Upper Deck made two very different AEW products in 2023: one built on a 1990s basketball design, one built partly as a deck of playing cards. This is what each box contains.
2022 AEW Skybox Metal Universe
Released in August 2023, the first AEW set under the Metal Universe name. A box holds 15 packs of 7 cards.
The set borrows the look and the chase cards of 1997-98 Metal Universe basketball. That includes Precious Metal Gems parallels numbered exactly as the originals were — Red to 100, Green to 10, Gold one of one — and a 1997-98 Retros set that puts AEW wrestlers on the original design. The rarest unnumbered insert, Jambalaya, falls at 1:720 packs, roughly one in 48 boxes.
On average a box holds 15 short-printed base cards, five Bonzo Gonzo, The Merch or Technicians die-cuts, three Retros, three Skybox Premium, an acetate Hardware or Palladium card, a Planet Metal card and one Feeling the Love, Intimidation Nation or Turn Up the Heat insert.
2023 AEW All Elite Wrestling
Released in December 2023. A box holds 24 packs of 8 cards, with one autograph, memorabilia or tech card on average.
The unusual insert is Double or Nothing, 54 cards — 52 plus two jokers — printed in the suits and ranks of a real deck, and named after AEW's Las Vegas pay-per-view. Five fall in every box, one of them a Gold parallel. The base set adds a subset called All in the Family, for AEW performers related to each other.
The average box also holds Pyro parallels, Dazzlers, UD Canvas cards, Mic Check, All Elite Women or Excalibur's Picks inserts, two numbered parallels, a Stare Down or Alliances card and an AEW Rampage parallel.
Choosing between them
Metal Universe is the chase product, built around rare parallels and a design collectors of the 1990s will recognize. All Elite Wrestling is the broader box with more cards and a hit per box on average.
All pull rates are averages across the full print run, and no specific card is guaranteed in any single box.
See the 2022 AEW Skybox Metal Universe hobby box
See the 2023 AEW All Elite Wrestling hobby box
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