Doctor Who
Open one box and you'll get $568.68 of cards, on average. A box costs $710 right now, so that means you're $141.43 short.
Cards inside
$568.68
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$710
TCGplayer market · from $795
Difference
-$141.43
Against you
Packs in the box
12
Several rares, foils and alt-art cards in each
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.
$568.68 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$568.68
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$327.48
About 58% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
12%
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 12% 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.
-$141.43
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $710 a box you'd come up about $141.43 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$568.68
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.
Surge wildcard
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$6.59
Whole box
$79.08
$53.76 kept
Share
14%
Surge extended new
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$5.07
Whole box
$60.84
$38.52 kept
Share
11%
Finale
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$4.84
Whole box
$58.08
$38.04 kept
Share
10%
Master
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$3.95
Whole box
$47.40
$28.44 kept
Share
8%
Surge extended reprint
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$3.87
Whole box
$46.44
$25.68 kept
Share
8%
Paradox
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$3.44
Whole box
$41.28
$23.88 kept
Share
7%
Timey
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.98
Whole box
$35.76
$19.80 kept
Share
6%
Foil extended new
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.78
Whole box
$33.36
$19.80 kept
Share
6%
Foil extended reprint
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.68
Whole box
$32.16
$16.20 kept
Share
6%
Extended-art reprint
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$2.58
Whole box
$30.96
$15.72 kept
Share
5%
Extended-art new
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$2.52
Whole box
$30.24
$17.76 kept
Share
5%
Blast
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.39
Whole box
$28.68
$14.76 kept
Share
5%
Tardis
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.23
Whole box
$26.76
$12.72 kept
Share
5%
Everything else
2 smaller slots — alternate-art pairs, bonus sheets and the like, each under 2% of the box.
Per pack
$1.46
Whole box
$17.52
$2.40 kept
Share
3%
The ten most valuable cards a Collector Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
The Eleventh Doctor
$472.49
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
#2 most valuable
The Fourth Doctor
$303.37
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
#3 most valuable
The Tenth Doctor
$107.79
You'll open one about 1 every 25 boxes
TARDIS
$59.47
Cybermen Squadron
$51.52
Cyberman Patrol
$50.20
K-9, Mark I
$48.86
Flesh Duplicate
$39.29
Everybody Lives!
$38.59
Haunted Ridge
$37.64
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.
| Cybermen Squadron | rare | $33.35 | 0.18 |
| Quantum Misalignment | rare | $23.02 | 0.18 |
| Danny Pink | rare | $22.18 | 0.18 |
| Cybermen Squadron | rare | $22.02 | 0.08 |
| Everybody Lives! | rare | $20.82 | 0.18 |
| Danny Pink | rare | $20.19 | 0.08 |
| Heroic Intervention | rare | $17.65 | 0.08 |
| Everybody Lives! | rare | $16.72 | 0.08 |
| Flaming Tyrannosaurus | rare | $15.75 | 0.18 |
| Auton Soldier | rare | $14.43 | 0.18 |
| Heroic Intervention | rare | $13.24 | 0.34 |
| Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | rare | $12.90 | 0.18 |
| Flesh Duplicate | rare | $12.85 | 0.18 |
| Nanogene Conversion | rare | $12.66 | 0.18 |
| Auton Soldier | rare | $12.64 | 0.08 |
| Ensnared by the Mara | rare | $11.71 | 0.18 |
| Wedding Ring | mythic | $10.35 | 0.17 |
| Exotic Orchard | rare | $10.12 | 0.34 |
| Nanogene Conversion | rare | $10.12 | 0.08 |
| Wound Reflection | rare | $9.49 | 0.34 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
