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Cale Makar
2019–20 · Upper Deck Hockey — Young Guns Clear Cut · #493
Makar’s explicitly named Clear Cut Young Guns #493 parallel.
- Sport
- Hockey
- Year / season
- 2019–20
- Set
- Upper Deck Hockey — Young Guns Clear Cut
- Number
- #493
- Format
- Card
- Issue status
- Rookie card
About this card
Cale Makar’s 2019–20 Upper Deck Hockey card is number 493 in that release, in the Young Guns Clear Cut edition. Upper Deck has made NHL cards since 1990-91, and its Series 1 and Series 2 sets are the league’s flagship release. In modern sets, rookies appear as Young Guns, a short-printed subset with its own design, and Young Guns are among the most collected modern hockey cards.
The catalog labels this a rookie card, based on the source cited below.
How to identify it
Young Guns sit inside the main numbering, so a number alone does not tell you whether a card is a Young Gun; look for the Young Guns banner. Parallels such as Exclusives and High Gloss share the number but are serial-numbered or differently finished.
The catalog also lists the Young Guns version of #493, so the finish or edition name is what separates the two.
In Cale Makar’s run
Cale Makar has 3 entries in this catalog, from 2019–20 to 2024–25, and this is the second of them by year. Nearby entries are listed below, so you can compare the releases that sit around this one.
In the 2019–20 checklist
This is the only entry from the 2019–20 Upper Deck Hockey — Young Guns Clear Cut release in the catalog so far. The full release has more cards; this page covers the one cataloged here.
What to know about this issue
- Upper Deck marks the Clear Cut Parallel — Young Guns #493 row as Rookie.
- Clear Cut remains part of the set identity even though the base version shares the number.
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