2025 Topps Holiday Baseball Variations Guide

Topps already adds plenty of winter and festive themes to its Holiday set, but if you see a few more holiday components than usual, you are probably looking at one of the 2025 Topps Holiday Baseball Variations.

In this guide, collectors can find a breakdown and some images of variations found in packs of 2025 Topps Holiday Baseball.

2025 Topps Holiday Baseball Variations Overview

There are four primary variations to look for in 2025 Topps Holiday Baseball. You can click on the names below to be taken directly to information and a checklist for that specific variant:

• Holiday Image SP Variations (25 cards)
• Holiday Image SSP Variations (25 cards)
• Back SP/SSP Variations (50 cards)
• Hidden Elf Variations (25 cards)

2025 Topps Holiday Baseball Variations Codes and How to Use Them

Want another way to spot one of the 2025 Topps Holiday variations besides the image on the front or the design of the card back? The codes in the fine print on the card backs can tell you what you have. To check, simply look at the last three digits of the CMP code at the bottom of a card’s flip side. When it comes to variations, the three digits to know are:

• Base Set — 526
• Hidden Elf — 526
• SP Image Variations — 523
• SSP Image Variations — 527
• Back Variations — 528

2025 Topps Holiday SP Image Variations

For many years, Topps Holiday has included short-printed variations that include extra graphics added to a player’s photo. Baseball bats get turned into candy canes, ballcaps turn into holiday hats or reindeer antlers, and other players appear with holiday light necklaces or gift-wrapped presents.

Sometimes, there is a combination of added elements, giving the cards even more of a holiday feel.

Collectors will be find an image variation inside every collector’s tin of the product, and they also have pack odds of 1:7 mega boxes.

A checklist of players with SP Image variations follows.

• H4 Jacob Wilson, Athletics
• H13 Brooks Lee, Minnesota Twins
• H23 Roki Sasaki, Los Angeles Dodgers
• H41 Pete Crow-Armstrong, Chicago Cubs
• H46 Dylan Crews, Washington Nationals
• H50 Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
• H52 Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers
• H70 Paul Skenes, Pittsburgh Pirates
• H74 Tarik Skubal, Detroit Tigers
• H90 Trea Turner, Philadelphia Phillies
• H97 Elly De La Cruz, Cincinnati Reds
• H100 Bobby Witt Jr., Kansas City Royals
• H113 Luisangel Acuña, New York Mets
• H118 Coby Mayo, Baltimore Orioles
• H121 Cam Smith, Houston Astros
• H150 Juan Soto, New York Mets
• H154 Alex Bregman, Boston Red Sox
• H158 Corbin Carroll, Arizona Diamondbacks
• H161 Aaron Judge, New York Yankees
• H170 Fernando Tatis Jr., San Diego Padres
• H182 Jackson Chourio, Milwaukee Brewers
• H186 Julio Rodríguez, Seattle Mariners
• H195 José Ramírez, Cleveland Guardians
• H199 Spencer Schwellenbach, Atlanta Braves
• H200 Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers

2025 Topps Holiday SSP Image Variations

New in 2025 are Topps Holiday SSP Variations, which are more difficult to spot.

Instead of adding anything to a player’s photo, the SSP variations have a pile of snow on top of the baseball diamond in the bottom right corner of the cards.

These are, naturally, much tougher pulls: Mega box – 1:600 packs; Hobby collector’s tin – 1:480; Retail collector’s tin – 1:1,440.

A checklist of players with SSP variations follows.

• H1 Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers
• H3 Junior Caminero, Tampa Bay Rays
• H12 Freddie Freeman, Los Angeles Dodgers
• H18 Gunnar Henderson, Baltimore Orioles
• H22 Garrett Crochet, Boston Red Sox
• H30 Jackson Merrill, San Diego Padres
• H43 Ketel Marte, Arizona Diamondbacks
• H62 Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves
• H66 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. , Toronto Blue Jays
• H69 Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies
• H79 Andrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh Pirates
• H89 Seiya Suzuki, Chicago Cubs
• H94 James Wood, Washington Nationals
• H101 Brenton Doyle, Colorado Rockies
• H103 Kristian Campbell, Boston Red Sox
• H104 Rhett Lowder, Cincinnati Reds
• H109 Kevin Alcántara, Chicago Cubs
• H136 Jace Jung, Detroit Tigers
• H159 Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Los Angeles Dodgers
• H160 Jackson Jobe, Detroit Tigers
• H171 Francisco Lindor, New York Mets
• H174 Hyeseong Kim, Los Angeles Dodgers
• H176 Jazz Chisholm Jr., New York Yankees
• H177 Matt Chapman, San Francisco Giants
• H196 Jacob deGrom, Texas Rangers

