Khans of Tarkir
Open one box and you'll get $150.84 of cards, on average. A box costs $295 right now, so that means you're $143.94 short.
Cards inside
$150.84
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$295
TCGplayer market · from $295
Difference
-$143.94
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.
$150.84 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$150.84
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$59.76
About 40% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
45%
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 45% 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.
-$143.94
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $295 a box you'd come up about $143.94 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$150.84
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
$2.08
Whole box
$74.88
$46.80 kept
Share
50%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$0.85
Whole box
$30.60
$1.44 kept
Share
20%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.81
Whole box
$29.16
$6.12 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
$0.16
Whole box
$5.76
$0.00 kept
Share
4%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Wooded Foothills
$34.83
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#2 most valuable
Bloodstained Mire
$34.37
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Polluted Delta
$29.73
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Windswept Heath
$27.35
Flooded Strand
$26.14
Clever Impersonator
$24.08
Stubborn Denial
$22.11
Altar of the Brood
$15.84
Temur Ascendancy
$14.98
Brave the Sands
$11.44
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 | $19.28 | 0.62 |
| Bloodstained Mire | rare | $17.65 | 0.62 |
| Wooded Foothills | rare | $17.03 | 0.62 |
| Flooded Strand | rare | $15.16 | 0.62 |
| Windswept Heath | rare | $11.86 | 0.62 |
| Altar of the Brood | rare | $9.82 | 0.62 |
| Hardened Scales | rare | $3.75 | 0.62 |
| Clever Impersonator | mythic | $3.38 | 0.31 |
| Deflecting Palm | rare | $2.86 | 0.62 |
| Surrak Dragonclaw | mythic | $2.80 | 0.31 |
| Temur Ascendancy | rare | $2.71 | 0.62 |
| Sorin, Solemn Visitor | mythic | $2.24 | 0.31 |
| Grim Haruspex | rare | $1.96 | 0.62 |
| Jeskai Ascendancy | rare | $1.83 | 0.62 |
| Sidisi, Brood Tyrant | mythic | $1.65 | 0.31 |
| Ugin's Nexus | mythic | $1.50 | 0.31 |
| Icy Blast | rare | $1.36 | 0.62 |
| Mardu Ascendancy | rare | $0.92 | 0.62 |
| Rattleclaw Mystic | rare | $0.78 | 0.62 |
| Empty the Pits | mythic | $0.77 | 0.31 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
