The rookie
2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30
Dern's first licensed card of any kind, and the only base card of her issued before 2019. It came out 28 November 2018, after she had already won two UFC fights, because Topps had left her off the 100-card 2018 Topps UFC Chrome checklist two months earlier. A 50-card high-end base set means the print run behind it is small compared with a normal flagship rookie.
Sellers list the #MA-MD autograph as a 'rookie autograph' and Prizm #76 as a rookie. One eBay listing for the MA-MD autograph has the name misspelled 'Mackenzie Dean', which keeps it out of name searches.
- Earliest licensed card2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30 High confidence
- First MMA card2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30 High confidence
- First UFC card2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30 High confidence
- First certified autograph2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection Museum Autographs #MA-MD High confidence
- Recognized rookie card2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30 High confidence
The evidence behind each
- 2018Earliest licensed card — Cardboard Connection's product page gives a 28 November 2018 release, a 50-card base set and '30 Mackenzie Dern - Strawweight'; MMA Rookies opens her entry with the same card. No jiu-jitsu, Legacy FC or Invicta FC card of her is catalogued.
- 2018First MMA card — Same sources; her 2015 ADCC and no-gi world titles and her single Invicta FC bout went unrecorded on licensed cardboard.
- 2018First UFC card — Cardboard Connection checklist; the earlier 2018 Topps UFC Chrome (19 September 2018, 100 base cards) does not include her.
- 2018First certified autograph — Cardboard Connection's 52-card Museum Autographs checklist lists 'MA-MD Mackenzie Dern - Strawweight'; MMA Rookies records the same card as both her first autograph and her first on-card autograph.
- 2018Recognized rookie card — MMA Rookies names it her True Rookie Card with 'Other Rookies: None'; Collectibles.com states she 'debuted as a Rookie in 2018', and her only other 2018 card is the autograph from the same product.
Key Dern cards
10 cards chosen for significance, not completeness; autographs and numbered cards follow below.
Card history
Dern arrived in the UFC with a grappling résumé most fighters would envy and none of it on cardboard: her 2015 ADCC and no-gi world titles, the Legacy FC run and her single Invicta FC bout against Kaline Medeiros in December 2017 all went by without a licensed card. Topps then left her off the 100-card 2018 Topps UFC Chrome checklist on September 19, 2018, months after she had beaten Ashley Yoder at UFC 222 and won again, so there is nothing at all to collect from before that winter.
Her first card is instead a high-end one: 2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30, released November 28, 2018, out of a 50-card base set, with Copper, Gold /75, Sapphire /25, Ruby /8 and Emerald 1/1 above it. It is also her rookie card, and unusually cleanly so: MMA Rookies designates it her True Rookie Card and records no other rookie cards for her at all, Collectibles.com's register gives 2018 as her rookie year, and the 2018 Topps UFC Chrome release two months earlier left her off its checklist, so nothing from the same year competes with it. The small base set means the print run behind it is far smaller than a flagship rookie's.
The same box produced her first certified autograph, Museum Autographs #MA-MD, hard-signed and numbered to 99 or lower with Gold /25, Ruby /8 and Emerald 1/1 above it — which means every signed Dern card from her first year is serial-numbered. MMA Rookies records it as both her first autograph and her first on-card autograph, since Museum Collection signatures go on the card rather than on a sticker. Sellers list it as a 'rookie autograph' because it shares a release date with #30; it is the autograph subset, not the base rookie, and at least one listing has her surname misspelled 'Dean'. 2019 Topps Chrome UFC #16 is her first card in a mainstream, widely opened product and the first most collectors actually pulled, and the Chrome autograph #FA-MD, recorded with a Blue Wave refractor, is her first signature available in an unnumbered base version. Topps' own retrospective also names a 2019 Knockout Fire Autographs #UFCF-MD.
Panini put her in Prizm from the start of its licence — 2021 Panini Prizm UFC #76 from the April 2021 Debut Edition, with Silver, Gold and Black prizms catalogued, and a second Prizm card at #26 in 2022. It is #76 that gets mislabelled a rookie most often, three years after the fact. Her main Panini signature is 2022 Panini Select UFC Signatures #SG-MDR from that July's release, with a Black Prizms version at the top of the Select colour ladder; no print run is published for either the base signature or the Black.
