Dragon's Maze
Open one box and you'll get $107.28 of cards, on average. A box costs $141 right now, so that means you're $33.97 short.
Cards inside
$107.28
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$141
TCGplayer market · from $142
Difference
-$33.97
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.
$107.28 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$107.28
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$21.60
About 20% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
72%
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 72% 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.
-$33.97
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $141 a box you'd come up about $33.97 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$107.28
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
$0.58
Whole box
$20.88
$9.72 kept
Share
19%
Rare or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$0.55
Whole box
$19.80
$4.68 kept
Share
18%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.30
Whole box
$10.80
$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 Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Hidden Strings
$45.90
You'll open one about 5.9 per box
#2 most valuable
Render Silent
$30.94
You'll open one about 1 per box
#3 most valuable
Blood Crypt
$27.46
You'll open one about 1 every 7 boxes
Steam Vents
$26.29
Overgrown Tomb
$20.72
Godless Shrine
$20.68
Hallowed Fountain
$20.26
Watery Grave
$19.76
Voice of Resurgence
$18.70
Breeding Pool
$18.65
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.
| Steam Vents | rare | $12.80 | 0.15 |
| Watery Grave | rare | $10.25 | 0.15 |
| Sacred Foundry | rare | $10.18 | 0.15 |
| Breeding Pool | rare | $9.87 | 0.15 |
| Blood Crypt | rare | $9.29 | 0.15 |
| Temple Garden | rare | $8.07 | 0.15 |
| Overgrown Tomb | rare | $8.04 | 0.15 |
| Godless Shrine | rare | $7.99 | 0.15 |
| Hallowed Fountain | rare | $6.70 | 0.15 |
| Stomping Ground | rare | $6.67 | 0.15 |
| Master of Cruelties | mythic | $4.79 | 0.47 |
| Possibility Storm | rare | $2.94 | 0.93 |
| Render Silent | rare | $2.68 | 0.93 |
| Notion Thief | rare | $1.95 | 0.93 |
| Maze's End | mythic | $1.68 | 0.31 |
| Voice of Resurgence | mythic | $1.62 | 0.47 |
| Progenitor Mimic | mythic | $1.28 | 0.47 |
| Legion's Initiative | mythic | $0.83 | 0.47 |
| Ral Zarek | mythic | $0.72 | 0.47 |
| Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts | rare | $0.60 | 0.93 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
