Ilia Topuria Twilight #TL-12: 2026 Topps Midnight UFC
Ilia Topuria has two “Twilight” cards in 2026 Topps Midnight UFC and this is the hard one: #TL-12, a case-hit insert, not the Twilight /99 parallel of his base #1. We have catalogued 3 versions. 2 have a photo of the actual copy.
Two Ilia Topuria “Twilight” cards in 2026 Midnight
In 2026 Topps Midnight UFC there are two Ilia Topuria cards sold as “Twilight”, and they have nothing in common:
The Twilight /99 is a colour of his base #1: numbered to 99 and 1:2 boxes for any fighter, per the official sheet. It is on the 2026 Midnight #1 page.
The Twilight #TL-12 is a 20-card insert at 1:48 boxes, with its own design and ladder: no colour, Daybreak /5 and Black Light 1/1. It is the subject of this page.
Which is harder: the maths
Ilia Topuria's Twilight /99 turns up on average once every 200 boxes (1:2 × 100 base cards); the no-colour TL-12, once every 960 (1:48 × 20). Our estimates, with an even split.
The no-colour TL-12 carries no number and is still scarcer: if copies follow the odds, with the Daybreak /5 at 1:222 it comes to about 23 per fighter, against the parallel's 99. Our estimate, not a Topps figure.
What TL-12 shows
Front: the Twilight portrait, half of Ilia Topuria's face in shadow, now on a prismatic rainbow background; at the bottom, the UFC logo, his name and “Lightweight”, per the photo of our copy.
Compared with the 2025 TL-13: there the background was black and the name ran vertically with “Featherweight”. In between he won the lightweight title against Charles Oliveira at UFC 317.
We do not describe the back: we do not yet have a reliable photo of the TL-12 back.
TL-12 odds, version by version
2026 Midnight comes with one 7-card pack per box, 8 boxes per case, released May 22, 2026, per Checklist Insider, a secondary source. Per-box odds from the official sheet; in brackets, Ilia Topuria's own card (our estimate, odds × 20):
No colour, unnumbered: 1:48 (1:960).
Daybreak /5: 1:222 (1:4,440).
Black Light 1/1: 1:1,109 (1:22,180), the longest odds of his three 2026 case hits.
Rookie? No
The official Topps checklist prints “TL-12 Ilia Topuria Rookie”. It is a mistake: his rookie cards are from 2022 (Ilia Topuria rookies) and he has been in Midnight since 2024. The family rookie in 2026 is his brother Aleksandre Topuria, base #41.