What is the expected value of a Commander Masters Collector Booster Box?

Opening a Commander Masters Collector Booster Box gets you about $629.52 of cards at market price. Selling them would return about $424.08 after fees. We do not hold a current list price for it, so compare both figures against what a sealed box actually costs you today.

Is the Commander Masters Collector Booster Box worth opening?

We do not hold a current list price for this product. The cards inside are worth about $629.52 at market, and about $424.08 to you after selling fees — compare both against what a sealed box costs today.

How much would you get back selling a Commander Masters Collector Booster Box?

About $424.08, against $629.52 of cards at market price. Market price is what a buyer pays, not what a seller receives: TCGplayer takes 10.75% commission plus a 2.5% and $0.30 transaction fee, and posting a single card costs around $1.10. Below roughly $1.66 a card is worth more in a bulk lot, at about $0.04 a rare, than listed and posted — and 8% of this box's value sits under that line.

Commander Masters

Cards inside $629.52$424.08 if sold

Commander Masters

Commander Masters Collector Booster Box

Open one box and you'll get $629.52 of cards, on average. We don't hold a current list price for this product, so there is nothing to compare against — put in what a sealed box actually costs you below.

Cards inside

$629.52

Everything in the box, at today's prices

If you sold them

$424.08

After fees, postage and bulk rates

Packs in the box

Each holds one rare or mythic

Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated December 2, 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.

And if you sold the cards?

$629.52 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.

Worth to a buyer

$629.52

Every card at market price

What you'd keep

$424.08

About 67% of it, sold card by card

Stuck as bulk

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 8% 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.

What does a box cost you?

We start from what a box costs right now. Put in the price you're actually being asked to pay and the answer updates.

Box price

$20$950

I'd be selling the cards. Values every card at what you'd be paid for it rather than what it sells for — fees and postage on the ones worth listing, bulk rates on the ones that aren't. Comes to about 67% of $630.

-$0.48

per box, against you

You would do better buying the singles

At $630 a box you'd come up about $0.48 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.

Break-even price

$629.52

Pay less than this and you're ahead on average.

Where the value comes from

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.

Foil rare mythic showcase

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$15.81

Whole box

$189.72

$145.80 kept

30%

Rare mythic showcase

A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.

Per pack

$13.05

Whole box

$156.60

$117.12 kept

25%

Foil rare or mythic

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$6.12

Whole box

$73.44

$50.76 kept

12%

Extended-art commander card

A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.

Per pack

$4.37

Whole box

$52.44

$35.04 kept

Textured rare mythic

One of the card positions in every pack of this product.

Per pack

$2.93

Whole box

$35.16

$29.52 kept

Foil common uncommon showcase

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$2.65

Whole box

$31.80

$16.32 kept

Common uncommon showcase

A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.

Per pack

$2.20

Whole box

$26.40

$7.20 kept

Foil extended commander

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$1.83

Whole box

$21.96

$15.72 kept

Foil commons

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$1.52

Whole box

$18.24

$2.52 kept

Foil uncommons

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$1.30

Whole box

$15.60

$4.08 kept

Foil basic land

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$0.69

Whole box

$8.28

$0.00 kept

Etched-foil rare or mythic

A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.

Per pack

$0.00

Whole box

$0.00

$0.00 kept

The cards you're hoping to hit

The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.

#1 most valuable

Jeweled Lotus

$342.90

You'll open one about 1 every 20 boxes

#2 most valuable

Demonic Tutor

$118.97

You'll open one about 1 every 4 boxes

#3 most valuable

The Ur-Dragon

$115.00

You'll open one about 1 every 20 boxes

Deflecting Swat

rareabout 1 every 2 boxes

$103.52

Jeweled Lotus

mythicabout 1 every 4 boxes

$90.99

Deflecting Swat

rareabout 1 every 13 boxes

$76.25

Fierce Guardianship

rareabout 1 every 2 boxes

$72.34

The Great Henge

mythicabout 1 every 25 boxes

$69.12

Sliver Gravemother

mythicabout 1 every 5 boxes

$64.64

Demonic Tutor

mythicabout 1 every 25 boxes

$60.63

Every rare and mythic in the set

267 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.

			Foil price
Demonic Tutor	mythic	$80.25	$118.97	0.27
Deflecting Swat	rare	$78.17	$103.52	0.55
The Great Henge	mythic	$63.77	$69.12	0.04
Jeweled Lotus	mythic	$63.48	$90.99	0.27
Fierce Guardianship	rare	$51.66	$72.34	0.55
Deflecting Swat	rare	$49.06	$76.25	0.08
Demonic Tutor	mythic	$46.44	$60.63	0.04
Smothering Tithe	mythic	$46.38	$52.95	0.27
Smothering Tithe	mythic	$41.77	$39.69	0.04
Fierce Guardianship	rare	$40.09	$59.43	0.08
The Ur-Dragon	mythic	$35.11	$33.92	0.27
Zhulodok, Void Gorger	mythic	$34.37	$56.38	0.19
Jeweled Lotus	mythic	$33.83	$50.67	0.04
Finale of Devastation	mythic	$32.43	$46.21	0.27
Doubling Season	mythic	$29.54	$34.58	0.04
The Ur-Dragon	mythic	$28.54	$41.17	0.04
Finale of Devastation	mythic	$27.76	$33.46	0.04
Avacyn, Angel of Hope	mythic	$27.05	$31.25	0.04
Deadly Rollick	rare	$24.98	$30.40	0.55
Cyclonic Rift	rare	$23.73	$39.72	0.08

Compare with other boxes

Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.

Wilds of Eldraine

$360 of cards

+$6 ahead of list

Commander Masters

$624 of cards

out of print

Wilds of Eldraine

$370 of cards

+$53 ahead of list

Questions people ask

It's the average value of the cards in a box. Imagine opening a thousand boxes of this set and adding up every card at its market price — divide by a thousand and you get $629.52. It is not what your box will be worth. Most boxes come in lower, because a small number of very expensive cards drag the average up.

Commander Masters

Commander Masters Collector Booster Box

And if you sold the cards?

What does a box cost you?

Where the value comes from

The cards you're hoping to hit

Every rare and mythic in the set

Compare with other boxes

Questions people ask

What does “expected value” actually mean?

So should I open a box or buy singles?

Could I really get $629.52 back by selling the cards?

Where do the prices come from?

What counts towards the total?

How accurate is this?