Fate Reforged
Open one box and you'll get $122.04 of cards, on average. A box costs $208 right now, so that means you're $86.23 short.
Cards inside
$122.04
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$208
TCGplayer market · from $220
Difference
-$86.23
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.
$122.04 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$122.04
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$30.96
About 25% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
61%
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 61% 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.
-$86.23
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $208 a box you'd come up about $86.23 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$122.04
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
$0.95
Whole box
$34.20
$1.44 kept
Share
28%
Land
The land slot. In recent sets this can be a valuable nonbasic.
Per pack
$0.82
Whole box
$29.52
$19.08 kept
Share
24%
Rare or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$0.75
Whole box
$27.00
$6.48 kept
Share
22%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.66
Whole box
$23.76
$1.44 kept
Share
19%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.21
Whole box
$7.56
$2.52 kept
Share
6%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Wooded Foothills
$34.83
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Bloodstained Mire
$34.37
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#3 most valuable
Polluted Delta
$29.73
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
Windswept Heath
$27.35
Flooded Strand
$26.14
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
$23.75
Temporal Trespass
$11.86
Ojutai, Soul of Winter
$11.38
Merciless Executioner
$11.00
Dark Deal
$10.86
56 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.
| Polluted Delta | rare | $19.28 | 0.30 |
| Bloodstained Mire | rare | $17.65 | 0.30 |
| Wooded Foothills | rare | $17.03 | 0.30 |
| Flooded Strand | rare | $15.16 | 0.30 |
| Windswept Heath | rare | $11.86 | 0.30 |
| Ugin, the Spirit Dragon | mythic | $10.12 | 0.47 |
| Temporal Trespass | mythic | $3.34 | 0.47 |
| Brutal Hordechief | mythic | $2.73 | 0.47 |
| Crux of Fate | rare | $2.34 | 0.90 |
| Arcbond | rare | $1.74 | 0.93 |
| Archfiend of Depravity | rare | $1.69 | 0.93 |
| Monastery Mentor | mythic | $1.62 | 0.47 |
| Monastery Siege | rare | $1.17 | 0.90 |
| Mob Rule | rare | $1.08 | 0.93 |
| Shamanic Revelation | rare | $1.01 | 0.93 |
| Shaman of the Great Hunt | mythic | $0.99 | 0.47 |
| Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury | rare | $0.94 | 0.93 |
| Soulfire Grand Master | mythic | $0.91 | 0.47 |
| Supplant Form | rare | $0.90 | 0.93 |
| Palace Siege | rare | $0.86 | 0.90 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
