Classic Sixth Edition
Open one box and you'll get $374.40 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,900 right now, so that means you're $1525.55 short.
Cards inside
$374.40
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,900
TCGplayer market · from $1,906
Difference
-$1525.55
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.
$374.40 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$374.40
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$177.48
About 47% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
33%
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 33% 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.
-$1525.55
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,900 a box you'd come up about $1525.55 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$374.40
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.
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$4.37
Whole box
$157.32
$90.36 kept
Share
42%
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$3.31
Whole box
$119.16
$73.08 kept
Share
32%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$2.73
Whole box
$98.28
$14.04 kept
Share
26%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Vampiric Tutor
$67.53
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Enlightened Tutor
$36.45
You'll open one about 1 per box
#3 most valuable
Worldly Tutor
$26.91
You'll open one about 1 per box
City of Brass
$24.68
Birds of Paradise
$18.57
Mystical Tutor
$18.05
Teferi's Puzzle Box
$17.42
Final Fortune
$15.96
Ashnod's Altar
$14.30
Armageddon
$14.22
110 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.
| Vampiric Tutor | rare | $67.53 | 0.33 |
| City of Brass | rare | $24.68 | 0.33 |
| Birds of Paradise | rare | $18.57 | 0.33 |
| Teferi's Puzzle Box | rare | $17.42 | 0.33 |
| Final Fortune | rare | $15.96 | 0.33 |
| Armageddon | rare | $14.22 | 0.33 |
| Meekstone | rare | $11.23 | 0.33 |
| Diminishing Returns | rare | $10.60 | 0.33 |
| Brushland | rare | $9.29 | 0.33 |
| Ankh of Mishra | rare | $8.82 | 0.33 |
| Underground River | rare | $8.35 | 0.33 |
| Wrath of God | rare | $7.12 | 0.33 |
| Howling Mine | rare | $6.99 | 0.33 |
| Adarkar Wastes | rare | $6.98 | 0.33 |
| Karplusan Forest | rare | $6.95 | 0.33 |
| Doomsday | rare | $6.70 | 0.33 |
| Goblin King | rare | $6.58 | 0.33 |
| Lord of Atlantis | rare | $6.05 | 0.33 |
| Jokulhaups | rare | $5.62 | 0.33 |
| Illicit Auction | rare | $5.19 | 0.33 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
