Strange New Worlds took Captain Pike, Spock and Number One back to the Enterprise in the years before Kirk. Rittenhouse has covered both of its first two seasons. This is how the two sets compare, and what each contains.
Season One
A box holds 24 packs of 5 cards, with 4 autographs and 1 costume relic. The case topper is a pair of rendered-art metal cards of Pike and Spock.
The base set is 60 cards, six per episode across all ten episodes. The inserts include Gold parallels, Red parallels numbered to 50, Behind-the-Scenes, Costume Design, Storyboard Art, Cast cards, Character Stickers, The Frontier Awaits puzzle-back cards, Travel Posters and art cards from The Elysian Kingdom, the episode in which the crew are trapped inside a fairy tale. Hand-drawn sketch cards, dual autographs and Elysian Kingdom autographs are randomly inserted.
The signers include Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Melissa Navia, Celia Rose Gooding, Babs Olusanmokun, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Bruce Horak, Dan Jeannotte, Jesse James Keitel, Gia Sandhu and Adrian Holmes.
Season Two
A box holds 24 packs of 5 cards, with 3 on-card autographs and 1 costume relic. The case toppers are rendered-art metal cards of Number One and Hemmer.
Season Two was the one with the musical episode, Subspace Rhapsody, and the crossover with the animated Lower Decks, and the set follows both: there are Song List cards and Animated Plastic Character cards among the inserts, alongside Gold and Red parallels, Costume Design, Storyboard Art, Gallery Cast, Travel Posters and sketch cards.
The signers include Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck and Paul Wesley, whose James T. Kirk joined the series that season.
Season Two also carries case incentives: at nine cases, a Rebecca Romijn Elysian Kingdom autograph; at twelve, an incentive box with autograph variations and printing plates.
Choosing between them
Season One has the higher autograph count per box. Season Two has on-card signatures throughout and the incentive cards. The Season One collector album comes with a promo card issued only with the album.
All pull rates are averages across the full print run. No individual box or case is guaranteed to contain any particular insert, sketch or signer beyond the configuration described above.
See the Strange New Worlds Season 1 sealed box
See the Strange New Worlds Season 1 sealed case (12 boxes)
See the Strange New Worlds Season 1 collector album
See the Strange New Worlds Season 2 sealed case (12 boxes)
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