2026 Topps Chrome Sapphire MLS: The Complete Odds, Parallel, and Print Run Breakdown
2026 Topps Chrome Sapphire MLS released October 8, and Topps posted the checklist and the odds sheet two days before. The sheet is short: one column, 15 lines, odds per pack and no print runs, and beyond three serial numbers on its preview cards, Topps hasn't published the runs anywhere else. The three one-of-one lines still pin the product at about 40,560 packs. From there we can check the print runs in our data, estimate the cards that carry no number, and see which autograph tiers come up short.
The box
A box is eight packs of four cards, 32 cards in all, with one Chrome Sapphire autograph per box, according to the box itself. The box also notes that packs with a special insert may contain fewer cards. On Topps' UK store it went out through a draw at £190 a box, five per customer, closing October 8. Topps' product page says Infinite Sapphire falls one per case.
The sheet's odds are per pack, and every pack has a Sapphire base card (1:1). The autograph lines add up to about 0.99 a box, which is the one autograph a box printed on the box. The base parallel lines add up to at least four a box (4.08 on the printed odds, closer to 4.5 once the rounding covered below is taken into account, if the runs in our data hold), and Infinite Sapphire falls about once every 10 boxes.
The checklist
Not counting parallels, Topps' checklist runs 290 cards across three subsets, and Topps tags 71 of them as rookies.
The base set is 200 cards, from Matt Turner at #1 to Bryan Zamblé at #200, with 49 rookies, among them Mateo Silvetti, Adri Mehmeti, Olger Escobar and Tanner Rosborough. Next to current players like Lionel Messi, Son Heung-Min, Thomas Müller and Antoine Griezmann, it carries a long list of former MLS players, David Beckham, Thierry Henry, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Wayne Rooney, Kaká, Andrea Pirlo, Didier Drogba, Gareth Bale and Carlos Valderrama among them.
The other two subsets:
- Chrome Autographs, 80 signers, 20 of them rookies. Messi, Beckham, Griezmann, Son, Müller, James Rodríguez and Marco Reus all sign. Robert Lewandowski and Casemiro appear only here, with no base card.
- Infinite Sapphire, 10 cards, which Topps' checklist marks as exclusive to the Sapphire configuration: Messi, Son, James Rodríguez, Timo Werner, Miguel Almirón, Denis Bouanga, Alphonso Davies, Brian McBride and two rookies, Mateo Silvetti and Adri Mehmeti.
The base ladder
Topps hasn't printed a single run for this product in the text of the odds sheet, the checklist or the product page. Three show up as serial numbers on the preview cards on Topps' product page: a Diego Luna Gold Sapphire numbered 01/50 and an Antoine Griezmann Padparadscha numbered 1/1 in the base set, and a David Beckham Red Sapphire autograph numbered 1/5. The other runs below, base and autograph, are the runs in our data, and the odds have something to say about them further down. Odds per pack:
| Parallel | Print run | Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Sapphire | /50 | 1:5 |
| White Sapphire | /30 | 1:8 |
| Orange Sapphire | /25 | 1:9 |
| Black Sapphire | /10 | 1:22 |
| Red Sapphire | /5 | 1:43 |
| Padparadscha | 1/1 | 1:213 |
If those runs hold, each card in the base set has six numbered parallels, 121 numbered copies in all.
The autographs
Odds per pack. The Gold, Orange and Black runs are the runs in our data. "Base" is the autograph with no parallel, and Topps gives no print run for it.
| Version | Print run | Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Base | Not listed | 1:70 |
| Gold Sapphire | /50 | 1:19 |
| Orange Sapphire | /25 | 1:32 |
| Black Sapphire | /10 | 1:70 |
| Red Sapphire | /5 | 1:106 |
| Padparadscha | 1/1 | 1:514 |
The Red /5 shows on Topps' preview of a David Beckham autograph numbered 1/5, and the one autograph Padparadscha we've seen, a Lionel Messi, is numbered 1/1. The base autograph and the Black /10 share the same odds, 1:70.
Infinite Sapphire
Infinite Sapphire falls 1:80 packs, one every 10 boxes, and its Padparadscha 1:4,056 packs. Those are the only two versions on the sheet.
How many packs the sheet covers
The three Padparadscha lines are the key. Each one counts one-of-ones, so multiplying the odds by the number of cards gives a pack count:
| Line | Cards | Odds | Cards x odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Padparadscha | 200 | 1:213 | 42,600 |
| Chrome Autograph Padparadscha | 80 | 1:514 | 41,120 |
| Infinite Sapphire Padparadscha | 10 | 1:4,056 | 40,560 |
They don't agree, so either not every card got a Padparadscha (Topps' note on the sheet says a subject on the checklist isn't guaranteed to appear in every parallel) or not every one made it into packs.
Topps rounds the odds on this sheet up to the next whole number. That's the only way the three lines fit together with every Infinite Padparadscha in packs. Rounded to the nearest whole number instead, they could only agree at about 36,500 packs, with one Infinite Padparadscha, nine autograph Padparadschas and 29 base Padparadschas missing, and the numbered tiers further down wouldn't fit any single share. Rounding up also means every count worked back from the odds is a floor: a line at 1:9 means one in nine packs or a little better.
