Avacyn Restored
Open one box and you'll get $239.40 of cards, on average. A box costs $440 right now, so that means you're $200.61 short.
Cards inside
$239.40
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$440
TCGplayer market · from $475
Difference
-$200.61
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.
$239.40 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$239.40
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$106.20
About 44% 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.
-$200.61
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $440 a box you'd come up about $200.61 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$239.40
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
$3.72
Whole box
$133.92
$88.56 kept
Share
56%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.37
Whole box
$49.32
$1.44 kept
Share
21%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.76
Whole box
$27.36
$2.16 kept
Share
11%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.63
Whole box
$22.68
$14.04 kept
Share
9%
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
Avacyn, Angel of Hope
$86.88
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Cavern of Souls
$86.38
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Exquisite Blood
$69.43
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Craterhoof Behemoth
$56.00
Griselbrand
$49.89
Angel of Jubilation
$41.27
Tandem Lookout
$30.72
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
$30.31
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
$28.81
Battle Hymn
$27.86
68 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.
| Cavern of Souls | rare | $52.29 | 0.62 |
| Exquisite Blood | rare | $40.27 | 0.62 |
| Avacyn, Angel of Hope | mythic | $39.26 | 0.31 |
| Craterhoof Behemoth | mythic | $20.85 | 0.31 |
| Angel of Jubilation | rare | $10.47 | 0.62 |
| Griselbrand | mythic | $8.56 | 0.31 |
| Cathars' Crusade | rare | $8.32 | 0.62 |
| Soul of the Harvest | rare | $7.18 | 0.62 |
| Reforge the Soul | rare | $6.51 | 0.62 |
| Ulvenwald Tracker | rare | $5.77 | 0.62 |
| Gisela, Blade of Goldnight | mythic | $5.35 | 0.31 |
| Primal Surge | mythic | $5.26 | 0.31 |
| Tamiyo, the Moon Sage | mythic | $4.98 | 0.31 |
| Malignus | mythic | $4.85 | 0.31 |
| Temporal Mastery | mythic | $4.77 | 0.31 |
| Conjurer's Closet | rare | $3.91 | 0.62 |
| Bonfire of the Damned | mythic | $3.73 | 0.31 |
| Champion of Lambholt | rare | $3.54 | 0.62 |
| Herald of War | rare | $3.46 | 0.62 |
| Druids' Repository | rare | $3.24 | 0.62 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
