Future Sight
Open one box and you'll get $504.36 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,267 right now, so that means you're $762.31 short.
Cards inside
$504.36
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,267
TCGplayer market · from $1,400
Difference
-$762.31
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.
$504.36 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$504.36
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$260.64
About 52% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
23%
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 23% 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.
-$762.31
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,267 a box you'd come up about $762.31 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$504.36
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
$5.00
Whole box
$180.00
$123.48 kept
Share
36%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$3.90
Whole box
$140.40
$45.72 kept
Share
28%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$2.69
Whole box
$96.84
$25.20 kept
Share
19%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$2.42
Whole box
$87.12
$66.24 kept
Share
17%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Sliver Legion
$209.99
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#2 most valuable
Pact of Negation
$178.18
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Tarmogoyf
$172.49
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Dryad Arbor
$167.32
Summoner's Pact
$142.39
Magus of the Moon
$124.30
Grove of the Burnwillows
$103.00
Akroma's Memorial
$102.95
Street Wraith
$84.97
Vedalken Aethermage
$71.00
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.
| Sliver Legion | rare | $49.14 | 0.62 |
| Akroma's Memorial | rare | $37.84 | 0.62 |
| Bitter Ordeal | rare | $26.91 | 0.62 |
| Pact of Negation | rare | $21.00 | 0.62 |
| Tarmogoyf | rare | $19.90 | 0.62 |
| Grove of the Burnwillows | rare | $15.68 | 0.62 |
| Veilstone Amulet | rare | $11.61 | 0.62 |
| Nimbus Maze | rare | $9.89 | 0.62 |
| Magus of the Vineyard | rare | $8.55 | 0.62 |
| Summoner's Pact | rare | $8.15 | 0.62 |
| Magus of the Moat | rare | $7.82 | 0.62 |
| Horizon Canopy | rare | $7.51 | 0.62 |
| Graven Cairns | rare | $7.27 | 0.62 |
| Magus of the Moon | rare | $6.96 | 0.62 |
| Heartwood Storyteller | rare | $6.22 | 0.62 |
| Daybreak Coronet | rare | $5.19 | 0.62 |
| Intervention Pact | rare | $4.60 | 0.62 |
| Cloud Key | rare | $3.56 | 0.62 |
| Scout's Warning | rare | $3.40 | 0.62 |
| Korlash, Heir to Blackblade | rare | $3.18 | 0.62 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
