Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
Open one box and you'll get $219.60 of cards, on average. A box costs $299 right now, so that means you're $79.05 short.
Cards inside
$219.60
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$299
TCGplayer market · from $310
Difference
-$79.05
Against you
Packs in the box
30
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.
$219.60 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$219.60
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$88.20
About 40% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
39%
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 39% 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.
-$79.05
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $299 a box you'd come up about $79.05 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$219.60
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.
Rare or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$2.31
Whole box
$69.30
$39.30 kept
Share
32%
Wildcard
An extra card of any rarity. Most of the time it is a common or uncommon, but it can be a second rare.
Per pack
$1.23
Whole box
$36.90
$15.00 kept
Share
17%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.00
Whole box
$30.00
$2.70 kept
Share
14%
The List
A reprint pulled from a rotating list of older cards. It replaces a common in a small share of packs.
Per pack
$0.93
Whole box
$27.90
$18.60 kept
Share
13%
Foil incl. showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.80
Whole box
$24.00
$10.20 kept
Share
11%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.65
Whole box
$19.50
$2.40 kept
Share
9%
Common uncommon showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$0.21
Whole box
$6.30
$0.00 kept
Share
3%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.15
Whole box
$4.50
$0.00 kept
Share
2%
Foil basic land
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.03
Whole box
$0.90
$0.00 kept
Share
0%
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 33 boxes
#2 most valuable
Tiamat
$62.32
You'll open one about 1 every 33 boxes
#3 most valuable
Old Gnawbone
$57.61
You'll open one about 1 every 4 boxes
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
$54.95
Demonic Tutor
$47.91
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
$44.95
Gemstone Caverns
$44.41
Cavern of Souls
$41.74
Enlightened Tutor
$37.22
Akroma's Memorial
$35.49
282 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 | 0.03 |
| Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth | rare | $54.95 | 0.03 |
| Old Gnawbone | mythic | $51.16 | 0.28 |
| Demonic Tutor | rare | $47.91 | 0.03 |
| Bruvac the Grandiloquent | mythic | $44.95 | 0.03 |
| Gemstone Caverns | rare | $44.41 | 0.03 |
| Cavern of Souls | rare | $41.74 | 0.03 |
| Tiamat | mythic | $40.38 | 0.03 |
| Akroma's Memorial | rare | $35.49 | 0.03 |
| Mycosynth Golem | rare | $32.75 | 0.03 |
| Oloro, Ageless Ascetic | mythic | $25.76 | 0.03 |
| Parallax Wave | rare | $25.37 | 0.03 |
| Pact of Negation | rare | $24.71 | 0.03 |
| Tiamat | mythic | $23.18 | 0.28 |
| Doubling Cube | rare | $19.36 | 0.03 |
| Inventors' Fair | rare | $17.08 | 0.03 |
| Phenax, God of Deception | mythic | $17.02 | 0.03 |
| Circle of Dreams Druid | rare | $16.91 | 0.63 |
| Grand Arbiter Augustin IV | rare | $16.78 | 0.03 |
| Eiganjo Castle | rare | $16.74 | 0.03 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
