Magic 2010
Open one box and you'll get $304.92 of cards, on average. We don't hold a current list price for this product, so there is nothing to compare against — put in what a sealed box actually costs you below.
Cards inside
$304.92
Everything in the box, at today's prices
If you sold them
$137.88
After fees, postage and bulk rates
Packs in the box
36
Each holds one rare or mythic
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.
$304.92 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$304.92
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$137.88
About 45% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
27%
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 27% 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.
-$0.08
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $305 a box you'd come up about $0.08 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$304.92
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
$3.35
Whole box
$120.60
$74.88 kept
Share
40%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$2.33
Whole box
$83.88
$18.00 kept
Share
28%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.90
Whole box
$68.40
$29.16 kept
Share
22%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.69
Whole box
$24.84
$15.84 kept
Share
8%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.20
Whole box
$7.20
$0.00 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Lurking Predators
$55.06
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#2 most valuable
Time Warp
$51.94
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#3 most valuable
Platinum Angel
$48.09
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
Silence
$45.12
Sphinx Ambassador
$43.61
Liliana Vess
$43.52
Coat of Arms
$31.00
Hive Mind
$28.75
Ajani Goldmane
$25.31
Ponder
$24.74
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.
| Lurking Predators | rare | $20.18 | 0.62 |
| Coat of Arms | rare | $20.03 | 0.62 |
| Sphinx Ambassador | mythic | $16.43 | 0.31 |
| Platinum Angel | mythic | $14.61 | 0.31 |
| Time Warp | mythic | $14.14 | 0.31 |
| Birds of Paradise | rare | $12.13 | 0.62 |
| Traumatize | rare | $10.25 | 0.62 |
| Hive Mind | rare | $9.25 | 0.62 |
| Ajani Goldmane | mythic | $9.03 | 0.31 |
| Darksteel Colossus | mythic | $8.50 | 0.31 |
| Silence | rare | $8.46 | 0.62 |
| Twincast | rare | $7.66 | 0.62 |
| Sanguine Bond | rare | $7.47 | 0.62 |
| Vampire Nocturnus | mythic | $7.41 | 0.31 |
| Underworld Dreams | rare | $7.13 | 0.62 |
| Howling Mine | rare | $6.90 | 0.62 |
| Liliana Vess | mythic | $5.94 | 0.31 |
| Manabarbs | rare | $5.26 | 0.62 |
| Protean Hydra | mythic | $4.83 | 0.31 |
| Goblin Chieftain | rare | $4.72 | 0.62 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
