Eventide
Open one box and you'll get $441.72 of cards, on average. A box costs $850 right now, so that means you're $408.28 short.
Cards inside
$441.72
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$850
TCGplayer market · from $970
Difference
-$408.28
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 17, 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.
$441.72 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$441.72
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$219.96
About 50% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
27%
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 27% 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.
-$408.28
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $850 a box you'd come up about $408.28 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$441.72
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.
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$4.55
Whole box
$163.80
$104.40 kept
Share
37%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$3.33
Whole box
$119.88
$70.56 kept
Share
27%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$2.93
Whole box
$105.48
$8.28 kept
Share
24%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$1.46
Whole box
$52.56
$37.08 kept
Share
12%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Bloom Tender
$176.99
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#2 most valuable
Ward of Bones
$89.99
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Ashling, the Extinguisher
$83.47
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Necroskitter
$71.48
Banishing Knack
$64.25
Waves of Aggression
$61.24
Sapling of Colfenor
$60.18
Crumbling Ashes
$59.20
Scarecrone
$58.97
Stigma Lasher
$52.70
60 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.
| Ward of Bones | rare | $28.95 | 0.62 |
| Ashling, the Extinguisher | rare | $28.66 | 0.62 |
| Bloom Tender | rare | $19.17 | 0.62 |
| Waves of Aggression | rare | $17.69 | 0.62 |
| Glen Elendra Archmage | rare | $14.26 | 0.62 |
| Sapling of Colfenor | rare | $11.73 | 0.62 |
| Inundate | rare | $11.61 | 0.62 |
| Necroskitter | rare | $10.34 | 0.62 |
| Light from Within | rare | $8.16 | 0.62 |
| Endless Horizons | rare | $8.11 | 0.62 |
| Helix Pinnacle | rare | $7.86 | 0.62 |
| Fable of Wolf and Owl | rare | $7.39 | 0.62 |
| Cascade Bluffs | rare | $7.30 | 0.62 |
| Fetid Heath | rare | $6.46 | 0.62 |
| Flooded Grove | rare | $6.30 | 0.62 |
| Twilight Mire | rare | $5.64 | 0.62 |
| Primalcrux | rare | $5.15 | 0.62 |
| Scarecrone | rare | $5.04 | 0.62 |
| Regal Force | rare | $4.86 | 0.62 |
| Rugged Prairie | rare | $4.61 | 0.62 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
