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I haven't seen any instances on the jersey cards I've looked up where there are variations based on the cloth color. 

Example from 2003-04 Upper Deck Team Essentials hockey.

Thoughts?

Different colors of memorabilia are not catalogued as VARs. Only different materials (such as bat/jersey).

From the site FAQ:

Guideline 4B—Do not use the VAR Note solely because the relic on a MEM card is issued in different colors. However, if specifically designated Home and Away versions of a card are issued, the VAR Note is appropriate if the other criteria are met.

This has long been one of those things that just boggle the mind. A * or . is a variation, and a totally different clothing color isn't. Even though companies put different color pieces of clothing on the cards for variation collectors. Not saying anything should be changed site wise, just saying it is a mind boggler.

Laughing at this... my old eyes can tell red from white from black... but grabbing the jeweler's loop to look for Inc v Inc., or which UD hologram is this... maddening!

Right, but the ones with *s were printed differently (different plates). Jerseys have multiple colors on them so unless noted as mentioned here, the swatches could come from the same one. We also don't do VARs for plain swatches vs. those with pinstripes or stitching.

I often wondered about this. I do have some cards that are labeled home and away with same color swatch. Then other cards that are the same card but different color jerseys that dont match the color in the sample picture of said card. I just added a note to my collection stating what color it is. Now just gotta find the 3rd color to complete the "set". Unless there's part of the emblem or number then the search will continue. 

Let me start with a card we have 3 copies of:

These all could have been taken from the same jersey* (yes, I understand in hockey these are called "sweaters", but the card even says "Jersey" on it, so we'll use "jersey" for sake of consistency).

The question these becomes, what if they inserted a piece similar to the middle card (2-tone) with the color change on the vertical rather than horizontal? Would that then be yet another variant? What if the swatch contained more white than red, another variant? What f it was 80% red, 20% white? 90% red, 20% white? 90% white, 10% red? Are these all different variants? What if the color change line was even more diagonal? Slightly diagonal? What if we're taking a baseball jersey that has pin stripes? Vertical? Horizontal? Stripe in the middle, stripe to the left, strip to the right? If the swatch is large enough, 2 stripes vs. 1 stripe? Are ALL of these now variants of the same card?

What then happens to the special jersey cards that are "Patch" cards? Since there are no 2 spots on the patch that are the same, each patch card is different. Would all 25 or 50 serially-numbered patch cards be unique variations?

Yes, we saw that the Lapointe card had different color swatches when available for sale, so we got the 3 cards. But I would not call them variations for a checklist for the set.

Thanks for the reference to the FAQ. I did a forum search first, but forgot to check the FAQ as well... still learning the site.

I wonder if we have a way to put somewhere what colors the swatches come in. Like Dan said he bought the three different colors becuase he saw three different colors. I would love to have multiple cards with different color swatches, but where can we put the different color swatches for those curios. I agree its not a varient it is just a different swatch color.