Fallout
Open one box and you'll get $792.72 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,798 right now, so that means you're $1004.87 short.
Cards inside
$792.72
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,798
TCGplayer market · from $1,959
Difference
-$1004.87
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 December 8, 2025
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.
$792.72 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$792.72
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$492.84
About 62% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
7%
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 7% 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.
-$1004.87
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,798 a box you'd come up about $1004.87 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$792.72
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.
Finale
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$15.63
Whole box
$187.56
$145.08 kept
Share
24%
Showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$9.14
Whole box
$109.68
$78.96 kept
Share
14%
Surge wildcard
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$6.64
Whole box
$79.68
$53.88 kept
Share
10%
Surge extended new
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$4.43
Whole box
$53.16
$31.08 kept
Share
7%
Surge extended reprint
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$4.42
Whole box
$53.04
$30.12 kept
Share
7%
Science
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$3.76
Whole box
$45.12
$27.00 kept
Share
6%
Scrappy survivors
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$3.57
Whole box
$42.84
$24.84 kept
Share
5%
Mutant menace
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$3.11
Whole box
$37.32
$19.44 kept
Share
5%
Hail caesar
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.98
Whole box
$35.76
$19.20 kept
Share
5%
Land
The land slot. In recent sets this can be a valuable nonbasic.
Per pack
$2.56
Whole box
$30.72
$12.12 kept
Share
4%
Foil extended reprint
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.31
Whole box
$27.72
$12.24 kept
Share
3%
Standard rm
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.21
Whole box
$26.52
$12.24 kept
Share
3%
Extended-art reprint
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.92
Whole box
$23.04
$9.36 kept
Share
3%
Foil extended new
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.84
Whole box
$22.08
$9.72 kept
Share
3%
Extended-art new
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.54
Whole box
$18.48
$7.80 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Luck Bobblehead
$599.99
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
#2 most valuable
Intelligence Bobblehead
$526.45
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
#3 most valuable
Agility Bobblehead
$478.00
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
Endurance Bobblehead
$466.96
Charisma Bobblehead
$445.34
Perception Bobblehead
$400.80
The Wise Mothman
$205.52
Sol Ring
$180.95
Arcane Signet
$91.17
Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
$87.37
776 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.
| Crucible of Worlds | mythic | $30.55 | 0.65 |
| Sol Ring | mythic | $28.33 | 0.65 |
| Wasteland | rare | $22.62 | 0.65 |
| Farewell | rare | $20.14 | 0.65 |
| Codsworth, Handy Helper | rare | $18.49 | 0.28 |
| Ravages of War | mythic | $18.03 | 0.65 |
| The Wise Mothman | mythic | $15.28 | 0.65 |
| Vigor | rare | $14.89 | 0.65 |
| Walking Ballista | rare | $14.46 | 0.65 |
| Power Fist | rare | $11.87 | 0.28 |
| Heroic Intervention | rare | $10.44 | 0.18 |
| Heroic Intervention | rare | $10.21 | 0.29 |
| Codsworth, Handy Helper | rare | $10.00 | 0.18 |
| Guardian Project | rare | $8.89 | 0.18 |
| Guardian Project | rare | $8.64 | 0.29 |
| Power Fist | rare | $7.84 | 0.18 |
| Pip-Boy 3000 | rare | $7.52 | 0.28 |
| Hullbreaker Horror | rare | $6.72 | 0.65 |
| Mutational Advantage | rare | $6.58 | 0.28 |
| Exotic Orchard | rare | $5.87 | 0.29 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
