Nemesis
Open one box and you'll get $453.96 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
$453.96
Everything in the box, at today's prices
If you sold them
$235.44
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.
$453.96 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$453.96
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$235.44
About 52% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
23%
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 23% 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.
-$0.04
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $454 a box you'd come up about $0.04 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$453.96
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.
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$4.42
Whole box
$159.12
$109.08 kept
Share
35%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$3.59
Whole box
$129.24
$23.76 kept
Share
28%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$2.14
Whole box
$77.04
$33.48 kept
Share
17%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.72
Whole box
$61.92
$48.60 kept
Share
14%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.45
Whole box
$16.20
$13.32 kept
Share
4%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.29
Whole box
$10.44
$7.56 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Parallax Wave
$402.33
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#2 most valuable
Daze
$400.00
You'll open one about 7.2 per box
#3 most valuable
Parallax Tide
$208.33
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
Tangle Wire
$198.95
Blinding Angel
$121.66
Submerge
$102.61
Moggcatcher
$98.34
Kor Haven
$94.00
Accumulated Knowledge
$89.78
Volrath the Fallen
$83.73
44 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.
| Parallax Wave | rare | $36.28 | 0.82 |
| Tangle Wire | rare | $34.59 | 0.82 |
| Kor Haven | rare | $17.73 | 0.82 |
| Parallax Tide | rare | $16.98 | 0.82 |
| Moggcatcher | rare | $14.30 | 0.82 |
| Stronghold Gambit | rare | $9.72 | 0.82 |
| Saproling Burst | rare | $9.44 | 0.82 |
| Skyshroud Poacher | rare | $8.25 | 0.82 |
| Blinding Angel | rare | $6.88 | 0.82 |
| Aether Barrier | rare | $5.25 | 0.82 |
| Ascendant Evincar | rare | $5.01 | 0.82 |
| Kill Switch | rare | $4.43 | 0.82 |
| Seahunter | rare | $3.62 | 0.82 |
| Rootwater Thief | rare | $2.40 | 0.82 |
| Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero | rare | $2.26 | 0.82 |
| Volrath the Fallen | rare | $2.12 | 0.82 |
| Rising Waters | rare | $2.09 | 0.82 |
| Overlaid Terrain | rare | $1.66 | 0.82 |
| Belbe's Portal | rare | $1.65 | 0.82 |
| Rath's Edge | rare | $0.88 | 0.82 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
