Magic 2014
Open one box and you'll get $210.60 of cards, on average. A box costs $317 right now, so that means you're $106.77 short.
Cards inside
$210.60
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$317
TCGplayer market · from $300
Difference
-$106.77
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.
$210.60 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$210.60
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$70.56
About 34% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
49%
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 49% 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.
-$106.77
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $317 a box you'd come up about $106.77 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$210.60
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
$2.66
Whole box
$95.76
$59.04 kept
Share
45%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.87
Whole box
$67.32
$2.16 kept
Share
32%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.76
Whole box
$27.36
$1.08 kept
Share
13%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.41
Whole box
$14.76
$8.28 kept
Share
7%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.15
Whole box
$5.40
$0.00 kept
Share
3%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Archangel of Thune
$76.96
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Kalonian Hydra
$57.07
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#3 most valuable
Darksteel Forge
$53.43
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
Silence
$32.15
Dark Prophecy
$27.79
Jace, Memory Adept
$27.07
Liliana of the Dark Realms
$24.99
Galerider Sliver
$21.78
Ring of Three Wishes
$20.93
Elixir of Immortality
$18.11
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.
| Darksteel Forge | mythic | $51.64 | 0.31 |
| Archangel of Thune | mythic | $48.72 | 0.31 |
| Liliana of the Dark Realms | mythic | $9.68 | 0.31 |
| Rise of the Dark Realms | mythic | $9.58 | 0.31 |
| Silence | rare | $9.54 | 0.62 |
| Scourge of Valkas | mythic | $7.31 | 0.31 |
| Ring of Three Wishes | mythic | $7.25 | 0.31 |
| Door of Destinies | rare | $6.92 | 0.62 |
| Bonescythe Sliver | rare | $6.83 | 0.62 |
| Strionic Resonator | rare | $6.79 | 0.62 |
| Kalonian Hydra | mythic | $6.61 | 0.31 |
| Syphon Sliver | rare | $6.06 | 0.62 |
| Jace, Memory Adept | mythic | $5.75 | 0.31 |
| Galerider Sliver | rare | $5.68 | 0.62 |
| Sanguine Bond | rare | $5.56 | 0.62 |
| Dark Prophecy | rare | $5.46 | 0.62 |
| Mutavault | rare | $4.14 | 0.62 |
| Traumatize | rare | $3.90 | 0.62 |
| Garruk, Caller of Beasts | mythic | $2.50 | 0.31 |
| Burning Earth | rare | $2.47 | 0.62 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
