Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
Open one box and you'll get $576.00 of cards, on average. A box costs $300 right now, so that means you're +$275.64 ahead.
Cards inside
$576.00
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$300
TCGplayer market · from $288
Difference
+$275.64
In your favour
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 16, 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.
$576.00 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$576.00
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$273.24
About 47% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
30%
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 30% 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.
+$275.64
per box, in your favour
The cards are worth more than the box
At $300 a box you'd come out about $275.64 ahead on average. Over many boxes that edge is real — but any single box can still be a dud.
Break-even price
$576.00
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.
Nonlegendary rare mythic with showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$7.07
Whole box
$254.52
$186.84 kept
Share
44%
Nonlegendary common with showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$4.86
Whole box
$174.96
$33.84 kept
Share
30%
Nonlegendary uncommon with showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.67
Whole box
$60.12
$15.48 kept
Share
10%
Guaranteed foil
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.29
Whole box
$46.44
$23.40 kept
Share
8%
Legendary incl. showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$0.82
Whole box
$29.52
$13.68 kept
Share
5%
Everything else
2 smaller slots — alternate-art pairs, bonus sheets and the like, each under 2% of the box.
Per pack
$0.28
Whole box
$10.08
$0.36 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Ancient Copper Dragon
$255.76
You'll open one about 1 every 17 boxes
#2 most valuable
Ancient Copper Dragon
$146.86
You'll open one about 1 every 17 boxes
#3 most valuable
Ancient Silver Dragon
$143.97
You'll open one about 1 every 17 boxes
Ancient Copper Dragon
$143.56
Ancient Brass Dragon
$103.76
Ancient Gold Dragon
$70.09
Ancient Silver Dragon
$61.88
Ancient Brass Dragon
$57.36
Ancient Silver Dragon
$56.18
Ancient Brass Dragon
$45.50
140 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.
| Ancient Copper Dragon | mythic | $163.60 | 0.06 |
| Ancient Copper Dragon | mythic | $139.05 | 0.22 |
| Ancient Copper Dragon | mythic | $128.53 | 0.06 |
| Ancient Silver Dragon | mythic | $78.18 | 0.06 |
| Ancient Brass Dragon | mythic | $65.51 | 0.06 |
| Ancient Silver Dragon | mythic | $58.35 | 0.06 |
| Ancient Silver Dragon | mythic | $47.93 | 0.22 |
| Ancient Gold Dragon | mythic | $45.06 | 0.06 |
| Ancient Brass Dragon | mythic | $42.59 | 0.06 |
| Ancient Brass Dragon | mythic | $38.79 | 0.22 |
| Displacer Kitten | rare | $33.06 | 0.67 |
| Ancient Gold Dragon | mythic | $32.14 | 0.06 |
| Morphic Pool | rare | $29.63 | 0.67 |
| Battle Angels of Tyr | mythic | $29.55 | 0.22 |
| Ancient Gold Dragon | mythic | $27.90 | 0.22 |
| Battle Angels of Tyr | mythic | $25.24 | 0.11 |
| Ancient Bronze Dragon | mythic | $21.29 | 0.06 |
| Sea of Clouds | rare | $20.76 | 0.67 |
| Karlach, Fury of Avernus | mythic | $19.90 | 0.15 |
| Ancient Bronze Dragon | mythic | $17.20 | 0.22 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
