Modern Horizons 3
Open one box and you'll get $544.32 of cards, on average. A box costs $827 right now, so that means you're $283.07 short.
Cards inside
$544.32
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$827
TCGplayer market · from $850
Difference
-$283.07
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 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.
$544.32 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$544.32
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$365.28
About 67% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
10%
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 10% 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.
-$283.07
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $827 a box you'd come up about $283.07 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$544.32
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 rm
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$17.91
Whole box
$214.92
$169.32 kept
Share
39%
Showcase rm
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$15.86
Whole box
$190.32
$137.76 kept
Share
35%
Foil rare or mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$4.96
Whole box
$59.52
$39.36 kept
Share
11%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.74
Whole box
$20.88
$5.52 kept
Share
4%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.56
Whole box
$18.72
$1.92 kept
Share
3%
Showcase commander card
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.52
Whole box
$18.24
$9.36 kept
Share
3%
Foil retro cu
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.78
Whole box
$9.36
$1.20 kept
Share
2%
Retro cu
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.64
Whole box
$7.68
$0.72 kept
Share
1%
Foil eldrazi land
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.34
Whole box
$4.08
$0.00 kept
Share
1%
Showcase commander foil
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$0.04
Whole box
$0.48
$0.12 kept
Share
0%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Ulamog, the Defiler
$2334.99
You'll open one Not in this booster
#2 most valuable
Ocelot Pride
$163.17
You'll open one about 1 every 10 boxes
#3 most valuable
Kaalia of the Vast
$133.66
You'll open one about 1 every 10 boxes
Polluted Delta
$127.24
Flooded Strand
$113.38
Ulamog, the Defiler
$109.64
Wooded Foothills
$94.28
Wooded Foothills
$88.75
Polluted Delta
$86.62
Phyrexian Tower
$82.59
318 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.
| Ocelot Pride | mythic | $82.18 | 0.10 |
| Ocelot Pride | mythic | $48.57 | 0.10 |
| Kaalia of the Vast | mythic | $45.03 | 0.10 |
| Ulamog, the Defiler | mythic | $44.01 | 0.10 |
| Esper Sentinel | rare | $42.35 | 0.41 |
| Phyrexian Tower | mythic | $41.85 | 0.21 |
| Ocelot Pride | mythic | $40.87 | 0.07 |
| Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer | mythic | $36.73 | 0.21 |
| Polluted Delta | rare | $36.28 | 0.14 |
| Solitude | mythic | $35.30 | 0.03 |
| Bloodstained Mire | rare | $33.43 | 0.14 |
| Flooded Strand | rare | $31.94 | 0.14 |
| Wooded Foothills | rare | $29.94 | 0.14 |
| Wooded Foothills | rare | $29.58 | 0.14 |
| Phyrexian Tower | mythic | $28.98 | 0.07 |
| Solitude | mythic | $28.53 | 0.21 |
| Polluted Delta | rare | $28.22 | 0.14 |
| Flooded Strand | rare | $24.96 | 0.14 |
| Talon Gates of Madara | rare | $24.17 | 0.18 |
| Windswept Heath | rare | $23.88 | 0.14 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
