Murders at Karlov Manor
Open one box and you'll get $304.08 of cards, on average. A box costs $397 right now, so that means you're $92.80 short.
Cards inside
$304.08
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$397
TCGplayer market · from $400
Difference
-$92.80
Against you
Packs in the box
12
Several rares, foils and alt-art cards in each
Box price from TCGplayer, checked October 12, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated October 16, 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.
$304.08 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$304.08
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$200.04
About 66% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
14%
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 14% 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.
-$92.80
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $397 a box you'd come up about $92.80 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$304.08
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 rare mythic showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$12.77
Whole box
$153.24
$121.08 kept
Share
50%
Rare mythic showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$4.47
Whole box
$53.64
$38.40 kept
Share
18%
Foil rare or mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.80
Whole box
$33.60
$21.84 kept
Share
11%
Extended-art commander rare mythic
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.50
Whole box
$18.00
$9.48 kept
Share
6%
Extended-art main rare mythic
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.06
Whole box
$12.72
$5.52 kept
Share
4%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.89
Whole box
$10.68
$1.56 kept
Share
4%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.82
Whole box
$9.84
$0.84 kept
Share
3%
Everything else
4 smaller slots — alternate-art pairs, bonus sheets and the like, each under 2% of the box.
Per pack
$1.04
Whole box
$12.48
$1.20 kept
Share
4%
The ten most valuable cards a Collector Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Aurelia, the Law Above
$699.99
You'll open one about 1 every 50 boxes
#2 most valuable
Niv-Mizzet, Guildpact
$629.75
You'll open one about 1 every 50 boxes
#3 most valuable
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma
$600.00
You'll open one about 1 every 50 boxes
Trostani, Three Whispers
$500.00
Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
$470.25
Lazav, Wearer of Faces
$329.99
Gamble
$92.24
Victimize
$86.06
Field of the Dead
$85.45
Delney, Streetwise Lookout
$65.68
258 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.
| Field of the Dead | mythic | $39.96 | 0.06 |
| Delney, Streetwise Lookout | mythic | $35.41 | 0.19 |
| Delney, Streetwise Lookout | mythic | $34.39 | 0.08 |
| Trouble in Pairs | rare | $26.58 | 0.26 |
| Gamble | mythic | $26.03 | 0.06 |
| Underground Mortuary | rare | $22.40 | 0.37 |
| Undercity Sewers | rare | $20.37 | 0.37 |
| Victimize | mythic | $20.07 | 0.06 |
| Thundering Falls | rare | $18.32 | 0.37 |
| Ghostly Prison | mythic | $17.05 | 0.06 |
| Shadowy Backstreet | rare | $16.40 | 0.37 |
| Hedge Maze | rare | $16.31 | 0.37 |
| Meticulous Archive | rare | $16.20 | 0.37 |
| Underground Mortuary | rare | $15.55 | 0.15 |
| Thundering Falls | rare | $15.51 | 0.15 |
| Undercity Sewers | rare | $15.48 | 0.15 |
| Meticulous Archive | rare | $15.43 | 0.15 |
| Raucous Theater | rare | $14.51 | 0.37 |
| Hedge Maze | rare | $13.53 | 0.15 |
| Elegant Parlor | rare | $12.81 | 0.37 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
