Classic Sixth Edition
Open one box and you'll get $316.44 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,900 right now, so that means you're $1583.51 short.
Cards inside
$316.44
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,900
TCGplayer market · from $1,977
Difference
-$1583.51
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 7, 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.
$316.44 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$316.44
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$133.92
About 42% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
40%
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 40% 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.
-$1583.51
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,900 a box you'd come up about $1583.51 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$316.44
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
$3.21
Whole box
$115.56
$60.12 kept
Share
37%
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$2.81
Whole box
$101.16
$59.76 kept
Share
32%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$2.76
Whole box
$99.36
$14.04 kept
Share
31%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Vampiric Tutor
$62.74
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Enlightened Tutor
$29.81
You'll open one about 1 per box
#3 most valuable
Worldly Tutor
$19.17
You'll open one about 1 per box
City of Brass
$18.57
Final Fortune
$14.35
Armageddon
$14.32
Mystical Tutor
$12.66
Birds of Paradise
$12.49
Meekstone
$10.70
Teferi's Puzzle Box
$10.26
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 | $62.74 | 0.33 |
| City of Brass | rare | $18.57 | 0.33 |
| Final Fortune | rare | $14.35 | 0.33 |
| Armageddon | rare | $14.32 | 0.33 |
| Birds of Paradise | rare | $12.49 | 0.33 |
| Meekstone | rare | $10.70 | 0.33 |
| Teferi's Puzzle Box | rare | $10.26 | 0.33 |
| Ankh of Mishra | rare | $9.42 | 0.33 |
| Zombie Master | rare | $7.14 | 0.33 |
| Goblin King | rare | $6.64 | 0.33 |
| Karplusan Forest | rare | $6.48 | 0.33 |
| Underground River | rare | $6.45 | 0.33 |
| Adarkar Wastes | rare | $6.29 | 0.33 |
| Lord of Atlantis | rare | $5.98 | 0.33 |
| Brushland | rare | $5.12 | 0.33 |
| Relentless Assault | rare | $5.10 | 0.33 |
| Fervor | rare | $4.83 | 0.33 |
| Diminishing Returns | rare | $4.79 | 0.33 |
| Jokulhaups | rare | $4.78 | 0.33 |
| Howling Mine | rare | $4.74 | 0.33 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