Topps' return went heavy on her autographs. 2024 Topps Gold Label UFC, December 13, 2024, gave her base #55 with a Black Class 1 version numbered /10 and the Ranked Ink Autographs #RIK-MDE at /299 with parallels running from Blue /99 down to 1/1 — the most accessible numbered Dern signature there is. Topps Midnight added Glimmer Graphs Daybreak #GG-MDN /5 and Topps Finest an autograph at #FA-MDN. Then she took the vacant strawweight title from Virna Jandiroba at UFC 321 on October 25, 2025, and the 2026 checklists moved her to the front: Chrome UFC #185 with Aqua, Green and Mini Diamonds refractors, and card #1 of 2026 Topps Stadium Club UFC, with a Base Chrome run at #CB-1 topping out in a SuperFractor and two autograph subsets, #BAV-MDN and Abstract Autographs #AA-MD.
Autographs
4 certified autographs in the archive.
Card eras
Her 2015 ADCC and no-gi world titles, her Legacy FC run and her single Invicta FC bout (Kaline Medeiros, 8 December 2017) all passed without a licensed card. No jiu-jitsu, Legacy FC or Invicta FC issue of Dern appears in any catalogued checklist, and neither promotion held a trading-card licence in those years.
2018 Topps UFC Chrome (19 September, 100 cards) skipped her; Museum Collection on 28 November gave her base #30 and her first certified autograph, #MA-MD /99. MMA Rookies treats #30 as her true rookie and lists no others.
2019 Topps Chrome UFC #16 is her first Chrome base card, and Collectibles.com records a Chrome autograph #FA-MD with a Blue Wave parallel. Topps' own retrospective also names a 2019 Knockout Fire Autographs #UFCF-MD.
Panini's UFC licence put her in Prizm from the start — 2021 Panini Prizm UFC #76, with Silver, Gold and Black prizms — then 2022 Panini Select UFC Signatures #SG-MDR and 2022 Panini Prizm UFC #26.
Topps Gold Label UFC gave her base #55 and Ranked Ink Autographs #RIK-MDE /299, and Topps Midnight added Glimmer Graphs Daybreak #GG-MDN /5. Topps Finest UFC also carries an autograph, #FA-MDN.
She took the vacant UFC women's strawweight title from Virna Jandiroba at UFC 321 on 25 October 2025. The 2026 sets reflect it: 2026 Topps Chrome UFC #185 and, tellingly, card #1 of 2026 Topps Stadium Club UFC, plus Stadium Club autographs #BAV-MDN and Abstract Autographs #AA-MD.
Rookie parallels
Sets
Where Dern's key cards come from.
- 20182018 Topps UFC Museum Collection1 key card
- 20182018 Topps UFC Museum Collection Museum Autographs1 key card
- 20192019 Topps Chrome UFC1 key card
- 20192019 Topps Chrome UFC Autographs1 key card
- 20212021 Panini Prizm UFC1 key card
- 20222022 Panini Select UFC Signatures1 key card
- 20242024 Topps Gold Label UFC1 key card
- 20242024 Topps Gold Label UFC Ranked Ink Autographs1 key card
- 20262026 Topps Chrome UFC1 key card
- 20262026 Topps Stadium Club UFC1 key card
Buying & wanted
- 012018 Topps UFC Museum Collection Museum Autographs #MA-MD /99 — her first certified autograph; the Gold /25, Ruby /8 and Emerald 1/1 parallels are the real chase
- 022018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30 in Ruby /8 or Emerald 1/1 — the rookie in its scarcest parallels
- 032019 Topps Chrome UFC Autographs #FA-MD Blue Wave — her first Chrome-format signature
- 042026 Topps Stadium Club UFC #1 and the Abstract Autographs #AA-MD — the first cards issued of her as reigning champion
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Mackenzie Dern's rookie card: 2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30 — Mackenzie Dern.
MMA Rookies names 2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30 her 'True Rookie Card' and lists 'Other Rookies: None'. Cardboard Connection's checklist for the product confirms #30 as 'Mackenzie Dern - Strawweight' in a 50-card base set released 28 November 2018, and SportsCardsPro carries the same card. It is also her earliest card of any kind: Cardboard Connection's 2018 Topps UFC Chrome checklist (19 September 2018, 100 base cards) does not include her, and no pre-2018 jiu-jitsu, Legacy FC or Invicta FC card of her was found on any reachable source.
