Mirrodin
Open one box and you'll get $537.12 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,233 right now, so that means you're $695.80 short.
Cards inside
$537.12
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,233
TCGplayer market · from $1,250
Difference
-$695.80
Against you
Packs in the box
36
Each holds one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked September 2, 2026 · 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.
$537.12 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$537.12
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$278.64
About 52% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
22%
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 22% 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.
-$695.80
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,233 a box you'd come up about $695.80 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$537.12
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
$5.89
Whole box
$212.04
$76.32 kept
Share
39%
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$5.25
Whole box
$189.00
$130.68 kept
Share
35%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$2.38
Whole box
$85.68
$34.92 kept
Share
16%
Foil common or basic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.82
Whole box
$29.52
$20.88 kept
Share
5%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.32
Whole box
$11.52
$9.00 kept
Share
2%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.26
Whole box
$9.36
$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
Chrome Mox
$450.00
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#2 most valuable
Quicksilver Elemental
$82.47
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Sword of Kaldra
$76.59
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Chalice of the Void
$76.19
Seething Song
$72.69
Confusion in the Ranks
$69.78
Sylvan Scrying
$66.14
Vault of Whispers
$62.97
Platinum Angel
$57.33
Tooth and Nail
$55.00
88 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.
| Chrome Mox | rare | $172.54 | 0.41 |
| Sword of Kaldra | rare | $21.24 | 0.41 |
| Quicksilver Elemental | rare | $20.03 | 0.41 |
| Mesmeric Orb | rare | $19.92 | 0.41 |
| Chalice of the Void | rare | $16.39 | 0.41 |
| Confusion in the Ranks | rare | $16.31 | 0.41 |
| Krark's Thumb | rare | $15.17 | 0.41 |
| Vedalken Archmage | rare | $13.17 | 0.41 |
| Extraplanar Lens | rare | $12.33 | 0.41 |
| Platinum Angel | rare | $11.56 | 0.41 |
| Necrogen Mists | rare | $10.72 | 0.41 |
| Fatespinner | rare | $10.00 | 0.41 |
| Scythe of the Wretched | rare | $8.01 | 0.41 |
| Mindslaver | rare | $6.14 | 0.41 |
| Nightmare Lash | rare | $6.00 | 0.41 |
| Grid Monitor | rare | $5.58 | 0.41 |
| Mind's Eye | rare | $5.36 | 0.41 |
| Leveler | rare | $4.99 | 0.41 |
| War Elemental | rare | $4.48 | 0.41 |
| Worldslayer | rare | $4.35 | 0.41 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
