2026 Topps Five Star Baseball: Checklist, Box Breakdown and Presale Prices
2026 Topps Five Star Baseball releases October 28 through EQL. Six encased cards a box, five on-card autos, two new autograph lines, and dealer asks near $2,000.
Five Star is Topps’ answer to “what if every card in the box was the hit,” and the 2026 edition keeps the bit going. It releases Wednesday, October 28, and Topps is selling it on release day through EQL, the raffle platform it uses for limited drops.
Cards to chase
Dual Autograph Patch (McGwire and Kurtz), Jumbo Prime Autograph (Lindor), Five Star Active Autograph (Caglianone RC) and Baseball Royalty (Harper). Images: Topps, via Checklist Insider.
The format
Five Star comes in exactly one format, the Hobby box:
| Spec | Details |
|---|---|
| Packs per box | 6 |
| Cards per pack | 1 (encased) |
| Autographs per box | 5 on-card autos, numbered to 199 or less |
| Base card per box | 1, numbered to 50 or less |
| Case | 3 boxes |
| Case hits | 1 color-ink autograph and 2 autograph relics |
| Release | October 28, 2026, via EQL |
Six cards per box, five of them autographs, everything encased. The case hits are part of a case’s 15 autographs, not extras on top. The color-ink auto comes from Baseball Royalty, Golden Graphs or Silver Signatures. This is a high-end product: no blasters, no value packs, no pretending otherwise.
The base set
The base set is 100 cards covering rookies, veterans and legends, and every single one is numbered to 50 or less. 29 of the 100 are rookies. Base parallels run Amber /25, Emerald /15, Onyx /10, Ruby /5, up to a 1/1 FoilFractor.
What’s new for 2026
Two autograph lines debut this year:
- Leaderboard Legend Autographs (38 cards, /50)
- Apex Autographs (34 cards, /25)
Also on the checklist: Five Star Fabric Autographs (37 players, /50), which Topps Ripped describes as a star-shaped die-cut window around a jumbo swatch, and the 1/1 Rookie Cap Patch Autographs with real hat swatches, in MLB-logo and side-logo versions (17 players each).
The autograph lineup
The rest of the hits read like a greatest-hits album of premium baseball:
- Golden Graphs (33 cards, /50): color-ink signatures, with rookies like Jac Caglianone, Bubba Chandler, Jacob Misiorowski, Nolan McLean and Sal Stewart alongside legends like Robin Yount
- Quintuple Relic Autographs (15 cards, /10): one auto, five relics. Aaron Judge, Francisco Lindor, Mariano Rivera, Paul Skenes and more
- Dual Autograph Patch (10 cards, /10): pairings like Cal Ripken Jr. with Gunnar Henderson, Mike Trout with Reggie Jackson, and Mark McGwire with Nick Kurtz
- Jumbo Prime Autographs (73 cards, /50): the deepest relic-auto checklist
- Award Winner Autograph Relics (6 cards, /10): 2025’s award winners Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, Tarik Skubal and Paul Skenes, Nick Kurtz and Drake Baldwin
- Triple Autographs (11 cards, /5): including an Expos trio of Randy Johnson, Vladimir Guerrero and Larry Walker
- Quotable (25 cards, /5): autographs with handwritten inscriptions
- Cut Signatures (57 cards, 1/1) and Welcome to the Club (1/1, Shohei Ohtani and Barry Bonds)
Silver Signatures, one of the three color-ink lines (Fernando Tatis Jr., Amber parallel). Image: Topps, via Checklist Insider.
Price check
Topps’ price: Checklist Insider reports the release-day EQL price at $1,199.99 a box. Last year’s Five Star was $999.99 on Topps’ launch site, so that’s a $200 bump.
Dealer presales (asking prices checked October 27, not sales):
| Seller | Hobby box |
|---|---|
| Diamond Cards | $1,799.94 |
| CardCollector2 | $2,049.99 |
| Bleecker Trading | $2,100.00 |
Three-box cases on Waxstat were listed from $6,147, with a $6,749 average. Those dealer asks run roughly 1.5 to 1.75 times the EQL price, which is what you pay to skip the raffle.
Sold prices: eBay’s sold listings returned an error page when we checked on October 27, and DropForecast, which tracks eBay sales for new releases, showed no recorded sales yet. So there’s no sales history behind any of these asks.
Who it’s for
This is the release for the collector who’d rather have six great cards than sixty good ones. If your favorite part of a box break is the encased hit, Five Star is the whole box. If you like ripping volume, look elsewhere. There is no cheap seat at this table.
Sources
- Checklist Insider - 2026 Topps Five Star Baseball (checklist, box setup, case hits, EQL price, images)
- Topps - Five Star Baseball release page
- Topps Ripped - 2026 Topps Five Star Baseball Collector Guide
- Topps launch page - 2025 Topps Five Star Baseball (2025 price)
- Presales: Diamond Cards, CardCollector2, Bleecker Trading; Waxstat case tracking
- DropForecast - 2026 Topps Five Star Baseball
