Aetherdrift
Open one box and you'll get $185.16 of cards, on average. A box costs $317 right now, so that means you're $131.68 short.
Cards inside
$185.16
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$317
TCGplayer market · from $300
Difference
-$131.68
Against you
Packs in the box
12
Several rares, foils and alt-art cards in each
Box price from TCGplayer, checked October 12, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated October 17, 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.
$185.16 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$185.16
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$92.88
About 50% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
28%
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 28% 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.
-$131.68
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $317 a box you'd come up about $131.68 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$185.16
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.
Foil booster fun treatment
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$5.71
Whole box
$68.52
$49.08 kept
Share
37%
Booster Fun treatment
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$3.64
Whole box
$43.68
$23.04 kept
Share
24%
Foil rare or mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.07
Whole box
$24.84
$13.92 kept
Share
13%
Showcase commander card
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.21
Whole box
$14.52
$5.16 kept
Share
8%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.07
Whole box
$12.84
$1.08 kept
Share
7%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.99
Whole box
$11.88
$0.36 kept
Share
6%
Everything else
4 smaller slots — alternate-art pairs, bonus sheets and the like, each under 2% of the box.
Per pack
$0.74
Whole box
$8.88
$0.12 kept
Share
5%
The ten most valuable cards a Collector Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
The Aetherspark
$1875.00
You'll open one Not in this booster
#2 most valuable
Chrome Mox
$217.54
You'll open one about 1 every 20 boxes
#3 most valuable
Radiant Lotus
$138.97
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
Loot, the Pathfinder
$103.61
Chandra, Spark Hunter
$75.73
Cursecloth Wrappings
$67.98
Mu Yanling, Wind Rider
$47.80
March of the World Ooze
$41.95
Bone Miser
$40.74
Chandra's Ignition
$38.54
209 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.
| Chrome Mox | mythic | $169.08 | 0.05 |
| Bone Miser | mythic | $34.15 | 0.05 |
| Chandra's Ignition | mythic | $23.31 | 0.05 |
| The Aetherspark | mythic | $19.87 | 0.09 |
| Riverpyre Verge | rare | $15.71 | 0.50 |
| Monument to Endurance | rare | $15.54 | 0.50 |
| Pathbreaker Ibex | mythic | $15.44 | 0.05 |
| Monument to Endurance | rare | $15.39 | 0.17 |
| Riverpyre Verge | rare | $14.71 | 0.17 |
| Lord of the Undead | mythic | $12.09 | 0.05 |
| Sunbillow Verge | rare | $11.21 | 0.50 |
| Thoughtcast | mythic | $10.74 | 0.05 |
| Sunbillow Verge | rare | $10.21 | 0.17 |
| Bleachbone Verge | rare | $9.54 | 0.50 |
| Bleachbone Verge | rare | $8.98 | 0.17 |
| Whir of Invention | mythic | $8.91 | 0.05 |
| Wastewood Verge | rare | $8.88 | 0.50 |
| Wastewood Verge | rare | $8.19 | 0.17 |
| Brightglass Gearhulk | mythic | $7.17 | 0.25 |
| Cavalier of Dawn | mythic | $6.75 | 0.05 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
