog price lane instead, which carries a raw median for every base card in both sets. Veterans are included as a floor.

The ladder holds, in the sense that each step is a little more than the one below it, but the whole climb from a /999 to a /299 is about a dollar and a half. That's the cost of a print run of 999 for a player most buyers don't want. The only place the tiers open up is Connor Bedard. His 2023-24 Common sits near $38 raw in the catalog lane, the Uncommon near $32 and the Rare near $56, with PSA 10 copies at roughly $255, $132 and $455. Even there the middle tier is the cheapest of the three, which tells you the /699 isn't scarce enough to matter and the /299 is. The one 2023-24 Bedard Rookie Premieres we recorded selling was a Red /199 parallel of the Common at about $54 raw.

If you've read our Upper Deck SPx breakdown, this is the same lesson the SPx Finite tiers taught: numbering in the hundreds doesn't move the price, and it only starts to from around /99 down. Trilogy's three tiers in 2023-24 were 999, 699 and 299. None of those is a /99.

Where do the Trilogy Rookie Premieres live now, and what are they worth?

Inside Extended Series, with a Rare tier that finally is a /99. And that one change is why the 2024-25 and 2025-26 Rookie Premieres, 134 sales, are the biggest bucket of Trilogy money on this page at about $6,990.

Most of it is one player. Macklin Celebrini's Trilogy Rookie Premieres, card T-13, sold 50 times for about $5,490, which is 29% of every Trilogy hockey dollar we recorded and about 89% of the 2024-25 total. Here's his ladder.

Now the three versions behave like a ladder: the /99 runs about three and a half times the /999 for the same card and the same player. The high sale was about $448 on May 29. The Uncommon row is the messy one, because sellers write it as "/499", "Level 2", "Uncommon" or just "Trilogy Rookie" and a few titles don't say the tier at all, so treat that middle range as soft.

Everyone else from the 2024-25 class is cheap. Lane Hutson's /999 sold at about $23 to $30, Jakub Dobes's /499 at $30 and his /999 at $5 to $8, Will Smith's /499 at $15 to $18, and Frank Nazar's Rare /99 went for $27. The 2025-26 class, 35 sales for about $755 so far, has the same single-name shape without the name being as big: Matthew Schaefer's Rare /99 sold for $215 on August 22, his /499 for $90 and $44, and his /999 for $36 and $26. Ivan Demidov's /99 did about $144 against $15 for his /999, Michael Misa's /499 sits around $15, and Beckett Sennecke's /999 at $8 to $12. For how those same rookies price in the pricier Upper Deck boxes, our SP Game Used hockey hub and the Upper Deck The Cup breakdown have the high-end side, and the hockey prospect cards guide covers how a Trilogy Rookie Premiere ranks against a Young Guns.

Which old Trilogy cards still sell?

A handful, and they're the autographs and the Crosby. The biggest sale of the year was a 2003-04 Trilogy Script Three Wayne Gretzky, PSA 10 card with a 10 autograph, at $1,975 on August 19. A 2013-14 Trilogy Gretzky autograph sold raw for about $426. Crosby's 2007-08 Ice Scripts autograph went for $695 in BGS 9.5 and his plain 2007-08 Scripts for about $479 raw. Those four cards are about 19% of all the Trilogy hockey dollars in the window.

Then there's the rookie. Our 2005 hockey year hub calls out 2005-06 Trilogy as one of the Crosby and Ovechkin rookie sets with lower print runs than the flagship, and the Crosby is card 211, numbered to 999.

Two Crosby sales is not a market, so take the $1,265 as one data point for a BGS 9.5 and not as a going rate. We recorded no raw sale of the card at all. What the table does show is the drop-off: the same /999 tier in the same set, one slot away from Crosby, is a $1 to $2 card. For the wider 2005-06 rookie picture, including the SP Authentic and The Cup versions that sell for far more, the year hub is the place. McDavid's 2015-16 Trilogy rookie, card 101 numbered to 999, sold for about $190 in a PSA 8, and his Rookie Premieres Rainbow Blue Foil from the same set went for about $205. A 2009-10 Trilogy Crosby base card did $180 in PSA 10.

Is Trilogy only a hockey brand?

Mostly, and the exceptions are worth knowing so you don't mix them up when searching. Upper Deck put the Trilogy name on basketball in 2004-05 and 2005-06, on baseball in 2005 and on football in 2007, and our catalog holds about 1,070 of those rows. The single biggest Trilogy sale of any sport in the window was actually one of them: a 2004-05 Trilogy AutoFocus Kobe Bryant on-card autograph numbered to 25, PSA 8 with a pop of one, at $7,200 on September 16. A 2007 Trilogy Calvin Johnson rookie autograph /99 sold for $338 and a Peyton Manning Trilogy auto /33 did $290 in SGC 10. The rest of the non-hockey tail is $3 to $15 cards, Jeter and Jordan base included.

