Khans of Tarkir
Open one box and you'll get $156.60 of cards, on average. A box costs $299 right now, so that means you're $142.27 short.
Cards inside
$156.60
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$299
TCGplayer market · from $289
Difference
-$142.27
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.
$156.60 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$156.60
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$63.36
About 40% 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.
-$142.27
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $299 a box you'd come up about $142.27 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$156.60
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
$2.20
Whole box
$79.20
$50.76 kept
Share
51%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$0.87
Whole box
$31.32
$1.44 kept
Share
20%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.81
Whole box
$29.16
$5.76 kept
Share
19%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.30
Whole box
$10.80
$5.40 kept
Share
7%
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
Wooded Foothills
$36.28
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#2 most valuable
Bloodstained Mire
$36.08
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Polluted Delta
$30.97
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Windswept Heath
$27.15
Flooded Strand
$26.38
Clever Impersonator
$23.93
Stubborn Denial
$22.78
Altar of the Brood
$16.39
Temur Ascendancy
$15.51
Brave the Sands
$11.80
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.
| Polluted Delta | rare | $20.53 | 0.62 |
| Bloodstained Mire | rare | $18.13 | 0.62 |
| Wooded Foothills | rare | $18.09 | 0.62 |
| Flooded Strand | rare | $16.25 | 0.62 |
| Windswept Heath | rare | $12.63 | 0.62 |
| Altar of the Brood | rare | $10.26 | 0.62 |
| Temur Ascendancy | rare | $3.77 | 0.62 |
| Surrak Dragonclaw | mythic | $3.68 | 0.31 |
| Clever Impersonator | mythic | $3.50 | 0.31 |
| Hardened Scales | rare | $3.13 | 0.62 |
| Sorin, Solemn Visitor | mythic | $3.11 | 0.31 |
| Deflecting Palm | rare | $2.77 | 0.62 |
| Grim Haruspex | rare | $2.52 | 0.62 |
| Jeskai Ascendancy | rare | $2.51 | 0.62 |
| Ugin's Nexus | mythic | $1.64 | 0.31 |
| Icy Blast | rare | $1.20 | 0.62 |
| Sidisi, Brood Tyrant | mythic | $1.12 | 0.31 |
| Hooded Hydra | mythic | $0.96 | 0.31 |
| Mardu Ascendancy | rare | $0.87 | 0.62 |
| Rattleclaw Mystic | rare | $0.85 | 0.62 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
