Commander Legends
Open one box and you'll get $441.36 of cards, on average. A box costs $283 right now, so that means you're +$158.00 ahead.
Cards inside
$441.36
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$283
TCGplayer market · from $280
Difference
+$158.00
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.
$441.36 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$441.36
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$189.00
About 43% 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.
+$158.00
per box, in your favour
The cards are worth more than the box
At $283 a box you'd come out about $158.00 ahead on average. Over many boxes that edge is real — but any single box can still be a dud.
Break-even price
$441.36
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 or mythic
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$5.57
Whole box
$200.52
$142.20 kept
Share
45%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$3.02
Whole box
$108.72
$2.52 kept
Share
25%
Legendary
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.72
Whole box
$61.92
$25.20 kept
Share
14%
Nonlegendary uncommons
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.26
Whole box
$45.36
$8.28 kept
Share
10%
Guaranteed foil
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.67
Whole box
$24.12
$10.44 kept
Share
5%
Everything else
2 smaller slots — alternate-art pairs, bonus sheets and the like, each under 2% of the box.
Per pack
$0.02
Whole box
$0.72
$0.00 kept
Share
0%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Jeweled Lotus
$65.60
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Vampiric Tutor
$63.97
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#3 most valuable
Mana Drain
$58.39
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
Commander's Plate
$48.90
Jeska's Will
$42.57
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
$41.55
Scroll Rack
$34.21
Opposition Agent
$26.04
Akroma's Will
$18.36
Training Center
$18.32
101 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.
| Mana Drain | mythic | $51.87 | 0.31 |
| Vampiric Tutor | mythic | $50.95 | 0.31 |
| Jeweled Lotus | mythic | $39.77 | 0.31 |
| Jeska's Will | rare | $39.74 | 0.62 |
| Commander's Plate | mythic | $36.25 | 0.31 |
| Scroll Rack | mythic | $32.51 | 0.31 |
| Sakashima of a Thousand Faces | mythic | $30.89 | 0.34 |
| Opposition Agent | rare | $19.26 | 0.62 |
| Training Center | rare | $18.32 | 0.62 |
| Akroma's Will | rare | $17.01 | 0.62 |
| Vault of Champions | rare | $16.22 | 0.62 |
| Reshape the Earth | mythic | $10.29 | 0.31 |
| Staff of Domination | rare | $10.12 | 0.62 |
| Akroma, Vision of Ixidor | mythic | $10.02 | 0.34 |
| Spectator Seating | rare | $9.40 | 0.62 |
| Command Beacon | rare | $8.48 | 0.62 |
| Mnemonic Deluge | mythic | $8.29 | 0.31 |
| Apex Devastator | mythic | $8.04 | 0.31 |
| Wheel of Misfortune | rare | $7.30 | 0.62 |
| Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools | mythic | $6.90 | 0.34 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
