Ilia Topuria 2026 Topps Midnight UFC #1: the base card and every parallel
Card #1 of 2026 Topps Midnight UFC is Ilia Topuria's, the card that opens the base set, and here it is with its whole after-dark rainbow: we have catalogued 10 versions of that number, from the base to the Black Light 1/1, with the official odds of every colour. 9 have a photo of the actual copy.
Ilia Topuria is card #1 of the 100 in the base set of 2026 Topps Midnight UFC, per the official Topps checklist; his brother Aleksandre Topuria is #41, as a rookie. This page does not repeat the set page: it gathers every colour of that number.
Front: Ilia Topuria from the waist up, arms crossed, in front of concentric rings; the “Midnight” title on top and his name below, above the UFC logo, per the photo of our copy.
Back: it describes him as a puncher whose combinations land “like bolts of lightning”, says he rose to the top of the pound-for-pound rankings after beating Charles Oliveira in the main event of UFC 317 and that, in capturing the lightweight title, he stayed unbeaten and became just the 10th multi-division champion. Printed division: “Lightweight”. Per the photographed back of our copy.
The same design in every colour: from one parallel to the next only the finish changes and, on the numbered ones, the print run.
Which box the 2026 Midnight #1 comes from
Midnight is Hobby only: a box is a single 7-card pack, with 3 autographs, 2 base parallels and 1 insert, 8 boxes per case, released on May 22, 2026 at $269.99 ($259.99 in the Topps presale), per Checklist Insider, a secondary source. Because the box is one pack, the per-pack odds on the official sheet are also per-box odds.
The #1 ladder: odds and print runs, colour by colour
Midnight /12: 1:17. Daybreak /5: 1:40. Black Light 1/1: 1:198.
Moon Beam, Zodiac and Twilight: what gets mixed up
Moon Beam carries no number, but it is not common: it falls less often than the Moonrise /25. Compared with the numbered parallels on the same sheet, each fighter would have around 14 Moon Beams; that is our estimate, assuming the sheet spreads copies in proportion to the print run.
Zodiac is unnumbered too and falls 1:4: by the same reckoning, about 50 copies per fighter (our estimate).
“Twilight” is two different cards: the /99 base parallel and the #TL-12 case-hit insert, with its own ladder. Without the number you cannot tell which.
The number changes every year: Ilia Topuria's base is #82 in 2024, #11 in 2025 and #1 in 2026, and each has its own page: Midnight 2025 #11 and Midnight 2024 #82.
How scarce the #1 is, in numbers
Any fighter's Black Light 1/1 falls once every 198 boxes, per the official sheet. With 100 cards in the base set, Ilia Topuria's in particular falls once every 19,800 boxes, about 2,475 cases of 8: our estimate, assuming an even spread across the 100.
The Daybreak /5 of any fighter falls 1:40; Ilia Topuria's, once every 4,000 boxes (our estimate). It is among his /5 numbered cards, and the Black Light among Ilia Topuria's 1/1 cards.
How to read this list
1/1 versions in the list: 1. Still without a photo: 1. Confirmed sales recorded for the whole number: 68.
“No photo” means the piece is on the checklist and we have not yet seen a copy.
Topps publishes odds, not print runs: the print runs come from the secondary checklist and from the numbering on the copies we have seen.