March of the Machine
Open one box and you'll get $221.76 of cards, on average. A box costs $955 right now, so that means you're $733.21 short.
Cards inside
$221.76
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$955
TCGplayer market · from $950
Difference
-$733.21
Against you
Packs in the box
12
Each holds one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked September 2, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated December 2, 2025
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.
$221.76 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$221.76
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$133.80
About 60% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
18%
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 18% 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.
-$733.21
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $955 a box you'd come up about $733.21 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$221.76
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 mythic mul traditional
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$3.58
Whole box
$42.96
$27.96 kept
Share
19%
Extended-art art commander jumpstart
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$2.85
Whole box
$34.20
$20.76 kept
Share
15%
Rare mythic mul halo
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.44
Whole box
$29.28
$23.28 kept
Share
13%
Foil showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.92
Whole box
$23.04
$12.72 kept
Share
10%
Rare mythic mul serialized
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.59
Whole box
$19.08
$16.32 kept
Share
9%
Showcase wild
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.55
Whole box
$18.60
$9.96 kept
Share
8%
Foil rare or mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.12
Whole box
$13.44
$6.84 kept
Share
6%
Uncommon mul serialized
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.12
Whole box
$13.44
$11.52 kept
Share
6%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.71
Whole box
$8.52
$0.24 kept
Share
4%
Uncommon mul halo
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.52
Whole box
$6.24
$3.12 kept
Share
3%
Foil fullart basic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.41
Whole box
$4.92
$0.00 kept
Share
2%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.38
Whole box
$4.56
$0.96 kept
Share
2%
Foil mul uncommon
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.29
Whole box
$3.48
$0.00 kept
Share
2%
Uncommon mul etched
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$0.00
Whole box
$0.00
$0.00 kept
Share
0%
Rare mythic mul etched
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$0.00
Whole box
$0.00
$0.00 kept
Share
0%
Double foil praetor serialized
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.00
Whole box
$0.00
$0.00 kept
Share
0%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
$1000.00
You'll open one Not in this booster
#2 most valuable
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
$945.00
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
$698.78
Aurelia, the Warleader
$694.20
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
$652.50
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
$600.00
Jegantha, the Wellspring
$594.99
Zirda, the Dawnwaker
$571.66
Teysa Karlov
$551.95
309 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 | $47.26 | 0.12 |
| Atraxa, Praetors' Voice | mythic | $25.44 | 0.12 |
| Sheoldred, Whispering One | mythic | $25.27 | 0.12 |
| Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus | rare | $21.19 | 0.23 |
| Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite | mythic | $20.30 | 0.12 |
| Uncivil Unrest | rare | $18.99 | 0.23 |
| Filigree Vector | rare | $15.94 | 0.23 |
| Nesting Dovehawk | rare | $15.49 | 0.23 |
| Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger | mythic | $13.95 | 0.12 |
| Faerie Mastermind | rare | $13.91 | 0.38 |
| Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon | mythic | $12.99 | 0.12 |
| Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur | mythic | $12.45 | 0.12 |
| Chivalric Alliance | rare | $11.40 | 0.23 |
| Tribute to the World Tree | rare | $10.85 | 0.38 |
| Aurelia, the Warleader | mythic | $10.56 | 0.12 |
| Ozolith, the Shattered Spire | rare | $9.82 | 0.38 |
| Tribute to the World Tree | rare | $9.74 | 0.16 |
| City on Fire | rare | $9.37 | 0.38 |
| City on Fire | rare | $9.16 | 0.16 |
| Ayara, First of Locthwain | rare | $8.60 | 0.24 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
