Ilia Topuria Neon Apex #NA-1: 2026 Topps Midnight UFC
Ilia Topuria opens the checklist of Neon Apex, the neon-and-outer-space case hit of 2026 Topps Midnight UFC: we have catalogued 3 versions of his #NA-1, from the no-colour card to the Black Light 1/1. 1 has a photo of the actual copy.
Neon Apex is a 25-card insert in 2026 Topps Midnight UFC, new that year, which Checklist Insider describes as having “a fluorescent triangle frame and an outer-space vantage point” (secondary source). Topps names it, alongside Twilight, among the brand's signature chase cards in its Midnight UFC history.
Ilia Topuria is #NA-1, the first card on the checklist, per the official checklist. Next come Conor McGregor (#NA-2), Zhang Weili, Paddy Pimblett and, among others, Alexander Volkanovski (#NA-8) and Islam Makhachev (#NA-18).
Front, landscape: Ilia Topuria in his stance, gloves at face height, in front of an outer-space scene with a planet and a moon; neon triangles with arrows frame him, on a prismatic finish. “Midnight” runs down the side and his name and “Lightweight” sit at the bottom.
Back: “Neon Apex” in pink neon-tube letters, “Card from 2026 Topps Midnight UFC”, his name and “Lightweight”. It tells no fight.
NA-1 odds and scarcity
A 2026 Midnight case is 8 boxes of one 7-card pack each, per Checklist Insider (a secondary source), so the odds on the official Topps sheet count boxes. For the NA-1 itself, multiply them by the 25 names on the checklist (our estimate, in brackets):
No colour, unnumbered: 1:38 (1:950).
Daybreak /5: 1:178 (1:4,450).
Black Light 1/1: 1:887 (1:22,175).
Some NA-1 every 756 boxes on average, about 95 cases. And the no-colour card, with a split proportional to the odds, would come to around 23 copies. Our estimates.
Neon Apex, Lunar Apex and Cemented
Lunar Apex is a different insert: also new in 2026, with 20 cards, the LA- prefix and a ladder from Moon Beam to Black Light, per the official sheet. Ilia Topuria is not in it. They only share the word “Apex”.
Cemented has exactly Neon Apex's odds (1:38, 1:178 and 1:887) and is also a case hit, but Ilia Topuria is not on its checklist.
1/1 versions: 1. Still without a photo: 2. Confirmed sales on record: 7.
“No photo” means the piece is on the checklist and we have not yet seen a copy. On the card page the image looks rotated because the card is landscape.