30th Anniversary Edition
Open one box and you'll get $4658.04 of cards, on average. We don't hold a current list price for this product, so there is nothing to compare against — put in what a sealed box actually costs you below.
Cards inside
$4658.04
Everything in the box, at today's prices
If you sold them
$3501.00
After fees, postage and bulk rates
Packs in the box
36
Each holds one rare or mythic
Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated December 6, 2025
This is an average. A few very expensive cards pull it upward, so most individual boxes land below it. Opening one box is closer to a lottery ticket than an investment — the number below tells you whether the lottery is priced fairly.
$4658.04 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$4658.04
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$3501.00
About 75% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
6%
Cards worth more by the thousand than listed
Two things separate the two figures. Fees take 10.75% commission plus 2.5% and $0.30 on every order, and postage on a single card runs about $1.10 — a bite a cheap card cannot absorb. And 6% of the box's value sits in cards below roughly $1.66, the point where a card is worth more thrown into a bulk lot at $0.04 a rare than listed, packed and posted. Selling the whole box to a buylist in one go pays less again.
Assumes one card per order, which is the cautious reading — a buyer taking several cards at once splits the fixed costs between them. Fees are TCGplayer Marketplace rates as of February 2026; bulk rates are current cash buylist.
We start from what a box costs right now. Put in the price you're actually being asked to pay and the answer updates.
+$0.04
per box, in your favour
The cards are worth more than the box
At $4,658 a box you'd come out about $0.04 ahead on average. Over many boxes that edge is real — but any single box can still be a dud.
Break-even price
$4658.04
Pay less than this and you're ahead on average.
Every pack has a few fixed positions — a guaranteed rare, a wildcard, a foil. Here's what each one is worth across the whole box.
A30 rare
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$73.04
Whole box
$2629.44
$2212.20 kept
Share
56%
A30 retro
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$22.91
Whole box
$824.76
$698.04 kept
Share
18%
A30 uncommon
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$13.98
Whole box
$503.28
$321.12 kept
Share
11%
A30 common
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$13.42
Whole box
$483.12
$217.44 kept
Share
10%
A30 basic
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$3.26
Whole box
$117.36
$15.84 kept
Share
3%
A30 retro basic
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.78
Whole box
$100.08
$36.72 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Demonic Tutor
$1649.99
You'll open one about 1 every 8 boxes
#2 most valuable
Timetwister
$999.00
You'll open one about 1 every 11 boxes
#3 most valuable
Timetwister
$670.50
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
Mox Sapphire
$522.99
Time Walk
$519.44
Mox Ruby
$445.00
Dark Ritual
$400.98
Chaos Orb
$399.61
Chaos Orb
$312.50
Tundra
$308.95
226 cards. “Copies per box” is how many of that exact card you'd expect from one box on average — under 1 means you usually won't see it at all.
| Timetwister | rare | $999.00 | 0.09 |
| Timetwister | rare | $670.50 | 0.29 |
| Mox Sapphire | rare | $522.99 | 0.29 |
| Time Walk | rare | $519.44 | 0.29 |
| Mox Ruby | rare | $445.00 | 0.29 |
| Chaos Orb | rare | $399.61 | 0.09 |
| Chaos Orb | rare | $312.50 | 0.29 |
| Tundra | rare | $308.95 | 0.17 |
| Badlands | rare | $290.49 | 0.59 |
| Underground Sea | rare | $278.61 | 0.59 |
| Volcanic Island | rare | $258.48 | 0.59 |
| Wrath of God | rare | $240.00 | 0.09 |
| Northern Paladin | rare | $239.99 | 0.09 |
| Wheel of Fortune | rare | $233.24 | 0.29 |
| Time Vault | rare | $226.66 | 0.29 |
| Tundra | rare | $226.12 | 0.59 |
| Scrubland | rare | $221.22 | 0.17 |
| Taiga | rare | $213.00 | 0.17 |
| Scrubland | rare | $211.70 | 0.59 |
| Force of Nature | rare | $200.00 | 0.09 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
