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Nathan MacKinnon

2024–25 · Upper Deck Hockey · #285

MacKinnon’s later regular flagship reference in the 2024–25 set.

Sport: Hockey
Year / season: 2024–25
Set: Upper Deck Hockey
Number: #285
Format: Card

About this card

Nathan MacKinnon’s 2024–25 Upper Deck Hockey card is number 285 in that release. Upper Deck has made NHL cards since 1990-91, and its Series 1 and Series 2 sets are the league’s flagship release. In modern sets, rookies appear as Young Guns, a short-printed subset with its own design, and Young Guns are among the most collected modern hockey cards.

Nathan MacKinnon’s rookie-labeled entry in this catalog is the 2013–14 Upper Deck Hockey — Young Guns #238, so this later issue carries no rookie label.

How to identify it

Young Guns sit inside the main numbering, so a number alone does not tell you whether a card is a Young Gun; look for the Young Guns banner. Parallels such as Exclusives and High Gloss share the number but are serial-numbered or differently finished.

In Nathan MacKinnon’s run

Nathan MacKinnon has 4 entries in this catalog, from 2013–14 to 2024–25, and this is the most recent. Nearby entries are listed below, so you can compare the releases that sit around this one.

In the 2024–25 checklist

The catalog’s selected checklist for the 2024–25 Upper Deck Hockey release also includes Connor Bedard, Cale Makar, Connor McDavid, Quinn Hughes, Leon Draisaitl, Kirill Kaprizov and 1 more. It is a partial checklist of cataloged cards, not the full release.

What to know about this issue

Upper Deck places this number in the Series 2 Base Set.
Use the season to separate this issue from his existing 2019–20 base card.

Inspect the source

Source reviewed 2026-10-08. The source describes this issue; it does not verify any item offered by a third party.

Upper Deck: 2024–25 Series 2 complete checklist (opens in a new tab)

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Raw or graded. Inspect the actual copy.

The issue stays 2024–25 · Upper Deck Hockey. These are research checks, not a condition assessment of a specimen.

Raw / ungraded

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Professionally graded

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