Rounded up, the Infinite Padparadscha line caps the run. Ten cards at 1:4,056 means no more than 40,560 packs, since any more would print as 1:4,057. With all 10 in packs, it's at least 40,551. Anywhere in that window, the base line works out to 191 of the 200 base Padparadschas in packs, and the autograph line to 79 of the 80.
So the sheet covers about 40,560 packs. That's about 5,070 boxes of eight packs, and up to about 162,000 cards. Topps says Infinite Sapphire is one per case, and 1:80 packs is one every 10 boxes, so a case looks like 10 boxes, and 5,070 boxes is 507 cases. At 40,560 packs, the 1:80 line puts at least 507 Infinite Sapphire cards in packs, one per case. The autograph lines put at least 5,025 autographs in packs, about one per box, which is what the box says.
What the odds say about the print runs
Here's what the odds put in packs at 40,560 packs, against what the runs in our data would print. Each range runs from the floor the odds give up to the most the line allows before it would print one number lower, or the full run, whichever is lower.
| Base tier | Printed (200 cards) | In packs | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Sapphire /50 | 10,000 | 8,112 to 10,000 | 81 to 100% |
| White Sapphire /30 | 6,000 | 5,070 to 5,794 | 85 to 97% |
| Orange Sapphire /25 | 5,000 | 4,507 to 5,000 | 90 to 100% |
| Black Sapphire /10 | 2,000 | 1,844 to 1,931 | 92 to 97% |
| Red Sapphire /5 | 1,000 | 944 to 965 | 94 to 96.5% |
| Padparadscha 1/1 | 200 | 191 | 95.5% |
The base runs hold up. One share fits every base tier at once: with about 95.5 percent of each run in packs (191 of the 200 Padparadschas), every base line comes out exactly as printed, from the Gold at 1:5 to the Padparadscha at 1:213. The autograph Red /5 at 1:106 fits a share just above that, about 96 percent, if all 80 signers have one. A wrong run would stick out. At /25, for example, the White would have 5,000 cards printed, and the sheet already puts at least 5,070 in packs.
Three autograph tiers don't fit 80 signers.
| Autograph tier | Printed if all 80 signers have it | In packs | Enough for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Sapphire /50 | 4,000 | 2,135 to 2,253 | about 43 to 47 signers |
| Orange Sapphire /25 | 2,000 | 1,268 to 1,308 | about 51 to 55 signers |
| Black Sapphire /10 | 800 | 580 to 587 | about 58 to 61 signers |
| Red Sapphire /5 | 400 | 383 to 386 | about 77 to 80 signers |
| Padparadscha 1/1 | 80 | 79 | 79 of 80 |
The "enough for" column counts signers with anywhere from the base ladder's share of about 95.5 percent of each run in packs up to every copy. At that share, the Red and the Padparadscha fit all 80 signers. The Gold, Orange and Black come in well short: the Gold line puts no more than 2,253 cards in packs where 80 signers at /50 would make 4,000.
Topps' note on the sheet says a subject being on the checklist doesn't guarantee it appears in every parallel. Either a good share of the 80 signers skip the Gold, Orange and Black tiers, or those runs are shorter than the runs in our data. Until Topps prints them or more serial numbers turn up, read the autograph Gold /50, Orange /25 and Black /10 as ceilings.
The cards with no number
Using 40,560 packs:
- Base autograph: at least 580 in packs, the same as the Black /10. Spread over 80 signers, that's about seven each.
- Infinite Sapphire: at least 507, about 51 of each of the 10 cards.
- Base Sapphire cards: 40,560 packs of four cards hold about 162,000 cards. Taking out the parallels, autographs and Infinite Sapphire leaves at most about 136,000 base cards, about 680 of each of the 200, and a little less where packs with a special insert run short.
These are estimates, and the Infinite Sapphire and base autograph figures are floors.
The rarest pulls
The Infinite Sapphire Padparadscha is the toughest line on the sheet at 1:4,056 packs, one in 507 boxes, or about one every 51 cases if a case is 10 boxes. There are 10, one for each card, and the odds put all 10 in packs. Next is the autograph Padparadscha at 1:514 packs, about one every 64 boxes, with 79 of the 80 in packs. The base Padparadscha falls 1:213 packs, about one every 27 boxes, and the autograph Red /5 1:106 packs, about one every 13 boxes.
If every card has a Padparadscha, the product has 290 one-of-ones, 200 base, 80 autograph and 10 Infinite Sapphire, and the odds put 280 of them in packs. That's about one every 145 packs, or one every 18 boxes.
What to watch
Chrome Sapphire MLS released October 8. The things we're watching: serial numbers on the White, Orange, Black and Red base parallels, which Topps hasn't shown; which signers turn up in the autograph Gold, Orange and Black tiers; whether the base autograph carries a serial number, since it shares 1:70 with the Black; and Topps confirming the case size. We'll update this piece if any of that changes.
The full checklist and every parallel with its print run and odds are on the 2026 Topps Chrome Sapphire MLS release page, and you can track what you pull in HobbyMonitor Collections.
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Published: October 2026