2025/26 Topps Merlin English Premier League Soccer Hobby Box

2025/26 Topps Merlin English Premier League brings the 90s-inspired Merlin brand back to the Premier League with Chrome finishes and a 200-card base set. Each hobby box holds 18 packs of 4 cards.

The 200-card base set mixes rookies, veterans and legends, and runs across a range of parallels that includes the VHS Refractor and the Battle of Britpop Refractor, limited to 95 copies. Short-printed variations such as the Merlin Premier League 1996 throwback design nod to the original Merlin releases.

Four common insert sets expand the Merlin world: Mystic Afternoons, a daytime counterpart to Mystic Nights, plus Merlin Speaks, Fantasy Football and Merlin's Young Magicians for the league's young talent. Renaissance and The Shiny make their Premier League debut, joined by the new short prints Magic In His Boots and Merlin's Magnum Opus. The checklist also lists a double-sided Chrome Mask Off insert for Arsenal striker Viktor Gyökeres.

Merlin's Mythical Art original art cards fall one per hobby case, and the release adds rare case hits on top of the insert lineup. The autograph checklist includes rookie autographs and select gold-pen on-card autograph cards.

Highlights

• 18 packs per box, 4 cards per pack

• 200-card base set of rookies, veterans and legends

• Battle of Britpop Refractor parallel limited to 95 copies

• Merlin's Mythical Art original art cards, one per hobby case

• Select gold-pen on-card autograph cards

Box configuration

Good to know

• Sealed box: the cards inside are inserted at random by the manufacturer. The configuration, checklist and odds are Topps'; no particular card, player, parallel or autograph is promised.