Champions of Kamigawa
Open one box and you'll get $372.96 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,067 right now, so that means you're $694.45 short.
Cards inside
$372.96
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,067
TCGplayer market · from $2,300
Difference
-$694.45
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 December 6, 2025
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.
$372.96 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$372.96
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$188.64
About 51% 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.
-$694.45
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,067 a box you'd come up about $694.45 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$372.96
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.
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$4.72
Whole box
$169.92
$114.84 kept
Share
46%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$2.59
Whole box
$93.24
$47.88 kept
Share
25%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$2.15
Whole box
$77.40
$4.32 kept
Share
21%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.42
Whole box
$15.12
$12.24 kept
Share
4%
Foil common or basic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.26
Whole box
$9.36
$4.32 kept
Share
3%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.21
Whole box
$7.56
$5.40 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Minamo, School at Water's Edge
$247.54
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#2 most valuable
Dosan the Falling Leaf
$130.42
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
$129.23
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Sensei's Divining Top
$124.29
Kokusho, the Evening Star
$122.66
Shizo, Death's Storehouse
$122.48
Gifts Ungiven
$117.40
Eiganjo Castle
$112.49
Azusa, Lost but Seeking
$95.00
Zo-Zu the Punisher
$77.50
83 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.
| Minamo, School at Water's Edge | rare | $46.95 | 0.41 |
| Shizo, Death's Storehouse | rare | $30.74 | 0.41 |
| Kokusho, the Evening Star | rare | $24.79 | 0.41 |
| Masako the Humorless | rare | $21.20 | 0.41 |
| Dosan the Falling Leaf | rare | $21.05 | 0.41 |
| Hall of the Bandit Lord | rare | $14.06 | 0.41 |
| Marrow-Gnawer | rare | $13.83 | 0.41 |
| Zo-Zu the Punisher | rare | $13.78 | 0.41 |
| Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep | rare | $13.73 | 0.41 |
| Eiganjo Castle | rare | $12.76 | 0.41 |
| Boseiju, Who Shelters All | rare | $12.21 | 0.41 |
| Azusa, Lost but Seeking | rare | $11.74 | 0.41 |
| Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker | rare | $11.61 | 0.41 |
| Gifts Ungiven | rare | $11.29 | 0.41 |
| Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho | rare | $9.94 | 0.41 |
| Konda's Banner | rare | $9.84 | 0.41 |
| Glimpse of Nature | rare | $9.67 | 0.41 |
| Forbidden Orchard | rare | $8.60 | 0.41 |
| Uba Mask | rare | $7.59 | 0.41 |
| General's Kabuto | rare | $6.15 | 0.41 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
