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True rookie
2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30 Mackenzie Dern — front
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Mackenzie Dern
Rookie Card

Which card is the rookie, how to tell it, and what gets mistaken for it.

  • The answer2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30
  • SubjectMackenzie Dern
  • Year2018
  • ManufacturerTopps
  • ConfidenceHigh confidence
  • Print runUnknown — not estimated
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Why this is the rookie

MMA Rookies names 2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30 her True Rookie Card and records no other rookie cards at all, which is unusually clean. Cardboard Connection's checklist confirms '30 Mackenzie Dern - Strawweight' in a 50-card base set released 28 November 2018, and Collectibles.com gives 2018 as her rookie year. The earlier 2018 Topps UFC Chrome release from September that year does not include her, so there is no same-year competitor.

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.

Commonly misidentified

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.

Identifying it

  • Card #30 of a 50-card base set
  • Checklist line reads 'Mackenzie Dern - Strawweight' (Cardboard Connection)
  • Product released 28 November 2018; Sean O'Malley and Israel Adesanya (#42) are in the same base set
  • Base parallels are Copper, Gold /75, Sapphire /25, Ruby /8 and Emerald 1/1

Parallels

Base
—
Unnumbered
Emerald
1/1
High confidence
Ruby
/8
High confidence
Sapphire
/25
High confidence
Gold
/75
High confidence
Copper
—
High confidence

Card milestones

Five separate questions, kept separate. How these are defined.

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.

Grading & population

Population figures will be taken directly from the grading companies and dated when they are. None are shown yet.

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Every factual claim on this page, the evidence behind it, and an honest confidence level. Where sources disagree the disagreement is kept, not quietly resolved.

High confidence

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.

Verified

2018 Topps UFC Museum Collection #30 — Mackenzie Dern.

Uncertain

SportsCardsPro's 'Is Rookie Card' data field says No; MMA Rookies says it is her true rookie. The parallel list is the product-wide list from Cardboard Connection — I did not see a Dern-specific confirmation of each colour.

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