Planar Chaos
Open one box and you'll get $482.76 of cards, on average. A box costs $815 right now, so that means you're $332.21 short.
Cards inside
$482.76
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$815
TCGplayer market · from $939
Difference
-$332.21
Against you
Packs in the box
36
Each holds at least one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked October 12, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated October 15, 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.
$482.76 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$482.76
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$250.92
About 52% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
27%
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 27% 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.
-$332.21
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $815 a box you'd come up about $332.21 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$482.76
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
$4.03
Whole box
$145.08
$96.48 kept
Share
30%
Color shifted common
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.84
Whole box
$102.24
$48.96 kept
Share
21%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$1.96
Whole box
$70.56
$52.56 kept
Share
15%
Color shifted uncommon rare
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.73
Whole box
$62.28
$37.08 kept
Share
13%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.62
Whole box
$58.32
$1.08 kept
Share
12%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.22
Whole box
$43.92
$15.12 kept
Share
9%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
$147.49
You'll open one about 1 per box
#2 most valuable
Simian Spirit Guide
$147.26
You'll open one about 5.5 per box
#3 most valuable
Damnation
$101.99
You'll open one about 1 per box
Keen Sense
$99.50
Temporal Extortion
$69.49
Pyrohemia
$66.66
Essence Warden
$64.33
Rebuff the Wicked
$47.88
Retether
$45.30
Imp's Mischief
$39.99
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 | $59.21 | 0.92 |
| Temporal Extortion | rare | $30.58 | 0.92 |
| Damnation | rare | $21.64 | 0.92 |
| Retether | rare | $18.03 | 0.92 |
| Magus of the Coffers | rare | $10.91 | 0.92 |
| Imp's Mischief | rare | $8.49 | 0.92 |
| Chronozoa | rare | $6.78 | 0.92 |
| Detritivore | rare | $2.74 | 0.92 |
| Magus of the Tabernacle | rare | $2.15 | 0.92 |
| Extirpate | rare | $1.90 | 0.92 |
| Numot, the Devastator | rare | $1.53 | 0.92 |
| Heroes Remembered | rare | $1.53 | 0.92 |
| Akroma, Angel of Fury | rare | $1.42 | 0.92 |
| Groundbreaker | rare | $1.39 | 0.92 |
| Volcano Hellion | rare | $1.15 | 0.92 |
| Wild Pair | rare | $1.13 | 0.92 |
| Jedit Ojanen of Efrava | rare | $1.03 | 0.92 |
| Life and Limb | rare | $0.99 | 0.92 |
| Mirri the Cursed | rare | $0.92 | 0.92 |
| Teneb, the Harvester | rare | $0.90 | 0.92 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
