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2026 Wild Card Splat Mendoza: Paint, Las Vegas and Galactic Cards

Ten Mendoza images travel from paint-splash portraits to Las Vegas and outer-space settings.

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Wild Card Splat Mendoza base autograph-design preview with colorful paint effects

2026 Wild Card Splat Mendoza builds an entire release around Fernando Mendoza’s image, then sends it through paint-splash, city and science-fiction settings. The official base preview surrounds his passing pose with a burst of blue, red and orange paint. The Las Vegas preview replaces that burst with neon signage and a nighttime city scene.

Wild Card lists the collection in February 2026. Its 10 subject entries identify different Mendoza images, giving the release a dedicated-player structure rather than a 10-player roster.

Base and Las Vegas

Base autographs appear on Rainbow foil across eight subsets and nine color parallels, each numbered 1/1. Unsigned cards spread the color parallels across 15 foil boards with their own numbered runs.

The Las Vegas branch uses True 1/1 cards, while Gold Vinyl moves onto Gold Circles foil. True Color Match has Raiders and Indiana treatments, tying the colors to two different parts of the quarterback’s card identity.

Galactic Splat and SPLATMO

Galactic Splat moves into Asteroid Belt, Alien Planet, Black Hole and Moon View scenes, with a separate True 1 of 1 branch adding Slip Stream. A Galactic True Color Match family extends across all five settings.

SPLATMO uses Arctic, Aerial, Desert, Jungle and Maritime themes. Paint the Town brings Mendoza into Bloomington, Las Vegas, Miami and Jungle settings. These illustrated branches provide substantially different environments from the base card’s central paint burst.

Dual signatures

Dual a and Dual b pair Mendoza with another subject across six foil boards, with each exact card numbered 1/1. Dual True Color Match is a separate Gold Circles-foil one-of-one branch.

Splat Mendoza is especially suited to following one player through a range of art directions: the photographed passing pose stays recognizable even as the card moves from bright paint to a neon city or an alien landscape. The official checklist identifies the image variants and insert families; Wild Card’s release index records the February 2026 grouping.

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