Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
Open one box and you'll get $225.36 of cards, on average. A box costs $246 right now, so that means you're $20.65 short.
Cards inside
$225.36
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$246
TCGplayer market · from $233
Difference
-$20.65
Against you
Packs in the box
36
Each holds one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked September 2, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated August 29, 2026
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.
$225.36 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$225.36
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$65.88
About 29% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
53%
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 53% 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.
-$20.65
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $246 a box you'd come up about $20.65 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$225.36
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.
Common with showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$2.43
Whole box
$87.48
$7.56 kept
Share
39%
Rare mythic with showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$2.42
Whole box
$87.12
$50.04 kept
Share
39%
Uncommon with showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$0.96
Whole box
$34.56
$4.32 kept
Share
15%
Foil incl. showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.27
Whole box
$9.72
$3.96 kept
Share
4%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.18
Whole box
$6.48
$0.00 kept
Share
3%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Old Gnawbone
$112.07
You'll open one about 1 every 11 boxes
#2 most valuable
Tiamat
$62.32
You'll open one about 1 every 11 boxes
#3 most valuable
Old Gnawbone
$57.61
You'll open one about 1 every 6 boxes
Tiamat
$32.99
Circle of Dreams Druid
$16.91
Lolth, Spider Queen
$13.19
Teleportation Circle
$11.76
Xorn
$11.41
Fighter Class
$9.29
The Book of Exalted Deeds
$9.03
116 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.
| Old Gnawbone | mythic | $65.13 | 0.09 |
| Old Gnawbone | mythic | $51.16 | 0.18 |
| Tiamat | mythic | $40.38 | 0.09 |
| Tiamat | mythic | $23.18 | 0.18 |
| Circle of Dreams Druid | rare | $16.91 | 0.54 |
| Xorn | rare | $11.41 | 0.36 |
| Teleportation Circle | rare | $10.59 | 0.54 |
| Fighter Class | rare | $8.99 | 0.54 |
| Xorn | rare | $8.68 | 0.18 |
| The Book of Exalted Deeds | mythic | $8.59 | 0.27 |
| Lolth, Spider Queen | mythic | $7.58 | 0.09 |
| Delina, Wild Mage | rare | $5.23 | 0.36 |
| Treasure Vault | rare | $5.12 | 0.18 |
| Lolth, Spider Queen | mythic | $5.09 | 0.18 |
| Tasha's Hideous Laughter | rare | $4.95 | 0.54 |
| Acererak the Archlich | mythic | $4.92 | 0.27 |
| Inferno of the Star Mounts | mythic | $4.84 | 0.09 |
| Zariel, Archduke of Avernus | mythic | $4.81 | 0.09 |
| Ebondeath, Dracolich | mythic | $4.68 | 0.09 |
| Delina, Wild Mage | rare | $4.65 | 0.18 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
