2026 Leaf Originals Multi-Sport: New Signatures in Imagined Old Card Designs

Malachi Toney's autograph sits beneath a large oval portrait and a small blue nameplate. Beside it, Tim Tebow's card uses the same broad layout with a different metallic-looking background. These 2026 Leaf Originals Multi-Sport previews imagine how athletes from different generations might fit into a shared older card language.

The first Originals Multi-Sport release is expected in November 2026. Leaf specifies five autograph cards and one bonus pack per box, with ten boxes per case. Its premise is reimagined historical design on metal technology, with both current athletes and established stars appearing across those eras.

An imagined history, drawn deliberately

The 1954-inspired previews make the portrait the dominant shape. Toney's image fills the oval almost edge to edge, while the nameplate floats above it and the signature panel sits beneath it. The patterned surround changes between his card and Tebow's without disturbing that structure. That makes the design itself an easy point of comparison between the two players.

Leaf describes Originals as imagining what its cards could have looked like across different eras. These are newly produced cards using reimagined designs. The appeal lies in the pairing of a signer with an earlier visual style: a modern football subject can occupy the same design framework as a player from another generation or sport.

The advertised roster includes Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Dwyane Wade, Nolan Ryan, Barry Sanders and Steffi Graf, alongside names such as Azzi Fudd, Ousmane Dembélé, Jeremiah Smith and Malachi Toney. That range gives the historical-design premise room to work across tennis, basketball, baseball, soccer and football.

The bonus pack has a specific assignment

Dual autographs appear only in the bonus pack. That format distinction is a useful detail for anyone following two-player combinations. The regular five-autograph configuration and the bonus pack have different roles within the box; Leaf's exclusivity statement identifies where the duals belong.

The Sports Report introduces another kind of older visual reference, using a wire-photo-style appearance. It provides a photographic reporting treatment alongside the era-inspired card layouts. In a product built around revisiting different ways of presenting athletes, that is a more substantial change than another border pattern.

Toney and Tebow are a persuasive introduction because the oval portrait, small nameplate and low signing panel remain legible through the new finish. Originals is strongest when the old design structure still does the work. The metal surface, broad signer selection and bonus-pack duals then give that structure a distinctly 2026 use.