2021 Upper Deck Black Widow Heads to e-Pack

Much like the film it’s based on, 2021 Upper Deck Black Widow trading cards are getting a traditional release format. Instead of the usual packs and boxes, it’s heading to e-Pack. Not only that, but it’s a drawn out marathon of sorts spanning four-plus months from start to finish.

Although there are no autographs connected to the product, there are memorabilia cards, sketch cards and other inserts on the overall checklist.

Packs, which are sold on the digital e-Pack platform, come with four cards — three base plus one insert. All cards in the release do have physical counterparts that can be delivered.

2021 Upper Deck Black Widow Checklist Overview

A complete base set has 90 cards. However, it’s not quite that simple. The checklist is divided into multiple sections with a good chunk of it not getting unveiled at once. Each Tuesday, there’s a new pack drop. Inside is the week’s standard base card plus one of two short prints. This continues for 18 weeks until the set is complete.

But that only takes things up to 54 cards.

The final 36 are High Series cards, which fall a combined one per pack. These have no slow roll. All are available from the start. Sounds simple? In essence it is, but there’s even more to these. High Series cards come in four separate tiers making some tougher to pull than others.

Printing Plates are available for all 90 cards.

Inserts

The final card in each 2021 Upper Deck Black Widow pack is an insert.

Covert Fragments lead the way with Black Widow memorabilia. Based on preview images, swatches from these are a little more liberal in their approach with at least some coming from the production of other films Scarlett Johansson’s character has appeared in.

Other insert themes include:

• Family Reunion (8 cards)
• Globetrotting (10 cards)
• Red Guardian (8 cards)
• Sisterhood (8 cards)
• Taskmaster’s Target (12 cards)

All five of these have Printing Plates as well.

Achievements

Not all 2021 Upper Deck Black Widow cards are available in packs. A handful of achievements give collectors incentive for building various aspects of the product.

For starters, there are Widow’s Bite inserts every three weeks. To unlock one, collectors must redeem all three base cards and six base short prints connected to it. The first 24 collectors to redeem a full set of all six Widow’s Bite cards receive a Printing Plate.

Sketch cards are only available as achievements. To get two, you have to be one of the first 81 people to redeem all 36 base High Series cards, the six-card Widow’s Bite Achievement, plus the Globetrotting, Red Guardian, Sisterhood and Family Reunion insert sets.

Each week, 999 packs will be released. They drop every Tuesday at 9 AM PST. There’s a limit of three packs per transaction.

2021 Upper Deck Black Widow trading cards at a glance:

Cards per pack: 4
Set size: 90 cards
Release date: October 5, 2021

2021 Upper Deck Black Widow Checklist