Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
Open one box and you'll get $225.00 of cards, on average. A box costs $252 right now, so that means you're $27.22 short.
Cards inside
$225.00
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$252
TCGplayer market · from $250
Difference
-$27.22
Against you
Packs in the box
36
Each holds at least one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked October 12, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated October 16, 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.
$225.00 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$225.00
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$63.00
About 28% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
57%
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 57% 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.
-$27.22
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $252 a box you'd come up about $27.22 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$225.00
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
$2.42
Whole box
$87.12
$5.40 kept
Share
39%
Rare mythic with showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$2.41
Whole box
$86.76
$50.76 kept
Share
39%
Uncommon with showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$0.94
Whole box
$33.84
$2.88 kept
Share
15%
Foil incl. showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.27
Whole box
$9.72
$4.32 kept
Share
4%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.20
Whole box
$7.20
$0.00 kept
Share
3%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Old Gnawbone
$105.80
You'll open one about 1 every 11 boxes
#2 most valuable
Tiamat
$62.60
You'll open one about 1 every 11 boxes
#3 most valuable
Old Gnawbone
$58.09
You'll open one about 1 every 6 boxes
Tiamat
$26.73
Circle of Dreams Druid
$18.00
Xorn
$13.69
Xorn
$13.12
Lolth, Spider Queen
$11.50
Teleportation Circle
$11.40
Bruenor Battlehammer
$10.01
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 | $67.28 | 0.09 |
| Old Gnawbone | mythic | $47.53 | 0.18 |
| Tiamat | mythic | $38.33 | 0.09 |
| Tiamat | mythic | $21.12 | 0.18 |
| Circle of Dreams Druid | rare | $18.00 | 0.54 |
| Xorn | rare | $13.69 | 0.36 |
| Teleportation Circle | rare | $11.40 | 0.54 |
| Xorn | rare | $11.30 | 0.18 |
| The Book of Exalted Deeds | mythic | $8.97 | 0.27 |
| Fighter Class | rare | $8.63 | 0.54 |
| Lolth, Spider Queen | mythic | $8.25 | 0.09 |
| Ebondeath, Dracolich | mythic | $6.34 | 0.09 |
| Acererak the Archlich | mythic | $6.06 | 0.27 |
| Ebondeath, Dracolich | mythic | $5.09 | 0.18 |
| Delina, Wild Mage | rare | $4.87 | 0.36 |
| Lolth, Spider Queen | mythic | $4.84 | 0.18 |
| Inferno of the Star Mounts | mythic | $4.66 | 0.09 |
| The Deck of Many Things | mythic | $4.36 | 0.27 |
| The Tarrasque | mythic | $4.27 | 0.18 |
| Delina, Wild Mage | rare | $4.24 | 0.18 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
