2026 Leaf Metal Happy Holidays: Agassi in the Snow, Griffey in Santa Hats

Andre Agassi is preparing to return serve while a sleigh crosses the moon behind him. Ken Griffey Jr. gets a background full of little Santa hats. 2026 Leaf Metal Happy Holidays lets the seasonal decoration do something a standard parallel color cannot: turn an athlete's autograph into a very particular December card.

The Leaf release calendar puts Happy Holidays in December 2026. Standard hobby boxes contain three autograph cards, with ten boxes per case. A separate Ugly Sweater edition has its own exclusive autograph design and eight-box cases.

Six winter scenes and twelve days

Agassi's Winter Wonderland preview is horizontal, with his signature across the snow beneath the tennis photograph. The large moon and tiny airborne sleigh give the card a scene to inhabit. Leaf is making six different backgrounds for Winter Wonderland Signatures, including a new claymation background. A favorite player can therefore appear against more than one kind of holiday setting.

The 12 Days of Christmas makes a longer player-focused run. Leaf says all twelve days can be collected for each featured subject. That is a defined twelve-card pursuit within a themed insert, separate from the six-background Winter Wonderland program.

Griffey's preview keeps a more conventional vertical autograph layout. The blue ink fills a generous white area below his batting photograph; Santa hats repeat around the picture inside the green-and-gold frame. The holiday treatment is unmistakable without squeezing the player into the decoration.

The sweater belongs to its own edition

Leaf reserves Ugly Sweater Signatures for Ugly Sweater Edition boxes and cases. Collectors following that design need the corresponding format. The separate edition matters because its exclusive card is part of the product's structure, rather than a holiday nickname for the ordinary hobby box.

Seasonal die-cuts provide another change in shape, while the advertised signer selection stretches well beyond a single sport. Agassi, Steffi Graf, Nolan Ryan, Barry Sanders and Giannis Antetokounmpo sit alongside performers including Brendan Fraser, Daisy Ridley and Samuel L. Jackson. Those are advertised names across the release; the specific subjects attached to each insert determine which individual runs can be built.

Agassi's snow scene and Griffey's Santa-hat frame show why this release benefits from committing to the season. One builds an entire winter landscape; the other adds a repeating holiday pattern to a clean autograph card. The strongest choices here are the combinations of subject and festive design, with the twelve-day sets and exclusive sweaters supplying distinct collecting projects.