Guilds of Ravnica
Open one box and you'll get $141.48 of cards, on average. A box costs $161 right now, so that means you're $19.60 short.
Cards inside
$141.48
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$161
TCGplayer market · from $160
Difference
-$19.60
Against you
Packs in the box
36
Each holds at least one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked October 12, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated October 17, 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.
$141.48 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$141.48
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$39.96
About 28% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
59%
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 59% 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.
-$19.60
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $161 a box you'd come up about $19.60 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$141.48
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.
Rare or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$1.69
Whole box
$60.84
$34.20 kept
Share
43%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.20
Whole box
$43.20
$1.44 kept
Share
31%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.63
Whole box
$22.68
$1.08 kept
Share
16%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.22
Whole box
$7.92
$3.60 kept
Share
6%
Land
The land slot. In recent sets this can be a valuable nonbasic.
Per pack
$0.19
Whole box
$6.84
$0.00 kept
Share
5%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Mnemonic Betrayal
$90.88
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Chance for Glory
$24.79
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#3 most valuable
Steam Vents
$17.12
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Doom Whisperer
$16.44
Watery Grave
$14.09
Underrealm Lich
$13.94
Overgrown Tomb
$13.00
Sacred Foundry
$11.02
Temple Garden
$9.86
Niv-Mizzet, Parun
$9.22
63 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.
| Underrealm Lich | mythic | $11.18 | 0.31 |
| Steam Vents | rare | $11.14 | 0.62 |
| Sacred Foundry | rare | $11.02 | 0.62 |
| Watery Grave | rare | $10.63 | 0.62 |
| Beast Whisperer | rare | $8.76 | 0.62 |
| Overgrown Tomb | rare | $8.34 | 0.62 |
| Mnemonic Betrayal | mythic | $7.66 | 0.31 |
| Temple Garden | rare | $6.78 | 0.62 |
| Doom Whisperer | mythic | $5.96 | 0.31 |
| Niv-Mizzet, Parun | rare | $5.23 | 0.62 |
| Vraska, Golgari Queen | mythic | $5.14 | 0.31 |
| Chance for Glory | mythic | $3.34 | 0.31 |
| Divine Visitation | mythic | $1.97 | 0.31 |
| Runaway Steam-Kin | rare | $1.85 | 0.62 |
| Assassin's Trophy | rare | $1.71 | 0.62 |
| Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice | mythic | $1.64 | 0.31 |
| Thousand-Year Storm | mythic | $1.45 | 0.31 |
| Chromatic Lantern | rare | $1.17 | 0.62 |
| March of the Multitudes | mythic | $1.11 | 0.31 |
| Mausoleum Secrets | rare | $0.90 | 0.62 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
