Judgment
Open one box and you'll get $441.36 of cards, on average. A box costs $811 right now, so that means you're $369.97 short.
Cards inside
$441.36
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$811
TCGplayer market · from $1,000
Difference
-$369.97
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 December 5, 2025
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.
$441.36 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$441.36
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$199.08
About 45% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
29%
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 29% 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.
-$369.97
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $811 a box you'd come up about $369.97 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$441.36
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.
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$4.18
Whole box
$150.48
$39.96 kept
Share
34%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$3.24
Whole box
$116.64
$48.96 kept
Share
26%
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$2.87
Whole box
$103.32
$56.52 kept
Share
23%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.75
Whole box
$27.00
$18.72 kept
Share
6%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.66
Whole box
$23.76
$18.00 kept
Share
5%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.57
Whole box
$20.52
$16.56 kept
Share
5%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Sylvan Safekeeper
$299.95
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#2 most valuable
Mirari's Wake
$127.75
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#3 most valuable
Worldgorger Dragon
$112.97
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
Seedtime
$112.44
Solitary Confinement
$106.00
Balthor the Defiled
$98.72
Cabal Therapy
$92.64
Burning Wish
$84.99
Commander Eesha
$59.18
Dwarven Bloodboiler
$56.34
44 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.
| Sylvan Safekeeper | rare | $13.64 | 0.82 |
| Seedtime | rare | $12.92 | 0.82 |
| Balthor the Defiled | rare | $11.56 | 0.82 |
| Solitary Confinement | rare | $10.08 | 0.82 |
| Epic Struggle | rare | $7.28 | 0.82 |
| Mirari's Wake | rare | $6.73 | 0.82 |
| Cunning Wish | rare | $6.40 | 0.82 |
| Dwarven Bloodboiler | rare | $5.64 | 0.82 |
| Burning Wish | rare | $4.27 | 0.82 |
| Morality Shift | rare | $4.22 | 0.82 |
| Genesis | rare | $3.80 | 0.82 |
| Living Wish | rare | $3.76 | 0.82 |
| Phantom Nishoba | rare | $3.69 | 0.82 |
| Test of Endurance | rare | $3.46 | 0.82 |
| Nomad Mythmaker | rare | $3.15 | 0.82 |
| Commander Eesha | rare | $2.61 | 0.82 |
| Hunting Grounds | rare | $2.43 | 0.82 |
| Jeska, Warrior Adept | rare | $2.34 | 0.82 |
| Guiltfeeder | rare | $1.98 | 0.82 |
| Cephalid Constable | rare | $1.94 | 0.82 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
