Ixalan
Open one box and you'll get $137.52 of cards, on average. A box costs $236 right now, so that means you're $98.61 short.
Cards inside
$137.52
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$236
TCGplayer market · from $225
Difference
-$98.61
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 16, 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.
$137.52 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$137.52
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$24.48
About 18% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
75%
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 75% 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.
-$98.61
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $236 a box you'd come up about $98.61 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$137.52
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.
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.48
Whole box
$53.28
$1.44 kept
Share
39%
Rare or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$1.24
Whole box
$44.64
$20.16 kept
Share
32%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.70
Whole box
$25.20
$0.36 kept
Share
18%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.23
Whole box
$8.28
$2.88 kept
Share
6%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.17
Whole box
$6.12
$0.00 kept
Share
4%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
$31.82
You'll open one about 1 every 4 boxes
#2 most valuable
Jace, Cunning Castaway
$22.10
You'll open one about 1 every 4 boxes
#3 most valuable
Revel in Riches
$21.67
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Herald of Secret Streams
$19.38
Vanquisher's Banner
$14.93
Huatli, Warrior Poet
$8.37
Vona, Butcher of Magan
$6.84
Ripjaw Raptor
$6.62
Rootbound Crag
$6.43
Drowned Catacomb
$6.28
68 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.
| Revel in Riches | rare | $21.67 | 0.53 |
| Jace, Cunning Castaway | mythic | $10.11 | 0.26 |
| Gishath, Sun's Avatar | mythic | $6.58 | 0.26 |
| Herald of Secret Streams | rare | $6.28 | 0.53 |
| Vanquisher's Banner | rare | $5.69 | 0.53 |
| Carnage Tyrant | mythic | $4.92 | 0.26 |
| Arcane Adaptation | rare | $3.93 | 0.53 |
| Settle the Wreckage | rare | $3.05 | 0.53 |
| Huatli, Warrior Poet | mythic | $2.42 | 0.26 |
| Drowned Catacomb | rare | $2.29 | 0.53 |
| Star of Extinction | mythic | $2.26 | 0.26 |
| Axis of Mortality | mythic | $1.88 | 0.26 |
| Ripjaw Raptor | rare | $1.57 | 0.53 |
| Spell Swindle | rare | $1.56 | 0.53 |
| Regisaur Alpha | rare | $1.55 | 0.53 |
| Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle | rare | $1.53 | 0.53 |
| River's Rebuke | rare | $1.51 | 0.53 |
| Vraska, Relic Seeker | mythic | $1.48 | 0.26 |
| Rampaging Ferocidon | rare | $1.37 | 0.53 |
| Kinjalli's Sunwing | rare | $1.30 | 0.53 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