2025 Topps Holiday Back Variations

Also new in 2025 are Topps Holiday Back Variations, which feature a star-shaped holiday cookie with snowflake icing on the flip side where a team’s logo normally appears. Design accents at the top of the card and in the statistics are also changed to red and green instead of team colors.

Short-printed back variations can be found in mega boxes (1:7 packs) and collector’s tins (Hobby – 1:6, Retail – 1:18).

It takes a keen eye for detail to spot the difference between the SP backs and the SSP backs. Both have the cookie and red and green accents, but the SSP backs have a candy cane pattern below the wide red section at the top.

The SSP backs have the same odds as the SSP image variations — Mega box – 1:600 packs; Hobby collector’s tin – 1:480; Retail collector’s tin – 1:1,440.

Below are the checklists Topps released of players with back variations.

SP Checklist

• H13 Brooks Lee, Minnesota Twins
• H18 Gunnar Henderson, Baltimore Orioles
• H22 Garrett Crochet, Boston Red Sox
• H23 Roki Sasaki, Los Angeles Dodgers
• H44 Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros
• H70 Paul Skenes, Pittsburgh Pirates
• H80 Lawrence Butler, Athletics
• H87 Wyatt Langford, Texas Rangers
• H94 James Wood, Washington Nationals
• H98 Chris Sale, Atlanta Braves
• H109 Kevin Alcántara, Chicago Cubs
• H117 Luis Robert Jr., Chicago White Sox
• H119 Max Fried, New York Yankees
• H125 Corey Seager, Texas Rangers
• H135 Blake Snell, Los Angeles Dodgers
• H160 Jackson Jobe, Detroit Tigers
• H170 Fernando Tatis Jr., San Diego Padres
• H176 Jazz Chisholm Jr., New York Yankees
• H179 Zack Wheeler, Philadelphia Phillies
• H182 Jackson Chourio, Milwaukee Brewers
• H185 Corbin Burnes, Arizona Diamondbacks
• H188 Jackson Holliday, Baltimore Orioles
• H190 Rafael Devers, Boston Red Sox
• H195 José Ramírez, Cleveland Guardians
• H200 Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers

SSP Checklist

• H1 Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers
• H23 Roki Sasaki, Los Angeles Dodgers
• H26 Kyle Tucker, Chicago Cubs
• H30 Jackson Merrill, San Diego Padres
• H50 Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
• H60 Drake Baldwin, Atlanta Braves
• H62 Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves
• H69 Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies
• H70 Paul Skenes, Pittsburgh Pirates
• H74 Tarik Skubal, Detroit Tigers
• H75 Spencer Strider, Atlanta Braves
• H79 Andrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh Pirates
• H94 James Wood, Washington Nationals
• H97 Elly De La Cruz, Cincinnati Reds
• H100 Bobby Witt Jr., Kansas City Royals
• H103 Kristian Campbell, Boston Red Sox
• H107 Michael Harris II, Atlanta Braves
• H118 Coby Mayo, Baltimore Orioles
• H121 Cam Smith, Houston Astros
• H150 Juan Soto, New York Mets
• H161 Aaron Judge, New York Yankees
• H171 Francisco Lindor, New York Mets
• H174 Hyeseong Kim, Los Angeles Dodgers
• H182 Jackson Chourio, Milwaukee Brewers
• H186 Julio Rodríguez, Seattle Mariners

2025 Topps Holiday Hidden Elf

Five players have five different Hidden Elf cards, where a tiny elf makes an appearance somewhere on the front of the card.

Players in the set are: Bobby Witt Jr., Aaron Judge, Paul Skenes, Dylan Crews, and Roki Sasaki.

For example, the five cards for Skenes have an elf hidden by his raised foot, above his left shoulder, above his right shoulder, by the baseball diamond in the bottom right corner, and above his pitching hand.

Hidden Elf cards have mega box pack odds of 1:200 and can also be found in collector’s tins (Hobby – 1:45; Retail – 1:24).