2022 Leaf Vivid Autographs

2022 Leaf Vivid Soccer (released April 7, 2023, ~$420 hobby box) is the smaller, scarcer companion to Leaf Metal — and 'scarcer' is not marketing copy. Per Leaf themselves, 'the production on this item is by far the lowest soccer run Leaf has ever produced.' Every card is numbered to /10 or less. There is no high-population Silver tier; the entry point IS the chase tier. The parallel ladder is one of the tightest in the hobby: Base (yellow) /10 → Gray /7 → Red /6 → Navy Blue /5 → Green /4 → Orange /3 → Purple /2 → Teal 1/1. Every Vivid Six card (a 6-player multi-signed insert, 9 cards in the VS- subset) exists in 1/1 form for each color — making them among the rarest signed soccer cards anywhere. The checklist runs ~75 subjects on the Base Autograph (BA-) lineup, anchored by Pelé, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Erling Haaland, Neymar Jr., Vinícius Junior, Ronaldo Nazário, Karim Benzema, Cafu, and a long bench of Premier League and international stars (Wayne Rooney, Sergio Agüero, Robbie Keane, Alan Shearer, Alessandro Del Piero). Modern wonderkids like Evan Ferguson, Brenden Aaronson, and Zak Emmerson get their first significant low-population autos here — Ferguson's Base /10 PSA 10 is the priciest single in our database for the set at $300. Four autographs per box: typically one multi-signed (Vivid Six, Dual, or Triple) and three singles. Each 8-box case is structured to deliver at least one marquee auto. Subset families include Vivid Imagery, Vivid Striking, and Pre-Production Proofs. This is a product for collectors who care more about scarcity than name recognition. The cap of /10 across the entire checklist makes every card population-capped from day one. Among unlicensed soccer autograph products, only Metal Soccer rivals it for low-print-run pedigree, and Vivid wins the rarity race at every parallel tier.