The world of trading cards, particularly sports cards, is yuge. At the heart of the hobby lies a diverse range of refractors, parallels, and variants.

This guide is your definitive resource for understanding and identifying every type of refractor and variant in the trading card hobby.

Whether you’re chasing a silver refractor, a gold wave parallel, or an ultra-rare one-of-one superfractor, this guide will equip you with the knowledge to navigate the intricacies of the trading card market

Note: This list of trading card refractors and holographic/hologram cards or special editions and parallels will be updated regularly.

Click next to each card type to create a direct link.

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Pattern Types #

Checkerboard / X-Fractor #

Cracked Ice / Atomic #

Disco / No Huddle #

Flash / Shock #

Mojo / Mega #

Pulsar #

Scope #

Shimmer #

Wave #

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Refractor Types #

Base Card Example #

Refractor #

Prism Refractor #

Pink Refractor #

Sepia Refractor #

X-Fractor #

Negative Refractor #

Purple Refractor #

Blue Refractor #

Green Refractor #

Green Wave Refractor #

Blue Wave Refractor #

Gold Refractor #

Gold Wave Refractor #

Orange Refractor #

Orange Wave Refractor #

Red Refractor #

Red Wave Refractor #

Black Refractor #

White Refractor #

Superfractor #

Cherry Blossom Refractor #

Super Glow Superfractor #

Raywave Refractor #

Die-cut #

Chrome Gold #

Night Vision Refractors #

Speckled Refractor #

Comes in Green, Gold, Orange, Black, Red and Superfractor

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Foilboard Cards #

Green Foilboard #

Orange Foilboard #

Red Foilboard #

Vintage Stock #

Red Stars #

Independence Day #

Father’s Day Powder Blue #

Mother’s Day Hot Pink #

Memorial Day Camo #

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Mosaic Range #

Mosaic #

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Camo Pink Mosaic #

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Choice Peacock Mosaic #

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Fast Break Silver Mosaic #

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Genesis Mosaic #

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Green Mosaic #

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Reactive Blue Mosaic #

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Reactive Orange Mosaic #

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Red Mosaic #

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Blue Mosaic #

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Choice Red Fusion Mosaic #

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Fast Break Blue Mosaic #

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Fast Break Purple Mosaic #

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Purple Mosaic #

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Orange Fluorescent Mosaic #

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White Mosaic #

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Fast Break Pink Mosaic #

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Blue Fluorescent Mosaic #

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Pink Swirl Mosaic #

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Fast Break Gold Mosaic #

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Gold Mosaic #

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Green Swirl Mosaic #

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Pink Fluorescent Mosaic #

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Choice Black Gold Mosaic #

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Black Mosaic #

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Choice Nebula Mosaic #

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Fast Break Black Mosaic #

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NBA Hoops #

Black Pulsar Prizm #

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Blue Prizm #

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Blue Cracked Ice Prizm #

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Blue Pulsar Prizm #

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Blue Wave Prizm #

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Flash Prizm #

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Gold Pulsar Prizm #

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Green Prizm #

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Green Cracked Ice Prizm #

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Green Pulsar Prizm #

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Green Shimmer Prizm #

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Pulsar Prizm #

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Purple Disco Prizm #

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Red Prizm #

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Red Cracked Ice Prizm #

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Red Flash Prizm #

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Red Pulsar Prizm #

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Red Wave Prizm #

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Silver Prizm #

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Silver Laser Prizm #

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Silver Mojo Prizm #

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Silver Scope Prizm #

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Teal Prizm #

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Teal Wave Prizm #

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Premium Set Checkerboard Prizm #

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Blue Laser Prizm #

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Blue Mojo Prizm #

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Green Flash Prizm #

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Blue Flash Prizm #

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Purple Flash Prizm #

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Purple Cracked Ice Prizm #

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Pink Flash Prizm #

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Gold Cracked Ice Prizm #

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Gold Flash Prizm #

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Gold Laser Prizm #

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Gold Mojo Prizm #

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Black Flash Prizm #

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Black Laser Prizm #

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Black Mojo Prizm #

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Gold Vinyl Premium Set Prizm #

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Printing Plates #

Comes in Black, Cyan, Yellow & Magenta

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Topps Heritage #

100th Anniversary #

Black Border #

Flip Stock #

Magenta #

Mini Parallels #

Chrome #

Chrome Refractor #

Purple Refractor #

Black Bordered Refractor #

Gold Bordered Refractor #

Superfractor #

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