Foundations
Open one box and you'll get $264.96 of cards, on average. A box costs $169 right now, so that means you're +$95.73 ahead.
Cards inside
$264.96
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$169
TCGplayer market · from $160
Difference
+$95.73
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.
$264.96 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$264.96
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$93.96
About 35% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
46%
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 46% 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.
+$95.73
per box, in your favour
The cards are worth more than the box
At $169 a box you'd come out about $95.73 ahead on average. Over many boxes that edge is real — but any single box can still be a dud.
Break-even price
$264.96
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
$2.80
Whole box
$100.80
$57.60 kept
Share
38%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.66
Whole box
$59.76
$5.40 kept
Share
23%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.99
Whole box
$35.64
$5.04 kept
Share
13%
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
$0.83
Whole box
$29.88
$13.32 kept
Share
11%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.63
Whole box
$22.68
$7.56 kept
Share
9%
Land
The land slot. In recent sets this can be a valuable nonbasic.
Per pack
$0.21
Whole box
$7.56
$0.00 kept
Share
3%
Special Guest
A card from outside the set, printed in a special frame. Rare, and often the best thing in the box.
Per pack
$0.18
Whole box
$6.48
$4.68 kept
Share
2%
Foil land
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.08
Whole box
$2.88
$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
Sire of Seven Deaths
$61.68
You'll open one about 1 every 25 boxes
#2 most valuable
Twinflame Tyrant
$56.58
You'll open one about 1 every 25 boxes
#3 most valuable
Bloodthirsty Conqueror
$55.78
You'll open one about 1 every 25 boxes
Akroma's Memorial
$53.86
Bloodthirsty Conqueror
$39.83
Rise of the Dark Realms
$36.71
Doubling Season
$35.27
Grim Tutor
$33.72
Embercleave
$31.57
Mossborn Hydra
$31.23
150 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.
| Bloodthirsty Conqueror | mythic | $42.67 | 0.04 |
| Bloodthirsty Conqueror | mythic | $38.93 | 0.29 |
| Twinflame Tyrant | mythic | $37.46 | 0.04 |
| Akroma's Memorial | mythic | $36.27 | 0.05 |
| Doubling Season | mythic | $33.30 | 0.33 |
| Sire of Seven Deaths | mythic | $32.12 | 0.04 |
| Twinflame Tyrant | mythic | $26.45 | 0.29 |
| Grim Tutor | mythic | $25.28 | 0.05 |
| Rise of the Dark Realms | mythic | $22.55 | 0.04 |
| Sire of Seven Deaths | mythic | $18.19 | 0.29 |
| Mossborn Hydra | rare | $17.45 | 0.08 |
| Embercleave | mythic | $16.42 | 0.05 |
| Liliana, Dreadhorde General | mythic | $14.44 | 0.04 |
| Bloom Tender | mythic | $12.68 | 0.05 |
| Niv-Mizzet, Visionary | mythic | $11.86 | 0.04 |
| Mossborn Hydra | rare | $11.70 | 0.58 |
| Scrawling Crawler | rare | $11.34 | 0.08 |
| Banner of Kinship | rare | $11.22 | 0.08 |
| Temporal Manipulation | mythic | $10.67 | 0.05 |
| High Fae Trickster | rare | $8.67 | 0.08 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
