Ninth Edition
Open one box and you'll get $300.96 of cards, on average. A box costs $900 right now, so that means you're $598.92 short.
Cards inside
$300.96
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$900
TCGplayer market · from $900
Difference
-$598.92
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.
$300.96 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$300.96
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$124.92
About 42% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
36%
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 36% 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.
-$598.92
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $900 a box you'd come up about $598.92 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$300.96
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
$3.02
Whole box
$108.72
$65.52 kept
Share
36%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$2.83
Whole box
$101.88
$31.68 kept
Share
34%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.31
Whole box
$47.16
$8.64 kept
Share
16%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.43
Whole box
$15.48
$0.00 kept
Share
5%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.29
Whole box
$10.44
$6.48 kept
Share
3%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.24
Whole box
$8.64
$6.12 kept
Share
3%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.23
Whole box
$8.28
$6.48 kept
Share
3%
Foil basic land
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.02
Whole box
$0.72
$0.36 kept
Share
0%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Fellwar Stone
$190.31
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
#2 most valuable
Grave Pact
$90.00
You'll open one Not in this booster
#3 most valuable
Underground River
$79.99
You'll open one Not in this booster
Seething Song
$75.54
Greater Good
$74.99
Rathi Dragon
$69.99
Elvish Champion
$64.99
Biorhythm
$59.99
Seedborn Muse
$54.89
Defense Grid
$46.70
220 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.
| Grave Pact | rare | $34.86 | 0.32 |
| Biorhythm | rare | $34.44 | 0.32 |
| Elvish Champion | rare | $25.55 | 0.32 |
| Teferi's Puzzle Box | rare | $17.81 | 0.32 |
| Coat of Arms | rare | $17.06 | 0.32 |
| Seedborn Muse | rare | $14.62 | 0.32 |
| Lord of the Undead | rare | $10.05 | 0.32 |
| Greater Good | rare | $9.33 | 0.32 |
| Natural Affinity | rare | $7.60 | 0.32 |
| Blood Moon | rare | $7.32 | 0.32 |
| Defense Grid | rare | $6.85 | 0.32 |
| Goblin King | rare | $5.94 | 0.32 |
| Furnace of Rath | rare | $5.80 | 0.32 |
| Phyrexian Arena | rare | $5.44 | 0.32 |
| Trade Routes | rare | $5.36 | 0.32 |
| Howling Mine | rare | $5.35 | 0.32 |
| Elvish Piper | rare | $5.16 | 0.32 |
| Blinding Angel | rare | $5.16 | 0.32 |
| Underground River | rare | $5.02 | 0.32 |
| Traumatize | rare | $4.83 | 0.32 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
