Kaladesh
Open one box and you'll get $179.64 of cards, on average. A box costs $509 right now, so that means you're $329.06 short.
Cards inside
$179.64
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$509
TCGplayer market · from $599
Difference
-$329.06
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.
$179.64 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$179.64
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$76.32
About 42% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
44%
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 44% 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.
-$329.06
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $509 a box you'd come up about $329.06 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$179.64
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
$1.63
Whole box
$58.68
$30.96 kept
Share
33%
Foil or masterpiece 1 in 144
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.51
Whole box
$54.36
$42.84 kept
Share
30%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.13
Whole box
$40.68
$1.44 kept
Share
23%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.54
Whole box
$19.44
$1.08 kept
Share
11%
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
3%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Sol Ring
$796.72
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
#2 most valuable
Mox Opal
$600.87
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
#3 most valuable
Mana Crypt
$591.42
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
Mana Vault
$500.32
Chrome Mox
$463.17
Lotus Petal
$461.26
Sword of Feast and Famine
$221.54
Lightning Greaves
$217.50
Painter's Servant
$209.25
Crucible of Worlds
$158.17
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.
| Aetherflux Reservoir | rare | $20.34 | 0.61 |
| Inventors' Fair | rare | $17.54 | 0.61 |
| Kambal, Consul of Allocation | rare | $8.24 | 0.61 |
| Panharmonicon | rare | $6.39 | 0.61 |
| Authority of the Consuls | rare | $5.08 | 0.61 |
| Spirebluff Canal | rare | $5.04 | 0.61 |
| Chandra, Torch of Defiance | mythic | $3.46 | 0.31 |
| Nissa, Vital Force | mythic | $2.97 | 0.31 |
| Blooming Marsh | rare | $2.75 | 0.61 |
| Animation Module | rare | $2.32 | 0.61 |
| Padeem, Consul of Innovation | rare | $2.29 | 0.61 |
| Inspiring Vantage | rare | $1.98 | 0.61 |
| Skysovereign, Consul Flagship | mythic | $1.72 | 0.31 |
| Botanical Sanctum | rare | $1.71 | 0.61 |
| Metalwork Colossus | rare | $1.64 | 0.61 |
| Marionette Master | rare | $1.62 | 0.61 |
| Metallurgic Summonings | mythic | $1.61 | 0.31 |
| Saheeli Rai | mythic | $1.44 | 0.31 |
| Demon of Dark Schemes | mythic | $1.38 | 0.31 |
| Smuggler's Copter | rare | $1.24 | 0.61 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
