Alara Reborn
Open one box and you'll get $219.96 of cards, on average. A box costs $758 right now, so that means you're $538.53 short.
Cards inside
$219.96
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$758
TCGplayer market · from $999
Difference
-$538.53
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 15, 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.
$219.96 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$219.96
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$47.16
About 21% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
56%
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 56% 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.
-$538.53
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $758 a box you'd come up about $538.53 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$219.96
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.
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$2.14
Whole box
$77.04
$4.68 kept
Share
35%
Rare or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$1.69
Whole box
$60.84
$27.00 kept
Share
28%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.40
Whole box
$50.40
$3.96 kept
Share
23%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.52
Whole box
$18.72
$11.16 kept
Share
9%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.36
Whole box
$12.96
$0.00 kept
Share
6%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Wargate
$80.42
You'll open one about 1 per box
#2 most valuable
Sen Triplets
$41.20
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Time Sieve
$28.85
You'll open one about 1 per box
Lord of Extinction
$24.40
Thraximundar
$24.14
Sphinx of the Steel Wind
$22.90
Uril, the Miststalker
$19.99
Dragon Broodmother
$19.17
Violent Outburst
$18.38
Plains
$17.31
45 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.
| Sen Triplets | mythic | $9.93 | 0.47 |
| Lich Lord of Unx | rare | $8.01 | 0.93 |
| Time Sieve | rare | $7.65 | 0.93 |
| Dragon Broodmother | mythic | $7.03 | 0.47 |
| Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund | mythic | $6.42 | 0.47 |
| Fight to the Death | rare | $6.03 | 0.93 |
| Wargate | rare | $3.72 | 0.93 |
| Lord of Extinction | mythic | $3.68 | 0.47 |
| Nemesis of Reason | rare | $3.48 | 0.93 |
| Meddling Mage | rare | $2.50 | 0.93 |
| Mayael's Aria | rare | $2.22 | 0.93 |
| Maelstrom Nexus | mythic | $2.06 | 0.47 |
| Thraximundar | mythic | $2.00 | 0.47 |
| Defiler of Souls | mythic | $1.96 | 0.47 |
| Unscythe, Killer of Kings | rare | $1.80 | 0.93 |
| Jenara, Asura of War | mythic | $1.60 | 0.47 |
| Uril, the Miststalker | mythic | $1.41 | 0.47 |
| Maelstrom Pulse | rare | $1.32 | 0.93 |
| Sphinx of the Steel Wind | mythic | $1.14 | 0.47 |
| Sovereigns of Lost Alara | rare | $0.84 | 0.93 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
