Ultra Violet: the blacklight insert that crossed sports

August 17, 20269 min readINDEPENDENT COLLECTOR RESEARCH

The story starts under a blacklight.

Topps introduced Ultraviolet All-Stars in 2023 Topps Chrome Baseball. The company describes a groovy blacklight aesthetic inspired by 1970s and 1980s posters, with exclusive artwork by Mitch O’Connell. The debut checklist ran from UV-1 Shohei Ohtani through UV-14 Adley Rutschman. That origin matters: Ultra Violet was conceived as an illustrated art insert, not simply another color Refractor.

Ames Bros took over the artwork in 2024.

The short-printed 2024 baseball edition brought in Ames Bros and a 15-card checklist featuring Elly De La Cruz, Mike Trout, Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Ichiro and Ken Griffey Jr. Topps added colored parallels and autograph variations. The new artwork kept the neon-poster style and UV card codes familiar from the debut.

Basketball made Ultra Violet a cross-sport insert.

The next verified shift in this study is 2024/25 Topps Chrome Basketball. Topps described the cards as dynamic photography combined with original artwork, presented like vintage UV posters. In 2025/26, the concept became a Hobby-exclusive original-art case hit with a 15-card checklist: ten established stars followed by five rookies from the 2025 NBA Draft. This is the release behind the eight basketball records indexed below.

Ultra Violet joined the NFL release in April 2026.

The 2025 Topps Chrome Football release arrived in April 2026 as Topps returned to licensed NFL Chrome. Its Ultra Violet cards used an electrical theme and included Jayden Daniels, Drake Maye, Saquon Barkley and Patrick Mahomes. PULLED. has not yet added the football cards to this market table: exact photos and completed-sale histories still need to meet the database standard.

UEFA replaced prospects with a gallery of legends.

Ultra Violet made its UEFA Club Competitions debut in 2025/26. The official 20-card checklist is almost entirely a history lesson: Steven Gerrard, Thierry Henry, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Kaká, Johan Cruyff and other retired icons. The base insert falls at 1:1,193 Hobby packs, while Topps publishes different odds for Jumbo, Value, Delight and other formats. One headline scarcity number never describes the whole release.

The tracked basketball cards cost more than the UEFA pair.

Raw guide snapshots for the basketball cards range from Kevin Durant at $218.39 to Victor Wembanyama at $2,200.49. Cooper Flagg and Stephen Curry are also above $1,000. The two UEFA legends have lower guides: Ronaldo at $95.50 raw and Thierry Henry at $83.37. These dated estimates do not guarantee value; each card page also shows its exact completed sales separately.

UV-2 can mean Giannis or Thierry Henry.

Giannis Antetokounmpo and Thierry Henry are both UV-2. Ronaldo is UV-14 in UEFA, while that number belongs to Kon Knueppel in 2025/26 basketball and Adley Rutschman in the 2023 baseball debut. Match year, product, sport, subject, code, parallel and condition before using a sale as a comparison.

The ten featured records have full supporting data.

All ten cards in this feature have an exact image, a raw guide, at least three exact completed sales and a sale within the 90-day review window. That is enough to assess the recorded market, but it does not establish that any card is underpriced. Compare the price of the copy for sale with the results for its own release and condition.

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