- MMA RookiesDern, Mackenzie | RC, accessed September 22, 2026
- 2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection, accessed September 21, 2026
- Cardboard Connection2018 Topps UFC Chrome Checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
- 2019 Topps Chrome UFC Autographs, accessed September 22, 2026
- SportsCardsProMackenzie Dern #30 — 2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection, accessed September 22, 2026
Dern arrived in the UFC with a grappling résumé most fighters would envy and none of it on cardboard: her 2015 ADCC and no-gi world titles, the Legacy FC run and her single Invicta FC bout against Kaline Medeiros in December 2017 all went by without a licensed card. Topps then left her off the 100-card 2018 Topps UFC Chrome checklist on September 19, 2018, months after she had beaten Ashley Yoder at UFC 222 and won again, so there is nothing at all to collect from before that winter.
- Cardboard Connection2018 Topps UFC Chrome Checklist, accessed September 21, 2026
- MMA RookiesDern, Mackenzie | RC, accessed September 22, 2026
Her first card is instead a high-end one: 2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30, released November 28, 2018, out of a 50-card base set, with Copper, Gold /75, Sapphire /25, Ruby /8 and Emerald 1/1 above it. It is also her rookie card, and unusually cleanly so: MMA Rookies designates it her True Rookie Card and records no other rookie cards for her at all, Collectibles.com's register gives 2018 as her rookie year, and the 2018 Topps UFC Chrome release two months earlier left her off its checklist, so nothing from the same year competes with it. The small base set means the print run behind it is far smaller than a flagship rookie's.
The same box produced her first certified autograph, Museum Autographs #MA-MD, hard-signed and numbered to 99 or lower with Gold /25, Ruby /8 and Emerald 1/1 above it — which means every signed Dern card from her first year is serial-numbered. MMA Rookies records it as both her first autograph and her first on-card autograph, since Museum Collection signatures go on the card rather than on a sticker. Sellers list it as a 'rookie autograph' because it shares a release date with #30; it is the autograph subset, not the base rookie, and at least one listing has her surname misspelled 'Dean'. 2019 Topps Chrome UFC #16 is her first card in a mainstream, widely opened product and the first most collectors actually pulled, and the Chrome autograph #FA-MD, recorded with a Blue Wave refractor, is her first signature available in an unnumbered base version. Topps' own retrospective also names a 2019 Knockout Fire Autographs #UFCF-MD.
Panini put her in Prizm from the start of its licence — 2021 Panini Prizm UFC #76 from the April 2021 Debut Edition, with Silver, Gold and Black prizms catalogued, and a second Prizm card at #26 in 2022. It is #76 that gets mislabelled a rookie most often, three years after the fact. Her main Panini signature is 2022 Panini Select UFC Signatures #SG-MDR from that July's release, with a Black Prizms version at the top of the Select colour ladder; no print run is published for either the base signature or the Black.
Topps' return went heavy on her autographs. 2024 Topps Gold Label UFC, December 13, 2024, gave her base #55 with a Black Class 1 version numbered /10 and the Ranked Ink Autographs #RIK-MDE at /299 with parallels running from Blue /99 down to 1/1 — the most accessible numbered Dern signature there is. Topps Midnight added Glimmer Graphs Daybreak #GG-MDN /5 and Topps Finest an autograph at #FA-MDN. Then she took the vacant strawweight title from Virna Jandiroba at UFC 321 on October 25, 2025, and the 2026 checklists moved her to the front: Chrome UFC #185 with Aqua, Green and Mini Diamonds refractors, and card #1 of 2026 Topps Stadium Club UFC, with a Base Chrome run at #CB-1 topping out in a SuperFractor and two autograph subsets, #BAV-MDN and Abstract Autographs #AA-MD.
2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30 — Mackenzie Dern.
2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection Museum Autographs #MA-MD — Mackenzie Dern.
2019 Topps Chrome UFC #16 — Mackenzie Dern.
2019 Topps Chrome UFC Autographs #FA-MD — Mackenzie Dern.
2021 Panini Prizm UFC #76 — Mackenzie Dern.
2022 Panini Select UFC Signatures #SG-MDR — Mackenzie Dern.
2024 Topps Gold Label UFC #55 — Mackenzie Dern.
2024 Topps Gold Label UFC Ranked Ink Autographs #RIK-MDE — Mackenzie Dern.
2026 Topps Chrome UFC #185 — Mackenzie Dern.
2026 Topps Stadium Club UFC #1 — Mackenzie Dern.