Final Fantasy
Open one box and you'll get $219.90 of cards, on average. A box costs $226 right now, so that means you're $6.36 short.
Cards inside
$219.90
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$226
TCGplayer market · from $215
Difference
-$6.36
Against you
Packs in the box
30
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.
$219.90 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$219.90
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$92.40
About 42% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
41%
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 41% 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.
-$6.36
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $226 a box you'd come up about $6.36 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$219.90
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 or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$2.63
Whole box
$78.90
$50.40 kept
Share
36%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.16
Whole box
$34.80
$0.90 kept
Share
16%
Through the Ages bonus sheet
Final Fantasy’s bonus sheet of reprints. Rare, and carries a lot of the set’s value.
Per pack
$1.09
Whole box
$32.70
$21.00 kept
Share
15%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.85
Whole box
$25.50
$2.70 kept
Share
12%
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
$20.40
$9.00 kept
Share
9%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.64
Whole box
$19.20
$8.10 kept
Share
9%
Nonfoil land
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.22
Whole box
$6.60
$0.00 kept
Share
3%
Foil land
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.07
Whole box
$2.10
$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
Rhystic Study
$439.49
You'll open one about 1 every 20 boxes
#2 most valuable
Urza, Lord High Artificer
$239.26
You'll open one about 1 every 20 boxes
#3 most valuable
Ancient Copper Dragon
$230.94
You'll open one about 1 every 20 boxes
Buster Sword
$207.36
Vivi Ornitier
$190.78
Atraxa, Grand Unifier
$187.44
Najeela, the Blade-Blossom
$172.19
Ranger-Captain of Eos
$135.79
Akroma's Will
$119.56
Summon: Bahamut
$104.54
174 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.
| Buster Sword | mythic | $100.35 | 0.02 |
| Rhystic Study | mythic | $85.17 | 0.05 |
| Vivi Ornitier | mythic | $84.84 | 0.04 |
| Ancient Copper Dragon | mythic | $75.12 | 0.05 |
| Summon: Bahamut | mythic | $51.66 | 0.02 |
| Buster Sword | mythic | $47.73 | 0.19 |
| Cloud, Midgar Mercenary | mythic | $39.00 | 0.02 |
| Vivi Ornitier | mythic | $35.78 | 0.19 |
| Lightning, Army of One | mythic | $34.24 | 0.04 |
| Traveling Chocobo | mythic | $31.43 | 0.02 |
| Akroma's Will | mythic | $29.77 | 0.05 |
| Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer | mythic | $29.28 | 0.05 |
| Y'shtola Rhul | mythic | $29.02 | 0.04 |
| Atraxa, Grand Unifier | mythic | $27.86 | 0.05 |
| Summon: Knights of Round | mythic | $25.84 | 0.02 |
| Lightning, Army of One | mythic | $25.58 | 0.02 |
| Cloud, Midgar Mercenary | mythic | $22.14 | 0.19 |
| Nyxbloom Ancient | mythic | $21.54 | 0.05 |
| Urza, Lord High Artificer | mythic | $20.44 | 0.05 |
| Summon: Bahamut | mythic | $20.35 | 0.19 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
