Dragon's Maze
Open one box and you'll get $106.92 of cards, on average. A box costs $153 right now, so that means you're $46.09 short.
Cards inside
$106.92
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$153
TCGplayer market · from $152
Difference
-$46.09
Against you
Packs in the box
36
Each holds at least one rare or mythic
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.
$106.92 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$106.92
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$20.88
About 20% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
74%
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 74% 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.
-$46.09
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $153 a box you'd come up about $46.09 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$106.92
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.
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.26
Whole box
$45.36
$1.44 kept
Share
42%
Land
The land slot. In recent sets this can be a valuable nonbasic.
Per pack
$0.60
Whole box
$21.60
$9.72 kept
Share
20%
Rare or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$0.52
Whole box
$18.72
$3.96 kept
Share
18%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.31
Whole box
$11.16
$0.36 kept
Share
10%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.29
Whole box
$10.44
$5.40 kept
Share
10%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Hidden Strings
$39.94
You'll open one about 5.9 per box
#2 most valuable
Render Silent
$33.75
You'll open one about 1 per box
#3 most valuable
Blood Crypt
$26.19
You'll open one about 1 every 7 boxes
Steam Vents
$26.04
Godless Shrine
$20.98
Overgrown Tomb
$20.33
Watery Grave
$19.73
Hallowed Fountain
$19.66
Voice of Resurgence
$18.81
Breeding Pool
$18.63
51 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.
| Sacred Foundry | rare | $10.97 | 0.15 |
| Watery Grave | rare | $10.87 | 0.15 |
| Steam Vents | rare | $10.16 | 0.15 |
| Breeding Pool | rare | $9.94 | 0.15 |
| Blood Crypt | rare | $9.44 | 0.15 |
| Godless Shrine | rare | $8.47 | 0.15 |
| Overgrown Tomb | rare | $8.45 | 0.15 |
| Stomping Ground | rare | $7.94 | 0.15 |
| Hallowed Fountain | rare | $7.13 | 0.15 |
| Temple Garden | rare | $7.01 | 0.15 |
| Master of Cruelties | mythic | $5.73 | 0.47 |
| Render Silent | rare | $2.58 | 0.93 |
| Notion Thief | rare | $2.02 | 0.93 |
| Voice of Resurgence | mythic | $1.57 | 0.47 |
| Possibility Storm | rare | $1.56 | 0.93 |
| Maze's End | mythic | $1.55 | 0.31 |
| Progenitor Mimic | mythic | $1.49 | 0.47 |
| Legion's Initiative | mythic | $0.84 | 0.47 |
| Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts | rare | $0.61 | 0.93 |
| Blood Baron of Vizkopa | mythic | $0.60 | 0.47 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
