Dissension
Open one box and you'll get $307.08 of cards, on average. A box costs $884 right now, so that means you're $577.31 short.
Cards inside
$307.08
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$884
TCGplayer market · from $723
Difference
-$577.31
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.
$307.08 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$307.08
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$124.56
About 41% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
42%
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 42% 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.
-$577.31
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $884 a box you'd come up about $577.31 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$307.08
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.
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$3.26
Whole box
$117.36
$76.32 kept
Share
38%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$2.58
Whole box
$92.88
$1.44 kept
Share
30%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.67
Whole box
$60.12
$21.24 kept
Share
20%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.44
Whole box
$15.84
$9.72 kept
Share
5%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.40
Whole box
$14.40
$11.88 kept
Share
5%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.17
Whole box
$6.12
$3.96 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Hallowed Fountain
$384.99
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#2 most valuable
Blood Crypt
$350.57
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Breeding Pool
$249.99
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Psychic Possession
$98.49
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
$75.95
Spell Snare
$69.00
Ghost Quarter
$44.69
Dovescape
$42.69
Rain of Gore
$40.21
War's Toll
$39.92
55 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.
| Breeding Pool | rare | $20.42 | 0.60 |
| Blood Crypt | rare | $20.08 | 0.60 |
| Hallowed Fountain | rare | $19.82 | 0.60 |
| Grand Arbiter Augustin IV | rare | $18.00 | 0.60 |
| Psychic Possession | rare | $16.55 | 0.60 |
| War's Toll | rare | $13.83 | 0.60 |
| Bronze Bombshell | rare | $11.29 | 0.60 |
| Ratcatcher | rare | $9.06 | 0.60 |
| Rain of Gore | rare | $8.09 | 0.60 |
| Omnibian | rare | $6.15 | 0.60 |
| Cytoplast Manipulator | rare | $5.53 | 0.60 |
| Protean Hulk | rare | $5.48 | 0.60 |
| Dovescape | rare | $5.37 | 0.60 |
| Sprouting Phytohydra | rare | $3.72 | 0.60 |
| Proper Burial | rare | $3.62 | 0.60 |
| Walking Archive | rare | $3.14 | 0.60 |
| Elemental Resonance | rare | $2.78 | 0.60 |
| Momir Vig, Simic Visionary | rare | $2.22 | 0.60 |
| Pride of the Clouds | rare | $2.18 | 0.60 |
| Tidespout Tyrant | rare | $2.14 | 0.60 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
