New Phyrexia
Open one box and you'll get $479.88 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,013 right now, so that means you're $532.69 short.
Cards inside
$479.88
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,013
TCGplayer market · from $1,232
Difference
-$532.69
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.
$479.88 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$479.88
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$243.00
About 51% 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.
-$532.69
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,013 a box you'd come up about $532.69 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$479.88
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.
Rare or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$4.49
Whole box
$161.64
$104.04 kept
Share
34%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$3.73
Whole box
$134.28
$68.04 kept
Share
28%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$3.17
Whole box
$114.12
$26.28 kept
Share
24%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$1.69
Whole box
$60.84
$44.28 kept
Share
13%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.25
Whole box
$9.00
$0.00 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Mental Misstep
$168.75
You'll open one about 1.8 per box
#2 most valuable
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
$76.21
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Noxious Revival
$73.67
You'll open one about 1.8 per box
Praetor's Grasp
$70.36
Unwinding Clock
$63.60
Sheoldred, Whispering One
$60.27
Geosurge
$56.18
Whipflare
$50.14
Gut Shot
$47.82
Glistening Oil
$47.67
45 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.
| Sheoldred, Whispering One | mythic | $24.04 | 0.47 |
| Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite | mythic | $22.89 | 0.47 |
| Unwinding Clock | rare | $20.25 | 0.93 |
| Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger | mythic | $15.94 | 0.47 |
| Phyrexian Obliterator | mythic | $13.63 | 0.47 |
| Glistening Oil | rare | $12.28 | 0.93 |
| Birthing Pod | rare | $11.90 | 0.93 |
| Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur | mythic | $11.35 | 0.47 |
| Praetor's Grasp | rare | $10.78 | 0.93 |
| Sword of War and Peace | mythic | $10.05 | 0.47 |
| Spellskite | rare | $7.03 | 0.93 |
| Hex Parasite | rare | $6.90 | 0.93 |
| Norn's Annex | rare | $5.40 | 0.93 |
| Melira, Sylvok Outcast | rare | $5.11 | 0.93 |
| Batterskull | mythic | $5.05 | 0.47 |
| Torpor Orb | rare | $4.87 | 0.93 |
| Phyrexian Metamorph | rare | $4.79 | 0.93 |
| Karn Liberated | mythic | $4.66 | 0.47 |
| Urabrask the Hidden | mythic | $4.48 | 0.47 |
| Caged Sun | rare | $4.39 | 0.93 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
