Doctor Who
Open one box and you'll get $476.64 of cards, on average. A box costs $678 right now, so that means you're $200.92 short.
Cards inside
$476.64
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$678
TCGplayer market · from $821
Difference
-$200.92
Against you
Packs in the box
12
Each holds one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked September 2, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated December 6, 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.
$476.64 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$476.64
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$258.60
About 54% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
15%
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 15% 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.
-$200.92
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $678 a box you'd come up about $200.92 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$476.64
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.
Finale
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$5.51
Whole box
$66.12
$45.72 kept
Share
14%
Surge wildcard
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$5.38
Whole box
$64.56
$41.76 kept
Share
14%
Surge extended new
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$3.91
Whole box
$46.92
$27.48 kept
Share
10%
Paradox
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$3.38
Whole box
$40.56
$23.28 kept
Share
9%
Master
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$3.28
Whole box
$39.36
$21.72 kept
Share
8%
Surge extended reprint
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$3.05
Whole box
$36.60
$18.00 kept
Share
8%
Timey
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.73
Whole box
$32.76
$17.16 kept
Share
7%
Blast
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.32
Whole box
$27.84
$14.16 kept
Share
6%
Foil extended new
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.99
Whole box
$23.88
$12.84 kept
Share
5%
Foil extended reprint
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.97
Whole box
$23.64
$10.08 kept
Share
5%
Extended-art reprint
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.89
Whole box
$22.68
$9.48 kept
Share
5%
Extended-art new
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.71
Whole box
$20.52
$10.80 kept
Share
4%
Tardis
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.35
Whole box
$16.20
$4.68 kept
Share
3%
Land
The land slot. In recent sets this can be a valuable nonbasic.
Per pack
$0.69
Whole box
$8.28
$0.36 kept
Share
2%
Doctor
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.55
Whole box
$6.60
$0.84 kept
Share
1%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
The Tenth Doctor
$599.99
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
#2 most valuable
The Twelfth Doctor
$403.98
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
#3 most valuable
The Fourth Doctor
$379.99
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
The Eleventh Doctor
$358.95
The Third Doctor
$290.00
The Thirteenth Doctor
$272.56
The First Doctor
$255.33
The Ninth Doctor
$246.82
The Eighth Doctor
$209.49
The Seventh Doctor
$177.04
917 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.
| Danny Pink | rare | $17.13 | 0.18 |
| Quantum Misalignment | rare | $14.23 | 0.18 |
| Danny Pink | rare | $13.78 | 0.08 |
| Everybody Lives! | rare | $13.61 | 0.18 |
| Cybermen Squadron | rare | $11.46 | 0.18 |
| Flaming Tyrannosaurus | rare | $10.93 | 0.18 |
| Quantum Misalignment | rare | $10.80 | 0.08 |
| Auton Soldier | rare | $10.71 | 0.18 |
| Astrid Peth | rare | $10.19 | 0.18 |
| Heroic Intervention | rare | $10.12 | 0.08 |
| Heroic Intervention | rare | $10.01 | 0.34 |
| Cybermen Squadron | rare | $9.76 | 0.08 |
| Everybody Lives! | rare | $9.22 | 0.08 |
| The Master, Multiplied | rare | $8.54 | 0.18 |
| Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | rare | $8.45 | 0.18 |
| Ensnared by the Mara | rare | $7.82 | 0.18 |
| Flesh Duplicate | rare | $7.24 | 0.18 |
| Exotic Orchard | rare | $6.74 | 0.34 |
| RMS Titanic | rare | $6.55 | 0.18 |
| Auton Soldier | rare | $6.47 | 0.08 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
