Dominaria United
Open one box and you'll get $250.68 of cards, on average. A box costs $385 right now, so that means you're $134.27 short.
Cards inside
$250.68
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$385
TCGplayer market · from $398
Difference
-$134.27
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 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.
$250.68 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$250.68
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$135.48
About 54% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
18%
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 18% 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.
-$134.27
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $385 a box you'd come up about $134.27 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$250.68
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.
Showcase rare or mythic
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$4.67
Whole box
$56.04
$36.72 kept
Share
22%
Foil alt border rare mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$3.50
Whole box
$42.00
$27.60 kept
Share
17%
Foil fullart land
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.88
Whole box
$34.56
$13.20 kept
Share
14%
Extended-art rare or mythic
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$2.71
Whole box
$32.52
$19.56 kept
Share
13%
Textured foil
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.49
Whole box
$29.88
$18.48 kept
Share
12%
Foil rare or mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.22
Whole box
$26.64
$15.00 kept
Share
11%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.75
Whole box
$9.00
$0.12 kept
Share
4%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.72
Whole box
$8.64
$1.32 kept
Share
3%
Lost legends
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.34
Whole box
$4.08
$3.24 kept
Share
2%
Retold uncommon
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.32
Whole box
$3.84
$0.12 kept
Share
2%
Foil uncommon showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.29
Whole box
$3.48
$0.00 kept
Share
1%
Etched-foil retold uncommon
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$0.00
Whole box
$0.00
$0.00 kept
Share
0%
Etched-foil retold rare 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
Share
0%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
$2200.00
You'll open one Not in this booster
#2 most valuable
Chains of Mephistopheles
$1024.64
You'll open one Not in this booster
#3 most valuable
Moat
$775.00
You'll open one Not in this booster
The Abyss
$653.52
All Hallow's Eve
$491.29
Eureka
$421.60
Mirror Universe
$329.98
Angus Mackenzie
$259.99
Nicol Bolas
$172.01
Living Plane
$166.34
336 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.
| The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale | rare | $2200.00 | 0.00 |
| Chains of Mephistopheles | rare | $1024.64 | 0.00 |
| Moat | rare | $775.00 | 0.00 |
| The Abyss | rare | $653.52 | 0.00 |
| All Hallow's Eve | rare | $491.29 | 0.00 |
| Eureka | rare | $421.60 | 0.00 |
| Mirror Universe | rare | $329.98 | 0.00 |
| Angus Mackenzie | rare | $259.99 | 0.00 |
| Nicol Bolas | rare | $172.01 | 0.00 |
| Living Plane | rare | $166.34 | 0.00 |
| Recall | rare | $164.99 | 0.00 |
| Divine Intervention | rare | $148.80 | 0.00 |
| Hazezon Tamar | rare | $139.29 | 0.00 |
| In the Eye of Chaos | rare | $132.39 | 0.00 |
| Field of Dreams | rare | $116.36 | 0.00 |
| Rasputin Dreamweaver | rare | $116.02 | 0.00 |
| Falling Star | rare | $114.95 | 0.00 |
| Thunder Spirit | rare | $111.25 | 0.00 |
| Land Equilibrium | rare | $107.14 | 0.00 |
| Hellfire | rare | $105.19 | 0.00 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
