As of today, 2017 Elite looks to be the following:
Common cards - back to 144 (9 per pocket page) and a design to make this set speak for itself and while 3:4 packs may not have an inset, a large portion of packs minus inset will be hp player never to be found in pack inclusive of inset - therefore making common base exceptionally challenging to build. Bad news for younger collectors to pay $8 per pack and that's what you get but lets face it - Series I is for that kind of stuff lol
Ruby Specials (64; 4 per club); 1:4 packs - Ruby concept to take place as the back-end parallel slot for this coming release (hopefully lol)
Rookie Cards (32; 2 per club); 1:8 packs (+parallel variant @/100; 1:48 packs) - All different players to YGs and posing portrait style (similar look to AFL series 2 concept) of whom have made their debut as of 2017 or if not AT LEAST DRAFTED and/or playing in Holden cup.
Young Guns Sig (16; /390); 1:24 packs - maybe I'm dreaming here in terms of concept being placing in such hit slot (however if I'm wrong have a feeling box-search inset will be an animated concept but of course one suitable for a release of its kind - in other words nothing "babyish" or corny lol)
League Sensations (16; /130); 1:72 packs - usual (still unlike 2015 Elite lol)
League Historians (16; /130); 1:72 packs - This concept to take place only if Young Guns in hit-slot as suggested (otherwise YGs as usual). If to be, similar to Legends concept from series I however one per each club and to be fair, top players in particular now of those who've retired yet not as hp as most of those depicted on Legends lol.
Road to Finals/Fortune (4; /150 +signature variant @/50) - Canberra and Gold Coast would surely have to be in this year plus two others if the Finals concept to be continued therefore Cowboys and Panthers now in black ink. Otherwise concept be renamed Fortune instead of Finals to include either Warriors, Knights, Eels, Saints, Tigers or Manly
Mojo Concepts:
Sapphire /45 - this year out of 45 to prevent devaluation of last year's blue /20 version thus 45 a number traditionally associate with a sapphire lol
Emerald /15 - sort of assuming ESP have heard our complaints we do not want a third /ten variant of this concept but will do it as mentioned as a compromise