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Open one box and you'll get $534.24 of cards, on average. A box costs $918 right now, so that means you're $383.55 short.
Cards inside
$534.24
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$918
TCGplayer market · from $2,930
Difference
-$383.55
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.
$534.24 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$534.24
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$251.64
About 47% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
23%
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 23% 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.
-$383.55
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $918 a box you'd come up about $383.55 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$534.24
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.
Common or basic
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$5.81
Whole box
$209.16
$58.32 kept
Share
39%
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$4.45
Whole box
$160.20
$101.52 kept
Share
30%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$2.52
Whole box
$90.72
$69.48 kept
Share
17%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$2.06
Whole box
$74.16
$22.32 kept
Share
14%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Commandeer
$373.44
You'll open one about 1 per box
#2 most valuable
Rite of Flame
$156.13
You'll open one about 6.5 per box
#3 most valuable
Dark Depths
$136.95
You'll open one about 1 per box
Arcum Dagsson
$115.00
Counterbalance
$92.00
Allosaurus Rider
$81.30
Zur the Enchanter
$79.96
Thrumming Stone
$77.82
Mishra's Bauble
$73.89
Soul Spike
$57.60
40 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.
| Braid of Fire | rare | $23.96 | 0.93 |
| Thrumming Stone | rare | $22.02 | 0.93 |
| Soul Spike | rare | $16.92 | 0.93 |
| Arcum Dagsson | rare | $16.21 | 0.93 |
| Phyrexian Soulgorger | rare | $10.58 | 0.93 |
| Commandeer | rare | $9.71 | 0.93 |
| Dark Depths | rare | $8.32 | 0.93 |
| Allosaurus Rider | rare | $6.30 | 0.93 |
| Fury of the Horde | rare | $5.64 | 0.93 |
| Herald of Leshrac | rare | $5.56 | 0.93 |
| Karplusan Minotaur | rare | $5.27 | 0.93 |
| Field Marshal | rare | $4.67 | 0.93 |
| Scrying Sheets | rare | $4.15 | 0.93 |
| Lightning Serpent | rare | $3.95 | 0.93 |
| Panglacial Wurm | rare | $3.62 | 0.93 |
| Rimescale Dragon | rare | $3.30 | 0.93 |
| Sunscour | rare | $3.15 | 0.93 |
| Zur the Enchanter | rare | $2.31 | 0.93 |
| Darien, King of Kjeldor | rare | $2.30 | 0.93 |
| Adarkar Valkyrie | rare | $2.19 | 0.93 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
