What is the expected value of a Hour of Devastation Draft Booster Box?

Opening a Hour of Devastation Draft Booster Box gets you about $177.84 of cards at market price. Selling them would return about $69.12 after fees. We do not hold a current list price for it, so compare both figures against what a sealed box actually costs you today.

Is the Hour of Devastation Draft Booster Box worth opening?

No: at MSRP the cards inside are worth about $116.55 less than the box costs, and buying the individual cards you want will be cheaper. The box only breaks even at $177.84 or less, and less again — about $69.12 — if the plan is to resell.

How much would you get back selling a Hour of Devastation Draft Booster Box?

About $69.12, against $177.84 of cards at market price. Market price is what a buyer pays, not what a seller receives: TCGplayer takes 10.75% commission plus a 2.5% and $0.30 transaction fee, and posting a single card costs around $1.10. Below roughly $1.66 a card is worth more in a bulk lot, at about $0.04 a rare, than listed and posted — and 48% of this box's value sits under that line.

Hour of Devastation

Cards inside $177.84$117 short of list

Hour of Devastation

Hour of Devastation Draft Booster Box

Open one box and you'll get $177.84 of cards, on average. A box costs $294 right now, so that means you're $116.55 short.

Cards inside

$177.84

Everything in the box, at today's prices

Box costs now

$294

TCGplayer market · from $296

Difference

-$116.55

Against you

Packs in the box

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.

And if you sold the cards?

$177.84 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.

Worth to a buyer

$177.84

Every card at market price

What you'd keep

$69.12

About 39% of it, sold card by card

Stuck as bulk

48%

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 48% 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.

What does a box cost you?

We start from what a box costs right now. Put in the price you're actually being asked to pay and the answer updates.

Box price

$20$750

I'd be selling the cards. Values every card at what you'd be paid for it rather than what it sells for — fees and postage on the ones worth listing, bulk rates on the ones that aren't. Comes to about 39% of $178.

-$116.55

per box, against you

You would do better buying the singles

At $294 a box you'd come up about $116.55 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.

Break-even price

$177.84

Pay less than this and you're ahead on average.

Where the value comes from

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

$2.06

Whole box

$74.16

$47.16 kept

42%

Commons

The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.

Per pack

$1.33

Whole box

$47.88

$1.44 kept

27%

Foil or masterpiece 1 in 129

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$0.74

Whole box

$26.64

$18.36 kept

15%

Uncommons

Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.

Per pack

$0.63

Whole box

$22.68

$1.80 kept

13%

Basic land

The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.

Per pack

$0.18

Whole box

$6.48

$0.00 kept

The cards you're hoping to hit

The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.

#1 most valuable

The Scarab God

$296.39

You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes

#2 most valuable

Omniscience

$135.85

You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes

#3 most valuable

Damnation

$126.30

You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes