March of the Machine: The Aftermath
Open one box and you'll get $107.40 of cards, on average. A box costs $274 right now, so that means you're $166.26 short.
Cards inside
$107.40
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$274
TCGplayer market · from $305
Difference
-$166.26
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.
$107.40 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$107.40
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$63.48
About 59% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
13%
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 13% 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.
-$166.26
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $274 a box you'd come up about $166.26 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$107.40
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.
Foil showcase rare mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.25
Whole box
$27.00
$16.56 kept
Share
25%
Extended-art rare or mythic
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.77
Whole box
$21.24
$12.48 kept
Share
20%
Foil rare or mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.71
Whole box
$20.52
$10.08 kept
Share
19%
Halo showcase rare mythic
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.67
Whole box
$20.04
$14.76 kept
Share
19%
Foil extended rare mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.13
Whole box
$13.56
$8.52 kept
Share
13%
Halo showcase uncommon
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$0.27
Whole box
$3.24
$1.08 kept
Share
3%
Foil showcase uncommon
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.16
Whole box
$1.92
$0.00 kept
Share
2%
Etched-foil uncommons
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%
Etched-foil rare or mythic
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%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Nahiri, Forged in Fury
$48.29
You'll open one about 1 every 25 boxes
#2 most valuable
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
$48.29
You'll open one about 1 every 25 boxes
#3 most valuable
Sarkhan, Soul Aflame
$45.22
You'll open one about 1 every 25 boxes
Narset, Enlightened Exile
$33.52
Calix, Guided by Fate
$31.88
Nissa, Resurgent Animist
$29.19
Sigarda, Font of Blessings
$26.32
Tyvar the Bellicose
$21.76
Nissa, Resurgent Animist
$21.28
Nahiri, Forged in Fury
$20.52
133 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.
| Nissa, Resurgent Animist | mythic | $23.53 | 0.20 |
| Nissa, Resurgent Animist | mythic | $21.28 | 0.17 |
| Nahiri, Forged in Fury | mythic | $20.52 | 0.17 |
| Nahiri, Forged in Fury | mythic | $15.97 | 0.20 |
| Calix, Guided by Fate | mythic | $15.70 | 0.17 |
| Calix, Guided by Fate | mythic | $12.93 | 0.20 |
| Narset, Enlightened Exile | mythic | $12.82 | 0.20 |
| Karn, Legacy Reforged | mythic | $11.80 | 0.20 |
| Karn, Legacy Reforged | mythic | $11.45 | 0.17 |
| Calix, Guided by Fate | mythic | $10.92 | 0.20 |
| Narset, Enlightened Exile | mythic | $10.90 | 0.17 |
| Karn, Legacy Reforged | mythic | $9.48 | 0.20 |
| Nahiri, Forged in Fury | mythic | $9.41 | 0.20 |
| Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin | mythic | $8.73 | 0.17 |
| Sarkhan, Soul Aflame | mythic | $8.53 | 0.17 |
| Narset, Enlightened Exile | mythic | $8.09 | 0.20 |
| Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin | mythic | $7.98 | 0.20 |
| Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin | mythic | $7.13 | 0.20 |
| Sarkhan, Soul Aflame | mythic | $6.86 | 0.20 |
| Tyvar the Bellicose | mythic | $6.71 | 0.17 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
