Mercadian Masques
Open one box and you'll get $622.44 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
$622.44
Everything in the box, at today's prices
If you sold them
$332.28
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.
$622.44 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$622.44
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$332.28
About 53% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
20%
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 20% 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.
+$0.44
per box, in your favour
The cards are worth more than the box
At $622 a box you'd come out about $0.44 ahead on average. Over many boxes that edge is real — but any single box can still be a dud.
Break-even price
$622.44
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.
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$7.10
Whole box
$255.60
$95.04 kept
Share
41%
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$5.41
Whole box
$194.76
$134.28 kept
Share
31%
Foil common or basic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.30
Whole box
$82.80
$65.88 kept
Share
13%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.59
Whole box
$57.24
$11.16 kept
Share
9%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.62
Whole box
$22.32
$18.72 kept
Share
4%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.27
Whole box
$9.72
$6.84 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Misdirection
$1112.67
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Rishadan Port
$750.00
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#3 most valuable
Brainstorm
$698.69
You'll open one about 3.6 per box
Squee, Goblin Nabob
$425.50
Food Chain
$423.00
Cornered Market
$350.00
Dark Ritual
$292.40
Unmask
$284.29
Dust Bowl
$228.08
Cave-In
$215.37
110 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.
| Rishadan Port | rare | $110.63 | 0.33 |
| Food Chain | rare | $55.18 | 0.33 |
| Misdirection | rare | $51.25 | 0.33 |
| Squee, Goblin Nabob | rare | $37.91 | 0.33 |
| Dust Bowl | rare | $37.84 | 0.33 |
| Reverent Mantra | rare | $22.13 | 0.33 |
| Unmask | rare | $21.02 | 0.33 |
| Wave of Reckoning | rare | $20.36 | 0.33 |
| Cave-In | rare | $16.17 | 0.33 |
| Charisma | rare | $12.83 | 0.33 |
| Honor the Fallen | rare | $12.76 | 0.33 |
| Magistrate's Scepter | rare | $10.97 | 0.33 |
| Crackdown | rare | $9.49 | 0.33 |
| Tectonic Break | rare | $9.37 | 0.33 |
| High Market | rare | $9.30 | 0.33 |
| Bribery | rare | $8.86 | 0.33 |
| Tower of the Magistrate | rare | $8.60 | 0.33 |
| Black Market | rare | $8.47 | 0.33 |
| Nether Spirit | rare | $7.78 | 0.33 |
| Spiritual Focus | rare | $6.48 | 0.33 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
