Duskmourn: House of Horror
Open one box and you'll get $237.96 of cards, on average. A box costs $192 right now, so that means you're +$45.76 ahead.
Cards inside
$237.96
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$192
TCGplayer market · from $192
Difference
+$45.76
In your favour
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.
$237.96 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$237.96
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$94.68
About 40% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
40%
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 40% 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.
+$45.76
per box, in your favour
The cards are worth more than the box
At $192 a box you'd come out about $45.76 ahead on average. Over many boxes that edge is real — but any single box can still be a dud.
Break-even price
$237.96
Pay less than this and you're ahead on average.
Prices move week to week. Open a retailer to see what a box actually costs right now, then plug it into the calculator above.
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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.
Rare mythic with showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$2.82
Whole box
$101.52
$61.20 kept
Share
43%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.02
Whole box
$36.72
$7.92 kept
Share
15%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$0.99
Whole box
$35.64
$0.72 kept
Share
15%
Wildcard
An extra card of any rarity. Most of the time it is a common or uncommon, but it can be a second rare.
Per pack
$0.68
Whole box
$24.48
$10.80 kept
Share
10%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.61
Whole box
$21.96
$9.36 kept
Share
9%
Land
The land slot. In recent sets this can be a valuable nonbasic.
Per pack
$0.25
Whole box
$9.00
$0.00 kept
Share
4%
Special Guest
A card from outside the set, printed in a special frame. Rare, and often the best thing in the box.
Per pack
$0.17
Whole box
$6.12
$4.68 kept
Share
3%
Foil land
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.07
Whole box
$2.52
$0.00 kept
Share
1%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Noxious Revival
$62.74
You'll open one about 1 every 17 boxes
#2 most valuable
Sacrifice
$54.84
You'll open one about 1 every 17 boxes
#3 most valuable
Damnation
$44.40
You'll open one about 1 every 17 boxes
Phantasmal Image
$33.98
Expropriate
$33.68
Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
$29.75
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
$26.31
Gloomlake Verge
$23.45
Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
$23.20
Overlord of the Balemurk
$22.57
141 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.
| Damnation | mythic | $23.82 | 0.06 |
| Overlord of the Balemurk | mythic | $22.06 | 0.32 |
| Kaito, Bane of Nightmares | mythic | $19.41 | 0.04 |
| Expropriate | mythic | $19.26 | 0.06 |
| Enduring Vitality | rare | $17.33 | 0.64 |
| Valgavoth, Terror Eater | mythic | $17.18 | 0.08 |
| Valgavoth, Terror Eater | mythic | $16.43 | 0.24 |
| Tyvar, the Pummeler | mythic | $16.13 | 0.24 |
| Noxious Revival | mythic | $16.04 | 0.06 |
| Sacrifice | mythic | $15.59 | 0.06 |
| Abhorrent Oculus | mythic | $14.60 | 0.08 |
| Gloomlake Verge | rare | $14.47 | 0.16 |
| Tyvar, the Pummeler | mythic | $12.85 | 0.08 |
| Kaito, Bane of Nightmares | mythic | $12.70 | 0.04 |
| Abhorrent Oculus | mythic | $12.58 | 0.24 |
| Blazemire Verge | rare | $12.57 | 0.16 |
| Enduring Tenacity | rare | $11.63 | 0.64 |
| Hushwood Verge | rare | $11.24 | 0.16 |
| Gloomlake Verge | rare | $10.18 | 0.48 |
| Floodfarm Verge | rare | $10.03 | 0.16 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