There's also a 2023 Marvel set called Allegiance: The Infinity Trilogy, a 2024 golf Trilogy Rookies autograph line, and some old Joe Montana "Trilogy" inserts from the mid-nineties, none of which have anything to do with the hockey brand. They match the word in a title search, which is why our hockey count is 519 and not the 604 the raw search returned.

Should you grade a Trilogy card?

For the 2005-06 Crosby, a clean 2003-04 or 2007-08 Crosby or Gretzky autograph, or a Celebrini Rare /99, probably yes if the corners are right. The Celebrini /999 is the clearest case on the modern side: a PSA 9 sold for $140 against a $70 raw median, and a 10 would presumably do more, though we haven't recorded one. For everything else, no. The typical Trilogy card is a $2 to $6 card raw, and 496 of the 519 sales we recorded were ungraded. Grading fees would be most of the sale price.

What we couldn't measure

Sport is read from the player named in each title against our Trilogy catalog, plus team and league words, so a title with no player and no team gets dropped or lands in a small unplaced pile. Years come from the first season in the title. The Extended Series tier rows depend on sellers writing the print run or the level, and a fair few don't, which is why Celebrini's Uncommon row is a range rather than a number. The 2022-23 and 2023-24 tier table uses our catalog price lane, not recorded sales, because 28 sales across 300 rookie cards isn't enough to say anything per tier. The box math uses medians for a 24-card box, which is to say it describes an average box that nobody actually opens. And a market this size can be moved by one auction: take the McDavid puck or the Gretzky Script Three out and the top-sales picture changes a lot.

Frequently asked questions

How much are Upper Deck Trilogy cards worth?

Most sell for under $10. The median across 519 recorded hockey sales in the twelve months to October 11, 2026 was $6, and about 60% went for under $10. The top sales were a 2003-04 Gretzky Script Three autograph in PSA 10 at $1,975 and a 2005-06 Sidney Crosby rookie in BGS 9.5 at about $1,265.

Is Upper Deck Trilogy still made?

Not as its own box, as far as we can tell. The last standalone Trilogy hockey product in our catalog is 2023-24, released May 15, 2024. Since then the Trilogy Rookie Premieres have been inserts inside Upper Deck Extended Series, numbered T-1 to T-33 in 2024-25, in Common /999, Uncommon /499 and Rare /99 versions.

What is the difference between Trilogy Rookie Premieres Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3?

They are the same rookie printed three times at three print runs. In 2023-24 the tiers were Common /999, Uncommon /699 and Rare /299. Inside 2024-25 and 2025-26 Extended Series they are Common /999, Uncommon /499 and Rare /99. Sellers call them Level 1, 2 and 3.

How much is a Macklin Celebrini Trilogy Rookie Premiere worth?

About $70 for the Common /999 on 25 recorded raw sales, roughly $90 to $175 for the Uncommon /499, and about $245 for the Rare /99 on seven sales, with a high of about $448 on May 29, 2026. A PSA 9 copy of the /999 sold for $140.

What is a 2005-06 Upper Deck Trilogy Sidney Crosby rookie worth?

Card 211, numbered to 999, sold for about $1,265 in BGS 9.5 on October 1, 2026 and about $292 in an FCG 9 on March 16, 2026. We recorded no raw sale of it in the window. Other 2005-06 Trilogy rookies in the same /999 tier sold for $1 to $2 raw.

Is a 2023-24 Upper Deck Trilogy hobby box worth opening?

At recorded medians, no. A box lists at $124.95 and its 24 cards, two hits, three Rookie Renditions or Generations inserts and five numbered parallels come to roughly $55 to $75 at the medians we measured. The exceptions are Signature Pucks and triple swatches of McDavid or Crosby.

How we counted

Sales are recorded sold listings from October 2025 through October 11, 2026 whose title includes Trilogy as a separate word. Star Wars, Marvel, movie and other non-card matches were removed, along with lots, breaks and pick-your-card listings, and duplicates were collapsed on the listing. The sport of each card is read from the player and team in the title against our Trilogy catalog; basketball, football, baseball and golf Trilogy sales are mentioned above but kept out of the hockey totals. Graded means the title names a grading company. Catalog medians in the tier table are our current raw price for each card, not a sale. Prices are what cards sold for, before fees.