Planar Chaos
Open one box and you'll get $371.16 of cards, on average. A box costs $794 right now, so that means you're $422.56 short.
Cards inside
$371.16
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$794
TCGplayer market · from $900
Difference
-$422.56
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 December 5, 2025
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.
$371.16 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$371.16
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$166.32
About 45% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
34%
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 34% 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.
-$422.56
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $794 a box you'd come up about $422.56 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$371.16
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
$2.99
Whole box
$107.64
$64.44 kept
Share
29%
Color shifted common
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.68
Whole box
$60.48
$16.56 kept
Share
16%
Color shifted uncommon rare
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.53
Whole box
$55.08
$32.40 kept
Share
15%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.47
Whole box
$52.92
$1.08 kept
Share
14%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$1.43
Whole box
$51.48
$36.72 kept
Share
14%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.21
Whole box
$43.56
$14.76 kept
Share
12%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
$197.77
You'll open one about 1 per box
#2 most valuable
Simian Spirit Guide
$78.77
You'll open one about 5.5 per box
#3 most valuable
Temporal Extortion
$77.75
You'll open one about 1 per box
Damnation
$68.46
Pyrohemia
$59.30
Extirpate
$40.95
Imp's Mischief
$37.61
Intet, the Dreamer
$35.00
Essence Warden
$34.25
Numot, the Devastator
$29.99
49 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.
| Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth | rare | $52.90 | 0.92 |
| Damnation | rare | $21.61 | 0.92 |
| Temporal Extortion | rare | $19.86 | 0.92 |
| Chronozoa | rare | $6.13 | 0.92 |
| Imp's Mischief | rare | $5.33 | 0.92 |
| Magus of the Coffers | rare | $4.88 | 0.92 |
| Detritivore | rare | $3.56 | 0.92 |
| Retether | rare | $3.51 | 0.92 |
| Extirpate | rare | $1.92 | 0.92 |
| Wild Pair | rare | $1.59 | 0.92 |
| Numot, the Devastator | rare | $1.44 | 0.92 |
| Magus of the Tabernacle | rare | $1.42 | 0.92 |
| Heroes Remembered | rare | $1.31 | 0.92 |
| Groundbreaker | rare | $1.30 | 0.92 |
| Life and Limb | rare | $1.24 | 0.92 |
| Akroma, Angel of Fury | rare | $1.17 | 0.92 |
| Jedit Ojanen of Efrava | rare | $1.11 | 0.92 |
| Teneb, the Harvester | rare | $0.98 | 0.92 |
| Volcano Hellion | rare | $0.96 | 0.92 |
| Intet, the Dreamer | rare | $0.86 | 0.92 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
