March of the Machine
Open one box and you'll get $268.68 of cards, on average. A box costs $951 right now, so that means you're $682.64 short.
Cards inside
$268.68
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$951
TCGplayer market · from $917
Difference
-$682.64
Against you
Packs in the box
12
Several rares, foils and alt-art cards in each
Box price from TCGplayer, checked October 12, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated October 16, 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.
$268.68 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$268.68
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$163.20
About 61% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
16%
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 16% 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.
-$682.64
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $951 a box you'd come up about $682.64 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$268.68
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.
Extended-art art commander jumpstart
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$3.66
Whole box
$43.92
$28.08 kept
Share
16%
Rare mythic mul traditional
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$3.56
Whole box
$42.72
$27.84 kept
Share
16%
Foil showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.76
Whole box
$33.12
$20.40 kept
Share
12%
Rare mythic mul halo
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.56
Whole box
$30.72
$24.48 kept
Share
11%
Showcase wild
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$2.15
Whole box
$25.80
$14.88 kept
Share
10%
Foil rare or mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.78
Whole box
$21.36
$12.60 kept
Share
8%
Rare mythic mul serialized
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.64
Whole box
$19.68
$16.92 kept
Share
7%
Uncommon mul serialized
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.29
Whole box
$15.48
$13.20 kept
Share
6%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.23
Whole box
$14.76
$0.72 kept
Share
5%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.50
Whole box
$6.00
$1.08 kept
Share
2%
Uncommon mul halo
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.50
Whole box
$6.00
$3.00 kept
Share
2%
Foil fullart basic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.47
Whole box
$5.64
$0.00 kept
Share
2%
Everything else
4 smaller slots — alternate-art pairs, bonus sheets and the like, each under 2% of the box.
Per pack
$0.28
Whole box
$3.36
$0.00 kept
Share
1%
The ten most valuable cards a Collector Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
$1194.73
You'll open one Not in this booster
#2 most valuable
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
$1000.00
You'll open one Not in this booster
#3 most valuable
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
$855.00
You'll open one Not in this booster
Sheoldred, Whispering One
$799.88
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
$600.00
Jegantha, the Wellspring
$597.49
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
$574.99
Yarok, the Desecrated
$574.99
Zirda, the Dawnwaker
$571.66
Dina, Soul Steeper
$567.50
313 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.
| Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer | mythic | $42.65 | 0.12 |
| Surrak and Goreclaw | rare | $26.57 | 0.23 |
| Sheoldred, Whispering One | mythic | $25.62 | 0.12 |
| Atraxa, Praetors' Voice | mythic | $25.57 | 0.12 |
| Nesting Dovehawk | rare | $23.60 | 0.23 |
| Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite | mythic | $22.14 | 0.12 |
| Uncivil Unrest | rare | $18.90 | 0.23 |
| Tribute to the World Tree | rare | $17.63 | 0.38 |
| Tribute to the World Tree | rare | $15.91 | 0.16 |
| Chivalric Alliance | rare | $15.70 | 0.23 |
| Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur | mythic | $15.06 | 0.12 |
| Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger | mythic | $13.93 | 0.12 |
| Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon | mythic | $13.67 | 0.12 |
| Faerie Mastermind | rare | $13.60 | 0.38 |
| Faerie Mastermind | rare | $11.95 | 0.16 |
| Breach the Multiverse | rare | $11.83 | 0.38 |
| Breach the Multiverse | rare | $11.67 | 0.16 |
| Filigree Vector | rare | $11.50 | 0.23 |
| City on Fire | rare | $11.34 | 0.38 |
| City on Fire | rare | $10.91 | 0.16 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
