Planeshift
Open one box and you'll get $263.52 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,521 right now, so that means you're $1257.73 short.
Cards inside
$263.52
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,521
TCGplayer market · from $2,339
Difference
-$1257.73
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 7, 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.
$263.52 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$263.52
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$90.72
About 34% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
54%
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 54% 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.
-$1257.73
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,521 a box you'd come up about $1257.73 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$263.52
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
$2.68
Whole box
$96.48
$57.96 kept
Share
37%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$2.54
Whole box
$91.44
$1.44 kept
Share
35%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.94
Whole box
$33.84
$0.36 kept
Share
13%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.55
Whole box
$19.80
$16.56 kept
Share
8%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.47
Whole box
$16.92
$11.16 kept
Share
6%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.14
Whole box
$5.04
$3.24 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Diabolic Intent
$461.48
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#2 most valuable
Skyship Weatherlight
$329.61
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
#3 most valuable
Tahngarth, Talruum Hero
$241.68
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
Meddling Mage
$241.33
Orim's Chant
$235.00
Eladamri's Call
$211.70
Ertai, the Corrupted
$191.95
Lord of the Undead
$72.60
Draco
$59.03
Sunscape Familiar
$54.89
47 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.
| Diabolic Intent | rare | $22.79 | 0.82 |
| Meddling Mage | rare | $20.03 | 0.82 |
| Orim's Chant | rare | $15.65 | 0.82 |
| Eladamri's Call | rare | $12.53 | 0.82 |
| Lord of the Undead | rare | $11.12 | 0.82 |
| Draco | rare | $4.08 | 0.82 |
| Meteor Crater | rare | $3.22 | 0.82 |
| Forsaken City | rare | $2.61 | 0.82 |
| March of Souls | rare | $2.55 | 0.82 |
| Shivan Wurm | rare | $2.47 | 0.82 |
| Skyship Weatherlight | rare | $1.84 | 0.82 |
| Nemata, Grove Guardian | rare | $1.38 | 0.82 |
| Cloud Cover | rare | $1.32 | 0.82 |
| Destructive Flow | rare | $1.23 | 0.82 |
| Phyrexian Tyranny | rare | $1.21 | 0.82 |
| Gaea's Herald | rare | $1.17 | 0.82 |
| Ertai, the Corrupted | rare | $1.02 | 0.82 |
| Dralnu's Crusade | rare | $0.77 | 0.82 |
| Goblin Game | rare | $0.76 | 0.82 |
| Urza's Guilt | rare | $0.75 | 0.82 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
